Podcast

Serial Killers & Murderous Minds

True Crime

Serial Killers & Murderous Minds takes you deep into the psychology of history's most chilling murderers, from infamous serial killers like Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy to ruthless cult leaders, deadly exes, and spree killers. Every Monday and Thursday, hosts Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels, a clinical and forensic psychologist, blend gripping true crime storytelling with expert analysis to uncover what drives people to kill. What fuels their darkness? How do their minds work? And most hauntingly, could they have been stopped?Serial Killers & Murderous Minds is a Crime House Original Podcast, powered by PAVE Studios. Follow us on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe to @crimehousestudios on YouTube and follow us @crimehouse on Instagram.

True Crime chart
#60
Episodes
206
Releases
Twice a week
Typical length
51 min
On air since
2024
Latest episode
1 day ago

Episodes

206 episodes, newest first

  1. SERIAL KILLER: Carl Panzram Pt. 1

    Episode 191

    Show notes

    In the 1920s, Carl Panzram cut a path of robbery, arson, rape, and murder across three continents... and kept a meticulous account of every crime. Shaped by brutal reform schools and violence from childhood, he declared war on society itself and never looked back. By his own count, he claimed 21 lives and felt no remorse for a single one.

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    53 min
  2. Lizzie Borden: Family Secrets and a Double Murder Pt. 2

    Episode 190

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    In June 1893, Lizzie Borden stood trial in New Bedford, Massachusetts, for the hatchet murders of her father Andrew and stepmother Abby... and walked free after a jury deliberated for barely ninety minutes. But the evidence her jury never heard, a burned dress, excluded testimony, and a witness who stayed silent for months, has kept the case alive for over a century. This episode follows the investigation, the trial, and the thirty-four years Lizzie spent legally acquitted but socially condemned.

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    52 min
  3. Lizzie Borden: Family Secrets and a Double Murder Pt. 1

    Episode 189

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    On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were found hacked to death in their Fall River, Massachusetts home... and suspicion fell almost immediately on Andrew's younger daughter, Lizzie. The household behind those locked doors tells a story of financial anxiety, stepfamily resentment, and a woman whose answers never quite added up. Lizzie was acquitted, but the question of what happened that morning has never been settled.

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    54 min
  4. HAUNTED TAKEOVER: Hidden History | The JFK Assassination Bonus

    Show notes

    Something has crept into this feed…For Halloween, Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat has slipped through the walls to haunt your feed with an episode just for you.

    On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Within days, the government named Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone gunman...but more than sixty years later, most Americans still don't accept that verdict. This episode walks through the physical evidence, the major conspiracy theories, and what the newly released classified files actually reveal.

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    39 min
  5. Chris Watts: The Family Man Pt. 2

    Episode 188

    Show notes

    In August 2018, Chris Watts strangled his pregnant wife Shanann and drove his daughters Bella and CeCe to an oil field east of Frederick, Colorado, where he killed them and hid their bodies. He had been planning a new life with another woman...and his family was in the way. This episode follows the interrogation that broke him, the confession he gave in a Wisconsin prison, and what researchers have learned about men who destroy their families rather than leave them.

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    59 min
  6. Chris Watts: The Family Man Pt. 1

    Episode 187

    Show notes

    In August 2018, Shanann Watts, 15 weeks pregnant, vanished from her home in Frederick, Colorado, along with her two young daughters, Bella and CeCe. Her husband Chris had been living a secret life: conducting an affair, hunting for apartments, and building a future that had no room for his family. As investigators closed in, the gap between his public image and private reality became impossible to sustain.

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    51 min
  7. Introducing RedHanded: Mexico's Notorious 'Little Old Lady Killer’ Bonus

    Show notes

    Today, we are sharing an episode from the award-winning true crime podcast RedHanded, hosted by Suruthi Bala and Hannah Maguire. RedHanded is the UK's #1 True Crime podcast, covering everything from high-profile murders and cults to con artists and cultural catastrophes, always asking not just what happened, but why.

    In this episode, Suruthi and Hannah investigate the hunt for Mexico City's "Mataviejitas," or Little Old Lady Killer, who terrorized the city's elderly women in the early 2000s and sparked Mexico's first ever serial killer manhunt. The case was plagued by media hysteria, investigative missteps, and one enormous misunderstanding, because the culprit turned out to be Juana Barraza, a middle-aged woman with a sinister lucha libre alter-ego called "The Lady of Silence," the very last person authorities were expecting to unmask. Follow RedHanded wherever you get your podcasts to hear more cases like this one.

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    1 hr 11 min
  8. SERIAL KILLER: "The Vampire of Dusseldorf" Peter Kurten Pt. 2

    Episode 186

    Show notes

    By 1929, Peter Kürten had murdered at least eleven people across Düsseldorf, Germany, targeting women and children to satisfy a compulsion to see, hear, and taste blood. His reign of terror only ended when a surviving victim led police to his door, and his own wife delivered him to justice. This episode concludes the story of one of history's most disturbing serial killers, from his arrest and confession to his execution by guillotine in 1931.

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    51 min
  9. SERIAL KILLER: "The Vampire of Dusseldorf" Peter Kurten Pt. 1

    Episode 185

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    In 1920s Germany, Peter Kürten terrorized Düsseldorf in a killing spree that would earn him the name the Vampire of Düsseldorf. But his path to murder began decades earlier, rooted in a childhood of relentless abuse and cruelty. From his first alleged killings at age nine to a string of escalating attacks on women and children, this episode traces how Kürten's compulsion evolved into something unstoppable.

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    46 min
  10. SERIAL KILLER: The Axeman of New Orleans Pt. 2

    Episode 184

    Show notes

    Between 1918 and 1919, a killer slipped into homes across Greater New Orleans under cover of night, attacking families with an axe and leaving investigators with few clues and no clear suspect. In a letter published by a local newspaper, the Axeman taunted police and promised to spare any home where jazz music played... turning an entire city into a single, terrified audience. As arrests were made and convictions overturned, the true identity of the killer remained maddeningly out of reach.

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    47 min
  11. SERIAL KILLER: The Axeman of New Orleans Pt. 1

    Episode 183

    Show notes

    In 1918, a killer began slipping into New Orleans homes under cover of darkness, attacking sleeping victims with an axe and vanishing without a trace. The attacks targeted the city's Italian immigrant grocers, leaving a terrorized community wondering who would be next... and investigators scrambling to find a suspect they couldn't identify. As the body count rose, false arrests and coerced statements threatened to send innocent people to prison.

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    43 min
  12. Introducing WHAT THE FACT with Connor Tomlinson and Carter Roy, a new Rewind podcast! Bonus

    Show notes

    Fun fact: Did you know Jaws almost never existed because the shark kept sinking while filming? That is Connor Tomlinson just getting started. If that sounds fascinating, you are going to love Rewind Studios’ new podcast out now called WHAT THE FACT hosted by Connor Tomlinson and Carter Roy. It’s produced by the same team that brings you Serial Killers & Murderous Minds.

    Connor and co-host Carter Roy pull three unbelievable true facts every week and tell you the full story behind each one. Nothing is off limits. Myths and monsters. Forgotten scandals. Accidental discoveries. Untold stories behind the songs everyone knows. Disasters that sound made up but absolutely happened. Carter sets the scene and Connor makes you fall in love with history.

    The wildest stuff is real, and the real stuff is wilder than you think. New episodes every Wednesday.

    What the Fact with Connor Tomlinson and Carter Roy is a Rewind Original, powered by PAVE Studios.

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    38 min
  13. Katherine Knight: Australia's Most Disturbing Killer Pt. 2

    Episode 182

    Show notes

    On the night of February 29, 2000, Katherine Knight murdered her partner John Price at his home in Aberdeen, New South Wales... then committed acts so disturbing they had no precedent in Australian criminal history. Despite a lifetime of escalating violence and repeated threats against John's life, almost no one believed she would follow through.

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    51 min
  14. Katherine Knight: Australia's Most Disturbing Killer Pt. 1

    Episode 181

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    In February 2000, Katherine Knight committed one of the most disturbing murders in Australian history... but the path to that night began decades earlier in a rural New South Wales household defined by violence, neglect, and sexual abuse. As Katherine moved through a series of volatile relationships, her fear of abandonment grew into a pattern of escalating intimidation and brutality that left a trail of traumatized partners and a community living in terror.

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    56 min
  15. Jean-Claude Romand: Lies that Led to Murder Pt. 2

    Episode 180

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    In January 1993, Jean-Claude Romand murdered his wife Florence, his children Caroline and Antoine, and his parents Aime and Anne-Marie to prevent them from learning he had never graduated medical school and had spent nearly two decades impersonating a WHO research scientist. As investigators unraveled the crimes, they discovered he had also stolen hundreds of thousands of francs from family and friends...and attempted to kill his mistress on the same day he killed his family.

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    58 min
  16. Jean-Claude Romand: Lies that Led to Murder Pt. 1

    Episode 179

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    For nearly two decades, Jean-Claude Romand convinced his family, friends, and colleagues that he was a respected World Health Organization researcher...while spending his days in cafes and rest stops, swindling loved ones out of their savings. And in January 1993, as the walls of his fabricated life finally closed in, Romand turned to violence rather than face exposure. This episode traces the childhood roots of his compulsive dishonesty through the eve of his ultimate crime.

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    51 min
  17. Mark Winger: When the American Dream Turned Deadly Pt. 2

    Episode 178

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    In August 1995, Mark Winger beat his wife Donnah to death in their Springfield, Illinois home and shot an innocent man, Roger Harrington, to frame him for the crime... then walked free for six years. When his affair partner finally went to police in 1999, investigators uncovered a chilling web of premeditation that had been hiding in plain sight.

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    47 min
  18. Mark Winger: When the American Dream Turned Deadly Pt. 1

    Episode 177

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    In 1995, Mark Winger appeared to have it all: a stable career, an adoring wife named Donnah, and a newly adopted daughter in Springfield, Illinois. But beneath the surface, Mark was carrying on a secret affair and harboring a chilling plan to rid himself of his marriage without losing everything he'd built. When an unsettling encounter with a shuttle driver gave Mark the opening he needed, he set a deadly trap.

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    40 min
  19. Liz Golyar: Obsession, Stalking, and Murder Pt. 2

    Episode 176

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    In the 2010s, Omaha man Dave Kroupa was terrorized by thousands of harassing messages, acts of vandalism, and arson, all seemingly from a woman named Cari Farver, who had vanished without a trace. What Dave didn't know was that Cari was dead, and the real perpetrator was someone far closer to him.

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    57 min
  20. Liz Golyar: Obsession, Stalking, and Murder Pt. 1

    Episode 175

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    In 2012, Omaha mechanic Dave Kroupa met Liz Golyar on a dating app... a connection that would spiral into years of relentless stalking, arson, and murder. And when Dave began seeing Cari Farver, she vanished overnight, and a torrent of threatening messages began arriving in her name. As the harassment escalated from digital terror to a house fire, investigators slowly realized the truth was far darker than a bitter ex.

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    52 min