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Sinisterly Sweet

Sinisterly Sweet

Written by: Rylee York
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 I write about true crime as a way to stare straight at fear instead of looking away from it. I’m less interested in what killers did and more obsessed with how they explained it, justified it, and lived beside everyone else without raising alarms. I keep circling the idea that evil is usually ordinary, polite, and boring, not theatrical or obvious. I use dark humor because it’s the only way to survive sitting with stories this heavy without going numb. I question myself constantly—why these stories stick with me, why I can’t let them go, and what that says about me. I don’t glorify the killers; I strip them down until they look small, pathetic, and human. What scares me most isn’t violence itself, but how easily it fits into everyday life. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.Rylee York True Crime
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  • New episode of 01/08 1:47 PM

    New episode of 01/08 1:47 PM
    Jan 8 2026

    Donald Harvey is something far more disturbing than a serial killer; they expose him as evil, wearing a name tag and a calm voice. The facts lay out the bodies, the methods, the years of unchecked killing, while the personal narrative digs into the rot underneath: the entitlement, the self-made morality, the quiet decision to play God without ever raising his voice. He didn’t rage or spiral; he clocked in, poisoned people, showered, and went home convinced he was kind. The scripts twist mercy into a punchline, turning poisoned pudding and unplugged oxygen into proof that justification can be more horrifying than violence itself. What makes it gut-wrenching isn’t the number of victims, but how easily he explained them away. The horror sharpens when the story turns inward, forcing the listener to confront how normal he sounded, how reasonable he believed himself to be. In the end, the combined narrative leaves one terrifying thought hanging in the air: if evil can be this quiet, this polite, this sure of itself, then it doesn’t need to hide at all.


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