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Profiling Evil

Profiling Evil

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The Profiling Evil Podcast delves into unsolved criminal cases from around the world, peeling back the layers of human behavior to reveal what drives evil. We look into the mind of the predator—their motivations, their victim selection, and the patterns that expose them. Each episode goes beyond headlines, examining how investigators identify red flags, connect the dots, and capitalize on the very errors offenders believe will never be found.

Your host, Mike King, brings over four decades of experience in criminal justice and behavioral analysis. A retired law enforcement executive, Mike served as Chief of Staff to Utah Attorney General Jan Graham and Weber County Attorney Reed M. Richards. He began his career at the Ogden Police Department, where he worked patrol, motor enforcement, and SWAT before moving into investigations where he led task forces that hunted serial predators and violent offenders.

Mike’s expertise earned him national recognition. He served as co-chair of the FBI’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) National Advisory Board, directed UTAP, the Utah Criminal Tracking and Analysis Project, and supported intelligence operations during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.

After retiring from public service, Mike joined the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri), where he spent years consulting with police agencies around the globe on intelligence gathering, emergency communications, and major event management. In 2024, he retired again, this time to focus full-time on Profiling Evil and its growing community of true crime investigators, students, and enthusiasts.

Mike is an internationally recognized speaker, trainer, and adjunct professor, as well as a visiting scholar at multiple universities. He’s authored several acclaimed works on crime and human behavior, including:

· Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing

· Deceived: An Investigative Memoir of the Zion Society Cult

· She Knew No Fear

· Who Killed King Tut?

· Predators: Who Are They and How Do We Stop Them?

· Profilers

Mike’s investigative insight and behavioral expertise have been featured on Court TV, NewsNation, Law & Crime Network, Dr. Phil, History’s Greatest Mysteries, and 60 Minutes Australia, where his calm, analytical style helps audiences understand the why behind the world’s most chilling crimes.

At @ProfilingEvil, you’ll find deep dives into real investigations, expert analysis of offender behavior, and lessons in situational awareness and safety. It’s more than storytelling, it’s about learning how to recognize, understand, and ultimately disrupt evil.


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Email Mike at: ProfilingEvil@gmail.com



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  • Polygamist Tour of Short Creek & Life Without Warren Jeffs | Profiling Evil

    Polygamist Tour of Short Creek & Life Without Warren Jeffs | Profiling Evil
    Jan 30 2026

    In this Feedback Friday field trip, I take you directly into the heart of Short Creek, known today as Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona. It once was the historic stronghold of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the FLDS. This is the community built around plural marriage, prophetic control, and absolute obedience, led for decades by self-proclaimed prophet Warren Jeffs, now serving life in a Texas prison for sexually assaulting young girls. As we drive through the streets of this once-sealed polygamist enclave, we stop at key locations that defined FLDS power: the massive compound built by Warren Jeffs’ father Rulon Jeffs to house eighty-seven wives, the offices where obedience was enforced, and the meeting house where men were stripped of their families from the pulpit.

    You’ll see where Jeffs escaped federal arrest, how the United Effort Plan centralized wealth and control, and how law enforcement was sidelined by church authority. We’ll revisit the scars of history, including the infamous 1953 Short Creek Raid, the infant cemetery that still haunts investigators, and the burial grounds reserved only for the faithful. Along the way, we talk about secret police, hidden caves, the collapse of the FLDS corporate structure, and the uneasy reality that Warren Jeffs still exerts influence from behind prison walls.

    #Polygamy #PluralMarriage #FLDS #WarrenJeffs #RulonJeffs #ShortCreek #Hildale #ColoradoCity #ShortCreekRaid #1953Raid #FLDSCrimes #CultCrime #ReligiousAbuse #CoerciveControl #CriminalCults #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeCommunity #CultSurvivors #PolygamyAbuse #ChildAbuseAwareness #FLDSHistory #CrimeDocumentary #ProfilingEvil #JusticeForVictims #HumanTrafficking #ReligiousExtremism #CultAccountability


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  • Inside the Making of Gardens of Evil, the Zion Society Cult | Profiling Evil

    Inside the Making of Gardens of Evil, the Zion Society Cult | Profiling Evil
    Jan 27 2026

    In this special bonus episode of Profiling Evil, I sit down with producer Aaron Mason to go behind the scenes of Gardens of Evil: Inside the Zion Society Cult. This is a rare look at how one of the darkest and most complex cult investigations I’ve ever worked came together as an audio series. We discuss what surprised Aaron most when he first stepped into the Zion Society world, how survivor voices shaped the narrative, and the creative decisions that defined this series. This episode pulls back the curtain on the storytelling itself—and why telling this story the right way mattered. Gardens of Evil: Inside the Zion Society Cult premieres February 3 as Season 5 of American Nightmares under the Gamut Podcast Network.

    #ProfilingEvil #GardensOfEvil #ZionSociety #ZionSocietyCult #InsideTheZionSociety #Deceived #GardensOfEvilPodcast #ArvinShreeve #AmericanNightmares #AaronMason #MikeKing #CultInvestigation #CultSurvivors #SurvivorVoices #TrueCrimePodcast #InvestigativePodcast #BehindTheScenes #BehavioralAnalysis #MappingEvil #UtahCrime #CultDynamics #EthicalStorytelling #TrueCrimeCommunity #Podcast #Gamut

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  • Greed, Fire & Family, the Paul Caneiro Murder Trial | Profiling Evil

    Greed, Fire & Family, the Paul Caneiro Murder Trial | Profiling Evil
    Jan 24 2026

    Four lives were lost in the early morning darkness of Colts Neck, New Jersey. Keith Caneiro and his wife Jennifer… along with their eleven-year-old son Jesse and their eight-year-old daughter Sophia died inside their own home. But this case isn’t just about what happened inside that house. Hours earlier, flames were already rising at another Caneiro residence miles away. As investigators peeled back the layers, they began to question whether this family was targeted and could it be even more intimate. Now, Paul Caneiro, the victims’ own brother and uncle, stands trial for the murder of four people and prosecutors are laying out a chilling story of greed, deception, and desperation. The defense is arguing Paul is the victim of a botched investigation, tunnel-vision and assumptions, rather than proof. Who killed the Caneiro’s? And the answer to that question may determine everything.

    #PaulCaneiro #KeithCaneiro #JenniferCaneiro #JesseCaneiro #SophiaCaneiro #ColtsNeck #OceanTownship #MonmouthCounty #NJTrial #CourtTV #NicoleWallace #ChrisDecker #MonicaMastellone #ProfilingEvil #TrueCrimeCommunity #GIS #Esri #Crime #Criminal #Trial #GardensOfEVIL

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