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Atlanta, Georgia 1978, children are going missing one-by-one, their bodies discarded in nearby lakes. Vallejo, California, 1968 a crazed killer in an executioner's mask is on the loose. Washington DC 2002, no one is safe as a sniper begins to gun down innocent people going about their everyday lives. These stories and more, told by the victims, law enforcement, and even the monsters themselves. From iHeartPodcasts and Tenderfoot TV, this is Monster. An all new season coming January 13th.

“Sam, could you do me a favor?” Thus begins a story that has now become part of America's true-crime hall of fame. It is a gory, grotesque tale befitting a Stephen King novel. It is also a David and Goliath saga - the story of a young lawyer fresh from the public defender's office whose first client in private practice turns out to be the worst serial killer in our nation's history. This is a gripping true crime narrative that reenacts the gruesome killings and the famous trial that shocked a nation.

Charles Manson, Issei Sagawa und Dorothea Puente sind kaltblütige Massenmörder. Aus ihren Taten machen sie ein Mordsgeschäft. Als "Ikonen des Horrors" verkaufen sie Fanartikel, laden zu kostspieligen Rede-Shows oder versteigern Marathon-Sex. Micael Dahlén, schwedischer Wirtschaftsprofessor mit Kultstatus, hat sich in den Bannkreis der "Monster" begeben und fünf von ihnen hautnah erlebt.

Une nuit de juillet 1991, deux policiers de Milwaukee sont abordés par un homme apeuré. Une paire de menottes pend à son poignet. Il parle d'un « type bizarre » qui l'aurait amené chez lui et menotté. Au domicile du suspect, les agents font une découverte macabre : des morceaux humains dans le réfrigérateur, des parties du corps d'au moins onze autres personnes éparpillées dans l'appartement.Journaliste au Milwaukee Journal à l'époque, Anne E. Schwartz se retrouve plongée au cœur de l'affaire, qu'elle couvrira dans son intégralité.

A decade ago, filmmaker Josh Zeman was on the hunt for the country’s most elusive serial killer. One who left nearly a dozen bodies along the beaches of Long Island. While he got close to catching him, it wasn’t until 2023 that authorities finally made an arrest. The troubling part is... the answers were there all along, hidden in plain sight. So why did it take authorities so long to catch him, and how many lives could have been saved? From Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts, a new installment in the Monster franchise is coming November 17th. This is 'Monster: Hunting The Long Island Serial...

On a snowy winter evening in 1982, 21-year-old Mary Brown accepted a ride from a handsome stranger in the resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado. The trip ended with her brutally beaten and raped. Mary survived, but her predator's violence had only just begun. After 10 years in prison, Tom Luther was released a far more vicious criminal. Soon, from the Rockies to West Virginia, like Ted Bundy, Luther enticed a chain of women into his murderous trap.

Schoolteacher Olivia Dare Christian was murdered in her Hampton, Virginia, apartment in 1981. Her killer left few clues and the murder went unsolved. Three decades later, in 2011, next-generation detective Randy Mayer re-opened Olivia's dusty cold case file and began unraveling the mystery. Mayer located a reluctant witness who was a teenager back in 1981. She recalled a suspicious man lurking outside Olivia's apartment the morning of the murder and provided a detailed description of the man.

This is a true story. For twenty years in the heart of Kansas, a serial rapist has been preying on female students at two large universities—Kansas State and the University of Kansas. He has stalked them to their off-campus apartments and in the middle of the night appeared in their bedrooms. The “Kansas College Rapist” has committed at least 15 attacks, but after years of investigations and over a thousand leads he is still at large. Now and for the first time, survivors of his attacks are stepping forward to tell their stories and publicly expose details about his crimes. Together, with the local police in Kansas and the U.S. Marshals, the series Midwest Monster is working to help to identify and capture the Kansas College Rapist.

Told in her own words, this is the story of serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who was portrayed in an Oscar-winning performance by Charlize Theron in the film Monster. There have been few female serial killers, but Aileen Wuornos, who was executed in 2002, was a remarkable example of this rare breed of death row inmate. All too often, female prostitutes have been the victims of male serial killers - Wuornos’ killings were the inverse of this pattern.

Sie haben Menschen vergiftet, erschossen oder mit ihren eigenen Händen umgebracht. Sie haben ihre Opfer zerstückelt, vergraben oder verspeist. Charles Manson, Issei Sagawa, Dorothea Puente sind kaltblütige Massenmörder. Aus ihren Taten machen sie noch dazu ein Mordsgeschäft. Als "Ikonen des Horrors" verkaufen sie Fanartikel, laden zu kostspieligen Rede-Shows oder versteigern Marathon-Sex.

A sonic memoir about meeting a real demon while making a horror movie in Latvia. Created by TOMMY BERTELSEN Original Music by MICHAEL SHUMAN Produced by ISAIAH SMALLMAN and BRYCE MCGUIRE

Diving headfirst into the weird, wild, and wonderfully spooky corners of the 13 Appalachian states.

Criminal profiling—the delicate art of collecting and deciphering the psychological “fingerprints” of the monsters among us—holds an almost mythological status in pop culture. But what exactly is it, does it work, and why is the American public so entranced by it? What do we gain, and endanger, from studying why people commit murder? In The Monsters We Make, author Rachel Corbett explores how criminal profiling became one of society’s most seductive and quixotic undertakings through five significant moments in its history.

‘Sensational new book’ – MAIL ON SUNDAY ‘Bombshell book’ – THE SUN ‘Tell-all book’ – MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Explosive new book' – DAILY MAIL 'Kervin is a master storyteller' – THE LONDON STANDARD AN UNFLINCHING EXPOSÉ OF MOHAMED AL-FAYED'S 25-YEAR REIGN OF TERROR AT HARRODS...

Something unimaginable occurred from 1764 to 1767 in the remote highlands of south-central France. For three years, a real-life monster, or monsters, ravaged the region, slaughtering by some accounts more than 100 people, mostly women and children, and inflicting severe injuries upon many others.

Working under California's Sexually Violent Predator Law, Samantha Stein, PsyD, faces such offenders alone, one by one, in a prison interview room. As a forensic psychologist, her high-stakes decisions can determine the difference between a life lived back in society or one condemned to indefinite incarceration.

In 1931, San Diego's idyllic image as a beach town with peaceful suburbs concealed a harrowing reality: a series of unsolved crimes targeting women, fueling fear and vulnerability. Monsters on the Loose tells the tragic and true stories of three women murdered early that year: Virginia Brooks, Louise Teuber, and Hazel Bradshaw. Local law enforcement, out-of-town criminologists, and investigators from what would become the FBI pursued hundreds of leads. Yet, the killer(s) were never identified and brought to justice.

Everybody knows that the schools of the Ivy League -- universally touted as the pinnacle of American higher education -- have graduated countless political leaders, corporate titans, and global power brokers. But did you know these schools have also produced murderers, warmongers, traitors...

Between nineteen sixty-eight and nineteen eighty-five, the Monster of Florence murdered sixteen people in secluded lovers' lanes around Tuscany, using the same twenty-two caliber Beretta across all attacks. The killer mutilated female victims and taunted authorities with body parts and letters. Despite Italy's largest criminal investigation, the case spawned decades of controversy. Farmer Pietro Pacciani was convicted then acquitted. His alleged accomplices faced dubious prosecutions based on questionable testimony. Prosecutors later pursued bizarre occult conspiracy theories involving wealthy...

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