Forgotten Serial Killers True Crime
by Christina
Welcome to Forgotten Serial Killers True Crime — the definitive podcast dedicated to unearthing the most disturbing, overlooked, and deliberately buried stories of serial murderers that mainstream true crime has ignored for decades. While the world obsesses over Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer, hundreds of equally monstrous killers slipped through the cracks of history. Some were too quiet, some too clever, and others simply operated in places or times where the media and police didn’t want to admit the body count. This podcast brings those forgotten monsters back into the spotlight with meticulously researched, deeply unsettling episodes that go far beyond surface-level recaps. Each week, we deliver a full-length deep dive (45–70 minutes) into one forgotten serial killer or a cluster of connected cases. You’ll hear chilling timelines of their crimes, detailed victim profiles that honor the lives stolen, exhaustive analysis of how investigators mi
Episodes
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William Suff: The Friendly Nerd Who Murdered 12 Women
In the early hours of January 9, 1992, a routine traffic stop in Riverside, California, led authorities to William Lester Suff, an outwardly mild-mannered county stock clerk. Over the next three years, investigators would link him to at least twelve brutal murders of local women, uncovering a...
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Clark Perry Baldwin: The Long-Haul Truck Driver Who Got Away With Murder for 30 Years
In late February 1991, 21-year-old Mary Ann Newton escaped a brutal assault by long-haul trucker Clark Perry Baldwin at a Texas truck stop, only to have investigators identify him nearly three decades later as the killer of three women across multiple states. This gripping episode traces…
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Béla Kiss: The Drums of Cinkota
In July 1916, wartime fuel shortages led Austro-Hungarian officers to a tinsmith’s cottage in Cinkota where they discovered twenty-four methanol-preserved bodies sealed inside metal drums—marking the revelation of one of Hungary’s most prolific serial killers.
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Catherine Monvoisin: La Voisin and the Affair of the Poisons
In this chilling episode, we recount the final hours and explosive legacy of Catherine Monvoisin—better known as La Voisin—whose 1680 execution exposed a vast network of poison, black magic, and aristocratic murder plots at the glittering court of Louis XIV. Her refusal to confess, even as flames...
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Anthony Allen Shore: The Tourniquet Killer – Houston's DNA Cold-Case Execution
In January 2018, Texas carried out its first execution of the year when Anthony Allen Shore was put to death for the 1992 murder of Maria del Carmen Estrada. The case remained unsolved for more than a decade until a preserved fingernail scraping finally yielded a DNA match that linked Shore to…
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Brandon Tholmer: The Mentally Disordered Sex Offender Who Killed 12 Elderly Women
On November 7, 1983, a watchful neighbor in Hollywood’s Beachwood Canyon foiled a burglary attempt and unwittingly cracked open the case of one of Los Angeles’s most prolific serial killers. The suspect, Brandon Tholmer, was quickly connected to a chilling trove of jewelry and personal belongings...
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Vickie Dawn Jackson: The Missing Mivacron That Exposed a Killer
In the sleepy corridors of Nocona General Hospital, a routine pharmacy inventory check uncovered a chilling mystery—twenty vials of the potent paralytic mivacurium chloride had vanished without a trace. The discovery set in motion a Texas Ranger investigation that would link the missing…
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The Doodler: San Francisco's Unidentified Cartoonist Killer
In the mid-1970s, a polite young man who introduced himself as a cartoonist lured at least five gay men from San Francisco bars, then stabbed them to death on the city’s beaches and in their homes. The case, known as The Doodler, remains the city’s longest-running unsolved serial-killing...
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Sean Vincent Gillis: The Other Baton Rouge Killer
On April 29, 2004, Baton Rouge police quietly arrested 41-year-old computer-store clerk Sean Vincent Gillis. Within hours he calmly confessed to eight brutal murders spanning a decade—crimes overshadowed by the parallel hunt for serial killer Derrick Todd Lee.
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The Freeway Phantom: Six Unsolved Murders of D.C. Girls
On November 15, 1971, an 18-year-old Howard University student named Brenda Denise Woodard was found dead along Route 202 in Maryland, her coat pocket containing a chilling note signed “Free-way Phantom.” The message linked her death to four earlier abductions of young Black girls and…
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John Floyd Thomas Jr.: The 2008 DNA Dragnet That Cracked Two Cold-Case Serial Killings
In October 2008, a routine LAPD dragnet targeting 92 pre-2004 registered Los Angeles County sex offenders unexpectedly solved two long-running serial-murder investigations, identifying John Floyd Thomas Jr. as the man behind the Westside Rapist and Claremont/Southland Strangler killings spanning...
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Carl Panzram: The Most Disturbing Serial Killer Autobiography Ever Written
Carl Panzram’s own words open this chilling episode as we examine the life and crimes of a man who claimed to have murdered 21 people and assaulted over a thousand others without a shred of remorse. From his brutal Minnesota childhood to the execution chamber at Leavenworth, Panzram’s story is...
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Bible John: The Barrowland Ballroom Halloween Murder
On Halloween morning 1969, Glasgow mother Helen Puttock was murdered after a night at the Barrowland Ballroom, leaving behind her sister Jeannie as the key witness and a mysterious dance partner known only as “the second John.” This episode reconstructs the fateful taxi ride and the minute…
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The New Bedford Highway Killer: Unsolved Massachusetts Serial Murders 1988-1989
In July 1988, the discovery of Debra Medeiros's body in a Freetown drainage ditch launched one of the most enigmatic serial-killing investigations in modern American history. Over the next ten months, nine women were found murdered along the highways surrounding New Bedford, Massachusetts, with…
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William Devin Howell: The Garden Behind the Strip Mall
On April 10, 2015, forensic teams discovered four additional sets of remains behind a New Britain strip mall, confirming inmate William Devin Howell’s chilling claim that police had only found “half of what is out there.” The recovery brought the total body count to seven victims murdered by…
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Joshua Anderson: The Tulsa Bully — Episode 35
On February 2, 2007, nineteen-year-old Joshua Anderson entered the north Tulsa home of Herbert and Rosemary Hobbs intending only to rob them. Within ninety minutes he had forced the mother and son into sexual acts, murdered them both, and set their house ablaze, escalating a simple robbery into…
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Steven David Catlin: Tissue Samples That Exposed a Serial Poisoner
In November 1984, a single preserved tissue sample from a 1976 death finally revealed that Steven David Catlin had been murdering his wives and mother with undetectable paraquat for nearly a decade.
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Henri Désiré Landru: The Bluebeard of Gambais – Episode 33
On the morning of April 12, 1919, Paris police finally arrested the mild-mannered, bearded man who had been living under multiple aliases. What they uncovered was a chilling web of deception, wartime disappearances, and a secluded villa in Gambais that may have hidden the remains of as many as...
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Leo Boatman: The Cascade – Ocala National Forest Double Murder
On January 4, 2006, recently released juvenile offender Leo Boatman carried a stolen AK-47 into Ocala National Forest and gunned down two Santa Fe Community College students in a quiet woodland clearing near Juniper Springs. The brutal attack left John Parker and Amber Peck dead within minutes,...
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Franklin DeWayne Alix: The Bridgeford Townhouse Execution
On the evening of March 30, 2010, Franklin DeWayne Alix was executed by lethal injection in Texas for the capital murder of Eric Bridgeford during a violent 1998 home invasion. The episode examines how the crime began with the rape of Eric’s sister Karyl, escalated to Eric’s shooting death on the...
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John Eric Armstrong: The Model Sailor Who Became Detroit's Serial Killer
On the second day of the new millennium, a seemingly model Navy veteran named John Eric Armstrong reported discovering a body in the Rouge River—yet within months, investigators would learn he was the man responsible for multiple murders of Detroit-area sex workers. This episode unpacks how a man...
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Episode 29 — Jake Bird: The Tacoma Ax and the Hex
## Episode 29 — Jake Bird: The Tacoma Ax and the Hex
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The Phoenix Serial Shooters: Hausner and Dieteman's Meth-Fueled Killing Spree
In the warm spring nights of May 2005, Dale Hausner and Samuel Dieteman began a terrifying 15-month drive-by shooting spree across suburban Phoenix, wounding and killing random strangers for no reason other than the thrill. High on methamphetamine and sleep-deprived, the pair carried out nearly…
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Jeong Seong-hyeon: The Anyang Christmas Disappearance of 2007
On Christmas Day 2007, ten-year-old Lee Hye-jin and eight-year-old Wu Ye-seul vanished from a small park in Anyang, South Korea after attending a church concert, launching one of the nation’s most intense missing-children investigations. For seventy-two days, police pursued dead-end leads and...
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Joseph Baldi: The Queens Creeper – Forgotten Serial Killer of 1970s New York
In June 1972, fifteen-year-old Deborah Januszko became the fourth young woman murdered in her Queens bedroom by an intruder who slipped through an unlocked window and vanished without a trace. Detectives soon connected her death to three earlier unsolved stabbings, revealing a chilling pattern…
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Genene Jones: The Death Shift — Texas Angel of Death Nurse
During the evening shifts in the Bexar County Hospital's pediatric ICU in 1981–1982, licensed vocational nurse Genene Jones turned
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Darya Saltykova: Russia's Most Sadistic Female Serial Killer
In this chilling episode we uncover the horrifying crimes of Darya Saltykova, the eighteenth-century Russian noblewoman known as the Saltychikha, who systematically tortured and murdered dozens of her own serfs over a seven-year reign of terror on her estate south of Moscow.
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Harrison Graham: The Cookie Monster Killer – Philadelphia House of Death
On August 9, 1987, Philadelphia police forced open an apartment at 1631 North Nineteenth Street and discovered seven strangled African American women hidden inside what would become known as the “House of Death.” The tenant, Harrison Graham—locally famous for his Cookie Monster impressions—had...
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Lewis Hutchinson: Jamaica's First Serial Killer and the Horror of Edinburgh Castle
In the late 18th century, Scottish planter Lewis Hutchinson turned his fortified estate, Edinburgh Castle, into a killing ground, dropping dozens of victims into a deep Jamaican sinkhole now known as Hutchinson's Hole. This episode explores how a man educated in medicine became one of the...
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Adolfo Constanzo: The Godfather of Matamoros
In April 1989, investigators discovered a horrifying scene at Rancho Santa Elena near Matamoros, Mexico: a ritual cauldron filled with human remains and the mutilated bodies of fifteen victims. At the center of this nightmare was Adolfo Constanzo, a Cuban-American cult leader whose supernatural...
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Fritz Haarmann: The Butcher of Hanover – Bones in the River
In the summer of 1924, hundreds of human bones surfaced from Hanover’s Leine River, exposing one of Weimar Germany’s most shocking serial murder cases. Fritz Haarmann, a petty criminal and police informant, was ultimately revealed as the killer of at least 22 young men whose dismembered remains…
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The Long Island Serial Killer: Gilgo Beach Bodies and the Architect of Massapequa Park
In the early hours of May 1, 2010, Shannan Gilbert vanished after a frantic 911 call from Oak Beach, Long Island. Months later, police discovered a cluster of bodies along Ocean Parkway that would become known as the Gilgo Four, all escorts who had advertised on Craigslist. Over the next decade…
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Dennis Nilsen: The Civil Servant Who Killed 15 Men and Couldn't Let Go
In this chilling episode of Forgotten Serial Killers, we examine the double life of Dennis Nilsen, a quiet Scottish-born civil servant who murdered at least twelve young men in North London between 1978 and 1983 while maintaining an unremarkable routine as a job-centre clerk and trade-union steward.
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Cary Anthony Stayner - The Other Brother
In this haunting episode of Forgotten Serial Killers, we examine the life of Cary Anthony Stayner—the overlooked older brother of Steven Stayner, whose abduction made national headlines in 1972. While America celebrated Steven’s miraculous return, Cary grew up in the long shadow of that tragedy,...
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Ken and Barbie Killers: Paul Bernardo, Karla Homolka and Canada's Most Shocking Crimes
In this chilling episode of Forgotten Serial Killers, we unravel the horrifying true story of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka—dubbed the "Ken and Barbie Killers"—whose seemingly perfect lives masked a campaign of rape, torture, and murder that stunned Canada. From their lavish 1991 wedding to the...
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Beauty Queen Killer: Christopher Bernard Wilder Australian-American Serial Killer Case
In the spring of 1984, Australian-born photographer Christopher Bernard Wilder used his charm and camera to lure aspiring models from Florida malls, leaving a trail of missing women and unsolved murders across the American South.
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Carroll Cole: The Serial Killer Who Volunteered for the Needle
Carroll Edward Cole was executed in Nevada in 1985 after waiving all appeals and demanding death for murdering at least thirteen women. This episode examines the Iowa-born killer whose horrific childhood, high IQ, and chilling self-awareness led him to request execution rather than fight for his...
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The Lone Shooter: Joseph Paul Franklin's Racial Terror and American Hate
In this chilling episode of Forgotten Serial Killers, we trace the calculated campaign of Joseph Paul Franklin, a lone-wolf sniper who murdered across state lines in an attempt to ignite a race war. Franklin's story reveals how personal grievance, white-supremacist ideology, and meticulous…
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The Sunday Morning Slasher: Carl Eugene Watts and the Devil's Deal That Almost Freed Him
In May 1982, Carl Eugene Watts was caught in Houston while preparing to drown a young woman in her bathtub. What followed was one of the most controversial immunity agreements in American true-crime history, allowing the self-described “Sunday Morning Slasher” to confess to a dozen murders in...
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The Classified Ad Killer: The True Story of Bobby Joe Long
In November 1984, 17-year-old Lisa McVey survived a 26-hour ordeal at the hands of Bobby Joe Long and provided the crucial details that ended his eight-month killing spree across Tampa Bay. This episode traces Long’s transformation from a troubled West Virginia childhood marked by repeated head...
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Fox Hollow Farm: Herb Baumeister, 11 Bodies & the Men Still Being Named
In 1996, police unearthed over 10,000 bone fragments on an affluent Indiana estate, exposing the hidden crimes of Herb Baumeister. This episode traces how a skull discovered by his son, a quiet suburban life, and years of silence finally gave way to one of the largest unsolved serial murder...
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THE DEATH VAN William Bonin, the Freeway Killer, and the Boys the System Failed to Protect
In this chilling episode, we examine the life and crimes of William Bonin, the notorious Freeway Killer, whose reign of terror claimed the lives of at least fourteen young men and boys. Through a haunting exploration of institutional failures, from juvenile detention centers to the parole system,...
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THE HIGHWAY KILLER: Larry Eyler, Interstate Murders & Names Still Recovered
In August 1984, Larry Eyler’s arrest for the brutal murder of fifteen-year-old Danny Bridges finally halted a four-year killing spree that left at least twenty-one young men dead along the highways of Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky. This episode traces Eyler’s troubled childhood, his repeated...
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THE BUNKER: Charles Ng, Leonard Lake & Wilseyville Horrors
In June 1985, a routine shoplifting arrest in South San Francisco cracked open one of the most disturbing cases in American criminal history, exposing a remote bunker in Wilseyville where Leonard Lake and Charles Ng had spent years abducting, torturing, and murdering men, women, and children. The...
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THE SCORECARD: Randy Kraft, the Freeway Killer, and the List That Documented a Decade of Murder
In May 1983, California Highway Patrol pulled over Randy Kraft on Interstate 5, discovering the body of a strangled Marine in his car and a cryptic list of 61 entries that would later be linked to a decade of unsolved murders. This episode explores the life and crimes of Randy Kraft, the…
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THE SLAVEMASTER John Edward Robinson and the Dawn of the Online Predator
Before the world understood the internet could be a hunting ground, John Edward Robinson was already using it to lure women to their deaths. On this episode of Forgotten Serial Killers, we trace how a seemingly ordinary grandfather and community pillar became the first documented serial killer to...
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The Man Next Door: The Crimes, Mind, and Double Life of Robert Lee Yates Jr.
On a quiet Sunday morning in Spokane, a respected Army helicopter pilot and father of five was arrested as the Spokane serial killer, revealing how Robert Lee Yates Jr. had hidden at least thirteen murders behind an ordinary suburban life.
About this show
Welcome to Forgotten Serial Killers True Crime — the definitive podcast dedicated to unearthing the most disturbing, overlooked, and deliberately buried stories of serial murderers that mainstream true crime has ignored for decades.
While the world obsesses over Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer, hundreds of equally monstrous killers slipped through the cracks of history. Some were too quiet, some too clever, and others simply operated in places or times where the media and police didn’t want to admit the body count. This podcast brings those forgotten monsters back into the spotlight with meticulously researched, deeply unsettling episodes that go far beyond surface-level recaps.
Each week, we deliver a full-length deep dive (45–70 minutes) into one forgotten serial killer or a cluster of connected cases. You’ll hear chilling timelines of their crimes, detailed victim profiles that honor the lives stolen, exhaustive analysis of how investigators mi
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