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Pure Malice
by Riane Nix, Taylor Lynch, and Britni Burks
© 2025 Pure Malice/Nix. All Rights Reserved.Welcome to Pure Malice — where real crimes run deeper than you ever imagined.We unravel the darkest corners of true crime, from cold cases and infamous murders and twisted psychological tales. These are the stories that haunt communities. Whether it’s a case you thought you knew or one you've never heard of, we dive in with fresh eyes, new theories, and a relentless search for truth. Subscribe now & follow us down the rabbit hole — if you dare for a little dark joy.
Episodes
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The Railroad Killer, Part 1
The Railroad Killer – Part 1 | The Making of a Monster He moved through the country along the railroad tracks, leaving behind a trail of violence, unanswered questions, and lives forever changed. Known as the Railroad Killer, Angel Reséndiz would become one of the most notorious serial killers in...
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Lizzie Borden, Part 2: The Real Story Behind Netflix’s Monster
Netflix’s Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story has brought this infamous case back into the spotlight—but the real courtroom story is even more dramatic. In Part 2 of Lizzie Borden: The Real Story Behind Netflix’s Monster, Pure Malice follows Lizzie from her arrest and indictment through her...
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Lizzie Borden: The Real Story Behind Netflix’s Monster
Lizzie Borden: The Real Story Behind Netflix’s Monster Lizzie Borden has been one of America’s most infamous murder suspects for more than 130 years. On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally murdered inside their home in Fall River, Massachusetts. Their daughter Lizzie was…
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The Killer Clown | The Case of Marlene Warren
The 1990 murder of Marlene Warren, known as the Killer Clown Murder, remains one of Florida’s most bizarre and haunting true crime cases. When a clown carrying flowers and balloons appeared at the Warren’s Wellington, Florida doorstep, no one could have imagined the horror waiting behind the...
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The Lake Waco Murders: A Local Nightmare, Part 3
David Spence never stopped saying he was innocent. Even after the headlines and his conviction. Even after the system had already decided who he was and what he had done, David continued to proclaim that he had no part in the murders of Jill Montgomery, Raylene Rice, or Kenneth Franks. But he...
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The Lake Waco Murders: A Local Nightmare, Part 2
The Lake Waco Murders investigation takes a darker turn in Part 2. After the bodies of Jill Montgomery, Raylene Rice, and Kenneth Franks were discovered near Lake Waco in July 1982, the autopsy findings began raising even more questions. The evidence pointed to a violent, personal, and deeply...
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The Lake Waco Murders: A Local Nightmare | Part 1
The Lake Waco Murders: A Local Nightmare begins with three teenagers, one summer night, and a case that would haunt Waco, Texas for decades. In July 1982, Jill Montgomery, Raylene Rice, and Kenneth Franks went out for what should have been a normal night near Lake Waco. But when they never made…
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Elmer McCurdy: The Outlaw Mummy - Episode 24
Elmer McCurdy wanted to be remembered as an outlaw, but his afterlife became far stranger than anything he did while he was alive. In the early 1900s, McCurdy tried to make a name for himself as a train robber and outlaw. But his criminal career was chaotic, unsuccessful, and short-lived. After a...
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Princess Diana: The Mystery That Still Surrounds Her Death
Princess Diana became one of the most beloved women in the world, but behind the royal image was a story far more complicated than the fairy tale people were sold. When Diana Spencer married Prince Charles in 1981, the world watched what looked like the beginning of a perfect royal love story. A...
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Rae Carruth, Part 2- Episode 22
The Rae Carruth case did not end with the shooting of Cherica Adams. In Part 2 of Pure Malice: Athletes Gone Dark, we continue the story of former Carolina Panthers wide receiver Rae Carruth and the crime that shocked the sports world. After Cherica Adams was shot while pregnant with Carruth’s...
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Rae Carruth, Part 1- Episode 21
Pure Malice: Athletes Gone Dark begins with the case of Rae Carruth, a rising NFL star whose story became one of the most disturbing crimes in sports history. In 1997, Rae Carruth was drafted by the Carolina Panthers as a talented wide receiver with a future most athletes only dream about. On the...
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The Bell Witch, Episode 20
In the early 1800s, long before horror films, viral legends, or ghost-hunting equipment, a wealthy farming family in Tennessee found themselves at the center of one of the most chilling and enduring paranormal stories in American history. What began as strange sounds in the night quickly…
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The Billionaire Murders, Part 2: The Unsolved Case of Barry and Honey Sherman
The Billionaire Murders case only gets more complicated in Part 2. After the bodies of Barry and Honey Sherman were discovered inside their Toronto mansion, the early theory of murder-suicide began to collapse under the weight of new findings, family pressure, private investigation, and growing...
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The Billionaire Murders, Part 1: The Unsolved Case of Barry and Honey Sherman
The Billionaire Murders case begins with one of Canada’s wealthiest couples, a Toronto mansion, and a crime scene that raised questions from the very beginning. In December 2017, pharmaceutical billionaire Barry Sherman and his wife, philanthropist Honey Sherman, were found dead inside their...
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Mini Malice: The Christmas Murders Episode 17
🎙️ Listener discretion is advised.This episode marks a first for Pure Malice and it’s anything but merry. Welcome to Mini Malice, our brand-new special edition episodes where we dive into shorter true crime cases that still leave a lasting chill. Same dark curiosity, same sharp storytelling…
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The Manhattan Alien Abduction - Episode 16
The Manhattan Alien Abduction is one of the strangest and most controversial UFO cases ever reported. Alien abduction stories are usually tied to quiet roads, isolated homes, and empty stretches of sky. But this case takes us into the middle of New York City, where traffic, skyscrapers, and...
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The Slenderman Stabbing, Part 2
The Slenderman stabbing case did not end with the attack on Peyton Leutner. Slenderman was supposed to stay online: a faceless shadow living in creepypasta threads, internet horror forums, and digital folklore. But in 2014, that fiction became horrifyingly real when 12-year-old Peyton Leutner was...
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The Slenderman Stabbing, Part 1
The Slenderman stabbing is one of the most chilling true crime cases born from internet folklore. Slenderman was supposed to stay online: a faceless figure in the woods, a shadow in a suit, a digital campfire story passed around through creepypasta forums and internet horror communities. But in...
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The Last Call Killer, Part 2
The Last Call Killer case reaches a turning point in Part 2. After years of unanswered questions, brutal discoveries, and fear surrounding New York City’s LGBTQ+ nightlife scene, the investigation into Richard Rogers Jr. finally begins to move toward the breakthrough detectives had been waiting...
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The Last Call Killer, Part 1
The Last Call Killer case is one of the most disturbing true crime stories tied to New York City’s LGBTQ+ nightlife scene. In Part 1, we begin the case of Richard Rogers Jr., the man who would later become known as The Last Call Killer. On the surface, Rogers appeared ordinary. But behind that...
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Ghost Inspector Greg: Real Paranormal Encounters special guest Ghost Inspector Greg
This Halloween, Pure Malice Into the Paranormal steps into the unknown with a very special guest. In this special Halloween episode, Pure Malice welcomes special guest Greg Ludwig, better known as Ghost Inspector Greg, for a chilling dive into the world of real paranormal investigation, haunted...
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The Greenbrier Ghost
The Greenbrier Ghost is one of the strangest true crime and paranormal cases in American history. In 1897, a young woman named Zona Heaster Shue was found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, under circumstances that didn’t sit right with her family. At first, her death seemed like a tragic...
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The Vanishing Triangle, Part 2
Were here with part two of The Vanishing Triangle. It's one of Ireland’s most haunting unsolved mysteries. In the 1990s, a series of women disappeared from an area in eastern Ireland that would later become known as the Vanishing Triangle. They left behind families, communities, unanswered...
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The Vanishing Triangle, Part 1
The Vanishing Triangle is one of Ireland’s most haunting unsolved mysteries. In the 1990's, a series of women disappeared from an area in eastern Ireland that would later become known as the Vanishing Triangle. They left behind families, communities, unanswered questions, and a mystery that still...
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The Mysterious Death of Tamla Horsford
Hey listeners... We've got a baffling case for you this week. The Mysterious Death of Tamla Horsford is a true crime case you NEED to hear! When Tamla Horsford attended an adult slumber party in Forsyth County, Georgia, she expected a night of fun, football, and friends. Instead, the 40-year-old...
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The Texas Killing Fields, Part 2
Part 2 of The Texas Killing Fields is here! Along a desolate stretch of I-45 between Houston and Galveston lies a haunting landscape known as the Texas Killing Fields—a place where dozens of young women vanished, and many never came home. In this episode of Pure Malice, we peel back the layers of...
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The Texas Killing Fields, Part 1
Along a desolate stretch of I-45 between Houston and Galveston lies a haunting landscape known as the Texas Killing Fields—a place where dozens of young women vanished, and many never came home. In this episode of Pure Malice, we peel back the layers of this chilling case. From the discovery of…
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The Spirits of Eastern State Pen, Part 2
Part 2 of The Eastern State Penitentiary is here! In this chilling episode, we unlock the iron gates of one of America’s most infamous and haunted prisons — Eastern State Penitentiary. Once a revolutionary model for reform, this massive Gothic fortress in Philadelphia quickly became a house of...
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The Spirits of Eastern State Penitentiary, Part 1
In this chilling episode, we unlock the iron gates of one of America’s most infamous and haunted prisons — Eastern State Penitentiary. Once a revolutionary model for reform, this massive Gothic fortress in Philadelphia quickly became a house of horror, where isolation broke more than just…
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The Unsolved Mystery of the 1977 Girl Scout Murders, Part 2
We're back with part 2 of the Unsolved Mystery of the 1977 Girl Scout Murders! On June 12, 1977, three young girls arrived at Camp Scott near Locust Grove, Oklahoma, excited for a summer of adventure. But by morning, their lives had been tragically cut short, and they never returned home. Decades...
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The Unsolved Mystery of the 1977 Girl Scout Murders, Part 1
On June 12, 1977, three young girls arrived at Camp Scott near Locust Grove, Oklahoma, excited for a summer of adventure. But by morning, their lives had been tragically cut short, and they never returned home. Decades later, the haunting mystery of the Girl Scout Murders remains unsolved. In…
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© 2025 Pure Malice/Nix. All Rights Reserved.Welcome to Pure Malice — where real crimes run deeper than you ever imagined.We unravel the darkest corners of true crime, from cold cases and infamous murders and twisted psychological tales. These are the stories that haunt communities. Whether it’s a case you thought you knew or one you've never heard of, we dive in with fresh eyes, new theories, and a relentless search for truth. Subscribe now & follow us down the rabbit hole — if you dare for a little dark joy.
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