When Killers Get Caught: A True Crime Podcast
by Ransom Storytelling Studios LLC
Now in its fourth season, When Killers Get Caught is a true crime podcast hosted by Brittany Ransom that focuses not just on what happened, but why. Each week explores infamous and overlooked cases, unsettling mysteries, and the psychology behind violent crime, following the trail until the moment everything falls apart. This is a show about motive, consequence, and the thin line between ordinary life and unthinkable acts. Starting February 2026, subscribers (Case Closers) will also get exclusive mini-episodes with shorter, deep-cut cases and listener submissions.
Episodes
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Michelle Knight: The Cleveland Kidnapping Survivor Who Refused to Be Erased
In August 2002, Michelle Knight became Ariel Castro’s first victim. For nearly eleven years 3,910 days she endured severe physical abuse and psychological isolation while Castro tried to convince her the world had forgotten her. Tragically, after police prematurely removed her from the NCIC…
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Remembering Tiffany Taylor: The Survivor Who Helped Convict Khalil Wheeler-Weaver
In this episode of When Killers Get Caught, we honor the memory and legacy of Tiffany Taylor following her recent passing. Tiffany’s courageous testimony was pivotal in bringing serial killer Khalil Wheeler-Weaver to justice, stopping a predator who targeted young women in New Jersey. We dive…
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Escaping David Parker Ray: How Cynthia Vigil Took Down the Toybox Killer
In March 1999, Cynthia Vigil was abducted in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and taken to a remote trailer in Elephant Butte equipped with a horrific torture chamber. Through unbelievable bravery and presence of mind, she managed to seize a split-second opportunity, grab a key while her captor was...
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Jane Carson-Sandler: Facing the Golden State Killer
In October 1976, Jane Carson-Sandler became one of the earliest targeted survivors of the East Area Rapist—the violent predator who would later be exposed as the Golden State Killer, Joseph James DeAngelo. When a masked intruder broke into her home with a butcher knife while she was with her...
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Until I Kill You: The True Story of Delia Balmer & Serial Killer John Sweeney
Delia Balmer survived an axe attack by serial killer John Sweeney , the "Scalphunter", but her hardest fight was against a system that refused to listen. Before John Sweeney made headlines as the dismemberment killer responsible for the murders of Melissa Halstead and Paula Fields, Delia Balmer...
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Escaping Andrew Urdiales: The Story of Jennifer Asbenson
In 1992, 19-year-old Jennifer Asbenson faced a night of unthinkable horror when she accepted a ride in Palm Springs, California, from a man who would turn out to be serial killer Andrew Urdiales. Ambushed, bound, and locked inside the trunk of a moving car, Jennifer knew her survival depended on...
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Surviving Cline Falls: Terri Jentz and the Unsolved 1977 Oregon Attack
In 1977, college students Terri Jentz and Avra Goldman set out on a cross-country bicycle trip that ended in a nightmare at Cline Falls State Park, Oregon. While sleeping in their tent, an unidentified attacker ran over them with a pickup truck and brutalized them with an axe. Both women survived...
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Alison Botha: Survival, Justice, and the Power of the Human Spirit
In 1994, Alison Botha was abducted outside her home in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, by Frans du Toit and Theuns Kruger. After a horrific attack, Alison was left for dead in an isolated area. But somehow, she was still alive. Alone and catastrophically injured, Alison made a decision: if she was...
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Holly Dunn: The Sole Survivor of the Railroad Killer Ángel Reséndiz
Holly Dunn was the only known survivor of Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, the serial killer who became known as the Railroad Killer. In 1997, 20-year-old Holly and her boyfriend, Christopher Maier, were attacked near railroad tracks in Lexington, Kentucky. Christopher was murdered. Holly was beaten,...
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Kathy Kleiner Rubin: Surviving Ted Bundy and the Chi Omega Attack
On January 15, 1978, serial killer Ted Bundy entered the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University, murdered Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy, and brutally attacked Kathy Kleiner Rubin and Karen Chandler. Kathy survived but Ted Bundy was far from the first thing she had survived. This…
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How Rhonda Stapley Survived Ted Bundy & the 40-Year Silence That Followed
In 1974, 21-year-old pharmacy student Rhonda Stapley accepted a ride from a polite law student named Ted. What followed was a nightmare in Big Cottonwood Canyon and an extraordinary escape into a roaring mountain river. In this episode of When Killers Get Caught, host Brittany Ransom deconstructs...
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Lisa McVey : The Girl Who Outsmarted a Serial Killer
At just 17 years old, Lisa McVey was kidnapped by one of America's most dangerous serial killers. But instead of giving in to fear, she did something extraordinary, she observed, she remembered, and she survived. In this episode of When Killers Get Caught, Brittany Ransom tells the incredible…
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Richard Ramirez (The Night Stalker Case): The Untold Cost of Investigative Failure
"How many lives could have been saved if the warning signs had been connected sooner?" In the mid-1980s, a wave of unprecedented terror gripped Southern California. Windows were nailed shut, lights were on throughout the night, and ordinary communities found themselves at the mercy of a predatory...
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Beneath the Sequins: The Hidden Body of Dorian Corey
When ballroom icon Dorian Corey died in 1993, friends packing her closet made a horrifying discovery: a mummified body hidden inside a vintage trunk. For 25 years, a secret had been sitting just feet from where she slept. Who was the man in the dark? This week on When Killers Get Caught, host...
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Inside the Mind of Ted Kaczynski: The 17-Year Unabomber Hunt
How does a child genius who enters Harvard at sixteen end up becoming one of the most notorious domestic terrorists in American history? In this episode of When Killers Get Caught, Brittany Ransom examines the life of Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber. From his childhood as a gifted...
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The Price of the Pyramid: Wanda Holloway and the Texas Cheerleader Murder Plot
In 1991, a suburban Texas mother was arrested for allegedly trying to hire a hitman over a middle school cheerleading competition. This week on When Killers Get Caught, Brittany Ransom examines the shocking case of Wanda Holloway, better known as the "Texas Cheerleader Mom." What began as a...
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John List & The Calculated Disappearance of a Family Annihilator
In 1971, a quiet suburban home in Westfield became the center of one of the most chilling family annihilation cases in American history. This is the story of John List, a deeply religious, seemingly respectable accountant, husband, and father who methodically murdered his entire family inside…
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What Happened to Natalee Holloway? The Aruba Case, Confession & Years of Lies
In May 2005, eighteen-year-old Natalee Holloway vanished during a graduation trip to Aruba , a disappearance that would become one of the most infamous true crime cases in modern history. What began as a carefree senior trip quickly spiraled into an international media frenzy involving shifting...
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The Beast of Royal Street: The True Story of Madame LaLaurie (Revisited)
In this episode of When Killers Get Caught, Brittany Ransom revisits one of the most infamous figures in New Orleans history Delphine LaLaurie, also known as The Beast of Royal Street. Long before the fire that exposed her mansion in 1834, Madame LaLaurie was a wealthy Creole socialite living at...
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Gisèle Pelicot: Shame Must Change Sides
In this landmark 100th episode of When Killers Get Caught, we step beyond the moment of arrest and into something deeper: a reckoning. The case of Gisèle Pelicot shocked the world. For nearly a decade, her husband, Dominique Pelicot, drugged her into unconsciousness and invited dozens of men into...
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“No One Saw Anything” | The Skidmore Shooting of Ken Rex McElroy
In 1981, a man was shot in broad daylight on Main Street in Skidmore, Missouri in front of dozens of witnesses. Yet, no one was ever arrested. This is the story of Ken Rex McElroy, a man accused of violence, intimidation, and terrorizing a small town for years… and the moment that town stopped...
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The Woman Who Fought Back: Susan Kuhnhausen vs a Murder-for-Hire Plot
In 2006, Susan Kuhnhausen came home after a long shift as an emergency room nurse and walked straight into a violent ambush inside her own home. A man was waiting for her with a hammer. He had a job to do and she was the target. What he didn’t know was that Susan wasn’t just a victim. She was a...
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Anna Genovese: Mob Wife, LGBT Pioneer, and the Woman Who Broke Omertà
She was married to one of America’s most feared mob bosses, Vito Genovese, but Anna Genovese lived by her own rules inside the heart of the New York Mafia. Anna built a parallel world in Greenwich Village, creating safe havens for a queer community the city tried to erase, all while navigating a...
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When a Myth Becomes a Command: Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier
In 2014, the quiet suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin, was shattered by a crime that defied logic. Two 12-year-old girls lured their best friend into the woods for a birthday game of hide-and-seek only to leave her for dead as a "sacrifice" to a fictional internet character known as Slender Man. In...
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BTK: The Killer Who Lived a Perfect Life Next Door
Dennis Rader looked like the last person you would ever suspect. A church leader. A husband. A father. A man trusted by his community. But behind that ordinary life was something far more calculated. Known as BTK, Bind, Torture, Kill, Rader terrorized Wichita, Kansas in the 1970s before...
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Gary Plauché: The Father Who Killed His Son’s Abuser on Live TV
On March 16, 1984, inside a Baton Rouge airport, a man stepped forward, raised a gun, and shot another man in the head, on live television. That man was Gary Plauché. The victim? The man accused of kidnapping and abusing his 11-year-old son. But this case is more than a shocking moment caught on...
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The Serial Killer of Nazi Paris: Dr. Marcel Petiot and the Escape Network Murders
During World War II, desperate refugees flooded Nazi-occupied Paris searching for a way to escape. A respected doctor named Marcel Petiot claimed he could help. Under the alias Dr. Eugène, Petiot created a fake escape network called Fly-Tox, promising to smuggle Jews, resistance fighters, and...
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Samuel Little: The Most Prolific Serial Killer in U.S. History and the 68 Women Still Nameless
Samuel Little is believed to be the most prolific serial killer in United States history, confessing to 93 murders across multiple states between the 1970s and early 2000s. For decades, many of his victims remained unidentified, their disappearances overlooked as Little traveled from city to city...
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Son of Sam: The David Berkowitz Case | How a Serial Killer Terrorized New York City
In the summer of 1976, New York City was gripped by fear. A serial killer known as “Son of Sam” began targeting young couples sitting in parked cars, using a .44 caliber Bulldog revolver in a series of sudden, execution-style shootings. Over the course of a year, David Berkowitz murdered six…
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The Assassination of Fred Hampton: COINTELPRO, the Black Panther Party & the 1969 Chicago Police Raid
On December 4, 1969, a pre-dawn police raid at 2337 West Monroe Street in Chicago left 21-year-old Black Panther leader Fred Hampton dead. Authorities called it a shootout. Evidence later suggested something far more deliberate. In this episode of When Killers Get Caught, Brittany Ransom examines...
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Emmett Till: The 1955 Murder That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement | Black History Month True Crime
In 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till traveled from Chicago to Mississippi and never came home. In this Black History Month episode of When Killers Get Caught, Brittany Ransom examines the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till, the trial that followed, and the decision that forced America to confront…
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Rosewood Massacre: The Black Town Burned and Forgotten
In January 1923, the Black town of Rosewood, Florida was surrounded, burned, and erased after a white woman accused a Black man of assault—an accusation never proven and never investigated. Over the course of several days, white mobs hunted residents, destroyed homes and churches, and forced...
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Tulsa 1921: The Tulsa Race Massacre and the Destruction of Black Wall Street
In this episode, Brittany Ransom investigates the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the deadliest and most deliberately obscured acts of racial violence in American history. What happened in Greenwood, often called Black Wall Street, was not a riot, it was a coordinated assault that left as…
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The Lie Is the Point: Who Gets to Be an American When State Violence Is Justified
Every time a Black person is killed, the lie arrives faster than the facts. He had a gun. He was high. She was threatening. In this alternative episode of When Killers Get Caught, Brittany Ransom steps away from a traditional case to examine a pattern that stretches from Emmett Till to the…
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Brownie Mary: The Grandmother Who Defied the War on Drugs
In 1981, during the height of the War on Drugs, police raided a San Francisco apartment expecting a major drug dealer. Instead, they found a grandmother in an apron baking brownies. Her name was Mary Jane Rathbun, later known as Brownie Mary, a woman whose arrest would help change how America...
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Andrea Yates: Postpartum Psychosis, System Failure, and a Case America Still Gets Wrong
This episode contains in depth discussion of infanticide, postpartum psychosis, suicide, and severe mental illness. Listener discretion is advised. In 2001, Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a case that shocked the nation and was quickly labeled as one of the most horrific crimes in...
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The Killer Who Wrote the Dictionary
The True Crime Story of William Chester Minor and the Oxford English Dictionary In 1872, a former U.S. Army surgeon named William Chester Minor shot a stranger to death on a London street. Declared criminally insane, he was confined to Broadmoor Asylum where he would unexpectedly become one of…
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The Only Priest Sent to the Electric Chair: The True Crimes of Hans Schmidt
He stood at the altar as a man of God and lived in secret as a killer. In the early 1900s, Hans Schmidt became the only Catholic priest ever executed in the United States. Sworn to celibacy and spiritual authority, Schmidt instead lived a double life that ended in ritual murder. After illegally...
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Neama Rahmani protected corporations, prosecuted cartels and now he fights for the little guy
Hey everyone in Serial Killer country! In seeking people connected to justice to speak with in Season 3, Neama Rahmani is the perfect person for the podcast. One of the youngest graduates of Harvard Law, recruited by a massive corporate law firm, then a transition into prosecuting America's most...
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Nika Nikoubin's delusions were so severe she didn't even know she'd commited a crime
Hey everyone in Serial Killer country! This weeks podcast is a little different. We are talking to Nika Nikoubin, a young woman who attacked a man unprovoked last year and then blamed it on a US drone strike. An interesting podcast for sure as we learn about Nika's upbringing and how she ended up...
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Sadie Solstice Was Almost Killed By her Ex-boyfriend
Hey all my True Crime Friends, Todays podcast is a doozy. If you haven't seen Sadie on tiktok @lilmiss80 then this episode will be new to you. Sadie is currently 25 years old from Denver, Colorado but when she was 18 years old her boyfriend tried to kill her and her unborn child and almost...
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Dr. Kelli Martin's True Crime Past Inspired an Upcoming Novel
Hey and thanks for listening! This weeks podcast is an interview with 1st time true crime author Dr. Kelli Martin. While there are many true crime writers across the world Kelli's connection to crime dates back to her childhood in Hood County Texas. I talk to Kelli about her history in law...
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Stephanie Kane & The Murder She Couldn't Forget
Welcome to a brand new episode of When Killers Get Caught! Thanks for stopping by and giving this podcast a listen. In Season 3 I'll be doing normal deep dives on my own but I also wanted to talk with people who've been effected by crime, so you'll be hearing from some writers who felt connected…
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Candy Crimes and Halloween Treats from Yesteryear
HAPPY HALLOWEEN and thanks for listening to When Killers Get Caught! We’re so excited to be back! This week in true crime Brittany is celebrating the arrest of the man responsible for the Delphi murders and Brian’s mad about a group of daycare workers who traumatized children. Brittany’s deep…
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Jane Toppan For the Love of Poison
Hey there and thanks for listening to When Killers Get Caught! We’re so excited to be back! This week in true crime Brittany has feelings about the new crop of fictional horror that uses true crime as it’s inspiration and Brian’s hopeful that perhaps we can close the chapter on the Moors Murders...
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Joseph James Deangelo Part II: Catching a killer
Hey there and thanks for listening to When Killers Get Caught! We’re so excited to be back! This week in true crime Brittany discusses a verdict she’s been waiting for since she was a young girl and Brian discusses another Angel of death in the health Care system. Brittany’s deep dive is the 2nd...
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Joseph James DeAngelo Part I: The Man and the Mayhem
Hey there and thanks for listening to When Killers Get Caught! We’re so excited to be back! This week in true crime Brittany discusses a cold case finally solved after 39 years and Brian discusses the update to the Only Fans model who killed her boyfriend Courtney Clenney. Brittany’s deep dive is...
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The Crime and End of Clifford Olson Jr and the Pope lick monster.
Hey there and thanks for listening to When Killers Get Caught! This week in true crime Brittany discusses a missing and found child and Brian discusses a case of animal cruelty that ended okay. Brittany’s deep dive is the 2nd half of Clifford Olsen Jr’s Crimes and what compelled the Canadian...
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The Beginning of a Monster: Clifford Olsen Jr. & El Sibon
Brians back! Hey there and thanks for listening to When Killers Get Caught! This week in true crime Brittany discusses a scamming Bishop and Brian updates us on a prior case. Brittany’s deep dive is the first half of the life and crimes of The Beast of the British Columbia Clifford Olsen Jr and...
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Judy Buenoano and Legends from New Jersey
This week Brian takes a break so Brittany’s other podcast buddy Glitch steps in! (listen to her on Anchor.fm/roommatearena) there and thanks for listening to When Killers Get Caught! This week in true crime Brittany can’t believe the person responsible for this heinous crime wrote a memoir and...
About this show
Now in its fourth season, When Killers Get Caught is a true crime podcast hosted by Brittany Ransom that focuses not just on what happened, but why. Each week explores infamous and overlooked cases, unsettling mysteries, and the psychology behind violent crime, following the trail until the moment everything falls apart. This is a show about motive, consequence, and the thin line between ordinary life and unthinkable acts. Starting February 2026, subscribers (Case Closers) will also get exclusive mini-episodes with shorter, deep-cut cases and listener submissions.
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