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A True crime Podcast
The true crime podcast that uncovers the most notorious murders, heists, and mob sagas from the shadows of the past. Each episode transports you to crime scenes long forgotten, weaving gripping narratives of betrayal, bloodshed, and justice—or the lack thereof. From Prohibition-era gang wars to modern-day mysteries. we explore the dark motives, shocking twists, and enduring legacies that still haunt us today. Perfect for armchair detectives and history buffs alike—listen if you dare,
Episodes
- A True crime Podcast
The Barrels of Cinkota: Béla Kiss and the Women Who Answered the Ad
In May 1916, a landlord outside Budapest opens a metal drum he thinks is full of petrol. Inside is a woman, strangled and preserved in wood alcohol. Then…
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Fifteen Shots on Amager: The Night Palle Sørensen Killed Four Danish Police Officers
Just after 3:40 a.m. on 18 September 1965, a white Simca full of stolen goods is pulled over on Amager. Denmark’s police are still largely unarmed. Ten minutes…
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The Angel Maker: Dagmar Overbye and the Children Who Never Came Home
On 2 September 1920, Karoline Aagesen stood in a Copenhagen stairwell and demanded her baby back. The woman she had paid would not open the door. In the stove…
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The Keys on Vangehusvej: James Schmidt and the Østerbro Murders
On 9 March 2019, a young man left a Copenhagen cinema after watching Captain Marvel. He had paid with a dead woman’s bank card. In four weeks, three pensioners…
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The Inventor and the Nautilus: Peter Madsen and the Murder of Kim Wall
On August 10, 2017, journalist Kim Wall boarded Peter Madsen’s homemade submarine in Copenhagen harbor for an interview. By morning, Madsen had been pulled…
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The Man Who Made the Bodies Disappear: Peter Lundin
In June 2000, Marianne Pedersen and her two sons, Brian and Dennis, vanished from a house in Rødovre, Denmark. There were no bodies. No graves. Police later…
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The Amager Man: Denmark’s Double Life Killer
For 23 years, Marcel Lychau Hansen coached football, cleaned planes at Copenhagen Airport, and lived as a family man on Amager. At night he was something else…
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The Officer Who Stopped Her: Wayne Couzens and Sarah Everard
On 3 March 2021, Sarah Everard was walking home through Clapham when a police officer pulled over, showed a warrant card, and put her in handcuffs. Five…
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The Psychiatrist at the Christmas Market: Taleb al-Abdulmohsen
December 20, 2024. A rented BMW tears through Magdeburg’s Christmas market. Sixty-four seconds. Six dead — including a nine-year-old boy — and more than three…
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The Man Who Drove Into the New Year: Shamsud-Din Jabbar and Bourbon Street
On January 1, 2025, a rented Ford F-150 tore through New Year’s crowds on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Fourteen people were killed. The driver, Shamsud-Din…
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Nottingham Before Dawn: The Crimes of Valdo Calocane
Four in the morning. Two students walking home after exams. A caretaker on his way to work. By sunrise, three people are dead and three more have been run down…
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The House on King Road: Bryan Kohberger and the Idaho Student Murders
Four University of Idaho students went to sleep after a Saturday night out. By morning, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin were…
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The Architect on Ocean Parkway: Rex Heuermann and the Gilgo Beach Murders
On a lonely stretch of Long Island highway, a police dog found four women wrapped in burlap. The man who left them there commuted to Manhattan, ran an…
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The Night Sniper of Malmö: Peter Mangs
Malmö, 2009. A parked car. Eleven shots. A twenty-year-old woman dead in the passenger seat — and a city still telling itself the gunfire was just gang war…
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The Laser Man: John Ausonius and the Hunt That Terrorized Sweden
Stockholm, August 1991. A red dot appears on a young man’s back. Then a shot. Over six months, eleven people — almost all immigrants — are gunned down in…
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Kirves: Toivo Koljonen and Finland’s Last Civilian Execution
In March 1943, while Finland was fighting the Continuation War, an escaped prisoner named Toivo Harald Koljonen walked back to a farmhouse in Karhiniemi with a…
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The Tooth Killer: Ismo Junni and the Cabin Fires of Helsinki
A boy late for school opens a bathroom door in East Helsinki and sees his father standing over his mother. Ten years later he walks into a police station and…
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The Drive-Thru Killer: Esa Åkerlund
Just after 2 a.m. on 6 July 2010, a petty argument in a McDonald’s drive-through in Porvoo, Finland, ended with three men shot at close range. The gunman had…
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The Poison Nurse: Aino Nykopp-Koski and the Deaths That Looked Like Dying
Saturday morning, 14 March 2009. An 80-year-old woman in Helsinki is given yoghurt by the nurse who shops for her, walks with her, and is meant to keep her…
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Häkä-Enska: The Carbon Monoxide Killer of 1971 Finland
Summer 1971. A white Dodge Dart on a Finnish highway. A hitchhiker puts out her thumb. She never gets out. In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander…
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The Serial Strangler Who Finland Kept Setting Free | Michael Maria Penttilä
In one of the safest countries on earth, a man strangled his mother, a twelve-year-old girl, and two more women — and walked out of prison again and again…
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The Brother in the Back Seat: Terje Antonsen and the Ørsta Murders
Friday night, 18 October 1974. A twelve-year-old girl thumbs a lift on a quiet road in Ørsta, Norway. A white Ford Taunus with black stripes pulls over. Two…
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Death Came in a Taunus: Edgar Antonsen
A white Ford Taunus with black racing stripes stops on a dark road in Ørsta. A twelve-year-old girl puts her thumb out for a lift home. She never arrives…
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22 July: Anders Behring Breivik and the Attacks That Changed Norway
On a Friday in July 2011, a bomb tore through Oslo’s government quarter. Two hours later, a man in a police uniform stepped onto the island of Utøya, where…
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The Kongsberg Attack: Espen Andersen Bråthen and 34 Minutes of Terror
Kongsberg, Norway. 13 October 2021. A quiet evening. Then a man in socks walks into town with a hunting bow, sixty arrows, and knives. In thirty-four minutes…
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Norway’s Most Dangerous Man: The Crimes of Stig Millehaugen
He killed a prison officer during an escape, executed a gang leader on contract, and spent almost his entire adult life behind bars — then walked out on leave…
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The Neighbor Who Killed Tistedal: Roger Herbert Haglund
In a Norwegian village of two thousand people, four neighbours were murdered within a few hundred metres of their own front doors. In 1991, elderly siblings…
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The Quiet House in Orkdal: Arnfinn Nesset
In a Norwegian nursing home, the man in charge was supposed to keep people safe. Instead, a court said he used a theatre drug to stop their breathing —…
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Nine Shots on a Quiet Street: Angjelin Sterkaj and the Rauðagerði Murder
Reykjavík, 13 February 2021. A man parks outside his home. His wife and children are inside. From a garage, someone is waiting. Nine shots. A silenced pistol…
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She Was Supposed to Be Mine: Gunnar Rúnar Sigurþórsson and the Hafnarfjörður Murder
On a Sunday morning in August 2010, Hannes Þór Helgason was stabbed to death in his home in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland. The man who killed him was a childhood…
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The Man Who Helped Search: Atli Helgason and the Öskjuhlíð Murder
On 8 November 2000, 27-year-old Einar Örn Birgisson vanished from Reykjavík. He had just opened a GAP store. Volunteers flooded the search — including his…
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The Girl Who Got Into the Red Car: Thomas Møller Olsen and the Murder That Shook Iceland
In January 2017, 20-year-old Birna Brjánsdóttir left a Reykjavík nightclub and stepped into a red rental Kia. Eight days later her body washed ashore. Host…
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Axlar-Björn: Iceland’s Only Serial Killer
Iceland almost never produces a murderer. In four centuries it has produced only one serial killer. Björn Pétursson — Axlar-Björn, the farmer at Öxl — lived on…
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The Stockwell Strangler: Kenneth Erskine
In the spring of 1986, London’s elderly started dying in their beds. A pensioner under the covers. A tidy room. A death that looked natural — until the…
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The Brides in the Bath: George Joseph Smith
Three honeymoons. Three bathtubs. Three widows who never lived long enough to be widows. In Edwardian England, George Joseph Smith married under false names…
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The Man in Black: Peter Moore and Four Murders in 90 Days
By day he sold cinema tickets. By night he hunted men across North Wales and Merseyside. In the autumn of 1995, cinema owner Peter Moore — the so-called Man in…
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The Crossbow Cannibal: Stephen Griffiths and the Bradford Murders
In May 2010, a caretaker in Bradford checked the CCTV. A woman ran from a flat. A man followed with a crossbow. He fired — then turned to the camera and raised…
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Four Lives in Barking: The Crimes of Stephen Port
Four young men were found dead within a few hundred metres of the same street in Barking. Police treated the deaths as separate overdoses. Their families knew…
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The Camden Ripper: Anthony Hardy and the Women London Overlooked
In the early hours of 30 December 2002, a man searching bins in Camden pulled out black sacks. Inside were human remains. The heads and hands were never found…
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The Man Who Made Murder His New Year’s Resolution: Colin Ireland
New Year’s Day, 1993. Most people resolve to quit smoking. Colin Ireland resolved to become a serial killer. I’m Alexander Lawson. In this episode of A True…
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How Can You Prove Murder If There Is No Body? | John Haigh, the Acid Bath Murderer
February 1949. A widow leaves a Kensington hotel after lunch and never comes back. The man who took her there tells police she no longer exists — destroyed in…
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Joanna Dennehy: The Peterborough Ditch Murders
In March 2013 a man texted a friend that life was beautiful. Ten days later three men were dead, two more had been left for dead, and their killer would tell a…
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The Suffolk Strangler: Steve Wright and the Ipswich Murders
In six weeks in 2006, five women vanished from the same streets in Ipswich. Their bodies were found naked in brooks, ponds and woodland. Two were laid out like…
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The Shadow Over Yorkshire: Peter Sutcliffe and the Women Who Were Named Last
For five years, thirteen women in Yorkshire and Greater Manchester never came home. Police interviewed the killer nine times. They chased a hoax tape from…
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The Doctor Who Came to Kill: Harold Shipman
On 24 June 1998, 81-year-old Kathleen Grundy opened her door in Hyde to her family GP. He said he was there for a blood test. Within hours she was dead — and…
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The Garage That Swallowed a Town: Aleksandr Komin, the Slaveholder of Vyatskiye Polyany
On 21 July 1997, a young woman walked into a police station in provincial Russia and said there was a factory under an ordinary garage: captives sewing for…
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The Policeman Ripper: Yevgeny Chuplinsky and the Novosibirsk Murders
November 1998. A teenager lifts a sheet of iron on a dump outside Novosibirsk and finds a human head. Nearby, a headless body is stuffed into an old…
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The Granny Ripper: Tamara Samsonova’s Diary of Murder
July 2015. Saint Petersburg CCTV catches a 68-year-old woman dragging heavy bags from her apartment. Inside one of them, police say, is a cooking pot—and a…
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The Belinsky Cannibal: Alexander Bychkov’s Bloody Hunt
In a quiet Russian town, men began vanishing — alcoholics, the homeless, the forgotten. Then a soft-spoken 23-year-old was arrested for a petty theft… and…
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Doctor Death: The Russian Physician Who Killed His Patients
A polite knock at the door. A doctor with a medical bag. A routine check-up that ends in murder. Between 1997 and 2000 in St. Petersburg, emergency physician…
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The Beast of Ukraine: Anatoly Onoprienko’s 52 Murders
Christmas Eve 1995. A quiet Ukrainian village. An entire family is slaughtered and their house set ablaze. It was only the beginning. Over the next three…
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The Bloody Sectarians: Elvira Egorycheva’s Divine Killing Spree
In a quiet Nizhny Novgorod supermarket, a security guard spots two ordinary-looking shoppers… and realises he’s staring at Russia’s most wanted killers. Inside…
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The Bloody Sectarians: Vladimir Guryanov’s Holy War on Nizhny Novgorod
In the frozen streets of Nizhny Novgorod, a man and a woman answered newspaper ads for fortune-tellers, waited in dark courtyards, and carried two revolvers…
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The Butcher of Rostov: Andrei Chikatilo
In the forests outside Rostov-on-Don, the bodies kept appearing—children, teenagers, and young women, mutilated beyond recognition. For more than a decade the…
- A True crime Podcast
The Balashikha Ripper: Sergei Ryakhovsky
Between 1988 and 1993, a giant stalked the forests and parks outside Moscow. Standing nearly 6’6” and weighing almost 300 pounds, Sergei Ryakhovsky — known as…
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The Chessboard Killer: Alexander Pichushkin’s Reign of Terror in Bitsa Park
In the quiet paths of Moscow’s Bitsa Park, people went for walks, shared vodka with strangers, and simply vanished. One man counted them like squares on a…
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Satan in a Skirt: The Hammer Killer Who Murdered 17 Grandmothers for Vodka Money
Seventeen elderly women. Eight years of terror. One smiling stranger at the door. Between 2002 and 2010, Irina Gaidamachuk posed as a social worker to gain…
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The Werewolf of Angarsk: Russia’s Deadliest Serial Killer
For nearly two decades, women in the Siberian city of Angarsk vanished into the night—only to be found murdered and mutilated in the forests. The man…
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The Taxi Driver Maniac: Alexei Ivanov and the Women Who Never Made It Home
In 2015, four women in Novosibirsk accepted a ride from a taxi driver and vanished. Their bodies were later found in the woods — beaten, burned, and mutilated…
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The Bloody Sectarians: Prince Vladimir’s Killing Crusade
They knocked on a fortune teller’s door claiming they wanted their futures read. Minutes later she was dead. Over the next eight months in Nizhny Novgorod…