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True crime with raised eyebrows.
Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén favors cases where the official version has dents in it. Codebreakers, mediums, darknet masks, vanished heiresses, island utopias, possession claims, prison breaks, and stalking campaigns all get rebuilt with pace, doubt, and a dry eye for human absurdity.
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Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén is built for true-crime cases that refuse to sit still. The show is fast, theatrical, and skeptical, but its energy comes from structure more than shock. Each episode picks one story and rebuilds it layer by layer, usually starting with a metaphor that turns out to be more useful than it first appears. A folktale becomes a way into Gareth Williams and the secrets around his death. A mask becomes the key to Ross Ulbricht, Silk Road, and the strange performances of online crime. A paradise fantasy becomes the frame for Floriana, where isolation makes every conflict louder. That habit gives the show a distinct shape. It does not just list events. It watches people explain themselves, hide themselves, expose themselves, and sometimes lie so hard they begin living inside the lie. The cases range widely: suspected murder, disappearance, spiritualist fraud, darknet crime, demonic possession claims, prison escape, stalking by text, and heiress mystery. The connective tissue is not one category of crime. It is the question of what people do when they need a story badly enough. Some need to be free. Some need to be believed. Some need to control the narrative after someone vanishes. Some need a mask, a miracle, a demon, or a clean new island to make their choices feel less like choices. The show has a dry comic edge, especially around foolish plans and convenient explanations. It is also careful to return to the cost. Carrie is not reduced to a phone full of messages. Helen Brack is not just a wealthy missing woman with suspicious household details. David, the child at the center of possession claims, is treated as frighteningly vulnerable even when the supernatural story gets challenged. That mix is the draw: pace without emptiness, wit without detachment, skepticism without smugness. Killer Stories suits listeners who want their true crime vivid, doubtful, and slightly unruly. It is not a clinical briefing. It is a case file with stage lighting, raised eyebrows, and a final question that usually refuses to stay buried.
Made for: For true-crime listeners who like brisk storytelling, suspicious timelines, and cases where motive, performance, and public narrative all matter. It fits audiences comfortable with grim material when it is handled with wit and moral seriousness.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by pairing fast, scene-by-scene narration with sharp skepticism about the stories people tell after disaster. Its best episodes turn one odd image, a bag, a mask, a séance cloth, a cardboard box, into a guide through the whole case.
Welcome to your weekly journey into the darkest corners of human nature. Join Harvey Guillén every Monday as he explores crimes that seized the public’s attention, from jaw-dropping heists and devastating cons to serial murders and deadly rivalries. Each episode unfolds a single case, examining not just the events themselves, but what continues to linger beneath the surface. Killer Stories is a Spotify Podcast. New video episodes on Mondays!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Harvey Guillen turns wide-ranging cases into clear examinations of credibility, responsibility, and the explanations that gather around violence.
Harvey Guillen builds each case around a question before moving into the timeline. A stalking campaign becomes an inquiry into how people decide what is true, while the Silk Road story uses concealed identities to track betrayal among criminals and investigators.
A breakup text from a woman who vanished is your cue to distrust the obvious.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A careful missing-person timeline draws out the silence around Gareth Williams's death.
Gareth Williams's death turns secrecy into the episode's most troubling presence. The story tracks the British codebreaker's final known movements, from relaxed CCTV footage on August 15, 2010, to his absence from work and the discovery of his body zipped inside a bag in his…
A disputed medium's tricks turn into a wartime question about who gets to speak.
Helen Duncan, better known as Hellish Nell, built a career on seances and the promise that the dead could pass along what the living could not know.
A brisk Silk Road chapter where masked identities make trust feel like another route to betrayal.
Killer Stories builds Ross Ulbricht's Silk Road chapter around the Dread Pirate Roberts mask, treating identity as the point where ideology, crime, and investigation start to blur.
A wealthy woman vanishes, and the household details around her supposed flight refuse to stay ordinary.
Helen Brack's disappearance opens with the shape of a fairy tale: a coal miner's daughter from rural Ohio goes to Florida, works at a country club, marries into a candy fortune, and then vanishes into a case where money seems to widen the search while making the truth harder to…
A tropical utopia tightens into a pressure cooker as isolation turns every grievance into a threat.
This single-episode PlayNext review frames Floriana as a paradise story with the doors locked from the inside, following a small group trying to build an ideal society away from ordinary life.
A Connecticut murder case that braids folklore, exorcism, and doubt into one unresolved question.
Killer Stories threads a murder case to a scorpion, a frog, and a town that had gone nearly 200 years without one, then carries that unease into Brookfield, Connecticut, where police answer a call at a dog kennel on February 16, 1981 and find Alan Bono in a pool of blood.
A breakup text opens into a split investigation over stalking, missing-person doubts, and family uncertainty.
The episode follows Dave Krupa in Omaha after a breakup text from Carrie Farber pushes the story outward. It settles him into a new stretch of life: single for the first time in 12 years, still linked to Amy through co-parenting, and managing an auto repair shop while online…
A Chicago true-crime story that turns eerie when a voice names Alan Shaury and speaks from beyond the grave.
Killer Stories begins with the old Singing Bone folktale before settling into February 1977 Chicago, where Teresita Baza is on the phone with Ruth and a man's voice cuts into the moment.
True crime with a messy-TV side channel.
Australian history, restored from the record.
Dark facts, loose wires, no reverence.
True crime from the investigators’ side.
Homicide cases, evidence first.
Carter Roy introduces a Halloween special crossover episode about the real-life inspiration behind the Ghostface killer from Scream.
A man is ensnared by a psychic who uses a Baba Yaga-like deception to scam him out of millions.
In 1984 Orinda, California, 15-year-old Bernadette Prody desperately seeks acceptance in her high school's elite social circles.
Ashley Flowers hosts a special October episode exploring the true crime behind the Candyman urban legend.
Killer Stories with Harvey Guillen traces the 1897 disappearance of Louisa Lutgert, wife of Chicago's self-styled Sausage King Adolf Lutgert, after the 1893 financial panic left him owing the bank $50,000.
Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén examines the 2010 death of Gareth Williams, a 30-year-old MI6 codebreaker found naked inside a padlocked bag in his London bathtub.
Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén examines Helen Duncan, a Scottish medium whose seances featured alleged ectoplasm, a spirit guide named Albert, and messages from the dead.
Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén examines how Ross Ulbricht used the alias Dread Pirate Roberts to operate Silk Road, an anonymous marketplace that analysts estimated processed more than $1 billion in sales.
Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén examines Helen Brack’s 1977 disappearance after a Mayo Clinic visit, when her last reported words were, “I’m in a hurry.
Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén reconstructs how Friedrich Ritter and Dor Strunk abandoned Germany in 1929 to create an isolated life on Floriana in the Galapagos.
A scorpion and a frog set the tone.
A woman named Toby Doerr breaks a killer out of prison to escape her own mundane life.
The episode opens by asking what counts as truth when the familiar signs seem dependable.
The episode opens with The Singing Bone.
A podcast episode recounting the FBI's most bizarre ransom kidnapping case, set in Atlanta in 1968, where a convoluted plan spirals out of control.
Harvey Guillén uses Mike DiPolito and Dahlia Dippolito’s relationship to show how a $100,000 transfer and a missing bank wire escalated into a murder plot.
A true crime podcast host highlights Sarah Turney's empathetic coverage of the Decker family case, focusing on mental health and veteran support.
This episode covers the breaking news of Brian Koberger's guilty plea and sentencing for the Idaho Four murders, including details from the prosecutor's case and victim impact statements.
An interview with private investigator J.