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Serial Killer Documentary Podcast
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed timelines and careful distinctions between proof, suspicion, and confession give these serial-killer case histories their value.
Serial Killer Documentary Podcast builds case histories through firm narration, detailed timelines, and the points where certainty breaks down.
A killer claims 48 more victims; you get the tougher question of which cases anyone can verify.
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A missing-adult call becomes a basement-freezer case with procedural bite.
The episode opens with a June 2017 missing-adult call in Youngstown and builds steadily toward Shannon Graves's case, using welfare-card records, a silent apartment, and the discovery of her remains in a basement freezer.
Jessie's return to the church and house keeps the case and its memories in view.
Jessie returns to Olive Branch, the church where she grew up, and the piece uses that homecoming to keep two timelines in view at once: the present-day visit and the 1989 weekend that fractured her family.
A minute-by-minute account that turns the Strip, Stephen Paddock, and the aftermath into one grim timeline.
The episode treats October 1, 2017 as a tightly paced, minute-by-minute account of the Route 91 Harvest Festival attack, moving from a perfect Las Vegas night of neon, taxis, limousines, tourists, and first responders into the chaos that follows.
A hard procedural look at Mansfield's violence, flight, and the search that widened the case.
Billy Mansfield Jr.'s case is presented as a grim, state-hopping trail of violence: a drifter moving through malls and hunting hitchhiking girls in Florida, then being linked to a Watsonville killing and a Florida property search that turned up four young women.
Riverside's quiet suburbia frames a grim study of control, violence, and the lives left behind.
This episode treats the Riverside killings of the early 90s as more than a crime story; it becomes a study in escalating control, with a quiet Southern California suburb giving way to the pattern behind the attacks on women.
A careful confession story that stays close to what investigators could actually verify.
The episode leans on Robert Charles Brown's 2006 claim to 48 additional murders, but it does not treat that number as the point. Instead, it stays with what can actually be checked: his 1995 guilty plea in the murder of Heather Dawn Church, the cryptic notes he sent Texas…
A steady, procedural account of a still unresolved case, with partial DNA links and only limited answers.
The episode keeps its attention on the late 1970s murders in western Pennsylvania and follows the fear that spread after the first of five young women was found in Washington, Pennsylvania.
A stark account of charm used as cover for escalating violence and murder.
Billy Mansfield Jr.'s story follows a grim path from abuse in adolescence to predation and murder, moving from Florida to California and back to the trail he left behind.
Podcast discovery from the Sherpa Chalet.
Witchy banter with glorious detours.
Female crime, told with grave attention.
This documentary episode chronicles the crimes of serial killer Billy Mansfield Jr., who murdered at least five women in the 1970s-1980s.
This episode details the 1993 brutal murders of elderly siblings Annie Castle and Billy Bryan in East London, a cold case that remained unsolved for nearly 30 years.
This episode details the crimes of Richard Paul White, a self-proclaimed serial killer who confessed to murdering multiple women and his friend in Denver.
This documentary examines the life and crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer, one of America's most notorious serial killers, exploring how a seemingly ordinary middle-class boy from Ohio became a murderer who killed 17 young men, engaged in necrophilia and cannibalism, and evaded capture for years.
This episode investigates the case of Robert Charles Brown, a convicted murderer who claimed to be America's most prolific serial killer with 48 victims.
This documentary episode investigates the unsolved murders attributed to the 'Washington County Strangler' in western Pennsylvania during the 1970s, detailing the abductions and killings of multiple young women and girls.
This episode provides a minute-by-minute narrative reconstruction of the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting, from the shooter's meticulous preparation in the Mandalay Bay hotel to the attack itself and its aftermath.
This episode details the murder of Sonia Blunt by her co-worker Eric Locke, who catfished her after she ended their brief relationship.
Jessie goes back to Olive Branch.
Riverside becomes the backdrop for a serial killing campaign in the early 1990s.
A call about a dead body in a freezer opens the story.
Anna Hawafka disappears on July 24, 1979 after walking from her Portland apartment toward a McDonald's on West Burnside, and her sister Rose finds her strangled with a portable radio cord that night.
This episode investigates the Denver serial killer(s) who murdered numerous women, primarily sex workers, from the 1970s to 1990s, with bodies dumped along Interstate 70.
This documentary episode chronicles the life and crimes of serial killer Ted Bundy, detailing his brutal attacks across multiple states, the psychological factors behind his violence, and the forensic investigation that led to his conviction.
This documentary episode chronicles the crimes of serial killer Billy Mansfield Jr., who murdered at least five women in the 1970s and 1980s.
A detailed account of the murder of Yancey Noel, shot multiple times in his car on his way home.
This episode covers a family murder in Arkansas that leads to a nationwide rampage of domestic terrorism.
A prosecutor recounts a violent home invasion and stabbing in a wealthy New Jersey community.
A mother pleads for help finding her missing daughter Diana Duvet, last seen with her boyfriend after a night out.
A documentary-style podcast investigating the murder case of Corey Lovelace and the trial of her husband Curtis.
A serial killer reflects on his crimes and the media portrayal of him as a monster.
An FBI profiler examines the psyche and crimes of serial killer Reginald McFadden, including his release and subsequent rampage.
A man discusses new witness affidavits alleging a sexual relationship between his wife and a state witness, claiming perjury and filing a criminal complaint.
This episode examines the life and crimes of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, exploring how he became one of history's most gruesome murderers.
An interview with convicted axe murderer Christopher Porco, exploring his crime and lack of remorse.