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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.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
A steady True Crime feed for listeners who want psychology, aftermath, and justice-system context alongside the facts of the case.
When Killers Get Caught: A True Crime Podcast is a case-and-conversation feed that moves through survivor interviews, case memory, historical violence, and narrated murder investigations.
You come for the catch; you stay for the warning signs everyone ignored.
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A grim, careful look at how overlooked victims and late DNA finally exposed Samuel Little.
Samuel Little's crimes come into focus as a long failure of attention. He moved across states, his victims were isolated and often dismissed, and the pattern stayed hidden until DNA linked him to unsolved murders in Los Angeles.
A grave, clear account of a killing, a cover-up, and a mother's refusal to let the truth stay buried.
Emmett Till's killing is handled here as more than a crime story. It is a national wound, traced from a 14-year-old boy leaving Chicago for Mississippi and into a system where Jim Crow relied on violence and silence to keep itself in place.
A blunt account of a Black town erased by rumor, violence, and official indifference.
Rosewood Massacre: The Black Town Burned and Forgotten traces how a single rumor in January 1923 helped destroy Rosewood, Florida, and it keeps the focus where it belongs: on mob violence, official failure, and a state that moved on.
A grave, clear account of Greenwood's destruction and the system that enabled it.
This episode treats the Tulsa Race Massacre as the wiping out of a Black community that had built wealth, stability, and a measure of self-rule in plain sight.
A grandmother's arrest becomes a story about care colliding with criminal law.
Brownie Mary begins with a raid that sends police in expecting a drug lord and instead finds a 57-year-old grandmother in an apron, surrounded by brownies and marijuana. From there, the story settles into a harder question: what happens when the law treats care as contraband?
A grave, methodical look at a case where illness, warning signs, and institutional failure collided.
Andrea Yates is presented as more than a single day of horror. The episode reads as a serious look at severe maternal mental illness, missed warnings, and a legal and medical system that was not ready to respond.
A killing, a life in confinement, and an unlikely legacy in the dictionary.
William Chester Miner’s story moves from a killing that lands with brutal force to years shaped by fear, delusion, and confinement, before ending in the unlikely fact of his work on the Oxford English Dictionary.
A case interview that follows the attack, the mental-health issues around it, and the aftermath.
This episode has Brittany Ransom speaking one-on-one with Nika Nikoubin, and it traces her life before the attack, the attack itself, and what has followed since.
Podcast discovery from the Sherpa Chalet.
Witchy banter with glorious detours.
Female crime, told with grave attention.
The story opens in Nazi-occupied Paris in March 1944.
New York City is stuck in the summer of 1976, and David Berkowitz turns that fear into a grim public act.
Brittany Ransom talks with Kelly Martin about the cases and career path behind her first book.
Brittany Ransom talks with Nima Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor who worked with the FBI and later became president and co-founder of West Coast Trial Lawyers.
Brittany Ransom introduces When Killers Get Caught’s season-three shift toward people affected by crime and the justice system, then brings on Stephanie Cain on June 9, the 50th anniversary of Betty Fry’s murder.
The episode begins with Fred Hampton's killing in Chicago on December 4, 1969.
This episode examines a Wisconsin case where two children committed murder believing it was necessary to please a fictional creature.
This episode examines the BTK killer Dennis Rader, his ordinary facade, and the psychology of control behind his crimes.
This episode examines the 1984 airport shooting of a child molester by the victim's father, Gary Plaché, exploring the psychology and debate over whether it was murder or justice.
Samuel Little's crimes are traced across decades and across state lines.
Emmett Till was 14 when he left Chicago for Mississippi in the summer of 1955.
Rosewood, Florida was a small Black community in Levy County with land ownership, churches, a schoolhouse, and businesses before a January 1, 1923 accusation in nearby Sumner turned into armed violence.
Greenwood, the Black Wall Street district of Tulsa, is introduced first as a place of unusual wealth, safety, and independence.
Police raid Mary expecting a drug lord.
When Killers Get Caught revisits Andrea Yates infanticide case (June 2001, five children killed).
A man kills a stranger in the night and tells police he acted in self-defense.
This episode tells the story of Hans Schmidt, a Catholic priest who in 1913 murdered and dismembered a young woman, Anna Ameler, after secretly marrying her.
Brittany Ransom opens When Killers Get Caught with Nika Nikoubin, saying season three is focused on people closely linked to crimes and that this is the first time she has spoken with someone who committed a crime.
Brittany Ransom opens with a trigger warning.
The hosts discuss recent arrests in the Delphi murder case and introduce their format of exploring killer psychology and paranormal segments.
The hosts discuss two true crime stories, critique the Netflix Dahmer series as fictionalized, and preview a paranormal segment.
Host Brian Joiner introduces the show and explains his co-host's absence due to a humorous laptop destruction story.
The host introduces the podcast's format, discusses Patreon support for better recording equipment, and prepares for a deep dive into a killer's life and capture.
Host Brian Joiner covers a wrongful conviction case from Massachusetts and shares creepy stories.
The host discusses a stolen hearse containing a body and previews a true crime story from Conyers, Georgia.
Host Brittany Ransom discusses a recent case of a Texas woman who impersonated her daughter at school as a social experiment.