Every Monday, Serial Killers takes a psychological and entertaining approach to provide a rare glimpse into the mind, methods and madness of the most notorious serial killers with the hopes of better understanding their psychological profile.
A boisterous entertainer and wannabe opera singer disappears from her London home. Before detectives find human remains in the basement, her mild-mannered husband flees across the Atlantic with his lover, in disguise.
Sources for this episode include:
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
Molecules of Murder: Criminal Molecules and Classic Cases by John Emsley
Story of a Murder by Hallie Rubenhold“Was Dr Crippen innocent of his wife's murder?” (BBC)
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In 1980s Los Angeles, a charismatic prep-school hustler builds the Billionaire Boys Club—part investment syndicate, part illusion—until a high-stakes con, a missing mogul, and a pair of brutal murders expose how greed, privilege, and cocaine turned a fantasy of wealth into a deadly spiral.
Sources for this episode include:
Billionaire Boys Club (HBO)
“The True Story of the Billionaire Boys Club” (Esquire)
“Notorious founder of the Billionaire Boys Club wants parole.” (LA Times)
“Fast Cars, Armani Suits, Pretty Women: How the 'Billionaire Boys Club' Led to Murder” (People)
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A small Connecticut town witnesses its first murder ever. The culprit is an unlikely, quiet teenager who swears he was not in control of his own body. His supporters, however, think they know exactly what drove the young man to kill his victim: a case of demonic possession.
Sources for this episode include:
The Devil in Connecticut by Ed Brittle, Ed Warren, and Lorraine Warren
Lynn Darling’s reporting for The Washington Post
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How do you smuggle a convicted killer out of a maximum-security prison? Apparently, you just need a cardboard box, some packing tape, and a dog trainer nobody suspects.
Sources for this episode include:
Living With Conviction by Toby Dorr
Breakout (Dateline NBC)
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Dave thought he'd met his dream girl in Cari, but after she mysteriously breaks up with him and vanishes, Dave endures years of cruel text messages and emails.
Sources for this episode include:
A Tangled Web: A Cyberstalker, a Deadly Obsession, and the Twisting Path to Justice by Leslie Rule
Lover, Stalker, Killer Directed by Sam Hobkinson (Netflix)
20/20, “Tangled Web”
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A Chicago respiratory therapist is brutally murdered in her apartment. Did her ghost solve her own case?
Sources for this episode include:
Teresita: The Voice from the Grave by John O’Brien and Edward Baumann
“A Chicago Murder Solved By a Ghost” (Chicago Tribune)
“Voice from grave names murderer, begs vengeance” (Boston Globe)
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One FBI agent called it the most bizarre kidnapping case ever investigated by the Bureau: In 1968, an escaped convict and his new girlfriend bury their hostage alive in an underground chamber.
Sources for this episode include:
83 Hours Till Dawn written by Gene Miller, in collaboration with Barbara Jane Mackle
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A seemingly heartbroken newlywed becomes the face of a shocking murder-for-hire plot—caught on tape before the crime can even happen. But as the trial unfolds, the real mystery isn’t what she planned, it’s how far reality can bend when everyone knows the cameras are watching.
Sources for this episode include:
Murder for Hire, "Crocodile Tears" (S1, E11 - 2019)
Cnapped, "Dalia Dippolito (S8, E10 - 2012)
"Murder Plots, Bumbling Cops, and Con Men: When Reality TV Goes Wrong" (VICE)
"Florida Woman Dalia Dippolito Uses Reality TV Defense in Murder for Hire Trial" (ABC News)
"Wife Accused in Plot to Kill Husband Speaks While on House Arrest" (ABC News, Interview)
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Desperate to fit in, a teenage girl targets the most popular student at her school. The way she sees it, they can either be friends – or enemies.
Sources for this episode include:
“Death of a Cheerleader” by Randall Sullivan, reprinted in Best of Rolling Stone A Killer By Design by Ann Burgess
The 1980s: The Deadliest Decade “The Cheerleader Murder”
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When a young model vanishes in Italy, the story seems disturbingly familiar—until her sudden reappearance raises more questions than answers. As investigators dig deeper, a case that looked open-and-shut twists into something far stranger.
Sources for this episode include:
Chloe Ayling: My Unbelievable Kidnapping (2025, BBC Three) directed by Stuart Bernard and Miles Bladen-Ryall
"Model Says She Was Kidnapped, Auctioned as Sex Slave on Dark Web" (Vice)
"Model Chloe Ayling Was Lured to Italy and Held for Ransom for Days” (People)
“Drugged and kidnapped model says people still call her a liar years on” (BBC)
“Chloe Ayling: My Unbelievable Kindapping — Interview” (STYLE)
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Plenty of scam artists have pretended to be psychics. Not many of them secretly employ their daughters to sweep a client off their feet with their own purported psychic gifts. But then again, not every con artist has $15 million at stake.
Sources for this episode include:
Rachel Lee Sentencing Memorandum & Indictment
20/20: "Sweetheart Swindle" (2015, ABC News)
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