DEVIANT

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  • 28 minutes 6 seconds
    Encore: Witness to an Execution

    This encore presentation revisits one of the most unsettling stories ever featured on DEVIANT. It is a firsthand account of the execution of Gainesville Ripper Danny Rolling, as witnessed by veteran South Florida journalist Michael Mayo.

    Mayo covered two Florida executions in his 31-year career. What he saw, and what he did not expect to feel, stayed with him. In this conversation with DEVIANT host Dan Szematowicz, Mayo walks us through the days leading up to Rolling’s death: meeting the families of the victims, entering Florida’s death chamber, hearing the condemned man sing a self-written hymn moments before the chemicals flowed, and grappling with what executions mean for justice, closure, and the people left behind.

    It is a stark and unvarnished look at an experience few ever witness. It also raises hard questions about punishment, memory, and the weight of what the state asks us to carry.

    This is a rerelease of a previous DEVIANT episode. New episodes return next week.


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    11 December 2025, 8:01 am
  • 23 minutes 22 seconds
    The Murder Of Christy Mirack

    In December 1992, 25-year-old teacher Christy Mirack is attacked in her East Lampeter, PA apartment just minutes before she’s supposed to leave for work. Investigators find signs of a violent struggle and a full DNA profile from her killer, but there's no match. For more than twenty-five years, the case sits in limbo as state and national databases expand with no hits.
    In this episode, host Dan Szematowicz follows the investigation from the original crime scene, through decades of unanswered questions, to the breakthrough that finally identified her killer: a discarded water bottle, a strand of chewed gum, and a new forensic tool that didn’t exist in 1992.
    And even after a guilty plea and a life sentence, one question still has no answer...why?


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    SOURCES:

    Lancaster County District Attorney Press Releases

    Pennsylvania Supreme Court Order (2025)

    Pennsylvania State Police DNA Match (via DA statements)

    LancasterOnline / LNP Coverage

    Associated Press

    ABC27 / WGAL / CBS21 Reports

    WHYY / NPR Pennsylvania

    Court Records: Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas


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    3 December 2025, 8:01 am
  • 33 minutes 53 seconds
    The Dark Corners: "Supreme Gentlemen"

    (PART 2/2)

    ENCORE PRESENTATION

    In April of 2018, Alek Minassian sits in a Toronto police station after using a van to kill eleven people. Now, investigators are trying to figure out who he is, and why he did this. Minassian is happy to talk about it all. What he spins is a tale years in the making, winding himself into the very fabric of what he calls the beta uprising...the incel revolution. Who are the incels? What do they want? How much of a threat are they today? DEVIANT host Dan Szematowicz explores all these questions, and concludes the story of the the 2018 Toronto Van Attack.

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    26 November 2025, 8:01 am
  • 32 minutes 30 seconds
    The Dark Corners: Blood in Toronto

    (Part 1/2 )

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    In the spring of 2018, a beautiful Toronto day is broken by a man in a white rental van. He picks a busy part of town...a place where many people will be out and about. He pulls onto the sidewalk, and hits the accelerator. Ten minutes later, he's murdered 11 people. Police immediately arrest 25-year-old Alec Manassian. He claims to have a cause: the "incel revolution." In this multipart story from DEVIANT, host Dan Szematowicz explores this dark day, and the killer who claims allegiance to a bizarre online community.

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    25 November 2025, 3:59 pm
  • 34 minutes 45 seconds
    The Springfield Three

    On June 7th, 1992, Sherrill Levitt, her daughter Suzie Streeter, and Suzie’s friend Stacy McCall disappear from a quiet home in Springfield, MO without leaving a trace. Their cars, keys, purses, and personal belongings stay behind. The women don’t.

    In this episode, DEVIANT host Dan Szematowicz walks through the final hours before they’re last seen… the empty house that made no sense… the contaminated crime scene… the massive grid searches… the false leads… and the men whose names rose to the top of the suspect list.

    And we follow the most enduring person of interest whose past, alibis, and statements have kept him in the center of the case for more than thirty years, even as investigators have never been able to tie him to the crime.

    Decades later, the mystery remains one of the most haunting unsolved cases in America.
    Three women.
    One house.
    No answers.

    If you have information about the disappearance of Sherrill Levitt, Suzie Streeter, or Stacy McCall, contact the Springfield Police Department or your local law enforcement agency.

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    SOURCES

    Springfield News-Leader — “Three Missing Women: Ten Years Later” (Robert Keyes)

    Springfield Police Department public statements and case summaries

    America’s Most Wanted (1992 broadcast coverage)

    The Charley Project — Case files for Levitt, Streeter & McCall

    Associated Press reporting on the investigation and Robert Craig Cox

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    18 November 2025, 8:01 am
  • 30 minutes 37 seconds
    Small Towns, Killer Secrets

    In small towns, fear doesn’t always hide in the shadows.

    Sometimes it writes letters.

    Sometimes it carries a shotgun.

    In this episode of DEVIANT, host Dan Szematowicz takes you inside two real American nightmares.

    In Circleville, Ohio, thousands of anonymous letters turn a quiet town inside out, exposing secrets, destroying lives and leaving behind a mystery that’s never solved.

    In Skidmore, Missouri, a man named Ken Rex McElroy terrorizes his neighbors for years while the law looks away. And then, one July afternoon, the town decides to take justice into its own hands.

    Two towns. Two reckonings. One truth: when fear becomes unbearable, silence breaks.

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    SOURCES:

    State of Ohio v. Paul Freshour (1983); Columbus Dispatch archives; Circleville Herald archives; Unsolved Mysteries (NBC, 1993); CBS 48 Hours (2021); In Broad Daylight by Harry N. MacLean; Kansas City Star and Washington Post archives; FBI and Missouri State Highway Patrol case summaries.

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    11 November 2025, 8:01 am
  • 36 minutes 15 seconds
    The Unknown Serial Killer: Joseph Daniel Miller

    (RE_AIR)) He brags about his crimes for years, but nobody takes him seriously until 1992 ,when he’s caught in the act. Now everyone is listening as police attempt to untangle the full mystery of Joseph Daniel Miller, and the private graveyard he creates outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. DEVIANT host Dan Szematowicz takes introduces you to the serial killer you probably don't know about. 

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    4 November 2025, 8:01 am
  • 13 minutes 6 seconds
    Big News From DEVIANT

    There are major changes afoot here at DEVIANT, and the show is evolving in a big way. Dan Szematowicz and Andrew Iden update you on what's happening, and what you can expect from the show moving forward. Buckle up!

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    31 October 2025, 7:01 am
  • 30 minutes 34 seconds
    A Very DEVIANT Halloween

    (ENCORE PRESENTATION)

    It's Halloween, and DEVIANT is do something unusual. Hosts Dan Szematowicz and Andrew Iden tell three ghost stories, all of which are based in the real. Turn on your spookie light...it's story time!

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    28 October 2025, 7:01 am
  • 31 minutes 41 seconds
    (Part 5) Homicide and Hate: The Way Out

    (PART 5/5) In the final episode of the series, Andrew Iden continues his conversation with Tyler DiPeppe, a former member of Atomwaffen Division who now works to help others escape extremism.

    Tyler talks about leaving the movement, the work of de-radicalization, and the effort to build a life after hate. He also reflects on family, forgiveness, and what it means to live with the residue of old ideas while trying to help others move past them.

    This episode closes the story of Devon Arthurs, Brandon Russell, and the network of hate they helped build — and it points to what comes next: understanding the poison to find an antidote.

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    21 October 2025, 7:01 am
  • 32 minutes 44 seconds
    (Part 4) Homicide and Hate: Leaving Atomwaffen Division | The Tyler DiPeppe Story

    (Part 4/5) Tyler DiPeppe was once part of Atomwaffen Division, a violent neo-Nazi group born online.
    Now he’s ready to explain how it happened.

    In this conversation, host Andrew Iden speaks with Tyler about the abuse, isolation, and search for identity that left him vulnerable to radicalization. They discuss how online propaganda and community manipulation draw people in, how loneliness becomes a weapon, and what it takes to break free.

    This is the most personal episode yet—a conversation about responsibility, empathy, and the human cost of hate.

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    14 October 2025, 7:01 am
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