The Catfish Killer: How a Snapchat Romance Led to Murder

You know that feeling when you hear a story that makes you want to immediately check your teenager's phone? This is one of those episodes. We're talking about nineteen-year-old Denali Brehmer, who fell for a guy on Snapchat who promised her nine million dollars to kill her best friend. And before you roll your eyes and think "teenagers are so gullible," let me tell you about the web of trauma, desperation, and manipulation that led to this tragedy.

This case has everything that makes our modern world terrifying. A fake online boyfriend, a murder-for-hire plot, and a group of teenagers who thought they could get away with the perfect crime. But at the center of it all is CeeCee Hoffman, a nineteen-year-old with autism who was working hard to build an independent life, and whose biggest mistake was trusting the wrong friend.

What happens when social media becomes a hunting ground? When someone's entire sense of reality gets warped by an online relationship? And how do you recruit four other teenagers to help you kill your best friend? We're diving deep into the psychology, the manipulation, and the heartbreaking chain of events that led to CeeCee's death on the banks of an Alaska river.

This isn't about judging teenagers for being naive. It's about understanding how desperation, trauma, and the false promises of strangers can turn ordinary people into killers. And it's about remembering that behind every viral true crime story is a real person who deserved so much better.

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Philadelphia's Shoemaker Killer: How Joseph Kallinger Turned His Son Into a Murderer

Sometimes the most disturbing true crime cases are the ones that show us exactly how monsters get made. Joseph Kallinger's story starts with a father who vanished when his son was four years old and ends with that same son terrorizing families across three states with his own twelve-year-old child as his accomplice. This is what happens when trauma doesn't get healed, it gets passed down.

We're talking about a man who went from being tortured by his adoptive parents to torturing his own children in a basement lit by a kerosene lamp. A man who made his daughter pick horses at the racetrack and punished her with heated spatulas when they lost. A man who took out life insurance policies on his sons and then killed them. But here's the thing that makes this case absolutely haunting: when his children reported the abuse to police, they later recanted their stories, and he was released. That decision cost multiple lives.

This is the story of Joseph Kallinger, known as "The Shoemaker," who became one of Philadelphia's most disturbing serial killers. But it's also the story of how generational trauma works, how the system failed to protect vulnerable children, and how one twelve-year-old boy became his father's willing partner in murder. It's a case that asks uncomfortable questions about nature versus nurture and shows us that sometimes the most dangerous predators are the ones who create more predators.

Fair warning: this episode deals with child abuse, sexual violence, and disturbing family dynamics. But if you want to understand how cycles of violence actually work and why early intervention matters so much, this case is a masterclass in everything that can go wrong when a damaged child becomes a damaged adult.

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The Brooklyn Vampire: How Albert Fish Became America's Boogeyman

Some stories stick with you long after you hear them, and Albert Fish's case is one that refuses to let go. Born in 1870 into a family tree riddled with mental illness, Fish's early years were marked by abandonment, abuse, and the complete failure of every system meant to protect vulnerable children. What started as a troubled kid nicknamed "Ham and Eggs" at an orphanage became something far more terrifying.

We're diving deep into the psychology and crimes of the man who terrorized multiple generations with names like The Moon Maniac, The Boogeyman, and The Brooklyn Vampire. This isn't about sensationalizing evil - it's about understanding how someone becomes a monster, and more importantly, recognizing the warning signs that everyone around Fish missed or ignored.

From his disturbing relationship with Thomas Kedden to the heartbreaking case of 10-year-old Grace Budd, we'll explore how Fish's delusions evolved from self-harm to targeting the most vulnerable members of society. His trial raised questions about sanity, justice, and whether someone can be too mentally ill to face consequences for their actions.

This episode examines not only Fish's crimes but the societal failures that allowed them to continue unchecked. It's a conversation about mental health, childhood trauma, and the dangerous intersection of untreated illness and violent behavior. Fair warning - this case contains disturbing content involving children, but it's a story that needs to be told.

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Israel Keyes and the Kill Kits Still Buried Across America

After his arrest, Israel Keyes started talking. He confessed to Samantha Koenig’s murder, then casually gave investigators the names of two more victims.He described how he traveled thousands of miles to kill strangers, how he planned every move, and how he buried evidence years before using it.

But he never gave the full story. And before the FBI could get everything out of him, he made sure the rest of it died with him.

This episode goes inside the interrogations, the confessions, and the unanswered questions Keyes left behind.

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The Secret Life of Israel Keyes: America’s Most Organized Killer

Israel Keyes spent years living like a normal guy. He ran a construction business in Alaska, paid in cash, and took his daughter on cruises. But behind that routine was a system built for murder.He studied serial killers, mapped out his own methods, and buried kill kits across the country. No pattern. No profile. No warning signs.This episode covers how he built a double life, stayed off the radar, and how one mistake brought it all down.

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The Taylor Schabusiness Case: Murder, Meth, and a Head in a Bucket

On February 21, 2022, Shad Thyrion was killed in the basement of his mother’s house by someone he knew well. Taylor Schabusiness had a long history of drug use, recent run-ins with law enforcement, and a growing obsession with Jeffrey Dahmer. What happened that night was violent, intentional, and deeply disturbing.

She didn’t try to hide the crime. She stayed with Shad’s body, dismembered him, and left parts of him behind... including his head in a bucket his mother would later discover herself.

This episode follows the full case, from the murder to the arrest, to a courtroom meltdown that made national headlines. It also covers what’s happened since Taylor was sentenced to life in prison, including multiple attacks behind bars and a failed appeal she tried to handle on her own.

This isn’t a closed case. It’s a story that keeps getting stranger.

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Bart Whitaker: The Son Who Staged a Hit on His Own Family

Bart Whitaker had every advantage growing up. Private schools, expensive gifts, and parents who bent over backwards to give him the kind of life most people only read about. So when the family sat down to celebrate his college graduation over dinner and handed him a Rolex, no one expected what came next. By the end of the night, two family members were dead, one barely hanging on, and Bart had vanished. This episode unpacks how a carefully staged home invasion unraveled into one of the most disturbing betrayals in recent true crime history, and how the truth came out only after someone decided they couldn’t keep Bart’s secret anymore.

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Craig Price: The Teenager Who Terrified Rhode Island

Craig Price looked like the kind of teenager you might ask to help you with your groceries. Quiet. Polite. A little awkward. But at thirteen, he stabbed his neighbor to death in one of the most brutal crimes Rhode Island had ever seen. And it did not stop there. Before he turned sixteen, Craig killed four people, including two young children, all while blending into his suburban neighborhood. This episode breaks down how someone so young could commit crimes so violent, how his babyface kept him hidden in plain sight, and how the justice system struggled to respond. We are talking about one of the youngest serial killers in United States history, and the case that still sparks debate about juvenile crime, parole, and whether some people are ever safe to release.

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The Killers Who Bragged: Inside the Murder of Amy Robinson

Amy Robinson was doing everything right. She got through high school, started building a life of her own, and found some freedom riding her bike to work every day. But on a February afternoon in 1998, that routine put her in the path of two men who saw her as a target, because of who she was and because they thought no one would fight for her.

This story isn’t about a random act of violence. It’s about a calculated act of cruelty, carried out by people who admitted they wanted to kill, bragged about it, and had plans to do it again. It’s about how trust can be used as bait, and how the most vulnerable are often picked first.

In this episode, we dig into who Amy was, what led up to her murder, and why her killers thought they could get away with it.

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Donuts, Death, and the Devil: The True Story of the Chicago Ripper Crew

Most people have never heard of the Chicago Ripper Crew, which is wild considering how brutal and bizarre this story actually is. It starts with a kid working at a donut shop and ends in an attic filled with severed body parts and something that loosely resembles a satanic shrine. Four men, led by a guy who once worked for John Wayne Gacy, went on a spree of violence that targeted women in the most dehumanizing way imaginable. There were rituals. There were trophies. There were victims who survived and lived to tell what happened inside that van. And somehow, the man who orchestrated it all managed to avoid a single murder conviction. This episode unpacks who these men were, how they got away with so much for so long, and why this case still feels unresolved.

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