New York, 1976–77. Couples in parked cars. A .44 Bulldog. Letters from the gutter signed Son of Sam.

Alexander Lawson traces David Berkowitz’s year-long siege of the city: Donna Lauria and the first shot in the Bronx, the .44 Caliber Killer, the Breslin letter, the anniversary warning, and the parking ticket in Yonkers that ended the largest manhunt in New York history.

Six murdered. Seven wounded. One man who said a demon spoke through a dog.

This episode names the victims, follows the public record, and refuses to let the nickname eat the story.

July 22nd, 1991. A man runs into a Milwaukee street with one handcuff still locked to his wrist and begs police to come upstairs. In apartment 213 they find what the city had failed to see for thirteen years.

Jeffrey Dahmer murdered seventeen young men and boys. He looked ordinary — blond, polite, employed — while victims vanished from bars, malls, and sidewalks. Many were Black. Some were boys. Neighbors smelled something wrong. Officers once returned a fourteen-year-old, Konerak Sinthasomphone, to the man who would kill him that night.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson tells the American case without turning the victims into a catalog of horrors: the first killing in 1978, the years the system let Dahmer walk, Tracy Edwards’s escape, the 1992 trial, and the names that belong at the center of the story.

Content warning: serial murder, sexual violence, and the abuse of minors. This episode is a record, not entertainment.

On a January night in 1978, a man left a Tallahassee sorority house as if he were heading home from a party. Two women were already dead. Two more were fighting to live. He was already a two-time jail escapee — and America still wanted him to look harmless.

Alexander Lawson traces Ted Bundy across Washington, Oregon, Utah, Colorado, and Florida: the sling-and-smile approach, the Volkswagen, the escapes from Aspen and Glenwood Springs, Chi Omega, twelve-year-old Kimberly Leach, the televised Miami trial, the last-minute confessions, and the electric chair on January 24, 1989.

This episode is about the names the myth keeps swallowing — and the institutions that mistook performance for innocence.

A True Crime Podcast. Hosted by Alexander Lawson.

February 5th, 2002. Police walk onto a Port Coquitlam pig farm looking for illegal guns. They find the start of the largest crime scene in Canadian history.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson tells the story of Robert William Pickton — the farmer neighbours called Willie — and the women who vanished from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside while institutions looked away. Between 1978 and 2001, at least 65 women went missing. Many were Indigenous. Families marched. A profiler warned there was a serial killer. The warning was dismissed.

Pickton was convicted in 2007 of six second-degree murders: Sereena Abotsway, Mona Wilson, Andrea Joesbury, Georgina Papin, Marnie Frey, and Brenda Wolfe. The remains or DNA of 33 women were tied to his property. He told an undercover officer he had killed 49. Twenty more murder charges were never tried. In 2012, the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry called the police failures blatant — a tragedy of epic proportions. Pickton died in custody in 2024. The names did not.

Listener discretion is advised.

Five days after Travis Alexander vanished from his Mesa, Arizona home, friends found him in the shower: stabbed more than two dozen times, his throat cut, a bullet in his head — and a camera in the washing machine.

The last photos on that camera showed his ex-girlfriend, Jodi Arias.

She said she wasn’t there. Then she said masked intruders did it. Then she took the stand and called it self-defense.

A jury called it first-degree murder.

Host Alexander Lawson traces the affair, the rental car, the missing gun, the three killing methods, and the story that kept changing until it finally stopped working.

A True Crime Podcast.

Listener discretion advised.

A 16-year-old girl is last photographed at Yellowstone. A 7-year-old boy in red pajamas disappears weeks later. Their mother laughs when police ask where they are — then marries an apocalyptic author on a Hawaiian beach. Nine months on, both children are found buried on his land.

Host Alexander Lawson traces the Vallow–Daybell case from Charles Vallow’s shooting in Arizona to Tammy Daybell’s death, the September 2019 disappearances of Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow, the June 2020 recovery in Salem, Idaho, and the convictions that followed: life without parole for Lori, death for Chad, and further life sentences in Arizona.

This episode stays with the court record — timelines, what prosecutors proved, what juries accepted — and with the names of the people who never came home.

Two kids vanished. His wife died in their bed. Seventeen days later, he got married on a beach in Hawaii.

Then investigators dug up Tylee Ryan, 16, and JJ Vallow, 7, on Chad Daybell’s Idaho property.

This episode follows the doomsday author who rated souls, called children “zombies,” and was sentenced to death for three murders. Host Alexander’s Lawson tells the Chad Daybell case from the affair with Lori Vallow to the backyard graves, the Boise verdict, and the names that should outlast his.

Tylee Ryan. Joshua “JJ” Vallow. Tammy Daybell.

April 23, 1973. A 6’9” man walks into a Colorado phone booth and asks Santa Cruz police for an officer he used to drink with. He says he killed his mother. Then he starts listing the others.

Edmund Kemper was 15 when he murdered his grandparents. Doctors released him. For eleven months he picked up hitchhikers on California campuses, took them home, and left Santa Cruz hunting a killer who was sitting in the cops’ own bar.

This episode of A True Crime Podcast with Alexander Lawson is the Co-Ed Killer case as it actually happened: the sealed juvenile file, the campus sticker on his car, the heads in the trunk, the confession they didn’t believe.

Listen if you want the record — not the myth.

He threw block parties. He ran a construction company. He dressed as a clown for children’s events. In a Chicago suburb in the 1970s, John Wayne Gacy looked like the last person anyone would fear.

Then a 15-year-old left work after talking to him — and never came home.

This episode follows the public record: the double life, the investigation that finally opened the door, the 33 murder charges, the trial that lasted weeks and the verdict that took under two hours, and the questions that still remain. Five victims have never been identified.

If the most dangerous person can look like a good neighbor, what else do we miss?

Summer 1985. Southern California stops sleeping with the windows open. Someone is walking into houses after dark—no single neighborhood, no single type of victim—and leaving pentagrams behind.

This episode of A True Crime Podcast with Alexander Lawson follows Richard Ramirez from the first linked murders through the months-long manhunt, the fingerprint that finally named him, and the East L.A. street where ordinary people stopped the Night Stalker before police could.

Thirteen murder convictions. A death sentence he never served. A city that changed how it lived after sunset.

Listener note: this episode includes discussion of murder, sexual assault, and violence against children.