In 1976, General Jorge Rafael Videla seized power in Argentina and turned an entire nation into a machine of disappearance. Citizens were dragged from their homes in the night, tortured in secret camps, thrown from planes into the ocean, and erased from existence. Pregnant prisoners had their babies stolen. Neighbors learned to keep silent or risk vanishing themselves.

This is the story of the Dirty War’s most ruthless architect — the man who claimed his victims were “neither dead nor alive” — and the mothers who refused to let them be forgotten.

In a quiet Buenos Aires suburb, a respected family lived a perfect life by day. By night, their home became a dungeon.

Arquímedes Puccio was the polite, religious neighbor. His son Alejandro was a star rugby player. Behind closed doors, they kidnapped wealthy victims, held them for ransom, and executed them after the money arrived.

This is the true story of the Puccio Clan — Argentina’s most shocking family of kidnappers and killers.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson takes you inside the house where three people were murdered, one woman barely survived, and an entire family maintained a façade of normalcy while running a deadly business.

The ransoms were paid.

The victims still died.

And the neighbors never suspected a thing.

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In 1912 Buenos Aires, a three-year-old boy is found dead with a nail driven into his temple. At the funeral that same night, a teenager with oversized ears walks up to the open casket… and asks if the nail is still there.

His name was Cayetano Santos Godino. By age 15 he had already murdered four children, attempted to kill several more, and set buildings on fire for the thrill. Police would later discover he felt no remorse—because he didn’t even understand what the word meant.

They called him El Petiso Orejudo—the Big-Eared Midget. Argentina’s first documented serial killer.

This is the true story of the child who became a monster… and the system that kept setting him free.

A soft-faced 19-year-old. Piano lessons. A middle-class home. And eleven bodies left in his wake.

Carlos Eduardo Robledo Puch — the Black Angel — terrorized the suburbs of Buenos Aires with cold-blooded robberies, executions, and sexual violence. He killed night watchmen in their sleep, shot young women in the back, and when his own partner became a problem… he burned the face off the corpse to hide the evidence.

He almost got away with it.

Almost.

Host Alexander Lawson unravels the chilling rise of Argentina’s most prolific serial killer — the boy who called himself a gift from God, the crimes that shocked a nation, and the half-century he has spent locked away as the country’s longest-serving prisoner.

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In the quiet suburbs of Buenos Aires, women started disappearing every Wednesday and Thursday around 6 p.m. Their bodies were later found raped, strangled, or shot — jewelry ripped from their bodies as trophies.

For six months in 1974–1975, a predator known as the Satyr of San Isidro terrorized northern Argentina. At least 13 women were murdered. Possibly more. And when police finally cornered the man they believed was responsible, he never lived long enough to confess.

This is the chilling true story of Francisco Antonio Laureana — the young artisan, husband, and father who warned his family about “degenerates”… while becoming one of Argentina’s most prolific and forgotten serial killers.

Host Alexander Lawson uncovers the crimes, the trophies hidden in a boot, the child victims, the rooftop escapes, and the final shootout that ended in a chicken coop.

A case almost erased by political chaos. A killer whose motives died with him.

On the hottest nights in 1950s Monteros, Argentina, windows stayed open… and something climbed through them. Fifteen women. Necks torn open. Blood allegedly drunk. They called him the Window Vampire — Florencio Roque Fernández, the Argentine Dracula who lived in a cave and believed he was a monster.

But here’s the twist: there are no victim names, no contemporary police reports, and no records of the murders. Was he the country’s deadliest serial killer… or the biggest true-crime legend that never happened?

Host Alexander Lawson digs into the chilling story, the investigation that unraveled it, and the thin line between horror and hoax.

In a Manchester mosque, two men whispered about becoming martyrs. One would soon drive into a synagogue on Yom Kippur and start stabbing. The other planned something even bigger.

Mohammad Bashir, a committed jihadist, conducted hostile reconnaissance on a British military academy with the man who would later kill two worshippers. They talked about crossbows, saying goodbye to their families, and dying as “green birds.”

Seven weeks after their scouting mission, one attack happened. The other was stopped.

This is the full story of the plot that could have been far deadlier — and the life sentence that followed.

An 18-year-old Norwegian lands at Manchester Airport with no return ticket and almost no money. Two days later, armed police find him in a Huddersfield hotel room with two handguns and live ammunition under the bed.

Johannes Kongsnes Natland had flown to Britain to murder a stranger for £21,000 — hired by a Swedish crime network with links to Iran.

Host Alexander Lawson tells the full story of how a troubled teenager from Stavanger became a contract killer, how encrypted messages guided him step by step, and how a last-minute tip from Norwegian police stopped the hit just hours before it was meant to happen.

In the early hours of 21 February 2025, drug dealer Danny Cahalane was attacked in his Plymouth home with highly concentrated sulphuric acid while his young daughter slept upstairs. He died ten weeks later from his horrific injuries.

The person who told the attackers exactly where he would be that night was the mother of his children — his ex-wife, Paris Wilson.

Host Alexander Lawson tells the full story of a relationship that began behind bars, a £120,000 drug debt, an earlier kidnap attempt, damning messages, and the betrayal that ended in one of the most barbaric attacks Devon and Cornwall has seen. Wilson was jailed for nine years for manslaughter and attempted kidnap. Two men received life sentences for murder.

In the mid-1990s, a white van prowled the night streets of Athens. Inside was a young truck driver with a mattress in the back and a deadly hatred for the women he targeted.

Between 1992 and 1995, Antonis Daglis—later known as the Athens Ripper—murdered three women, attempted to kill at least six others, and left a trail of dismembered bodies across the city. His victims were sex workers. His motive, he claimed, was rooted in a deep rage toward his own mother.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson examines the case of Greece’s most notorious modern serial killer: the attacks, the survivors who escaped, the confession that shocked the courtroom, and the final act inside a prison cell.

Listener discretion is strongly advised. This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence, sexual assault, and murder.