She promised healing and salvation. Instead, she turned a Greek monastery into a house of torture, starvation, and death.

Mariam Soulakiotis — known as Mother Rasputin — lured the sick, the wealthy, and the faithful into her convent… then stripped them of everything. When police finally raided the gates in 1950, they found chained women, starving children, and evidence of up to 177 victims.

This is the true story of Greece’s most infamous serial killer nun.

On a normal April morning in 1986, the head of Zurich’s public construction authority walked into his own offices with a revolver and systematically executed four of his colleagues. He fled, vanished for three weeks, and was later caught in France.

Günther Tschanun was an architect, a Social Democrat, a dancer, and a seducer. After serving time he reappeared under a new name in Ticino, living quietly as Claudio Trentinaglia until a bicycle accident revealed the truth years after his death.

Host Alexander Lawson reconstructs one of the most shocking workplace massacres in modern Swiss history — the tensions that built inside Amtshaus IV, the cold-blooded killings, the controversial trials, and the silent life that followed.

A story of pressure, power, and the ordinary office that became a killing ground.

September 27, 2001. A quiet morning in the Swiss lakeside town of Zug. Eighty lawmakers sit in parliament. One man in an orange police vest walks up the stairs carrying an assault rifle, a shotgun, two handguns, and a homemade bomb.

He shouts “This is a police operation”… then opens fire.

In just two minutes and thirty-four seconds, fourteen people are dead. Eighteen more are wounded. The gunman turns the weapon on himself.

His name was Friedrich Leibacher. He called it his “Day of Rage against the Zug Mafia.”

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson uncovers the full story of Switzerland’s deadliest attack on elected officials: the years of escalating obsession, the legal battles that fueled a deadly grudge, the meticulously planned assault, and the shocking aftermath that forced an entire nation to confront how open its institutions really were.

A forgotten massacre. A man consumed by vengeance. And the two-and-a-half minutes that changed Switzerland forever.

August 9, 1937. A young man sits on a park bench in Rapperswil. Minutes later a police officer is dead—five shots to the body, the last one to the temple. As he flees toward the lake, he kills again.

His name was Paul Irniger. He once longed to be a monk. He later dressed as a priest, celebrated Mass, and heard confessions. He also murdered a taxi driver for 60 francs, then two more people in a single afternoon.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson tells the strange, short, and violent story of the man they called the “philosophical murderer”—and how his crimes helped push Switzerland toward the end of the death penalty.

In 1860s Geneva, a soft-spoken nurse offered free care… and sweets she called “princesses.”

Within months, at least six people were dead. Three more barely survived. And she may have tried to kill nearly thirty.

This is the chilling true story of Marie Jeanneret — Switzerland’s quiet poisoner who used atropine and morphine, claimed she only wanted to heal, and whose trial helped abolish the death penalty.

Hosted by Alexander Lawson.

In 1980s Switzerland, a charming, ordinary man picked up young hitchhikers… then handcuffed, tortured, and set them on fire. Some were still alive when the flames started.

Michel Peiry — the Sadist of Romont — killed across Europe for six years. At least five confirmed victims. Possibly eleven. When police finally caught him, he admitted he never would have stopped.

This is the chilling true story of Switzerland’s worst serial killer since World War II.

Hosted by Alexander Lawson.

In 1989, a man rang Swiss police to insist he had nothing to do with a missing nine-year-old girl’s death. Hours later, they were at his door.

That call ended nearly two decades of terror. Between 1971 and 1989, children vanished from festivals and public celebrations across Switzerland. Eight were found murdered. Three are still missing.

This is the story of Werner Ferrari — the labourer who became one of the country’s most infamous child killers.

Hosted by Alexander Lawson.

He was a nurse by day, a DJ by night… and Switzerland’s most prolific serial killer. Between 1995 and 2001, Roger Andermatt — the Death-Keeper of Lucerne — murdered 22 elderly patients in the nursing homes where they trusted him most. Plastic bags. Lethal overdoses. He called it mercy. The courts called it murder. Host Alexander Lawson reveals the chilling crimes that shocked a nation.

In the quiet night shifts of Ontario nursing homes, one nurse held the power of life and death. Elizabeth Wettlaufer didn’t use violence. She used insulin.

Over nearly a decade she murdered eight elderly patients and tried to kill six more. Their deaths were ruled natural. No one suspected a thing… until she confessed.

Host Alexander Lawson reveals how Canada’s deadliest healthcare serial killer operated in plain sight, the “red surge” that drove her, and the systemic failures that almost let her walk free forever.

This is the full story of the nurse who turned care into killing.

December 6, 1989. A man walks into a Montreal classroom, separates the men from the women, and opens fire. Fourteen women never walk out.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson takes you inside the École Polytechnique massacre — the calculated, misogynistic attack by Marc Lépine that stunned a nation and forced Canada to confront hatred head-on. From the chilling final words he spoke to the victims, to the suicide note that revealed his true motives, this is the full story of one of the most targeted mass killings in North American history.

Names. Motives. Aftermath. And the warning that still echoes decades later.