In the mid-1970s, New York City was gripped by fear. Young couples in parked cars became targets. A .44 caliber revolver left six people dead and eleven wounded. Then came the letters—taunting, chilling, signed “Son of Sam.”

David Berkowitz claimed a neighbor’s black Labrador was possessed by a demon that commanded him to kill. Was it madness, manipulation, or something darker?

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson uncovers the full story of the manhunt that paralyzed a city, the victims whose lives were stolen, and the night police finally caught the .44 Caliber Killer.

Some crimes never leave the streets they happened on. This is one of them.

For nearly two years, Kendall Francois lived in a house with his parents and sister… and the rotting bodies of eight women hidden in the attic and crawl space.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson tells the full story of the Poughkeepsie serial killer who preyed on vulnerable women, stored their remains under his own roof, and was only stopped when one intended victim jumped from his car and ran for her life.

The house that smelled of death. The family that claimed they never knew. The escape that finally ended it.

Imagine opening a letter six years after your child vanished. It begins politely. Then it describes, in calm detail, how a stranger took her to an empty house, strangled her, and cooked her flesh with onions and carrots. He ate her over nine days. And he wanted you to know every bite.

That letter was real. The man who wrote it was Albert Fish — the Gray Man, the Brooklyn Vampire, one of the most disturbing killers in American history.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson unravels the crimes of the soft-spoken grandfather who preyed on children in 1920s New York. From the strangling of 8-year-old Francis McDonnell to the disappearance of 4-year-old Billy Gaffney, and the calculated abduction of 10-year-old Grace Budd, this is the full story of the man who turned polite manners into a weapon… and then documented his horrors in his own handwriting.

What he confessed. What the letter revealed. And why some answers are almost unbearable to hear.

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By day, Richard Cottingham was a computer operator, a husband, and a father of three. By night, he was one of the most sadistic serial killers in American history.

On May 22, 1980, a single scream from a motel room in New Jersey finally stopped him. Police had no idea they had just arrested the man known as the Torso Killer and the Times Square Ripper — a predator responsible for at least 20 confirmed murders, and who later claimed the real number was closer to 100.

In this episode, Alexander Lawson takes you inside Cottingham’s double life: the suburban façade, the victims he targeted from Times Square to the quiet streets of New Jersey, the chilling crime scenes that defied identification, and the arrest that cracked everything open.

Some of the cases stayed unsolved for decades… until he started confessing from prison.

This is the story of Richard Cottingham — and the lives he destroyed while the world thought he was just another family man.

In the early hours of November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were murdered in their off-campus house. No forced entry. No robbery. No clear motive. For nearly seven weeks the killer walked free — while studying criminology at a nearby university.

Host Alexander Lawson breaks down the Moscow murders: the night it happened, the DNA on the knife sheath, the white Hyundai, Bryan Kohberger’s arrest, his guilty plea, the life sentences, and the latest 2026 attempt to withdraw that plea.

A quiet college town. Four young lives cut short. A case that still won’t fully close.

It’s 3:15 a.m. A routine traffic stop for a missing license plate turns into a high-speed chase… and ends with a decomposing body wrapped in a tarp.

The driver? A quiet Long Island landscaper named Joel Rifkin. By sunrise he had confessed to murdering 17 women.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson uncovers the five-year killing spree that police almost never connected — until one ordinary traffic stop exposed New York’s most prolific serial killer.

Between 1980 and 1982, a quiet Florida teenager named Christine Falling was trusted with other people’s children. One by one, those children died in her care.

She later confessed she pressed blankets over their faces after voices in her head ordered her to “kill the baby.” At least five young lives—and one elderly man—were lost before anyone stopped her.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson uncovers the chilling story of the “Killer Babysitter”: her troubled childhood, the string of “accidental” deaths that went unnoticed for years, the confession that shocked investigators, and the life sentences that still keep her behind bars.

A true story of trust betrayed in the most intimate way possible.

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Ninety-three victims. Nineteen states. Thirty-five years. No guns. No knives. No blood. Just one man’s hands.

Samuel Little is the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history — and for decades, almost no one even knew he existed.

In this episode, Alexander Lawson uncovers how a former boxer moved through America’s underbelly, targeting women society had already forgotten, and how an old man in a prison cell finally forced the FBI to rewrite the record books.

She collected life insurance like other people collect stamps. Over 12 years, Judy Buenoano systematically poisoned the men closest to her — and even her own disabled son — all for the money.

Known as Florida’s Black Widow, she almost got away with it… until one car bomb finally exposed everything.

Host Alexander Lawson takes you deep inside one of the most cold-blooded insurance murder sprees in American true crime history.

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A trainee surgeon secretly filmed hundreds of colleagues — mostly women — using staff toilets and showers across three major Melbourne hospitals for years. Thousands of intimate videos. Zero consent.

Ryan Cho’s betrayal of trust shocked Australia. How did a doctor turn places of healing into hunting grounds… and how was he finally caught?

Hosted by Alexander Lawson.

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