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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Two days after Vicky Apostolopoulos baked cupcakes for her neighbour of 20 years, he stood on her doorstep, said “Welcome home, Vicky,” and stabbed her to death in front of her children.

She had opened the door to protect his terrified teenage son from a drug-fuelled attack. Moments later she was dying on the floor while her own 16-year-old son fought the killer so his little brother could escape.

This is the story of a mother whose kindness cost her everything.

I’m Alexander Lawson. This is A True Crime Podcast.

In 1994, a charming drifter moved along Interstate 95 offering companionship… and leaving a trail of brutally murdered men behind him.

Gary Ray Bowles, known as the I-95 Killer, targeted older gay men across Florida, Georgia, and Maryland. He gained their trust, accepted a place to stay, then beat and strangled them — sometimes living with the bodies for days afterward.

Six known victims. Eight months of terror. One of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson breaks down Bowles’ traumatic childhood, his calculated method of killing, the near-misses that almost stopped him, his chilling confession, and the long road to his 2019 execution.

This is the full, unflinching story of one of the most chilling serial killers of the 1990s.

He was a Harvard-educated Citigroup managing director living in luxury overlooking Central Park. Behind closed doors, Edward Gene Smith spent nearly a decade drugging young women with Klonopin, raping them while they were unconscious, recording the assaults, and sharing the videos on encrypted channels. When the FBI closed in, he tried to buy one of his victims’ silence.

On July 28, 2026, he was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.

This is the story of the predator who hid in plain sight — using money, status, and power as weapons.

In July 1981, six-year-old Adam Walsh vanished from a Sears store in Hollywood, Florida. Two weeks later, only his severed head was found.

The man who eventually claimed responsibility was Ottis Elwood Toole — a low-IQ drifter, serial arsonist, and partner of Henry Lee Lucas. Together they confessed to more than a hundred murders across America. Most of those confessions later collapsed. Six of Toole’s killings were proven. One case — Adam Walsh’s — was officially closed in 2008 with Toole named as the killer, even though key evidence had been lost and his stories kept changing.

Host Alexander Lawson digs into Toole’s brutal childhood, his deadly partnership with Lucas, the fires he set, the lives he ended, and the confessions that still divide investigators today.

Was Ottis Toole one of America’s most prolific serial killers… or one of its most dangerous liars?

In 1984, Bobby Joe Long turned the Tampa Bay area into a hunting ground. Over eight months he abducted, raped, and murdered at least ten women. Then he made one fatal mistake: he released 17-year-old Lisa McVey after holding her for 26 hours.

Her courage, a few red carpet fibers, and a detailed description brought the Classified Ad Rapist to justice.

Host Alexander Lawson tells the full story of the crimes, the capture, and the women who never came home.

In May 2020, a young woman from Barrow-in-Furness posted photos of horrific injuries and claimed she had been raped and trafficked by an Asian grooming gang. The post went viral, sparking protests and destroying lives.

But the story was a complete fabrication.

Host Alexander Lawson examines the case of Eleanor Williams — the false allegations, the self-inflicted wounds, the manufactured evidence, and the devastating impact on an entire community.

A story of lies, social media, and justice.

August 1990. Gainesville, Florida. Five students stabbed, raped, and posed in their apartments. One of them beheaded. The killer was camping less than two miles away.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson tells the full story of Danny Rolling — the Gainesville Ripper. From his violent childhood and the unsolved triple murder in Shreveport, to the four-day killing spree that shut down a college town, the wrong man arrested, and Rolling’s eventual execution in 2006.

This is the real case that helped inspire the movie Scream.

Seven bodies. Seven empty cars abandoned along Florida’s interstates. One woman who swore she was only defending herself.

Aileen Wuornos became America’s most infamous female serial killer after a string of brutal murders between 1989 and 1990. Hitchhiking, offering sex for money, then leaving a trail of .22-caliber bullets and missing wallets. She insisted every man attacked her first. Prosecutors said it was cold-blooded robbery and rage.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson breaks down the full story: the childhood of abandonment and abuse that shaped her, the seven victims left near remote highways, the girlfriend who helped bring her down, the confessions, the death sentences, and her final cryptic words before lethal injection in 2002.

Was she a victim who finally fought back… or a predator who used the language of self-defense to justify murder?

The courts decided. History is still arguing.

Hit play. The highway never forgets.

In March 2024, police walked into a Hull funeral home and found the dead still waiting.

Bodies families had already said goodbye to. Ashes that didn’t belong to them. A stillborn baby left in a paper bag for nearly two years.

Robert Bush was trusted with the most sacred duty — caring for the dead. Instead, he left 35 bodies behind, handed grieving relatives the remains of strangers, and stole from charities in their loved ones’ names.

Sixty-seven offences. Hundreds of victims. One of the most shocking breaches of trust in British true crime.

This is the full story.