At just 15 years old, John Wesley Hardin killed his first man. By 25, he claimed 42 bodies. One of them for snoring too loud.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson uncovers the full, brutal story of Texas’s deadliest young gunfighter — from his first schoolyard stabbing to the night he was shot in the back of the head in an El Paso saloon.

True crime. Old West. No legends left untouched.

She was the nurse parents trusted with their sickest children. Then babies started dying on her shift — dozens of them.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson uncovers the chilling crimes of Genene Jones, the pediatric nurse known as an “angel of death.” From the mysterious “death shift” at a San Antonio hospital to the small-town clinic where she struck again, this is the story of how one caregiver turned trust into a weapon… and how she nearly walked free decades later.

He confessed to 13 murders. Claimed 40. Investigators believe the real number could be over 100.

Carl Eugene Watts — known as the Sunday Morning Slasher — hunted young women across Michigan and Texas for nearly a decade. No robbery. No sexual motive. Just pure, calculated killing… often on quiet Sunday mornings.

Then came one of the most controversial deals in true crime history: full immunity for the murders in exchange for a confession.

Host Alexander Lawson breaks down the chilling case of Coral Watts — the serial killer who almost walked free.

In 1966, Kenneth Allen McDuff raped and murdered three teenagers—and strangled a 16-year-old girl with a broomstick. He was sentenced to death.

Then the system set him free.

Between 1989 and 1992, the man known as the Broomstick Killer walked the streets of Texas again… and the body count kept rising.

Host Alexander Lawson breaks down the chilling crimes, the catastrophic parole failures, and the victims whose lives were stolen twice over—once by McDuff, and once by a justice system that should never have let him go.

A True Crime Podcast.

In the early 1970s, teenage boys began vanishing from Houston’s Heights neighborhood. Police called them runaways. Parents knew better.

Then, on a sticky August night in 1973, a 17-year-old named Elmer Wayne Henley called the police and said he had just killed a man. Inside the house they found Dean Corll—shot dead—and the first clues to one of the most horrific serial murder cases in American history.

Corll, known to local kids as the friendly “Candy Man,” had spent three years abducting, torturing, and murdering at least 28 boys and young men with the help of two teenage accomplices. Their bodies were buried in a boat shed, lakeside woods, and Gulf Coast beaches.

Host Alexander Lawson tells the full story of the Houston Mass Murders: how the killings began, how they stayed hidden for so long, and how one desperate act finally brought the truth into the light.

In 1984, a quiet Oregon town was hit by a wave of violent illness. Fever. Vomiting. Bloody diarrhea. Hundreds of people collapsed after eating at local restaurants. Investigators thought it was a simple food-poisoning outbreak—until they discovered the truth.

Followers of a charismatic guru had deliberately contaminated salad bars with salmonella in a calculated plot to steal a local election. It remains the largest bioterror attack in U.S. history.

Host Alexander Lawson unravels the rise of Rajneeshpuram, the secret lab, the restaurant sabotage, and the shocking fallout that followed.

A true story of power, paranoia, and biological warfare served with lunch.

January 21, 1990. A young woman leaves a Portland bar with a charming stranger. By morning her body is dumped near the Columbia Gorge—raped, beaten, and strangled. Two people go to prison for the crime. The real killer is still driving.

Host Alexander Lawson tells the full story of Keith Hunter Jesperson, the long-haul trucker known as the Happy Face Killer. Between 1990 and 1995 he murdered at least eight women across six states, then taunted police and the press with confessions signed by a simple smiley face.

This episode covers the wrongful convictions that almost let him get away, the victims whose names took decades to uncover, and the arrogance that finally brought him down.

A quiet suburban garage. A mild-mannered electrician. And a woman’s severed foot, carefully placed in a high-heeled shoe inside the freezer.

Between 1968 and 1969, Jerry Brudos — husband, father, and neighbor — murdered four young women in Oregon. He dressed their bodies in stolen lingerie, posed them for photographs, and took trophies that satisfied a lifelong, deadly obsession.

This is the story of the Shoe Fetish Slayer: how childhood rejection, an escalating fetish, and a community that saw only an ordinary man allowed a serial killer to hide in plain sight.

Hosted by Alexander Lawson on A True Crime Podcast.

A handsome NFL prospect. A former Christian athlete. A man who almost made the Green Bay Packers roster.

Randall Brent Woodfield had every chance at a different life. Instead, he turned the I-5 corridor into a hunting ground—leaving a trail of rape, robbery, and murder from Washington to California. Linked to at least 18 killings. Suspected of as many as 44.

Host Alexander Lawson uncovers the double life of the man known as the I-5 Killer: the charm, the disguises, the cold-blooded executions, and the investigation that finally stopped him.

This is the story of how an almost-professional football player became one of the West Coast’s most terrifying serial predators.

A quiet Oregon mechanic. A husband and father. And one of the most sadistic serial killers the Pacific Northwest has ever seen.

In 1987, bodies began turning up in the forests outside Molalla—bound, stabbed, and discarded. The man responsible wasn’t hiding in the shadows. He was living a double life in plain sight.

Alexander Lawson takes you inside the crimes of Dayton Leroy Rogers, the Molalla Forest Killer, and the trail of horror he left among the trees.

Listen now. Some monsters never look like monsters.