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.

In 1977, young women started turning up naked and strangled on the hillsides of Los Angeles. Police thought it was one killer. It was two—and one of them looked like the guy next door.

Host Alexander Lawson tells the chilling true story of Kenneth Bianchi: the fake-cop serial killer who, with his cousin Angelo Buono, raped and murdered ten women and girls in LA… then killed two more on his own in Washington. Discover how he almost got away with it by inventing multiple personalities—and the near-miss that could have claimed a Hollywood legend’s daughter.

A dark, gripping episode of A True Crime Podcast.

In 1947, a railroad drifter named Jake Bird broke into a Tacoma home and hacked a mother and her 17-year-old daughter to death with an axe.

Caught covered in blood, he confessed on the spot. But at sentencing he looked the entire courtroom in the eye and delivered a chilling promise:

“All you guys who had anything to do with this case are going to die before I do.”

Within a year, six people connected to the trial were dead.

Bird claimed he had killed as many as 46 people across the country. Investigators confirmed at least 11.

This is the forgotten story of one of America’s most prolific — and most overlooked — serial killers… and the curse that refused to die with him.

He kept a diary of every child he planned to hurt. He built a torture rack in his apartment. And when he was finally caught, he looked the judge in the eye and demanded to die—by hanging.

In the fall of 1989, Westley Allan Dodd murdered three young boys in just eight weeks. He molested an estimated 175 children over fifteen years. Then he became the first person hanged in the United States in nearly 30 years… because he asked for it.

This is the story of the system that kept releasing him, the four-year-old whose underwear he kept as a trophy, and the six-year-old who fought back hard enough to stop him for good.

A decorated Army helicopter pilot. A churchgoing father of five. The perfect neighbor.

Behind the clean-cut image, Robert Lee Yates Jr. was one of Washington’s most prolific serial killers — the man known as the Grocery Bag Killer. For more than two decades he targeted vulnerable women, shot them, covered their heads in plastic bags, and dumped their bodies. One victim was buried just feet from where his children slept.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson uncovers how Yates hid in plain sight, the chilling details of his crimes, the one woman who survived, and the evidence that finally brought him down.

A story of double lives, overlooked victims, and a killer who almost got away with everything.

On a January night in 1978, a man slipped into a Florida State University sorority house. Within minutes, two young women were dead and two more left fighting for their lives. The attacker left a wooden club and a trail of blood — evidence that would help end one of the most terrifying manhunts in American history.

But by then, Ted Bundy had already been hunting for years.

Charming. Intelligent. Clean-cut. He asked for help with an arm in a cast or books to carry. He drove a beige Volkswagen Beetle. And across Washington, Utah, Colorado, and Florida, young women vanished after meeting him. He escaped custody twice. He kept killing.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson takes you inside Bundy’s calculated spree — the disappearances, the rare survivors, the escapes, the final murders, and the method behind the monster who hid in plain sight.

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He painted trucks by day. By night, he became America’s most prolific serial killer.

Gary Ridgway murdered at least 49 women—mostly young, vulnerable, and living on the margins—and dumped their bodies along the Green River and in the woods around Seattle. For nearly two decades he lived a quiet suburban life, passed a polygraph, and stayed one step ahead of one of the largest task forces in U.S. history.

DNA finally stopped him. But the true number of victims may be far higher.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson traces the full story of the Green River Killer: the bodies that kept appearing, the investigation that nearly broke, and the ordinary man who hid in plain sight longer than almost anyone thought possible.

On a single August night in 1991, a marriage under strain exploded into one of Hawaii’s most shocking acts of violence. Orlando Ganal Sr. left a trail of gunfire and arson across Oahu—killing family members, leaving others permanently scarred, and setting homes and a workplace ablaze in a jealous rage.

Host Alexander Lawson digs into the months of escalating threats, the brutal attacks in Waipahu and Kailua, the investigation that followed, and the lasting questions about control, responsibility, and how far one man’s sense of ownership could go.

This is the story of the night a domestic crisis became a massacre.