Caleb Fairley was obsessed with vampires and porn. He had many fantasies but he waited until 1995 to finally act on one of them. On September the 10th, Lisa Manderach and her baby daughter entered a kid clothes shop not knowing they would never leave...

The BTK Killer terrorised Wichita, Kansas for almost 30 years. After killing his victims he often sent packages full of poems and drawings of what he did and wanted to do to woman. When he was finally caught in 2004 it was this same narcissism that led him to confess to everything in EXTREMELY graphic ways...

In June 1994, Nicholas Barclay disappeared. This wasn't unusual - he'd run away many times. When the police were finally alerted about the missing 13 year old, there were almost no leads. There first "lead" came 3 years later when Nicholas suddenly reappeared. An extremely different Nicholas. He was like a different person. Maybe he was...

In 1998, Matthew Shepard was a young man. He had a bright future ahead of him and was becoming more confident within himself than he had been for a while (due to a traumatic incident he'd been through). He had huge amounts of potential and was extremely bright but some people just couldn't see this. To be more precise, they wouldn't see past the fact that he was gay. Matthew Shepard would have changed the world throughout his life but instead the world was changed by his death. Listen to find out how it took a young man's death to spread his message that homosexuality is not a crime and not a choice...

Next year marks the 30th anniversary of the case that haunts Austin, Texas. In this episode I will attempt to sort the fact from the fiction in this muddled mystery. If you have any other theories, send me your answer to the question "What happened to those teenage girls on the 6th December 1991?" (see contact details in the podcast description)

Sheinbein always knew he was different to the other high school kids. Most teenagers' biggest problems are their underlying hormones, but Samuel found himself struggling with an underlying urge to kill. After one conversation with his friend Aaron Needle, who had someone he wanted to kill, Samuel decided to take the leap and murder his first man at the young age of 17.

Between 2007 and 2008, a monster terrorised Reno, Nevada. The offences grew each time, from assaults to murder. Brianna Denison didn't even live in Nevada. What she thought would be the holiday of a lifetime turned out to be the last of hers. Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time...

In 1970s Houston, the police's biggest concern was petty thieves and drug dealers. They never suspected what was going on right underneath their noses. Imagine their confusion when a young man (not even 18 yet) arrived at the station, claiming he'd helped murder over 30 young boys in the last three years! Listen now to find out the entire true story of America's largest serial killer to date...

In December 2009 the Powell family went for an overnight camping trip to Western Utah. 4 went but only 3 would return. Tons of different theories have been suggested about her disappearance - one of the scariest being from Susan's 4 year old son who told his teacher "Mommy is sleeping in a cave". In this episode I will attempt to explore what really happened to Susan Powell...