Grab a snack, get comfortable — because today's case is one that hit South London like a wave of terror in the summer of nineteen eighty-six. And the man at the centre of it was one of the most disturbing killers Britain has ever seen

Kenneth Erskine. The Stockwell Strangler. South London, summer of nineteen eighty-six. Over fifteen weeks, he broke into the homes of elderly people through unsecured windows, knelt on their chests, and strangled them with his bare hands. Most of them were sexually assaulted.

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And I'm Sam. Right. Today's one. I have been waiting to do this case for weeks

Joe Ball. The Butcher of Elmendorf. Saloon owner. Elmendorf, Texas. Nineteen thirties.

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Today's case is one of the most haunting unsolved murders in American history. A six-year-old girl. A house full of people. A killer who has never been caught. And nearly thirty years of questions that still have no definitive answer.

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Today's case is one of the most heartbreaking we've ever covered on this show. A five-year-old girl. A secret kept for forty-four years. And a brother who finally found the courage to tell the truth — even when the world had long since stopped looking for it.

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Grab a snack, get comfortable... because today's case is a big one. We're talking about the Gilgo Beach murders. A case that started with one missing woman, a frantic nine-one-one call in the middle of the night — and ended with a discovery in the marshes of Long Island that nobody was prepared for.

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Today's episode is different from most we cover on this podcast. It is a case about a murder — the brutal killing of a fourteen-year-old boy in Mississippi in August nineteen fifty-five. But it is also a case about what a mother chose to do with her grief, and how that choice changed American history. This is the murder of Emmett Till.

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Today we discuss Christopher Watts murdered his pregnant wife, Shanann, by strangulation, and their daughters, Bella and Celeste, by suffocation. He buried Shanann in a shallow grave near an oil‑storage site and placed the girls' bodies inside crude‑oil tanks, each with an opening only 8 inches in diameter.

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To we discuss The Brutal Murders of Andrew & Sarah Borden.

Lizzie Andrew Borden was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892, axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts⁠⁠.⁠⁠ No one else was charged in the murders, and Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River.

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And I'm Sam. Today we are covering one of the most notorious chapters in American criminal history — the Manson Family murders of nineteen sixty-nine. Seven people murdered across two nights in Los Angeles. A cult built on manipulation, drugs, and apocalyptic fantasy. A trial that shook the nation. And a collection of killers some of whom still sit in California prisons today. This case is fifty-five years old and it still matters — because it tells us exactly what happens when a charismatic predator finds the right moment in history and the right people to destroy.

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Pull up a chair, because today's episode covers one of the most premeditated, cold-blooded, and frankly evil crimes we have discussed on this podcast. This is the case of Taylor Rene Parker — convicted of murder of Reagan Michelle Simmons-Hancock on the ninth of October twenty twenty in New Boston, Texas, sentenced to death on the ninth of November twenty twenty-two, and now the subject of a Netflix documentary titled Maternal Instinct, released in June twenty twenty-six.

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