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   Number 1: EP306: The Casanova Killer - Paul John Knowles

   In 1974, Paul John Knowles embarked on a violent, cross-country crime spree that would leave a trail of murder from Florida to the Pacific Northwest. Charming, handsome, and dangerously unpredictable, Knowles used his easy confidence to gain trust; earning him the chilling nickname “The Casanova Killer.” In this episode of Crimes & Consequences, we follow Knowles from his troubled beginnings and repeated escapes from custody through the months of violence that made him one of the most notorious American serial killers of the 1970s. We examine the victims, the crimes investigators could confirm, the murders Knowles claimed as his own, and the dramatic manhunt that finally brought his killing spree to an end.

   September 10, 2026·37min
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   Number 2: EP307: The Casanova Killer Paul John Knowles - part 2

   In 1974, Paul John Knowles embarked on a violent, cross-country crime spree that would leave a trail of murder from Florida to the Pacific Northwest. Charming, handsome, and dangerously unpredictable, Knowles used his easy confidence to gain trust; earning him the chilling nickname “The Casanova Killer.” In this episode of Crimes & Consequences, we follow Knowles from his troubled beginnings and repeated escapes from custody through the months of violence that made him one of the most notorious American serial killers of the 1970s. We examine the victims, the crimes investigators could confirm, the murders Knowles claimed as his own, and the dramatic manhunt that finally brought his killing spree to an end.

   September 14, 2026·40min
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   Number 3: EP308: She Tried To Tell Them

   In the fall of 2019, Tiffany Hill was trying to build a safer life for herself and her three children in Vancouver, Washington. The thirty-five-year-old former Marine had spent years learning how to remain composed under pressure, but the danger she now faced was not something she could leave behind on a battlefield. It followed her into restaurants, appeared on her phone, shadowed her daily routines, and eventually became the subject of police reports, court hearings, and increasingly urgent pleas for protection. Tiffany knew the man she feared better than any detective, prosecutor, or judge ever could, and as the weeks passed, she became convinced that his behavior was escalating. She did what people in danger are told to do: she documented it, reported it, sought protection, and repeatedly asked authorities to listen. By November, the question was no longer whether Tiffany was frightened. The question was whether anyone could keep enough distance between her and the person she feared before that distance disappeared altogether.

   September 23, 2026·42min
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   Number 4: EP275: Dennis Nilsen - Britain's Kindly Killer

   He looked like the friendly neighbor everyone trusted. A soft-spoken civil servant with a kind smile, Dennis Nilsen appeared anything but dangerous. But behind the closed doors of his North London flat, he harbored some of the darkest secrets in British criminal history. Between 1978 and 1983, Nilsen lured young men into his home, where he murdered them—and kept their bodies hidden for weeks, even months, before disposing of them in ways that shocked the nation.

   September 13, 2025·53min
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   Number 5: EP305: The Girl in the Television Box

   In the summer of 1988, Philadelphia was shaken by the murder of four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn, a little girl whose disappearance would become one of the city's most haunting mysteries. For years, detectives searched for the person responsible, following leads through the streets of Kensington and questioning countless people who might have known something about what happened that July afternoon. Nearly six years later, their investigation led them to Walter Ogrod, a quiet Philadelphia man whose name would become permanently intertwined with Barbara's death. What followed was a case filled with disturbing evidence, a controversial confession, competing versions of what happened, and a courtroom battle that would stretch across decades. At its center was a question that seemed, at first, to have a simple answer—but would prove anything but simple: What really happened to Barbara Jean Horn?SOURCES: 1) Supreme Court of PA decisions2) U.S. Supreme Court decisions3) Commonwealth of PA District Attorney's Office Documents4) NBC10 Philadelphia, "Who Killed Barbara Jean?"5) Philadelphia Inquirer Articles6) "The Trials of Walter Ogrod" by Thomas Lowenstein

   August 18, 2026·50min
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