DEADLY INTENT

By Carman Carrion

DEADLY INTENT: The Dark Side of HumanityHosted by Carman CarrionWhen the worst people in the world cross the line, what drives them to do it? Deadly Intent takes you inside real true crime storie... more

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Number 1: Fritz Haarmann — The Butcher of Hanover
In the ruins of post-war Germany, young men vanished from a Hanover train station for six years — and the man taking them wasn't hiding. He was a police informant, a familiar face, trusted by the very people meant to stop him. Fritz Haarmanncalled it a frenzy he couldn't control. But you don't build a life around a compulsion by accident. This week, we sit inside the hardest question there is: when a killer says he never meant it, do we believe him? For the boys the world had already decided not to look for, intent doesn't lie. People do. Content note: this episode covers crimes against young men and boys, handled without graphic detail. Listener discretion advised. #TrueCrime #DeadlyIntent #CarmanCarrion #FritzHaarmann #ButcherOfHanover #TrueCrimePodcast #SerialKiller #TrueCrimeCommunity #Criminology #Weimar #TrueCrimeHistory#Podcast EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FreakyFolklore Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs
September 02, 202643min
Number 2: Karmelo Anthony — A Tent, a Shove, a Knife - The Frisco Track-Meet Killing and the Question of Intent
It was supposed to be one of the good days. A district track meet in Frisco, Texas. Hundreds of high schoolers. An ordinary spring Wednesday. Then a thunderstorm rolled in, and everyone scrambled for cover under the pop-up tents. Under one of them — a tent belonging to a school he didn't attend — seventeen-year-old Karmelo Anthony took shelter from the rain. Within about aminute, a dispute over who got to stand under that canopy ended with another seventeen-year-old, Austin Metcalf, bleeding to death in the arms of his twin brother. There was no whodunit. Anthony admitted from the very first that he used the knife. The question that consumed a courtroom — and a country — for the next fourteenmonths was something far harder: was this a frightened young man defending himself in a moment of chaos? Or was it murder? In this episode, we leave the national noise at the door and look at what the jury actually heard — the words spoken before anyone touched anyone, the order of events that may have decided everything, and the razor-thin legal line between fear and intent. Then we turn and examine the noise itself, because the way this case got swallowed by the internet is its own kind of psychology worth understanding. Same knife. Same wound. Same dead boy. And the entire spectrum from innocent to murderer turning on a state of mind no camera ever recorded. ⚠️ Content warning: This episode discusses the death of a teenager and graphic violence. Please take care whilelistening. 🎧 Deadly Intent — because the most important question is almost never what happened. It's why. #DeadlyIntent #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrimeCommunity #CrimePodcast #KarmeloAnthony#AustinMetcalf #FriscoTexas #Justice #Courtroom #TrueCrimeAddict #Podcast #CriminalPsychology #SelfDefense #MurderTrial #TrueCrimeJunkie #CaseFiles#Verdict #TeenViolence #PodcastRecommendations EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FreakyFolklore Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs
August 19, 202633min
Number 3: Sarah Grace Patrick - The Girl Who Grieved Her Parents on TikTok
In February 2025, in a quiet corner of west Georgia, a married couple was shot to death in their bed as they slept. There was no forced entry, and the killer took the weapon with them. For five months the case looked like an unsolved tragedy —and the grieving teenage daughter who called 911 became one of its most public mourners, posting tribute after tribute online and begging the internet to care. Then the sheriff’s office named her as the person accused of pulling thetrigger. This week on Deadly Intent, we sit with a case that is still unfolding — and one that could not be more suited to this show, because its entire weight rests on a single unanswered question: what was really happening inside the mind of the girl in those videos? Was that grief, or was it performance? We trace the case in order — from the family behind the door, through the morning everything shattered,into five strange months of public mourning, and on to an arrest, an indictment, and a trial that keeps slipping out of reach. Along the way we hold the hardest tension in true crime: that Sarah Grace Patrick has pleaded not guilty and has never been tried, and that everything the state alleges still has to be proven. We look at what the prosecution believes it canshow, at what the defense says is missing, and at what it means to judge the adult intent of someone who was sixteen years old. And before we close, we bring the story back to the people at its center — Kristin and James Brock — and to the youngest witness of all. This is the story of Sarah Grace Patrick, and of how hard it is to read a human heart through a screen. ⚠️ Content warning: This episode discusses the shooting deaths of two parents and a young child’s discovery oftheir bodies. Please take care of yourself while listening. #DeadlyIntent #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #SarahGracePatrick #BrockMurders #CarrollCountyGeorgia#TikTokTrueCrime #CrimePsychology #ForensicPsychology #TrueCrimeCommunity #Murderino #GeorgiaTrueCrime #PsychologyPodcast #TrueCrimeAddict #CourtTV #PresumptionOfInnocence #PodcastRecommendations EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FreakyFolklore Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs
August 26, 202638min
Number 4: The Killing of Jared Bridegan - A Tire, a Toddler, and Two Stories
On the night of February 16, 2022, Jared Bridegan stopped his car on a quiet road in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, to move a tire out of the lane. His two-year-old daughter was in the back seat. He never got back in. Four shots were fired — two into Jared, two into the SUV where his toddler sat. Prosecutors say it wasn't a robbery or a road-rage killing. They say it was a planned, rehearsed ambush — and that the people behind it were Jared's ex-wife, Shanna Gardner, and her second husband, Mario Fernandez Saldana. Both have pleaded not guilty. As of this recording, their trials haven't begun. This episode is different. Instead of telling you what someone wanted and why, I lay out the two competing stories about what was inside a human mind — the state's and thedefense's — and I don't choose for you. Years of text messages. A nickname. "Funeral potatoes." A confessed triggerman who took the trigger back. A case that either proves premeditation or proves only that a woman was cruelto her best friend in the dark. The tire proves someone planned this. It does not prove whose. And in a Duval County courtroom this fall, twelve people are going to have to decide the hardestquestion in criminal law: did wanting become doing? I made this episode before the verdict, on purpose. Come sit in the gap with me. ⚠️ Content note: discusses gun violence, the killing of a parent in front of a child, and a contested legalprocess. Every charged individual is presumed innocent. Please take care of yourself while listening. 🎙️ Written, researched, and produced by Carman Carrion. #JaredBridegan #ShannaGardner #DeadlyIntent #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrimeCommunity #JacksonvilleBeach #MarioFernandezSaldana #HenryTenon #CrimeJunkie #MurderMystery #TrueCrimeYouTube #ColdCase #CriminalPsychology #Florida#TrueCrimeAddict #Podcast #CaseAnalysis #Justice #Courtroom EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs
July 22, 202642min
Number 5: Christian Longo - The Man Who Was No One - The Father Who Murdered His Family to Hide a Lie
Christian Longo had the picture-perfect family — the boyish good looks, the devoted wife, three beautiful children, the boat in the driveway. Almost none of it was real. For years, Longo built an elaborate false self out of fraud, forged checks, stolen cars, and lies he told his own father, his church, and the wife who never stopped believing in him. And in December 2001, when the lie was finally about tocollapse — when eviction would have exposed exactly who he'd always been — he made a choice. He decided the people closest to him, the ones who could see the truth, were a problem to be solved. This week on Deadly Intent, Carman Carrion traces the Christian Longo case from the very beginning — a stolen wedding ring in Michigan, a construction business built ondeception, a cross-country flight from creditors, and finally a quiet condo on the Oregon coast where a husband and father murdered his family and then went to a Christmas party. We follow the fraud as it escalates into the unthinkable,the chilling performance of normalcy that followed, the flight to Mexico under the stolen name of a real New York Times journalist, and the bizarre courtroom lie Longo told to the very end. Told in chronological order, with Intent Segments throughout, this is the anatomy of a man who chose his image over the lives of his own children. Remembering Mary Jane, Zachary, Sadie, and Madison. Intent doesn't lie. People do. — RESOURCES If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, you are not alone: National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 (or text START to 88788) National Dating Abuse Helpline: 1-866-331-9474 StrongHearts Native Helpline: 1-844-762-8483 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: call or text 988 EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me aCoffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website:https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion Twitter/X:https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE& REVIEW: Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: Epidemic Sound
July 01, 202635min