Killer Songs

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Sometimes, evil hides behind a smile, a church usher’s handshake, or a husband’s quiet nod across the breakfast table.

This is the story of Paula Dietz — the wife of Dennis Rader, the man who called himself BTK.

For thirty years, Paula believed she was married to a good man. A deacon. A father. A city employee who mowed the lawn every Saturday.

But Dennis Rader wasn’t just the man she married. He was also Bind. Torture. Kill.

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Today, we’re not talking about a single murder, or a single victim. Today’s story is about devastation on a grand scale. It's about loss, not from a knife or a bullet, but from a little pill—the kind prescribed with a signature and a nod.

This is the story of how West Virginia, a place of mountains, mines, and tight-knit communities, became ground zero in one of the deadliest drug epidemics in American history.

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Madame Delphine LaLaurie was one of the most celebrated socialites in New Orleans

Wealthy. Educated. Married to a respected physician.

She hosted elaborate galas in her Creole mansion on Royal Street.

But her house held a secret.

On April 10, 1834, a fire broke out in the kitchen of the LaLaurie home. Neighbors rushed in to help. But what they discovered would become legend.

This was not a house.

It was a chamber of horrors.

Savannah Weaver sings today's song, "Never Said Goodbye"

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Today’s episode is a little different.

This one isn’t about murder, scandal, or drama.

Every year, thousands of young men take their own lives.

It’s a crisis hiding in plain sight.

And the silence around it? It’s part of the problem.

I’m not looking for villains today.

This isn’t that kind of episode.

This is for the ones who are still here.

The ones who’ve struggled, or are struggling now.

Or the ones who’ve lost someone — and don’t know what to do with the space they left behind.

Today's song is a stark solo performance of a song called 'Lifeline.'

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We will get back to something 'creepier' next week, but this one has been on my heart.

They call it the Highway of Tears.

A stretch of road so long and lonely, it swallows names.   

Girls vanish on the wind. Mothers fade into fog. Today, we drive down a road haunted by loss, and silenced by decades of neglect.

Highway 16 cuts across the wilderness of northern British Columbia — from Prince Rupert to Prince George.

Since the 1970s, at least 40 Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along this road.

But ask the local communities, and they’ll tell you: The real number is likely higher.

Some were hitchhiking — with no other option to get between remote towns.

For decades, these disappearances were met with shrugs from police, headlines that barely made page four, and systems that failed to even keep records.

And all the while, the road kept taking women.

This episode is special, it features my daughter Savannah Weaver singing the song, 'Haunted Road.'

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Today's episode is about John Wayne Gacy.  A serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured and murdered at least thirty-three young men and boys between 1972 and 1978. He became known as the "Killer Clown" due to his public performances as a clown prior to the discovery of his crimes.

The song is called Crawl Space.

This one is particularly creepy!

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Today's episode of Killer Songs looks at domestic violence.

The song is 'What You Wish For.'

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I would love to take these stories and songs on the road next year.

The first episode of Killer Songs looks at perhaps the most notorious serial killer of all time, Ted Bundy.

The song is 'The River Flows'

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