Monsters Who Murder: Serial Killer Confessions

By Amanda Howard & Robert McKnight

Society & Culture TV & Film

What's Monsters Who Murder: Serial Killer Confessions about?

Amanda Howard is a best selling true crime author who doesn't just talk about serial killers, she talks to them.

Now Amanda is sharing almost 30 years worth of research, including letters and never-before-heard recordings that will shed new light on famous cases.

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S10E06 - The 100th Episode

01.24.2021

In this special edition we look back at the stories which have affected our listeners... both in a good and bad way. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Monsters Who Murder: Serial Killer Confessions episodes:

01.24.2021 S10E06 - The 100th Episode In this special edition we look back at the stories which have affected our listeners... both in a good and bad way. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
01.16.2021 S10E05 The Speed Freak Killer PT 3 PLUS Rose West, The Pembrokeshire Murders & Mark Douglas Burns The final police interviews and the search for the missing bodies Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
01.10.2021 S10E04 The Speed Freak Killers Part 2 PLUS Zodiac Killer’s 340 Cipher cracked & Lao Rongzhi When police try to interview Wesley Shermantine. he does something no other accused killer has done in the entire series of MWM Confessions. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
01.01.2021 S10E03 The Speed Freak Killers PLUS Claremont Killer convicted & Jesse Kempson Known as the Speed Freak Killers, Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog were a dangerous combination. The men had grown up as friends from an early age and began with bullying and harassment of others before moving onto more series crimes. ...
12.24.2020 S10E02 Scott Peterson Part 2 PLUS The Volga Maniac, Martin Bryant Movie & Samuel Little Not only do we hear Scott Peterson during his interrogation, but listen to the secret phone records that reveal so much more! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
12.06.2020 S10E01 Scott Peterson PLUS The Yorkshire Ripper, Lucy Letby & Lee Chun-jae How did Laci Peterson go missing and why doesn't her husband's story add up? Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
11.27.2020 S09E10 Gypsy Rose Blanchard Part 2 In part 2 we listen to two sides of the story as Gypsy's boyfriend Nick gets to speak Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
11.15.2020 S09E09 Gypsy Rose Blanchard The body of Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard was found murdered in her Missouri home on June 14, 2015. She had been stabbed to death and had died several days before she was found. Police had gone to the home, following ...
11.10.2020 S09E08 SARAH HENDERSON 911 CALL This is a 911 call which will never leave you. It starts out as a routine call which quickly escalates. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
11.01.2020 S09E07 Emergency calls - Kiesha Weippeart, William Tyrrell, Travis the Chimp, Zodiac & Paul Stephani We look at more emergency calls ranging from Kiesha Weippeart, William Tyrrell, Travis the Chimp, Zodiac & Paul Stephani Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
10.16.2020 S09E06 Tim Jones Pt 2 PLUS Nathan Maynard-Ellis & Samuel Little This week on Monsters who murder we continue our examination of the murders of eight year old Merah, seven year old Elias, six year old Nahtahn, two year old Gabriel and one year old Abigail Elaine at the hands of ...
10.14.2020 S09E05 Tim Jones PLUS The Long Island Serial Killer, Jatorri Williams & Michel Fourniret This week on we examine the murders of eight year old Merah, seven year old Elias, six year old Nahtahn, two year old Gabriel and one year old Abigail Elaine at the hands of their father, Timothy Jones. Jones, from ...
10.03.2020 S09E04Darlie Routier PLUS Samuel Little, Gary Hilton & Reginald Arthurel Darlie Routier currently sits on the death row in Texas for the murder of one of her sons, five year old Damon. Also killed the same night was her six year old son Devon, however she has not yet been ...
09.29.2020 S09E03 The Claremont Serial Killer - Bradley Edwards The arrest came spectacularly and almost out of the blue, almost 20 years after the disappearances and murders of three women in Claremont, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Bradley Robert Edwards was arrested on December 22, 2016 and charged ...
09.18.2020 S09E02 'Des' the miniseries Review + Denis Nilsen Profile After watching the ITV drama DES, Robert & Amanda share their thoughts on the accuracy of the miniseries and the characterisation of the title character, as portrayed by David Tennant. Then, a replay of our original profile of Nilsen from ...
09.12.2020 S09E01 9-1-1 calls PLUS Christchurch terrorist & The Golden State Killer In our darkest moments it can be comforting to know that calling emergency services can render assistance quickly, there are hundreds of published calls of young children calling when their parents have fainted, there have been babies born on the ...
08.22.2020 S08E13 Jodi Arias Part 5 This is part 5 on our profile into Jodi Arias. If you haven’t listened to the previous 4 installments we highly recommend you do. For our final episode we now pick up where we left off last week, Arias is ...
08.15.2020 S08E12 - Jodie Arias Part 4 The police interrogation of Jodi Arias continues, but this time they make a breakthrough. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
08.07.2020 S08E11 Jodi Arias Part 3 This is the second police interview with Jodi Arias, who murdered her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander on June 4, 2008. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
08.01.2020 S08E10 JODI ARIAS - Part 2 The enthralling police interview continues... Thirty year old Travis Alexander was murdered by his ex-girlfriend Jodi Arias on June 4, 2008,. After spending several hours together in Travis’ home having sex and taking photos Travis headed to the shower. Arias ...
07.24.2020 S08E09 Jodi Arias PLUS Killer Nurse & The Templeton Woods Murders On June 4, 2008, thirty year old Travis Alexander was murdered by his ex-girlfriend Jodi Arias. They had spent part of the day together, they had sex and took photos of each other. Once they were finished, Travis headed to ...
07.19.2020 S08E08 Richard Ramirez PLUS Joseph James DeAngelo (Golden State Killer), Dutch Torture Chamber, Aaron Glee Jr. & Peter Dupas This week on Monsters Who Murder we examine the various media interviews conducted with Richard Ramirez following his capture. Ramirez was known as the Night Stalker, but he is not to be confused with the recently caught killer, Joseph D’Angelo ...
07.11.2020 S08E07 Families of serial killers PLUS The Golden State Killer, “Cyanide” Mohan, Michael Bear Carson & Osama Bin Laden This week we’re doing something very different. The maxim says, blood is thicker than water, but does this still ring true when you find out that a family member is a killer? How does someone reconcile the thoughts that the ...
07.03.2020 S08E06 Dylann Roof, Michael Bear Carson, David Brookes AND Wesley Lee Starritt WARNING: This episode discusses race and hate crimes in the US. With the current climate in the US, if you feel this episode may be a trigger for you, we suggest you skip to the next episode. On June 17, ...
06.19.2020 S08E05 BRIAN DAVID MITCHELL plus The Long Island Killer, Miroslav Lehotský, Dimitris Aspiotis & Harold Shipman Brian David Mitchell is a religious fanatic who abducted fourteen year old Elizabeth Smart from her home in Salt Lake City and kept her a sexual slave for 9 months before she was rescued on March 12, 2003. Support this ...
05.29.2020 S08E04 Israel Keyes Pt 2 PLUS I-45 Texas killer AND Ronan Hughes Israel Keyes is an American serial killer, rapist, arsonist, burglar and bank robber. He was captured in 2012 over the murder of Samantha Koening. In part 1 we listened as police investigators started their interrogation of Keyes over several days ...
05.22.2020 S08E03 Israel Keys PLUS Clark Baldwin, Reginald “Tex” Arthurell & Jack the Ripper In a crime spree from 1996 until his capture in 2012, Israel Keyes murdered at least three people. He also raped and tortured many more. His confession is one of the most interesting and complete we have ever examined. Support ...
05.13.2020 S08E02 The 'Gay Slayer' (Colin Ireland) PLUS Alleged Claremont Serial Killer Bradley Edwards Colin Ireland was responsible for the murders of five men and was dubbed by the British press as the Gay Slayer, as he targeted homosexual men. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
05.10.2020 S08E01 Gerard Schaefer PLUS Nova Scotia mass shooting, Possible serial killer in San Bernadino & Serial Killer Mark Nash This week our psychological profile is of Gerard Schaefer, a self-confessed serial killer who claims to have murdered up to thirty women, though he was only sent to prison for the 1972 murders of two teenagers - Susan Place, aged ...
04.15.2020 S07E10 Harold Shipman PLUS Bruce MacArthur, Matthew Spencer AND Peter Dupas Doctor Harold “Fred” Shipman is suspected of being one of the most prolific serial killers of the modern age, with numbers in the hundreds. As an angel of death, the patients who put his trust in him also met their ...
04.08.2020 S07E09 John Norman Collins (Michigan Murders) PLUS Lonnie D Franklin (Grim Sleeper) AND Jon Venables This week, our psychological profile is on the confessions of John Norman Collins, the killer responsible for the “Michigan Murders”. Collins had murdered several young women and girls between 1967 and 1969. The victims were all kidnapped, beaten, raped and ...
04.01.2020 S07E08 Beverley Allitt PLUS Christchurch shooter & Rose West All of the victims of Beverley Allitt had been in her care in the pediatric ward of the Grantham and Kesteven General Hospital. She was acquitted of charges relating to a further 2 children but was sentenced to 13 concurrent ...
03.25.2020 S07E07 The Unabomber - Ted Kaczynski This week we profile a serial killer with one of the highest IQs. Ted Kaczynski is the killer known more commonly as the Unabomber. He murdered three people and injured another 23 by conducting a nationwide bombing campaign, sent via ...
03.18.2020 S07E06 DC Sniper PLUS Lucky Ward and photos that could expose a serial killer This week we’re looking at a case that caused wide spread panic throughout Washington DC throughout October 2002. People were being shot dead at random in what become known as The DC Sniper or Beltway Sniper case. In our news ...
03.11.2020 S07E05 The Grindr Killer (Stephen Port) PLUS The Toolbox Killer (Roy Norris), Lucky Ward, Valley Freeway Shootings & Ivan Millat This week, we head to the UK for the case known as the Grindr killer. Stephen Port was given a whole life order sentence, what some countries call “never to be released” for the murders of at least four men ...
03.04.2020 S07E04 Todd Kohlhepp Pt 2 PLUS Metro Detroit Serial Killer & Billy Chemirmir This week we return to our psychological profile of Todd Kohlhepp, who was convicted of murdering seven people in South Carolina between 2003 and 2016. In our last episode we examined the police interview with Kohlhepp where the focus was ...
02.26.2020 S07E03 Todd Kohlhepp PLUS Twelve Tribes Cult, Serial killer 'Cyanide' Mohan & real-life Hannibal Lecter' cage Todd Kohlhepp was convicted of murdering seven people in South Carolina between 2003 and 2016. This is a case which broke after the MWM podcast started and one we've followed very closely when it was a missing persons case. Kala ...
02.19.2020 S07E02 'The Frankston Killer (Paul Denyer) PLUS California killer, William Tyrrell evidence AND Claremont Serial Killer Over a seven week period in mid 1993 twenty-one year old Paul Denyer stalked the women of Frankston, a suburb of Melbourne in Australia. Denyer attacked and murdered three young women; Elizabeth Stevens, Deborah Fream and Natalie Russell over a ...
02.11.2020 S07E01 The Toy Box Killer (David Parker Ray) + Long Island serial killer, Zodiac Killer, Claremont serial killer & The Bloody Bender's Our first psychological profile this season is on David Parker Ray, also known as the Toy Box Killer. Although no bodies were ever found Ray was accused by his accomplices of killing several people but police believe the number could ...
01.28.2020 Allan Legere Allan Legere escaped from a bathroom at a Canadian Hospital after being convicted of a crime he says he did not commit. The killer had been transported to the hospital for an ear infection from prison where he was serving ...
01.14.2020 William MacDonald - “The Sydney Mutilator" On May 12, 2015, 90 year old William MacDonald died in the secure wing of Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney, Australia. At the time of his death he was the longest serving prisoner in a New South Wales Prison, ...
12.31.2019 Thor Nis Christiansen Thor Nis Christiansen was an American serial killer who murdered at least four people between 1976 and 1979 in California. His method was to shoot his victims dead so he could then have sex with their dead bodies. At the ...
12.18.2019 Arnold Sodeman - The School-Girl Strangler *Thank you for helping us reach 2 million downloads! Arnold Sodeman was executed in Victoria’s Pentridge Prison in 1936 for the murders of at least four school girls between 1930 and 1935. He confessed to the four murders to police ...
11.12.2019 S06E10 Elizabeth Wettlaufer PLUS Ivan Milat Dead, Pedro Alonzo Lopez, Calremont Serial Killer & Accused Black Widow Jolly Joseph This week, we conclude our profile of Canadian serial killing nurse Elizabeth Wettlauffer. Wettlaufer, a former registered nurse, confessed to murdering eight senior citizens and attempting to murder six others in Southwestern Ontario between 2007 and 2016 In our news ...
11.06.2019 S06E09 Elizabeth Wettlaufer PLUS Samuel Little, Edwin Hiatt (the man accued of murdering Barry Crane) & Ivan Milat This week we continue our psychological profile of the Canadian serial killing nurse, Elizabeth Wettlaufer. Wettlaufer confessed to murdering eight senior citizens and attempting to murder six others in Southwestern Ontario between 2007 and 2016. She is one of the ...
10.19.2019 S06E08 Elizabeth Wettlaufer PLUS The Monsters of Ecatepec & Daniel King This week on Monsters Who Murder: Serial Killer Confessions we are examining the Canadian serial killing nurse, Elizabeth Wettlaufer. Wettlaufer confessed to murdering eight senior citizens and attempting to murder six others in Southwestern Ontario between 2007 and 2016. She ...
10.06.2019 S06E07 Terry Rasmussen (The Chameleon Killer) PLUS Making a Murderer, Robert Hayes & Samuel Little Terrence Rasmussen was an American serial killer who used many aliases in a crime spree that spanned decades. He died in prison in 2010 after being convicted in the 2002 murder of his common-law wife but has since become the ...
09.28.2019 S06E06 The Sunset Strip Killers (Douglas Clark and Carol Bundy) Douglas Clark and Carol Bundy were lovers who were accused, and subsequently, convicted of a series of murders in Los Angeles. This case is not as straight forward as many others have been. The pair came to police attention when ...
09.19.2019 S06E05 Executions & Last meals PLUS Gary Tipping, Deangelo Martin, Todd Kohlhepp & Eurydice Dixon's Killer This week on Monsters Who Murder: Serial Killer Confessions we’re going to do something a little different and examine the death penalty, executions, last meals and those last minute confessions that sometimes occur. In our news section; - Serious concerns ...
08.31.2019 S06E04 Col. David Russell Williams Pt 2 PLUS Hollywood ripper, Claremont serial killer & Fast tracking executions This week we continue our psychological profile on former Canadian Forces Colonel David Russell Williams. Ultimately Williams would be charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of forcible confinement, two counts of breaking and entering, and sexual assault. ...

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