Murder Phone

Bonin came back from war in 1968… but whatever returned wasn’t the same man.

William Bonin walked into California colder, emptier—like something had hollowed him out and left the shell behind. His family saw it in his eyes. Not pain. Not trauma. Something darker. Something waiting.

Then the frenzy began.

Five boys. Abducted. Assaulted. Discarded.
 Not a spree. Not even chaos.
 This was a predator off the leash, sloppy, reckless, escalating. And for one brief, fragile moment, the system actually caught him. 

This should’ve been the end. A cell. A lock. Silence.

Instead?
 They studied him. Labeled him. Diagnosed him like a specimen on a slide.
 Manic depression. Sexual sadism. Antisocial.

A stack of clinical terms trying, and failing to explain a human void. At Atascadero State Hospital, they didn’t stop him. They paused him. Because monsters don’t heal… they wait.

By 1974, the same system that saw everything, every warning sign, every victim, stamped him safe and opened the door.

And Bonin stepped back into the world, ready to hunt.

Arrested again, he didn’t deny it. He smirked.

“Next time, there won’t be any living witnesses.”

Still no life sentence.
 Still no real consequences.

By 1977, he was out. Again.
 Eighteen months probation. That’s it.

He buys a van.
 He starts recruiting.
 And what comes next, Isn’t a spree.
 It’s not even madness. It’s method.

And that’s when the killing starts!

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Join host Tony Ciaglia and his father Al as they descend into William Bonin’s time in Vietnam.

December 1966.
 Bonin doesn’t enlist for honor—he enlists because someone thinks the military can fix him. It can’t. Because Bonin is already broken. Before the uniform—before Vietnam—he’s already fantasizing about rape. About murder.

Then comes the theft arrest.
 Charges disappear.
 Not because he’s innocent—but because the system has a better idea.

Ship him to war. Vietnam doesn’t create the monster.
 It gives him permission.

Strapped to the open belly of a helicopter…
 machine gun in hand…
 700 hours of combat…Bonin doesn’t just survive the chaos—He thrives in it. Power, Control.
 Life and death at his fingertips.

Because war doesn’t ask questions.
 It buries them. And Bonin learns the most dangerous lesson of all: You can do anything…
 and walk away clean. 

He wasn’t alone. Shawcross. Berkowitz. Gacy. Kraft.

Different names. Same pattern. Warning signs ignored.
 Darkness documented, then dismissed. Stamped, Filed, Forgotten. Until the war comes home.

Next time on Murder Phone—
 Bonin returns to civilian life.

No rules.
 No supervision.
 No one watching.

And the hunting… begins.

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Before the headlines. Before the handcuffs. Before the bodies…

There was a childhood shaped by violence, neglect, and unchecked warning signs that were impossible to ignore—yet ignored anyway. This season exposes not only the making of a killer, but the system that failed to stop him.

And again exclusively,  Murder Phone brings you something few ever hear:
 real conversations with Bonin’s accomplices.

Greg Miley and James Munro weren’t just witnesses.
 They rode in the van.
 They heard the screams.
 They were there.

Through firsthand accounts and chilling insight, we explore what they called “cruising sessions”—a deceptively casual term for something far more sinister: hunting, trapping, and destroying innocent lives.

In the shadowy annals of true crime, few names evoke the same level of horror as William Bonin. In this first episode join hosts Tony Ciaglia—The Serial Killer Whisperer—along with his brother Joey, and their father Al as they take you on a haunting, unfiltered deep dive into the life, crimes, and failures surrounding one of the most evil predators ever to walk among us.

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In this unforgettable episode of Murder Phone, Tony,The Serial Killer Whisperer, joins his brother Joey and their father Al on a journey into the heart of darkness: a face-to-face visit with Arthur John Shawcross in Fallsburg, New York.

What they didn’t know at the time was that this visit took place exactly two months before Shawcross would drop dead, making this one of his final, unfiltered conversations on Earth.

Inside that cold, echoing room, the trio dove straight into the grotesque depths of Shawcross’s mind. They talked about his crimes, life inside Sullivan Correctional, and even the notorious rumor that he once ate a vagina raw. Shawcross didn’t just confirm it, he demonstrated how he did it.

But the real shift—the moment when the room’s temperature seemed to drop, came when Tony asked about the two children Shawcross murdered 

Shawcross froze… then cracked.
 His voice changed. His eyes went dead. And suddenly, everyone in that room understood the difference between seeing evil and feeling it breathe in front of you.

As the visit wound down, Tony made a bold request: he asked Shawcross to write out detailed descriptions of every murder, in the killer’s own words. Arthur said, a lot of people asked before, and I turned them all down, but I’ll try and do it for you.”

Before his death, Shawcross typed every account and mailed them to Tony. The final letter, his last communication with anyone, arrived on October 29th, 2008, containing the last murder description.

That’s when Tony realized something chilling:
 Arthur John Shawcross, one of America’s most sadistic serial killers… actually considered him a friend.

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October 1989: Rochester, New York. A body is found — Patricia Ives — and just like that, the mask of safety slips off the city’s face.

Police quickly realize they aren’t dealing with a one-off killing. This is a pattern… the calling card of a predator.

Victims, mostly sex workers.
 Strangled. Dumped near the river. Posed like trophies.
 And the man behind it? Arthur John Shawcross — a bloated, wandering nightmare who didn’t just kill… he escalated with every victim.

Tony’s correspondence with Shawcross goes into gruesome detail about the hunting, torture and murder of these poor innocent women. 

In just three months, from September to December 1989, Shawcross slaughtered eight more women, bringing his tally to eleven in less than two years. And when he wasn’t murdering, he was grabbing a bite at his favorite restaurants, like a guy who thought brutality earned him a lunch break.

This Murder Phone episode brings you onto the very streets where it all happened. You’ll hear about Tony’s 2010 trip to Rochester — the restaurants Shawcross haunted, the exact corner where he picked up June Cicero, and the bridge where he dumped her body after 24 hours of torture, and the sick moment he returned on January 3rd, 1990, when the police helicopter finally spotted him by the body. 

The hunt was over.  Shawcross’s little field trips to hell had come to an end.

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What happens when hell doesn’t wait for you to die… but moves in next door?

They called him The Genesee River Killer.
 We call him Arthur Shawcross.
By late 1987, Rochester had no idea the devil was walking among them. Arthur Shawcross, an aging drifter with a fishing pole and a hollow smile was hiding a darkness that never died.

In this episode, Tony and Al Ciaglia uncover some lost videos from 2010 from the Murder Phone archives, recorded at Shawcross’s old apartment and favorite Dunkin’ Donuts haunt. They revisit the crime scenes, you’ll see Tony standing  on Seth Green Island.This is where Arthur Shawcross dumped what was left of Dorothy Keeler. He even claimed to have stuck her skull in a tree. And as far as anyone knows… it was never found.

Tony and Al read chilling letters written by Shawcross himself, and expose the system that let this monster walk free.

You’ll hear the twisted stories of Dorothy Blackburn, Anna Steffens, Dorothy Keeler, and Patty Ives, four women who paid the price for the justice system’s failure.

Dark, raw, and unforgettable—this is the story of when hell came to Rochester… and nobody noticed.

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When Arthur Shawcross came home from Vietnam, the violence he unleashed overseas didn’t stay buried. In this chilling episode, you’ll hear about the day the nightmare began — April 7th, 1972 — when 10-year-old Jack Blake vanished after a “fishing trip” with the man he trusted. 

What Shawcross later confessed will shake you to your core — acts so depraved, so inhuman, they leave scars on the soul just to repeat them aloud.

Months later, another child — 8-year-old Karen Ann Hill — was found raped, strangled, and dumped under a bridge like trash. The town demanded justice. The system offered a plea deal.

Twenty-five years for manslaughter. Fifteen years served.
 And the killer of two children walked free.

What follows is the real American horror story: psychiatric reports piling up like tombstones — each one warning that Arthur Shawcross was a ticking psychosexual time bomb. Every warning ignored. Every red flag buried.

Because the day New York State opened that prison door… the countdown to Rochester began — and the Genesee River Killer was born.

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Arthur Shawcross was not born a monster—he was made.

 Forged in a house of sin, scarred by incest, violence, and a twisted childhood, then sharpened to a lethal edge in the jungles of Vietnam. But the most terrifying part of his story isn’t just what he became—it’s how the system had him in its grip… and let him go. Again and again.

In this series, Tony Ciaglia, The Serial Killer Whisperer, takes you inside Shawcross’s own private writings—letters and journals he wrote exclusively for Tony—where he confesses to incest, atrocities in Vietnam, and the origins of his hunger to kill. You’ll hear how the state moved him like a venomous animal from town to town, hiding his past, until finally dropping him in Rochester, New York… a decision that left at least thirteen women dead.

For the first time ever, Tony opens the vault on rare video footage—long thought lost—retracing Shawcross’s killing grounds in chilling detail. Step into the shadows where The Genesee River Killer hunted.

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In this chilling conclusion of Hell’s Timeline, we expose the brutal truth the official record refuses to tell. David Gore and Fred Waterfield—Florida’s “Killing Cousins”—didn’t begin their slaughter in 1981, as the system claims. Their reign of terror started years earlier, in the mid-1970s, with warning signs flashing in neon.

Survivors like Angela Hommell bravely named their attackers, but law enforcement dismissed her as a liar. Other victims fought to escape, reported the assaults, and still—nothing. Instead of stopping them, the system gave one of these predators a badge.

From 1973 to 1983, a full decade of ignored red flags and missed opportunities left a trail of bodies across Florida. By the time Gore and Waterfield were finally caught, the ground was already soaked with innocent blood.

This isn’t just a timeline. It’s proof of how justice failed at every turn. They could have been stopped—but they weren’t. And because of that, countless young women never came home.

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Beneath the sunlit rows of Florida’s orange groves, the ground still keeps its secrets. Some were dug up long ago. Others are ghosts—still waiting to be found, still whispering their stories.

In this episode, we’re pulling one of those lost voices into the light: the story of Rose Two Trees. A daughter who vanished. A mother who refused to give up searching. And a confession that came not from rumor or suspicion—but from the killer’s own hand.

But before we bring Rose’s tragic tale out of the shadows, we turn the spotlight on Fred Waterfield—the so-called “good cousin.” The family man. The one his relatives still defend as innocent, clinging to a fairy tale while the truth screams in their faces. Angela Hommell—the survivor who lived to tell the story—saw through his mask. David Gore—Fred’s own partner in crime—shredded it completely. Together, their words burn away every excuse, every lie, every scrap of the illusion that Fred Waterfield was anything other than what he really was: a predator, a sadist, and the leader of one of the most dangerous duos in American crime.

This is a story of mothers and daughters. Of survival and silence. Of family loyalty twisted into denial. And of a confession so cold it leaves scars decades later.

The ghosts beneath the orange groves are still waiting to be counted. And tonight, one of them finally speaks.

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