Pendulum Noir

Ted Bundy proposed in the middle of his own murder trial, and she said yes. Richard Ramirez married a woman on death row. Chris Watts got love letters months after killing his pregnant wife and their daughters. Wade Wilson received thousands of messages after his mugshot went viral.So why do some women fall in love with men who kill?In this episode, I go through six psychological reasons behind hybristophilia, from cognitive dissonance and the saviour complex to the halo effect and fame by proxy, plus what a 2025 UK study found about TikTok and young women's attraction to criminals.

In August 2018, Chris Watts murdered his pregnant wife Shanann and their two daughters, Bella and Celeste. Shanann was 15 weeks pregnant with their son, whom they had planned to name Niko. Watts confessed, but the "why" was never simple.I'm a criminology and psychology student, and in this video I share my personal analysis of the case. I cover the timeline and how it connects to what I've studied about family annihilators. This is my perspective as a student, not an expert opinion or a professional diagnosis.

This is the story of how an entire system can fail even when almost everyone in it does exactly what they're meant to. It closes with my own analysis, reasoned through my criminology and psychology studies and clearly marked as interpretation, not fact.

Joey Merlino (Skinny Joey) is one of the most talked-about names in the Philadelphia underworld, named by federal prosecutors as the leader of the city's crime family. He spent around 14 years behind bars and became the subject of a Netflix documentary. Today, he's a successful businessman, running the growing Skinny Joey's Cheesesteaks franchise.