The Serial Killer Podcast

By Thomas Rosseland Wiborg-Thune

Society & Culture

What's The Serial Killer Podcast about?

TSK is the podcast dedicated to exploring the serial killer phenomenon. Who the killers were, what they did and how. The show makes a significant effort into exploring the serial killers' background, especially their childhood and youth. It goes into detail in the killers' development, and describes the murders in graphic detail to give the listener a truthful understanding of who these killers really were and the extent of their criminal behavior. The show is produced and hosted by Thomas Wiborg-Thune. He is a 37 year old Norwegian living in the Norwegian capital city of Oslo. The show airs every week and currently has in excess of 17 million downloads. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-serial-killer-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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William MacDonald | William...

01.23.2023

A homicidal maniac was prowling the streets. The killer would attack unsuspecting victims in dark alleys and other places out of view of streetlamps and violently stab them to death. Then he would mutilate the corpse in abhorrent ways. Like ...

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01.23.2023 William MacDonald \| William The Mutilator MacDonald - Part 1 A homicidal maniac was prowling the streets. The killer would attack unsuspecting victims in dark alleys and other places out of view of streetlamps and violently stab them to death. Then he would mutilate the corpse in abhorrent ways. Like ...
01.09.2023 Robert Pickton \| The Pigfarm Killer - Part 4 Dear listeners, there are quite a bit of minutia regarding the interrogation of Robert Pickton after his arrest. To be honest with you, it is a bit tedious. Suffice to say that the detectives, mainly detective Don Adam, used all ...
12.26.2022 Robert Pickton \| The Pigfarm Killer - Part 3 The smell was ripe with decomposing food, dirt and mold. They got to the back of the trailer where there wasn’t even a proper bed. Only some sleeping bags and plastic tarp on the floor. Robert Pickton gave Sandra four ...
12.12.2022 Robert Pickton \| The Pigfarm Killer - Part 2 The women who vanished from the Downtown Eastside in 1995 were not the community’s only victims that year; they were just the ones whose fate was not known. People were finally talking about a serial killer hunting for victims in ...
11.28.2022 Robert Pickton \| The Pigfarm Killer - Part 1 This is a serial killer case so twisted it could easily have been ripped straight from the classic horror film Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Our subject is somewhat infamous in the West, especially in Canada, but for some reason has not ...
11.21.2022 Amazon Music Presents: Killer Psyche Daily When a shocking crime occurs, former FBI Profiler Candice DeLong will have a lot to say about it. On KILLER PSYCHE DAILY, Candice digs into the motivations and behaviors of the criminal masterminds and killers who are dominating the headlines. ...
11.14.2022 Ion Rimaru \| The Butcher of Bucharest - Part 2 He dragged her, still screaming, around the back where there were a set of stairs leading down to the basement. He pushed her up against the basement door and beat her a couple more time to make her stop screaming, ...
10.31.2022 Ion Rimaru \| The Butcher of Bucharest - Part 1 Tonight we travel east to the ancient country of Romania. I have actually covered a killer from Romania before, namely the Blood Countess herself, Erzebet Bathory. Back then, it wasn’t strictly Romania, but the massive empire of Austria-Hungary. In this ...
10.17.2022 Cary Stayner - The Yosemite Slayer Imagine if you will, dear listener, Yosemite National Park in California, USA. It is a place of unparalleled beauty. Clear streams running through wide forested valleys ringed by tumbling waterfalls. Above the valley towers awe-inspiring mountaintops that are famous the ...
10.03.2022 Westley Allan Dodd \| The Vancouver Child Killer - Part 3 The last episode in this saga concluded with the horrific murder of Lee Iseli. A crime so brutal and heinous that it deeply affected your humble host. I am probably going to wait a while before covering pedophilic serial killers ...
09.22.2022 Westley Allan Dodd \| The Vancouver Child Killer - Part 2 In this episode we come to the penultimate episode in our tale of The Vancouver Child Killer. Dodd’s actions are so depraved and heinous that I had severe trouble getting through this episode. The material is not speculative, but it ...
09.19.2022 Introducing: Wolves Among Us, Season 1, The Larry Lavin Story On the surface, there was nothing remarkable about Larry Lavin. He lived in a quiet neighborhood with his wife and family, drove a Volvo, and practiced dentistry in Philadelphia. But, from 1978 to 1984, Dr. Lavin ran one of the ...
09.12.2022 Westley Allan Dodd \| The Vancouver Child Killer - Part 1 In this episode, the subject matter is gruesome to the extreme. One of the most depraved and vile serial killers to ever have walked the earth. He did not kill very many people, only 3 confirmed kills to his name. ...
08.22.2022 Edmund Kemper \| The Coed Killer - Part 4 The day after Kemper purchased the revolver, police officers knocked on his door to confiscate it. Kemper was compliant and surrendered the weapon without incident. The officers joked with the man and assured him that this procedure was purely protocol, ...
08.08.2022 Interview with Jillian Lauren – A Samuel Little Special I have the honour of having, as a featured guest, the esteemed Jillian Lauren; one of the women responsible for bringing Samuel Little to justice. Yes, the Samuel Little. None other than the premier serial killer in all of North ...
07.25.2022 Edmund Kemper \| The Coed Killer - Part 3 Imagine, if you will, dear listener, a huge man sitting alone in his apartment. He’s not so much fat as he simply is big. Yes, he has a significant paunch, but his arms and legs are muscular and he is ...
07.12.2022 Edmund Kemper \| The Coed Killer - Part 2 We continue on our sojourn into the twisted nightmare that is the life of the co-ed killer; Edmund Kemper. It is strange writing about these serial killer superstars. Many of them seem to flourish at the tail end of the ...
06.27.2022 Edmund Kemper \| The Coed Killer - Part 1 In this episode we find ourselves in familiar territory, if you are a classic serial killer aficionado. The United States of America. A killer with a brilliant mind. Young beautiful victims. Necrophilia. A serial killer superstar. Yes, dear listener, it ...
06.13.2022 South African Serial Killers \| Interview with Romano Dolbey - Part 2 Over the years, this show has included some fascinating and rare interviews you will be hard pressed to find elsewhere. Tonight is no exception. Not only do I speak to a man who is a true aficionado of serial killer ...
05.23.2022 South African Serial Killers \| Interview with Romano Dolbey - Part 1 Over the years, this show has included some fascinating and rare interviews you will be hard pressed to find elsewhere. Tonight is no exception. Not only do I speak to a man who is a true aficionado of serial killer ...
05.09.2022 Axlar-Björn \| The Icelandic Axe Murderer Imagine if you will, dear listener, a land of ice and fire. An island, surrounded on all sides by thousands of kilometres of open ocean. 1472 km to the east lies most of its inhabitant’s original homeland, Norway. To the ...
04.25.2022 Gary Ridgway \| The Green River Killer - Part 9 In the early spring of 2003, the police finally got another break on the evidence. Tests of materials taken from two other victims—Debbie Estes, “Muffin” to her family, and Wendy Coffield, the first victim found in the Green River in ...
04.11.2022 Gary Ridgway \| The Green River Killer - Part 8 Imagine if you will, dear listener, Theodore Robert Bundy sitting across from Robert Keppel in an interview room at Florida State Prison. The room is grey, the furniture non-descript. Keppel has just laid a photo on the table in front ...
03.28.2022 Gary Ridgway \| The Green River Killer - Part 7 The story of Gary Leon Ridgway is a challenging story. Not just because so many books, films, and documentaries have already been made about him, but because there simply are so many victims and to struggle with how proper respect ...
03.14.2022 Gary Ridgway \| The Green River Killer - Part 6 Imagine if you will, dear listener, several nights earlier, the 17th of July, 1982. The by now well-known maroon pick-up truck slowed to a stop and the driver leant out of his window at the young woman standing alone, under ...
02.28.2022 Gary Ridgway \| The Green River Killer - Part 5 Once on the road, the girl's tries to give the man directions to a place she knows. The man just shakes his head and says he wants to do it outside, it’s such a pretty night and he doesn’t want ...
02.14.2022 Gary Ridgway \| The Green River Killer - Part 4 We continue on our road into rage, moving ever downward along the Green River and its surroundings; murdered women surfacing in an avalanche of death. Become a Patron today: https://www.patreon.com/theserialkillerpodcast Website: https://www.theserialkillerpodcast.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theskpodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/serialkillerpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/serialkillerpod Support this ...
01.31.2022 Gary Ridgway \| The Green River Killer - Part 3 The six year old boy enters the woods. He is shy, he’s not used to big boys paying him any attention. The stranger smiles and asks if the boy wants to build a fort with him. They can defend against ...
01.17.2022 Gary Ridgway \| The Green River Killer - Part 2 Part 2 of America’s second most documented prolific serial killer, the Green River Killer. In this episode, we take a closer look at what led up to the Green River becoming a dumping ground for our depraved serial killer superstar. ...
01.03.2022 Gary Ridgway \| The Green River Killer - Part 1 Men wanted to be his friend and women wanted him. The scars on his neck were a visible reminder of his initiative and courage. He got them from climbing through the read window of a house in which a woman ...
12.20.2021 Francois Verove \| La Grêlé She was stripped naked below her waist, and there was clear evidence she had been raped. Semen stains were found on top of the girl's thigh. Her killer had stabbed her in the left side of the chest, however, the ...
12.06.2021 Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi \| Marrakesh Arch-Killer Join me as we travel south, both back in time and away from the cultures of the West. If you feel like imagining yourself on a magic carpet, with the night-time stars shining above and only the flickers of oil-lit ...
11.23.2021 Nannie Doss \| Giggling Granny \| The Black Widow When Nannie's father dies of natural causes, her mother Louise moved in with Nannie. It does not take long before Louise also got great stomach pains and died in a mysterious way. No one suspected that good, kind Nannie has ...
11.09.2021 Interview with Dr Garrett Ryan This show aims to cover the entirety of the phenomenon of serial murder and one aspect of this that I have not touched upon before is that of ancient serial killers. Joining me to discuss this fascinating topic tonight is ...
10.25.2021 Harvey Glatman \| The Glamour Girl Slayer \| The Lonely Hearts Killer If you are like me and peruse the world wide web for true crime regularly, photos of crime scenes are a staple of true crime. Especially fascinating is of course photos of victims taken by serial killers themselves. The latter ...
10.11.2021 Sergei Alexandrovich Golovkin - Part 3 On the night of the 21st to the 22nd of April, 1992, Golovkin saw a boy, stocky, about sixteen years old. According to Golovkin, at first, he did not want to kill him: there was no desire, apparently he did ...
09.28.2021 Sergei Alexandrovich Golovkin - Part 2 We continue on this Russian serial killer’s infernal downward spiral of depravity and evil. In less than a month after the discovery of the gutted boy, not far from the Odintsovo village of Zarechye, in the Meshcherskoye recreation area, detectives ...
09.13.2021 Sergei Alexandrovich Golovkin - Part 1 Fair warning: this exposé takes us into the absolute depths of depravity and evil. So if you are sensitive to graphic descriptions of sexual murder, this might not be your cup of tea. Our man of the hour is none ...
08.29.2021 Michael Gargiulo \| The Hollywood Ripper They described Michael Gargiulo as a "serial, psychosexual, thrill killer" who stalked and then viciously stabbed his unsuspecting victims Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-serial-killer-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
08.16.2021 Wayne Nance \| The Missoula Mauler - Part 5 Children being attacked is the most heinous crime of all. And the Missoula Mauler did shy away from such activities, as we witnessed in the latest episode of this exposé. Imagine if you will, dear listener, a swelteringly hot crawlspace. ...
08.03.2021 Wayne Nance \| The Missoula Mauler - Part 4 Become a Patron today: https://www.patreon.com/theserialkillerpodcast Web: https://www.theserialkillerpodcast.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theskpodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/serialkillerpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/serialkillerpod Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-serial-killer-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
07.19.2021 Wayne Nance \| The Missoula Mauler - Part 3 Become a Patron today at https://www.patreon.com/theserialkillerpodcast Web: https://www.theserialkillerpodcast.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theskpodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/serialkillerpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/serialkillerpod Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-serial-killer-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
07.05.2021 Wayne Nance \| The Missoula Mauler - Part 2 We travel as we did earlier back in time in this episode; which is part 2 in the Missoula Mauler series.The era is the Golden Age of Serial Murder, the 1970s and 80s. Last time, we ended up in Doug ...
06.21.2021 Wayne Nance \| The Missoula Mauler - Part 1 Wayne Nance murdered at least 6 innocent human beings and might very well have killed far more that we do not know about. The year is 1986, the date, the 3rd of September. We crouch down behind some bushes as ...
06.07.2021 Dr Marcel Petiot \| The Vampire of the Rue Le Sueur - Part 5 After Petiot managed to incapacitate his unsuspecting victims, he would shackle them to the wall in his triangular room. There, he could torture them at will, sometimes perhaps for fun, other times in order to get something he wanted from ...
05.24.2021 Dr Marcel Petiot \| The Vampire of the Rue Le Sueur - Part 4 After spending a great deal of time interviewing people who were at best peripherally connected to the case, the police thought they had given Dr Petiot enough of a head start and decided to seek him out at him home. ...
05.10.2021 Dr Marcel Petiot \| The Vampire of the Rue Le Sueur - Part 3 The second stove, on the left was cold, but the smaller one, to the right, was roaring with intense fire. A human hand, slender and by all appearances female, dangled from the open door; flames licking it like tattered fabric. ...
05.03.2021 Dr Marcel Petiot \| The Vampire of the Rue Le Sueur - Part 2 At 8:00 P.M. on the 11th of March, 1930 an incident erupted that was to trouble Villeneuve for many years. Armand Debauve, the director of the local dairy cooperative, returned home that evening to find his house on fire. He ...
04.12.2021 Dr Marcel Petiot \| The Vampire of the Rue Le Sueur - Part 1 A serial killer case that, had it occurred in peace-time during war, it would probably be just as famous as that of Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer. I am, of course, talking about none other than the real life Dr ...
03.29.2021 John Wayne Glover \| The Granny Killer - Part 2 There were no known witnesses, although Mrs Pahud’s body was found within minutes by a passing schoolgirl who at first thought that it was a bundle of clothing dumped in the laneway. As the police and ambulance sirens wailed their ...

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