Instead of caring for his patients, nurse and serial killer Charles Edmund Cullen chose to kill many of the people he cared for. He is a convicted serial murder angel, stalker and poisoner of the dead type and the most prolific serial killer in New Jersey history. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the summer of 1968, the city of Newcastle is tormented by a terrible event: two little boys, Martin Brown and Brian Howe, are found strangled to death in a vacant lot a few weeks apart. When the identity of the murderer, or rather the murderess, is finally revealed, a wave of shock sweeps through the nation. The killer's name is Mary Bell, she is just eleven years old and has the face of an angel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Puccio family is a seemingly normal family that is completely outside the norm...This is the story of the Puccio clan, whose members kidnapped wealthy Argentines for ransom and hid them in their home before killing them...This was in 1985 when Argentina was beginning to master its newly restored democracy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Masumi Hayashi is an ordinary Japanese mother who killed four people and poisoned 63 with arsenic curry served at a local festival in 1998 in Wakayama, Japan. Yet, as they follow her story, the investigators will be neither surprised nor frightened.Masumi Hayashi is an ordinary Japanese mother who killed four people and poisoned 63 with arsenic curry served at a local festival in 1998 in Wakayama, Japan. Yet, as they follow her story, the investigators will be neither surprised nor frightened. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Chundawat family is a multi-generational Indian family of eleven who live together in a two-storey house in Delhi. But on July 1, 2018, the family was killed when they were all found dead, hanging next to each other from the ceiling of their living room. When the police discover strange notes in a drawer, it marks the beginning of one of the most complex, strange and frightening investigations India has ever seen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1971, Maria Cámara Gómez saw a black spot on her kitchen floor. It looked like a face. Despite all her efforts, not only does the stain not go away, but shadows suddenly appear on the floor and others on the walls. From that day on, there is no respite for the Pereira family. This is the beginning of the disturbing case of "La Casa de las caras", the house of faces, which will upset the peace of this simple village in deepest Spain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Between 1976 and 1977, terror grips New York City when a series of unexplained murders takes place in Queens and the Bronx. Their target: couples and isolated young women. The murderer who takes pleasure in sending anonymous letters to claim responsibility for his crimes. A single signature, as ambiguous as it is meaningless, marks this bloody epic, that of the Son of Sam, alias David Berkowitz. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 25 January 1959, a group of ten students from the Ural Polytechnic Institute set off on an expedition to northern Siberia. On the night of 1 February, while the group was camping on a mountainside, things suddenly went wrong. The bodies were found a month later in a disastrous state. What really happened on that fateful night? This is the most enigmatic Russian crime case of the last sixty years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Drawn unwillingly into an unhealthy lesbian love triangle, the young Shanda Sharer is unaware of the sordid, Machiavellian plan that is being hatched behind her back, a plan that will be carried out with rare cruelty. In a climate of murderous jealousy and rivalry between teenage girls, the outcome will be fatal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shasta Groene McClain was kidnapped by paedophile serial killer Joseph Duncan III who murdered mother, stepfather and brother and abducted Shasta at the age of 8, and her brother Dylan, 9 in 2005...Shasta has become a famous victim, defined by tragedy and riddled with guilt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dennis Nilsen is a Scottish serial killer who encouraged his victims to follow him willingly. He murdered at least twelve young men and boys between...At home, he would get them drunk until they passed out and then strangle them, usually with a necktie. Once the victim was killed, he would bathe their body, shave off all the chest hair and usually dress them in socks and underwear. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Between 1979 and 1983, the city experienced one of its darkest episodes: several disturbing disappearances of children were reported, most of them little boys under the age of ten. Despite the search by the police, the predator or predators remain elusive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Catherine Cesnik was a Catholic nun. On 3 January 1970, her body was found in a rubbish dump following a blow to the skull. Prior to her murder, Cesnik had been trying to help students at her school who had allegedly been abused by the priest. Did her death have anything to do with the sexual abuse?  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1984, Fritzl Josef, a sick monster, lured his 18-year-old daughter, Elisabeth, into his cellar where he drugged and raped her repeatedly for 24 years. From these incestuous unions seven children were born who only saw the sunlight for the first time in 2008. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

First, Audrey Marie Hilley murdered her husband Frank Hilley and almost got away with it until she tried to kill her daughter. Then she jumped bail and avoided capture for years, but was finally arrested when she faked her own death. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming from a poor background and suffering from blindness, Baba Vanga began to have visions at a very early age, which were considered disturbing by those around her. But the predictions of the "Nostradamus of the Balkans" will become more and more disturbing. Who was Baba Vanga really? A mystic? A superstitious peasant woman manipulated by the Politburo or simply a woman born with a unique gift for clairvoyance? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Midsi Sanchez was on her way to her 8th birthday party when she was kidnapped by Curtis Dean Anderson, who killed 13 other girls, in August 2000. Anderson asked little Midsi for help reaching into his car, so he grabbed her and held her captive for two days, sexually assaulting her... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is not a single crime, but 28 murders: Twenty-eight people, men, women and children shot in a series of hold-ups and robberies in Belgium. These people were killed by a gang that was never identified: the Brabant Mad Killers. Who were these killers? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Blair Witch Project is about three film students who set out to investigate the legend of a witch who has haunted the Black Hills forest for centuries. Everything leads us to believe that the film is a decoy and that the events took place exactly as they did on the big screen! But beyond the urban legend, what is really going on? Where does the fiction end and the real story begin, the one rarely told? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Franklin Delano Floyd is an American murderer, rapist and death row inmate. He was convicted of murder and child abduction. Incidentally, his wife was kidnapped by Floyd at a young age... It's a chilling crime story. So if you have an uncomfortable fascination with criminal minds, this story is for you! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

His name was John Joubert and he was a master of deception. Joubert rose to the highest rank in the BSA, before becoming assistant chief scout. No one knew how dangerous he was until the bodies of three young boys were discovered. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 25 January 1998, American couple Tom and Eileen Lonergan mysteriously disappeared while on a scuba diving trip off the coast of Australia. A month later, two wetsuits and a disturbing message appeared off a Queensland beach: Forgotten at sea? Eaten by sharks? What really happened to the Lonergans? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On July 18, 1984, Denise Morelle, a famous Quebec actress, was found raped and brutally murdered in a flat. For her family, her stage friends and her fans, the death of "Dame Plume" caused deep consternation. For who could have been so angry at this simple, respectful woman as to subject her to such abuse and kill her with such barbarity? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 28 May 1934, on a small farm in Canada, Elzire Dionne beat the odds to give birth to five identical girls. They are the first recorded quintuplets in the world to survive infancy. The girls became wards of the state, housed in a nursery that eventually turned into Quintland, a tourist attraction for visitors from around the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 6 April 2017 in Durrenbach, a small town near Strasbourg, a horrifying tragedy shook the surrounding tranquillity. Beatrice Bowe, a 60-year-old pensioner, was found in her house, stabbed with thirty-six stabs and her face torn off. Who could blame the woman that everyone so affectionately called "Granny Football"? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Murders, suicides, settling of scores, revenge, creaking doors, black water running from the taps, corpses hidden under the floor...but what is the curse that pursues the Cecil Hotel, a place that has everything to impress! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chloe Ayling is a young English model. At just twenty years old, she has several magazine covers to her credit. However, everything changed on 10 July 2017, when she was invited to take part in a photo shoot in a Milanese studio. Drugged, handcuffed, thrown into the trunk of a car, the nightmare begins for Chloe when she learns that auctions are underway for her sale on the dark web to a powerful human trafficking network: The Black Death Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Billy Milligan is a suspect like no other. He is under arrest for the kidnapping and repeated rape of three young girls he kidnapped. On closer inspection, the twenty-three year old accused may look like any other young man of his age. However, after thorough psychological examinations, it turns out that Billy Milligan is not the person they thought he was. For in reality, there is not just one Billy, but many! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Between 1983 and 1996, the department of Isère experienced one of its darkest periods when children between the ages of five and fifteen began to disappear mysteriously. Some were found murdered while others were never found. Who is behind the disappearance of the children? A serial killer, a dangerous sexual predator? Are they one, two or more individuals? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 9 February 1949, on a cold windy day, a corpse floating in a wicker trunk was discovered in the Puits d'Enfer chasm in Les Sables-d'Olonne. Only one element makes it possible to identify the victim, the initials "R.T." sewn into his suit. Two culprits are in the police's sights: Andree Farre, a housekeeper, and her lover Roland Plannet, a young idler. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It is Monday, March 20, 1995, and many commuters on the underground lines in the outskirts of Tokyo are waiting for their train to go to work. Suddenly, disaster strikes! An unbearable smell invades the carriages, the passengers feel increasingly ill and struggle to breathe. That day, five underground lines were hit by a deadly sarin gas attack. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michel Peiry, or "The Sadist of Romont", is a Swiss serial killer whose crimes were committed between 1981 and 1987. All that is known about him is that he handpicks his victims: teenage boys hitchhiking home at night, whom he picks up in his vehicle before gagging, raping and burning them alive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the early 1960s, mysterious child abductions and murders were making headlines. Between July 1963 and October 1965, five children and teenagers were horribly raped and mutilated and their remains buried on Saddleworth Moor. The long investigation led by the Manchester Police Department will gradually shed light on two immoral and demonic personalities: Myra Hindley is a charming blonde, and her partner, Ian Brady! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the American pilot Charles Lindbergh became famous for his famous 33-hour flight from New York to Paris in his Spirit of Saint Louis monoplane. But at the height of his professional career, Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrrow were faced with an unprecedented tragedy: on 1 March 1932, Chaz, their twenty-month-old baby, disappeared under mysterious circumstances, having been kidnapped. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 20 April 1999 in Littleton, Colorado, two teenagers, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, opened fire on their fellow students at Columbine High School. The two boys, armed with a veritable arsenal of weapons, fired for fifty minutes non-stop at students and teachers..., before the killing spree ended with the suicide of the two friends! The questions then arise: why did Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, two intelligent and cultured teenagers, commit the irreparable? What was the trigger for this duettistic killing spree? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Leonarda Cianciulli was born in 1893 and died in 1970. She is widely considered to be the Correggio's soapmaid. In case you don't know her, let me tell you that she killed three women in Reggio Emilia. These incidents occurred from 1939 to 1940, and the worst part is that she turned their corpses into cakes and soap. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Elizabeth wettlaufer is an ex-nurse...a serial killer in a white coat. No one would have suspected that this pleasant, plump lady in her fifties from Ontario would commit crimes of such cruelty and with such methodical coolness. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Between 1987 and 1990, a series of rapes by an elusive assailant shook the peace of mind of the residents of the Canadian city of Toronto. "The Scarborough Rapist, as he was dubbed in the media, always drugged and sedated them before sexually assaulting them. The rapist always worked in tandem with his wife and accomplice who acted as a flirt. This couple is Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka! No one could have discovered their secret, not even their families. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Annaliese Michel, a twenty-three year old German woman, spent long periods of time in various clinics in the late sixties. And Anneliese never knew what she was really suffering from! Convinced that their daughter is possessed, her parents call in two exorcising priests to get rid of the possible entity that seems to have haunted her. But things don't go as planned: her condition deteriorates rapidly, her physical and vocal metamorphosis is frightening and her seizures become uncontrollable. For those around her, it is the devil himself who has taken hold of her. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the early 1980s, Singapore experienced its darkest and most difficult times. It was in this context that the terrible crimes of the Toa Payoh district took place, in which two young children were kidnapped, tortured and then murdered in sordid and horrible conditions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Between October 1994 and March 1997, 74 people died: burnt in fires and placed in circles in cottages. Order of the Solar Temple remains, to this day, one of the biggest sectarian aberrations of the end of the 20th century. Who is really behind the glossy façade of the two emblematic gurus, Jo Di Mambro and Luc Jouret? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the early 1960s, Mexican society was shocked to learn of the heinous crimes committed by four women; the González Valenzuela sisters, María de Jesús, María del Carmen, María Luisa and Delfina. They died as serial killers, witches, torturers and pimps. Around these four women a horror legend worthy of the best black novels was born. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alexia Daval, a young woman of 29, mysteriously disappeared while going for a jog. Her husband Jonathann Daval, not seeing her return all day, reported her disappearance to the gendarmes. Two days later, Alexia's half-charred body was finally found by the gendarmes of the Saône. But strange as it may seem, suspicions begin to weigh on this fragile and grieving husband... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton was at the centre of one of Australia's most high-profile murder trials, in which she was convicted of the murder of her baby daughter, Azaria. But the mother claims that it was Crazy who killed the girl...The conviction was later overturned. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chris Watts murdered his pregnant wife Shannan and his two daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, and buried their bodies at an oil yard. At first Watts denied being involved in the deaths of his wife and daughters, but a few days later he confessed to strangling Shannan and suffocating his two daughters Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On January 6, 1979, Cyril Belshaw, a prominent Canadian anthropologist, is on holiday in Paris with his wife Betty Joe. When they are due to meet for lunch, Betty fails to show up. But three months later, the mysterious body of a woman is found under a bridge and many believe it is that of the missing woman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Between 15 September 1986 and 3 April 1991, no less than ten victims were counted in one province in South Korea, all female, aged between 13 and 70 and wearing at least one red garment. How to find the criminal at a time when neither telephone tracing nor DNA data exploitation exists yet? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With his nerdy glasses and his air of a young man, David Koresh was as charismatic as he was unpredictable and dangerous! However, in his early days, nothing suggested the diabolical spirit of the man who would lead his followers into a suicidal madness, sparing neither men, nor women, nor young children. The siege of Waco, which dramatically closed the history of the Davidians, remains one of the most infamous sectarian episodes in the United States. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1692, Abigail Williams and her cousin Betty Parris, two young girls belonging to the very rigorous Puritan community of Salem, begin to show worrying signs of demonic possession. Soon, other girls join them, claiming to have the same symptoms. For their community, all this has only one explanation: they have been bewitched, someone has cast a spell on them, but who and why? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.