DEVIANT
From the award-winning creator of Down The Hill: The Delphi Murders, comes DEVIANT, a new true crime series that dives into the dark corners of what human beings are capable of. Host Dan Szematowicz tells good stories about bad people who do very bad things. Some people are wired for good. Some are wired for bad. And some are wired... to be Deviant. Follow the show wherever you listen and across socials @deviant.podcast (IG, TT, YT)
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February 11, 2026 • 20 mins
On February 14, 2017, searchers make a discovery in the woods near Delphi, Indiana that changes the town forever.
Abigail Williams and Liberty German are found.
What investigators encounter in those first moments triggers an immediate and massive response, including the Indiana State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
For years, almost nothing about this crime scene is made public. It becomes one of the most tightly...
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February 4, 2026 • 21 mins
On February 13, 2017, two girls went for a walk near Delphi, Indiana. They never came home.
Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, vanished from a popular hiking trail near the Monon High Bridge. The next day, they were found murdered. What followed was not a clean investigation or a tidy path to justice, but a six-year saga that would fracture a town, divide the public, and raise uncomfortable questions about policing, m...
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January 21, 2026 • 6 mins
In February 2017, Abigail Williams and Liberty German went for a walk near Delphi, Indiana and never came home.
What followed became one of the most haunting and divisive murder cases in modern American crime. An unusual crime scene. A video of the killer captured on a victim’s phone...the figure known as Bridge Guy. Years of speculation, accusations, and unanswered questions.
In 2022, a local man, Richard Allen, was arrested. In...
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December 31, 2025 • 24 mins
(PART 2/2)
The manhunt is on.
In Part 2 of this DEVIANT series, host Dan Szematowicz picks up the story as Christopher Dorner disappears into the mountains of Southern California, triggering one of the largest and most intense police searches in state history.
As authorities flood the Big Bear region, search hundreds of cabins, and warn residents to stay inside, Dorner resurfaces in a series of confrontations that prove he is st...
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December 18, 2025 • 23 mins
In February 2013, a double murder in an Irvine parking garage sets off a chain of events that quickly spreads far beyond the city. What begins as a quiet, baffling crime soon escalates into a statewide emergency.
In Part 1 of this two-part DEVIANT episode, host Dan Szematowicz tracks the story from the killings of Monica Quan and Keith Lawrence through the critical discoveries that identify Christopher Dorner as the suspect. As th...
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December 11, 2025 • 28 mins
This encore presentation revisits one of the most unsettling stories ever featured on DEVIANT. It is a firsthand account of the execution of Gainesville Ripper Danny Rolling, as witnessed by veteran South Florida journalist Michael Mayo.
Mayo covered two Florida executions in his 31-year career. What he saw, and what he did not expect to feel, stayed with him. In this conversation with DEVIANT host Dan Szematowicz, Mayo walks us t...
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December 3, 2025 • 23 mins
In December 1992, 25-year-old teacher Christy Mirack is attacked in her East Lampeter, PA apartment just minutes before she’s supposed to leave for work. Investigators find signs of a violent struggle and a full DNA profile from her killer, but there's no match. For more than twenty-five years, the case sits in limbo as state and national databases expand with no hits.
In this episode, host Dan Szematowicz follows the investigation...
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November 26, 2025 • 33 mins
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In April of 2018, Alek Minassian sits in a Toronto police station after using a van to kill eleven people. Now, investigators are trying to figure out who he is, and why he did this. Minassian is happy to talk about it all. What he spins is a tale years in the making, winding himself into the very fabric of what he calls the beta uprising...the incel revolution. Who are the incels? What do they want...
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November 25, 2025 • 32 mins
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In the spring of 2018, a beautiful Toronto day is broken by a man in a white rental van. He picks a busy part of town...a place where many people will be out and about. He pulls onto the sidewalk, and hits the accelerator. Ten minutes later, he's murdered 11 people. Police immediately arrest 25-year-old Alec Manassian. He claims to have a cause: the "incel revolution." In this multipart story from ...
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November 18, 2025 • 34 mins
On June 7th, 1992, Sherrill Levitt, her daughter Suzie Streeter, and Suzie’s friend Stacy McCall disappear from a quiet home in Springfield, MO without leaving a trace. Their cars, keys, purses, and personal belongings stay behind. The women don’t.
In this episode, DEVIANT host Dan Szematowicz walks through the final hours before they’re last seen… the empty house that made no sense… the contaminated crime scene… the massive grid ...
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November 11, 2025 • 30 mins
In small towns, fear doesn’t always hide in the shadows.
Sometimes it writes letters.
Sometimes it carries a shotgun.
In this episode of DEVIANT, host Dan Szematowicz takes you inside two real American nightmares.
In Circleville, Ohio, thousands of anonymous letters turn a quiet town inside out, exposing secrets, destroying lives and leaving behind a mystery that’s never solved.
In Skidmore, Missouri, a man named Ken Rex McElr...
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November 4, 2025 • 36 mins
(RE_AIR)) He brags about his crimes for years, but nobody takes him seriously until 1992 ,when he’s caught in the act. Now everyone is listening as police attempt to untangle the full mystery of Joseph Daniel Miller, and the private graveyard he creates outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. DEVIANT host Dan Szematowicz takes introduces you to the serial killer you probably don't know about.
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October 31, 2025 • 13 mins
There are major changes afoot here at DEVIANT, and the show is evolving in a big way. Dan Szematowicz and Andrew Iden update you on what's happening, and what you can expect from the show moving forward. Buckle up!
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October 28, 2025 • 30 mins
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It's Halloween, and DEVIANT is do something unusual. Hosts Dan Szematowicz and Andrew Iden tell three ghost stories, all of which are based in the real. Turn on your spookie light...it's story time!
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October 21, 2025 • 31 mins
(PART 5/5) In the final episode of the series, Andrew Iden continues his conversation with Tyler DiPeppe, a former member of Atomwaffen Division who now works to help others escape extremism.
Tyler talks about leaving the movement, the work of de-radicalization, and the effort to build a life after hate. He also reflects on family, forgiveness, and what it means to live with the residue of old ideas while trying to help others mov...
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October 14, 2025 • 32 mins
(Part 4/5) Tyler DiPeppe was once part of Atomwaffen Division, a violent neo-Nazi group born online.
Now he’s ready to explain how it happened.
In this conversation, host Andrew Iden speaks with Tyler about the abuse, isolation, and search for identity that left him vulnerable to radicalization. They discuss how online propaganda and community manipulation draw people in, how loneliness becomes a weapon, and what it takes to break...
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October 7, 2025 • 30 mins
(Part 3/4) Six years after he murdered his two roommates, Devon Arthurs stands before a judge in Tampa and says he’s ready to change.
But as psychiatrists describe hallucinations, self-choking episodes, and conflicting diagnoses—from schizophrenia to schizoaffective disorder—one question dominates the courtroom:
Is Arthurs genuinely ill… or performing for leniency?
Host Andrew Iden examines how the case twisted through years o...
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September 30, 2025 • 38 mins
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Two days after the Tampa double murder committed by Devon Arthurs, police in Key Largo, FL arrest Brandon Russell, a Florida National Guard member, nuclear physics student and the co-founder of the extremist Atomwaffen Division. Also, he's Devon Arthurs's only surviving roommate. What they discover in his car and apartment reveal the terrifying reach of a violent, accelerationist neo-Nazi network.
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September 23, 2025 • 34 mins
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On a Friday afternoon in Tampa, 18-year-old Devon Arthurs walks into an apartment leasing office and says “I just killed two people.” Those two: his roommates...young men caught in the grip of online radicalization.
What follows is a hostage standoff, a web of neo-Nazi ideology,and the unraveling of a case that exposes the violent underbelly of American extremism.
Hosted by Andrew Iden, this episode of DEVIANT examine...
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September 5, 2025 • 42 mins
Being punished for crimes you haven’t committed yet sounds like Minority Report. But in 15 states—including California—it’s the law. Under the Sexually Violent Predator Act (SVP), offenders who’ve already served their time can be held indefinitely if experts believe they’re likely to reoffend.
In this episode of DEVIANT: Off Script, host Dan Szematowicz sits down with Dr. Samantha Stein, forensic psychologist and author of Evil at...
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