botCrime
A true crime podcast from the makers of botTalks, where AI dives into the darkest corners of real-world crime. Each episode unearths chilling mysteries, infamous heists, and unsolved cases — meticulously reconstructed using deep research and AI narration. Crime never sleeps, and neither do the bots.
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His med school classmates called him "Double-O-Swango" because his patients had a habit of dying. What started as a dark joke became a terrifying reality. This is the story of Dr. Michael Swango, the charming physician who left a trail of poison and death from Ohio to Zimbabwe, exploiting every loophole in a system designed to protect him.
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In the quiet town of Hyde, England, Dr. Harold Shipman was a pillar of the community, a beloved family physician who made house calls. He was also Britain's most prolific serial killer. This is the story of a doctor's ultimate betrayal and the systemic failures that allowed him to murder his patients for over two decades.
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For sixteen years, Charles Cullen was a quiet, dependable nurse, a colleague, and a friend. But from the shadows of the night shift, he was also hunting. This is the story of America's most prolific serial killer nurse and the broken hospital system that allowed him to murder his patients with impunity.
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In 2014, two 12-year-old girls lured their best friend into the woods and stabbed her 19 times. Their motive was not jealousy or rage, but a desperate attempt to appease a fictional monster they had discovered online called the Slenderman.
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In 1958, a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old boyfriend went on a brutal killing spree across the American heartland, leaving ten people dead in their wake. But was Caril Ann Fugate a cold-blooded killer or a terrified hostage trapped by a monster?
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In 1950s New Zealand, two teenage girls built a rich, obsessive fantasy world to escape their lonely lives. But when their parents threatened to separate them, their shared delusion led them to commit a crime so shocking it would haunt the nation for decades.
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When 4-year-old Derrick Robie vanished on his way to a summer camp in his small, idyllic town, everyone feared the worst. But no one could have predicted the truth: that his killer was not a monster lurking in the woods, but a 13-year-old boy from their own neighborhood.
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In the summer of 1968, a community in England was terrorized by the deaths of two young boys and the chilling, taunting notes the killer left behind. The search for a monster led investigators to an unthinkable suspect: a manipulative and intelligent 11-year-old girl named Mary Bell.
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For 15 years, police across Europe hunted a ghost. Her DNA was found at over 40 crime scenes, from murders to robberies, earning her the name "The Phantom of Heilbronn." But after one of the largest investigations in modern history, the truth was revealed to be more bizarre and shocking than any fiction.
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It started with a slow-speed Bronco chase and became the most-watched courtroom drama in history. With football hero O.J. Simpson accused of a brutal double murder, the prosecution built a mountain of forensic evidence that seemed unbeatable. But a legal "Dream Team" had a different story to tell. This is the inside story of the trial that divided a nation.
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For over a decade, a shadowy predator terrorized California, committing more than 100 burglaries, 50 rapes, and 13 murders before vanishing without a trace. For 40 years, the case went cold. Then, investigators used a revolutionary new tool, genetic genealogy, to hunt the killer down, revealing a monster who was hiding in plain sight all along.
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For two decades, a serial killer haunted Washington state, claiming more victims than any other in American history and becoming the focus of the nation's longest manhunt. The police had a prime suspect, Gary Ridgway, but couldn't prove it. This is the story of how a microscopic paint particle and the evolution of DNA science finally brought the Green River Killer to justice.
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In a quiet English village, two teenage girls are murdered three years apart, leaving police with a terrifying mystery and an innocent suspect. The case seems hopeless until a scientist makes a world-changing discovery: a way to identify a person from a single drop of blood. This is the story of the first killer ever caught by DNA fingerprinting, and how a genetic dragnet changed justice forever.
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In the summer of 1969, the peace and love idealism of the sixties was shattered by a series of brutal murders in Los Angeles. The architect was Charles Manson, a charismatic manipulator who turned his followers into instruments of terror, all in the name of a bizarre prophecy he called "Helter Skelter." This is the story of how a cult's dark spiral ended the dream of a generation.
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In 1994, a series of mysterious fires in Switzerland and Canada revealed a shocking scene: dozens of bodies, dressed in ceremonial robes, arranged in ritualistic circles. They were members of the Order of the Solar Temple, an elite and wealthy cult that believed death was a "transit" to a new life on a distant star. But this was no simple suicide, it was a carefully orchestrated massacre.
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It began as a progressive, utopian dream of racial equality and social justice, led by the charismatic Reverend Jim Jones. It ended in the jungles of Guyana, with over 900 bodies lying side-by-side in the largest mass murder-suicide in modern history. This is the story of the Peoples Temple and the tragic fall of Jonestown.
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In the remote Canadian wilderness, Roch "Moses" Thériault promised his followers salvation. Instead, he built a kingdom of terror, turning a spiritual commune into a personal fiefdom of brutal violence and psychological torture. This is the harrowing story of the Ant Hill Kids, and the survivors who brought a monster to justice.
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In 1997, a bizarre 911 call led police to a California mansion where 39 people lay dead, not in chaos, but in perfect, ritualistic order. They believed a spaceship hiding behind the Hale-Bopp comet was their ticket to a higher plane of existence. This is the story of Heaven's Gate, a cult that blended sci-fi, early internet culture, and absolute faith into a final, fatal exit.
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In the vast, empty desert of New Mexico, a woman walking her dog uncovers a single human bone. That lone discovery triggers a hunt for a killer who buried his secrets for years, creating the largest crime scene in Albuquerque's history. Who is the West Mesa Bone Collector? And is he still out there?
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In the spring of 1992, a phantom haunted the interstate highways of the American Midwest. In just 29 days, a lone gunman executed six store clerks in three states and then vanished without a trace. He left behind eyewitnesses, ballistic evidence, and a mystery that continues to haunt law enforcement three decades later.
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