Brutal Ends

Brutal Ends

Brutal Ends is a podcast that focuses on the most captivating and terrifying murderers in history. From Victorian rippers to modern day serial killers, we explore them all.

Episodes

EP 20 Metal Fange, The Kazakhstani Cannibal

June 26, 2017 • 10 mins
Nikolai Dzhumagaliev was known by the media as Metal Fang. He raped and killed at least seven women, and was suspected of up to fifty more.
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EP 19 The Italian Soap Maker

June 8, 2017 • 12 mins
Leonarda Cianciulli was a fiercely protective and superstitious mother who would stop at nothing to keep her children safe....including human sacrifice.
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The Austrian Black Widow

May 24, 2017 • 8 mins
Elfriede Blauensteiner was a middle aged woman in Austria who took deadly care of her elderly gentlemen companions, then forged their wills for inheritance money.
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EP 17 The Not So Nicelys

May 11, 2017 • 8 mins
David and Joe Nicely masqueraded as constables executing a warrant when they shot elderly Herman Umberger in front of his family.
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EP 16 The Bloody Benders

April 13, 2017 • 11 mins
The Bender family ran an inn along the Great Osage Trail from 1870 to 1873. They were a spiritualist family of German immigrants, well known in the area. Little did their neighbors know that many of their lodgers would never leave the inn alive.
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EP 15 Hinter Kaifeck

March 28, 2017 • 10 mins
Hinterkaifeck was a small farming community with no official name. It was here, on a small family farm, that a gruesome crime scene was discovered. The entire Gruber family was slain after being lured, one by one, to their deaths.
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EP 14 The Candy Man

October 29, 2016 • 9 mins
After fatally poisoning his young son’s Halloween candy, Ronald Clark O’Bryan was responsible not only for the death of his 8-year old son, but for also ruining Halloween for children for years, as parents cautiously inspected each morsel after trick-or-treating. Ronald Clark O’Bryan killed his son and almost killed three others by handing out poisoned halloween candy in order to collect on life insurance policies he had taken out ...
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EP 13 Albert Fish - 9:14:16, 3.03 PM

September 14, 2016 • 16 mins
Albert Fish was a pedophile, sado-masochist, cannibalistic serial killer who preyed on children. When he was arrested, even his own family wasn't surprised.
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EP 12 Dr. William Palmer

August 4, 2016 • 15 mins
William Palmer was executed in front of 30,000 spectators for the poisoning death of his friend. He was known to have killed ten people, including five of his own children, for financial gain.
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EP 11 Axe Man Of New Orleans - 7:20:16, 11.18 AM

July 21, 2016 • 18 mins
Between the years of 1918 and 1919 New Orleans was terrorized by an axe wielding serial killer who attacked people in their beds.
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EP 10 The Vampire Of Sacramento - 7:5:16, 1.56 PM

July 6, 2016 • 14 mins
Richard Chase was a gruesome and delusional serial killer and cannibal. He mutilated his victims, drank their blood, and made smoothies out of their organs.
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EP9 The Beauty Queen Killer - 5:10:16, 1.05 PM

May 11, 2016 • 14 mins
Christopher Wilder was named the Beauty Queen Killer due to the victims he targeted. He lured beautiful young women in with the promise of modeling contracts before he tortured, raped and murdered them.
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EP8 The Bavarian Poisoner - 4:26:16, 11.32 AM

April 29, 2016 • 10 mins
Martha Marek was an orphan from Vienna. But she rose from anonymity to infamy when she poisoned lodgers and her family for insurance payouts.
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EP7 The Gorilla Killer - 3:17:16, 11.23 AM

March 17, 2016 • 12 mins
Earle Nelson was America's first documented serial rapist and killer of the twentieth century. He killed and raped the corpses of at least 22 women.
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