Deathcast

Deathcast

Join bestselling author Ian Totten each week as he descends into the crypt to unearth another case of real life murder. Sometimes disturbing, at others famous, but all equally fascinating, each episode delves deep into the victims, the crimes, where they took place, and the individuals responsible. So grab something to drink, kick off your shoes, close your eyes and let’s go into the darkness together to discover the monsters that lie therein.

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July 14, 2025 61 mins

Following his first murder, Jeffery Dahmer finds himself drifting through life, eventually ending up in Wisconsin where his dark urges assert themselves once again.

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Episode 200!!!!

One of the most infamous serial killers of the last half century, Jeffery Dahmer’s name has become synonymous with death, necrophilia, dismemberment, and cannibalism. In this episode we take our first dive into the darkness of his mind for a case voted on by my Patreon subscribers.

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June 30, 2025 62 mins

Beginning in 1978, Ronald Jeremy Hyatt embarked on a film career few could rival in any industry. Dropping his last name, Jeremy would go onto become the “king of porn,” appearing in over 2000 films. Along the way, this unlikeliest of stars gained a level of mainstream recognition few others in the sex industry have ever achieved. But was the humor and pudgy body hiding a sexual predator of Savile like proportions? In 2020 the LA D...

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June 23, 2025 64 mins

After the arrested of John Norman Collin’s, police in two states work to prove that he is responsible for at least 7 murders
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After stumbling upon college student John Norman Collins, police begin the task of gathering evidence against him for arrest.

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After the disappearance of 18 year old EMU freshman Karen Sue Beineman on July 23, 1969 the task force does their best to keep the story out of the press while searching for a mysterious man on a motorcycle that was seen with her by multiple witnesses.


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After the discovery of the farm, officers plan to keep it under surveillance , until the media unintentionally spills the beans. With little else to go on, they continue to search for the elusive killer, unaware he is following their movements and taunting them with his actions.

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May 19, 2025 53 mins

Eight months after the murder of Joan Schell, the body of a 23 year old law student is discovered in a graveyard. Police are baffled, but their horror that month is only just beginning.

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May 12, 2025 51 mins

On July 1, 1968, 20 year old EMU college student Joan Schell left her apartment near the campus to catch a bus to Ann Arbor. Realizing she’d missed it, Joan climbs into a car with three men and drives off into the night.

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On July 9, 1967, 19 year old Eastern Michigan University student Mary Terese Fleszar left her apartment to get some air. When she didn’t arrive at her part time job at the university the following morning, Mary’s roommate contacted her family and a desperate search began.

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May 4, 2025 1 min
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This week we take our final look at Joseph Paul Franklin, from his incarnation, various trials, legacy of hatred and beyond.
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Our story comes full circle, with Franklin on the run, local and federal law enforcement agencies scrambling to capture him, and fears that his next target may be bidding to sit in the Oval Office for a second term.

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Joseph Paul Franklin ups the anti, targeting synagogues and interracial couples throughout the South and Mid America, leaving the police with few clues.

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From his brutal childhood in Mobile, Alabama, Joseph Paul Franklin searches for acceptance and purpose in his life, latching on to those whose ideology feed then rage he harbors inside.

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March 24, 2025 56 mins

After committing 6 murders in a single month, Franklin travels around the south before heading west where more tragedy awaits
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A special bonus episode, part one of the Patreon exclusive series covering the Columbine massacre. Get access to this and over 100 more exclusive and ad free episodes f just $1.99 a month.

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When authorities became aware of him in 1980, white supremacist Joseph Paul Franklin was into the fourth year of his one man campaign to start a race war. No one knew at the time that this “weird” man from Mobile, Alabama was harboring a dark secret.
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In March of 1980 Rodney Alcala’s trial for murder of 12 year old Robin Samoe began. It was the beginning of a long, strange legal odyssey.

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March 3, 2025 52 mins

As summer 1979 begins Rodney Alcala resumes his murderous ways, unaware that the mask he wears is about to be removed.

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