Profiling Evil

I’m headed south on Highway 89 through central Utah, traveling toward Circleville and the childhood home of Robert LeRoy Parker, later known as Butch Cassidy. This episode isn’t a fairy tale and it’s certainly not a Robin Hood story. This is a clear-eyed look at how a normal kid (Butch Cassidy) from a hardworking Utah family slowly drifted into crime, builds a criminal identity, and eventually became the leader of the Wild...

Overnight developments in the Nancy Guthrie investigation led to a detention during a traffic stop south of Tucson and a court-authorized search in Rio Rico, Arizona. The 36-year-old delivery driver questioned by authorities was later released, but investigators continue pursuing multiple leads. YouTuber’s were going crazy onsite near Nancy Guthrie’s home and her daughters neighborhood as police once again, canvassed the a...

In this episode of Profiling Evil, Mike King sits down with veteran filmmaker Josh Zeman, the creator of The Killing Season and host of the latest Monster: Hunting the Long Island Serial Killer. We dig into fresh developments, emerging forensic evidence, and the evolving portrait of accused killer Rex Heuermann. From investigation missteps to deep-behavioral analysis, this conversation will take you beyond what we’ve cover...

Searching Nancy Guthrie's septic tank, revisiting the daughter’s house with all kinds of flashes inside, and packages carried in and out. Let’s get caught up on the weekend investigation of Nancy Guthrie, now entering the second week with #Dr #KennyKinsey who became famous during the #AlexMurdaugh #Murder #Trial. He’s one of the most respected crime scene experts working today. In this conversation, we take a careful,...

Dig into the disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie from Tucson, Arizona. Would this case be getting this much attention if her daughter #SavannahGuthrie wasn’t famous? Walk through the investigative timeline from the Uber ride to a family dinner, to the garage door closing upon her return. Then, let’s explore a cluster of events from a doorbell camera disconnect, the “person detected” alert with no saved footage, and ...

I’m driving just east of Wendover, Nevada near the Bonneville Salt Flats. Two days on the road through wide-open country that has swallowed lives and truths. I’m starting near where Dylan Rounds was murdered and now making my way into West Wendover, where 16-year-old Micaela “Mickey” Costanzo disappeared after track practice. She was later found in a shallow grave out on the outskirts of town. It’s a place where people thi...

Today I spent time watching the Paul Caneiro murder trial on Court TV, and after sitting with the testimony and the way this case is being presented, I want to share a few thoughts with you. This isn’t about declaring guilt or innocence as much as how we can understand how jurors actually think and why some cases, even very strong ones, struggle to reach a unanimous verdict. What type of juror is most likely to hang ...

Today we are sharing the first episode of the new series Gardens of Evil: Inside the Zion Society Cult, which is being released as Season 5 of the award-winning true crime podcast American Nightmares. 

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Episode 1 - A pristine neighborhood in Ogde...

If you assume everything both sides said in closing is true, the prosecution is in the stronger position, and Brendan Banfield is more likely than not to be found guilty. The reason isn’t emotional; I’m basing it on the state’s single explanation that accounts for all of the evidence. The defense spent way too much time in my opinion pointing out why individual pieces might be questioned, and while that may slow the jury d...

Newly unsealed search warrants are revealing disturbing new details in the Saratoga Springs homicide investigation involving Jessica Lyman and her 8-year-old son Eli Painter. Let’s walk through what police documents actually show about the investigation conducted by the Saratoga Springs Police Department, including forensic evidence, surveillance video, digital records, handwritten notes, and signs of sexual assault. This ...

In this Feedback Friday field trip, I take you directly into the heart of Short Creek, known today as Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona. It once was the historic stronghold of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the FLDS. This is the community built around plural marriage, prophetic control, and absolute obedience, led for decades by self-proclaimed prophet Warren Jeffs, now serving life...

In this special bonus episode of Profiling Evil, I sit down with producer Aaron Mason to go behind the scenes of Gardens of Evil: Inside the Zion Society Cult. This is a rare look at how one of the darkest and most complex cult investigations I’ve ever worked came together as an audio series. We discuss what surprised Aaron most when he first stepped into the Zion Society world, how survivor voices shaped the narrative, an...

Four lives were lost in the early morning darkness of Colts Neck, New Jersey. Keith Caneiro and his wife Jennifer… along with their eleven-year-old son Jesse and their eight-year-old daughter Sophia died inside their own home. But this case isn’t just about what happened inside that house. Hours earlier, flames were already rising at another Caneiro residence miles away. As investigators peeled back the layers, they began ...

Day six of testimony in the Brendan Banfield murder trial wasn’t about theatrics, it was about how this case was built, how investigators handled competing theories, and how leadership drew a hard line between collecting digital evidence and over-interpreting it. The defense tried to turn digital forensics into doubt, leaning hard on a simple idea: you can’t always tell who’s behind the screen. And that sounds persuasive… ...

This week on Feedback Friday, I’m answering a few questions that have been sitting with me because they all point to the same thing—how violence builds, how people justify it, and how easy it is to miss the warning signs until it’s too late. We talk about long-term cyber harassment and what it does to someone when it never quite rises to the level of criminal charges. We walk carefully through what’s known so far in the mu...

The first day of defense witnesses in the Brendan Banfield trial left me frustrated. The opening swing-for-the-fences motion to dismiss, the crime scene body-worn camera audio and the full-court press on the digital evidence, because if you can’t prove who was behind the screen, you can’t prove who was behind the setup. But the thing that really tightened my jaw was the defense pushing the idea that Christine Banfield may ...

The Commonwealth rested its case in the Brendan Banfield murder trial, closing with bloodstain evidence, forensic testimony, and emotional witnesses meant to tie the story together. But instead of landing with impact, the State’s final witnesses felt muted — even flat. Today we break down what helped the prosecution, how the defense systematically dismantled key moments, and why the most important truth of this case may no...

In this episode of Profiling Evil, Mike King sits down with Retired Assistant Sheriff Greg McCurdy, a 30-year veteran of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department whose career spans some of the city’s most pivotal eras in crime, policing, and public safety. Greg shares what it was like patrolling Las Vegas as the shadow of the old mob era faded away, the biggest homicide cases he worked, including the Tupac Shakur case ...

The first week of the Brendan Banfield murder trial cracked open two very different stories. Prosecutors say this was a calculated plan of deception, timing, and staging that left a wife and a stranger dead in the same bedroom. The defense says the case is built on a deal, a delayed story, and an investigation that didn’t challenge its own assumptions. Jurors heard the 911 calls, first-responder accounts, medical findings,...