The American Serial Killer Guidebook

S2E5 BTK Part 5 – The One Who Barely Got Away –

The Ghostbusters Task Force is Formed

On an unseasonably cool Saturday evening in April of 1979, death stalked 63-year-old Anna Williams and her 24-year-old granddaughter, Rebecca, in a small house next to a gulley at 615 South Pinecrest St. in Wichita, Kansas. Dennis Rader, also known as BTK, was excitedly hiding in her closet, waiting for Mrs. Williams to come home so that he ...

S2E4 BTK Part 4 - Nancy Jo Fox - How Many Do I Have to Kill

December 9th, 1977, just 16 days before Christmas, was a day that would change the lives of Dale and Ruth Fox forever. This was the day they learned their daughter; 25-year-old Nancy Fox was the victim of a brutal murder in her small, pink, two-room duplex apartment where she’d lived alone for the last two years. Dennis Rader had begun preparations for “Project Foxhunt” lo...

Hello everyone and welcome to season 2 episode 3 of The American Serial Killer Guidebook. I’m your host Elton Morgan and today we will be discussing the BTK murder of Shirley Vian Relford who was unlucky enough to have her son spotted by Dennis Rader then followed effectively destroying their lives and making her his 6th victim when his first and second targets, which Rader called Project Green and Project Blackout, weren’t home.

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April 4th, 1974, was a cold spring day in Wichita, Kansas, and the day that Dennis Rader, known as BTK, decided to complete his next project as he referred to his murders. His first killings of the Otero Family, which he called Project Little Mex, were less than three months prior but he now had a taste for it.

Believing the chaos of the Otero’s murders was the reason he didn’t feel satisfied, Rader felt that if he could ensure thi...

Dennis Rader a.k.a. BTK

On a cold winter morning in January of 1974, a killer stalked the Otero family of Wichita, Kansas. Little did they know that by the time school let out that day, the lives of four members of the Otero family would be brutally taken and those of the three surviving children would become a never-ending nightmare. Dennis Rader, a married father of two, an Air Force veteran, Park City employee, president of his ...

Let me start by saying that the subject in this week’s episode is innocent until proven guilty and any and all crimes discussed are crimes ALLEGED to have been committed by Perez Deshay Reed. At this point in the investigation and trial process, we are calling him the alleged Crescent Moon Killer until jurisprudence has run its course.

To date, Reed has allegedly killed 7 innocent victims who were simply unlucky enough to cross his...

In part two of our episode, we take you on a journey into a marriage made in hell... Barely five feet tall, sweet, and innocent looking, Charlene Gallego used all of her charms to beguile pretty teenage girls and young women into the back of a van, where her lethal husband, Gerald, lay waiting. A killer couple bound together by secrets, lies, and sex slave fantasies... Married multiple times and still in his early thirties, Gerald ...

Gerald and Charlene Gallego made for terrifying partners in crime. An attractive brunette, Charlene Gallego had no trouble luring innocent youths into her car with the promise of work or marijuana. An unquenchable serial killer, Gerald Gallego would later rape and murder them at remote locations instead.

The serial killer couple terrorized the city of Sacramento for two long years before carelessness got them caught. Their Californ...

Angel Leoncio Recendiz aka The Railroad Killer who, throughout the 90s, brutally and I mean brutally raped and murdered 16 people but is suspected of killing as many as 23 or more. He was known as The Railroad Killer because of his penchant for riding the rails around the United States choosing his victims simply based on how close to the railroad tracks their homes were.

For almost 13 years he traveled the country choosing victims...

This week we’ll be hopping a ride in The Murder Mobile with William Devin Howell, AKA The Sick Ripper, and following his trail of bodies that ended in a wooded area behind a local dollar store. Unlike other serial killers, Howell had a ritual of, after raping his victims for hours, taking them nude and tied in the back of his van through the McDonald’s drive-thru for what he called “Their last meal” before taking them to a remote a...

In this week's episode, we’re investigating the life and crimes of Gary Ridgway, also known as The Green River Killer who raped, strangled, and murdered at least 49 teenage girls and women. He was convicted of those 49 murders receiving 48 consecutive life sentences making him the second most prolific serial killer in US history, second only to Samuel Little who we covered in our last episode so make sure to check it out.

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For more than 30 years, serial killer Samuel Little went undetected as he terrorized women across the country, claiming upwards of 93 victims.

Although he was not convicted of murder until 2014, Little was no stranger to law enforcement. In a crime spree that began in the 1950s, he was arrested more than 100 times on charges including kidnapping, rape, robbery...

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Aileen Carol Wuornos was born February 29, 1956 to Leo Pittman and Diane Wuornos. She was adopted at the age of four by her grandparents, slept with neighborhood boys for cigarettes, and spare change by age 11, was pregnant by her grandfather's friend by 13, and was homeless, turning tricks by age 15. A hard life and never finding a place to fit in led Aile...

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Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. (born November 8, 1945) is an American serial killer, serial rapist, burglar, and a former police officer who committed at least 13 murders, 50 rapes, and 120 burglaries across California between 1974 and 1986. DeAngelo was responsible for at least three crime sprees throughout California, each of which spawned a different nickname in ...

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In a series of killings committed between 1982 and 1984 in the Midwest, Larry Eyler is believed to have murdered at least twenty-one teenage boys and young men. Having been sentenced to death by lethal injection for the 1984 kidnapping and murder of 16-year-old Daniel Bridges, Eyler later voluntarily confessed to the 1982 murder of 23-year-old Steven Agan in r...

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This episode is all about a murderous necrophiliac named Jerry Brudos whose particular pathology is that he loved to play dress-up with his victims and then rape them before and after death. 

That alone isn’t really too out there but adding in the fact that he enjoyed doing these things over the course of days, secretly keeping them captive in his house while ...

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In our very first episode, Cherish and I delve into what separates serial killers from other types of killers. Many people mistakenly group serial killers, mass murderers, and spree killers into the same category but we are about to dispel those mistakes with some murderous truth. Make sure to listen to the end to hear our personal introduction and find out whi...