When Killers Get Caught: A True Crime Podcast

On December 4, 1969, a pre-dawn police raid at 2337 West Monroe Street in Chicago left 21-year-old Black Panther leader Fred Hampton dead. Authorities called it a shootout. Evidence later suggested something far more deliberate.

In this episode of When Killers Get Caught, Brittany Ransom examines the assassination of Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party and a rising national leader targeted under...

In 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till traveled from Chicago to Mississippi and never came home.

In this Black History Month episode of When Killers Get Caught, Brittany Ransom examines the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till, the trial that followed, and the decision that forced America to confront the brutal reality of racial violence under Jim Crow.

This case was legally “solved.” Arrests were made. A trial was held. But justice was ne...

In January 1923, the Black town of Rosewood, Florida was surrounded, burned, and erased after a white woman accused a Black man of assault—an accusation never proven and never investigated. Over the course of several days, white mobs hunted residents, destroyed homes and churches, and forced families to flee into swamps and forests to survive. When it was over, Rosewood no longer existed—and no one was held accountable.

In this epis...

In this episode, Brittany Ransom investigates the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the deadliest and most deliberately obscured acts of racial violence in American history. What happened in Greenwood, often called Black Wall Street, was not a riot, it was a coordinated assault that left as many as 300 Black residents dead, more than 35 city blocks destroyed, and over 10,000 people homeless.

Early reports falsely minimized the dev...

Every time a Black person is killed, the lie arrives faster than the facts.

He had a gun. He was high. She was threatening.

In this alternative episode of When Killers Get Caught, Brittany Ransom steps away from a traditional case to examine a pattern that stretches from Emmett Till to the present day and why the phrase “they’re killing Americans now” is landing as confirmation, not concern, for Black Americans and other marginalized...

In 1981, during the height of the War on Drugs, police raided a San Francisco apartment expecting a major drug dealer. Instead, they found a grandmother in an apron baking brownies.

Her name was Mary Jane Rathbun, later known as Brownie Mary, a woman whose arrest would help change how America viewed medical marijuana, the AIDS crisis, and compassion under the law.

As young men died alone in hospital wards during the 1980s AIDS epidem...

This episode contains in depth discussion of infanticide, postpartum psychosis, suicide, and severe mental illness. Listener discretion is advised.

In 2001, Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a case that shocked the nation and was quickly labeled as one of the most horrific crimes in American history. But what if the story most people remember is incomplete?

In this episode of When Killers Get Caught, host Brittany Ransom revi...

The True Crime Story of William Chester Minor and the Oxford English Dictionary

In 1872, a former U.S. Army surgeon named William Chester Minor shot a stranger to death on a London street. Declared criminally insane, he was confined to Broadmoor Asylum where he would unexpectedly become one of the most significant contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary. This true crime story explores murder, mental illness, and how one fr...

He stood at the altar as a man of God and lived in secret as a killer.

In the early 1900s, Hans Schmidt became the only Catholic priest ever executed in the United States. Sworn to celibacy and spiritual authority, Schmidt instead lived a double life that ended in ritual murder. After illegally marrying a young immigrant woman and impregnating her, he brutally murdered and dismembered her when the truth threatened to surface.

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Hey all my True Crime Friends,

Welcome to a brand new episode of When Killers Get Caught! Thanks for stopping by and giving this podcast a listen.

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This week in true crime Brittany is celebrating the arrest of the man responsible for the Delphi murders and Brian’s mad about a group of daycare workers who traumatized children.

Brittany’s deep dive is another episode about poison but this time related to Halloween. Brian brings us more Halloween mythology with th...