Killer Psyche

Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the terrifying case of Richard Ramirez, the serial killer and sexual predator who turned the summer of 1985 into a season of fear across Southern California. Striking seemingly at random, Ramirez slipped into homes after dark, attacking men, women, and children with a brutality that left investigators struggling to find a pattern -- or predict where he would strike nex...

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Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the disturbing case of Herb Baumeister, the Indianapolis thrift store owner whose sprawling Fox Hollow Farm concealed the remains of at least eleven men. For years, gay men were vanishing from the same cluster of downtown bars, drawn away by a well-dressed stranger who called himself Brian Smart and promised a night at his place in the country. But behind the locked ga...

Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the disturbing case of David and Catherine Birnie, the Australian couple who terrorized Perth over five weeks in 1986, abducting, raping, and murdering five women before a survivor's extraordinary courage brought them down. Candice examines how David's history of violent sexual sadism and Catherine's lifelong terror of being left behind made them not just compatible, b...

Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the disturbing case of Gary Ridgway, known as the Green River Killer. Beginning in the summer of 1982, young women began vanishing from a stretch of highway south of Seattle -- and for nearly two decades, the man responsible kept painting trucks, attending church, and living what looked like an unremarkable suburban life. What investigators eventually uncovered was a k...

Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong unravels the disturbing disappearance of 50-year-old mother of five, Jennifer Dulos. After dropping off her children at school one morning in 2019 and failing to pick them back up, Jennifer was reported missing. But soon enough, evidence would reveal a horrifying truth: Jennifer was murdered. And authorities would soon discover that her estranged husband, Fotis Dulos, and his g...

Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong examines the horrifying case of Jeffrey Dahmer, one of America's most infamous serial killers. Between 1978 and 1991, young men and boys began disappearing from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, many from vulnerable communities whose disappearances drew little attention. When police finally uncovered the truth inside Dahmer's apartment, they found evidence of unimaginable brutality that sh...

After a stunning reversal, in May, 2026, Alex Murdaugh was granted a new trial for the murders of his wife and son, after the South Carolina appeals court ruled that the actions of a former County Clerk had unfairly impacted his trial. In this encore episode, Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong revisits her conversation with Wall Street Journal national affairs reporter and New York Times bestselling author Valer...

Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the infamous case of Albert DeSalvo, the man who confessed to being the Boston Strangler. In the early 1960s, a wave of fear swept through Boston as women were found murdered in their homes, many of them sexually assaulted and strangled. As the body count grew, investigators struggled to determine whether a single killer was responsible or if multiple predators were op...

Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the disturbing case of John Edward Robinson, known as the internet's first serial killer. For nearly two decades, women across the Midwest answered his ads, responded to his messages, and accepted his promises of jobs, shelter, and a better life – and then vanished without a trace. What investigators eventually uncovered was a killer unlike any other: a charming,...

Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the shocking case of Pam Hupp, a Missouri woman whose web of lies, manipulation, and greed would unravel over the course of several years. What began as the tragic murder of Betsy Faria in 2011 appeared to be a seemingly open and shut case, leading investigators to focus on Betsy’s husband. But as new evidence emerged, the investigation took a startling turn, rev...

Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the disturbing case of Oscar Pistorius, the South African Olympic sprinter known worldwide as the ""Blade Runner."" On Valentine's Day 2013, Pistorius fired four shots through a locked bathroom door in his Pretoria home and killed his girlfriend, model and advocate Reeva Steenkamp. What investigators uncovered behind the world's most celebrated story of perseverance wa...

Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the disturbing case of Kouri Richins, the Utah real estate agent who poisoned her husband Eric with a lethal dose of fentanyl. In the spring of 2022, Eric Richins was found dead in his home in the mountains of Kamas, Utah -- and within months, his wife was giving interviews, appearing on morning television, and publishing a picture book about grief. But what investigat...

Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the disturbing case of Sid Vicious and the unsolved murder of Nancy Spungen. On the morning of October 12th, 1978, Nancy was found stabbed to death on the bathroom floor of Room 100 at New York City's legendary Chelsea Hotel — and the only suspect was the man she loved. Candice examines how two profoundly damaged people, bound together by trauma, addiction, and a...

Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the chilling case of Joanna Dennehy, a brutal serial killer inspired by the film Kill Bill. Over just ten days in the spring of 2013, three men were stabbed to death in quiet English towns, and no one could believe what they were seeing -- because the killer was a woman who hunted for sport. Candice examines how Dennehy used charm, manipulation, and a rare appetite for...

Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong examines the stunning guilty plea of Rex Heuermann, the Long Island architect known as the Gilgo Beach Serial Killer. For more than fifteen years, the murders of at least eight women dumped along a desolate stretch of Ocean Parkway went unsolved — one of the most haunting cold cases in American history. Candice walks through the investigative breakthroughs that finally br...

Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the disturbing case of Michael Gargiulo, known as the Hollywood Ripper. For more than a decade, women in the suburbs of Chicago and the Hollywood Hills were being murdered in their own homes, and no one saw it coming -- because the killer was never a stranger. He was the boy next door, the friendly repairman, the neighbor who waved from across the street. Candice exami...

Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the disturbing case of Carl Panzram, one of the most brutal and unrepentant criminals in American history. In the early twentieth century, Panzram's trail of violence stretched across multiple continents, leaving behind at least 21 murder victims -- many of them still unidentified to this day. What investigators eventually uncovered was a killer unlike any other: a man...

Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the disturbing case of Brenda Ann Spencer, the teenager behind one of the earliest school shootings in modern American history. On the morning of January 29th, 1979, at just 16 years old, Brenda opened fire on children arriving at an elementary school across the street from her home, killing two and wounding nine others. When asked why she did it, her answer was chilli...