Catching Evil

Terry Ferguson was 21, beautiful, and shopping for a new outfit. Her boyfriend was coming back from Spring Break, and she wanted to look perfect for him. But Terry had a secret dream her mother, Frances, didn't know about—she wanted to be a model.

One ordinary Sunday afternoon in a crowded Florida shopping mall, a handsome, charming man with a camera approached her. He told her she had 'the look'. That he could help her. Tha...

Fifteen-year-old best friends Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock were brutally murdered on a windswept beach by a teenage surfer who lured them to their deaths. Marianne’s four youngest siblings played together in the dunes, unaware that their big sister and her ‘bestie’ were being raped and stabbed just yards away. Trixie describes what unfolded, while her brother, Hans, his voice breaking, recalls waiting on the porch f...

Jacqueline was only 18—a rising model and reigning Miss North Miami—when her agent sent her to a stranger's house for a routine photo shoot. That stranger was serial killer Christopher Wilder.

Weeks before he embarked on one of America's most horrific murder sprees, Jacqueline found herself alone with him in his Florida home. Posing as a fashion photographer, Wilder asked her to get more raunchy. She refused. The shoot ende...

Rosario Gonzalez was 21 and in love. Newly engaged. Teaching Sunday school while building a modelling career. February 26, 1984, should have been just another day working the Miami Grand Prix to earn some extra money for her wedding. Handing out samples, sunshine, the roar of engines, thousands of people everywhere.

She should have been safe.

Instead, Rosario vanished in plain sight. The last photo ever taken shows her moments before...

Stunning beauty queen, High School cheerleading coach and special needs teacher Beth Kenyon turned down a marriage proposal from Christopher Wilder after only a handful of casual dates. A few months later, the 23-year-old beauty queen winner vanished after being seen with him at a gas station on the way to a photo shoot he organised for her. Her body has never been found, and her younger brother Tim still struggles with the tra...

She was fifteen. Tiny — barely 160 centimetres tall. Wearing a pink bikini on an ordinary Thursday morning, walking alone near her home.

Christopher Wilder was six foot, well into a killing rampage across America, and should have been in police custody that morning. He wasn't. A private detective had handed police in Miami enough evidence. They called it "no evidence of foul play."

Two days later, Colleen Orsborn was gone.

For 27 year...

She stared into the eyes of a serial killer, fought a life-or-death battle in a motel room, and won — then triggered the biggest manhunt in American history. Linda Grober was just 19 years old when Christopher Wilder abducted her from a shopping mall in broad daylight. He had already murdered four women across America in three weeks. Police had his name. Nobody had warned the public. Linda had never heard of him.

What happened n...

She was four years old when Christopher Wilder stole her mother. For forty years, Mindy Walden told no one her story. Now, she's ready to speak.

Terry Walden was 23 — a nursing student, a young mom who loved baking and birthday parties. In March 1984, a stranger approached her on her university campus in Beaumont, Texas, and told her she could be a model. Terry called him a dirty pervert. The next morning, he was waiting beside ...

What if you could see inside a serial killer's mind before he struck? Three men who've spent decades studying ruthless predators like Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer pull back the curtain on Christopher Wilder—and what they reveal could save a life. Dr Eric Hickey, FBI consultant profiler and forensic psychologist, delivers the starkest warning you'll ever hear: "He pulls out a gun and points it at you. You don't get in the car. N...

Suzanne Logan was 21, nine months married, and full of dreams. On a Sunday morning in 1984 she kissed her husband goodbye, drove to a shopping mall in Oklahoma City, and was never seen alive again.

Christopher Wilder found her. What happened next is unbearable for her brothers, who have found it impossible to speak about. Until now.

John and David — between them over 50 years in the US Navy — are big, strong men. But in this ...

What would you do if a serial killer put a gun to your little sister’s head?

Eleven-year-old Kristine didn't have time to think. In that terrifying moment, on a sunny afternoon that should have been safe, she made a choice.

She figured out Christopher Wilder—the man who would become one of America’s most notorious killers—and she used that knowledge to keep her ten-year-old sister alive through hours of unimaginable horror. This is h...

In January 1965, two fifteen-year-old girls were lured to a remote stretch of Wanda Beach in Sydney, taken into the sand dunes, and murdered. For sixty years, it has remained Australia's biggest unsolved double murder. Catching Evil is about to change that with bombshell new evidence.

Since we first named serial killer Christopher Wilder as our prime suspect, listeners across the world have come forward with explosive new ev...

She survived serial killer Christopher Wilder at eleven years old — but the real fight came after. For thirty years, Kristine buried it. No answers, no justice, just a narrative handed to her by a system that looked away. Then she started digging — and what she uncovered made her physically sick. Bodies on Wilder's property. A girl murdered just three days after her own abduction. And one devastating question that has never left he...

Serial killer Christopher Wilder was murdering his way across America — and nobody was stopping him. This episode plunges into the terrifying heart of Wilder's 1984 killing rampage, tracking him through Colorado, Utah and Arizona as the FBI scrambled desperately to catch up. At the centre of it all is Sheryl Bonaventura — eighteen years old, blonde, blue-eyed, beautiful, and about to head to Aspen for spring break with her best fri...

She was seventeen years old, competing in her very first beauty pageant, and she was there alone. Her dad called her his girl. Her car's number plate read TOMISH — To Michelle — with the tag line 'Daddy's Girl.' She had told her mum she was going to be President by the time she was thirty-five. She will forever be seventeen.

Michelle Korfman left that Las Vegas shopping mall on a Sunday afternoon in March 1984 with a man who tol...

Link: For 43 years, nobody has known her name. In December 1983, a young mother was shot four times and her body dumped on a remote New York highway. She had no identification. Nobody reported her missing.

She was buried as Ellery Jane Doe — named after the town where she was found — and has remained unidentified ever since. The FBI couldn't name her. Interpol couldn't. Homicide detectives couldn't. But Catching Evil listeners ...

'I Was Groomed by a Serial Killer': A Survivor's Chilling Story. LeAnne was just 16 when serial killer Christopher Wilder lured her off a crowded Florida beach, blindfolded her, and drove her to a place no teenage girl should ever find herself. She thought she was going to be a model. Instead, she came face-to-face with a monster. In this raw and emotional episode, true-crime experts Gemma Bath, host of True Crime Conversations, an...

He was killing every few days — then he took Tina, and suddenly stopped. Christopher Wilder had already abducted nine women and murdered most of them in a six-week rampage across America. He was the FBI's most wanted man. Every woman he took, he raped, tortured and then quickly killed them. But when he abducted 16-year-old Tina Risico from an LA shopping mall, something changed. The killing stopped. For nine days, he kept her a...