December 30, 2025 • 6 mins
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**Detective Emily Em Carter Deep Dives Into 2025's Biggest Serial Killer Cases: From Toronto's DNA Breakthrough to Gilgo Beach Expansion**
Join rookie Detective Emily Em Carter straight from the precinct as she breaks down the most shocking serial killer cases and true crime headlines shaking 2025. With her criminology degree fresh off the academy and real beat experience under her belt, Em explores cutting-edge DNA breakthroughs, unsolved murder clusters, and criminal psychology insights that connect the dots others miss.
**Episode Highlights Include:**
- **Toronto's Kenneth Smith Case**: How familial DNA genealogy finally identified a serial killer decades after three brutal murders (1982-1997) of Christine Prince, Claire Samson, and Gracelyn Greenidge
- **Gilgo Beach Serial Killings**: New indictments against Rex Heuermann and Andrew Dykes expanding the body count of one of America's most infamous dumping grounds
- **Washington D.C. Unsolved Crisis**: 50+ homicides in 2025 with potential serial patterns hiding in plain sight across NE and SE neighborhoods
- **New Mexico's Tsethlikai**: Federal charges for serial murder, kidnapping, and sexual abuse targeting Native American communities
- **Houston Bayou Bodies**: Are 34+ bodies fished from waterways evidence of a serial killer or holiday tragedy spike?
- **San Bernardino Cult Murders**: Religious high-control group leaders charged with orchestrating deaths
**What You'll Learn:**
Em breaks down organized vs. disorganized offender psychology, victimology patterns, geographic profiling techniques, ballistics evidence, and how modern forensic science—especially DNA databases and genealogy—is finally cracking decades-old cold cases. She weaves rookie cop stories from her first months on the force with academy training insights, making complex criminal profiling accessible.
**Perfect For:**
True crime enthusiasts, criminology students, forensic psychology fans, and anyone fascinated by how detectives solve serial killer cases using modern technology and criminal profiling.
*Latest updates through December 2025. Real cases. Real investigation. Real detective perspective.*
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Rookie Detective Emily Em Carter analyzes 2025's biggest serial killer cases: Toronto DNA breakthrough, Gilgo expansion, DC unsolved crisis, and more true crime updates.
**Keywords:** Serial killer podcast, true crime, criminology, DNA forensics, criminal psychology, Gilgo Beach, Toronto serial killer, unsolved homicides, detective podcast, cold cases
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**Detective Emily Em Carter Deep Dives Into 2025's Biggest Serial Killer Cases: From Toronto's DNA Breakthrough to Gilgo Beach Expansion**
Join rookie Detective Emily Em Carter straight from the precinct as she breaks down the most shocking serial killer cases and true crime headlines shaking 2025. With her criminology degree fresh off the academy and real beat experience under her belt, Em explores cutting-edge DNA breakthroughs, unsolved murder clusters, and criminal psychology insights that connect the dots others miss.
**Episode Highlights Include:**
- **Toronto's Kenneth Smith Case**: How familial DNA genealogy finally identified a serial killer decades after three brutal murders (1982-1997) of Christine Prince, Claire Samson, and Gracelyn Greenidge
- **Gilgo Beach Serial Killings**: New indictments against Rex Heuermann and Andrew Dykes expanding the body count of one of America's most infamous dumping grounds
- **Washington D.C. Unsolved Crisis**: 50+ homicides in 2025 with potential serial patterns hiding in plain sight across NE and SE neighborhoods
- **New Mexico's Tsethlikai**: Federal charges for serial murder, kidnapping, and sexual abuse targeting Native American communities
- **Houston Bayou Bodies**: Are 34+ bodies fished from waterways evidence of a serial killer or holiday tragedy spike?
- **San Bernardino Cult Murders**: Religious high-control group leaders charged with orchestrating deaths
**What You'll Learn:**
Em breaks down organized vs. disorganized offender psychology, victimology patterns, geographic profiling techniques, ballistics evidence, and how modern forensic science—especially DNA databases and genealogy—is finally cracking decades-old cold cases. She weaves rookie cop stories from her first months on the force with academy training insights, making complex criminal profiling accessible.
**Perfect For:**
True crime enthusiasts, criminology students, forensic psychology fans, and anyone fascinated by how detectives solve serial killer cases using modern technology and criminal profiling.
*Latest updates through December 2025. Real cases. Real investigation. Real detective perspective.*
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**Meta Description (158 characters):**
Rookie Detective Emily Em Carter analyzes 2025's biggest serial killer cases: Toronto DNA breakthrough, Gilgo expansion, DC unsolved crisis, and more true crime updates.
**Keywords:** Serial killer podcast, true crime, criminology, DNA forensics, criminal psychology, Gilgo Beach, Toronto serial killer, unsolved homicides, detective podcast, cold cases
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, listeners, it's your favorite rookie cop, Detective Emily M. Carter,
coming at you straight from the precinct with a steaming
cup of coffee and a stack of fresh case files
that would make even my academy instructors raise an eyebrow.
At twenty six, fresh out of the academy with a
criminology degree, still smelling like new textbooks. I'm the one
who stays up late pouring over cold case maps and
(00:20):
psychological profiles, trying to connect dots that everyone else missed.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
You know me, I love diving into the criminal mind,
breaking down the forensics, the victimology, the geographic patterns, all
while keeping it real with my rookie stories from the Beat. Tonight,
as we wrap up twenty twenty five, we're talking the
hottest serial killer stories and headlines shaking the true crime
world right now, from DNA breakthroughs cracking decades old cases
(00:47):
to clusters of unsolved murders screaming for attention.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Buckle up, because this is going to be a deep
dive into the darkness with all the latest updates as
of late December twenty twenty five, and I'll weave in
what my first months on the force had taught me
about spotting patterns before they turn into nightmares. Let's kick
this off with the bombshell out of Toronto, Canada, where
police just identified Kenneth Smith as the serial killer behind
(01:14):
three brutal murders spanning the nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties
thanks to a cutting edge familial DNA genealogy breakthrough listeners.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
This one hits close to home from me because it
shows exactly what my forensic science professor hammered into us
at the Academy. ANA isn't just evidence, it's a time
machine that can reach back and grab killers from the grave. Smith,
who died in Windsor in twenty nineteen at age seventy two,
was linked to the deaths of Christine Prince, Claire Sampson,
(01:47):
and Gracelynn Greenidge through DNA from a close relative that
popped up in a database just last week. Picture this
Christine Prince, a nanny from Wales working in Toronto, seen
alive on June twenty first, nineteen eighty two, hopping on
a street car after night out with friends. Her body
turned up the next day in the Rouge River, shot
(02:10):
and dumped like trash. Three then Claire Sanson, last spotted
on September first, nineteen eighty three, getting into a beige
car with the balding older man on Jarvis Street. Found
fatally shot north of Barry the very next day. Fast
forward fourteen years to July twenty ninth, nineteen ninety seven,
(02:30):
when forty one year old Graycelind Greenidge was discovered dead
in an apartment on Driftwood Avenue, last seen leaving work
the night before three. That's a fifteen year span. Listeners
with gaps that scream opportunity and evasion. The kind of
disorganized defender who strikes opportunistically but leaves DNA calling cards
(02:52):
called from a criminal psychology angle, this screams a power
control killer. Someone who targeted vulnerable women, may be sex
workers or transients, asserting dominance through firearms to minimize struggle.
My instructors drilled it into us. Look for the cooling
off periods like that fourteen year gap between Samson and Greenwich,
(03:13):
where life, relocation or just plain look kept him dormant.
Toronto police are bigging for tips on his whereabouts during
those times. Piecing together weather, road conditions, pedestrian traffic, all
the granular stuff we rookies learn in geographic profiling classes.
Smith was balding older driving a beage car, the kind
(03:33):
of unremarkable profile that blends into crowds, which is why
familial DNA genealogy is a game changer. They found a
relative's DNA, built a family tree, narrowed it to him,
and boom closure for families after nearly a decade of
Agony two. As a rookie, I've seen how these breakthroughs
ripple through precincts. Last month on my beat, we used
(03:56):
similar tech to link a petty burglar to an old
assault and it fell like magic, but magic born from
science listeners and its solving cases we thought were ghosts
shifting gears to the United States. The Gilgo Beach serial
killings on Long Island just exploded with new indictments, pulling
this nightmare back thirty years and reminding us that serial
(04:18):
predators don't always stow until they're forced to. Rexhierman, already
the prime suspect in the Gilgo four and more, now
faces seven new murder indictments, while Andrew Dyke's got charged
in connection with two additional victims. This isn't just an update,
(04:38):
It's an expansion of one of the most infamous dumping
grounds in modern true crime, where bodies wrapped in burlap
washed up on Gilgo Beach starting in twenty ten, but
the killings trace back decades. Heyerman, a married architect with
a family facade, fits the organized defender profile to a
te methodical planned dump sits, likely using his professional life
(05:01):
to scout and transport victims. The new charges suggest a
body count pushing double digits with patterns in victimology mostly
escorts advertised online, strangled and discarded along Ocean Parkway two
dikes entering the mix ads chaos. Maybe a copycat or accomplice,
but either way its forensic teams sifting hair fibers and
(05:22):
now advanced DNA tying it all together. Think about the
psychology here, listeners. These guys compartmentalize like pros, living double
lives while their kill kits sit in home offices. My
first week on the job, I shattered a detective on
a similar long haul case, and he said, m organized
killer's plan escapes better than we plan stakeouts. True story,
(05:45):
and Gilgo proves it with indictments dropping. In December twenty
twenty five, AMID expanded searches. BC prosecutors are building geographic profiles,
linking dump sites to Hayerman's commute, the hallmark of vehicle serials.
It's chilling how technology, from foam pings to genetic genealogy
is finely cracking it open. If you're a true crime
junkie like me, this one's got it all the weight,
(06:07):
the twists, the justice inching closer. Now let's talk Washington,
d C. Where twenty twenty five has been a blood
bath of unsolved homicides, with over fifty cases stacking up,
many in the Northeast and Southeast quadrants, and patterns emerging
that have folks whispering about serial activity hiding in plain sight.
The Metropolitan Police Department's major case unsolved homicides list for
(06:30):
twenty twenty five is a gut punch. ROYD. Bennett, Junior
Hey, listeners, it's your favorite rookie cop, Detective Emily M. Carter,
coming at you straight from the precinct with a steaming
cup of coffee and a stack of fresh case files
that would make even my academy instructors raise an eyebrow.
At twenty six, fresh out of the academy with a
criminology degree, still smelling like new textbooks. I'm the one
who stays up late pouring over cold case maps and
(00:20):
psychological profiles, trying to connect dots that everyone else missed.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
You know me, I love diving into the criminal mind,
breaking down the forensics, the victimology, the geographic patterns, all
while keeping it real with my rookie stories from the Beat. Tonight,
as we wrap up twenty twenty five, we're talking the
hottest serial killer stories and headlines shaking the true crime
world right now, from DNA breakthroughs cracking decades old cases
(00:47):
to clusters of unsolved murders screaming for attention.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Buckle up, because this is going to be a deep
dive into the darkness with all the latest updates as
of late December twenty twenty five, and I'll weave in
what my first months on the force had taught me
about spotting patterns before they turn into nightmares. Let's kick
this off with the bombshell out of Toronto, Canada, where
police just identified Kenneth Smith as the serial killer behind
(01:14):
three brutal murders spanning the nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties
thanks to a cutting edge familial DNA genealogy breakthrough listeners.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
This one hits close to home from me because it
shows exactly what my forensic science professor hammered into us
at the Academy. ANA isn't just evidence, it's a time
machine that can reach back and grab killers from the grave. Smith,
who died in Windsor in twenty nineteen at age seventy two,
was linked to the deaths of Christine Prince, Claire Sampson,
(01:47):
and Gracelynn Greenidge through DNA from a close relative that
popped up in a database just last week. Picture this
Christine Prince, a nanny from Wales working in Toronto, seen
alive on June twenty first, nineteen eighty two, hopping on
a street car after night out with friends. Her body
turned up the next day in the Rouge River, shot
(02:10):
and dumped like trash. Three then Claire Sanson, last spotted
on September first, nineteen eighty three, getting into a beige
car with the balding older man on Jarvis Street. Found
fatally shot north of Barry the very next day. Fast
forward fourteen years to July twenty ninth, nineteen ninety seven,
(02:30):
when forty one year old Graycelind Greenidge was discovered dead
in an apartment on Driftwood Avenue, last seen leaving work
the night before three. That's a fifteen year span. Listeners
with gaps that scream opportunity and evasion. The kind of
disorganized defender who strikes opportunistically but leaves DNA calling cards
(02:52):
called from a criminal psychology angle, this screams a power
control killer. Someone who targeted vulnerable women, may be sex
workers or transients, asserting dominance through firearms to minimize struggle.
My instructors drilled it into us. Look for the cooling
off periods like that fourteen year gap between Samson and Greenwich,
(03:13):
where life, relocation or just plain look kept him dormant.
Toronto police are bigging for tips on his whereabouts during
those times. Piecing together weather, road conditions, pedestrian traffic, all
the granular stuff we rookies learn in geographic profiling classes.
Smith was balding older driving a beage car, the kind
(03:33):
of unremarkable profile that blends into crowds, which is why
familial DNA genealogy is a game changer. They found a
relative's DNA, built a family tree, narrowed it to him,
and boom closure for families after nearly a decade of
Agony two. As a rookie, I've seen how these breakthroughs
ripple through precincts. Last month on my beat, we used
(03:56):
similar tech to link a petty burglar to an old
assault and it fell like magic, but magic born from
science listeners and its solving cases we thought were ghosts
shifting gears to the United States. The Gilgo Beach serial
killings on Long Island just exploded with new indictments, pulling
this nightmare back thirty years and reminding us that serial
(04:18):
predators don't always stow until they're forced to. Rexhierman, already
the prime suspect in the Gilgo four and more, now
faces seven new murder indictments, while Andrew Dyke's got charged
in connection with two additional victims. This isn't just an update,
(04:38):
It's an expansion of one of the most infamous dumping
grounds in modern true crime, where bodies wrapped in burlap
washed up on Gilgo Beach starting in twenty ten, but
the killings trace back decades. Heyerman, a married architect with
a family facade, fits the organized defender profile to a
te methodical planned dump sits, likely using his professional life
(05:01):
to scout and transport victims. The new charges suggest a
body count pushing double digits with patterns in victimology mostly
escorts advertised online, strangled and discarded along Ocean Parkway two
dikes entering the mix ads chaos. Maybe a copycat or accomplice,
but either way its forensic teams sifting hair fibers and
(05:22):
now advanced DNA tying it all together. Think about the
psychology here, listeners. These guys compartmentalize like pros, living double
lives while their kill kits sit in home offices. My
first week on the job, I shattered a detective on
a similar long haul case, and he said, m organized
killer's plan escapes better than we plan stakeouts. True story,
(05:45):
and Gilgo proves it with indictments dropping. In December twenty
twenty five, AMID expanded searches. BC prosecutors are building geographic profiles,
linking dump sites to Hayerman's commute, the hallmark of vehicle serials.
It's chilling how technology, from foam pings to genetic genealogy
is finely cracking it open. If you're a true crime
junkie like me, this one's got it all the weight,
(06:07):
the twists, the justice inching closer. Now let's talk Washington,
d C. Where twenty twenty five has been a blood
bath of unsolved homicides, with over fifty cases stacking up,
many in the Northeast and Southeast quadrants, and patterns emerging
that have folks whispering about serial activity hiding in plain sight.
The Metropolitan Police Department's major case unsolved homicides list for
(06:30):
twenty twenty five is a gut punch. ROYD. Bennett, Junior
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