The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories
Ordinary people who do unthinkable things...The Minds of Madness is a True Crime Podcast that examines the most disturbing criminal minds and the impact violent crimes have on survivors of homicide.
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It was a calm fall night in Vermont when something suddenly felt off. A neighbor heard an engine roar through the quiet, then take off again. Not long after, sirens filled the air.
By morning, the state was trying to understand how five teenagers had lost their lives, and how one man, Steven Bourgoin, became the center of a tragedy that would haunt Vermont for years. What happened on the highway was only part of the story. The...
On August 2, 2017, 21-year-old Savannah Gold arrived for her evening shift at a Jacksonville restaurant and was never seen alive again. What began as a missing person case quickly turned into a homicide investigation that revealed a story of betrayal, deception, and a family’s unwavering fight for answers.
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In the summer of 2024, a woman retreats into isolation, filling notebooks with carefully written details and rehearsing every line until it feels unshakable. To anyone watching, it looks like preparation. Discipline. Control.
But what she is preparing for has nothing to do with school.
When police are called to a Wisconsin apartment late one humid night, the story they’re given seems simple enough. Yet as investigators begin to...
An eighteen year old mother goes to work expecting an ordinary day and never comes home. Brooklyn Sims was building a life for herself and her young daughter when a familiar place suddenly became the setting for something unthinkable.
What followed was not chaos but calculation. As investigators began piecing together the truth, hidden connections and erased messages slowly surfaced. The deeper they looked, the more unsettling...
On Christmas Day 2006, police in Phoenix, Arizona, entered a quiet home expecting a simple welfare check. Instead, they found 21-year-old Heather Quan deceased, and 18-year-old Ryan Waller barely alive, suffering from a gunshot wound that went unnoticed at first. What followed changed the course of multiple lives, reshaped an Arizona law, and left two families searching for understanding in the aftermath of unimaginable viole...
Under the glare of fluorescent lights, the world feels suspended in time. Highway stops where strangers cross paths for minutes and then vanish back into the dark. Places built on movement, anonymity, and trust between people who know almost nothing about each other.
When that trust is misplaced, a journey meant for escape or healing can quietly turn into something far more dangerous. What begins on the open road, in a place d...
On a warm March night in Ocala, Florida, a quiet household settles into its familiar routine. A movie plays. The lights go out. Nothing feels out of place. By morning, that sense of normalcy is gone.
Join us, as we examine the disappearance and murder of Tim Smith, a man known for stability, kindness, and devotion to his family. What begins inside the safety of home slowly unravels into a haunting mystery. One shaped by unansw...
A quiet Monday morning. A trusted routine that suddenly breaks. And a crime scene that left investigators asking how any of it was possible.
In this episode, we unravel a case built not on eyewitnesses but on movement, silence, and a timeline that refuses to behave the way it should. A family forever altered and a truth that remains deeply contested.
Sometimes the most unsettling stories are not about what was seen but about wh...
An elderly couple known for their quiet lives and deep roots in North Carolina are found dead, setting off an investigation that stretches far beyond a single crime scene. What begins with an early-morning fire along a rural highway soon collides with a second act of violence nearly two hundred miles away.
As authorities follow the trail, familiar assumptions fall apart. An arrest brings answers, but also raises unsettling que...
Happy holidays everyone!!
If you’ve been with us since the beginning, all the way back to 2017, thank you for continuing to join us for this crazy ride.
We started with biweekly episodes and transitioned to weekly episodes. Now, we're excited to share that we’ll be adding two additional episodes a month (every other Thursday) starting January 8th!
The new episodes will be titled Between The Madness, and you now have the option ...
Join us, as we explore the Ivancic family murders, a case defined by misplaced trust, u...
When a young, pregnant woman is found in a roadside ditch, investigators are left with fragments: a truck in the dark, a web of secrets, and a timeline that refuses to stay quiet.
What follows is a slow unraveling where routine turns sinister, and the truth is revealed in a place no one thought t...
And how what first looked like a single gruesome act revealed a far deeper horror —
one that had been hiding in plain sight for years.
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You’ll hear how a confessed serial killer begged police to help find his missing daughter… before realizing she was already in the morgue.
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You'll hear a desperate voicemail left in the final hour, a search that spanned counties, and a trail of evidence buried beneath lies, dirt and duct tape.
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You’ll hear how a late-night attempt to calm a dispute ended in sudden gunfire.
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We’ll follow the twists of a case that began as straightforward…but revealed layers of deception that stunned even veteran investigators, showing how modern technology exposed secrets someone thought were deleted forever.
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You'll hear how Grant Amato's obsession with an online model escalated from stolen credit cards to something darker and how his fixation, even behind bars didn’t stop, finding a new target in a reality TV star who investigates the paranormal.
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You’ll hear how detectives spent two years chasing a case that always seemed just out of reach.
And how one piece of DNA gave them what looked like an ironclad case… until a twist so strange, it felt more like a dream than real life.
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