Son of Sam: The True Story Behind the NYC Nightmare

It’s another dark one, this week, as Tom and Ben don the sunscreen for a trip to the South of New Mexico in search for answers to one of the state’s most divisive questions - did David Parker Ray use his Toy Box purely for mutual pleasures or did he use it to become one of the most horribly successful serial killers of all time? It’s the case of the ‘Toy Box Killer’: David Parker Ray. Some say that truth or consequences is a place where people go to be forgotten. That it is a place where a man can rightly go about his business without the disruption of peering eyes, second glances and those of an inquisitive disposition... Some say that truth or consequences is a quiet place. A quaint spot able to cook-up year-round postcard images of beautiful sunrises and pristine sunsets amidst the backdrop of our majestic mountains and shimmering lakes... enough to make any grown man or woman cry. Cut off from the rest of the world by forty thousand square miles of New Mexico desert terrain, people say that truth or consequences is the ultimate and only destination for like-minded strangers to live, truly live, without consequence. But they don’t seem to have an awful lot to say for people who are TAKEN to truth or consequences.... soon to be forgotten. So just how did David Parker Ray become the world’s only serial killer never convicted of murder? Did Ray act alone or was he part of an organised group of deviants? What was found at the bottom of Elephant Butte Lake? Were his captors held against their own will or did they share his “kink”? And what other secrets has he taken to the grave with him? Tune in and all will be revealed! **Please kindly give the show a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you find us in your ears at the moment. It helps us so, so much and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks for your support. Until next time!**For HUNDREDS more cases (and to request your own!), visit icmap.co.uk now and sign up for free!Presented by Tom Norris & Ben CarterWritten by Ben CarterProduced by Dan J LambertEdited by Ben Bonsey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

7 Joulu 20201h 2min

This week, Tom and Ben make their way to Rostov, Russia - as they uncover the unbelievable and truly chilling case of one of the world’s most dangerously deranged serial killers: Andrei Chikatilo - better known as The Butcher of Rostov... Good Evening, Ladies and Gentleman and thank you for joining us for this special alert bulletin broadcast. It is just after 5 pm on October 30 1990, we begin today’s show with some haunting reports coming out of Rostov-on-Don. Where, and we warn listeners faint of heart, police have discovered the mutilated and tortured body of 16-year-old boy, at Donleskhoz train station. The wounds upon the young boy’s body are so drastic, so severe that this victim has been immediately linked to the ongoing search for “The Butcher of Rostov” - who has now claimed 51 helpless victims across the country. A wild, vicious and barbaric wave the likes of which our nation has never before seen. The youth has been strangled, stabbed twenty-seven times and castrated, with the tip of his tongue severed and his left eye removed from its socket. The crazed killer is STILL on the loose. Russian Government officials believe this makes this MONSTER the most horrifying, notorious serial killer this nation - or perhaps even the world - has ever seen. We urgently appeal for young people ALL ACROSS THE NATION to be alert, to be vigilant... and to be wary.. of the butcher... But how was Chikatilo able to evade multiple police forces for so long? What unthinkable events in his childhood would serve to form some of his darkest and most sinister traits? Why was he placed in a purpose-built cage during his eventual trial? What “magic superpower” did Chikatilo possess? For what reason did he sharpen his teeth? And just why did they call him ‘The Goose’!? Tune in and all will be revealed! **Please kindly give the show a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you find us in your ears at the moment. It helps us so, so much and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks for your support. Until next time!**For HUNDREDS more cases (and to request your own!), visit icmap.co.uk now and sign up for free!Presented by Tom Norris & Ben CarterWritten by Ben CarterProduced by Dan J LambertEdited by Ben Bonsey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

30 Marras 202055min

In this week’s episode, Tom and Ben take a very dark and very deep dive (quite literally) into the disturbing case of Josef Fritzl - better known as The Amstetten Monster. The height of Summer, 1984 – Amstetten, Austria. Children play with disregard as adults unwind in the open, peaceful streets of this small, easy-going little town - not a care in the world; life is good today. Suddenly, whispers gather pace and news moves from person to person, neighbour to neighbour, family to family... that 18-year-old waitress Elisabeth Fritzl has suddenly vanished and gone missing from the family home where she had grown up. Disappeared into thin air amidst the summer blue sky. Her parents, understandably frantic with worry, raise the alarm to the local police. Her mother, Rosemarie, hastily files a missing person’s report, while her father, Josef, thanks concerned friends and neighbours for their sympathy and support. As weeks turn to months without a word from her, everybody starts to fear the worst and the last embers of hope begin to burn out. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, a letter arrives from Elisabeth, claiming she had grown tired of living with her parents under their rules in their house, and decided to run away. Josef, awe-struck and overwhelmed, tells police he has no idea where she has gone, but that she had likely joined a religious cult, something that she had threatened to do many times previously. But the apparently concerned, middle-class father, a respectable salesman and good family man, knew exactly where his daughter was - and it was just a few feet below where the officers and Josef Fritzl were standing... So how exactly was Fritzl able to build such an elaborate underground cellar dungeon? Was Rosemarie, Fritzl’s doting wife, aware and complicit in the 24 years of abuse her daughter would suffer? What ultimately allowed Elisabeth and her children to escape the basement prison? How was Elisabeth able to mother 7 children without medical or educational support? And are the rumours true about Fritzl and his mother? Tune in and all will be revealed! **Please kindly give the show a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you find us in your ears at the moment. It helps us so, so much and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks for your support. Until next time!**For HUNDREDS more cases (and to request your own!), visit icmap.co.uk now and sign up for free!Presented by Tom Norris & Ben CarterWritten by Ben CarterProduced by Dan J LambertEdited by Ben Bonsey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

23 Marras 20201h 4min

The ICMAP boys are back and straight into the action with a brand new season premiere (or episode 7, for the benefit of those with an appreciation for all things linear). This week, and would you believe it with the previous week’s global announcements of his passing, Tom and Ben make their way through back alleys, dark streets and the red light districts of ‘Ripper Country’ - taking a deep dive into the brutal case of Peter Sutcliffe, better known as The Yorkshire Ripper. It’s January 2nd, 1981 – the South Yorkshire City of Sheffield slowly comes to a close. Children are put to bed, workers are clocking out, friends, loved ones and even perfect strangers are toasting and cheering to the bright hopes of a New Year and all the potential it has to offer. As last orders are called, they spill out to the streets from within the pubs and clubs and wander off home without a care in the world. This is Sheffield, this is South Yorkshire, they don’t carry the worries of their neighbouring regions, they don’t fear the dreaded Yorkshire Ripper as they wander off into the night... Sergeant Robert Ring is on routine patrol with a colleague. He sees a woman in a car with a man and suspects a sex worker and client encounter. The sex worker tells Sergeant Ring that the man in her car is her boyfriend. Ring thinks he remembers her for prostitution offences. The man in the car says his name is Peter Williams. He adds that he’s desperate for the toilet. Ring allows him to go behind a nearby storage tank. The police meanwhile find the car’s license plates are false. And Peter admits that so is the name he has given. He says he’s really Peter Sutcliffe. He’s detained overnight. Police notice Sutcliffe’s physical similarity to the Ripper Profile. His blood test shows he’s blood group B, one of few the indisputable forensic details and relatively rare in the general population. Later that night, Sergeant Ring returns to the scene of the arrest where he finds that the individual didn’t empty his bladder behind the storage tank, but had instead emptied his pockets of a knife and ball-peen hammer... So just how did Sutcliffe avoid detection/capture despite being interviewed by police nine times? What were his motivations behind his 5-year rampage? Why did a Polish Gravestone come under scrutiny? How many mistakes did the West Yorkshire Police make? And which system would you play - the ‘one M’ or the ‘three M’? Tune in, and all will be revealed! **Please kindly give the show a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you find us in your ears at the moment. It helps us so, so much and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks for your support. Until next time!**For HUNDREDS more cases (and to request your own!), visit icmap.co.uk now and sign up for free!Presented by Tom Norris & Ben CarterWritten by Ben CarterProduced by Dan J LambertEdited by Ben Bonsey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

16 Marras 20201h 7min

Thank you for taking the time to tune into ICMAP! You may hear the audio quality is not quite up the standard of Series 2 onwards - we were still finding our feet as a podcast. Rest assured, the production quality does improve ♥️💀The season one finale of I Could Murder A Podcast sees Tom and Ben travel back to the swinging seventies and all the way to Santa Cruz, California. As they look at the disturbingly captivating case of Ed Kemper: The Co-Ed Killer...The year is 1973, it’s dawn, a six-foot nine-inch shadow silhouettes underneath misty streetlights by a gas station in Pueblo, Colorado. The weary figure of a tall man casts itself back and forward as he paces up and down the rocky roadside. He has inexplicitly just spent the last 48 hours and almost 1500 miles driving nonstop from the seaside town of Santa Cruz, California. Functioning only on the caffeine pills he’s consumed; the giant of a man is close to collapse – physically, emotionally, mentally. He checks his car radio again and again, switching stations back and forth, waiting to hear his story break the news. Nothing is reported, nothing is revealed. His heart still racing, he makes his way into a phone booth. Spilling his heart to the answering detective, his confessions are met with disregard and disbelief. And he is told to call back at a more appropriate hour. Dawn turns to daylight and he makes a second call. This time reaching friend, Detective Jim Connor. The stranger again spills his heart, calling for help and unloading his confessions. In shock, the Santa Cruz Police Department follow up the confessions, bewildered and in disbelief, the “gentle giant” has led them straight to two dead bodies in his house. With many more to follow. “Big Ed” as he is affectionately known in the local police hangout bar, revealshimself as “The Co-Ed Killer”.How did Kemper charm and manipulate psychiatrists to discharge him? What drove him to kill his own family members multiple times? Why did he decide to hand himself in? And how was he able to maintain friendships with police officers working the case?Tune in, and all will be revealed!Big thanks to voiceover artist Christopher Ragland for our amazing introduction!**Please kindly give the show a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you find us in your ears at the moment. It helps us so, so much and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks for your support. Until next time!**For HUNDREDS more cases (and to request your own!), visit icmap.co.uk now and sign up for free!Presented by Tom Norris & Ben CarterWritten by Ben CarterProduced by Dan J LambertEdited by Ben Bonsey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

14 Syys 20201h 3min

Thank you for taking the time to tune into ICMAP! You may hear the audio quality is not quite up the standard of Series 2 onwards - we were still finding our feet as a podcast. Rest assured, the production quality does improve ♥️💀The penultimate episode of I Could Murder A Podcast’s first series sees Tom and Ben make their way to the South Wales Valleys (and back to their teenage years) as they cover the deeply disturbing case of disgraced former Lostprophets Frontman Ian Watkins: From The Stage To The Cage... It’s mid-2012, a trend set this side of the millennium continues to thrive – as rock, punk and metal bands continue to push, barge and charge their way into top music charts all over the world. Charts of which, traditionally dominated by more popular varieties the industry has to offer; Linkin Park, Sum 41, Limp Bizkit, Blink-182 and many others continue to vie for their place at the top. With this, more eyes than ever are on your band ‘Lostprophets’, a 6-piece Alternative Rock group from South Wales that have taken the world by storm. The band are celebrating the release of their fifth album ‘Weapons’. Years and years of touring “the valleys” music circuit, headlining shows, tours and festivals the world over; as well as relentless days and nights on the road all around the world are culminating to this precise moment as you realiseyou’ve well and truly made your mark in the history books. You wake up. Dry mouth, beating heart. A phone full of missed calls, voicemails, and texts messages. This can’t be real? You turn the TV on, jump online, switch the radio on – all as quickly as possible – This can’t be real? The headlines blind and burn. None of the information can be absorbed. This can’t be real? Unfathomable, 15 years of your life is down the drain. Your friend, your family, your leader, a man thatheld your children in his hands: Ian Watkins. Everywhere. Ingrained. Unavoidable. Unforgivable... This can’t be real?What prompted a man who seemingly had it all to commit such disgusting and despicable acts? How did he continue to get away with it for over four years? To what extent were the victim’s parents complicit? How did THREE DIFFERENT regional police forces fail to stop him? And what in the world is MEGA LOLZ?Tune in, and all will be revealed!***Please kindly give the show a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you find us in your ears at the moment. It helps us so, so much and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks for your support. Until next time!*** For HUNDREDS more cases (and to request your own!), visit icmap.co.uk now and sign up for free!Presented by Tom Norris & Ben CarterWritten by Ben CarterProduced by Dan J LambertEdited by Ben Bonsey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

7 Syys 202056min

Thank you for taking the time to tune into ICMAP! You may hear the audio quality is not quite up the standard of Series 2 onwards - we were still finding our feet as a podcast. Rest assured, the production quality does improve ♥️💀An I Could Murder A Podcast first – ICMAP Episode 4 sees Tom and Ben explore one of the UK’s most infamous (and most deadly) female serial killers – Beverley Allitt, more commonly known as the Angel of Death…Coughs, colds, and fevers are all common place during the grey Winter Months of the United Kingdom. Sickness bugs regularly wind their way through workplaces and schools, spreading from person to person. Thankfully, the UK has a National Health Service in place, waiting with open arms to help those who need it most. It is February 22nd, 1991, the adoring parents of 7-week old Liam Taylor grow concerned – as any new parent would do – with a slight cough that Liam has developed during his short time at the family home. Due to the very early age of the newborn, the parents are referred to take Liam to Ward 4 of The Grantham and Kesteven Hospital, a children’s ward located in the Lincolnshire region of England. Doting and attentive to young Liam, the cheerful couple park up and make their way into Ward 4. As they sign in, they are greeted with enthusiasm by a bright and brimming young nurse, who is immediately and intently focused on their young baby boy. Liam is placed into the care of those best placed to provide it and is gently wheeled away with caution from the reception area down into the Children’s Ward. The name tag of the young nurse reads Beverly Allit; a name that would go on to strike fear into the hearts and minds of parents and children all across the country. Little Liam is now in the hands of the Angel of Death.What influenced this baby-faced, baby-voiced young lady to commit such despicable acts on those most defenceless? Could she have been stopped much sooner in order to prevent further victims? Why was she always covered in bandages and plasters and why did she choose to have a perfectly healthy appendix removed? Do nurses become murderers or do murderers become nurses?Tune in and all will be revealed!***Please kindly give the show a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find us in your ears at the moment. It helps us so, so much and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks for your support. Until next time!***  For HUNDREDS more cases (and to request your own!), visit icmap.co.uk now and sign up for free!Presented by Tom Norris & Ben CarterWritten by Ben CarterProduced by Dan J LambertEdited by Ben Bonsey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

31 Elo 20201h 3min

Thank you for taking the time to tune into ICMAP! You may hear the audio quality is not quite up the standard of Series 2 onwards - we were still finding our feet as a podcast. Rest assured, the production quality does improve ♥️💀This week in ICMAP Episode 3, Tom and Ben go back 18 years and visit their homeland of Cambridgeshire in order to explore one of the most prominent cases their childhood (and the Cambridgeshire region itself) has ever seen: Ian Huntley and the Case of Holly & Jessica: The Soham Murders…In the early evening of August 4th 2002, in the small rural Cambridgeshire village of Soham, two 10-year-old girls, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, left their family barbecue wearing matching Manchester United shirts. The girls were making their way to buy sweets and pop from a local shop and then return to the family party. Unannounced, the girls walked towards ‘Number Five College Close’ – a house on the grounds of their local school. Sat on the driveway was school caretaker: Ian Huntley. The girls asked Huntley if “Miss Carr”, Ian’s Partner at the time, had got the permanent teaching position at their school – he replied that “unfortunately, she had not”, and then claimed, in the multiple police and journalist interviews that would follow, that the girls told him to say sorry to her on their behalf and then “skipped off happily down the street”. The girls, however, were never seen again...What really happened behind closed doors in Number Five College Close that evening? What drove Huntley to commit such an evil act? Why was Huntley so involved in the media frenzy that would follow? How was Huntley able to evade police and a national manhunt in plain sight for almost two weeks? And how involved was Huntley’s partner, Maxine Carr?Tune in and all will be revealed!***Please kindly give the show a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you find us in your ears at the moment. It helps us so, so much and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks for your support. Until next time!*** For HUNDREDS more cases (and to request your own!), visit icmap.co.uk now and sign up for free!Presented by Tom Norris & Ben CarterWritten by Ben CarterProduced by Dan J LambertEdited by Ben Bonsey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

24 Elo 202057min