Peter Manuel: The Beast of Birkenshaw (Part 2)
When Peter Smart failed to show up for work on the morning of January 6, 1958, officers in Lanarkshire, Scotland were dispatched to Smart’s home to conduct a well-being check. When no one came to the ...
22 Jul 202457min
Peter Manuel: The Beast of Birkenshaw (Part 1)
With a violent criminal history going back to his early teen years, Peter Manuel turned out to be one of Scotland’s worst serial killers. His tumultuous early teenage years were peppered with break-i...
18 Jul 202454min
The Murder of Julia Martha Thomas
In early March 1879, fifty-five-year-old widow Julia Martha Thomas disappeared from her home in southwest London. Julia often travelled by herself on moment’s notice, so neighbors thought nothing of h...
15 Jul 20241h 5min
The Murder of Patricia Lonergan
On the morning of October 25, 1943, the body of twenty-two-year-old Lion Brewery heiress, Patricia Lonergan, was discovered in a locked room in the New York apartment she shared with her infant son. P...
11 Jul 20241h 10min
Charles Whitman: The Texas Tower Sniper
On the morning of August 1, 1966, twenty-five-year-old Charles Whitman arrived at the University of Texas Austin campus a little before noon, carrying with him several rifles, pistols, and a shotgun c...
8 Jul 20241h 32min
The Society Gang Killing
On Thanksgiving Day 1934, police in Tulsa, Oklahoma found the dead body of John Gorrell Jr., a Kansas City dental student, slumped behind the wheel of his car, which had come to a stop at a downtown i...
4 Jul 20241h 14min
Clementine Barnabet & The Church of the Sacrifice & The Louisiana Axe Murders
From about 1910 to 1912, an alarming number of axe murders were occurring across the American South and Southwest. Though many would speculate as to the identity of perpetrator, including the theory t...
1 Jul 20241h
Listener Tales 87
Well- DAMN SAM! It’s Listener Tales 87! This week’s episode is brought to you by WORST ROOMMATES EVER! Inspired by the show coming back to Netflix on 6/26 for SEASON TWO-We pull stories about creepy c...
27 Jun 20241h 1min
