The Bizarre Case of Paul Warner Powell: The Man Who Sent Himself to the Electric Chair

Those who are familiar with the phrase "Epstein didn't kill himself", will know that Jeffrey Epstein is at the center of multiple conspiracy theories surrounding his death. Realistically speaking howe...

30 Aug 20221h 48min

Lizzie Borden was immortalized in song, and the rhyme about the murder of her parents became entrenched in popular culture, even though few remember who Lizzie Borden actually was. But did the Lizzie ...

26 Aug 20221h 1min

Poisoning your relatives for one's own gain isn't a new topic on The Casual Criminalist. But what makes Mary Blandy's case unique, is the fact that 18th century forensic science was used to prove that...

23 Aug 202255min

In 2016, a menace was stalking the streets of Anchorage, Alaska. Always hunting at night, this killer would walk up to his unsuspecting victims and kill them without warning. Only after his death woul...

19 Aug 202235min

The Krugersdorp Murders is a baffling story about the Church of Satan and people who were desperately trying to escape a life in the occult, of sadistic witches and dark rituals, of vampires and werew...

16 Aug 20221h 40min

In the late 1970s, the Hillside Strangler had been captured, and two men now awaited trail. But one of them, Kenneth Bianchi, had a plan for escaping a life sentence - fake a Hillside Strangler attack...

12 Aug 20221h 44min

While it wasn't the first school shooting to take place in the USA, the Columbine High School Massacre is one of the most well known ones. The two shooters had no other reason for the attack than a ne...

9 Aug 202257min

The murder of JonBenét Ramsey is infamous and has been discussed in 4 movies, a Netflix documentary, a Dr. Phil interview, and 15 books. Today we're going to look at every aspect of this case, and try...

5 Aug 20222h