Monsters Who Murder: Serial Killer Confessions

This week on we examine the murders of eight year old Merah, seven year old Elias, six year old Nahtahn, two year old Gabriel and one year old Abigail Elaine at the hands of their father, Timothy Jones. Jones, from South Carolina, was a devout Christian used religious instruction as a reason to systematically beat his children with the final fatal consequences.  Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Darlie Routier currently sits on the death row in Texas for the murder of one of her sons, five year old Damon. Also killed the same night was her six year old son Devon, however she has not yet been tried for his death. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The arrest came spectacularly and almost out of the blue, almost 20 years after the disappearances and murders of three women in Claremont, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Bradley Robert Edwards was arrested on December 22, 2016 and charged with two of the murders. That of Jane Rimmer and Keira Glennon. On September 24, 2020, almost four years after his arrest, Edwards was found guilty of the murders of Jane and Keira as well as other assault and related charges. He was found not guilty of the suspected murder of his first victim, Sarah Spiers. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

After watching the ITV drama DES, Robert & Amanda share their thoughts on the accuracy of the miniseries and the characterisation of the title character, as portrayed by David Tennant.Then, a replay of our original profile of Nilsen from Season 4 to refresh your memory.Dennis Nilsen was a Scotsman living in Britain who murdered 15 men over a four year period.The low ranking civil servant kept his victims’ bodies for days, often sleeping next to them, before finally disposing of them when they began to smell. He disposed of those bodies by either torching them or flushing them down the toilet. Keep listening right to the very end for a powerful interview with one of Nilsen's victims who got away. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In our darkest moments it can be comforting to know that calling emergency services can render assistance quickly, there are hundreds of published calls of young children calling when their parents have fainted, there have been babies born on the sides of roads, but here, we will look at those devastating calls and how they were managed. We are looking at a variety of different crimes and disappearances to show how a dispatcher can make or break a case, and how they manage the person on the other end of the phone. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is part 5 on our profile into Jodi Arias. If you haven’t listened to the previous 4 installments we highly recommend you do.For our final episode we now pick up where we left off last week, Arias is being questioned by Detective Flores and we are now at a crucial moment Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The police interrogation of Jodi Arias continues, but this time they make a breakthrough. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is the second police interview with Jodi Arias, who murdered her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander on June 4, 2008.  Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The enthralling police interview continues...Thirty year old Travis Alexander was murdered by his ex-girlfriend Jodi Arias on June 4, 2008,. After spending several hours together in Travis’ home having sex and taking photos Travis headed to the shower. Arias followed him and took several photos before she attacked. Travis died from 27 stab wounds and a gun shot to the head. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On June 4, 2008, thirty year old Travis Alexander was murdered by his ex-girlfriend Jodi Arias. They had spent part of the day together, they had sex and took photos of each other. Once they were finished, Travis headed to the shower where Arias took several more photos before she attacked. Travis was stabbed at least 27 times with a knife that severed his carotid (artery, his jugular vein and his throat. He also sustained numerous defense injuries to his hands as he tried to fight off Arias. As he slumped in the bottom of the shower, Arias shot him in the head. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on Monsters Who Murder we examine the various media interviews conducted with Richard Ramirez following his capture. Ramirez was known as the Night Stalker, but he is not to be confused with the recently caught killer, Joseph D’Angelo known as the Original night stalker (among other monikers). Ramirez raped, tortured and murdered at least 14 victims over a 16 month period between April 1984 and August 1985. His youngest victim, was also his first. 9 year old Mei Leung was raped, beaten, stabbed and then hanged. The girl’s murder was only linked to Ramirez in 2009, yet a bombshell was dropped when a second person’s DNA was also found connected to the Leung crime scene.Following Leung’s murder, Ramirez travelled across California where he would usually murder people in their homes after breaking in to rob them. Most of the women were raped and one elderly woman was even stomped to death by the killer. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions.

This week we’re doing something very different. The maxim says, blood is thicker than water, but does this still ring true when you find out that a family member is a killer? How does someone reconcile the thoughts that the person they love is a cold-blooded murderer? Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

WARNING: This episode discusses race and hate crimes in the US. With the current climate in the US, if you feel this episode may be a trigger for you, we suggest you skip to the next episode. On June 17, 2015 twenty-one year old Dylann Roof walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina where a bible reading class was being held and shortly afterwards opened fire. In the attack, Roof killed nine people and injured a tenth. He fled the scene, but many recognised the man and an A-P-B was put out on him. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Brian David Mitchell is a religious fanatic who abducted fourteen year old Elizabeth Smart from her home in Salt Lake City and kept her a sexual slave for 9 months before she was rescued on March 12, 2003. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Israel Keyes is an American serial killer, rapist, arsonist, burglar and bank robber. He was captured in 2012 over the murder of Samantha Koening.In part 1 we listened as police investigators started their interrogation of Keyes over several days in what can only be described as a game of cat and mouse as Keyes refused to make it an easy win for detectives.We now pick on on June 7, 2012 as Keyes is brought in for another interrogation. Again they go through the same information and his Miranda rights. He has in front of him a cup of coffee and a brown paper bag containing some food. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In a crime spree from 1996 until his capture in 2012, Israel Keyes murdered at least three people. He also raped and tortured many more. His confession is one of the most interesting and complete we have ever examined. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin Ireland was responsible for the murders of five men and was dubbed by the British press as the Gay Slayer, as he targeted homosexual men. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week our psychological profile is of Gerard Schaefer, a self-confessed serial killer who claims to have murdered up to thirty women, though he was only sent to prison for the 1972 murders of two teenagers - Susan Place, aged 17 and Georgia Jessup, aged 16. Both of them had been tortured before being murdered and buried at Hutchinson Island, Florida. At the times of the murders, Schaefer was a Floridian Deputy Sheriff and was previously a police officer. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Doctor Harold “Fred” Shipman is suspected of being one of the most prolific serial killers of the modern age, with numbers in the hundreds. As an angel of death, the patients who put his trust in him also met their end at his hand. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, our psychological profile is on the confessions of John Norman Collins, the killer responsible for the “Michigan Murders”. Collins had murdered several young women and girls between 1967 and 1969. The victims were all kidnapped, beaten, raped and assaulted before being murdered and mutilated. He was sent to prison for one murder, but is believed to be responsible for a further six murders. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/monsters-who-murder-serial-killer-confessions.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.