Human Monsters

Serial killer and rapist Rodney Alcala appeared on the match-making show "The Dating Game". He played his own version of the game in real-life. Unfortunately for his victims, the penalties for losing were rape, torture and death. 

Did your parents chain you to your bed? Starve you? Put you in a cage? Raise you in a house so filthy it made you sick? Emotionally, physically and sexually abuse you? I hope not. Unfortunately, the children of David and Louise Turpin suffered this fate in their parental home. It's a tragic story, but thankfully it has a happy ending.

Dennis Rader, aka The BTK Killer or BTK Strangler, terrorized the city of Wichita, Kansas for thirty years. He killed 10 people, but that's only the tip of the iceberg in terms of how strange and sinister he is.

In some cases, their words are as chilling as their deeds. Sometimes funnier.

Sound designer: Dennis Painter

Unfortunately for the children of the Colt family, little was bequeathed to them but a multigenerational legacy of sexual abuse and recessive traits. LISTENER DISCRETION IS STRONGLY ADVISED: contains detailed descriptions of the sexual abuse of children.

The story of how Richard Speck gave himself permission to murder eight nurses.

Sound design by Dennis Painter.

Rape, mutilation, murder, mental illness and more: your tax dollars at work.

WARNING: This episode promises to be the sickest, most nauseating of them all. DO NOT listen to it less than a half hour after a meal.

 

Sound design by Dennis Painter.

These characters in this piece are about as psychotic as many of the people profiled in the podcast.

 

Sound design by Dennis Painter.

Robert Pickton was as dirty as he smelled. But nobody would have guessed that it wasn't just livestock he slaughtered on his farm.

Hurtcore is a genre of child pornography that most pedophiles consider too extreme. It consists of the wanton rape, torture and sometimes even murder of a child.

WARNING: This is the darkest and most disturbing episode of this podcast. It describes activities that involve the torture and sexual abuse of children. Listener discretion is strongly advised.