This Is Monsters

Wrath of the Gang Mom : Mary Thompson

Mary Thompson  When Aaron Iturra was murdered in 1994, authorities knew it was gang related, but when they learn who had actually ordered the killing, the entire community was shocked.

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He Didn't Practice What He Preached : James Flanders

James Flanders  When Marie Carlson vanished from Fort Walton Beach in 2011, James Flanders tried to convince authorities that she just ran off. Almost five years later, the horrifying truth would finally come out. 

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HISTORY: Smallpox Bay

HISTORY  There's a bay in Washington State that's named after a historic event. The 1862 Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic, which killed more that 20,000 Native Americans.

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From One Extreme To Another : Devon Arthurs

Devon Arthurs  Devon Arthurs had gotten involved with a group of neo-Nazis when he was a teenager and quickly became an extremist. A few years later, when he converted to Islam, he again took his beliefs to the extreme. When his beliefs clashed with...

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HISTORY: Murderous Mary

HISTORY  The early 20th century was not a great time to be an animal. in the entertainment industry. There were no regulation about how an animal should be treated, which meant they lived in terrible conditions. When an  circus elephant named Mary...

An Alien in Human Skin : JonThomas Cloud

JonThomas Cloud  When Andrew Stankiewicz was brought to the hospital with gunshot wounds, his wife, Teresa Stankiewicz, and step-son, JonThomas Cloud, claimed someone tried to rob them. The problem was that the evidence did not match their story.

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Thantos and the Death Knights : James Nelson

James Nelson  When Jessica Williams was found dead near the railroad tracks in Portland, Oregon, the investigation would lead to a group of kids who lived on the streets. It wasn't an isolated incident, though. It turned out these groups, referred to...

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The Death of the Missoula Mauler : Wayne Nance

Wayne Nance  Wayne Nance spent more thn a decade terrorizing Missoula, Montana. In 1986, he tried to kill Doug and Kris Wells, but they turned out to be too much for him to handle.

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The World's Worst Neighbor : James Brenner

James Brenner  Dylan Rounds had a large piece of land in Utah to live out his dream of being an independent farmer. When he went missing on May 28th, 2022, everybody came out to search for him. It would turn out that the person responsible for...

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She Blamed Her Husband For His Murder : Tasha Bentley

Tasha Bentley  When Gary Bentley was found murdered in his bed in December of 2017, his wife Tasha Bentley tried to play dumb, but the truth was easy to find.

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The FBI's Least Wanted : Kimberly Kessler

Kimberly Kessler  When Joleen Cummings disappeared in 2018, her family hoped she had just run off for a few days. It didn't take long for investigators to zero in on a suspicious character who would turn out to have a crazy story.

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Mississippi : Edgar Ray Killen, et al.

Edgar Ray Killen, et al.  When three activists went missing in 1964, their colleagues knew something bad had happened. It turned out that a group of men, from law enforcement to church leaders, had hunted them down and ended their lives.

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The Great Train Robbery : Bruce Reynolds, et al.

In this episode, I tell you the story of the Great Train Robbery in the UK. It was carried out by a gang of 15 men being led by a man named Bruce Reynolds.

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The Goler Clan of South Mountain : William Goler

William Goler  When a 14-year-old girl told her teacher she was being sexually assaulted by her father, the investigation uncovered generations of child abuse and incest in a secluded mountain community in Nova Scotia, Canada.

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They Thought It Was His Wife : Paul White

Paul White  When Bob Eidman was murdered in his insurance office in 2007, it seemed likely that his wife had either killed him or had him killed. After DNA was collected, the truth would lead investigators in a completely different direction.

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HISTORY: Tuskegee Syphilis Study

HISTORY  The horrifying story of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

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The Denver Spiderman : Theodore Coneys

Theodore Coneys  When Philip Peters was found bludgeoned to death in his home in Denver, Colorado, investigators couldn't figure out how the attacker got in the home. The truth would end up being stranger than fiction.

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Father Manipulates Daughter Into Murder : Lloyd Neurauter

Lloyd Neurauter  Lloyd Neurauter gave his daughter and ultimatum: either he would died or her mother would die. After years of emotional manipulation, she helped him do the unthinkable.

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The Doctor of Starvation Heights : Linda Hazzard

Linda Hazzard  Linda Hazzard was a "doctor" who believed she could cure any ailment through fasting. She ended up starving multiple people to death before getting convicted.

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Three Days in a Basement : Chad Schipper

Chad Schipper  Chad Schipper was a financial adviser who was terrible at managing money. All his investments had failed and he was in a ton of debt, so he came up with a convoluted plan to steal the money he needed to dig himself out of the hole h e...

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