Thomas Randolph called 911 on the night of May 8, 2008, from his Las Vegas home with a chilling story: he and his sixth wife, Sharon Causse, had just returned from a date when a masked intruder shot her in the head. Randolph claimed he then killed the intruder in…
In this episode Jim Chapman examines the crime, conviction, and eventual failed execution of death row inmate Christa Pike in Tennessee after being convicted in the murder of Colleen Slemmer. Timestamps 01:45 Failed Execution Shock 02:58 Job Corps Background 10:33 Krista Pike Emerges 20:11 Clues on Campus 26:31 Pike Confesses…
In this episode Jim Chapman brings you to Alaska and tells you the story of Israel Keyes. Jim covers the disappearance of Samantha Koenig in Anchorage in 2012 and the investigation that followed, including the ransom scheme and the evidence later linked to him. Jim also dives deep into Keyes…
On the afternoon of November 21, 2021, downtown Waukesha, Wisconsin, was packed for the city’s annual Christmas parade. Kids in baseball uniforms. Bank employees handing out candy. The Milwaukee Dancing Grannies in sequins and pompoms. Then a red Ford Escape came down the route and did not stop. In the…
In 2008, a young man from Chillicothe, Ohio, slit his girlfriend’s mother’s throat, sat on the couch, and watched her die—then set the apartment on fire. He called himself “Box Cutter.” Prosecutors wanted death. A psychologist’s finding about his IQ took it off the table. He went to prison for…
On November 15, 2017, 24-year-old Sydney Loofe left her Lincoln apartment excited for a second Tinder date. She posted a Snapchat: “Ready for my date.” She never came home.The woman she matched with was Bailey Boswell. Sydney didn’t know Boswell lived with older boyfriend Aubrey Trail — a career criminal…
In January 1958, a 19-year-old high school dropout from Lincoln, Nebraska named Charles Starkweather and his 14-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate went on a murder spree that left eleven people dead across Nebraska and Wyoming. Starkweather, who idolized James Dean and styled himself as a rebellious outsider, and Fugate, who…
Part 2 of a 2 Part Series For more than three decades, Wichita, Kansas lived under the shadow of a killer who named himself. He called himself BTK—Bind, Torture, Kill—and he made sure the police and the public never forgot it. Between 1974 and 1991, Dennis Rader murdered at least…
Part 1 of a 2 Part Series For more than three decades, Wichita, Kansas lived under the shadow of a killer who named himself. He called himself BTK—Bind, Torture, Kill—and he made sure the police and the public never forgot it. Between 1974 and 1991, Dennis Rader murdered at least…
“The Craigslist Killer” In October 2007, 24-year-old Katherine Ann Olson, a bright theater and Hispanic studies graduate from St. Olaf College, responded to what seemed like a straightforward babysitting job posting on Craigslist. She arrived at a home in Savage, Minnesota, expecting to care for a child. Instead, she walked…
Mollie Tibbetts, a 20-year-old University of Iowa student was home for the summer, working, running regularly, and spending time with family and her boyfriend when she disappeared on the evening of July 18, 2018, triggering a large search by family, volunteers, and law enforcement. The evidence led investigators to Cristhian…
In the quiet rural community of Appomattox, Virginia, a horrifying family dispute erupted into one of the deadliest mass shootings in the state's history. On January 19, 2010, 40-year-old Christopher Bryan Speight went on a brutal rampage, methodically gunning down eight people—including his own sister, her husband, their two young…
In the early morning hours of January 7, 2012, beloved Sidney High School math teacher Sherry Arnold laced up her running shoes for a routine jog through her quiet Montana neighborhood. She never came home. What began as a desperate search for a missing wife, mother, and pillar of the…
Part 4 of a 4 part series Jim Chapman brings you into the shadows of one of America’s most notorious serial killers: Ted Bundy. This episode covers Bundy’s Florida trials, including the Chi Omega and Kimberly Leach cases, both ending in death sentences. It also follows his time on death…
Part 3 of a 4 part series Jim Chapman brings you into the shadows of one of America’s most notorious serial killers: Ted Bundy. This episode covers Bundy’s 1975 attacks and murders in Colorado and Utah, his 1977 multiple escapes, the Chi Omega attack in Tallahassee, and the abduction and…
Part 2 of a 4 part series Jim Chapman brings you into the shadows of one of America’s most notorious serial killers: Ted Bundy. Behind the handsome face, law-school smile, and easy charm lurked a predator who terrorized the United States from 1974-1978. From his first known murders in Washington…
Part 1 of a 4 part series Jim Chapman brings you into the shadows of one of America’s most notorious serial killers: Ted Bundy. Behind the handsome face, law-school smile, and easy charm lurked a predator who terrorized the United States from 1974-1978. From his first known murders in Washington…
In the summer of 1969, a ragtag group of runaways and outcasts living in the California desert unleashed one of the most shocking crime sprees in American history. At the center of it all was Charles Manson—a failed musician with a magnetic personality and a deadly vision. In this episode,…
In this episode of "50 Shades of Evil" Jim Chapman brings you to Massachusetts to tell the story of "Freddy" Geas who after being sentenced to life in prison, killed infamous Boston mobster "Whitey" Bulger.
Part 2 of a 2 part series: In July 2017, the peaceful suburbs of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, were rocked by a string of disappearances that quickly turned into one of the most disturbing murder cases in recent American history. Over the course of just three days, four young men—Jimi Patrick,…
Part One In July 2017, the peaceful suburbs of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, were rocked by a string of disappearances that quickly turned into one of the most disturbing murder cases in recent American history. Over the course of just three days, four young men—Jimi Patrick, Dean Finocchiaro, Thomas Meo, and…
Between 1993 and 1995, a small rural hospital in Clinton, Indiana, experienced a horrifying spike in ICU deaths. The mortality rate tripled almost overnight, with elderly patients suddenly coding and dying at an alarming pace. Every victim had one thing in common: licensed practical nurse Orville Lynn Majors was present.…
Rocky Ali Beamon—better known as the “Vigalante Killer.” Already serving a life sentence for the 2005 kidnapping, robbery, and brutal drowning murder of Deborah Lacey (carried out with his girlfriend Karen Wilkins to fuel a crack cocaine binge), Beamon wasn’t done killing. Behind the walls of Florida state prisons, he…
On March 11, 2005, Brian Gene Nichols was sitting in a Fulton County Courthouse holding cell in Atlanta, Georgia, awaiting trial on SA charges. What happened next became one of the most shocking courthouse attacks in American history. In a matter of minutes, Nichols overpowered his deputy escort, seized her…
