546 episodes
Real Crime Profile Wondery
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4.3 • 1.6K Ratings
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Join Jim Clemente (former FBI profiler), Laura Richards (criminal behavioral analyst, former New Scotland Yard) and Lisa Zambetti (Casting director for CBS' Criminal Minds) as they profile behavior from real criminal cases.
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The Redhead Murders Part 2
Jim and High School teacher, Alex Campbell, conclude their discussion on how his class identified a Serial Killer no one knew existed.
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The Redhead Murders
Jim discusses how a small town High School teacher, Alex Campbell, and his class identify a Serial Killer no one knew existed.
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Shenandoah Murders Update
Former FBI agent Kathy Canning Mello and Lisa Zambetti (co host emeritus!) are joined by Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley of the Mind over Murder podcast to talk about the breaking news in the Shenandoah Murders case in which law enforcement believe they have finally identified a brutal killer’s identity in the killing of two young women.
In May 1996, Lollie Winans and Julie Williams were murdered at their campsite in the popular Shenandoah National Park in the middle of rural Virginia, not far from a busy tourist resort called Skyland. Many people, including park and resort staff, had seen the happy, friendly couple in the area and were alarmed when they were reported missing. As experienced outdoorswomen, Lollie and Julie knew how to take care of themselves and each other. When their bodies were discovered, despite the evidence that the women had been brutally tortured and killed, law enforcement decided to not alert the public that a murderer could be in the park, and in fact diverted attention away from the crime. Ridiculous theories were floated as to the cause of their deaths such as it was the result of a bear attack or perhaps a murder-suicide. One man was eventually wrongfully accused of their murders (never successfully prosecuted) while other suspects remained at large.
Kathy, Lisa, Bill and Kristin discuss the identity of the newly discovered killer, and any possible connection this killer has to the murder of Bill’s sister Cathy Thomas and her partner Becki Dowski.
To hear even more about this case, you go back and listen to Jim, Laura and Lisa deep dive the Shenandoah murders in Nov 2022, ep 401 when they interviewed Kathryn Miles, the extraordinary journalist who covered Lollie and Julie’s lives and horrific deaths in her book “Trailed: One woman’s quest to solve the Shenandoah murders”. -
Truth & Justice
Best friend and colleague, Bob Ruff,is launching a new ground sourced investigation and he needs our help to get the word out…
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Full Circle
RCP goes full circle with a very special crossover episode with our long time friend and original guest, Bob Ruff. Jim and Bob catch up on current projects and cases and future plans!
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The Tricky Part of Baby Reindeer Part 2
Jim and award-winning actor and writer Martin Moran conclude their discussion into “Baby Reindeer”
Martin Moran wrote the OBIE Award winning “The Tricky Part” and “All The Rage” and starred in the Broadway musical “Titanic.”
Customer Reviews
The red head ladies murderer
What an interesting couple of podcast. What a fantastic teacher Alex Campbell must be, how I wish he’d taught me how to put learning & rigorous research into action and well done those pupils for giving these red headed ladies identity & dignity, carry on the excellent work !
Forensic Insight
Give me a podcast in which the contributors are at the top of their field of experience. Check. Where they deep dive, explore, challenge and debate every aspect of criminal psychology and behaviour. Check. Guide you to other experts and interesting shows. Check. Make you feel informed each and every episode. Check. It’s endlessly fascinating.
Very flawed
Two of the hosts undoubtedly have professional experience, but this is nonetheless flawed.
Jim is frequently condescending and unnecessarily belligerent which grates; he often gives the impression of not liking to be corrected by the other hosts.
Laura seems none too bright and gives the impression of stretching what is not a huge amount of expertise to paper-thickness. She is desperate to tell us of every little thing she’s every done; she’ll probably tell us she was milk monitor at junior school sooner or late. Worse still, she trots out truisms and simplistic phrases in every other sentence as if they are brilliant examples of professional insight — if I hear her repeat the phrase “clear the ground from under your feet” one more time…! As a born and bred Londoner, I find myself slightly concerned that this is the level of what passes for ‘expertise’ in the Met.
It also doesn’t help that Laura endlessly mispronounces even common words: it’s corroborate not coWoborate, the Portuguese term arguido is pronounced argeedo not algweedo. As I said, I’m a Londoner, so this is not an accent issue, it’s a mistakes issue. Similarly, there are commonplace phrases she completely misuses as if she doesn’t really understand them, which gives her the impression of trying to seem more intelligent and better educated than she is and failing.
All in all, this is a fairly interesting podcast. It’s always interesting to hear the views of an ‘insider’ and of someone who has professional experience. However, there is a huge amount the two main hosts could improve on.