Killer Code

Creator at Obomedia

Unlock the darkest corners of the human mind. Killer Code deciphers the chilling patterns behind history's most notorious serial killers. Dive deep into the psychology, methodologies, and unsolved mysteries that continue to haunt us. We go beyond the headlines to meticulously analyze criminal profiles, forensic evidence, and the societal impact of these heinous acts. Killer Code offers an unparalleled exploration into true crime, revealing the intricate 'code' that drives the most disturbing criminal minds. New episodes are released daily, every Monday through Sunday, at 4:00 AM, ensuring you always have a fresh dose of gripping true crime content. Each installment provides detailed case studies, expert analysis, and a critical look at the justice system's response to these brutal crimes. This podcast is for true crime enthusiasts, armchair detectives, and anyone fascinated by the darkest aspects of human behavior. If you seek comprehensive, respectful, and deeply researched accounts of serial killer cases, you've found your next obsession. Subscribe to Killer Code now and never miss an investigation.

  1. 5 hr ago

    The Shoe, the Blind Spot, and the Loyalty Card That Lied

    The Shoe, the Blind Spot, and the Loyalty Card That Lied A dead woman found face-down in four inches of marsh water clutching a men's size 10½ dress shoe with a clean sole-no mud, no prints-sets off a seven-year trail that ties together three women and three casinos. What does a shoe that looks like it was placed in a living room and then teleported to a marsh tell us about the last swipe on a loyalty card and a blind parking spot with a dead camera? In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from the moment Julie Armstrong discovered the body to the audit that uncovered irregular loyalty-card access, showing how a single object and a single unexplained card swipe create a web of unanswered questions. How did the shoe, the parking spot, and the players' club swipe converge on one woman who vanished after a routine casino visit? Person: April Marshall Date: December 5 (last recorded card swipe at 5:47 PM) Location: Painted Ridge Grand Resort / overflow lot space 114 Status: Deceased (body found in marsh at Saguaro Flats) Investigator: Detective Cynthia York - The shoe was a men's dark brown leather right dress shoe, size 10½, with a clean sole and trace talc under the tongue. - April Marshall had 46 recorded visits to Painted Ridge Grand Resort over three years, each visit at least 90 minutes long. - April's loyalty card registered a single swipe at 5:47 PM at the players' club entrance on December 5 and produced no further activity or camera footage inside the resort. - April's white Ford F-150 was found parked in overflow lot space 114 at the eastern perimeter the next morning; that spot was outside main security camera coverage and the eastern fence-post camera had been reported malfunctioning 11 days earlier. - An audit 14 days after April's body was found showed four women over 45 had their loyalty-card accounts pulled from a staff terminal within 12 hours of their recorded visits using the same staff login: Thomas Hunter. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  2. 1 day ago

    Locked Dock, Frosted Book: How a Badge Exposed a Serial Strangler

    Locked Dock, Frosted Book: How a Badge Exposed a Serial Strangler A frozen step, a dry large-print Reader's Digest, and a badge-locked freight dock turned a routine missing-persons case into a corridor-wide investigation; four women vanished along the rail between 2007 and 2011, and a date-due slip linked one body to a secured industrial site - who had access to that dock and why was a book left there three weeks after a woman disappeared? In this episode, we tell how a small physical trace changed the scope of an inquiry, what investigators did next, and how records and geography tied together four disappearances along the same rail corridor - could a freight facility and a single book reveal a pattern no one had seen? Person: Monica Osborne Date: October 13, 2011 Location: Dellwood Junction freight dock; body recovered off State Route Nine Status: Strangled; body recovered three weeks after disappearance Agent: Steven Underwood, age 41 - A sixteen-year-old dock worker found a large-print Reader's Digest on November 4, 2011 on the second step of a badge-locked dock with frost underneath it undisturbed. - Monica Osborne was 46, a dental hygienist who walked the same two-mile route for eleven years and borrowed the Reader's Digest from the Kellum Road library branch two weeks before she vanished. - Monica's disappearance was reported the evening of October 13, 2011 by her daughter Trish; Monica's car and a half-finished coffee were left at home and a library book was missing. - Monica's body was recovered from a drainage ditch off State Route Nine, eight miles from the Dellwood Junction freight yard, and the medical examiner determined she had been strangled. - In March 2012 a task force led by Special Agent Steven Underwood compiled corridor disappearance reports and identified four women who had last been seen between 2007 and 2011 along the same rail corridor. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  3. 2 days ago

    Green Bag on Unit 14: How a Frozen Clue Broke a Killer's Silence

    Green Bag on Unit 14: How a Frozen Clue Broke a Killer's Silence A green canvas bag sat outside Boat Storage Unit Fourteen with a thin shell of ice across its zipper - inside was a driver's license, a tube of lipstick, $37 cash and a receipt dated August 9, 2008 that tied the bag to a missing woman. That frozen clue reopened a six-month-old case and revealed links to two earlier disappearances; but who had access to Unit Fourteen and why was the bag left where anyone could find it? In this episode, we follow the timeline from a locked Cabin Seven and a missing dental hygienist to the moment a county snowplow operator unzipped the bag on a cold February morning; we outline the evidence found, the county access records that named a facilities supervisor, and the pattern connecting three disappearances - but how did those files stay separate until that bag appeared? Person: Carol Donnelly Date: August 9, 2008 Location: Cabin Seven, Lakewind Resort, Heron Flats Person: Douglas Snyder Event: Green canvas bag found February, 2009 - Carol Donnelly was 29 years old and worked as a dental hygienist in Harben for four years. - Carol checked into Cabin Seven alone on a Saturday and was last documented buying items at Fenton Bait and Marine Supply on August 9, 2008. - Cabin Seven was found locked from the inside and Carol's car remained in the resort lot for approximately 36 hours before being reported. - A green canvas bag outside Boat Storage Unit Fourteen contained Carol’s driver’s license, a tube of lipstick, $37, and an August 9, 2008 receipt. - County access records showed Douglas Snyder, age 51 and Facilities and Grounds Supervisor at Heron Flats Resort since 2004, held a laminated card authorizing entry to county storage aprons. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  4. 3 days ago

    Courier Opens the Gate: The Marcia Owens Murder

    Courier Opens the Gate: The Marcia Owens Murder A woman’s remains found in a 48‑quart cooler with the brand sticker still intact, a gate opened with a combination and a laminated photo of that lock found later - how did routine delivery routes hide a calculated disappearance? Which single act connected a missing document processor in 2017 to a body in the desert in 2019? In this episode, we tell the events that link two women, two counties, and a courier whose access and artifacts drew detectives across jurisdictions, asking whether the everyday work of document delivery provided cover for something far darker. Person: Marcia Owens Age: 54 Event: Remains found in a cooler at Serrano Flats, Cobre County, September 2019 Person: Jason Sheridan Occupation: Courier, based in South Valley, Albuquerque Item: Laminated photo of utility easement gate combination and twelve pairs of purple nitrile gloves in a business storage unit - Cooler found roughly twenty feet off a Cobre County utility easement road with no footprints or broken brush nearby. - Cooler description: 48‑quart retail grade with brand sticker intact on the lid. - Marcia Owens was last known to miss her Thursday booth at Frontier Grill on September 5, 2019; daughter reported her missing on September 2, 2019 after two days of no contact. - Jason Sheridan, courier, had nine years in the business, contracted with four document firms, and in 2018 photographed and laminated the easement gate combination. - Clara Benavidez vanished from Doña Ana County in September 2017; no body and no confirmed crime scene, two years before Owens’s remains were found. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  5. 4 days ago

    Folded Glasses, Cold Engine: The Quiet Abduction on Alderman Road

    Folded Glasses, Cold Engine: The Quiet Abduction on Alderman Road The morning found prescription glasses folded neatly on the hood of a green pickup and an engine cold enough that dew had dried along the wheel wells - a 22-year-old who needed those lenses to read a street sign had vanished. Why would someone remove and fold glasses and leave them like a calling card at a staged breakdown, and who touched that hood with a hand that never appeared in any database? In this episode, we walk through the timeline, the scene at Alderman Creek Road, and the questions that kept one investigator's legal pad full of unwritten answers as the case unfolded. What the physical evidence and the small inconsistencies reveal about motive and opportunity is the thread that ties the story together. Person: Dennis Webb Date: August 14, 2009 (truck found) / August 13, 2009 (last call) Location: Alderman Creek Road, Marsden County, Tennessee Investigator: Jean Cook Case: Found strangled three quarters of a mile into the tree line behind Piney Hollow Baptist - Glasses were prescription, folded, lenses facing up, placed on the hood of a green pickup. - Truck engine was cold and dew had dried along the wheel wells when discovered at 7:42 AM. - Partial palm print on the front edge of the hood did not match Dennis or anyone in the county database. - Distributor cap had been deliberately loosened to cause misfire, estimated 90 seconds for someone with mechanical knowledge. - Dennis Webb's wallet was found on his person; no defensive wounds; body found strangled in a dry creek bed. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  6. 5 days ago

    She Stopped Bringing Kolaches: The Single Shoe That Told All

    She Stopped Bringing Kolaches: The Single Shoe That Told All A single size seven patent-leather dress shoe sat upright beneath a porch on Keswick Lane, placed with such care there was no disturbed soil and no second shoe anywhere. The shoe was found seven days after Vicki Ford went missing and the reason it was left there would remain unexplained for years-who put it there, and why? In this episode, we follow the timeline from the morning Randy Olson noticed the smell and found the shoe to Detective Lauren Romano's arrival at the scene, detailing the house's defective latch, Vicki's routines, and the neighborhood activity around the Granton County Fair. How did knowledge of a specific latch, a quiet entry on a fireworks night, and a single orderly shoe connect to Vicki's death? Person: Vicki Ford Date: July 4-5, 2011 (time of death) Location: Keswick Lane, Granton County Cause: Manual strangulation Finder: Randy Olson (discovered shoe July 12, 2011) - Vicki Ford turned 38 in March 2011 and had worked 11 years as a records clerk at the Granton County Department of Health. - The Granton County Fair ran June 22-July 3, 2011; Keswick Lane is less than a mile from the fairgrounds. - Bernard Chu reported seeing an unmarked white cargo van parked in the alley behind Vicki's property on at least three evenings during the two weeks before she disappeared. - The back door latch required lifting the handle to a specific angle to open without a key, a defect the homeowner Al Geary had noticed for two years. - The medical examiner determined time of death as sometime during July 4th or 5th, 2011, and confirmed manual strangulation. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  7. 6 days ago

    The Cake on the Counter: How a Caregiver Wrote Her Victims' Doors

    The Cake on the Counter: How a Caregiver Wrote Her Victims' Doors A birthday cake with 63 unlit candles sat on the counter while Crystal Sullivan lay dead for at least 14 hours - the detail Detective Eric Vickers wrote on an index card and kept for four years. Three more elderly women would be found strangled in June, each in homes with doors noted months earlier by a home health aide; what connects the notes to the killings? In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events, the repeated details in case files, and the observations Vickers recorded as the pattern emerged, asking whether routine home-safety notes hold the key to understanding how the perpetrator entered these houses. Person: Crystal Sullivan Date: June 9, 2011 Location: Kellard Cause: Manual strangulation Investigator: Eric Vickers - The cake on Crystal Sullivan’s counter had white frosting, blue gel letters spelling “Crystal,” and sixty-three unlit candles in plastic sleeves. - Crystal Sullivan was dead for at least fourteen hours and found twelve feet from the entrance with the front door unlocked and no sign of forced entry. - A home health aide, Susan Walsh, had written in Home Safety Notes that the side door off the kitchen had a worn latch. - Beverly Marsh, age 61, was found strangled on June 14, 2012, with a back door open and a prior note that the back door latch “does not engage fully.” - Lorraine Peck, age 59, was found on June 11, 2013, with a side laundry room door discovered unlocked and older hardware described (push-button knob lock from the 1970s). To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  8. 18 Oct

    He Left a Key in Her Hand: The April Walker Case

    He Left a Key in Her Hand: The April Walker Case A motel key fob was found clenched in a dead woman's hand on May 9, 2011 - an amber, diamond-shaped Gulf Pines Inn tag from a motel demolished eleven years earlier, deliberately placed after death. Why would someone keep that fob for years and return to position it in April Walker's left hand, and what pattern does that gesture reveal about other killings along Route 17? In this episode, we follow the timeline from April Walker's last known sighting on April 25, 2011 to the discovery of her body fourteen days later, and we trace the investigative leads that tied her death to previous cases and to a handwritten motel maintenance log. What connection links the Gulf Pines fob, a string of motel-living victims, and the decisions of those who could have intervened? Person: April Walker Date: April 25, 2011 (last seen); May 9, 2011 (found) Location: Pelican Spit embankment on Route 17, six miles south of Carver Beach Investigator: Kevin Simmons, 41 years old Previous Case: Brenda Kutch, strangled May 2010, found in a drainage culvert on Route 17 - April Walker was 24 years old and worked as a shift supervisor at the Tidemark Travel Plaza. - She was captured on surveillance for a 40-second clip at 11:14 PM on April 25, 2011, then never seen alive again. - Her body was discovered on May 9, 2011 by dog-walker Holly Hamilton along the embankment. - The Gulf Pines Inn fob found in her left hand came from a motel demolished in 2000 (eleven years before 2011). - Investigator Kevin Simmons noted a potential pattern and wrote "KUTCH - PATTERN?" after comparing Walker's case to Brenda Kutch's May 2010 strangulation. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

See All (140)

About

Unlock the darkest corners of the human mind. Killer Code deciphers the chilling patterns behind history's most notorious serial killers. Dive deep into the psychology, methodologies, and unsolved mysteries that continue to haunt us. We go beyond the headlines to meticulously analyze criminal profiles, forensic evidence, and the societal impact of these heinous acts. Killer Code offers an unparalleled exploration into true crime, revealing the intricate 'code' that drives the most disturbing criminal minds. New episodes are released daily, every Monday through Sunday, at 4:00 AM, ensuring you always have a fresh dose of gripping true crime content. Each installment provides detailed case studies, expert analysis, and a critical look at the justice system's response to these brutal crimes. This podcast is for true crime enthusiasts, armchair detectives, and anyone fascinated by the darkest aspects of human behavior. If you seek comprehensive, respectful, and deeply researched accounts of serial killer cases, you've found your next obsession. Subscribe to Killer Code now and never miss an investigation.

Information

  • Creator
    Creator at Obomedia
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    140
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 OBOMEDIA Creators
  • Show Website
    Killer Code