Profiling Evil

Gamut Podcast Network

The Profiling Evil Podcast delves into unsolved criminal cases from around the world, peeling back the layers of human behavior to reveal what drives evil. We look into the mind of the predator—their motivations, their victim selection, and the patterns that expose them. Each episode goes beyond headlines, examining how investigators identify red flags, connect the dots, and capitalize on the very errors offenders believe will never be found. Your host, Mike King, brings over four decades of experience in criminal justice and behavioral analysis. A retired law enforcement executive, Mike served as Chief of Staff to Utah Attorney General Jan Graham and Weber County Attorney Reed M. Richards. He began his career at the Ogden Police Department, where he worked patrol, motor enforcement, and SWAT before moving into investigations where he led task forces that hunted serial predators and violent offenders. Mike’s expertise earned him national recognition. He served as co-chair of the FBI’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) National Advisory Board, directed UTAP, the Utah Criminal Tracking and Analysis Project, and supported intelligence operations during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. After retiring from public service, Mike joined the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri), where he spent years consulting with police agencies around the globe on intelligence gathering, emergency communications, and major event management. In 2024, he retired again, this time to focus full-time on Profiling Evil and its growing community of true crime investigators, students, and enthusiasts. Mike is an internationally recognized speaker, trainer, and adjunct professor, as well as a visiting scholar at multiple universities. He’s authored several acclaimed works on crime and human behavior, including: ·      Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing ·      Deceived: An Investigative Memoir of the Zion Society Cult ·      She Knew No Fear ·      Who Killed King Tut? ·      Predators: Who Are They and How Do We Stop Them? ·      Profilers Mike’s investigative insight and behavioral expertise have been featured on Court TV, NewsNation, Law & Crime Network, Dr. Phil, History’s Greatest Mysteries, and 60 Minutes Australia, where his calm, analytical style helps audiences understand the why behind the world’s most chilling crimes. At @ProfilingEvil, you’ll find deep dives into real investigations, expert analysis of offender behavior, and lessons in situational awareness and safety. It’s more than storytelling, it’s about learning how to recognize, understand, and ultimately disrupt evil. Watch & Subscribe on YouTube: @ProfilingEvil Learn more at www.ProfilingEvil.com Email Mike at: ProfilingEvil@gmail.com

  1. 5h ago

    Profiling Evil Joins Get a Life Podcast as Former Members talk About Cult Control | Profiling Evil

    I sat down with Cheryl Bawtinheimer, Richard Marsh, and Lane Admiral of the Get a Life podcast, three former members of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, for a wide-ranging conversation about cults, coercive control, and the psychology that keeps people trapped. We talked about my own path into cult investigations, why transparency matters more than ideology in these cases, and what it takes for survivors to be heard. Cheryl and her colleagues are doing brave work giving survivors a voice, and I am grateful they had me on. Please share your thoughts in the comments and keep them constructive and respectful. #GetALifePodcast #CherylBawtinheimer #PBCC #ExclusiveBrethren #PlymouthBrethren #excult #cultsurvivor #cultawareness #coercivecontrol #religioustrauma #PsychCults #ProfilingEvil #RichardMarsh #LaneAdmiral #cult #coercivecontrol ======================================== Website: www.ProfilingEvil.com ======================================== Email your questions to: ProfilingEvil@gmail.com ======================================== 💳 DONATE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=T54JX76RZ455S 💵 PayPal: https://paypal.me/profilingevil 🕵️BECOME A MEMBER: https://www.youtube.com/profilingevil/join 🛒SHOP MERCH: https://www.profilingevil.com/profilingevilshop 📖SHOP BOOKS: https://www.profilingevil.com/store See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

  2. 1d ago

    MAPPING EVIL Episode 5: Cold Case Doesn't Mean Dead Case

    What makes a case go cold, and can it ever truly be dead? We begin in Salida, Colorado, with Suzanne Morphew, who vanished on Mother's Day 2020. Her mountain bike turned up about a quarter mile from home, down in a ravine against a tree. Her husband offered four theories to a passing YouTuber: a mountain lion, a crash, an abduction, or she ran away. I walk through each against the evidence, or really the lack of it: no blood, no drag marks, no torn clothing, and a mother who had just beaten cancer twice doesn't walk away from her daughters. When Suzanne's brother asked for help, we brought in geographic information systems and turned hundreds of volunteers into a coordinated search force. Using mapping apps on their phones, we tracked every searcher in real time, and over five days that crowd covered 6,500 linear miles of rough country. I call it public CSI, and I believe it's the future of search and rescue. Then Adelaide, 1966: the Beaumont children. Jane was nine, Anne seven, and Grant just four when they caught a bus to Glenelg Beach on Australia Day and never came home. I break down the three crime scenes every case like this has to consider, and show how aerial imagery going back decades lets us walk that beach as it was in 1966. #SuzanneMorphew #BeaumontChildren #Glenelg #Adelaide #Salida #Colorado #coldcase #missingperson #searchandrescue #volunteers #victimology #MothersDay #crowdsourced #MappingEvil #ToriShepherd #Esri #ArcGIS #crimemapping #CrimeAnalysis #GIS #map #Mapping #Maps #profiling #crime #criminal #criminalbehavior ======================================== Get 20% Off at www.Newspapers.com/profilingevil ======================================== Website: www.ProfilingEvil.com ======================================== Email your questions to: ProfilingEvil@gmail.com ======================================== 💳 DONATE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=T54JX76RZ455S 💵 PayPal: https://paypal.me/profilingevil 🕵️BECOME A MEMBER: https://www.youtube.com/profilingevil/join 🛒SHOP MERCH: https://www.profilingevil.com/profilingevilshop 📖SHOP BOOKS: https://www.profilingevil.com/store See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    MAPPING EVIL Episode 5: Cold Case Doesn't Mean Dead Case
  3. 2d ago

    A Deeper Dive Into the Twelve Tribes. A 50-Year Fundamentalist Timeline | Profiling Evil

    After my visit to the Yellow Deli in Winnipeg, where I sat down with a Twelve Tribes member named Bekor, I wanted to go deeper, so this episode lays out the full timeline of the group, from its beginnings in Chattanooga in the early 1970s under Elbert Eugene Spriggs, through the 1984 Vermont raid in which 112 children were seized and every case was later dismissed, to its spread across a dozen countries, the child labor investigations, the German raids, the Marshall Fire connection, and a 2024 killing inside the community in Tennessee. The timeline itself is read by an AI voice and the rest of this episode is audio only. I'm on the road with the Psychology of Cults tour at psychologyofcults.com, and you can find my Winnipeg video in the playlist linked below. #TwelveTribes #YellowDeli #Winnipeg #Manitoba #IslandPond #cult #cultawareness #culttok #coercivecontrol #truecrime #truecrimecommunity #PsychCults #ProfilingEvil Intro (video) ======================================== Website: www.ProfilingEvil.com ======================================== Email your questions to: ProfilingEvil@gmail.com ======================================== 💳 DONATE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=T54JX76RZ455S 💵 PayPal: https://paypal.me/profilingevil 🕵️BECOME A MEMBER: https://www.youtube.com/profilingevil/join 🛒SHOP MERCH: https://www.profilingevil.com/profilingevilshop 📖SHOP BOOKS: https://www.profilingevil.com/store See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

  4. 2d ago

    Robert Kessler Guilty: Life Plus 15 Years for Stephanie Crone-Overholts | Profiling Evil

    A Hillsborough County jury found Robert Kessler guilty of second-degree murder and abuse of a dead human body in the killing of Stephanie Crone-Overholts. Five years after Stephanie was murdered, her family finally heard the verdict, and a judge sentenced Kessler to life in prison plus 15 consecutive years. In this episode, I walk through the verdict, the polling of the jury, the victim impact statements delivered by Stephanie's mother and son, and what this sentence actually means for a 74-year-old defendant. We'll also discuss why jurors convicted on second-degree murder instead of first-degree murder, what Kessler's decision to represent himself may mean going forward, and why the family believes justice took far too long to arrive. Most importantly, we'll talk about Stephanie. #RobertKessler #StephanieCroneOverholts #McKayBay #Tampa #Erie #HillsboroughCounty #JusticeForStephanie #ProfilingEvil #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeCommunity #PsychCults #SherwoodPark #FestivalPlace ======================================== Website: www.ProfilingEvil.com ======================================== Email your questions to: ProfilingEvil@gmail.com ======================================== 💳 DONATE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=T54JX76RZ455S 💵 PayPal: https://paypal.me/profilingevil 🕵️BECOME A MEMBER: https://www.youtube.com/profilingevil/join 🛒SHOP MERCH: https://www.profilingevil.com/profilingevilshop 📖SHOP BOOKS: https://www.profilingevil.com/store See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

  5. 4d ago

    I Stopped for Breakfast with a Cult Member Inside the Twelve Tribes | Profiling Evil

    I'm in Winnipeg with the Psychology of Cults tour, and before tonight's show at the Centennial Concert Hall I had a late lunch at the Yellow Deli, a warm little café in St. Boniface with great sandwiches and a dark secret. It's run by the Twelve Tribes, a communal religious group with about sixty members living in two houses in Winnipeg's Armstrong Point neighbourhood. In this video I walk you through what I found: the hospitality funnel that turns customers into recruits, the six weeks a reporter spent undercover inside the community, the wooden rods they use to discipline children, the CBC investigations, and the group's long global history of raids and child-welfare cases in Vermont, Germany, France, and Australia. The food is good but the story just ain’t that great! #TwelveTribes #YellowDeli #Winnipeg #Manitoba #StBoniface #cult #cultawareness #culttok #coercivecontrol #truecrime #truecrimecommunity #PsychCults #ProfilingEvil ======================================== Website: www.ProfilingEvil.com ======================================== Email your questions to: ProfilingEvil@gmail.com ======================================== 💳 DONATE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=T54JX76RZ455S 💵 PayPal: https://paypal.me/profilingevil 🕵️BECOME A MEMBER: https://www.youtube.com/profilingevil/join 🛒SHOP MERCH: https://www.profilingevil.com/profilingevilshop 📖SHOP BOOKS: https://www.profilingevil.com/store See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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The Profiling Evil Podcast delves into unsolved criminal cases from around the world, peeling back the layers of human behavior to reveal what drives evil. We look into the mind of the predator—their motivations, their victim selection, and the patterns that expose them. Each episode goes beyond headlines, examining how investigators identify red flags, connect the dots, and capitalize on the very errors offenders believe will never be found. Your host, Mike King, brings over four decades of experience in criminal justice and behavioral analysis. A retired law enforcement executive, Mike served as Chief of Staff to Utah Attorney General Jan Graham and Weber County Attorney Reed M. Richards. He began his career at the Ogden Police Department, where he worked patrol, motor enforcement, and SWAT before moving into investigations where he led task forces that hunted serial predators and violent offenders. Mike’s expertise earned him national recognition. He served as co-chair of the FBI’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) National Advisory Board, directed UTAP, the Utah Criminal Tracking and Analysis Project, and supported intelligence operations during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. After retiring from public service, Mike joined the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri), where he spent years consulting with police agencies around the globe on intelligence gathering, emergency communications, and major event management. In 2024, he retired again, this time to focus full-time on Profiling Evil and its growing community of true crime investigators, students, and enthusiasts. Mike is an internationally recognized speaker, trainer, and adjunct professor, as well as a visiting scholar at multiple universities. He’s authored several acclaimed works on crime and human behavior, including: ·      Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing ·      Deceived: An Investigative Memoir of the Zion Society Cult ·      She Knew No Fear ·      Who Killed King Tut? ·      Predators: Who Are They and How Do We Stop Them? ·      Profilers Mike’s investigative insight and behavioral expertise have been featured on Court TV, NewsNation, Law & Crime Network, Dr. Phil, History’s Greatest Mysteries, and 60 Minutes Australia, where his calm, analytical style helps audiences understand the why behind the world’s most chilling crimes. At @ProfilingEvil, you’ll find deep dives into real investigations, expert analysis of offender behavior, and lessons in situational awareness and safety. It’s more than storytelling, it’s about learning how to recognize, understand, and ultimately disrupt evil. Watch & Subscribe on YouTube: @ProfilingEvil Learn more at www.ProfilingEvil.com Email Mike at: ProfilingEvil@gmail.com

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