Serial Killers: Crime Investigations

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What allows investigators to connect separate murders to the same offender? Serial Killers: Crime Investigations examines serial murder cases through the evidence, timelines, behavioral patterns, victim connections, and investigative decisions that shape complex criminal investigations. The focus is not only on the offender, but on how multiple cases become linked, which clues prove significant, and where early assumptions can complicate the search for answers. Serial killer investigations often develop across different locations, victims, and periods of time. A recurring detail may establish a pattern. Forensic evidence can connect scenes that initially appear unrelated. Witness statements, geographic links, crime scene similarities, and changes in an offender’s behavior can alter the direction of an investigation. Each case is explored through the known facts and investigative questions, separating confirmed evidence from allegations, theories, and unresolved uncertainties. What to Expect on Serial Killers: Crime Investigations: Case Reconstruction: Follow the sequence of crimes, investigative developments, and key discoveries that help authorities understand connections between multiple cases. Investigative Evidence: Examine forensic findings, victimology, timelines, witness accounts, crime scene patterns, and other details that can influence how investigators identify and pursue suspects. Patterns and Unanswered Questions: Explore what investigators were able to establish, which links proved important, and why some aspects of a case may remain disputed or unresolved. Behind every serial murder investigation are victims, families, and communities affected long after an offender is identified or a case goes cold. Understanding these investigations means looking beyond the notoriety of the killer and focusing on the evidence, accountability, investigative failures, and unanswered questions that define each case. Follow Serial Killers: Crime Investigations and enable notifications so you do not miss the next case. Topics Covered: serial killer cases, serial murder investigations, true crime investigations, homicide cases, forensic evidence, victimology, crime scene analysis, behavioral patterns, criminal investigations, suspect identification, cold cases, unsolved murders

  1. 23h ago

    The Bowling Bag That Broke Three Missing Men's Silence

    The Bowling Bag That Broke Three Missing Men's Silence A worn black Ebonite bowling bag with a broken zipper and a name written inside turned up at a Wyoming work camp and reopened three separate disappearances spanning Colorado and New Mexico; how did one bag travel nearly nine hundred miles and connect files no one had read together? The bag’s leather strap bore initials burned in with a woodburning tool, a detail that eventually traced back to a mother’s gift and a lineup of intake and discharge logs that raised new questions. In this episode, we follow the events that began when a church volunteer found the bag at Harwick North in Blaine County, Wyoming, and how that discovery brought together records from three camps and three sheriff’s offices; what did the intake and discharge signatures reveal, and why had no one compared these cases before the bag appeared? Person: Scott Smith Location: Harwick North camp, Blaine County, Wyoming Date: January 14, 2010 Case: Missing persons linked by one bowling bag Person: Dale Porter - The bowling bag was an Ebonite brand, black canvas, with a broken main zipper and worn soft with use. - Dale Porter checked into Harwick Creek camp in Cibola County, New Mexico on January 3, 2009 and a discharge form was recorded on January 19, 2009. - The discharge signature for Dale Porter was neat, deliberate, and slower than his check-in signature, appearing like someone trying to remember how to write his own name. - Troy Neff disappeared from a camp in Eddy County, New Mexico in March 2009 at age thirty. - Eddie Boone vanished in November 2007 from a camp in Delta County, Colorado at age twenty-eight. 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. 1d ago

    The Lanyard: How a Casino Card Unmasked a Serial Killer

    The Lanyard: How a Casino Card Unmasked a Serial Killer A loyalty-card lanyard, laminated and looped twice around a wrist, led to a dead woman who had no official record of dying - and a trail that crossed tribal casinos, rental properties, and an ungated fire road. How did a loyalty account flagged as "deceased" because of returned mail become the single thread that opened an investigation into who had access to the eastern gaming corridor? In this episode, we follow the discovery, the evidence chain, and the data search that connected a body found on December 9, 2019 to a loyalty account processed on December 22, 2019 - and ask what the lanyard reveals about the people who moved between those roads, properties, and women. Person: Erin O'Connor Date: December 9, 2019 Location: Arrowhead Flats recreation corridor Case: Body found wrapped in canvas tarpaulin, time-of-death window Nov 27-29, 2019 Account: Loyalty card registered to Diane Kettler, processed Dec 22, 2019 - Body found at 7:45 AM on December 9, 2019, with a Painted Sky Resort loyalty-card lanyard looped twice around the right wrist. - Erin O'Connor, 48, last seen leaving work on November 27, 2019; cause of death determined as manual strangulation. - Erin's own loyalty card was found in her purse at home when her apartment was searched on December 11, 2019. - The loyalty-card account matched Diane Kettler, 51, last recorded Painted Sky activity March 2019 and flagged deceased after mail was returned undeliverable. - The burial site sat within 80 yards of an ungated fire road that allowed vehicle access without being noticed. 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. 2d ago

    The Red Lantern: Why a Stolen Vest Exposed a Hidden Killer

    The Red Lantern: Why a Stolen Vest Exposed a Hidden Killer A red lantern rated for eleven hours was still burning when Gina Hall pulled it from Sullen Fork at 6:42 a.m. on November 8, 2014 - even though the man wearing it had been dead at least thirty-six hours. That impossible battery life, a stolen extra-large CRRL railroad safety vest, and a missing lantern from an upstream depot became the first threads of an investigation that refused simple answers: who dressed Frank Peterson before dumping him in the river? In this episode, we follow the timeline from Frank Peterson’s last known clock-out on November 5 to the discovery of his body three days later, the serial numbers that tied equipment to a freight yard supply locker and a depot twelve miles upstream, and the questions that those mismatched records raised about where he actually died. Person: Frank Peterson Date: November 5-8, 2014 Location: Sullen Fork near Grade Crossing 44 on Route 9 Status: Body recovered; cause listed as blunt-force trauma to posterior skull, no water in lungs Item: CRRL railroad safety vest (size extra-large) stolen August 2014 - Time recovered: 6:42 a.m., November 8, 2014 - Lantern battery rating: 11 hours; body estimated dead at least 36 hours - Vest theft: reported stolen from Millhaven freight yard supply locker in August 2014 - Lantern serial trace: matched to Sullen Fork Junction depot; 40 units shipped in Sept 2013, 38 on hand at inventory - Investigator on case: Christine Thorpe, Aldrich County Sheriff's Office, 11 years on force 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. 3d ago

    The Dry Coat at Peller Lake: Clues No One Could Explain

    The Dry Coat at Peller Lake: Clues No One Could Explain Dry wool in a drowned world: a navy coat found perfectly dry on a birch by Peller Lake after 2.5 inches of rain stopped a county surveyor cold - the soil, bark and canopy were wet but the coat smelled of cedar and felt fresh from a dryer. Who left it, how did it stay dry, and how does that single impossible object tie to a missing woman whose car appeared three miles away with doors unlocked and purse inside? In this episode, we follow the sequence of discoveries and official actions: the surveyor Curtis Bailey finds the dry coat on June 3, 2019; Amanda Clark’s routine last known movements and her missing-persons report; and the Kessler Point camera outage that overlapped her disappearance. What do these concrete details together suggest about what happened? Person: Amanda Clark Person: Curtis Bailey Date: June 3, 2019 Event: Camera battery died October 7, 2018; Amanda disappeared October 9, 2018 Location: Kessler Point Launch, three miles north of Amanda’s cottage - Amanda Clark was 53, lived on Peller Lake for 22 years, and volunteered three mornings a week at Peller Junction Free Clinic. - On October 9, 2018 Amanda texted her son at 6:58 p.m. saying “Talk tomorrow, heading home soon, love you.” - A gas station camera captured her gray Subaru Forester at 7:22 p.m.; she left the station at 7:31 p.m., with no confirmed sightings after that. - Amanda’s car was found four days later at Kessler Point: engine off, doors unlocked, purse and phone on the passenger seat, cracked left tail lens noted. - A solar-powered camera at Kessler Point had its battery die on October 7, 2018; maintenance ticket filed but not serviced before Amanda’s disappearance. 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. 4d ago

    The Manos en el Papel: cómo un ID desenterró cuatro asesinatos

    The Manos en el Papel: cómo un ID desenterró cuatro asesinatos A laminated government ID placed inside a sealed wellhead casing led to a discovery that tied four disappearances to one document processor - and the card was issued thirteen months after the first man vanished. Who placed that ID in an isolated steel housing, and why did it finally break a pattern that had let multiple cases slip through county lines? In this episode, we follow the discovery and the records that connect missing persons across jurisdictions, showing how a single bureaucratic thread forced investigators to ask whether these disappearances were linked. How did one ID inside a wellhead become the clue that pulled four cold cases together? Person: Gary Crawford Date: October 9, 2017 Location: Greyhound terminal, West Congress Street, Tucson Person: Janet Casey - The laminated ID found in the wellhead was issued in November 2018, thirteen months after Gary Crawford disappeared. - Janet Casey, a well-service technician with eleven years' experience, found the card in September 2019 and paused for four minutes before calling 911. - Gary Crawford was 44 years old, disappeared after being seen on terminal footage at 2:22 p.m., and his phone last pinged at 2:31 p.m. two blocks from the terminal. - Detective Paul Tate flagged Borderline Compliance Services LLC, whose sole employee was Earl Fleming, 52, within weeks of Crawford's disappearance. - Dennis Schiff made eleven calls from his number to Borderline Compliance in the nine months before he vanished in June 2018. 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. 5d ago

    The Hood Up: How a Staged Breakdown Hid a Killer's Trail

    The Hood Up: How a Staged Breakdown Hid a Killer's Trail Fear that something ordinary was a trap: a Kia parked with the hood up, keys in the ignition, purse on the seat, and a woman vanished-Julie Hensley, last seen leaving First Grace Fellowship at 9:20 p.m, on August 7, 2014. A waterlogged Bible wedged four feet high in a willow and a staged car scene became the only visible trail-who put the Bible there and why? In this episode, we follow the timeline from Julie’s last known movements at trivia night to the abandoned Kia on Redbud Road and the discovery at Calloway Creek. We reconstruct the physical clues, the detective work that mapped sightlines and property names, and the single item that tied the scene to Julie-so what sequence turned a small-town routine into a led-to clue? Person: Julie Hensley Date: August 7-8, 2014 Location: Redbud Road; First Grace Fellowship; Calloway Creek Detective: Mark Brown Finder: Gregory Harris - Julie’s last outgoing phone call was at 9:17 p.m.; Patsy Greer saw her drive away at approximately 9:20 p.m. - The abandoned gray two-door Kia was found with the hood up and the keys in the ignition, two and a half miles from First Grace Fellowship. - The mechanic reported the car had no mechanical problem: battery charged and engine started on the first try. - A Bible was found wedged four feet above the current waterline in a willow fork at Calloway Creek, pages swollen but inscription legible. - Detective Mark Brown drove Redbud Road forty times in the first month and logged sightlines to a corrugated metal shed on the Tatum property. 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. 6d ago

    Badge on the Rail: How a Mossfield Tag Linked Three Fairground Murders

    Badge on the Rail: How a Mossfield Tag Linked Three Fairground Murders The first image is a laminated badge dangling on a fence rail above a drainage ditch - HAMILTON V., category SH-4, dated July fourteenth, Mossfield County Fair - while the man it should not belong to lies dead six feet below. A dead sheep farmer found during Keldrick fair week, a badge from Mossfield 112 miles north, and a single question that ties them together: why was that badge left where it could only have been placed deliberately? In this episode, we follow the discovery and early steps of the investigation, from the paperboy who found the badge to the detective who catalogued the scene. You’ll hear how a sign-in log entry and a company schedule pointed detectives toward a traveling route technician - and what those records fail to explain. Person: Vernon Hamilton Age: 54 Location: Keldrick County Fairgrounds Cause: Manual strangulation Evidence: Mossfield County Fair badge dated July 14 - Badge text: HAMILTON V., category SH-4, dated July fourteenth, Mossfield County Fair, found looped on a lanyard on a fence rail - Time last seen: approximately 9:20 PM on July 12, wearing his fair wristband and good plaid shirt - Time of death: estimated between 36 and 48 hours before discovery on the morning of July 15 - Sign-in log entries: three entries signed R. BENNETT for "EQUIPMENT CHECK - GENERATOR" on July 10, July 11, and July 12 (8:47 PM) - Distance between fairs: Mossfield is 112 miles north of Keldrick, and the badge date predates Mossfield Fair opening 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. Oct 6

    The Hand, the Bus Transfer, and the Man Called "Meter Man"

    The Hand, the Bus Transfer, and the Man Called "Meter Man" A severed hand with coral nail polish and a stamped bus transfer tucked between its fingers was found at 2:47 a.m. on June 14, 2003 - the transfer stamped 11:47 p.m. the night before, forty-five minutes after the last Line Nine northbound had run. Who placed a dry, undecomposed hand and an impossible transit slip in an industrial corridor, and why did a neighbor remember a “meter man” near the diner the night the victim vanished? In this episode, we tell the story contained in the police reports and scene notes: a missing 22-year-old waitress, the strange sighting of a man with a long flashlight at a utility box, a hand found in gravel holding a transfer that should not have existed, and the early investigative details that tied those facts together. How did a routine shift, a bus schedule, and a lone paper slip become the thread that might link two counties? Person: Lori Weber Date: June 7, 2003 (disappearance); June 11, 2003 (estimated death); June 14, 2003 (hand found) Location: Prospect Street diner, Dunmore, Dellwood County; hand found on Kellner Avenue off the Marne River Case: Hand found holding Dellwood City Transit transfer stamped 11:47 p.m. June 13 Witness: Susan Farley saw a man with a long aluminum flashlight at the corner utility box two or three times prior - Hand discovered at 2:47 a.m. on June 14, 2003 by road grader operator Lori Erickson - Transfer stamped 11:47 p.m., June 13 - 45 minutes after the last northbound Line Nine ran at 11:02 p.m. - Victim Lori Weber was 22 years old and reported missing on the morning of June 8, 2003 - Medical examiner estimated Lori’s death around June 11, 2003 - approximately 72 hours before the hand was found - Witness Susan Farley reported seeing the “meter man” at the Prospect and Eighth corner two or three times in preceding months, always at night and near a gray metal utility box 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.

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What allows investigators to connect separate murders to the same offender? Serial Killers: Crime Investigations examines serial murder cases through the evidence, timelines, behavioral patterns, victim connections, and investigative decisions that shape complex criminal investigations. The focus is not only on the offender, but on how multiple cases become linked, which clues prove significant, and where early assumptions can complicate the search for answers. Serial killer investigations often develop across different locations, victims, and periods of time. A recurring detail may establish a pattern. Forensic evidence can connect scenes that initially appear unrelated. Witness statements, geographic links, crime scene similarities, and changes in an offender’s behavior can alter the direction of an investigation. Each case is explored through the known facts and investigative questions, separating confirmed evidence from allegations, theories, and unresolved uncertainties. What to Expect on Serial Killers: Crime Investigations: Case Reconstruction: Follow the sequence of crimes, investigative developments, and key discoveries that help authorities understand connections between multiple cases. Investigative Evidence: Examine forensic findings, victimology, timelines, witness accounts, crime scene patterns, and other details that can influence how investigators identify and pursue suspects. Patterns and Unanswered Questions: Explore what investigators were able to establish, which links proved important, and why some aspects of a case may remain disputed or unresolved. Behind every serial murder investigation are victims, families, and communities affected long after an offender is identified or a case goes cold. Understanding these investigations means looking beyond the notoriety of the killer and focusing on the evidence, accountability, investigative failures, and unanswered questions that define each case. Follow Serial Killers: Crime Investigations and enable notifications so you do not miss the next case. Topics Covered: serial killer cases, serial murder investigations, true crime investigations, homicide cases, forensic evidence, victimology, crime scene analysis, behavioral patterns, criminal investigations, suspect identification, cold cases, unsolved murders

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