Profiling Evil

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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

  1. 2d ago

    The Lindsay Clancy Trial: Can the State Win on Emotion? | Profiling Evil

    Days seven and eight of the Lindsay Clancy trial brought the jury toxicology results, DNA findings, testimony from the children’s former nanny, friends and relatives, and deeply difficult medical evidence concerning the murders of Cora, Dawson and Callan Clancy. In this episode, I explain what that testimony added to the prosecution’s case, what it may have handed to the defense, and why the emotional force of this trial may become as important as the legal arguments over criminal responsibility. I also examine a harder question of whether a public murder trial is the best available form of justice when nobody disputes who killed these three children, but the parties sharply disagree about whether their mother was legally responsible because of psychosis. Finally, I look at the decision to have two women prosecute this case and why it would be irresponsible to assume that female prosecutors, or female jurors re naturally less sympathetic to postpartum mental illness. What matters is how the evidence is framed, how credibility is built, and whether the jury can separate the horror of the result from the legal question it must answer. #LindsayClancy #CoraClancy #DawsonClancy #CallanClancy #PatrickClancy #Duxbury #Massachusetts #TrueCrime #CrimeNews #Court #PostpartumPsychosis #MentalHealth #CriminalResponsibility #ProfilingEvil ======================================== 20% OFF Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/go/podcast/?ref=profilingevil?xid=8877&utm_source=ProfilingEvilPodcast&utm_medium=podcst&utm_campaign=ProfilingEvil26 ======================================== Discounts on eBikes: https://aipasbike.com/?ref=PROFILINGEVIL Referral Coupon Code: PROFILINGEVIL ======================================== 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. 6d ago

    Lindsay Clancy Speaks in Court: What Her Forensic Stipulation Really Means | Profiling Evil

    Lindsay Clancy spoke in court for the first time during her trial and personally agreed to a broad stipulation covering important parts of the Commonwealth’s forensic case. That was not a guilty plea, and it did not abandon her defense. It simply means prosecutors will not spend days proving evidence the defense does not seriously dispute. In this episode, I look at what Lindsay agreed to, what we learned from the medical, medication, journal and bloodstain testimony on Monday and Tuesday, and how both sides are moving toward the real question in this trial: Was Lindsay criminally responsible when she killed Cora, Dawson and Callan, or did severe mental illness leave her unable to understand the wrongfulness of her actions or control her conduct? #LindsayClancy #CoraClancy #DawsonClancy #CallanClancy #PatrickClancy #Duxbury #Massachusetts #PostpartumPsychosis #MentalHealth #TrueCrime #Court #ProfilingEvil ======================================== 20% OFF Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/go/podcast/?ref=profilingevil?xid=8877&utm_source=ProfilingEvilPodcast&utm_medium=podcst&utm_campaign=ProfilingEvil26 ======================================== Discounts on eBikes: https://aipasbike.com/?ref=PROFILINGEVIL Referral Coupon Code: PROFILINGEVIL ======================================== 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.

  3. 6d ago

    One Author or Two? The Language Behind the Nancy Guthrie Ransom Notes

    The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has released two messages connected to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of TODAY co-anchor Savannah Guthrie. One demands millions in Bitcoin and threatens her life. The other claims she died shortly after being taken and was “buried in nature.” In this episode, we examine the communications using forensic linguistics, behavioral threat-assessment principles and practical law-enforcement investigative standards. What do the shifts from “we” to “me,” from control to apology, and from “will be killed” to “we never intended to hurt her” begins to tell us about the writer. Do the notes suggest they were written by the same author, or several? And what can responsibly be said about the writer’s personality presentation, writing ability, education and sophistication—and what would cross the line into speculation? #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #ProfilingEvil #PimaCountySheriff #ChrisNanos #FBI #RansomNote #ForensicLinguistics #BehavioralAnalysis #CriminalProfiling #MissingPerson #KidnappingInvestigation #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeNews #CrimeNews ======================================== 20% OFF Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/go/podcast/?ref=profilingevil?xid=8877&utm_source=ProfilingEvilPodcast&utm_medium=podcst&utm_campaign=ProfilingEvil26 ======================================== Discounts on eBikes: https://aipasbike.com/?ref=PROFILINGEVIL Referral Coupon Code: PROFILINGEVIL ======================================== 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. Aug 1

    Nancy Guthrie DNA SETBACK, Apalachee Sentences and the Clancy Trial | Profiling Evil

    This week’s lead story is the Nancy Guthrie investigation, where Sheriff Chris Nanos says testing of a hair recovered from her Arizona home did not point to a suspect and a separate DNA mixture involving as many as four people remains under examination by laboratories across the country. The forensic update follows Savannah Guthrie’s new video asking whoever took her mother to tell the family where to look, language that may be intended to reach an accomplice or somebody with partial knowledge as well as the principal offender. We also cover the life-without-parole sentence for Colt Gray and the 15-year sentence for his father in the Apalachee High School case, the opening testimony in Lindsay Clancy’s Massachusetts murder trial and the British conviction of Johannes Kongsnes Natland in an international murder-for-hire plan. The behavioral focus throughout is on preparation, access, communication, control and the difference between confirmed evidence and reasonable inference. #TrueCrime #CrimeNews #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #CatalinaFoothills #Tucson #Arizona #ColtGray #ColinGray #RichardAspinwall #CristinaIrimie #MasonSchermerhorn #ChristianAngulo #Winder #Georgia #BarrowCounty #LindsayClancy #CoraClancy #DawsonClancy #CallanClancy #Duxbury #Plymouth #Massachusetts #JohannesNatland #Huddersfield #London #England #Iran #UnitedKingdom #Norway #SchoolShooting #MissingPerson #Kidnapping #Murder #Court ======================================== 20% OFF Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/go/podcast/?ref=profilingevil?xid=8877&utm_source=ProfilingEvilPodcast&utm_medium=podcst&utm_campaign=ProfilingEvil26 ======================================== Discounts on eBikes: https://aipasbike.com/?ref=PROFILINGEVIL Referral Coupon Code: PROFILINGEVIL ======================================== 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. Jul 31

    Lindsay Clancy Trial, Murder or Psychosis? Breaking Down Both Opening Statements | Profiling Evil

    The murder trial of Lindsay Clancy begins with two radically different accounts of the same tragedy. Prosecutors allege that Clancy deliberately created a window of time, sent her husband away, and methodically killed their three children before attempting to take her own life. The defense does not dispute that she caused the children’s deaths. Instead, it argues that months of deteriorating mental health, severe insomnia, suicidal thinking, psychiatric treatment, medication changes, and alleged command hallucinations culminated in psychosis. In this Profiling Evil review, we examine the opening statements point by point: what each side claims, how the same facts are framed differently, and what the prosecution must prove to establish criminal responsibility. This episode contains discussion of child deaths, suicide, and severe mental illness. Viewer discretion is advised. #LindsayClancy #LindsayClancyTrial #TrueCrime #CourtroomAnalysis #TrialAnalysis #OpeningStatements #CriminalJustice #MentalHealthAndLaw #PostpartumPsychosis #ProfilingEvil #Murder #mentalillness #psychosis #GIS #Esri #ArcGIS #Police #Court #Defendant #Prosecution #Trial #Homicide #Infanticide #ChildAbuse #DomesticViolence #DV ======================================== 20% OFF Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/go/podcast/?ref=profilingevil?xid=8877&utm_source=ProfilingEvilPodcast&utm_medium=podcst&utm_campaign=ProfilingEvil26 ======================================== Discounts on eBikes: https://aipasbike.com/?ref=PROFILINGEVIL Referral Coupon Code: PROFILINGEVIL ======================================== 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.

  6. Jul 28

    D4vd Evidence Hearing, Rushdie’s Terrorism Trial and a Cartel Life Sentence | Profiling Evil

    This week, we’re looking at four cases that have reached very different points in the legal process. In Los Angeles, a judge is hearing the evidence prosecutors say connects musician David Anthony Burke, known as D4vd, to the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. In Buffalo, Hadi Matar is on trial on federal terrorism charges stemming from the 2022 attack on author Salman Rushdie. In Brooklyn, longtime Sinaloa Cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada has been sentenced to life in federal prison. And in Greece, a court has refused to extradite James Dalamangas to Australia over the 1999 killing of George Giannopoulos. These cases involve allegations of concealment, movement toward a specific target, organized criminal leadership and the limits of international extradition. As always, allegations and charges are not convictions unless a court has reached that result. #DavidBurke #D4vd #CelesteHernandez #CelesteRivasHernandez #HadiMatar #SalmanRushdie #IsmaelZambada #ElMayo #JamesDalamangas #ElChapo #Guzman #Cartel #GeorgeGiannopoulos #LosAngeles #HollywoodHills #California #Chautauqua #Buffalo #NewYork #Brooklyn #Sinaloa #Mexico #Sydney #NewSouthWales #Australia #Greece #TrueCrime #CrimeNews #Murder #Homicide #Court ======================================== 20% OFF Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/go/podcast/?ref=profilingevil?xid=8877&utm_source=ProfilingEvilPodcast&utm_medium=podcst&utm_campaign=ProfilingEvil26 ======================================== Discounts on eBikes: https://aipasbike.com/?ref=PROFILINGEVIL Referral Coupon Code: PROFILINGEVIL ======================================== 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.

  7. Jul 25

    Who Really Stole the Mona Lisa? The Louvre Heist That Fooled the World | Profiling Evil

    n 1911, the Mona Lisa vanished from the wall of the Louvre Museum in the center of Paris. One morning she was hanging in the Salon Carré, and shortly after, the most recognizable painting in the world was gone. What followed was a two-year investigation filled with bad assumptions, conflicting witnesses, media pressure, false suspects, radical artists, wealthy collectors, and one ordinary man who may have fooled everyone by looking like he belonged. In this episode, we’ll look at the theft of the Mona Lisa from a criminal behavior and investigative perspective. Was this the work of a professional thief? A museum insider? A wealthy collector? Or was the real offender hiding in plain sight all along? I just returned from Paris, where the Mona Lisa still draws huge crowds. That trip sparked a fresh look at this historic case I participated in discussing the case with other experts and Lawrence Fishburne on History’s Greatest Mysteries. We looked beyond the art mystery and into opportunity, offender behavior, investigative assumptions, and how one theft helped turn the Mona Lisa into a worldwide icon. Let’s examine the empty frame, the missing doorknob, the early use of fingerprint evidence and the suspicion around Eddie Guerin, Pablo Picasso , Guillaume Apollinaire, J.P. Morgan and a relatively unknown Italian named Vincenzo Peruggia. #ProfilingEvil #MikeKing #WhoStoleTheMonaLisa #MonaLisa #MonaLisaHeist #Louvre #LouvreMuseum #Paris #France #ArtCrime #ArtHeist #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeCommunity #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrimeYouTube #CrimeHistory #HistoryMystery #FamousHeists #CriminalBehavior #CriminalProfiling #Investigation #ColdCase #SolvedMystery #LeonardoDaVinci #VincenzoPeruggia #PabloPicasso #JPMorgan #Mystery #CrimeStory #TrueCrimeFans ======================================== 20% OFF Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/go/podcast/?ref=profilingevil?xid=8877&utm_source=ProfilingEvilPodcast&utm_medium=podcst&utm_campaign=ProfilingEvil26 ======================================== Discounts on eBikes: https://aipasbike.com/?ref=PROFILINGEVIL Referral Coupon Code: PROFILINGEVIL ======================================== 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.

  8. Jul 21

    Top Three Crime Cases! Murdered Family Targeted, Deputy Shot & Scientist Murdered | Profiling Evil

    Today I’m looking at the targeted killing of five relatives in East St. Louis, the evidence presented against the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk, the fatal shooting of Deputy U.S. Marshal Drew Hanson in Louisiana and the robbery-homicide case involving American marine biologist Kent Carpenter in the Philippines. Along with the basic facts and current court status, we’ll discuss the behavioral patterns investigators may be examining, including possible planning, victim selection, escalation and actions taken after the crimes. This is not an attempt to diagnose anyone from a distance. These are practical observations based only on publicly reported allegations, and every suspect or defendant discussed here is presumed innocent unless convicted. #TrueCrime #CrimeNews #Murder #Homicide #Court #JaymeirDavis #PatriciaMay #CherieMay #DevinMay #QuentinThompson #ShaniaThompson #Illinois #TylerRobinson #CharlieKirk #Provo #Utah #ClarenceFrazier #DrewHanson #AlexandriaLA #Louisiana #KentCarpenter #Philippines ======================================== 20% OFF Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/go/podcast/?ref=profilingevil?xid=8877&utm_source=ProfilingEvilPodcast&utm_medium=podcst&utm_campaign=ProfilingEvil26 ======================================== Discounts on eBikes: https://aipasbike.com/?ref=PROFILINGEVIL Referral Coupon Code: PROFILINGEVIL ======================================== 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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