Episodes

In this bone-chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale tells the haunting true story of Pedro López — one of the most prolific and terrifying serial killers in recorded history. Nicknamed The Monster of the Andes, López claimed to have murdered over 300 young girls across Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru during the 1970s and early 1980s. But what makes his case even more horrifying isn’t just the staggering death toll — it’s what happened after. With masterful storytelling and disturbing d...

In this haunting episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale pulls back the curtain on one of the most terrifying child predators in British history — Robert Black. Through an immersive historical narrative and cinematic storytelling, we follow Black from his bleak childhood in post-war Scotland to his chilling years as a roaming delivery driver who used his van as a vessel of horror. With a nation still reeling from the aftermath of World War II and struggling to find its footing, communities w...

In this chilling installment of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale explores the shocking true story of John Martin Scripps — a seemingly ordinary British traveler who used charm, knives, and stolen passports to dismember tourists across Asia in the mid-1990s. From his troubled childhood in postwar England to his gruesome crimes across Singapore and Thailand, Scripps carved a path of death masked behind the face of a smiling wanderer. Known as "The Tourist from Hell," he used his skills in butchery...

In this gripping episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale uncovers the twisted, disturbing legacy of Arthur Shawcross — a man released from prison after killing children… only to become one of the most cold-blooded serial killers in upstate New York history. Known as The Genesee River Killer, Shawcross terrorized Rochester in the late 1980s, strangling and mutilating sex workers before leaving their bodies near water — like offerings to the cold currents of the Genesee. But what makes his sto...

In this cold and calculating episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale tells the true story of Alexander Pichushkin — a man who turned the act of murder into a twisted game, aiming to kill 64 people, one for each square on a chessboard. Known as The Chessboard Killer, Pichushkin stalked his victims through Bitsa Park on the edge of Moscow between 2001 and 2006. His targets? The vulnerable and forgotten — the elderly, the addicted, the lonely. With chilling precision, he bludgeoned his victims ...

In this harrowing episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale unearths the chilling life of Carl Panzram — a man whose soul was soaked in hatred, violence, and unrelenting rage. From a tortured childhood in reform schools to a nomadic trail of murder and rape across continents, Panzram's confessions revealed a monstrous life fueled not by compulsion, but by absolute contempt for humanity. With over 1,000 assaults and at least 21 murders to his name, Panzram’s story is one of brutality, psycholog...

In this historically grounded episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale chronicles the life, crimes, and consequences of Luis Alfredo Garavito, also known as La Bestia — The Beast — who stands as the most prolific serial killer in recorded history. Set against the backdrop of 1990s Colombia, a nation in crisis due to guerrilla warfare, drug cartels, and institutional breakdown, Garavito found fertile ground to carry out his unimaginable spree of violence. Disguising himself as a priest, a char...

In this deeply unnerving episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale unpacks the twisted legacy of Rodney Alcala — a smooth-talking predator who smiled on national television while hiding a trail of blood and broken lives behind the lens of his camera. Known as The Dating Game Killer, Alcala blended into 1970s Hollywood with charm, intelligence, and a disarming wit. But underneath the smile was a monster. He raped, tortured, and murdered women and girls across the U.S., leaving behind a storage ...

In this chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale delves into the disturbed mind and crimes of Joseph Kallinger, a Philadelphia cobbler turned murderer who embarked on a horrifying crime spree across three states — with his 12-year-old son as his unwilling accomplice. Driven by hallucinations, delusions of divine command, and years of brutal childhood abuse, Kallinger believed he was chosen by God to punish the wicked. Over six weeks in 1974 and 1975, he and his son Michael robbed, as...

In this bone-chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale delves into the twisted legacy of Clifford Olson, one of Canada’s most reviled serial killers — a man who preyed on children, manipulated the justice system, and turned grief into personal profit. Between 1980 and 1981, Olson lured at least 11 young victims to their deaths across British Columbia with offers of rides, jobs, and friendship. But what horrified the nation even more was what happened next: a controversial deal where O...

In this haunting episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale explores the terrifying legacy of Michel Fourniret, known across France and Belgium as L’Ogre des Ardennes — The Ogre of the Ardennes. With his wife and accomplice Monique Olivier, Fourniret lured, raped, and murdered young girls and women in a carefully orchestrated campaign of predation that spanned over two decades. Set against the quiet countryside and historic towns of northern France and Belgium, this historical true crime story ...

In this haunting episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale unravels the terrifying crimes of Sergey Golovkin, the soft-spoken agricultural expert who became one of Russia’s most sadistic serial killers — and the last man ever executed by the Russian state. Between 1986 and 1992, Golovkin abducted, tortured, and murdered at least 11 boys in and around Moscow, luring them with cigarettes, job offers, or fatherly charm. Beneath an unremarkable garage in a quiet neighborhood, he built a private du...

In this disturbing episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale guides listeners through the calculated and sadistic crimes of Charles Ng, one of America’s most horrifying serial killers. Alongside his manipulative partner Leonard Lake, Ng helped build a remote torture chamber in the Sierra Nevada foothills — a place where human lives were extinguished in front of a rolling video camera. From his troubled youth in Hong Kong to his fateful meeting with Lake in the U.S. Marine Corps, Ng’s descent i...

In this chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale reveals the haunting story of Carl Eugene Watts, a man whose name remains obscure despite a suspected body count that rivals or surpasses the most infamous serial killers in history. Known as The Sunday Morning Slasher, Watts terrorized women across Michigan, Texas, and beyond, striking at random with terrifying precision — and leaving no clear motive behind. Unlike typical serial killers, Watts didn’t stalk his victims for weeks or ke...

In this disturbing episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale exposes the cold, calculated evil of Leonard Lake — a former Marine turned survivalist who masterminded one of the most horrifying torture and murder operations in American history. Inspired by dystopian fiction and his own apocalyptic fantasies, Lake created Project Miranda, a sick plan to enslave women in a homemade bunker buried deep in the foothills of Northern California. With chilling precision, Lake and his sadistic accomplice...

In this haunting episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale reveals the disturbing true story of Karla Homolka, the woman who helped orchestrate some of Canada’s most horrific crimes — and then struck a deal to walk free. Alongside her husband, Paul Bernardo, Karla played a key role in the abduction, rape, and murder of three young girls — including her own sister. From Tammy Homolka’s staged accidental death to the videotaped torture of Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French, this episode unpacks t...

In this harrowing episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale unearths the chilling story of Paul Bernardo, one of Canada’s most infamous serial killers. Beginning as the elusive Scarborough Rapist, Bernardo terrorized Toronto’s suburbs throughout the late 1980s. But when he met and married Karla Homolka, the violence escalated into something far more sinister. Together, Bernardo and Homolka abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered at least three teenage girls, including Karla’s own sister. They ...

In this chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale explores the disturbing case of Dana Sue Gray, one of the few female serial killers in American history. Between February and March of 1994, Gray brutally murdered elderly women across Southern California — not for revenge or passion, but to steal their credit cards and go shopping. A former nurse with a dark past and mounting debts, Dana’s victims were chosen for their trust and vulnerability. After bludgeoning or strangling them, she...

In this chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale tells the harrowing true story of Amelia Dyer, the infamous “Baby Farmer” who murdered hundreds of infants during Victorian England’s darkest years. Masquerading as a caretaker and adoptive nurse, Dyer preyed on vulnerable, unwed mothers desperate to hide their shame. For a fee, she promised to care for their children — but instead, she strangled them with sewing tape and discarded their tiny bodies into the River Thames. Operating in ...

In this unnerving episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale exposes the twisted story of Kristen Gilbert, a seemingly dedicated nurse at the Northampton VA Medical Center who quietly became one of America’s most chilling serial killers. Nicknamed the “Angel of Death,” Gilbert didn’t kill out of mercy or rage — she murdered patients to fabricate medical emergencies and play the hero on the hospital floor. Between 1995 and 1996, a disturbing pattern emerged: when Kristen worked the night shift, ...

In this deeply disturbing episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale unveils the horrific crimes of David Parker Ray, a seemingly average man from New Mexico who became one of America’s most sadistic serial predators. Known as “The Toy-Box Killer,” Ray constructed a homemade torture chamber in a soundproof trailer behind his home — a place where he abducted women, drugged them into submission, and subjected them to days of calculated, ritualistic sexual torture. Ray wasn’t alone. With the help ...

In this deeply unsettling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale unravels the horrifying story of Mary Beth Tinning, the New York mother who buried nine of her own children over a 14-year span — and walked free after nearly every one. Between 1972 and 1985, child after child died mysteriously in her care, with causes ranging from “SIDS” to unexplained seizures… and no one questioned the pattern. For years, Mary Beth played the grieving mother, drawing sympathy from neighbors, doctors, and c...

In this horrifying episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale exposes the unimaginable crimes of Dean Corll, known to neighbors as The Candy Man — but remembered in history as one of America’s most sadistic serial killers. Between 1970 and 1973, Corll, along with two teenage accomplices, David Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley, abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered at least 28 boys in Houston, Texas. Operating behind the façade of a friendly candy maker, Corll lured young boys with sweets, drugs,...

In this gripping episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale explores the disturbing story of Elmer Wayne Henley, the teenage accomplice turned killer who helped Dean Corll — the infamous Candy Man — abduct, torture, and murder at least 28 young boys in Houston, Texas, during the early 1970s. Henley wasn’t just a witness. He was a recruiter, a handler, and at times, a participant in Corll’s unspeakable crimes. For three years, he lured classmates and friends to their deaths… until the night he t...