Human Monsters

Adapted from David Pelzer's memoir A Child Called "It". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An exploration of the violent crime that has plagued the city of Phoenix, Arizona for many years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He had something sinister in mind when he announced he was having friends for dinner. Try Magic Mind at https://www.magicmind.co/hm Enter the promo code HM20 for a 40% discount in the next 10 days. Join Human Monsters Premium for bonus episodes and other rewards: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Season Two of Gone South, the Edward R. Murrow-Award winning documentary podcast from C13Originals. Starting in the early sixties, a rag-tag confederation of traveling criminals known as The Dixie Mafia terrorized every state from Georgia to Oklahoma. Its hundreds of members, unofficially headquartered in Biloxi, Mississippi, specialized in scams, heists, and murder. Their ringleader — the estranged son of a prominent Oklahoma politician — was a skilled and charismatic outlaw named Kirksey Nix. When Nix was sentenced to life in prison at Angola for a murder he committed in New Orleans, The Dixie Mafia was thought to be extinct. But fifteen years later, a sitting criminal court judge named Vincent Sherry and his wife Margaret, a mayoral candidate for the city of Biloxi, were assassinated. As the case ran cold, authorities were forced to confront a disturbing reality: the reign of Kirksey Nix and The Dixie Mafia was far from over. Gone South is a creation and production of Peabody-nominated C13Originals, a Cadence13 studio, in association with Jed and Tom Lipinski. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

They didn't call him the "Teflon Don" and "Dapper Don" for nothing. Join Human Monsters Premium for bonus episodes and other rewards: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No Scottish lass was safe while Peter Manuel walked the streets. Get bonus episodes, early releases and other rewards with Human Monsters Premium: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just because a guy has a stutter and wears Malcolm X glasses doesn't mean he isn't capable of brute violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Imagine your girlfriend is a female Ted Bundy and you end up taking the rap for most of the murders. She wasn't even hot. Goddamn... Sign up for Human Monsters Premium rewards at https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On September 15, 1989, Damon's 14-year-old sister Amy Lynn was raped and murdered by Kenneth Reed Smith. The crime devastated Damon and his entire family, and they continue to struggle with their grief to this day. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is a lot of hypocrisy behind that piety. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If only internet shopping for ladies' undergarments had been a thing in the 1940s. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Viga Boland's father subjected her to brutal sexual, physical and emotional abuse for years as he laboured under the delusion that she was his second wife. Adapted from her memoir No Tears For My Father: A True Story of Incest. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Talk about mommy issues...man. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When having skeletons in one's closet gets literal. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The human embodiment of why a gal should never fall for a guy who tells her she could be a model. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The soundtrack to some videos I made for YouTube and TikTok. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gives all new meaning to the phrase "Physician, heal thyself". Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An example of a country taking effective action to end spree killings. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Gore has the most appropriate surname in the history of true crime. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Be kind to people with harelips. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ladies, don't forget to take inventory in your underwear drawers . Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes love brings out the worst in people. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Killing hookers is such a cliche...but being unoriginal is far from being Sam Smithers' worst characteristic. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A murderer with a fixation on trees. He must have fallen out of one as a child. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Don't do meth, kids. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cassie Moore was abused in every way by her parents and then suffered years of domestic violence throughout two dysfunctional marriages. Still, she managed to transform her life and find happiness. One of those surprisingly uplifting HUMO episodes. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An examination of the case of 19th century serial killer Martin Dumollard and the rape crisis in the Congo. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dwight York abused his followers emotionally, sexually and financially all in the name of his self-invented god (him). Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cameron Hooker was outfitted to the gills with BDSM equipment and related paraphernalia with which to torture Colleen Stan. The one missing element was consent. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes you gotta keep it in your pants. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What’s the deal with serial killers and hookers? Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A horrific story about a pious Muslim man’s hypocritical conduct. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Six more injections of inhumanity. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ronald Simmons knew how to keep his family in line...permanently. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This list of offenders represents more than 100 victims. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When it came to Leonarda Cianciulla, soap never seemed so filthy. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leonard Lake feared that a nuclear holocaust was imminent, but he, along with his accomplice Charles Ng, became an event of mass destruction in the lives of many innocent people. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The story of how a dysfunctional family drove one of their own into the arms of a predator. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More grisly snapshots of less commonly known cases. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A strong woman has survived a life marked by horrific child abuse. It’s your turn to be inspired. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When he said, ”I would like to have you for dinner sometime...” it would have been in your best interests to take it literally. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new segment of four short cases: Baby Brianna, Kelly Anne Bates, Jennifer Daugherty and Tsutomu Miyazaki. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everything you’ve suspected about creepy carnies is true, apparently. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the worst killing sprees in modern Australian history. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of those stories that makes you wonder how people survive. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The psyche hospital said he was dangerous, but he was set loose on the streets anyway. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If only bad teeth were the worst thing about Fred West’s marriage. These people represent every kind of scum. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now you’re going to hate a guy named Roy. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The murder of Junko Furuta is one of the worst ever covered in this show. Brace yourself. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most wise guys are satisfied with a quick shot to the head. Roy DeMeo preferred to savour the process. Sign up for Human Monsters Premium here: https://humanmonsters.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices