Human Monsters

Richard Chase emerged from his descent into madness a blood-thirsty, ruthless and sadistic serial killer. Even hardened cops and criminals were mortified by the mess he made of his victims. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Serial killer and rapist Rodney Alcala appeared on the match-making show "The Dating Game". He played his own version of the game in real-life. Unfortunately for his victims, the penalties for losing were rape, torture and death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did your parents chain you to your bed? Starve you? Put you in a cage? Raise you in a house so filthy it made you sick? Emotionally, physically and sexually abuse you? I hope not. Unfortunately, the children of David and Louise Turpin suffered this fate in their parental home. It's a tragic story, but thankfully it has a happy ending. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dennis Rader, aka The BTK Killer or BTK Strangler, terrorized the city of Wichita, Kansas for thirty years. He killed 10 people, but that's only the tip of the iceberg in terms of how strange and sinister he is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In some cases, their words are as chilling as their deeds. Sometimes funnier. Sound designer: Dennis Painter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Unfortunately for the children of the Colt family, little was bequeathed to them but a multigenerational legacy of sexual abuse and recessive traits. LISTENER DISCRETION IS STRONGLY ADVISED: contains detailed descriptions of the sexual abuse of children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The story of how Richard Speck gave himself permission to murder eight nurses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rape, mutilation, murder, mental illness and more: your tax dollars at work. WARNING: This episode promises to be the sickest, most nauseating of them all. DO NOT listen to it less than a half hour after a meal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

These characters in this piece are about as psychotic as many of the people profiled in the podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Pickton was as dirty as he smelled. But nobody would have guessed that it wasn't just livestock he slaughtered on his farm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hurtcore is a genre of child pornography that most pedophiles consider too extreme. It consists of the wanton rape, torture and sometimes even murder of a child. WARNING: This is the darkest and most disturbing episode of this podcast. It describes activities that involve the torture and sexual abuse of children. Listener discretion is strongly advised. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For years David Parker Ray took BDSM a little too far. There's kink and then there's torture. Did he really commit murder, as many have suggested? You be the judge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apparently these fundamentalist Christians have forgotten Christ's message about the importance of forgiveness and loving your fellow man. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If the worst thing about the ways canines are treated in Asia is that they're eaten, this episode would not have been recorded. WARNING: Contains information involving the torture of animals. Listener discretion is advised. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Bernardo's reign of terror in Southern Ontario, Canada left in his wake three dead sex slaves and a list of rape victims that is rumoured to exceed 20. He is Canada's most hated man and a candidate for entry in the Misogynist Hall of Fame. Featuring an interview with journalist Barry Brown, who covered Bernardo's trial. WARNING: Contains coarse language, mature subject matter and the graphic descriptions of sexual assault and murder, including those involving minors. Listener discretion is STRONGLY advised. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Imagine being sentenced to life in prison or an early death for a crime you didn't commit. The subjects of this episode know that experience all too well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From sexual abuse to financial exploitation, caregivers sometimes only give those in their care a reason to die. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sadly this archaic and barbaric practice continues to this day. Listen to hear of the horrors that are inflicted on its victims in the name of "honour". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Slavery never died: Whether for cheap labour or prostitution, millions of people are indentured in modern slavery across the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You did not want to owe money to these guys if you had any sense at all. WARNING: Contains mature subject matter and descriptions of violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Clifford Olson's rape and murder of several boys and girls earned him the well-deserved title of "The Beast of British Columbia". WARNING: Contains coarse language, mature subject matter and the graphic descriptions of the sexual assault and murders of minors. Listener discretion strongly advised. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In South Africa rape has manifested as a plague that few women have been able to avoid. It affects females of all ages and has contributed to the spread of HIV. This episode features an interview with Lynn Hill, who was assaulted in this region. WARNING: Contains disturbing statistics about the prevalence of sexual assault. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

During his life Jimmy Savile had Britain fooled. He was a famous and popular television presenter and a tireless philanthropist who raised over 40 million pounds for charity. Behind the scenes he sexually abused the patients and pupils of the medical and educational institutions he raised money for. Sadly, he never faced the music before he died. Sadder still, his victims never had their say until after he was gone. Nevertheless, they do now. WARNING: Contains graphic descriptions of sexual abuse, including the abuse of children. Listener discretion is strongly advised. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From the 1970s to the early 1990s young men in Philadelphia sold their bodies and the substances contained therein to a local businessman who paid cash. It's even worse than it sounds. WARNING: Contains mature subject matter and the graphic descriptions of the sexual abuse of minors, including some scatological material. Listener discretion advised. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A sweet and loving young child is treated like a dog by the people he loved and trusted most. WARNING: Mature subject matter and the graphic description of the abuse of a small child are contained within. Listener discretion is advised. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From the age of two to eight Lauren Kavanaugh was trapped in a closet, left to rot in a bog of garbage and bodily fluids. She was removed only to be beaten or sexually abused. She survived long enough to be rescued, though other troubles would dog her in the years to come. WARNING: Mature subject matter involving the disturbing aspects of the abuse of a child. Listener discretion is advised. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canada's most notorious case of intergenerational child abuse concerned the Goler family, a backwoods clan from the South Mountain district of South Mountain. Here you can learn in shocking detail what their children went through. WARNING: contains coarse language, mature subject matter and graphic descriptions of child sexual abuse. Listener discretion is strongly advised. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Throughout his reign as one of Hollywood's top power brokers, Harvey Weinstein abused his clout by sexually harassing and assaulting many of the women he worked and met with. We hear many of their stories in this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices