When Killers Get Caught: A True Crime Podcast
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When Killers Get Caught: A True Crime Podcast
When Killers Get Caught is a true crime podcast hosted by Brittany Ransom that goes beyond the headlines to explore not just what happened, but why. Beginning August 6,2026 Season 5 shifts its focus to 20 extraordinary stories of survival, highlighting victims who endured unimaginable acts of violen...
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Richard Ramirez (The Night Stalker Case): The Untold Cost of Investigative Failure
"How many lives could have been saved if the warning signs had been connected sooner?"
In the mid-1980s, a wave of unprecedented terror gripped...
Beneath the Sequins: The Hidden Body of Dorian Corey
When ballroom icon Dorian Corey died in 1993, friends packing her closet made a horrifying discovery: a mummified body hidden inside a vintage trunk....
Inside the Mind of Ted Kaczynski: The 17-Year Unabomber Hunt
How does a child genius who enters Harvard at sixteen end up becoming one of the most notorious domestic terrorists in American history?
In this...
The Price of the Pyramid: Wanda Holloway and the Texas Cheerleader Murder Plot
In 1991, a suburban Texas mother was arrested for allegedly trying to hire a hitman over a middle school cheerleading competition.
This week on...
John List & The Calculated Disappearance of a Family Annihilator
In 1971, a quiet suburban home in Westfield became the center of one of the most chilling family annihilation cases in American history.
This is...
What Happened to Natalee Holloway? The Aruba Case, Confession & Years of Lies
In May 2005, eighteen-year-old Natalee Holloway vanished during a graduation trip to Aruba , a disappearance that would become one of the most infamou...
The Beast of Royal Street: The True Story of Madame LaLaurie (Revisited)
In this episode of When Killers Get Caught, Brittany Ransom revisits one of the most infamous figures in New Orleans history Delphine LaLaurie, also k...
Gisèle Pelicot: Shame Must Change Sides (The 100th Episode)
In this landmark 100th episode of When Killers Get Caught, we step beyond the moment of arrest and into something deeper: a reckoning.
The case...
“No One Saw Anything” | The Skidmore Shooting of Ken Rex McElroy
In 1981, a man was shot in broad daylight on Main Street in Skidmore, Missouri in front of dozens of witnesses.
Yet, no one was ever arrested.
The Woman Who Fought Back: Susan Kuhnhausen vs a Murder-for-Hire Plot
In 2006, Susan Kuhnhausen came home after a long shift as an emergency room nurse and walked straight into a violent ambush inside her own home.
...
Anna Genovese: Mob Wife, LGBT Pioneer, and the Woman Who Broke Omertà
She was married to one of America’s most feared mob bosses, Vito Genovese, but Anna Genovese lived by her own rules inside the heart of the New York M...
When a Myth Becomes a Command: Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier
In 2014, the quiet suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin, was shattered by a crime that defied logic. Two 12-year-old girls lured their best friend into the w...
BTK: The Killer Who Lived a Perfect Life Next Door
Dennis Rader looked like the last person you would ever suspect. A church leader. A husband. A father. A man trusted by his community. But behind that...
Gary Plauché: The Father Who Killed His Son’s Abuser on Live TV
On March 16, 1984, inside a Baton Rouge airport, a man stepped forward, raised a gun, and shot another man in the head, on live television.
That...
The Serial Killer of Nazi Paris: Dr. Marcel Petiot and the Escape Network Murders
During World War II, desperate refugees flooded Nazi-occupied Paris searching for a way to escape.
A respected doctor named Marcel Petiot claime...
Samuel Little: The Most Prolific Serial Killer in U.S. History and the 68 Women Still Nameless
Samuel Little is believed to be the most prolific serial killer in United States history, confessing to 93 murders across multiple states between the...
Son of Sam: The David Berkowitz Case | How a Serial Killer Terrorized New York City
In the summer of 1976, New York City was gripped by fear. A serial killer known as “Son of Sam” began targeting young couples sitting in parked cars,...
The Assassination of Fred Hampton: COINTELPRO, the Black Panther Party & the 1969 Chicago Police Raid
On December 4, 1969, a pre-dawn police raid at 2337 West Monroe Street in Chicago left 21-year-old Black Panther leader Fred Hampton dead. Authorities...
Emmett Till: The 1955 Murder That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement | Black History Month True Crime
In 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till traveled from Chicago to Mississippi and never came home.
In this Black History Month episode of When Killers G...
Rosewood Massacre: The Black Town Burned and Forgotten
In January 1923, the Black town of Rosewood, Florida was surrounded, burned, and erased after a white woman accused a Black man of assault—an accusati...
Tulsa 1921: The Tulsa Race Massacre and the Destruction of Black Wall Street
In this episode, Brittany Ransom investigates the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the deadliest and most deliberately obscured acts of racial viol...
The Lie Is the Point: Who Gets to Be an American When State Violence Is Justified
Every time a Black person is killed, the lie arrives faster than the facts.
He had a gun. He was high. She was threatening.
In this altern...
Brownie Mary: The Grandmother Who Defied the War on Drugs
In 1981, during the height of the War on Drugs, police raided a San Francisco apartment expecting a major drug dealer. Instead, they found a grandmoth...
Andrea Yates: Postpartum Psychosis, System Failure, and a Case America Still Gets Wrong
This episode contains in depth discussion of infanticide, postpartum psychosis, suicide, and severe mental illness. Listener discretion is advised.
The Killer Who Wrote the Dictionary
The True Crime Story of William Chester Minor and the Oxford English Dictionary
In 1872, a former U.S. Army surgeon named William...
The Only Priest Sent to the Electric Chair: The True Crimes of Hans Schmidt
He stood at the altar as a man of God and lived in secret as a killer.
In the early 1900s, Hans Schmidt became the only Catholic p...
Neama Rahmani protected corporations, prosecuted cartels and now he fights for the little guy
Hey everyone in Serial Killer country!
In seeking people connected to justice to speak with in Season 3, Neama Rahmani is the perfect person fo...
Nika Nikoubin's delusions were so severe she didn't even know she'd commited a crime
Hey everyone in Serial Killer country!
This weeks podcast is a little different. We are talking to Nika Nikoubin, a young woman w...
Sadie Solstice Was Almost Killed By her Ex-boyfriend
Hey all my True Crime Friends,
Todays podcast is a doozy. If you haven't seen Sadie on tiktok @lilmiss80 then this episode will be new to you....
Dr. Kelli Martin's True Crime Past Inspired an Upcoming Novel
Hey and thanks for listening!
This weeks podcast is an interview with 1st time true crime author Dr. Kelli Martin. While there are many...
Stephanie Kane & The Murder She Couldn't Forget
Welcome to a brand new episode of When Killers Get Caught! Thanks for stopping by and giving this podcast a listen.
In Season 3 I'll be doing n...
Candy Crimes and Halloween Treats from Yesteryear
HAPPY HALLOWEEN and thanks for listening to When Killers Get Caught! We’re so excited to be back!
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Jane Toppan For the Love of Poison
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This week in true crime Brittany has feeling...
Joseph James Deangelo Part II: Catching a killer
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This week in true crime Brittany discusses a...
Joseph James DeAngelo Part I: The Man and the Mayhem
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This week in true crime Brittany discusses a...
The Crime and End of Clifford Olson Jr and the Pope lick monster.
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This week in true crime Brittany discusses a missing and found child and B...
The Beginning of a Monster: Clifford Olsen Jr. & El Sibon
Brians back! Hey there and thanks for listening to When Killers Get Caught! This week in true crime Brittany discusses a scamming Bishop and Brian upd...
Judy Buenoano and Legends from New Jersey
This week Brian takes a break so Brittany’s other podcast buddy Glitch steps in! (listen to her on Anchor.fm/roommatearena) there and thanks for liste...
The sad shooter Charles Whitman Jr and The Enfield Horror
Hey there and thanks for listening to When Killers Get Caught! Welcome to our new release time! Noon Saturday EST!
This week in true cri...
France’s First Serial Killer & The Haunting of Elmwood Mansion
Hey there and thanks for listening to When Killers Get Caught! Welcome to our new release time! Noon Saturday EST!
This week in true cri...