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Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of home invasion murders, violence against families, and detailed descriptions of crime scenes. The case also involves ethnic targeting and historical prejudice. Listener discretion is advised.

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In 1918-1919, a phantom killer stalked the gaslit streets of New Orleans, transforming ordinary homes into crime scenes and everyday tools into weapons of murder. The Axeman terrorized the city for eighteen months, breaking into homes with surgical precision and attacking victims with their own axes. But this wasn't just another serial killer—this was a showman who understood spectacle, manipulation, and the power of fear.

Host Carman Carrion explores one of America's most bizarre unsolved cases, where jazz music became salvation and an entire city danced to ward off death. From the killer's methodical targeting of Italian grocers to his infamous letter promising to spare anyone playing jazz on a specific night, this case reveals a murderer who craved more than blood—he wanted to become a legend.

On March 19, 1919, New Orleans erupted in a citywide jazz concert as terrified residents played music as if their lives depended on it—because they did. No murders occurred that night, but the Axeman's reign of terror was far from over. Join us as we examine the intent behind a killer who wielded both brutality and showmanship, who threatened with steel but offered salvation through song, and who vanished into legend leaving an indelible mark on both true crime history and American musical culture.

What drives someone to transform murder into theater? Can an entire city's defiant celebration truly ward off evil? Discover how the sounds of jazz became weapons against terror in this haunting tale from the Crescent City's darkest hour.

Content Warning: This episode contains detailed discussions of multiple murders, home invasions, and disturbing crime scene details involving the use of axes as weapons.

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Deadly Intent Episode 3: The Criminology Student - When Theory Becomes Practice

In November 2022, four University of Idaho students were brutally murdered in their off-campus home in what prosecutors called a "fifteen-minute blitz." The killer wasn't a stranger lurking in the shadows—he was Bryan Kohberger, a PhD criminology student who had spent months studying his victims and using his academic knowledge of criminal behavior to plan the perfect crime.

Host Carman Carrion explores how Kohberger's education in criminal justice became a roadmap for murder, examining the chilling surveillance he conducted, the warning signs his professors missed, and the single piece of evidence that ultimately led to his capture. From his problematic behavior as a teaching assistant to his shocking guilty plea in July 2025, this case forces us to confront uncomfortable questions about evil hiding behind academic respectability.

What drives someone who studies criminal behavior to become the criminal? Can academic knowledge about crime create killers, or does it simply attract those already predisposed to violence? Join us as we examine the intent behind one of the most perplexing cases in recent memory—where the person hunting monsters became the monster himself.

Content Warning: This episode contains detailed discussions of multiple murders, stalking behavior, and disturbing crime scene details.

Victims remembered: Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin

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Content Warning: This episode contains detailed discussions of child abuse, torture, and murder. The case involves extreme physical and psychological abuse of a disabled child, including descriptions of starvation, hypothermia, and torture methods. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

"For months, fifteen-year-old Timothy Ferguson lived in a basement closet that reeked of urine and feces. His mother had installed motion sensors that would trigger alarms if he moved. She forced him to eat bread soaked in some of the world's hottest chili sauce—Carolina Reaper and Trinidad Scorpion peppers that caused excruciating pain. When that wasn't enough punishment, she made him sit in ice baths for hours. On July 6th, 2022, after spending nine straight hours in freezing water, Timothy Ferguson died, weighing just 69 pounds—less than half what a healthy teenager should weigh."

"Intent. It's what separates accident from murder, passion from premeditation, justice from revenge."

"It is not the act itself, but the intent behind it, that makes it a crime."

"Today on Deadly Intent, we're examining a case that challenges everything we think we know about maternal love. A successful law clerk, a devoted mother to some of her children, a woman studying to become an attorney, who systematically tortured her disabled son to death. The question that haunts everyone who studied this case isn't just what she did, but why she chose one child to suffer while protecting the others. What transforms a mother into a tormentor, and how does love become indistinguishable from hate?"

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