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  • Andrei Chikatilo - The Butcher of Rustov

    Andrei Chikatilo - The Butcher of Rustov
    Nov 10 2026
    Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the chilling case of Andrei Chikatilo, the Soviet serial killer known as the “Butcher of Rostov.” In 1978, a 9-year-old girl was found murdered, and the wrong man was executed for the crime. Over the next twelve years, more than fifty women and children would vanish from train stations and bus stops across southern Russia, lured into the woods by a soft-spoken schoolteacher and factory clerk named Andrei Chikatilo. In a country whose leaders insisted serial killers were a product of Western decadence, investigators would arrest Chikatilo once and let him go, and it would take one of the largest manhunts in Soviet history, and one of its first psychological profiles, to finally stop him. Candice examines how a childhood shaped by famine and terror, a lifetime of sexual dysfunction and humiliation, and a carefully maintained mask of ordinariness allowed a man to hide in plain sight for over a decade.Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of Killer Psyche ad-free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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  • Gary Heidnik - The "Real-Life Buffalo Bill"

    Gary Heidnik - The "Real-Life Buffalo Bill"
    Nov 3 2026
    Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the disturbing case of Gary Heidnik, one of the real-life killers who inspired the character of Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs. In the winter of 1986, women began disappearing from North Philadelphia. Nearly four months later, authorities would learn that they were trapped in the basement of a row house with barred windows and crucifixes in the glass, owned by a self-appointed bishop. That bishop would make the women's lives a living hell -- and in the end, two of them would not make it out alive. Candice examines how a childhood of humiliation, a lifetime of psychiatric hospitalizations, and a hunger for control over the people around him shaped a man who could carefully craft his criminal endeavors while simultaneously struggling with debilitating mental illness.Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of Killer Psyche ad-free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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  • Christa Pike

    Christa Pike
    Oct 27 2026
    Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong examines the brutal 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer and the teenager who took her life, Christa Pike. Lured to a remote spot on the University of Tennessee campus by fellow Knoxville Job Corps students, Colleen was tortured for nearly an hour before she was killed. Pike, just 18 at the time, would go on to become one of the youngest women sentenced to death in modern U.S. history. Three decades later, her case made headlines again when Tennessee’s attempt to execute her failed. Candice explores how a childhood marked by neglect, horrific abuse, and instability shaped Pike’s desperate need for attachment and control, and examines how those early wounds may have turned a petty grudge into an act of unthinkable cruelty.Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of Killer Psyche ad-free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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  • Sarah Hartsfield

    Sarah Hartsfield
    Oct 20 2026
    Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the disturbing case of Sarah Hartsfield, the Texas woman convicted of murdering her fifth husband -- one in a long line of men who loved her, dreaded her, and in some cases, did not survive her. For nearly three decades, Sarah moved from name to name and state to state, leaving a trail of wreckage that never quite caught up with her. Candice examines how a childhood defined by abuse and abandonment shaped a woman who could compartmentalize, manipulate, and deceive with precision, and how it finally took a hospital room full of doctors who refused to look away to bring her story to an end.Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of Killer Psyche ad-free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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  • Sarah Hartsfield

    Sarah Hartsfield
    Oct 20 2026
    Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the disturbing case of Sarah Hartsfield, the Texas woman convicted of murdering her fifth husband -- one in a long line of men who loved her, dreaded her, and in some cases, did not survive her. For nearly three decades, Sarah moved from name to name and state to state, leaving a trail of wreckage that never quite caught up with her. Candice examines how a childhood defined by abuse and abandonment shaped a woman who could compartmentalize, manipulate, and deceive with precision, and how it finally took a hospital room full of doctors who refused to look away to bring her story to an end.Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of Killer Psyche ad-free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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  • Randy Kraft - The Scorecard Killer

    Randy Kraft - The Scorecard Killer
    Oct 13 2026
    Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the disturbing case of Randy Kraft, known as the Scorecard Killer, one of the most prolific and elusive serial killers in California history. For over a decade, young men vanished along Southern California’s freeways, their deaths often mistaken for accidents or overdoses and their cases scattered across jurisdictions that never compared notes. What investigators finally uncovered was a handwritten list of 61 cryptic entries that reduced human lives to a word or two – one that detectives are still decoding today. Candice examines how an outwardly ordinary man killed for years in plain sight, and why some of the names on his scorecard are only now, decades later, finally being given back to the families who lost them.Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of Killer Psyche ad-free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app.See Privacy Policy at and California Privacy Notice at See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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  • Joran van der Sloot - The Murder of Natalee Holloway

    Joran van der Sloot - The Murder of Natalee Holloway
    Oct 6 2026
    Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the case of Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch national who spent 18 years lying his way through one of the most watched missing persons cases in modern history. In the spring of 2005, 18-year-old Natalee Holloway vanished on the last night of a graduation trip to Aruba – and for 18 years, the man last seen with her told so many stories that the truth became almost impossible to chase. Candice examines how a privileged upbringing and a psychopathic indifference to consequences produced a man who killed twice, extorted a grieving mother, and performed innocence for the world…until the truth finally ran out of places to hide.Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of Killer Psyche ad-free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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  • Charles Cullen - The Angel of Death

    Charles Cullen - The Angel of Death
    Sep 29 2026
    Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the disturbing case of Charles Cullen, a registered nurse who killed patients across nine hospitals and healthcare facilities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania for 16 years. He was not a monster anyone recognized– rather, he was the quiet nurse who covered every shift, moved efficiently through darkened ICUs, and was trusted completely by the patients whose lives he held in his hands. Candice examines how a childhood defined by loss, relentless bullying, and a profound sense of powerlessness gave rise to a killer who found the one place he felt in control – and how the institutions that should have stopped him kept passing him on instead.Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of Killer Psyche ad-free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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