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Psycho Killer: Shocking True Crime Stories

Psycho Killer: Shocking True Crime Stories

By: Simon Ford
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 Psycho Killer: The true crime podcast exposing serial killers, psychopaths, and the darkest minds.

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  • Osama Bin Laden: Psychopathy, Power And The Price Of Belief (Part 1)

    Osama Bin Laden: Psychopathy, Power And The Price Of Belief (Part 1)
    Aug 31 2025
    This month marks 24 years since the 9/11 attacks on America — the deadliest terror strike since Pearl Harbour. To mark the anniversary, Psycho Killer investigates the rise and fall of Osama Bin Laden. Was he a religious zealot, a freedom fighter, or a psychopath? Perhaps all three.

    Using the Hare Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R) and the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality (CAPP), Simon Ford and Jacques Morrell apply two clinical tools to Bin Laden’s life and legacy. The result? More than one conclusion — and a portrait of a man whose blend of belief, power, and manipulation shaped the world we live in today.

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    25 mins
  • The Lobotomist – Part 2: Power, Damage & Denial

    The Lobotomist – Part 2: Power, Damage & Denial
    Aug 24 2025
    Explicit – contains surgery details.

    Walter J. Freeman II thought he was a revolutionary. And in a way, he was. He operated during three revolutionary decades of the twentieth century – years that saw the coming of nuclear power, antibiotics and mankind's first tentative steps into space. But his technique was more medieval than post-modern. The cutting edge of his trademark instrument was the point of an icepick – or at least, a wicked-looking tool derived from one. Yet, here was an individual who convinced himself he was doing humanity a service, while all around, patients were wheeled away on gurneys with their humanity neutralised.

    Was Freeman mad, bad, psychopathic... or just deluded? And where does the dividing line fall that separates those traits? Indeed, can they be separated, or do they seep into each other, like blood seeping into bandages, until all we see is crimson? The red mist of a horror too awful to comprehend – a physician sworn to not harm, acting with official sanction in a way that no physician should.

    In the second part of The Lobotomist, we answer that question as dispassionately as we can, despite the trail of bodies and tortured souls the good doctor left in his wake. What tools do we have to comprehend the incomprehensible paradox of Walter J. Freeman II? Was he well-meaning, misguided, or something much darker? Ladies and gentlemen, take your seats, because the jury is in.


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    17 mins
  • Aimee Betro: American 'Hitwoman' Jailed For 30 Years Over Failed Birmingham Revenge Plot

    Aimee Betro: American 'Hitwoman' Jailed For 30 Years Over Failed Birmingham Revenge Plot
    Aug 23 2025
    An American “hitwoman” is starting a 30-year prison sentence in the United Kingdom for trying to murder her lover's business rival. Aimee Betro, from Wisconsin, flew to the UK in August 2019 and spent more than two weeks in the country before trying to shoot the man outside his home in Birmingham—Simon Ford reports.

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    3 mins
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