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Please SUBSCRIBE to this channel!  Follow Slater on Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater  Join our Patreon family! (www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod) On Patreon, you'll get AD FREE episodes, merch discounts, exclusive content, extra true crime cases, pop quizzes, behind-the-scenes pics/vids, private group chats, and much more!  Tyler Hadley was just 17 years old when he brutally murdered both of his parents inside their Florida home - and then, astonishingly, threw a house party in the same space where their bodies lay hidden. In July 2011, after killing Mary-Jo and Blake Hadley, Tyler invited dozens of friends over, blasted music, drank, danced, and posed for photos, even showing a friend the bodies of his murdered parents. The crime shocked investigators not only for its violence, but for the chilling lack of remorse and the surreal normalcy that followed the gruesome crime. This case isn’t just about patricide; it’s about a young person struggling with severe internal distress that ultimately manifested in unimaginable violence - and two innocent parents who paid the ultimate price. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Please SUBSCRIBE to this channel!  Follow Slater on Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater  Join our Patreon family! (www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod) On Patreon, you'll get AD FREE episodes, merch discounts, exclusive content, extra true crime cases, pop quizzes, behind-the-scenes pics/vids, private group chats, and much more!  On New Year’s Day 2023, 39-year-old Ana Walshe vanished from her Massachusetts home, leaving behind three young children and a husband whose story immediately raised suspicion. What followed was not a frantic search for a missing wife, but a methodical excavation of lies, digital breadcrumbs, and extremely damning physical evidence. Alarming surveillance footage, outrageous internet searches, countless bloodstains, and a trail of discarded items (including a hacksaw) painted a picture not of panic, but of preparation and brutality. This episode breaks down the current case against Brian Walshe step by step — from motive to means to aftermath — and examines how a crime meant to erase an entire human being instead became a masterclass in criminal stupidity. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Please SUBSCRIBE to this channel!  Follow Slater on Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater  Join our Patreon family! (www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod) On Patreon, you'll get AD FREE episodes, merch discounts, exclusive content, extra true crime cases, pop quizzes, behind-the-scenes pics/vids, private group chats, and much more!  This episode examines the case of the German black metal band Absurd, whose fixation on shock value spiraled past theatrics and into real, deadly violence.  What began as teenage posturing within the underground metal scene spiraled into a senseless, premeditated murder carried out by three boys/bandmates desperate for notoriety. We break down how a subculture steeped in anti-authoritarian performance art became the staging ground for real violence; how a group of teenagers radicalized themselves into believing they were part of something bigger, darker, and more meaningful than they actually were; and how the murder of Sandro Beyer, an innocent 14-year-old boy, became the gruesome centerpiece of their self-created mythology. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Please SUBSCRIBE to this channel!  Follow Slater on Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater  Join our Patreon family! (www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod) On Patreon, you'll get AD FREE episodes, merch discounts, exclusive content, extra true crime cases, behind-the-scenes, private group chats, and much more!  Once is chance. Twice is coincidence. Three times feels like a pattern. But what about 40+?More than forty young men have vanished under nearly identical circumstances and share a strikingly similar victimology - same age range, same build, same final narrative: “He was drinking… he wandered off… must’ve slipped into the river.” Clean, convenient explanations.  But when do multiple accidents stop feeling accidental? And when does coincidence start looking like choreography? Those questions are the backbone of the Smiley Face Killers, which is actually a theory suggesting a possible serial killing network operating across the United States. Law enforcement agencies overwhelmingly reject it. But a small group of former NYPD detectives and private investigators remain unconvinced. And that divide, between official rulings and unresolved doubt, is where this tragic yet fascinating case still lives. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Please SUBSCRIBE to this channel! Follow Slater on Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater  Join our Patreon family! (www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod) On Patreon, you'll get AD FREE episodes, merch discounts, exclusive content, extra true crime cases, behind-the-scenes, private group chats, and much more!  David Fuller, aka the “Morgue Monster”,  committed the largest known necrophilic crime spree in British legal history. For over three decades, Fuller exploited his job as an electrician at two U.K. hospitals throughout the 1990s and 2000s, slipping into morgues with full, unrestricted access. There, he sexually violated more than 100 female corpses — victims ranging in age from children to the elderly — and documented everything with chilling precision. Investigators later uncovered over one million photos and videos of his atrocities.  Fuller’s violence didn’t begin with the morgues. He murdered two innocent young women, Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce, not only to end their lives, but to ensure access to their bodies afterward. This case is one of the most disturbing ever uncovered — grotesque, calculated, and psychologically twisted.  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Follow Slater on Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater  Join our Patreon family! (www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod) On Patreon, you'll get AD FREE episodes, merch discounts, exclusive content, extra true crime cases, behind-the-scenes, private group chats, and much more!  Eli Weaver called himself the “Amish Stud.” On the surface, he was a quiet, married father of five living by the plain rules of a conservative Amish community in Ohio. But behind the image of a devoted husband, he was slipping away with a hidden cell phone, prowling sex chat rooms, and pursuing non-Amish women he manipulated, discarded, and even managed to impregnate. It wasn’t enough for Eli to cheat on his devoted Amish wife, Barbara - he wanted out of his marriage altogether.  And in a world where divorce is nearly impossible, he decided the simplest solution, sadly, was homicide... Ep116: Prayed To Death (http://bit.ly/4ingVJv) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join our Patreon family! (www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod)  On Patreon, you'll get AD FREE episodes, merch discounts, exclusive content, extra true crime cases, behind-the-scenes, private group chats, and much more!  Keep up with Slater on Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater  Trigger warning: This episode addresses incest and generational child sexual abuse, topics that may be especially difficult for some listeners. Please listen with care.The Goler Clan case is one of the most harrowing, and somewhat hidden, tragedies in North American history: a remote, impoverished community in the hills of Nova Scotia where generational incest, abuse, and neglect went unchecked for decades. What outsiders dismissed as a "hillbilly sex ring” was, in reality, a closed-off world where children were trapped in cycles of violence they couldn’t name and had almost no power to escape. When authorities finally intervened in the 1980s, what they uncovered was devastating: a closed community so isolated, so ignored, that the line between victim and perpetrator had blurred across generations. The arrests that followed shattered the quiet of the Annapolis Valley and exposed the brutal truth of what had been going on for decades. This is a case steeped in horrific darkness, and every detail forces us to confront the uncomfortable question: how many horrors thrive simply because no one bothers to look, care, or act? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join our Patreon family! (www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod) You'll get AD FREE episodes, merch discounts, exclusive content, extra true crime cases, behind-the-scenes, private group chats, and much more!  Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater  In Part 2 of our in-depth, two-part coverage of Ed Gein, we explore the years following his mother’s death — when grief, repression, and obsession finally cracked open. Gein escalated from grave-robbing to murder, driven by a delusional need to resurrect his dead mother and a grotesque desire to quite literally step into her skin.  Eventually, inside his farmhouse, investigators uncovered a nightmare stitched together from human remains: masks, corsets, lampshades, skulls, belts, and even a box containing the genitalia of nine different women. It was a discovery that redefined American horror. This episode unpacks the psychology behind Gein’s depravity, including his warped devotion to his domineering mother, his dissociation, and his fixation with anatomy. We also confront the question that still divides experts today: was Ed Gein criminally insane?  Because the truth isn’t that Ed Gein was born evil.  It’s that he was built by the only woman he ever loved... To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Please consider supporting the show on Patreon! (www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod) Join to get AD FREE episodes, merch discounts, exclusive content, extra true crime cases, behind-the-scenes, private group chats, and much more!  Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater  In Part 1 of our in-depth two-part coverage of Ed Gein, the groundwork is laid for one of the most depraved and psychologically unhinged figures in criminal history. Ed Gein, aka The Butcher of Plainfield, was a man destroyed by the death of the only person he'd ever truly known and loved: his mother. For his entire life, Augusta Gein ruled Ed with a Bible in one hand and a clenched fist in the other.  She shamed every flicker of desire, punished every natural impulse, and convinced Ed that all women were wicked, sex was sin, and men were filth. Under her suffocating control, Ed’s identity didn’t form — it fossilized. So when Augusta finally died, Ed didn’t just grieve; he unraveled.  Night after night, he crept into cemeteries under the Wisconsin moon to exhume the bodies of dead women who reminded him of his mother.  Then, he dragged them back to his rancid farmhouse where he hung, carved, and skinned their corpses. Piece by piece, he built what he called a “woman suit,” stitched from human skin and shaped in his mother’s image. It wasn’t enough to love Augusta, or even to worship her. Ed Gein wanted to be her....to climb into her flesh, zip it up, and walk the earth as his mother reborn. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Please consider supporting the show on Patreon! (www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod) Join to get AD FREE episodes, merch discounts, exclusive content, behind-the-scenes, private group chats, and much more! In this episode, I'm joined by special guest Bridget Marquardt of Ghost Bunny and Girls Next Level podcasts! The legend of Kuchisake-onna, aka the Slit-Mouthed Woman, has haunted Japan for centuries. She’s said to appear on empty streets after dark, her face hidden behind a surgical mask and her voice low as she asks one pointed question: “Am I pretty?”  If you answer wrong, or even hesitate, the Slit-Mouthed Woman will remove hrt mask to reveal a mouth carved from ear to ear before chasing you down to make sure you match.  Some say that in life, she was the unfaithful wife of a samurai who was punished for her betrayal. Others claim she’s the spirit of a woman disfigured and left to rot. But whatever the truth, beneath the legend lies something deeper: a dissection of beauty, shame, and female rage. Because in a world obsessed with perfection, the Slit-Mouthed Woman isn’t just a ghost - she’s a mirror. And what she reflects is far more terrifying than the blade she carries... Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater  Bridget can be found here:@bridgetmarquardt@ghostbunnypodcast To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join the Patreon family!! You'll get AD FREE episodes, merch discounts, exclusive content, behind-the-scenes, private group chats, and much more! (www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod) You know the legend: say his name five times in the mirror and Candyman appears. But before the hook-handed ghost ever terrified you in your nightmares, there was a real woman in Chicago whose screams went unanswered.  In 1987, 52-year-old Ruthie Mae McCoy called 911, terrified that someone was breaking into her apartment through her bathroom mirror. Hours later, Ruthie Mae was dead. What followed was a horrifying chain of neglect, systemic failure, and indifference that would later inspire one of horror’s most iconic stories.  This episode uncovers the real tragedy that birthed the Candyman myth, which was Ruthie Mae’s fight for safety inside Chicago’s most dangerous public housing project, the police who didn’t listen, and the killers who slipped through the walls like ghosts.  Before there was Candyman, there was Ruthie Mae McCoy....and her story is far more terrifying than fiction. Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Please consider supporting the show on Patreon! (www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod) Join to get AD FREE episodes, merch discounts, exclusive content, behind-the-scenes, private group chats, and much more!  TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses sexual abuse, physical violence, and torture.  Listener discretion is advised.   Welcome to McKamey Manor, the so-called “haunted house” turned torture chamber that doesn’t believe in safe words.  This isn’t your average Halloween attraction with rubber masks and jump scares. McKamey Manor is a real-life psychological nightmare, an "extreme haunt" where participants are bound, gagged, waterboarded, shaved, abused, assaulted, and buried alive, all for the false promise of a $20,000 prize. Founded by Russ McKamey, a sadistic showman with a camera and a God complex, the Manor isn’t about fear for fun; it’s about control, humiliation, and pain. What masquerades as thrill-seeking quickly devolves into torture porn, all under the guise of consent.  In this episode, we’re pulling back the curtain on one of the most disturbing “entertainment experiences” ever created, the cult-like following that has amassed, the twisted mind behind it, and the shattered participants left in its wake. Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Please consider supporting the show on Patreon! (www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod) If you join, you'll get AD FREE episodes, merch discounts, exclusive content, behind-the-scenes, private group chats, and the opportunity to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater  He looks innocent at first: small, inanimate, chubby-cheeked and wide-eyed. But Harold is anything but innocent. His soft, lifelike features conceal a darkness that has left families terrified and shattered, some suffering lingering illnesses and others marked by the tragedy of death.  In this episode, we delve into Harold’s questionable past, the legends surrounding his origins, and the chilling encounters that have made him infamous. Please listen with caution: as some say the longer you are exposed to Harold, the more likely you are to fall victim to his wrath... To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Candiace Dillard Bassett (Bravo’s Real Housewives of Potomac) and Michael Arceneaux (New York Times best-selling author and culture critic) have thoughts…and on Undomesticated, they’re sharing all of them. Think of it like the group chat you wish you were in - brutally honest, funny, smart, and gloriously unfiltered.  From viral TikTok drama to the celebrity news everyone’s talking about (and the ones they should be), Candiace and Michael are here to talk their talk, crack you up, and keep it 100…with just the right amount of petty. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Please consider supporting the show on Patreon! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod If you join, you'll get AD FREE episodes, merch discounts, exclusive content, BTS, private group chats, and the opportunity to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod In the late 1500s in the village of Bedburg, Germany, children, women, and in many cases pregnant mothers and their unborn babies were found slaughtered and partially eaten, leaving a trail of terror across the autumn-stained countryside.  Rumors claimed that a farmer named Peter Stumpp had transformed into a bloodthirsty werewolf who prowled the woods with his inhuman strength, leaving villagers in fear for their lives for decades. In December 1589, Peter was finally captured, tortured, and forced to confess to horrific crimes that blended the supernatural with the utterly grotesque. In this episode, we explore lycanthropy, Peter's chilling confessions, his barbaric trial, and the eerie folklore that has haunted this small German village for centuries.  Aaaaaaooooo!!! 🐺 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the first episode of Spookypedia! Let's hang out on Patreon! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod If you join, you'll get merch discounts, ad free episodes, exclusive content, BTS, private group chats, and the opportunity to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod Step inside the shadowed halls of history’s most infamous psychiatric institutions, where the echoes of those once cruelly branded as "inmates" still haunt the corridors long after their bodies have vanished. From the clanging of barred doors to the whispers of those who were silenced by cruel treatments, these facilities were meant to heal — but very often harmed, tortured, and killed instead. In this episode, we explore haunted wards, ghostly sightings, and the horrifying realities behind the stories - including lobotomies, electroshock, human experimentation, restraint, and neglect. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join our Patreon family! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod You'll get merch discounts, ad free episodes, exclusive content, BTS, private group chats, and to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod Trigger Warning: This case contains discussion of child sexual abuse. On Holy Saturday, April 5, 1980, investigators walked into a scene that could have been ripped from a horror film. Inside the sacristy of Toledo’s Mercy Hospital chapel lay the body of 71-year-old Sister Margaret Ann Pahl, sprawled across the cold floor. She had been strangled and stabbed repeatedly in the chest and neck, the wounds arranged in the shape of a cross. In a grotesque act of desecration, Sister Margaret Ann was sexually assaulted with a crucifix, and her blood was collected in a golden chalice. The man accused of this atrocity was not a faceless predator, but a priest named Father Gerald Robinson. What followed was a case that touched on satanic ritual, sexual violence, homicide, institutional coverups, and whispers of a cult operating in the shadows comprised of priests, nuns, doctors, and even parents, all accused of committing unspeakable acts of cruelty. Please listen with caution. Revisit Episode 1: Meet Me At The Slaughter House (Apple) (Spotify) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Simpsons fans —THE VAULT IS OPEN! I’m Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson for 35+ years, and I’m finally taking you inside Springfield. Simpsons Declassified is your all-access pass to the world’s most iconic, animated series. Each week, we crack open wild predictions, eerie coincidences and fan conspiracies and stories from 36 seasons (that’s 800+ episodes!) behind-the-scenes with writers, directors, the cast and celebrity superfans, PLUS…Simpsons-themed games— play along and test your Springfield IQ. Hear exclusive stories from our guests who were there! Perhaps some scenes that almost never aired, the jokes that died, the ones that lived and the moments that still shock me at the mic. Produced and showrun by Monica Gil-Rodriguez. From Audacy Podcasts and CRE84U Entertainment. Follow now to get new episodes first — and drop your wildest Simpsons’ theory in a review for a chance to be featured on our uniquely unique podcast, Simpsons Declassified. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Join our Patreon family! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod You'll get ad free episodes, exclusive content, early access to Girl On Gore, BTS, private group chats, merch discounts, and to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! Robert Leroy Anderson, infamously known as “The Duct Tape Killer,” was a sexual sadist and murderer whose heinous crimes shocked the Midwest during the 1980s. Anderson kidnapped unsuspecting women, subjected them to brutal torture on a homemade “bondage board,” and ultimately bound and murdered them with duct tape. His horrific acts were fueled by a pathological need for domination and sadistic gratification, blending erotic desire with lethal aggression. This case is both graphic and devastating, so please listen with caution! Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices