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The Profiling Evil Podcast delves into unsolved criminal cases from around the world, peeling back the layers of human behavior to reveal what drives evil. We look into the mind of the predator—their motivations, their victim selection, and the patterns that expose them. Each episode goes beyond headlines, examining how investigators identify red flags, connect the dots, and capitalize on the very errors offenders believe will never be found.

Your host, Mike King, brings over four decades of experience in criminal justice and behavioral analysis. A retired law enforcement executive, Mike served as Chief of Staff to Utah Attorney General Jan Graham and Weber County Attorney Reed M. Richards. He began his career at the Ogden Police Department, where he worked patrol, motor enforcement, and SWAT before moving into investigations where he led task forces that hunted serial predators and violent offenders.

Mike’s expertise earned him national recognition. He served as co-chair of the FBI’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) National Advisory Board, directed UTAP, the Utah Criminal Tracking and Analysis Project, and supported intelligence operations during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.

After retiring from public service, Mike joined the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri), where he spent years consulting with police agencies around the globe on intelligence gathering, emergency communications, and major event management. In 2024, he retired again, this time to focus full-time on Profiling Evil and its growing community of true crime investigators, students, and enthusiasts.

Mike is an internationally recognized speaker, trainer, and adjunct professor, as well as a visiting scholar at multiple universities. He’s authored several acclaimed works on crime and human behavior, including:

·      Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing

·      Deceived: An Investigative Memoir of the Zion Society Cult

·      She Knew No Fear

·      Who Killed King Tut?

·      Predators: Who Are They and How Do We Stop Them?

·      Profilers

Mike’s investigative insight and behavioral expertise have been featured on Court TV, NewsNation, Law & Crime Network, Dr. Phil, History’s Greatest Mysteries, and 60 Minutes Australia, where his calm, analytical style helps audiences understand the why behind the world’s most chilling crimes.

At @ProfilingEvil, you’ll find deep dives into real investigations, expert analysis of offender behavior, and lessons in situational awareness and safety. It’s more than storytelling, it’s about learning how to recognize, understand, and ultimately disrupt evil.


Watch & Subscribe on YouTube: @ProfilingEvil

Learn more at www.ProfilingEvil.com

Email Mike at: [email protected]




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Laura Owens was sentenced to 30 days in jail and seven years of supervised probation after pleading guilty to four felonies for a pregnancy fraud scheme that stretched across a decade and three men, and the reaction was immediate. In this video I walk you through the scheme, the hearing, and the sentence itself, with the courtroom moments that jumped out to me from one victim exclaiming to the judge that the woman wasn’t sorry for committing the fraud, she was sorry she got caught! We’ll examine the court’s decision and look at the public comment since the sentence came down. Did the judge get it right, or did the system fail the victims? You tell me if seven years of probation makes crime not worth it or is 30 days of jail time punishment enough for ten years of damage?#LauraOwens #ClaytonEchard #GregGillespie #MikeMarraccini #MaricopaCounty #Arizona #TrueCrime #ProfilingEvil #PoC #PsychCults #SandersonPAC========================================Website: www.ProfilingEvil.com========================================Email your questions to: [email protected]========================================💳 DONATE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=T54JX76RZ455S💵 PayPal: https://paypal.me/profilingevil🕵️BECOME A MEMBER: https://www.youtube.com/profilingevil/join🛒SHOP MERCH: https://www.profilingevil.com/profilingevilshop📖SHOP BOOKS: https://www.profilingevil.com/storeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Warren Jeffs was captured and sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting underage girls in Texas and many wondered if the polygamist cult was done for. But Samuel Bateman created his own religious offshoot with more than twenty women and girls as spiritual wives. His fifty-year federal sentence for sexual exploitation and kidnapping of children essentially cut another head of the FLDS snake. So why does the snake keep growing more heads, just like HYDRA from the Marvel Comics? At least six other FLDS men have also been convicted of serious crimes. The head of the snake keeps growing back and despite those convictions, loyal followers continue to regard these men as prophets, persecuted servants and religious martyrs?Let’s examine the law-enforcement strategy commonly described as “cutting off the head of the snake.” Arresting Warren Jeffs prevented him from personally supervising the FLDS, but it did not eliminate the theology, family relationships, economic dependencies and psychological conditioning that supported his authority. Jeffs continues communicating from prison, while intermediaries claim the authority to interpret or distribute his instructions. The weakening of his organization creates opportunities for rival prophetic claimants such as Samuel Bateman to thrive. I’m going to borrow a comparison from Marvel Comics and its fictional organization HYDRA, where removing one head never guarantees that the organization has been defeated. See how an authoritarian movement can fragment, reproduce its leadership and survive the physical removal of its most visible figure and turn a common convicted predator into a martyr.#WarrenJeffs #SamuelBateman #FLDS #ProfilingEvil #MikeKing #TrueCrime #ReligiousAbuse #CoerciveControl #HighControlGroup #Polygamy #ChildAbuse #ChildExploitation #CriminalProfiling #BehavioralAnalysis #MarvelComics #HYDRA #Hildale #ColoradoCity #ShortCreek #YFZRanch #UnitedEffortPlan #ReligiousTrauma #VictimAdvocacy #JusticeForSurvivors #GIS #Esri #ArcGIS #hydra #marvel ========================================20% OFF Newspapers.comhttps://www.newspapers.com/go/podcast/?ref=profilingevil?xid=8877&utm_source=ProfilingEvilPodcast&utm_medium=podcst&utm_campaign=ProfilingEvil26========================================Discounts on eBikes: https://aipasbike.com/?ref=PROFILINGEVILReferral Coupon Code: PROFILINGEVIL========================================Email your questions to: [email protected]========================================💳 DONATE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=T54JX76RZ455S💵 PayPal: https://paypal.me/profilingevil🕵️BECOME A MEMBER: https://www.youtube.com/profilingevil/join🛒SHOP MERCH: https://www.profilingevil.com/profilingevilshop📖SHOP BOOKS: https://www.profilingevil.com/storeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Three men stood accused of first-degree murder in the execution-style shooting of a man in Oakville, Ontario. Then an Ontario judge threw the whole case out, and the reason had nothing to do with the evidence against the accused men, but it did have everything to do with the correctional staff abuses caused to them and nearly 200 inmates at the Maplehurst Correctional Complex in December of 2023. This is a story of how vengeance inside a jail destroyed a murder prosecution, and what it cost the victims' families and the $30 million dollar class action suit that followed.#PsychCults #PoC #ArmanDhillon #VanessaVirgioni #SoniaGrewal #JosephRichardWhitlock #KarnVeerSandhu #KulvirBhatia #Oakville #Milton #Ontario #Maplehurst #OntarioCorrections #CharterRights #VictimsRights #misconduct #inmate #con #convicted #earlyrelease #murder #victim #defendant========================================Website: www.ProfilingEvil.com========================================Email your questions to: [email protected]========================================💳 DONATE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=T54JX76RZ455S💵 PayPal: https://paypal.me/profilingevil🕵️BECOME A MEMBER: https://www.youtube.com/profilingevil/join🛒SHOP MERCH: https://www.profilingevil.com/profilingevilshop📖SHOP BOOKS: https://www.profilingevil.com/storeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Today I sit down with my friend Michele McPhee, a journalist who has been following the Sandra Birchmore case since before it became national news and has spent the last two weeks inside the federal courtroom in Boston, watching the murder trial of former Stoughton police detective Matthew Farwell, who is accused of killing 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore and causing the death of her unborn child and has pleaded not guilty. Michele shares what has stuck with her most, from the grooming allegations that began when Sandra joined the Stoughton Police Explorers program at 13, to a death scene labeled a suicide within minutes, to her therapist's testimony that Sandra was making plans for her baby the day before she died, and we talk fairly about the defense suicide theory and the moments this week where it struggled. Let me know what you think in the comments, and please keep them constructive and respectful.#SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #FarwellTrial #BirchmoreTrial #JusticeForSandraBirchmore #StoughtonPolice #FarwellDNA #TrueCrime #PoliceMisconduct #ProfilingEvil========================================Website: www.ProfilingEvil.com========================================Email your questions to: [email protected]========================================💳 DONATE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=T54JX76RZ455S💵 PayPal: https://paypal.me/profilingevil🕵️BECOME A MEMBER: https://www.youtube.com/profilingevil/join🛒SHOP MERCH: https://www.profilingevil.com/profilingevilshop📖SHOP BOOKS: https://www.profilingevil.com/storeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Episode three of Mapping Evil, recorded in Australia with Tori Shepherd, is all about location, location, location, and how sexual predators use it to isolate their victims. Mike starts with the four rapist categories, from power reassurance up to the anger excitation offender, the most dangerous of all.The main case is Michael Blake Jensen, a power assertive predator who hunted real estate agents. He shopped for victims using for sale signs carrying glamour shots of female agents, posed as a cash buyer and chose unoccupied homes. He was caught when one victim reported immediately, leading to a helicopter chase that ended with a police canine. Then Queensland, 1967: Mima McKim Hill, 21, vanished between Calliope and Biloela; her body was found 80 kilometers west near Collard Creek. Mike maps the three crime scenes and tests how a broken-down truck, possibly Erik Johan Seifers', could explain the geography.He closes by contrasting Jensen, the careful strategist, with the opportunistic predator, and talks plainly about the victim risk continuum and the small daily decisions that raise or lower our risk.#MichaelBlakeJensen #realestate #sexualpredator #powerassertive #MimaMcKimHill #Queensland #Calliope #Biloela #Gladstone #coldcases #victimrisk #ErikJohanSeifers #ToriShepherd #MappingEvil #Esri #ArcGIS #crimemapping #CrimeAnalysis #GIS #map #Mapping #Maps #profiling #crime #criminal #criminalbehavior========================================Get 20% Off at www.Newspapers.com/profilingevil========================================Website: www.ProfilingEvil.com========================================Email your questions to: [email protected]========================================💳 DONATE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=T54JX76RZ455S💵 PayPal: https://paypal.me/profilingevil🕵️BECOME A MEMBER: https://www.youtube.com/profilingevil/join🛒SHOP MERCH: https://www.profilingevil.com/profilingevilshop📖SHOP BOOKS: https://www.profilingevil.com/storeSee 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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