Serial Killers: Crime Investigations

About Serial Killers: Crime Investigations

What allows investigators to connect separate murders to the same offender? Serial Killers: Crime Investigations examines serial murder cases through the evidence, timelines, behavioral patterns, victim connections, and investigative decisions that shape complex criminal investigations. The focus is not only on the offender, but on how multiple cases become linked, which clues prove significant, and where early assumptions can complicate the search for answers. Serial killer investigations often develop across different locations, victims, and periods of time. A recurring detail may establish a pattern. Forensic evidence can connect scenes that initially appear unrelated. Witness statements, geographic links, crime scene similarities, and changes in an offender’s behavior can alter the direction of an investigation. Each case is explored through the known facts and investigative questions, separating confirmed evidence from allegations, theories, and unresolved uncertainties. What to Expect on Serial Killers: Crime Investigations: Case Reconstruction: Follow the sequence of crimes, investigative developments, and key discoveries that help authorities understand connections between multiple cases. Investigative Evidence: Examine forensic findings, victimology, timelines, witness accounts, crime scene patterns, and other details that can influence how investigators identify and pursue suspects. Patterns and Unanswered Questions: Explore what investigators were able to establish, which links proved important, and why some aspects of a case may remain disputed or unresolved. Behind every serial murder investigation are victims, families, and communities affected long after an offender is identified or a case goes cold. Understanding these investigations means looking beyond the notoriety of the killer and focusing on the evidence, accountability, investigative failures, and unanswered questions that define each case. Follow Serial Killers: Crime Investigations and enable notifications so you do not miss the next case. Topics Covered: serial killer cases, serial murder investigations, true crime investigations, homicide cases, forensic evidence, victimology, crime scene analysis, behavioral patterns, criminal investigations, suspect identification, cold cases, unsolved murders

Publisher

Creator at Obomedia

Category

society & culture · society & culture · true crime

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Jul 2026

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

128 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026

   The Bowling Bag That Broke Three Missing Men's Silence

   The Bowling Bag That Broke Three Missing Men's Silence A worn black Ebonite bowling bag with a broken zipper and a name written inside turned up at a Wyoming work camp and reopened three separate disappearances spanning Colorado and New Mexico; how did one bag travel nearly nine hundred miles and connect files no one had read together? The bag’s leather strap bore initials burned in with a woodburning tool, a detail that eventually traced back to a mother’s gift and a lineup of intake and discharge logs that raised new questions. In this episode, we follow the events that began when a church volunteer found the bag at Harwick North in Blaine County, Wyoming, and how that discovery brought together records from three camps and three sheriff’s offices; what did the intake and discharge signatures reveal, and why had no one compared these cases before the bag appeared? Person: Scott Smith Location: Harwick North camp, Blaine County, Wyoming Date: January 14, 2010 Case: Missing persons linked by one bowling bag Person: Dale Porter - The bowling bag was an Ebonite brand, black canvas, with a broken main zipper and worn soft with use. - Dale Porter checked into Harwick Creek camp in Cibola County, New Mexico on January 3, 2009 and a discharge form was recorded on January 19, 2009. - The discharge signature for Dale Porter was neat, deliberate, and slower than his check-in signature, appearing like someone trying to remember how to write his own name. - Troy Neff disappeared from a camp in Eddy County, New Mexico in March 2009 at age thirty. - Eddie Boone vanished in November 2007 from a camp in Delta County, Colorado at age twenty-eight. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

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   12 Oct 2026

   The Lanyard: How a Casino Card Unmasked a Serial Killer

   The Lanyard: How a Casino Card Unmasked a Serial Killer A loyalty-card lanyard, laminated and looped twice around a wrist, led to a dead woman who had no official record of dying - and a trail that crossed tribal casinos, rental properties, and an ungated fire road. How did a loyalty account flagged as "deceased" because of returned mail become the single thread that opened an investigation into who had access to the eastern gaming corridor? In this episode, we follow the discovery, the evidence chain, and the data search that connected a body found on December 9, 2019 to a loyalty account processed on December 22, 2019 - and ask what the lanyard reveals about the people who moved between those roads, properties, and women. Person: Erin O'Connor Date: December 9, 2019 Location: Arrowhead Flats recreation corridor Case: Body found wrapped in canvas tarpaulin, time-of-death window Nov 27-29, 2019 Account: Loyalty card registered to Diane Kettler, processed Dec 22, 2019 - Body found at 7:45 AM on December 9, 2019, with a Painted Sky Resort loyalty-card lanyard looped twice around the right wrist. - Erin O'Connor, 48, last seen leaving work on November 27, 2019; cause of death determined as manual strangulation. - Erin's own loyalty card was found in her purse at home when her apartment was searched on December 11, 2019. - The loyalty-card account matched Diane Kettler, 51, last recorded Painted Sky activity March 2019 and flagged deceased after mail was returned undeliverable. - The burial site sat within 80 yards of an ungated fire road that allowed vehicle access without being noticed. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

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   11 Oct 2026

   The Red Lantern: Why a Stolen Vest Exposed a Hidden Killer

   The Red Lantern: Why a Stolen Vest Exposed a Hidden Killer A red lantern rated for eleven hours was still burning when Gina Hall pulled it from Sullen Fork at 6:42 a.m. on November 8, 2014 - even though the man wearing it had been dead at least thirty-six hours. That impossible battery life, a stolen extra-large CRRL railroad safety vest, and a missing lantern from an upstream depot became the first threads of an investigation that refused simple answers: who dressed Frank Peterson before dumping him in the river? In this episode, we follow the timeline from Frank Peterson’s last known clock-out on November 5 to the discovery of his body three days later, the serial numbers that tied equipment to a freight yard supply locker and a depot twelve miles upstream, and the questions that those mismatched records raised about where he actually died. Person: Frank Peterson Date: November 5-8, 2014 Location: Sullen Fork near Grade Crossing 44 on Route 9 Status: Body recovered; cause listed as blunt-force trauma to posterior skull, no water in lungs Item: CRRL railroad safety vest (size extra-large) stolen August 2014 - Time recovered: 6:42 a.m., November 8, 2014 - Lantern battery rating: 11 hours; body estimated dead at least 36 hours - Vest theft: reported stolen from Millhaven freight yard supply locker in August 2014 - Lantern serial trace: matched to Sullen Fork Junction depot; 40 units shipped in Sept 2013, 38 on hand at inventory - Investigator on case: Christine Thorpe, Aldrich County Sheriff's Office, 11 years on force To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

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