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Diane Downs - The Mother Who Shot Her Own Children

She arrived at the emergency room too calmly. A little blood on her arm, a story about a bushy-haired stranger on a dark Oregon road, and three shot children in the back seat. One of them — 7-year-old Cheryl — was already gone. The other twowould survive scarred: 8-year-old Christie fighting back from a stroke, 3-year-old Danny paralyzed for life.   There was no stranger.   Diane Downs shot her own children in May 1983 to clear the path to a man who'd told her he didn't want kids. Her motive wasn't madness or mercy — it was arithmetic. Herchildren were obstacles, and she decided to remove them. This episode traces how her story fell apart, how her own daughter relearned how to speak just to testify against her, and how, forty-two years and four parole denials later,Diane Downs still refuses to admit what she did.   Some killers don't look like killers. That's exactly what they're counting on.   Intent doesn't lie. People do.   Next week, we're heading to Australia — to a quiet country town, an empty bank, and the worst series of killings the country has ever seen. The men who did it believed, all the way down, that they were the good guys.   #TrueCrime #DeadlyIntent #DianeDowns #SmallSacrifices #Filicide #TrueCrimePodcast #CrimePodcast #ColdCase #TrueCrimeCommunity #MurderPodcast #CriminalMinds#TrueCrimeJunkie #PodcastRecommendation #OregonTrueCrime   Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-422-4453   🎧 EXPLORE MORE: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror   💀 SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion   🔗 CONNECT: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrionTwitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/   🎵 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY 🎵 iTunes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deadly-intent/id1550361184   🎼 Music: Epidemic Sound, ElevenLabs

Golden State Killer - The Psychology of a Predator Who Hid Behind a Badge

He was a police officer. A father. A neighbor who waved from his driveway and tended his yard like anyone else. For over a decade, Joseph James DeAngelo moved through California neighborhoods like a shadow — cutting phone lines, tying knots, and leaving behind a trail of trauma that spanned 11 counties, 13 murders, and more than 50 sexual assaults. He was the Visalia Ransacker. The East Area Rapist. The Original Night Stalker. The Golden State Killer. All the same man. All the same hands. For 44 years, he was nobody's suspect. In this episode of Deadly Intent, we trace the full arc of one of the most psychologically complex cases in American criminal history — from DeAngelo's calculated double life as a law enforcement officer to the revolutionary DNA genealogy technique that finally unmasked him. We'll examine the behavioral signature of a power-control predator, the decades of dead ends that frustrated investigators across California, the obsessive true crime writer who named him before she could see him caught, and the retired patent attorney who built his family tree from a crime scene DNA sample and changed forensic investigation forever. Justice took 44 years. It came anyway. Intent doesn't lie. People do.   #GoldenStateKiller #JosephDeAngelo #EastAreaRapist #OriginalNightStalker #DeadlyIntent #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #ForensicGenealogy #DNAEvidence #MichelleMcNamara #IllBeGoneInTheDark #BarbaraRaeVenter #SerialKiller #CriminalPsychology #PodcastersOfInstagram #TrueCrimeCommunity #CarmanCarrion #PowerControlPredator #ColdCaseSolved   EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon (Ad-Free + Bonus Content): https://www.patreon.com/c/CarmanCarrion Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ THE CRYPT SHOP: https://the-crypt-shop-2.myshopify.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: CO.AG, Myuu, Jinglepunks, Epidemic Sound, Kevin MacLeod, Dark Music, and Soundstripe.

The Doomsday Mom - When Love Becomes Murder

She was a devoted mother. A beauty queen. A woman who posted family vacations and birthday celebrations on social media. And then, somewhere along the way, she became something else entirely. Lori Vallow Daybell convinced herself — and those around her — that her own children were possessed by dark spirits. Zombies who needed to be eliminated. What followed was a calculated campaign of murder that claimed the lives of 7-year-old JJ Vallow, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, and Tammy Daybell — all while Lori collected her children's Social Security benefits and honeymooned in Hawaii. This is the story of faith weaponized. Of maternal instinct turned inside out. Of a belief system so twisted that murder became mercy. And in 2026, Lori is still fighting her conviction — still insisting nobody was murdered. Intent doesn't lie. People do.  #TrueCrime #DeadlyIntent #LoriVallow #DoomsdayMom #TyleeRyan #JJVallow #ChadDaybell #TrueCrimePodcast #CrimePodcast #ColdCase #TrueCrimeCommunity #MurderPodcast #CriminalMinds #TrueCrimeJunkie #PodcastRecommendation  National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-422-4453  EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon (Ad-Free + Bonus Content): https://www.patreon.com/c/CarmanCarrion Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ THE CRYPT SHOP: https://the-crypt-shop-2.myshopify.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: CO.AG, Myuu, Jinglepunks, Epidemic Sound, Kevin MacLeod, Dark Music, and Soundstripe.       EXPLORE MORE: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror   SUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/CarmanCarrion Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion   CONNECT: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deadly-intent/id1550361184 THE CRYPT SHOP: https://the-crypt-shop-2.myshopify.com/ Music: CO.AG, Myuu, Jinglepunks, Epidemic Sound, Kevin MacLeod, Dark Music, Soundstripe.

The Louisa Dunne Case - Britain's Oldest Cold Case Solved

In June 1967, 75-year-old widow Louisa Dunne was raped and murdered in her Bristol home. When her newspaper sat uncollected on her garden wall the next morning, neighbors knew something was terribly wrong. Police found a palm print on her window and biological evidence at the scene—but in 1967, forensic science couldn't identify the killer. The case went cold for fifty-eight years. Until 2024, when DNA technology finally caught up to a predator who thought he'd gotten away with murder. This is the story of Britain's longest-running cold case, the elderly women who were targeted by a serial offender, and the justice system that failed them catastrophically—giving a rapist and murderer decades of freedom he should never have had. #TrueCrime #ColdCase #LouisaDunne #BritishCrimeHistory #ForensicScience #DNAEvidence #JusticeDelayed #UnsolvedMurders #Bristol #TrueCrimePodcast #DeadlyIntent #ColdCaseSolved #SeniorSafety #ElderAbuse #SexualAssault #MurderMystery #CrimeHistory #1960sCrime #ForensicBreakthrough #TrueCrimeCommunity EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon (Ad-Free + Bonus Content): https://www.patreon.com/c/CarmanCarrion Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ THE CRYPT SHOP: https://the-crypt-shop-2.myshopify.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: CO.AG, Myuu, Jinglepunks, Epidemic Sound, Kevin MacLeod, Dark Music, and Soundstripe.

BTK Part 2: The Fall of a Killer

After thirteen years of silence, the BTK Killer resurfaces in 2004—and his desperate need for recognition becomes his fatal mistake. In Part 2, we follow the investigation that finally brought Dennis Rader down: the taunting letters, the psychological chess match with police, and the floppy disk that ended a thirty-year reign of terror.  From the metadata that exposed him to the shocking confession that revealed the true depths of his narcissism, this is the story of how intent—that core psychological drive—became both his motivation and his downfall. We also examine the devastating impact on his family, the victims' families who finally got answers, and what this case teaches us about the nature of evil hiding in plain sight. Content Warning: This episode contains graphic discussions of murder, sexual violence, and violence against children. Listener discretion is strongly advised.   #BTKKiller #DennisRader #TrueCrime #SerialKiller #DeadlyIntent #CriminalPsychology #WichitaKansas #ColdCase #TrueCrimePodcast #Forensics #DNAEvidence #CriminalIntent #TrueCrimeCommunity #UnsolvedNoMore #JusticeServed #VictimsFirst #CrimeJunkie #MurderMystery #PsychologyOfCrime #TrueCrimeObsessed #PodcastersOfInstagram #CrimeStories #KillerNextDoor #IntentMatters #CarmanCarrion   EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon (Ad-Free + Bonus Content): https://www.patreon.com/c/CarmanCarrion Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ THE CRYPT SHOP: https://the-crypt-shop-2.myshopify.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: CO.AG, Myuu, Jinglepunks, Epidemic Sound, Kevin MacLeod, Dark Music, and Soundstripe.