Darya Saltykova: Russia's Most Sadistic Female Serial Killer

Darya Saltykova: Russia's Most Sadistic Female Serial Killer

In this chilling episode we uncover the horrifying crimes of Darya Saltykova, the eighteenth-century Russian noblewoman known as the Saltychikha, who systematically tortured and murdered dozens of her own serfs over a seven-year reign of terror on her estate south of Moscow.

Harrison Graham: The Cookie Monster Killer – Philadelphia House of Death

On August 9, 1987, Philadelphia police forced open an apartment at 1631 North Nineteenth Street and discovered seven strangled African American women hidden inside what would become known as the “House of Death.” The tenant, Harrison Graham—locally famous for his Cookie Monster impressions—had vanished that morning, leaving behind a trail of bodies that spanned a year of undetected killings.

Lewis Hutchinson: Jamaica's First Serial Killer and the Horror of Edinburgh Castle

In the late 18th century, Scottish planter Lewis Hutchinson turned his fortified estate, Edinburgh Castle, into a killing ground, dropping dozens of victims into a deep Jamaican sinkhole now known as Hutchinson's Hole. This episode explores how a man educated in medicine became one of the Caribbean's most prolific and least-known serial killers.

Adolfo Constanzo: The Godfather of Matamoros

In April 1989, investigators discovered a horrifying scene at Rancho Santa Elena near Matamoros, Mexico: a ritual cauldron filled with human remains and the mutilated bodies of fifteen victims. At the center of this nightmare was Adolfo Constanzo, a Cuban-American cult leader whose supernatural “insurance” racket had protected major drug shipments across the U.S.-Mexico border—until the abduction of American student Mark Kilroy brought everything crashing down.

Fritz Haarmann: The Butcher of Hanover – Bones in the River

In the summer of 1924, hundreds of human bones surfaced from Hanover’s Leine River, exposing one of Weimar Germany’s most shocking serial murder cases. Fritz Haarmann, a petty criminal and police informant, was ultimately revealed as the killer of at least 22 young men whose dismembered remains had been dumped in the water. This episode traces the discovery of the bones, the city’s growing panic, and the disturbing double life of the man known as the Butcher of Hanover.