Calculating Cancer: The Angel-Maker

How to Survive Dark Cancer

She jumped out of the car and fled. That is the sentence I keep coming back to. The girl who got into Ensio Koivunen's Dodge on a summer day in 1971, who felt the trap closing -- and who jumped. She survived. Three other women did not. The signals were there. In every case. In every block. In every arena. Someone saw the warning sign. Someone heard the disclosure. Someone felt the trap closing. The question this season has been asking for nineteen episodes is not whether the dark Cancer can be identified. The dark Cancer can always be identified. The question is whether anyone acts on what they see. This episode is the answer. Fifty-one cases. Three arenas. One sign. One wound. The full thesis of dark Cancer -- and six survival directives for anyone who recognized someone in this season and needs to know what to do next. Signs of Danger: A True Crime Astrology Podcast | Season 4, Episode 20 -- Season Finale #SignsOfDanger #TrueCrime #Cancer #Astrology #CancerSeason #TrueCrimeAstrology #TrueCrimePodcast

Shadow Cancer: What They Stole

"Almost all murders were committed with one goal -- to punish those who mock me. I wanted to punish the elders." That is a direct quote from a former police operative in Mariupol, Ukraine, explaining why he killed nineteen people. He said they stole his future. He put on the police uniform before each kill. Walked to the door. Presented a fake ID. And did what the badge allowed him to do -- enter. Four thousand miles west, a draftsman for a municipal water department drove the back roads of southeastern Ohio shooting campers, joggers, and outdoorsmen. He set more than a hundred fires. He killed more than a thousand animals. In his fantasy life, he was the president of the United States. His mother never hugged him. Episode 19 closes the Work block. The Grudge Holder. Three Cancers who kept a ledger of every slight, every denial, every perceived theft -- and collected the debt in blood. Then: the full retrospective. Twelve cases. Five configurations. The complete architecture of dark Cancer at work. Featuring: Sergei Dovzhenko (June 30, 1972) | Thomas Lee Dillon (July 9, 1950) | Earl Mitchell Forrest II (July 12, 1949). Signs of Danger: A True Crime Astrology Podcast | Season 4, Episode 19 #SignsOfDanger #TrueCrime #Cancer #CancerSeason #TrueCrimeAstrology #Zodiac #Astrology #TrueCrimePodcast

Cold Cancer: The Crossing

"Every man has his passion. Some prefer whist. I prefer killing people." That is what he told authorities. Not under pressure. As a philosophical statement. He was the man standing between women and the border. The one who could get them across. There was no other side. There was only him. And once they were in the dark, in the woods, on the border between East and West Germany -- he raped them and killed them with hatchets, hammers, knives, and stones. Three thousand miles south, a taxi driver in northern Chile offered free rides to teenage girls. He watched them for days before he made his move. Fourteen victims. Bodies thrown into abandoned mines. Episode 18 is about the professional predator. The Cancer whose occupation -- smuggler, taxi driver, hitman -- gave him access to people who had no other choice. Three men. Three countries. Three professions. The work was the hunting ground. Featuring: Rudolf Pleil (July 7, 1924). | Julio Perez Silva (July 15, 1963) | Andres Leonardo Achipiz (July 5, 1994). Signs of Danger: A True Crime Astrology Podcast | Season 4, Episode 18 #SignsOfDanger #TrueCrime #Cancer #Astrology #TrueCrimePodcast #CancerSeason #TrueCrimeAstrology

Cruel Cancer: Heavy Is the Crown

There is a brain in a jar at Cornell University. It has been there since 1871. The second largest human brain ever recorded. The man it belonged to was a doctor, a lawyer, a philologist, a photographer, an inventor, and a murderer. He killed his wife with a pestle. He poisoned his infant daughter. He taught himself the science of language from a prison cell and tried to auction his manuscript for five hundred thousand dollars. Mark Twain wrote about him. Three centuries earlier, another man with an extraordinary mind was killing the people closest to him. He did not use a pestle. He used the law. He executed two of his six wives, his most powerful minister, and anyone who became inconvenient to his dynasty. Tudor historians call it judicial murder. Episode 17 is about power. The Cancer who uses position, intellect, and authority as the mechanism for destruction. A king and a genius. Different centuries. Same architecture: the shell of institutional power concealing the predator inside. Featuring: Henry VIII (June 28, 1491) | John Edward Howard Rulloff (July 9, 1819). Signs of Danger: A True Crime Astrology Podcast | Season 4, Episode 17 #SignsOfDanger #TrueCrime #Cancer #Astrology #TrueCrimePodcast #CancerSeason #TrueCrimeAstrology

Calculating Cancer: The Angel-Maker

She told the mothers their babies had been adopted by rich families in distant countries. One payment. One handoff. And your child -- the one born outside of marriage, the one you could not afford -- would be raised by people with means. The mothers paid. The mothers left. The mothers believed. What Elisabeth Wiese actually did was poison the babies with morphine and burn their bodies in a stove in her apartment. She was a former midwife. A woman trained to bring children into the world. Seven hundred miles south, in Belgium, a woman served digitalis in tea to her elderly customers. When the drug began to work, she stole their money. Then she attended the funerals and wept hysterically. Between funerals, she was spotted in nightclubs, dancing with men half her age, spending the stolen money. She described one victim as "an angel choked with sauerkraut." Episode 16 extends the caregiver theme into history. The Angel-Maker. The professional caretaker who uses the trust of the role to kill. Two women. Two centuries. The same architecture. Featuring: Elisabeth Wiese (July 1, 1853) | Marie Alexandrine Becker (July 14, 1879). Signs of Danger: A True Crime Astrology Podcast | Season 4, Episode 16 #SignsOfDanger #TrueCrime #Cancer #Astrology #TrueCrimePodcast #CancerSeason #TrueCrimeAstrology #Zodiac