This post contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links at no additional cost to you. 1987 Russellville, AR Christmas is supposed to be a merry time. A time of holiday cheer where children laugh and play. People sit by the Christmas tree opening presents, drinking hot cocoa, and eating cookies. Kids are out of school. Adults are out of work. It’s a time when everyone can relax and enjoy the company of others. Not for Ronald Gene Simmons Sr., though. Christmas of 1987 was when he decided that he had had enough of his current life and de ..read more

This post contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links at no additional cost to you. 1978-1992 Portland, OR Michele Gates murdered two children by the time she was 13-year-old. After years of court battles and a sentence at a youth facility, she eventually tried to hire a hitman to kill a woman so she could gain custody of her children. This is MONSTERS Michele Gates was the child of a teenage mother, Diane Gates, who spent most of her childhood being raised by her grandmother, Deletta Reese. When Gates was only 11-years-old, her step ..read more

Tiffany Moss abused her step-daughter, Emani Moss, so severely that she lost her job as a preschool teacher. Once that happened, she became a stay-at-home mom to Emani and her own two children. With her husband, Eman Moss, working two jobs to support the family, the mother began starving Emani until she died just days before Halloween in 2013. Then she convinced Eman to burn the body and pretend the girl ran away. This is Season 01 : Episode 09 of the podcast: this is MONSTERS Our new podcast this is MONSTERS will have a new episode at 6:00 AM every Monday. Each season will foc ..read more

This post contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links at no additional cost to you. 1974 USA Paul John Knowles is an American serial killer who travelled through multiple states, stealing, raping, and killing along the way. He would kill at least 20 people from the age of seven-years-old to 65-years-old. He killed men and women and even a police officer, only being stopped by three bullets to the chest. This is MONSTERS Paul John Knowles Paul John Knowles was a petty criminal early in his life. Even though his father was known to dis ..read more

This post contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links at no additional cost to you. 1974 Deer Park, TX When Ronald Clark O’Bryan found himself in massive debt, he weighed all of his options before coming up with a plan to ease his financial burden. He took out insurance policies on his own children, gave them each a piece of poisoned Halloween candy, and claimed that the candy had come from a stranger while trick or treating, ruining the holiday for generations of kids after. This is MONSTERS The fear that children will be poisoned b ..read more

This post contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links at no additional cost to you. 1964 & 1972-1973 California Over the course of a year, Edmund Kemper picked up multiple female hitchhikers, drove them out into the woods, and killed them using a variety of methods. He would take the bodies home where he would decapitate them, have sex with the severed heads and the corpses, and then dismember their bodies. On top of preying on students who attended the nearby college, he also killed his own mother and grandparents. This is MONST ..read more

On February 20th, 2016, Morgan Lawrence came home from work to an empty house and a message from her husband, Ryan. He had taken their 21-month-old daughter, Maddox, and disappeared. He took her out to a rural area where he crushed her head with a baseball bat and set her body on fire before he put her body in a bag and threw it in Onandaga Creek. This is Season 01 : Episode 08 of the podcast: this is MONSTERS Our new podcast this is MONSTERS will have a new episode at 6:00 AM every Monday. Each season will focus on a specific theme. Our first season will focus on filicide ..read more

This post contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links at no additional cost to you. 2015 Washington, DC Daron Wint had been fired from his job as a welder at American Iron Works. He knew that the CEO of the company, Savvas Savopoulos, had money, so he snuck into his mansion and held him, his wife, his son, and his housekeeper hostage. He demanded $40,000 in cash and once he got the money, he killed all four hostages and set the house on fire. This is MONSTERS Daron Wint had immigrated to the US from Guyana in 2000. The same year, he ..read more

This post contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links at no additional cost to you. Most murders have a motivation behind them. Unless a person is completely insane, they tend to kill for a reason. Love is a common motive as people kill over jealousy all the time. On the other side of that, hate is a common motive as people kill people they loathe all the time as well. One of the most common motives to murder is money. There are no shortage of stories about people getting killed during a robbery or killing in order to collect on an i ..read more

On March 24th, 2015, Mitchelle Blair was served an eviction notice at her rented townhouse in Detroit, Michigan. Blair was not home, so a crew entered the residence and began removing furniture. When they got to a white chest freezer in the living room, they found the body of a teenage girl inside. When police arrived, they discovered the body of a younger boy underneath the girl in the same freezer. It turned out that Blair had killed two of her children and stored their bodies in a freezer in the living room for more than two years. This is Season 01 : Episode 07 of the podcast: this is ..read more