Curated playlist
Serial killers from California
- Cary StaynerCary Stayner is an American serial killer whose crimes began to surface in March 1999, when police near Yosemite National Park received an anonymous note. It held a hand-drawn map, and across the top someone had written, "We had fun with…
- Ted BundyIn June 1974, Ted Bundy walked into the middle of an active Seattle police investigation to collect evidence he had left behind. Bundy would murder dozens of young women and girls in 1974-1975 and 1978. On the night of the 11th of June…
- William BoninWilliam George Bonin was an American serial killer, and the prosecution against him once called him "the most arch-evil person who ever existed." Between 1968 and 1980 he attacked boys and young men in southern California, and briefly in…
- John Allen MuhammadJohn Allen Muhammad was pronounced dead at 9:11 p.m. on the 10th of November 2009. The place was the Greensville Correctional Center, near Jarratt, Virginia. Seven years earlier, in 2002, shootings attributed to him and a young partner…
- Keith Hunter JespersonKeith Hunter Jesperson was born on the 6th of April 1955 and spent his working life behind the wheel of a truck. At some point he stood in a truck stop bathroom and wrote a confession to murder on the wall. He signed it with a smiley face.…
- Ted KaczynskiTed Kaczynski wrote a letter to The New York Times in 1995 and attached a promise to it. If the Times or The Washington Post printed his essay in full, he would "desist from terrorism." The essay ran to roughly 35,000 words and carried the…
- Edmund KemperEdmund Kemper stood in a phone booth in Pueblo, Colorado, in the spring of 1973 and confessed to murder. The police officer who answered did not believe him. Kemper was told to call back later. He had just driven more than 1,000 miles,…
- Randy KraftAmong the things investigators found after Randy Kraft's arrest was a ring binder. Inside it was a hand-written list of 61 terms and phrases, neatly printed. Some entries were a single word. One read Dog. Another read Deodorant. A third…
- Charles NgCharles Ng, a Hong Kong-born man who now sits on California's death row, was undone by a theft worth $75. On the 2nd of June 1985, an employee at the South City Lumber Store in South San Francisco spotted a man carrying a vise out without…
- Christopher WilderOn the 13th of April 1984, a man stopped at Vic's Getty service station in Colebrook, New Hampshire, and asked for directions to Canada. He was Christopher Wilder, an Australian-American whom the press would call the Beauty Queen Killer…
- Joseph Edward DuncanJoseph Edward Duncan III was recognized by strangers in a Denny's restaurant in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, in the early morning of the 2nd of July 2005. A waitress, a manager and two customers noticed a girl sitting with a man none of them…