DEADLY INTENT
DEADLY INTENT: The Dark Side of HumanityHosted by Carman CarrionWhen the worst people in the world cross the line, what drives them to do it? Deadly Intent takes you inside real true crime stories with an emotional, human-centered approach that refuses to exploit victims — but never shies away from the disturbing reality of the crimes.Hosted by Carman Carrion, this weekly true crime podcast blends deep research, forensic detail, and psychological insight to reveal not just what happened… but why. Every episode explores criminal psychology, murder cases, disturbing confessions, and the dark motives behind real-world horrors.You’ll hear:Emotional, narrative true crime told with empathyDetailed timelines that pull you straight into the eventsForensic and psychological breakdowns of the criminal mindLesser-known cases and chilling crimes you’ve never heard ofHigh-profile murders examined through a victim-focused lensIf you love true crime deep dives, crime scene analysis, and raw, honest storytelling, this show is for you.New episodes every week.
Episodes
For years, Israel Keyes operated in the shadows.
He was methodical, patient, and terrifyingly organized. He buried “kill caches” across the United States, filled with weapons and supplies. He traveled thousands of miles to commit murders far from home. And he studied law enforcement tactics so carefully that investigators later said he seemed to be following the FBI playbook better than the FBI itself.
For more than a decade, the sys...
He wasn't supposed to be catchable.
For more than a decade, Israel Keyes traveled the United States, killed people, and flew home. Thirty-five documented trips. No victim type. No geographic pattern. No behavioral signature any database could detect. The FBI didn't know he existed until he was already in handcuffs.
This is Part One of a two-part deep dive into one of the most methodical, most studied, and most disturbing serial kille...
Stacey Castor: The Black Widow Who Poisoned Her Husbands
She dialed 911 herself.
That’s what makes the story of Stacey Castor so chilling. Every time someone in her life collapsed, convulsed, or stopped breathing, she was the one who called for help. Calm. Controlled. Convincing.
First, her husband Michael Wallace died suddenly. The cause appeared to be antifreeze poisoning. Years later, her second husband, David Castor, was found dea...
On April 19, 1989, a 28-year-old investment banker was brutally attacked while jogging in Central Park. Within hours, five Black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were in police custody. Within days, they had confessed. Within months, they were convicted. And for thirteen years, everyone believed justice had been served.
In this episode of Deadly Intent, we examine one of the most consequential wrongful conviction cases in American h...
In the early morning hours of October 7, 2022, a four-year-old girl woke to find her mother unresponsive in their Forest, Virginia apartment. What first responders initially suspected was a drug overdose would soon reveal itself as something far more sinister: the murder of Katlyn Lyon Montgomery.
In this episode of Deadly Intent, we examine the Katlyn Lyon Montgomery murder case and the ex-boyfriend who stalked, surveilled, and ult...
January 15, 1947. A young mother walking with her child through a vacant lot in Los Angeles made a discovery that would haunt the city for decades—the severed, mutilated body of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, later dubbed "The Black Dahlia" by the press.
Within days, LAPD investigators had identified a prime suspect with means, motive, and opportunity. That suspect would later be secretly recorded admitting the possibility of the crim...
In the affluent Tokyo suburb of Setagaya, the Miyazawa family was preparing for New Year's Eve 2000 when their home became the scene of one of Japan's most perplexing crimes. Mikio (44), Yasuko (41), eight-year-old Niina, and six-year-old Rei were brutally murdered by an unknown intruder who then did the unthinkable—he stayed.
For up to 10 hours after the killings, the perpetrator made himself at home in their house. He ate four con...
In 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley was brutally murdered with a golf club in the exclusive Belle Haven neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut. When police questioned her neighbor, Michael Skakel, something chilling happened: he had a perfect alibi ready before anyone even asked for one.
This episode examines the psychological evidence that may have been more damning than any physical proof—how an unnaturally detailed, confident expl...
DEADLY INTENT - Episode 24: Fred & Rose West - Love, Marriage, and Murder as a Lifestyle
February 24th, 1994. Police arrive at 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester with shovels and a search warrant, looking for one missing teenager. What they uncover is one of Britain's most horrific serial killing operations—a marriage built entirely around murder.
Fred and Rose West didn't stumble into violence. They systematically constructed it. ...
Robert Pickton wasn’t invisible. He was accurate.
From 1995 to 2001, 49 women vanished from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, many Indigenous, many surviving the margins of poverty, addiction, and the sex trade. Their disappearances were minimized, misclassified, or ignored. Meanwhile, a pig farmer 30 kilometers outside the city quietly built a predatory system perfectly aligned with society’s apathy.
Pickton exploited more than victims...
In 1993, three eight-year-old boys were brutally murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas. Within weeks, three teenagers were arrested and convicted based on a false confession and community hysteria about satanic ritual abuse. But what if the real killer has been hiding in plain sight for thirty years?
Join host Carman as we dive deep into the criminal psychology behind one of America's most notorious wrongful convictions. This isn't jus...
THE COVINA CHRISTMAS MASSACRE: When Santa Came to Kill
On Christmas Eve 2008, what should have been a joyful family gathering in Covina, California, became one of the most horrific mass murders in American history. When 8-year-old Katrina opened the door to greet Santa Claus, she had no idea she was face-to-face with a killer who would destroy her entire extended family in a matter of minutes.
Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, a 45-year-old aeros...
On Christmas Eve 1945, five Sodder family members vanished when their West Virginia home burned down, but no remains were ever found, and disturbing evidence suggests kidnapping rather than tragedy.
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For over a century, Jack the Ripper's identity remained one of history's greatest mysteries. Five women brutally murdered in Victorian London's Whitechapel district. A killer who vanished into the fog. Countless suspects, endless theories, but no definitive answers.
Until now.
In this explosive episode of Deadly Intent, we dive deep into the g...
On December 19, 1959, Christine's brother Daniel made a horrifying discovery that would haunt him forever—his sister, her husband Cliff, and their two young children had been brutally murdered in their rural Florida farmhouse. Christmas presents lay wrapped in the attic, never to be opened. Holiday carols the children had been learning would never be sung.
The Walker family murders shocked the peaceful community of Osprey, Florida, ...
In November 1959, the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas was shattered when four members of the respected Clutter family were brutally murdered in their own home. Herbert Clutter, a prosperous wheat farmer, his wife Bonnie, and their teenage children Nancy and Kenyon became victims of two ex-convicts chasing a prison rumor about a safe full of cash that never existed.
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DEADLY INTENT - Season 1, Episode 16 "The Perfect Family Lie - Chris Watts"
In August 2018, a security camera captured the last moments of what appeared to be the perfect American family. Chris Watts—devoted father, loving husband, the man neighbors trusted—walked calmly to his truck carrying a red gas can. Behind him, his pregnant wife Shanann and daughters Bella and CeCe slept peacefully, unaware these woul...
If you’ve just discovered Deadly Intent… welcome.
I'm Carman Carrion — a researcher, writer, and the creator of podcasts like Freaky Folklore and Destination Terror.
But here — on Deadly Intent — we explore a different kind of darkness.
Not the monsters of myth… but the real ones.
The ones that walk among us.
This show is about why people kill.
Not just what they did — but what led them to do it.
The...
This episode examines the systematic torture and murder of at least 17 women by Robert Hansen, a mild-mannered baker who transformed into one of Alaska's most notorious serial killers between 1973-1983. Hansen hunted women like wild game in the Alaskan wilderness, combining his skills as a pilot and hunter with a deep psychological need for control and revenge against those he perceived had rejected him.
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In 1991, police discovered seventeen dismembered bodies in Jeffrey Dahmer's Milwaukee apartment. But the murders were just the beginning of a psychological horror that defied comprehension. For thirteen years, Dahmer had been pursuing something far more disturbing than killing - he was trying to build a world where no one could ever leave him again.
Join host Carman Carrion as she dissects the twisted psychology b...
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