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Welcome to your weekly journey into the darkest corners of human nature. Join Harvey Guillén every Monday as he explores crimes that seized the public’s attention, from jaw-dropping heists and devastating cons to serial murders and deadly rivalries. Each episode unfolds a single case, examining not just the events themselves, but what continues to linger beneath the surface.

Killer Stories is a Spotify Podcast. New video episodes on Mondays!

Serial Killers

Branded "the female Charles Manson" for a double murder she claims she didn't commit, a young woman executes a daring prison escape to reclaim her life—only to find that while she can outrun the law, she can’t outrun the reputation built to bring her down.

Sources for this episode include:

Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender by Steve Miller“Sarah Jo Pender asks for mercy 25 years after double murder conviction” (COURT TV, 2025)“Judge denies Sarah Jo Pender's request to cut sentence in double murder case” (IndyStar, 2026)“Fixing Their Mistakes” (Progressive Magazine, 2021)Women Behind Bars with Trevor McDonaldA Stranger in My Home “Master Manipulators” (Investigation Discovery)

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Sarah Jo Pender: The Female Charles Manson?

In broad daylight at the world’s most prestigious museum, a disguised team of thieves breached Musée du Louvre in just seven minutes, made off with eight priceless pieces of the French Crown Jewels, and exposed how even the most iconic institution can be undone by audacity and a single overlooked window.

Sources for this episode include:“How the Louvre Heist Unfolded” (New York Times)“In Just 7 Brazen Minutes, Thieves Grab ‘Priceless’ Jewels From Louvre” (New York Times)“Everything we know about the Louvre jewellery heist” (BBC)“Two more suspects charged over Louvre heist taking total to four” (The Guardian)“Louvre jewel heist by petty criminals, not organised professionals, says Paris prosecutor” (The Guardian)“New surveillance video shows Louvre jewel heist in action” (CBS NEWS)

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Crownless: Heist at the Louvre

When the glamorous wife of the Gucci heir faces losing her fortune and status, she trades champagne for vengeance—proving that in the world of high fashion, nothing is more cutthroat than a woman with everything at stake and nothing left to lose.

Sources for this episode include:

House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed by Sara Gay Forden“Murder in the House of Gucci” by Sofia Lotto Persio (Forbes, 2019)“The Gucci Wife and the Hitman: Fashion’s Darkest Tale” by Abigail Haworth (The Guardian, 2016)“The Real Story Behind the House of Gucci” (Bloomberg Originals, 2022)Til Death Do Us Part “Lady Gucci: The Story of Patrizia Reggiani” (Discovery+)

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The Gucci Murder

In 1972, two young hippies hijack a commercial airplane in a wild attempt to free a famous political activist from jail, setting off one of the strangest, most idealistic crimes of a radical era.

Sources for this episode include:

The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner

“Convicted Hijacker Arrested in New Plot” (LA Times)

“Black Panther Extradited to the US” (NYTimes)

“Skyjacked: A Nation With No Airline Security” (CNN)

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The Young Hippies Who Hijacked a Plane

In the craggy peaks of Greece, a modern outlaw proves that you can rob a bank, kidnap a billionaire, and still be the most beloved man in the mountains. This is the story of Vassilis Paleokostas: the 'Robin Hood' who treats his hostages like guests and uses a helicopter as his preferred get-out-of-jail-free card.

Sources for this episode include:“The Uncatchable” (BBC)A Normal Life: The Autobiography of Vassilis Palaiokostas by Vassilis Palaiokostas

Outlaws: The Good Thief (iHeartRadio)

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The Greek Robin Hood Who Kidnapped Billionaires and Escaped Prison in a Helicopter

Kidnapped on his 38th birthday by criminals who think every federal prosecutor is secretly wealthy, a calm-under-pressure lawyer survives a chaotic 25-hour ordeal—part hostage crisis, part absurd comedy—by befriending his captors.

Sources for this episode include:

The Birthday Party: A Memoir of Survival by Stanley N. Alpert 48 Hours, “The Birthday Party”

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Stanley Alpert, the Kidnapping Victim Who Outsmarted his Captors

After their mother’s death and years living under a controlling father, two Texas teens are pulled into their dad’s string of bank robberies—turning a broken family into an outlaw crew and forcing a daughter to choose between loyalty, survival, and the truth she was raised to ignore.Sources for this episode include:

“I Would Only Rob Banks for My Family” by Skip Hollandsworth, Texas Monthly20/20, “A Family Affair”Crime Files: The Homefront “Family Bank Robbers”

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Abby Catt: Born to Rob

A teenage runaway becomes a folk hero and a nationwide fugitive as he steals planes, boats, and cars—often barefoot—turning a two-year crime spree into one of the most unlikely manhunts in modern American history.

Sources for this episode include:Reporting by The Daily Herald (Everett, Washington)"Barefoot Bandit: His Life and Crimes" (CBS News)

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Barefoot Bandit: The Teen Felon Who Became a Folk Hero

A notorious internet troll builds a revenge-porn empire that terrorizes thousands—until a determined mother launches a relentless campaign to bring him down and dismantle the most toxic community on the web.

Sources for this episode include:The Netflix docuseries The Most Hated Man on the Internet“Hunter Moore: The Most Hated Man on the Internet” (Rolling Stone)

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Hunter Moore: The Undoing of the Internet's Most Hated Man

When a brilliant intelligence officer from MI6 is discovered dead inside a padlocked duffel bag in his London flat, investigators face an impossible crime scene—no signs of forced entry, no fingerprints, and theories ranging from suicide to espionage—as the shadow of secrecy around his work at GCHQ breeds one of the most perplexing mysteries in British intelligence history.

Sources for this episode include:“Spy last seen alive eight days before body was found in bag” (The Guardian) “MI6 officer Gareth Williams and the ‘missing hours’ before his death” (BBC)“MI6 codebreaker Gareth Williams’ death ‘perfect crime,’ expert says” (CNN)“Police claim to have solved London ‘spy in the bag’ mystery” (The Independent)“The Death of The Spy In the Bag is Linked to Russia By Secret Intelligence Files” (BuzzFeed News)

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Gareth Williams: The Spy in the Bag

Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog went from hunting animals to preying on humans. Even as they grew older and settled down, they continued their spree. When they finally faced justice years later, their killer instincts would lead them to turn on one another.
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