Ed Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield or the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American convicted murderer and body snatcher. Gein's crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered he had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin. Gein also confessed to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954 and hardware store owner Bernice Worden in...

Peter Sutcliffe is a prolific English serial killer who was dubbed the 'Yorkshire Ripper' by the press. On 22 May 1981, Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven others. He is serving 20 concurrent sentences of life imprisonment which was increased to a whole life order in 2010. All except two of his murders took place in West Yorkshire, the others were in Manchester.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/killerconversations/message

In this episode, we touch upon the Moors Murders. Described as a “sexually sadistic psychopath”, Ian Brady and his accomplice Myra Hindley carried out the notorious Moors Murders that horrified a nation. The couple were responsible for the torture and deaths of five children, aged between 10 and 17 during the early to mid-1960s in and around Greater Manchester. Despite their trial for five murders in 1966, the real extent of Brady and Hindley’s crime did not come to light until 1985 and both...

In this episode, we touch upon the Zodiac Killer's known correspondence with the press and police, his known and potential killings, as well as the suspects and our own thoughts and theories.  The Zodiac Killer (or simply Zodiac or the Zodiac) is the pseudonym of an American serial killer who operated in Northern California from at least the late 1960s to the early 1970s. His identity remains unknown. The killer originated the name in a series of taunting letters and cards sent to the San...

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