On the night of December 10, 2003, Kent and Tricia Whitaker dined at a Pappadeaux in Stafford, Texas, with sons Bart (24) and Kevin (19). It was meant to celebrate Bart’s supposed graduation from Sam Houston State University. None of it was true. By the time they reached their Sugar Lakes driveway, two were dead—and the person who set it all in motion was sitting in the back seat.

In the final weeks of 1982, two young women vanished from ordinary places along familiar New Jersey roads. Eighteen-year-old Amie Hoffman disappeared after finishing a shift at a suburban shopping mall. Less than two weeks later, twenty-five-year-old Deirdre O’Brien was forced from the road, abducted, sexually assaulted, and stabbed. The attacks sent fear through Morris County and the surrounding communities. Women began watching their rearview mirrors. Families waited anxio

Published by Hitched 2 Homicide | True Crime Podcast "These were blokes who were pulling their shirt across after they'd been stabbed by her. Blokes who'd had their heads caved in with a frying pan. And it's even harder to imagine when blokes like these––hard Aussie blokes––lived in fear of their lives." — Sergeant Graham Furlonger, NSW Police ⚠️ Content Warning: This blog and its companion podcast contain detail

MONSTERS WITH A TAPE RECORDER | Toolbox Killers Part One They met in prison. They made a plan. Then they built the van. In 1979, Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris — the Toolbox Killers — began hunting teenage girls along California's Pacific Coast Highway. This week: the making of two monsters, the victims they stole first, and a silver van still rolling when nobody was looking. Part Two drops next week. Subscribe now.