Episodes

  • EP134: The Serial Killer Next Door: Joel Rifkin (Part 1)

    EP134: The Serial Killer Next Door: Joel Rifkin (Part 1)
    Jul 16 2025
    Join our Patreon family for exclusive bonus content, access to BTS, a private group chat, merch discounts, and to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod Inspired by Gary Ridgway and Ted Bundy, serial killer Joel Rifin modeled his victimology and body disposable methods like a grotesque homage: limbs in cement, heads in paint cans, bodies dumped with calculated precision. For four years in the late 1980s/early 90s, while living with his mother in the heart of suburban Long Island, NY, Joel Rifkin hunted women on the margins. Joel, a bullied outcast with a high IQ and a severely damaged frontal lobe, didn’t explode overnight. He eroded. First came the fantasies. Then came the reality of 17 victims whom he strangled and dismembered with an X-Acto knife. Joel blended in — just another quiet man with a sedan, a part time job, and a taste for sadism. This wasn’t some obvious "monster" lurking in the shadows. This was a depraved serial killer next door, hiding in plain sight, mowing the same lawns your kids play on. Welcome to Part 1 of New York’s most known prolific killer: Joel Rifkin, aka Joel The Ripper. Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod Email: psychopediapod@gmail.com Website: www.psychopediapodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Introducing: Girl On Gore by Investigator Slater

    Introducing: Girl On Gore by Investigator Slater
    Jul 14 2025
    Coming 7/28/2025 Let's Get Gory Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod Email: psychopediapod@gmail.com Website: www.psychopediapodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    3 mins
  • EP133: TikTok Execution: Killed On Camera

    EP133: TikTok Execution: Killed On Camera
    Jul 9 2025
    Join our Patreon family to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! Also gain exclusive access to BTS, bonus true crime episodes, a private group chat, merch discounts, and much more! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod On May 13, 2025, 22-year-old influencer Valeria Márquez was executed on TikTok livestream — shot point-blank by a man disguised as a delivery driver inside her own beauty salon in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico. Viewers watched in horror as she clutched her chest and stomach before collapsing, still holding a stuffed animal as she perished on camera. Horrifyingly, the video footage went viral, and the calculated nature of the hit left Mexico (and the rest of the world) stunned. Investigators are continuing to explore whether the murder was cartel-related, a personal betrayal, or both. Rumors point to a possible setup by an employee or even Valeria’s best friend, who allegedly urged Valeria to stay at the salon just as the killer arrived. The most widespread theory, however, ties Valeria’s death to her ex-boyfriend, Ricardo Ruiz Velazco (aka “Doble R”), a high-ranking member of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) cartel. One thing is certain: her execution was not random. Valeria’s murder now stands as a devastating emblem of Mexico’s brutal crossroads - where femicide, cartel violence, and institutional failure collide with devastating consequences. Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod Email: psychopediapod@gmail.com Website: www.psychopediapodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • EP132: Missing and Murdered: The Highway of Tears

    EP132: Missing and Murdered: The Highway of Tears
    Jul 2 2025
    Join our Patreon family to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! Also gain exclusive access to BTS, bonus true crime episodes, a private group chat, merch discounts, and much more! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod The Highway of Tears, a desolate stretch of road in British Columbia, Canada, is infamous for its gruesome history of disappearances and murders. Over the past few decades, at least 40 women and girls—mostly Indigenous—have vanished or been found dead along this remote, unforgiving route, which winds through vast, isolated wilderness. This highway has become a chilling emblem of systemic neglect, where victims’ cries for justice have been ignored, their lives reduced to little more than statistics. Many of these women and girls, often hitchhiking, traveling alone, or living in vulnerable circumstances, were treated as expendable in a place where predatory killers lurk undetected. Despite years of investigations, the full extent of the violence remains buried, and the Highway of Tears stands as a brutal reminder of how easily society discards those it deems unworthy, their stories lost to a road that refuses to forget. Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod Email: psychopediapod@gmail.com Website: www.psychopediapodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • EP131: Tiger King: Lions and Tigers and Mullets, Oh My!

    EP131: Tiger King: Lions and Tigers and Mullets, Oh My!
    Jun 25 2025
    Join our Patreon family to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! Also gain exclusive access to BTS, bonus episodes, a private group chat, merch discounts, and much more! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod Joe Exotic, the self-proclaimed “Tiger King,” built his corrupt empire on cruelty, deception, and manipulation. Behind the mullet and over-the-top persona was a man consumed by narcissism and an insatiable need for control. He exploited/abused/killed exotic animals for profit, crossbred big cats, and subjected countless innocent creatures to horrific conditions. And Joe’s reign of chaos didn’t stop with animals, as his disastrous personal life mirrored his empire: riddled with fraud, fueled by toxic love triangles that veered into perversion, and propped up by desperate grabs for power at any cost. At the heart of it all was Joe’s obsession with fame and dominance - he used anyone, anything, to feed his ego. Because in reality, the so-called “Tiger King” wasn’t a ruler; he was a reckless, delusional clown whose need for control led him to exploit, destroy, and ultimately self-destruct. Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod Email: psychopediapod@gmail.com Website: www.psychopediapodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • EP130: Greyhound Bus Beheading

    EP130: Greyhound Bus Beheading
    Jun 18 2025
    Join our Patreon family to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! Also gain exclusive access to BTS, bonus episodes, a private group chat, merch discounts, and much more! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod This was one of the most shocking crimes in Canadian history—a scene so gruesome it sounded like urban legend. On a Greyhound bus traveling through the open stretch of Manitoba in July 2008, 22-year-old Tim McLean sat quietly listening to music, unaware that the man who had just boarded would become his killer. Without warning, fellow passenger Vince Li pulled out a large knife and, in front of horrified passengers, stabbed Tim repeatedly in the neck before decapitating him and holding up his severed head for all to see. As passengers fled in terror and police surrounded the bus, Li remained inside, mutilating the body and consuming parts of it. The attack was as brutal as it was senseless—and what came next ignited nationwide outrage: Vince Li was found not criminally responsible due to mental illness and later granted absolute freedom. The fallout would challenge Canada's legal system, public safety policies, and the very definition of justice. Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod Email: psychopediapod@gmail.com Website: www.psychopediapodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Friday the 13th: Death, Disaster, and Destruction

    Friday the 13th: Death, Disaster, and Destruction
    Jun 13 2025
    Join the Patreon family to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! Also gain exclusive access to BTS, bonus episodes, a private group chat, merch discounts, and more! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod In this chilling Friday the 13th special episode, we crack open one of history’s most cursed calendar dates and examine some nerve-shredding catastrophes that have unfolded when the 13th has fallen on a Friday. From plane crashes and mass shootings to bombings, natural disasters, and cold-blooded murders—one has to wonder: is it all just coincidence… or a curse carved into the calendar? Prepare for a descent into the eerily timed horrors that make Friday the 13th far more than just a superstition... Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod Email: psychopediapod@gmail.com Website: www.psychopediapodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    58 mins
  • EP129: Cannibal Serial Griller: Joe Metheny

    EP129: Cannibal Serial Griller: Joe Metheny
    Jun 11 2025
    Want to guest co-host with Investigator Slater on a Patreon episode? 🎙️ Join to sign up! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod (you will also get access to bonus episodes, a private group chat, merch discounts, exclusive live streams, and more!) Joe Metheny wasn’t just a serial killer—he was a grotesque spectacle of depravity wrapped in a 450lb form. A truck driver with a taste for control, brutality, and apparently human flesh, Joe prowled the underbelly of Baltimore in the 1990s and lured vulnerable women—often sex workers struggling with addiction—into his dilapidated trailer under the guise of drugs and/or shelter. Then, he would r*pe, torture, murder, and dismember their bodies with a disturbing lack of remorse. And then came the horror that made headlines: Joe claimed to grind up his victims’ flesh, mix it with pork and beef, and then serve it as barbecue burgers from a roadside food stand. “No one ever complained,” he later bragged. Whether that cannibalistic claim was real or just the twisted boast of a man desperate to be feared, the truth was grim enough: six known victims, and a personality that seemed to feed off pain and suffering. Joe Metheny wasn’t just a killer; he was a sadist who wore his monstrosity like a badge, daring the world to flinch. Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @psychopediapod @investigatorslater Email: psychopediapod@gmail.com Website: www.psychopediapodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 hr and 13 mins