Psychopedia: True Crime & Criminal Psychology

At just 14 years old, Sandy Charles committed a horrific, horror movie-inspired murder that shocked an entire nation. In 1995, the teen from La Ronge, Saskatchewan became obsessed with the 1989 supernatural horror film Warlock and convinced that he could acquire the power to FLY by performing a gruesome ritual: murdering a young, male, fatherless virgin and cooking his body fat. Tragically, 7-year-old Johnathan Thimpsen fit the criteria. What followed was an almost unfathomable act of violence, fueled by a twisted belief in black magic and the promise of supernatural powers. But how does a 14-year-old cross the line between cinematic fantasy and real-life murder, and what happens when a court decides he isn't criminally responsible? This is the deeply disturbing case of Sandy Charles, where Hollywood horror became a child's deadly reality.
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The infamous Amityville Horror House is the site of six brutal murders, alleged demonic hauntings, and one of the most controversial paranormal mysteries in American history. In November 1974, 23-year-old Ronald DeFeo Jr. slaughtered his parents and four younger siblings as they slept inside their family home at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York. Just over a year later, George and Kathy Lutz moved into the same house with their three children, only to claim they'd entered a living nightmare. Mysterious voices, unexplained physical attacks, and an unseen presence that seemed determined to drive them out. Their terrifying account would inspire The Amityville Horror, one of the most famous and fiercely disputed haunting stories of all time. But was the house genuinely plagued by something supernatural, or was the entire ordeal an elaborate hoax? From the gruesome DeFeo family annihilation to the Lutz family's increasingly spooky claims, we're diving into EVERYTHING. Happy Halloween!

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Hong Kong influencer and socialite Abby Choi gave her ex-husband's family everything: a multimillion-dollar home, jobs, and a lifestyle most people could only dream of. Then, in February 2023, the 28-year-old mother of four vanished. Abby rubbed shoulders with fashion's elite while generously bankrolling her ex-husband, Alex Kwong, and his family. After she disappeared, police searched a village house in Tai Po. Inside, they found what appeared to be a makeshift butcher shop, dismembered human remains, and a skull in a pot of soup. As investigators pieced together Abby's final hours, suspicion fell on the people who had benefited most from her generosity: Alex Kwong, his brother Anthony Kwong, and their father Kwong Kau, who are now on trial for her murder. What emerged was a story of greed, entitlement, and alleged family betrayal, raising the question: how does a woman give someone everything, only to allegedly lose her life because they wanted more?

NOTE: As of this recording, the trial is ongoing. All allegations discussed in this episode remain unproven unless otherwise stated, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

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The Olney House of Horrors in Philadelphia has recently become the center of a truly disturbing investigation into Raymond Horsch, a pornographic filmmaker suspected of harboring secrets far more sinister than anyone could have imagined. Behind the walls of his home, investigators uncovered a disturbing collection of sexually explicit photographs and videos, raising horrifying questions about whether some of the violence he filmed was staged- or whether countless women were actually murdered on camera. With seven missing women reportedly linked to the investigation, allegations of snuff films, and authorities searching the property for possible human remains, the line between sexual fantasy and sadistic reality has become terrifyingly blurred. Was Raymond Horsch simply a man with a depraved imagination, or was Philadelphia's so-called House of Horrors hiding evidence of a serial killer?

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Sarah Boone, infamously known as “The Suitcase Killer,” zipped her boyfriend inside a suitcase, laughed as he desperately begged to be let out, and recorded his final pleas for help on her cellphone. What she later described as an innocent game of hide-and-seek ended with 42-year-old Jorge Torres Jr. suffocating to death inside a suitcase in their Florida apartment. As investigators uncovered chilling cellphone footage, bruises and cuts on Jorge's body, and a deeply troubled relationship, Sarah launched into a years-long legal circus involving countless attorneys, outrageous courtroom demands, and a defense that seemed almost too bizarre to believe. In the end, the most damning witness against Sarah Boone....was Sarah Boone herself.

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