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DEADLY INTENT

DEADLY INTENT

Carman Carrion 48 Episodes Oct 14, 2026

DEADLY INTENT is a weekly true crime podcast hosted by Carman Carrion that explores the dark side of humanity. It delves into real true crime stories with an emotional, human-centered approach, refusing to exploit victims while confronting the disturbing reality of crimes. Each episode combines deep research, forensic detail, and psychological insight to reveal not just what happened, but why. The show covers criminal psychology, murder cases, disturbing confessions, and lesser-known cases, all told with empathy and a victim-focused lens.

Episodes

The Keddie Cabin Murders - Cabin 28
The Keddie Cabin Murders - Cabin 28 Oct 14, 2026 00:41:16 In April 1981, in the tiny railroad town of Keddie, California, three people were killed inside Cabin 28 and a 12-year-old girl was gone. Three years later, her remains were found about 60 miles away. More than forty years on, the Keddie Cabin Murders are still unsolved.This week on Deadly Intent, we walk through the night of April 11, 1981, and the case that followed: the crime scene, the survivi
Dennis Nilsen - The Muswell Hill Murderer Who Killed for Company
Dennis Nilsen - The Muswell Hill Murderer Who Killed for Company Oct 7, 2026 00:41:38 In 1983, a blocked drain in a quiet North London house exposed Dennis Nilsen, the MuswellHill Murderer, who confessed to killing as many as sixteen young men. Behind his dull civil-servant exterior was a man who said he killed because he couldnot bear to be alone. This week on Deadly Intent, we trace his life from a Scottish fishing harbor to the Old Bailey. We examine his childhood loss, his deta
Christa Pike - The Job Corps Murder
Christa Pike - The Job Corps Murder Oct 1, 2026 00:44:46 In January 1995, four teenagers signed up for a Job Corps center in Knoxville, Tennessee. Three came back. Nineteen-year-old Colleen Slemmer did not.The crime became infamous for its brutality, the pentagram, and a piece of evidence that shocked the country. The woman convicted of it, Christa Pike, has spent nearly thirty years on Tennessee's death row, and her execution date this fall madenat
The Villisca Axe Murders - 8 Killed, 1 Preacher Confessed, and the Case Still Isn't Solved
The Villisca Axe Murders - 8 Killed, 1 Preacher Confessed, and the Case Still Isn't Solved Sep 30, 2026 00:50:00 On the night of June 9, 1912, after a Children's Day program at their church, Josiah and Sarah Moore, their four children, and two young sisters staying over for the night went to sleep in a small house in Villisca, Iowa. By morning, all eight were dead. The murder weapon was Josiah's own axe. Every mirror in the house had been covered, every victim's face hidden under bedclothes, and a slab of ra
Constance Fisher - The Mother Who Drowned Her Children Twice
Constance Fisher - The Mother Who Drowned Her Children Twice Sep 23, 2026 00:42:58 In 1954, a young Maine mother named Constance Fisher drowned her three children in a bathtub, then tried to take her own life. She was found not guilty by reason of insanity, spent five years in a state hospital, and was sent home "cured." Twelve years later, she did it again — three more children,the same method, the same house. This week, in the case that's been resurfacing everywh
Mothers Who Kill - Three Cases of Love, Delusion, and Inten
Mothers Who Kill - Three Cases of Love, Delusion, and Inten Sep 16, 2026 01:29:34 Intent doesn't lie. People do.Episode 60. This week: three mothers, three unraveling minds, and the same devastating question — where does love end and delusion begin? To mark 60 episodes, we revisit the cases of Diane Downs, Taylor Parker, and "The Doomsday Mom," three stories that circle the same haunting territory of maternal violence and psychological collapse. Consider this part
Lindsay Clancy - The Mistrial, the Voice & Postpartum Psychosis
Lindsay Clancy - The Mistrial, the Voice & Postpartum Psychosis Sep 9, 2026 00:46:59 On January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy — a labor and delivery nurse and mother of three — strangled her children in the basement of their Duxbury, Massachusetts home,then tried to take her own life. Three and a half years later, her murder trial ended not in a conviction, not in an acquittal, but in a mistrial: eleven jurors on one side, a single holdout on the other, and a country still arguing over
Fritz Haarmann — The Butcher of Hanover
Fritz Haarmann — The Butcher of Hanover Sep 2, 2026 00:42:22 In the ruins of post-war Germany, young men vanished from a Hanover train station for six years — and the man taking them wasn't hiding. He was a police informant, a familiar face, trusted by the very people meant to stop him. Fritz Haarmanncalled it a frenzy he couldn't control. But you don't build a life around a compulsion by accident. This week, we sit inside the hardest question there is: whe
Sarah Grace Patrick - The Girl Who Grieved Her Parents on TikTok
Sarah Grace Patrick - The Girl Who Grieved Her Parents on TikTok Aug 26, 2026 00:38:00 In February 2025, in a quiet corner of west Georgia, a married couple was shot to death in their bed as they slept. There was no forced entry, and the killer took the weapon with them. For five months the case looked like an unsolved tragedy —and the grieving teenage daughter who called 911 became one of its most public mourners, posting tribute after tribute online and begging the internet to car
Karmelo Anthony — A Tent, a Shove, a Knife - The Frisco Track-Meet Killing and the Question of Intent
Karmelo Anthony — A Tent, a Shove, a Knife - The Frisco Track-Meet Killing and the Question of Intent Aug 19, 2026 00:32:18 It was supposed to be one of the good days. A district track meet in Frisco, Texas. Hundreds of high schoolers. An ordinary spring Wednesday.Then a thunderstorm rolled in, and everyone scrambled for cover under the pop-up tents. Under one of them — a tent belonging to a school he didn't attend — seventeen-year-old Karmelo Anthony took shelter from the rain. Within about aminute, a dispute over
Leopold and Loeb: The "Perfect Crime" and the Murder of Bobby Franks
Leopold and Loeb: The "Perfect Crime" and the Murder of Bobby Franks Aug 12, 2026 00:40:28 In May 1924, fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks got into a car with someone he knew and trusted. Minutes later he was dead — not for money, not out of hatred, but as anexperiment. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb had every advantage the world could offer: brilliant minds, immense wealth, futures wide open. And they spent nearly a year planning the murder of a child to prove a single idea they heldabout
"The Mission Was Death": The 100-MPH Crash, the Toxic Love, and the Question of Intent
"The Mission Was Death": The 100-MPH Crash, the Toxic Love, and the Question of Intent Aug 5, 2026 00:39:49 At 5:30 on a July morning in Strongsville, Ohio, a silver Camry accelerated down an empty suburban road to nearly 100 miles an hour, held a dead-straight line for three-quarters of a mile, and drove head-on into a brick wall. Two young mendied. The seventeen-year-old girl behind the wheel survived — and what investigators pulled from the car's black box turned a tragedy into a homicide case. T

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