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Deathcast

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Join bestselling author Ian Totten each week as he descends into the crypt to unearth another case of real life murder. Sometimes disturbing, at others famous, but all equally fascinating, each episode delves deep into the victims, the crimes, where they took place, and the individuals responsible. So grab something to drink, kick off your shoes, close your eyes and let’s go into the darkness together to discover the monsters that lie therein.
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Episodes

The Family Part 2: Sharon, Roman, Drugs, and Satan

On the evening of August 8th, 1969 and into the morning hours of the 9th a mass murder took place in Los Angeles, California that shocked the nation, and soon the world. Budding actress Sharon Tate, her former fiance, Jay Sebring, and their friends were slaughtered inside of a rented home with no apparent motive. The following evening a supermarket owner and his wife fell prey to these same killers. This week we look into Sharon's relationship with Roman Polanski, the debauchery surrounding them...

Aug 07, 202254 minEp. 80

The Family Part 1: Sharon and Jay

On the evening of August 8th, 1969 and into the morning hours of the 9th a mass murder took place in Los Angeles, California that shocked the nation, and soon the world. Budding actress Sharon Tate, her former fiance, Jay Sebring, and their friends were slaughtered inside of a rented home with no apparent motive. The following evening a supermarket owner and his wife fell prey to these same killers. Become a Patreon: https://tinyurl.com/DCPatreon Follow me on Instagram, MeWe, and Patreon @ IanTo...

Jul 18, 202254 minEp. 79

Gregg Sanders, NJ Nazi

On January 13, 1975 the body of a 15-year-old was found lying at the base of a water tower. He was discovered to be Gregg Sanders. Not long after police found the bodies of his parents, murdered with an ax in their home. Eventually, it would be discovered that their son was to blame, but what led him to commit such heinous acts? This week we will be diving into the Sanders murders, and the secrets that were uncovered afterwards. Become a Patreon: https://tinyurl.com/DCPatreon Follow me on Instag...

Jul 03, 202254 minEp. 78

The Life and Crimes of Jimmy Savile Part 14: Demonized in Death

Dance hall manager, radio DJ, television presenter, British Icon, reviled pedophile? This week we are finishing our deep dive into a case I have been researching for 9 years, the life and crimes of SIr Jimmy Savile, OBE, On October 14, 2011 James Wilson Vincent Savile passed away in his Leeds flat at the age of 84. Within days a news cast was in the works, purporting to expose him. By the following October, his reputation would lie in tatters while the media and British government set about demo...

Jun 19, 20222 hr 2 minEp. 78

The Life and Crimes of Jimmy Savile Part 13: Sir Jimmy

Dance hall manager, radio DJ, television presenter, British Icon, reviled pedophile? This week we are continuing our deep dive into a case I have been researching for 9 years, the life and crimes of SIr Jimmy Savile OBE. Jimmy is left to fill a void within his life while Margaret Thatcher continues to push for his knighthood. Savile becomes further embroiled in the lives of the Royals as his star begins to wane. https://tinyurl.com/DCPatreon Follow me on Instagram, MeWe, and Patreon @ IanTotten-...

Jun 12, 202254 minEp. 77

The Life and Crimes of Jimmy Savile Part 12: The Keys to Broadmoor and Godfather Jim

Dance hall manager, radio DJ, television presenter, British Icon, reviled pedophile? This week we are continuing our deep dive into a case I have been researching for 9 years, the life and crimes of SIr Jimmy Savile OBE. Savile courts controversy and is handed the keys to Broadmoor Hospital, home of the Yorkshire Ripper. Margaret Thatcher continues to push for a knighthood, and Cyril Smith is Discussed. Become a Patreon Member: https://tinyurl.com/DCPatreon Follow me on Instagram, MeWe, and Patr...

Jun 07, 202254 minEp. 76

The Life and Crimes of Jimmy Savile Part 11: Stoke Madeville, The Yorkshire Ripper, and Made Up Stories

Dance hall manager, radio DJ, television presenter, British Icon, reviled pedophile? This week we are continuing our deep dive into a case I have been researching for 9 years, the life and crimes of SIr Jimmy Savile OBE. Savile begins the Stoke Madeville Initiative for the Spinal Surgeries Center, is question by the Yorkshire Ripper task force, and moves closer to the hear of The Establishment Become a Patreon Member: https://tinyurl.com/DCPatreon Follow me on Instagram, MeWe, and Patreon @ IanT...

May 29, 202259 minEp. 74

The Life and Crimes of Jimmy Savile Part 10: Slip Ups, Missteps, and Headlocks

Dance hall manager, radio DJ, television presenter, British Icon, reviled pedophile? This week we are continuing our deep dive into a case I have been researching for 9 years, the life and crimes of SIr Jimmy Savile OBE. Savile makes a number of uncharacteristic mistakes while entrenching himself further in the establishment. Then, our main event, Jimmy steps into the ring for the last time against Exotic Adrian Street. Become a Patreon Member: https://tinyurl.com/DCPatreon Follow me on Instagra...

May 22, 202256 minEp. 73

The Life and Crimes of Jimmy Savile Part 9: Jim'll Fix it for You and Israel

Dance hall manager, radio DJ, television presenter, British Icon, reviled pedophile? This week we are continuing our deep dive into a case I have been researching for 9 years, the life and crimes of SIr Jimmy Savile OBE. Savile continues to move towards being a megastar when he is given an new television program, 'Jim'll Fix It," and heads to Israel where it's speculated he may have fixed it for the government of that country. Become a Patreon Member: https://tinyurl.com/DCPatreon Follow me on I...

May 07, 202254 minEp. 72

The Life and Crimes of Jimmy Savile Part 8: Duncroft Days

Dance hall manager, radio DJ, television presenter, British Icon, reviled pedophile? This week we are continuing our deep dive into a case I have been researching for 9 years, the life and crimes of SIr Jimmy Savile OBE. Jimmy is hired to spearhead the “Clunk Click” campaign, is given a new show, and goes to Duncroft Approved School for Girls. Become a Patreon Member: https://tinyurl.com/DCPatreon Follow me on Instagram, MeWe, and Patreon @ IanTotten-Author Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The...

May 01, 202254 minEp. 71

The Life and Crimes of Jimmy Savile Part 7: An OBE and a Dutchess in Heaven

Dance hall manager, radio DJ, television presenter, British Icon, reviled pedophile? * I apologize for the tiny sound at the beginning of the show This week we are continuing our deep dive into a case I have been researching for 9 years, the life and crimes of SIr Jimmy Savile OBE. Jimmy continues to build his star through charity work and receives and OBE, thus gaining the first real recognition by the Establishment. Become a Patreon Member: https://tinyurl.com/DCPatreon Follow me on Instagram,...

Apr 24, 202254 minEp. 70

The Life and Crimes of Jimmy Savile Part 6: Television Kills and a Budding Mega Star

Dance hall manager, radio DJ, television presenter, British Icon, reviled pedophile? This week we are continuing our deep dive into a case I have been researching for 9 years, the life and crimes of SIr Jimmy Savile OBE. The 1970s begin with a bang as Savile contiues to build his star power while scandals explode around the BBC involving payments for record plays, sex, drugs, and underage girls. Become a Patreon Member: https://tinyurl.com/DCPatreon Follow me on Instagram, MeWe, and Patreon @ Ia...

Apr 16, 202255 minEp. 69

The Life and Crimes of Jimmy Savile Part 5:A Glimpse into Darkness in the Countryside

Dance hall manager, radio DJ, television presenter, British Icon, reviled pedophile? This week we are continuing our deep dive into a case I have been researching for 9 years, the life and crimes of SIr Jimmy Savile OBE. This week we discuss the new Netflix film and look at the first of many open admissions regarding abuse that Savile made during his lifetime. The Establishment begins to accept him as he attaches himself to various hospitals and the 1960s come to a close. Become a Patreon Member...

Apr 10, 202257 minEp. 68

The Life and Crimes of Jimmy Savile Part 4:Like a Rolling Stone

Dance hall manager, radio DJ, television presenter, British Icon, reviled pedophile? This week we are continuing our deep dive into a case I have been researching for 9 years, the life and crimes of SIr Jimmy Savile OBE. Savile's ties to The Rolling Stones are explored as Jimmy continues to build the layers of insulation around himself and the abuse spreads Become a Patreon Member: https://tinyurl.com/DCPatreon Follow me on Instagram, MeWe, and Patreon @ IanTotten-Author Facebook: https://www.fa...

Apr 03, 202257 minEp. 67

The Life and Crimes of Jimmy Savile Part 3: Top of the Pops and Friend to the Cops

Dance hall manager, radio DJ, television presenter, British Icon, reviled pedophile? This week we are continuing our deep dive into a case I have been researching for 9 years, the life and crimes of SIr Jimmy Savile OBE. Savile’s power grows as he is moved up inside of the Mecca organization. Beatlemania sweeps the country and Savile finds himself in the middle of it and the BBC tries to undermine ITV by launching “Top of the Pops” with a nationally recognized radio DJ as it’s very first host Su...

Mar 27, 202256 minEp. 66

The Life and Crimes of Jimmy Savile Part 2: Dancehall Czar and Radio Star

Dance hall manager, radio DJ, television presenter, British Icon, reviled pedophile? This week we are continuing our deep dive into a case I have been researching for 9 years, the life and crimes of SIr Jimmy Savile OBE. Savile has moved to Manchester where he is running the Mecca Dancehall while starting to build the network of people who would help make him an untouchable institution in British society. Opportunities loom on the horizon as back alley talk hints that he may have ties to the und...

Mar 20, 20221 hrEp. 65

The Life and Crimes of Jimmy Savile, Part 1: The Early Years

Dance hall manager, radio DJ, television presenter, British Icon, reviled pedophile? This week we are taking a deep dive into a case I have been researching for 9 years, the life and crimes of SIr Jimmy Savile OBE. From his humble beginnings in Leeds during the Great Depression to his meteoric rise through the Mecca Dance halls and first flirts with fame, we're going to look at how someone who was a nothing went on to become arguably one of the most powerful men in the UK, and one of the most re...

Mar 12, 20221 hrEp. 64

The Yorkshire Ripper Part 2

It began in the Summer of 1975, although no one knew it at the time. The first attacks left their victims grievously injured with skull fractures, lying in pools of blood as the mysterious stranger fled into the West Yorkshire night. No one paid it much attention, not even when the first bodies began to appear, their heads caved in with a ball-pean hammer. They were only prostitutes after all, young women whom polite society looked down upon. It went on this way for years, until the body of a vi...

Feb 28, 202259 minEp. 62

The Yorkshire Ripper Part 1

It began in the Summer of 1975, although no one knew it at the time. The first attacks left their victims grievously injured with skull fractures, lying in pools of blood as the mysterious stranger fled into the West Yorkshire night. No one paid it much attention, not even when the first bodies began to appear, their heads caved in with a ball-pean hammer. They were only prostitutes after all, young women whom polite society looked down upon. It went on this way for years, until the body of a vi...

Feb 20, 20221 hr 5 minEp. 61

The Moors Murders

This week on The Deathcast, we continue our ride through the blood drenched English countryside as we look into the life and crimes of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. Perhaps no other names call up images of torture, rape, and murder in the collective mind of British citizens as readily as these two do. Their crimes shocked the nation and then the world, as the duo went on to claim the lives of at least five innocent children, burying four of them in the moors near Manchester before being caught on ...

Feb 09, 20221 hr 13 minEp. 60

The Murder of James Bulger

On February 12, 1993, two year old James Bulger went missing from the Strand Shopping Center in Bootle, Merseyside, UK while his mother paid for her purchase at the butchers shop in a crime that would shock and enrage the world. It would be two days before there were any answers, but the questions that remained would be a topic that would be hotly debated in the decades since. Follow me on Instagram, MeWe, and Patreon @ IanTotten-Author Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Deathcast-1026901255...

Feb 04, 202254 minEp. 59

Blood, Fire Death

`On the morning of december 14, 1992 a car driving down a desolate lane in Werneth Low, Manchester, United Kingdom came upon a young woman who was badly burned over 80% of her body and had signs of horrific abuse. She would be taken to a nearby house, before being transferred to a local hospital where she would lapse into a coma and die, but not before giving the names and address of the six people who had kept her prisoner and inflicted levels of torture unimaginable on her for over five days. ...

Jan 29, 202245 minEp. 58

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Nov 30, 20212 min

Theme from The Throwaway Girls of Olympia

Sheriff Alan O’Tool has a problem; someone is murdering the young women in the small town of Olympia, Iowa. Something about this spate of killings has the Sheriff troubled, however; the victims look too much like his late daughter Amy for his liking. With a nagging ex-wife wanting to sell their old house, and a son refusing to get a job to support himself, O’Tool is at his wit’s end. When his Senator friend involves an FBI agent, he thinks it’s just to point him in the right direction. As the ca...

Nov 12, 20213 min

Maggie's Song

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Nov 12, 20212 min

Joel Rifkin

On June 28, 1993 Long Island State Troupers saw a small pickup truck moving along the Southern State Parkway. Noting that the vehicle lacked a license plate, the officers attempted to pull the driver over only to be ignored. A chase ensued, with the truck eventually crashing into a lamp post at an intersection. After placing the driver under arrest, the two officers made a grizzly discovery in the bed of the truck. The decaying body of a young woman was waiting for them beneath a tarp. The inter...

Nov 10, 202151 minEp. 53

Derrick Todd Lee

From September of 2002 until March 2003 a serial killer stalked the area around LSU, brazenly walking into the homes and apartments of unsuspecting women where he would assault and murder them. Mistakenly misidentified as a white male, he went under the radar, despite mountains of DNA evidence. Although the man, Derrick Todd Lee, was eventually capture in Atlanta, Georgia, many questions about his life and crimes still remain. Follow me on Instagram, MeWe, and Patreon @ IanTotten-Author Facebook...

Oct 31, 202146 minEp. 52

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Oct 31, 20212 min

Ronald Dominique

It began in the spring of 1997 in the southeastern corner of Louisiana. The bodies of young men, predominantly black. found in drainage ditches, alongside roadways, and tossed into forests like so much garbage. At first, police were unable to link any of them, but as the years stretched on and more bodies appeared, they realized that they had a killer stalking the homeless of their communities. A twisted individual who spent his days helping neighbors and his nights dressed as Patti Labelle, whi...

Oct 31, 20211 hr 4 minEp. 50
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