What makes a killer?
Is it rage? Revenge? Obsession? Opportunity? Or is there something else—a pattern, a design, a blueprint—that investigators learn to recognize before anyone else?
Hey guys, after spending the last 10 years working on Gangland Wire, I am excited to announce the launch of a sister podcast. Don’t worry, I will still do a mob story every week. My new show is Murder Blueprint
I learned that many violent crimes don’t accidentally happen. Whether it’s a serial killer, a domestic violence murder, a child abduction, or a predator targeting victims, there is almost always a blueprint. The challenge is recognizing the pattern before another life is lost.
You may already know me as the host of Gangland Wire, where I’ve spent years interviewing FBI agents, detectives, prosecutors, authors, and even former mobsters about organized crime. Now I’m taking you beyond organized crime and into the darkest criminal investigations I’ve encountered.
This podcast isn’t about sensationalizing violence. I want to bring clarity to how violent offenders think, how investigators identify patterns, and how detectives assemble evidence and build cases for prosecution.
Together we’ll go behind the crime scene tape and inside the investigation.
We’ll examine serial killers whose crimes spanned years before anyone realized they were connected. We’ll look at domestic violence cases that escalated into murder, kidnappings that became nationwide manhunts, and wrongful convictions that allowed violent predators to remain free.
You’ll hear directly from the detectives who worked these investigations, the prosecutors who presented the evidence, the forensic experts who uncovered crucial clues, and the authors who have spent years researching these extraordinary cases.
In our opening episodes, we’ll take you inside one of Kansas City’s most horrifying serial murder investigations as retired detectives explain how they uncovered Bob Berdella’s torture chamber, documented his chilling torture logs, and identified the victims hidden behind hundreds of Polaroid photographs.
We’ll also examine the investigation into Richard Grissom Jr., whose murders of three young women terrified suburban Kansas City, and hear from the detectives who tracked him down and built the case that put him behind bars.
Please watch for my new show. I will release a trailer on the podcast to give listeners a taste of Murder Blueprint.