When Killers Get Caught is a true crime podcast hosted by Brittany Ransom that goes beyond the headlines to explore not just what happened, but why. Beginning August 6, 2026 Season 5 shifts its focus to 20 extraordinary stories of survival, highlighting victims who endured unimaginable acts of violence and lived to tell their stories. Through compassionate storytelling, in-depth research, and psychological insight, each episode examines the resilience of the human spirit while uncovering the motives, consequences, and devastating realities behind violent crime.
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Sept. 9, 2026
Surviving Cline Falls: Terri Jentz and the Unsolved 1977 Oregon Attack
In 1977, college students Terri Jentz and Avra Goldman set out on a cross-country bicycle trip that ended in a nightmare at Cline Falls State Park, Oregon. While sleeping in their tent, an unidentified attacker ran over them with a pickup truck and brutalized them with an axe. Both women survived the horrific assault, but the local investigation quickly stalled, leaving the case cold and no suspect officially charged. Decades later, Terri returned to Central Oregon to investigate her own attemp
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Sept. 2, 2026
Alison Botha: Survival, Justice, and the Power of the Human Spirit
In 1994, Alison Botha was abducted outside her home in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, by Frans du Toit and Theuns Kruger. After a horrific attack, Alison was left for dead in an isolated area. But somehow, she was still alive. Alone and catastrophically injured, Alison made a decision: if she was going to die, she would die trying to live. Using one hand to hold her body together and the other to support her severely injured neck, Alison began dragging herself toward the road. Before she left,
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Aug. 25, 2026
Holly Dunn: The Sole Survivor of the Railroad Killer Ángel Reséndiz
Holly Dunn was the only known survivor of Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, the serial killer who became known as the Railroad Killer. In 1997, 20-year-old Holly and her boyfriend, Christopher Maier, were attacked near railroad tracks in Lexington, Kentucky. Christopher was murdered. Holly was beaten, sexually assaulted, and left for dead, but she survived. Her survival would become an important part of the case against Reséndiz, a transient serial killer connected to murders across multiple states and
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Aug. 19, 2026
Kathy Kleiner Rubin: Surviving Ted Bundy and the Chi Omega Attack
On January 15, 1978, serial killer Ted Bundy entered the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University, murdered Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy, and brutally attacked Kathy Kleiner Rubin and Karen Chandler. Kathy survived but Ted Bundy was far from the first thing she had survived. This week on When Killers Get Caught, Brittany Ransom takes a deep dive into Kathy's remarkable story and her memoir, A Light in the Dark: Surviving More Than Ted Bundy. We examine the increasingly reckless Bun
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Aug. 12, 2026
How Rhonda Stapley Survived Ted Bundy & the 40-Year Silence That Followed
In 1974, 21-year-old pharmacy student Rhonda Stapley accepted a ride from a polite law student named Ted. What followed was a nightmare in Big Cottonwood Canyon and an extraordinary escape into a roaring mountain river. In this episode of When Killers Get Caught, host Brittany Ransom deconstructs the "charming genius" myth surrounding Ted Bundy through the eyes of a woman who outsmarted him. We trace Rhonda’s terrifying encounter, her 20-foot leap to freedom, and the 40 years of silent surviv
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Aug. 6, 2026
Lisa McVey : The Girl Who Outsmarted a Serial Killer
At just 17 years old, Lisa McVey was kidnapped by one of America's most dangerous serial killers. But instead of giving in to fear, she did something extraordinary, she observed, she remembered, and she survived. In this episode of When Killers Get Caught, Brittany Ransom tells the incredible true story of how one teenager's courage, quick thinking, and determination not only saved her own life but helped investigators identify and capture a serial killer before he could claim more victims.
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