What makes someone take another life? That’s the question Brittany Ransom and her guests aim to answer every week. Now in its 3rd year When Killers Get Caught digs deep into killers big and small, obscure supernatural stories and modern true crime mysteries.
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Who was Aileen Wuornos? & Baba Yaga
Sources: Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words by Daphne Gottlieb , Lisa Kester, et al. Monster: My True Story by Aileen Wuornos & Christopher Berry-Dee Dead Ends: The Pursuit, Conviction, and Execution of Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos by …
Episode 19. Andrea Yates: Strangely Sympathetic and Local Legends
Sources: "Andrea Yates," Mugshots, Court TV, 2003. Flock, Jeff. "Chilling Details of the Houston Child Killings." CNN.Com. June 22, 2001. "Interview: Dr. Dietz," Time, May 19, 2002. "Juries Often Spare Mothers Who Kill," ABCNEWS.com, June 28, 2001. McCalope, Michelle. "Rusty …
Episode 17: The Murder of Ken Rex McElroy and the Cold Case no one co…
Sources: Books In Broad Daylight: A Murder in Skidmore, Missouri, Harry N. MacLean, Dell, 1988 Judgment Day, Bob Lancaster and B.C. Hall, Seaview/Putnam, 1983 Articles "Suspects Are Legion in Slaying of a Missouri 'Town Bully,'" By Jules Loh, The Associated …
Episode 15.5: Brian Tries His Best
This week is a little different. Time constraints and life happen which led us to this episode. Brian talks about crazy Uber passengers and takes us on another trip to West Virginia to talk more about cryptids. You can get …
Recent Episodes
Candy Crimes and Halloween Treats from Yesteryear
Oct. 30, 2022
HAPPY HALLOWEEN and thanks for listening to When Killers Get Caught! We’re so excited to be back! This week in true crime Brittany is celebrating the arrest of the man responsible for the Delphi murders and Brian’s mad about…
Jane Toppan For the Love of Poison
Oct. 2, 2022
Hey there and thanks for listening to When Killers Get Caught! We’re so excited to be back! This week in true crime Brittany has feelings about the new crop of fictional horror that uses true crime as it’s inspiration and …
Joseph James Deangelo Prt II: Catching a killer
Sept. 18, 2022
Hey there and thanks for listening to When Killers Get Caught! We’re so excited to be back! This week in true crime Brittany discusses a verdict she’s been waiting for since she was a young girl and Brian discusses another…
Joseph James DeAngelo Part I: The Man and the Mayhem
Sept. 12, 2022
Hey there and thanks for listening to When Killers Get Caught! We’re so excited to be back! This week in true crime Brittany discusses a cold case finally solved after 39 years and Brian discusses the update to the Only Fa…
The Crime and End of Clifford Olson Jr and the Pope lick monster.
Aug. 6, 2022
Hey there and thanks for listening to When Killers Get Caught! This week in true crime Brittany discusses a missing and found child and Brian discusses a case of animal cruelty that ended okay. Brittany’s deep dive is the…
The Beast of British Columbia(pt1) & El Sibon
July 31, 2022
Brians back! Hey there and thanks for listening to When Killers Get Caught! This week in true crime Brittany discusses a scamming Bishop and Brian updates us on a prior case. Brittany’s deep dive is the first half of the …
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End of year posting schedule
Podcast schedule for both PATREON and the regular podcast is: The Nov 18 podcast will be the last for November. THis is for the US holiday but also beca…
The Full Bibliography for the Yoo Yoeng-Chul podcast (Epis…
This was one of the hardest podcasts to research because there's only 1 book about Yoo. So I had to do a lot of searching and google translating articles…
About the Host
Brittany Ransom
Podcast Owner, Co-host and Content Creator
Adopted by an Aunt and Uncle who were attorneys, crime and justice were a normal part of growing up in the Ransom/Lewis household. She picked up her first books on True Crime at the tender age of 12 and never looked back. Now 22 years later, Brittany is co-host to the When Killers Get Caught True Crime Podcast with 200,000 gross listeners in it's inaugural year. Her lively tiktok videos have attracted 850,000 devoted followers, 127 million views, 18 million likes, and an invitation to discuss crime on ABC's prime time crime broadcast 20/20 and as a commentator on the Fox-Tubi Documentary Sins Of the Father: The Green River Killer(2022). 2022 is shaping up to be an incredible year and Brittany is just getting started.
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