Homocidal Tendency: A Queer True Crime Podcast
Welcome to Homocidal Tendency, a podcast dedicated to the grit, the gore, and the forgotten ghosts of queer history.
We bridge the gap between the visceral horror of serial murder and the cold reality of life on the streets.
Whether it's a high-profile manhunt for a community predator or a quiet, back-alley tragedy that never made the nightly news, we’re digging up the truth that’s been buried under decades of apathy.
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Episodes
25 episodes
25. The Bag Murders
In Episode 25, Matt takes you back to the gritty, neon-lit streets of 1970s New York City to investigate one of the most chilling and frustrating unsolved mysteries in true crime history: The Bag Murders.Between 1975 and 1977, the dark ...
24. The Monster of Montmartre | Thierry Paulin
Behind the blinding neon lights, free-flowing champagne, and pulsing techno of the 1980s Paris underground, a predator was using high fashion as camouflage to hunt in plain sight. This week on Homocidal Tendency, we step of...
23. The Sadist of Romont | Michel Peiry
This week, Matt takes you on a chilling journey into the pristine, frozen passes of 1980s Switzerland a place synonymous with safe neutrality, immense wealth, and postcard-perfect landscapes. But beneath the snow, a predator is hunt...
22. South Africa's Cross-Dressing Killers
The monsters aren't always hiding in the shadows... sometimes they are standing right next to you under the neon lights.In the mid-1990s, the underground clubs of Hillbrow, Johannesburg, served as a rare sanctuary for the LGBTQ+ communi...
21. The Literary Grifter | Lee Israel
Need a breather from the blood and guts? After a few incredibly heavy weeks, Homocidal Tendency is taking a detour from our usual grisly crime scenes to dive into a completely different kind of underworld. This week, we tra...
B1. The Fort Myers Eight [Bonus Episode]
In March 2007, a land surveyor pushing through the thick palmetto scrub off Arcadia Street in Fort Myers made a chilling discovery a sun-bleached human skull. By the time the cadaver dogs and forensic anthropologists finished their work, the br...
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20. The Hog Trail Murders
In the mid-1990s, the suffocating palmetto scrub of Southwest Florida hid a terrifying secret. A calculated predator was cruising the highways, cheap motels, and day-labor spots, luring transient and marginalized men into the woods with the pr...
19. Shadows of The West Side Piers
In the 1980s and 90s, the decaying shipping warehouses of Manhattan’s West Village were a world entirely of their own. For thousands of marginalized queer youth, trans women, and outcasts pushed to the fringes of the city, the rotti...
18. The Mysterious life and Murder of Cam Lyman
A sprawling 40-acre estate in the Rhode Island woods. A disconnected phone line. Millions of dollars vanished into thin air. The only witnesses? A pack of 50 prize-winning dogs.This week on Homocidal Tendency, we are traveling ...
17. The Cleveland Torso Murders
The Cleveland Torso Murders | The Butcher of Kingsbury RunEpisode Description:In the grip of the Great Depression, the soot-choked city of Cleveland was brought to its knees by a phantom. Between 1935 and 1938, a brilliant...
16. The Luna Park Ghost Train Fire
There is a specific kind of thrill we look for in a dark ride. We willingly plunge into the pitch black, waiting for the jump scare, knowing that eventually, the track leads back out into the light.But on the freezing night of June 9th,...
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15. The Atlanta Hustler Murders | Michael Terry
Episode 15: The Atlanta Hustler MurdersEpisode Summary:The monsters aren’t always wearing masks in the woods. Sometimes, they are waiting in the exact spaces the rest of the world decided to ignore.In the mi...
14. Shi Pei Pu | The Butterfly Spy
Imagine risking your freedom, your career, and your country for a forbidden romance... only to realize you don’t know the first thing about the person sleeping next to you.This week on Homocidal Tendency, we are stepping out of the shad...
13. The Mysterious Murder of David Buller
How does a killer commit a frenzied, brutal murder in the middle of a bustling university building in broad daylight, and walk away like a ghost? This week, we are unlocking the doors of 1 Spadina Crescent a massive, 19th-century go...
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12. Robert Mauldsley | The Real Hannibal Lecter?
What happens when a monster only hunts other monsters? This week on Homocidal Tendency, we descend into the subterranean basement of HMP Wakefield to unlock the terrifying, tragic truth behind Britain's most isolated prisoner: Robert M...
11. The Papin Sisters
To the outside world, Christine and Léa Papin were the "perfect pearls" of Le Mans. They were quiet, submissive, and kept the Lancelin household running with terrifying perfection. But behind the walls of No. 6 Rue Bruyè...
10. The Killer Priest | Father Hans Schmidt
In 1913, New York City was captivated by a horror story that seemed too gruesome to be true. A handsome, intellectual Catholic priest living a double life: performing Mass by day, and running a counterfeiting ring and a slaughterhouse by night....
09. The Tragic Murder of Larry King
"Say goodbye to your friend Larry, because you won’t see him after tomorrow."It was February 12, 2008, inside a computer lab at E.O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, California. The only sounds were the clack-clack-clack of...
08. The Doodler Murders
San Francisco, 1974. The "Summer of Love" has faded into a gritty, neon-soaked reality. In the shadows of the Castro and the Tenderloin, a predator is hunting. But he doesn't use a gun or a mask. He uses a sketchbook.He is "T...
07. The Man In Black | Peter Moore
"I wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone."In the winter of 1995, the quiet coast of North Wales became the set of a real-life slasher movie. Four men were brutally murdered in four months. The killer wa...
06. The Final Act of Roberto The Great
In August 1991, the curtain fell on one of St. Petersburg’s most colorful figures. Robert Gierka was a man of contrasts: a dedicated nursing assistant by day and a master of the "Sawdust Circle" by night. When he was foun...
04. Hadden Clark | The Butcher of Bethesda
Hadden Clark was the "odd" neighbor everyone ignored—until the floorboards started talking. A classically trained chef and paranoid schizophrenic, Clark didn't just kill; he processed. Using his professional...
03. Bruce McArthur | The Serial Killer Mall Santa Part 2
Part 2He was the most popular Santa in the city. Parents stood in line for hours just so their children could sit on his lap. But while Bruce McArthur was checking his 'Naughty or Nice' list, he was hiding a graveyard in the g...
02. Bruce McArthur | The Serial Killer Mall Santa Part 1
Bruce McArthur didn’t just hide behind a mask; he hid behind a legend. While he was actively stalking and murdering men in Toronto’s Gay Village, he spent his winters as a Santa Claus at the Agincourt Mall. He wasn't a man in a costu...
