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Hosted by Tony Ciaglia · true crime · EN-US
In Season One Tony will cover his life with a brain injury and how it eventually led him to corresponding with some of the world's most notorious serial killers. The first season will describe Tony's 6 year relationship with David Gore. Through Gore’s letters you will get to know this monster’s most intimate thoughts. How he hunted, what were his trophies, personal detailed descriptions of killings, his Death Row relationship with Ted Bundy and how he literally talked his way into the execution chamber. You will hear interviews with women who survived to tell of their horrifying experience with David Gore and Fred Waterfield The Killing Cousins. Tony will cover a story that not many know and no one ever talks about. We guarantee that this season will get you as close to a Serial Killer as you ever want to be. Standard Legal Disclaimer for Murder Phone: “The content of this podcast, including all phone calls, interviews, and original commentary, is the exclusi
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Signup to Generate a PitchIn Season One Tony will cover his life with a brain injury and how it eventually led him to corresponding with some of the world's most notorious serial killers. The first season will describe Tony's 6 year relationship with David Gore. Through Gore’s letters you will get to know this monster’s most intimate thoughts.
Murder Phone is hosted by Tony Ciaglia. The show has published 133 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Season 9 Dorothea Puente "The Death House Landlady" Episode 1 "The Ice Queen"" (19 October 2026, 64 minutes), "Season 8: William Bonin, "The Freeway Killer" Episode 10 "The Tape They Never Heard"" (24 August 2026, 81 minutes), and "Season 8 William Bonin “The Freeway Killer” Episode 9 “The Six He never Counted”" (27 July 2026, 81 minutes).
Murder Phone publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 77 minutes across 133 episodes.
Booking probability for Murder Phone is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Murder Phone requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Murder Phone's contact route on record: verified email.
Tony Ciaglia hosts Murder Phone, a true crime podcast with 133 episodes published.
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She filled her house with fresh flowers, home-cooked meals, and a smile that made lonely, forgotten people feel safe. Then she made sure they never left. Dorothea Puente called herself a caretaker, but beneath the...
Episode #10
The Timeline That Doesn't Add Up Officially, three of William Bonin's murders from March 1980 — Ronald Gatlin, Glenn Norman Barker, and Russell Rugh — are on the books as solo kills. No accomplice. No second set of...
Episode #9
James Munro has always told the same story: one murder, one moment of terrible luck, and no real involvement. It's the story that helped him cut a deal — the story that's kept him talking about parole ever since. This...
Episode #8
William Bonin didn't work alone. In this episode, host Tony Ciaglia pulls back the curtain on the men who rode beside The Freeway Killer, and introduces a new name: seventeen-year-old William Pugh, who survived his...
Episode #7
William Bonin. The Freeway Killer. The winter of 1979 is about to get a lot darker. In this episode, Tony Ciaglia ,The Serial Killer Whisperer, and his father Al walk you through the brutal final weeks of 1979 and into...
Episode #6
The freeway never sleeps in Southern California and neither did William Bonin. This week, Tony and Al pull back the curtain on the Freeway Killer and the Murder Van that became a rolling chamber of horrors on the...
Episode #5
William Bonin wasn’t the only monster inside the Murder Van. In Episode 5 of Murder Phone, we dive into the twisted world of the accomplices who didn’t just witness the horror — they became part of it. Men like Vernon...
Episode #4
Tony and Al turn their attention to Vernon Butts, one of the most disturbing accomplices in the William Bonin murder spree. Known as the Freeway Killer, Bonin didn't always act alone — and Butts stands out as one of the...
Episode #3
Bonin came back from war in 1968… but whatever returned wasn’t the same man. William Bonin walked into California colder, emptier—like something had hollowed him out and left the shell behind. His family saw it in his...
Episode #2
Join host Tony Ciaglia and his father Al as they descend into William Bonin’s time in Vietnam. December 1966. Bonin doesn’t enlist for honor—he enlists because someone thinks the military can fix him. It can’t. Because...
Episode #1
Before the headlines. Before the handcuffs. Before the bodies… There was a childhood shaped by violence, neglect, and unchecked warning signs that were impossible to ignore—yet ignored anyway. This season exposes not...
Episode #18
In this unforgettable episode of Murder Phone, Tony,The Serial Killer Whisperer, joins his brother Joey and their father Al on a journey into the heart of darkness: a face-to-face visit with Arthur John Shawcross in...
Episode #17
October 1989: Rochester, New York. A body is found — Patricia Ives — and just like that, the mask of safety slips off the city’s face. Police quickly realize they aren’t dealing with a one-off killing. This is a...
Episode #16
What happens when hell doesn’t wait for you to die… but moves in next door? They called him The Genesee River Killer. We call him Arthur Shawcross. By late 1987, Rochester had no idea the devil was walking among them...
Episode #15
When Arthur Shawcross came home from Vietnam, the violence he unleashed overseas didn’t stay buried. In this chilling episode, you’ll hear about the day the nightmare began — April 7th, 1972 — when 10-year-old Jack...
Episode #14
Arthur Shawcross was not born a monster—he was made. Forged in a house of sin, scarred by incest, violence, and a twisted childhood, then sharpened to a lethal edge in the jungles of Vietnam. But the most terrifying...
Episode #13
In this chilling conclusion of Hell’s Timeline, we expose the brutal truth the official record refuses to tell. David Gore and Fred Waterfield—Florida’s “Killing Cousins”—didn’t begin their slaughter in 1981, as the...
Episode #12
Beneath the sunlit rows of Florida’s orange groves, the ground still keeps its secrets. Some were dug up long ago. Others are ghosts—still waiting to be found, still whispering their stories. In this episode, we’re...
Episode #11
This episode drags you straight into the abyss—into the sickening heart of David Gore’s own confession. You’ll hear the chilling account of The Tragic Story of Missy in Gore’s own words… a crime so vile, so monstrous...
Episode #10
Angela Survived the Monsters… But Not the System” Angela Hommell did everything a survivor is told to do. She named her attackers — Fred Waterfield and David Gore. She begged law enforcement for help. And the system...
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