The Profiling Evil Podcast delves into unsolved criminal cases from around the world , peeling back the layers of human behavior to reveal what drives evil. We look into the mind of the predator —their motivations, their victim selection, and the patterns that expose them. Each episode goes beyond headlines, examining how investigators identify red flags, connect the dots, and capitalize on the very errors offenders believe will never be found. Your host, Mike King , brings over four decades of experience in criminal justice and behavioral analysis. A retired law enforcement executive, Mike served as Chief of Staff to Utah Attorney General Jan Graham and Weber County Attorney Reed M. Richards . He began his career at the Ogden Police Department , where he worked patrol, motor enforcement, and SWAT before moving into investigations where he led task forces that hunted seria
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Profiling Evil Podcast delves into unsolved criminal cases from around the world, peeling back the layers of human behavior to reveal what drives evil. We look into the mind of the predator, their motivations, their victim selection, and the patterns that expose them.
Recent episodes include "Is Cult Leader the Pied Piper of Canada? The Daughter Who Would Not Come Home | Profiling Evil" (29 October 2026, 34 minutes), "Give Kessler the Cheesesteak and Send Him to Prison! | Profiling Evil" (28 October 2026, 33 minutes), and "Laura Owens Got 30 Days for a 10 Years of Lies. Did Judge Blow It? | Profiling Evil" (27 October 2026, 31 minutes).
Profiling Evil publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 33 minutes across 449 episodes.
Booking probability for Profiling Evil is 38%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Profiling Evil requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Profiling Evil's contact route on record: verified email.
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Was a radical Canadian church pulling young people away from their families, or was it simply teaching the Bible to people who chose to stay? In Ontario, parents say they watched sons and daughters slip away, and former...
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A 74-year-old man who said he was representing himself in a Florida murder trial told a judge he would plead guilty to a life sentence in exchange for a Philly cheesesteak, fries, and a 20-ounce Pepsi, and the judge...
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Laura Owens was sentenced to 30 days in jail and seven years of supervised probation after pleading guilty to four felonies for a pregnancy fraud scheme that stretched across a decade and three men, and the reaction was...
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Warren Jeffs was captured and sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting underage girls in Texas and many wondered if the polygamist cult was done for. But Samuel Bateman created his own religious offshoot with...
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Three men stood accused of first-degree murder in the execution-style shooting of a man in Oakville, Ontario. Then an Ontario judge threw the whole case out, and the reason had nothing to do with the evidence against...
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Today I sit down with my friend Michele McPhee, a journalist who has been following the Sandra Birchmore case since before it became national news and has spent the last two weeks inside the federal courtroom in Boston...
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Episode three of Mapping Evil, recorded in Australia with Tori Shepherd, is all about location, location, location, and how sexual predators use it to isolate their victims. Mike starts with the four rapist categories...
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Three men. Three murders. Decades without answers. I’m in the Niagara Falls region of Canada where I just finished one of our Psychology of Cults speaking tour stops last night. Yesterday, I swung by the Niagara Falls...
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Leïla Ben Salem, a 45-year-old mother who worked for the Canadian Revenue Agency was killed inside her Montreal apartment while she was taking part in an online work meeting. Police would later arrest a 33-year-old man...
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The federal murder trial of former Stoughton, Massachusetts, police officer Matthew Farwell has entered its second week, and testimony from October 19 and 20 has exposed more disturbing details about his relationship...
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Ted Kaczynski spent nearly two decades terrorizing America with a bombing campaign aimed at people he believed represented industrial and technological power. Luigi Mangione, the man accused of murdering...
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I’m in Ontario as we get ready to open The Psychology of Cults tour in Richmond Hill. Today I want to examine two Canadian criminal cases that couldn’t look more different on the surface. Roch Tear - EEE - OH called...
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In episode two of Mapping Evil, recorded in Australia with journalist Tori Shepherd, we pull apart the spider's web of cult control, starting with Mike's own case: the Zion Society, a polygamous doomsday cult operating...
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Welcome to Mapping Evil, the special 13-episode Profiling Evil series recorded in a studio in #Australia, where I'm joined by award-winning journalist #ToriShepherd. In this first episode we take on Robert Ben Rhoades...
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After ten days in court, the murder trial of David Prevatte has ended in a mistrial, and the circumstances surrounding that decision raise serious questions about jury misconduct and the responsibilities of ordinary...
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Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán rose from poverty in the mountains of Sinaloa to lead one of the most powerful drug-trafficking organizations in modern history. This episode follows that rise from his early work in Mexico’s...
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Opening statements are done and the federal trial of former Stoughton police officer Matthew Farwell is underway. He’s charged with strangling 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore and staging her death as a suicide. Let’s walk...
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Closing arguments began today in the trial of David Prevatte, charged in the 2017 death of his five-year-old niece Paitin Fields. Let’s explore the prosecution and defense closing statements. Why does the prosecution...
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Nine years after five-year-old Paitin Fields was found dead in 2017, her uncle David Prevatte is standing trial in North Carolina, charged with her murder. In this episode, we’ll walk through the pivotal moment when...
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Season 6 of American Nightmares is coming, and this time the story moves to Phoenix, Arizona, for a case known as The Canal Murders. In this special bridge episode between Season 5 and Season 6, Dan Zampillo sits down...
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Clinical and forensic psychologist & licensed private investigator, Psychology Today
Chairwoman of Turning Point USA, Turning Point USA
American mental health professional and author, Freedom of Mind Resource Center
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