Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén

A tech pioneer who built one of the world’s biggest antivirus empires descends into paranoia, excess, and fugitive chaos—turning his life into a globe-spanning thriller that blurs the line between genius and madness.

Sources for this episode include:

No Domain: The John McAfee Tapes by Mark Eglinton“On the Lam with John McAfee” (Vice)

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In the early hours of the morning, Lorena Bobbitt takes a kitchen knife to her sleeping husband’s penis. Instead of waiting to hear the real story, the world turned the tragedy into the butt of every joke.

Sources for this episode include:

Lorena (Docuseries; Amazon) dir. Joshua RoféContemporaneous reporting by The New York Times and Vanity Fair

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A teenager who thinks he's a 100-year-old vampire leads a cult of kids to murder a girls' parents in Florida.

Sources for this episode include:

Kentucky Teenage Vampires (Real Stories)Court Transcript - Rod Ferrell’s Appellate Brief“Interview with ‘The Vampire’” (Orlando Sentinel)“Chronology of the Wendorff Slayings” (Orlando Sentinel)“Man who “Sired” Rod Ferrell Tells All” (Oxygen)“Teens in Suspected ‘Vampire Cult’ Arrested in Double Murder” (AP News)

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In the 1980s and ’90s, a serial arsonist known as the “Pillow Pyro” terrorizes California—taunting investigators and igniting fires near their annual conferences—until one detective uncovers an unthinkable truth...The culprit is one of their own.

Sources for this episode include:

Fire Lover: A True Story by Joseph WambaughForensic Files, “Point of Origin”Firebug podcast, Episode 1

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Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother 40 whacks… The popular schoolyard rhyme has withstood the test of time, despite it getting a few details wrong. Over 130 years later, we still don’t really know who killed Andrew and Abby Borden. Lizzie was acquitted, and yet most people assume she was guilty. Is it possible Lizzie was truly innocent? And if she didn’t swing the hatchet that day – who did?

Sources for this episode include:

The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden & The Trial of the Century by Sarah MillerThe Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara RobertsonPopular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence by Bill James

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