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…
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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, Tony and Al put that story under a microscope. Drawing on taped conversations with Greg Miley and Munro. Miley who served time alongside Munro and was present during the…
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 first encounter with Bonin by pure luck, then made the incomprehensible decision to come back. That choice would cost fifteen-year-old Harry Todd Turner, Victim 16 everything. Tony also…
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 the blood-soaked opening days of 1980, as Bonin accelerates his killing with terrifying speed. Victims 8 through 13 — Frank Dennis Fox, John Kilpatrick, Mike McDonald, Charles…
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 highways of Los Angeles. They break down the chilling details of how Bonin hunted, who he hunted, and most disturbingly, who helped him do it. Tony shares never-before-heard audio from…
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 Butts, a predator who needed no corruption, and Gregory Miley, a seemingly normal young man who climbed into Bonin’s orbit and slowly transformed into something terrifying. This…
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 most unsettling figures in his orbit. This episode features a chilling audio conversation with James Munro, another accomplice who knew Butts personally. Munro offers a haunting…
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 eyes. Not pain. Not trauma. Something darker. Something waiting. Then the frenzy began. Five boys. Abducted. Assaulted. Discarded. Not a spree. Not even chaos. This was a predator…
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 Bonin is already broken. Before the uniform—before Vietnam—he’s already fantasizing about rape. About murder. Then comes the theft arrest. Charges disappear. Not because he’s…
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 only the making of a killer, but the system that failed to stop him. And again exclusively, Murder Phone brings you something few ever hear: real conversations with Bonin’s…
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 Fallsburg, New York. What they didn’t know at the time was that this visit took place exactly two months before Shawcross would drop dead, making this one of his final, unfiltered…