“The Toolbox Killers” Lawrence Bittaker and R...

For nearly twenty years, a charming con man poses as a globe-trotting CIA operative, seducing women and draining their savings in the name of “classified missions”—until one wife uncovers his lies and helps bring down the man she thought she would share her life with. Sources for ...  Show more

The wife of the “sausage king of Chicago” disappears without a trace…until police search a suspicious vat in the basement of his factory, fueling rumors of exactly how he got rid of her. Sources for this episode include:Alchemy of Bones: Chicago's Luetgert Murder Case of 1897 by ...  Show more

In 1979, five girls vanished in Southern California. What no one knew was that ex-cons Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris were hunting them...together. In Part 1, we uncover the origin story of the Toolbox Killers: how a prison friendship gave rise to one of the most calculated and ...  Show more

Two felons who met in prison decided to stay friends on the outside. They spent the summer and fall of 1979 kidnapping and murdering teenage girls in southern California. Police didn't even have them as suspects. Until an unlikely source came forward with crucial information. Lea ...  Show more

Criminologist Laura Brand is the executive producer of “The Toolbox Killer” documentary currently streaming on Peacock. It’s the horrific, true crime story of two sadistic serial killers, Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris, who terrorized and killed teenage girls in Southern Califo ...  Show more

Roy Norris broke first. Lawrence Bittaker refused to say a word. But the evidence spoke for itself. In Part 2, Killer Minds dives into the investigation and trial of the Toolbox Killers, where Polaroids, confessions, and a single cassette tape revealed the true horror of their cr ...  Show more