In May 1999, police opened the vault of a disused bank in the tiny South Australian town of Snowtown and found barrels — and bodies dissolving in acid inside them. It wasthe end of the worst series of killings in Australian history: at least eleven people murdered over seven years.

But almost nobody died in Snowtown. The town just owned the vault. The real horror happened in the suburbs of Adelaide, carried out by a group of men led by JohnBunting — a charismatic, certain man who believed he was a hero. He kept a wall of names. He told himself and his followers he was ridding the world of pedophiles.

He wasn't. His victims were vulnerable friends, partners, and family — and the group quietly collected their welfare payments after they died. This episode unpackshow one dominant man built a worldview where murder felt righteous, recruited broken and dependent followers into it — including a groomed teenage stepsonwho became both killer and victim — and nearly got away with all of it. Plus where each of the men stands now, including the accomplice released into the community in 2024.

The most dangerous intent in the world isn't the kind that knows it's evil. It's the kind that's certain it's good.

Intent doesn't lie. People do.

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Content Warning: Before we begin, a warning that's heavierthan usual. This episode deals with the murder of pregnant women, the death of infants, and the loss of pregnancy. If you are pregnant, recently postpartum, or grieving a pregnancy loss, please take care of yourself. This one can wait. It'll be here when you're ready.

Netflix's MATERNAL INSTINCT made Taylor Parker a namepeople can't stop searching. But the crime it shows isn't a one-off — and one nearly identical case happened 30 minutes from my front door.

In this bonus episode of Deadly Intent, we go past thedocumentary. Fetal abduction is one of the rarest crimes on record — roughly 21 cases in 60 years in the entire United States — and yet the women who commit itfollow a pattern so consistent it's almost a script. The faked pregnancy. The deadline that can't be survived without a baby. The confidence trick. And the same lie, every time: "I just gave birth."

To understand Taylor Parker, we go back to the case theexperts call the template — Lisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett — and then we come home, to Benton County, Arkansas, and the murder of Ashley Bush by Amber Waterman: a Facebook lure, a fake job offer, a public library used as a hunting blind. Three women who killed. Three women who died. One psychology running through all of it.

This isn't a recap. It's the why — narcissism, the"elimination crime," and the warning signs worth knowing. And it's a promise this show always keeps: the victims get their names said out loud, and said with respect. Bobbie Jo Stinnett. Reagan Simmons-Hancock. Ashley Bush.Victoria Jo, who lived. Braxlynn and Valkyrie, who didn't.

Intent doesn't lie. People do.

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She arrived at the emergency room too calmly. A little blood on her arm, a story about a bushy-haired stranger on a dark Oregon road, and three shot children in the back seat. One of them — 7-year-old Cheryl — was already gone. The other twowould survive scarred: 8-year-old Christie fighting back from a stroke, 3-year-old Danny paralyzed for life.

There was no stranger.

Diane Downs shot her own children in May 1983 to clear the path to a man who'd told her he didn't want kids. Her motive wasn't madness or mercy — it was arithmetic. Herchildren were obstacles, and she decided to remove them. This episode traces how her story fell apart, how her own daughter relearned how to speak just to testify against her, and how, forty-two years and four parole denials later,Diane Downs still refuses to admit what she did.

Some killers don't look like killers. That's exactly what they're counting on.

Intent doesn't lie. People do.

Next week, we're heading to Australia — to a quiet country town, an empty bank, and the worst series of killings the country has ever seen. The men who did it believed, all the way down, that they were the good guys.

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He was a police officer. A father. A neighbor who waved from his driveway and tended his yard like anyone else. For over a decade, Joseph James DeAngelo moved through California neighborhoods like a shadow — cutting phone lines, tying knots, and leaving behind a trail of trauma that spanned 11 counties, 13 murders, and more than 50 sexual assaults.

He was the Visalia Ransacker. The East Area Rapist. The Original Night Stalker. The Golden State Killer. All the same man. All the same hands.

For 44 years, he was nobody's suspect.

In this episode of Deadly Intent, we trace the full arc of one of the most psychologically complex cases in American criminal history — from DeAngelo's calculated double life as a law enforcement officer to the revolutionary DNA genealogy technique that finally unmasked him. We'll examine the behavioral signature of a power-control predator, the decades of dead ends that frustrated investigators across California, the obsessive true crime writer who named him before she could see him caught, and the retired patent attorney who built his family tree from a crime scene DNA sample and changed forensic investigation forever.

Justice took 44 years. It came anyway.

Intent doesn't lie. People do.

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She was a devoted mother. A beauty queen. A woman who posted family vacations and birthday celebrations on social media. And then, somewhere along the way, she became something else entirely.

Lori Vallow Daybell convinced herself — and those around her — that her own children were possessed by dark spirits. Zombies who needed to be eliminated. What followed was a calculated campaign of murder that claimed the lives of 7-year-old JJ Vallow, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, and Tammy Daybell — all while Lori collected her children's Social Security benefits and honeymooned in Hawaii.

This is the story of faith weaponized. Of maternal instinct turned inside out. Of a belief system so twisted that murder became mercy.

And in 2026, Lori is still fighting her conviction — still insisting nobody was murdered.

Intent doesn't lie. People do.

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In June 1967, 75-year-old widow Louisa Dunne was raped and murdered in her Bristol home. When her newspaper sat uncollected on her garden wall the next morning, neighbors knew something was terribly wrong. Police found a palm print on her window and biological evidence at the scene—but in 1967, forensic science couldn't identify the killer. The case went cold for fifty-eight years.

Until 2024, when DNA technology finally caught up to a predator who thought he'd gotten away with murder.

This is the story of Britain's longest-running cold case, the elderly women who were targeted by a serial offender, and the justice system that failed them catastrophically—giving a rapist and murderer decades of freedom he should never have had.

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After thirteen years of silence, the BTK Killer resurfaces in 2004—and his desperate need for recognition becomes his fatal mistake. In Part 2, we follow the investigation that finally brought Dennis Rader down: the taunting letters, the psychological chess match with police, and the floppy disk that ended a thirty-year reign of terror.

From the metadata that exposed him to the shocking confession that revealed the true depths of his narcissism, this is the story of how intent—that core psychological drive—became both his motivation and his downfall. We also examine the devastating impact on his family, the victims' families who finally got answers, and what this case teaches us about the nature of evil hiding in plain sight.

Content Warning: This episode contains graphic discussions of murder, sexual violence, and violence against children. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

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January 15, 1974. Four members of the Otero family are found murdered in their Wichita, Kansas home. Three months later, police receive a letter from the killer, signing it "BTK" - Bind, Torture, Kill.

For the next seventeen years, Dennis Rader will terrorize Wichita. He'll kill ten people, send taunting letters to police and media, and then simply... vanish. But he never really left. He was there the whole time - teaching Sunday school, coaching Little League, citing people for lawn violations, living the most ordinary life imaginable.

This is Part 1 of the BTK story: the murders, the letters, the double life, and the long silence. A deep dive into one of the most disturbing examples of duality in true crime history - a man who lived two lives so completely separate that nobody suspected the compliance officer next door was one of America's most prolific serial killers.

In Part 2, we'll cover his return in 2004 and the investigation that finally brought him down.

Intent doesn't lie. People do.

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