This Is Monsters is a podcast that tells the stories of some of the worst people who exist in our world. Each season we will pick a new theme and hand pick stories within that theme that will make your blood run cold. Child killers, torturers, and family annihilators are just a few of the themes that we have lined up. WARNING: This podcast contains graphic content, listener discretion is advised.
Announcement of the release of a new podcast companion to the true crime blog Monsters.
22/08/2020 • 00:42
Trailer for the first season of the Monsters Podcast. This season we will be telling the stories of filicide.
31/08/2020 • 01:12
On August 28th, 2014, Timothy Jones Jr. punished his 6-year-old son, Nahtahn by forcing him to do strenuous exercises before sending him to bed. Jones claims, when he went in to check on him a few hours later, he was dead in his bed. He then strangled his other four children ages 1-8 before fleeing his home.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
07/09/2020 • 46:17
On January 9th, 2017, Ming Ming Chen got angry at her 5-year-old daughter and she slammed her her head onto the floor multiple times. Once her husband, Liang Zhao, discovered that Ashley was no longer breathing, they took her body to their restaurant and hid it. Then they called the police and pretended that she was missing.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
14/09/2020 • 41:58
On October 25th, 1994, Susan Smith rolled her car into John D. Long Lake with her two sons, three-year-old Michael and one-year-old Alexander, locked inside. She ran to a nearby house and claimed that a black man had car jacked her with her kids still in the car.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
21/09/2020 • 36:29
Samatha Kematch spent the 5 short years of her daughter, Phoenix Sinclair's, life treating her like she was nothing but garbage. She was bounced around between foster homes and family members before finally going to live permanently with her mother and her mother's boyfriend Karl "Wes" McKay. Once there, the couple verbally abused her, locked her in the cold basement, starved her and ultimately beat the girl to death. They then disposed of the body near a landfill and continued reporting her as a dependent in order to receive welfare.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
28/09/2020 • 68:44
On July 10th, 2019, Michael Jones Jr. killed his wife, Casei Jones with a baseball bat. Approximately a month later, he strangled the two boys that Casei had with her previous husband. Two weeks later, he drowned the two daughters he had with Casei. He kept all of the bodies in the house for a few weeks before putting them in his van and keeping them there for another two weeks before he dumped the bodies.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
05/10/2020 • 40:04
On October 2nd, 2006, Frances Elaine Campione drowned her two daughters, three-year-old Serena and 19-month-old Sophia. She was in a bitter custody battle with her ex-husband, Leo Campione, who she had divorced due to allegations of spousal abuse. Instead of risking him getting custody of their daughters, she chose to drown them in the bathtub before attempting to take her own life. An attempt that failed.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
12/10/2020 • 41:28
On March 24th, 2015, Mitchelle Blair was served an eviction notice at her rented townhouse in Detroit, Michigan. Blair was not home, so a crew entered the residence and began removing furniture. When they got to a white chest freezer in the living room, they found the body of a teenage girl inside. When police arrived, they discovered the body of a younger boy underneath the girl in the same freezer. It turned out that Blair had killed two of her children and stored their bodies in a freezer in the living room for more than two years.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
19/10/2020 • 33:28
On February 20th, 2016, Morgan Lawrence came home from work to an empty house and a message from her husband, Ryan. He had taken their 21-month-old daughter, Maddox, and disappeared. He took her out to a rural area where he crushed her head with a baseball bat and set her body on fire before he put her body in a bag and threw it in Onandaga Creek.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
26/10/2020 • 32:27
When Ronald Clark O'Bryan found himself in massive debt, he weighed all of his options before coming up with a plan to ease his financial burden. He took out insurance policies on his own children, gave them each a piece of poisoned Halloween candy, and claimed that the candy had come from a stranger while trick or treating, ruining the holiday for generations to come.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
31/10/2020 • 11:02
Tiffany Moss abused her step-daughter, Emani Moss, so severely that she lost her job as a preschool teacher. Once that happened, she became a stay-at-home mom to Emani and her own two children. With her husband, Eman Moss, working two jobs to support the family, the mother began starving Emani until she died just days before Halloween in 2013. Then she convinced Eman to burn the body and pretend the girl ran away.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
02/11/2020 • 38:36
14 days. That's how long Caliyah McNabb lived her life with her parents, Christopher McNabb and Courtney Bell. After spending most of that time strung out on meth, on October 6th, 2017, McNabb would beat Caliyah so severely that her skull was damaged beyond repair. Then the baby was put in a bag and hid in the woods by their home.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
09/11/2020 • 39:26
On August 30th, 2017, four-month-old Sterling Koehn died due to neglect from his parents, Zachary Koehn and Cheyanne Harris. He had been left in a mechanical swing, in the same diaper, with no food or water for anywhere from nine to 14 days. He had diaper rash so bad that it had eaten through his skin and caused E. coli from the feces to enter his bloodstream. Then flies laid eggs in his diaper causing maggots to crawl around in it for days before he died.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
16/11/2020 • 46:41
JoAnn Cunningham and Andrew Freund spent most of their son, AJ Freund's, life abusing him and berating him. In April of 2019, the parents forced the 4 year old boy into a freezing cold shower before Cunningham beat him with a detachable shower head. AJ died later that night and the parents buried his body, before calling the police and reporting him missing.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
23/11/2020 • 33:09
Candice Diaz and her boyfriend, Brad Fields, spent four months beating Diaz's 4 year old daughter, Gabby. They used violence as a means of punishing the young girl for having potty training accidents. Finally, they put her in the bathtub and burned her with scalding water until she died of septic shock.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
30/11/2020 • 39:16
John Jonchuck Jr. had had custody of his daughter, Phoebe, for the last two years. He didn't have a stable home and couldn't keep a job, so he feared that Phoebe's mother, Michele Kerr, might take over custody of their daughter. Instead of letting that happen, he took the girl to the Dick Misener bridge in Tampa, Florida and threw her into the water below, killing her.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
07/12/2020 • 38:34
John Jonchuck Jr. had had custody of his daughter, Phoebe, for the last two years. He didn't have a stable home and couldn't keep a job, so he feared that Phoebe's mother, Michele Kerr, might take over custody of their daughter. Instead of letting that happen, he took the girl to the Dick Misener bridge in Tampa, Florida and threw her into the water below, killing her.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
08/12/2020 • 40:15
Christmas is supposed to be a merry time. A time of holiday cheer where children laugh and play. People sit by the Christmas tree opening presents, drinking hot cocoa, and eating cookies. Kids are out of school. Adults are out of work. It's a time when everyone can relax and enjoy the company of others.Not for Ronald Gene Simmons Sr., though. Christmas of 1987 was when he decided that he had had enough of his current life and decided that it was time to do something about it. Permanently.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
23/12/2020 • 14:30
The trailer for Monsters Season 2: Love KillsDebut episode will be uploaded on January 11th, 2021.Available where you listen to podcast or on YouTube.
04/01/2021 • 00:51
Shayna Hubers had been dating Ryan Poston for about a year and a half. It was said to be a volatile relationship that would end when Hubers found out that Ryan had gone on a date with another girl. She decided to respond to that by "giving him the nose job he always wanted."For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
11/01/2021 • 34:53
Stephanie Lazarus dated John Ruetten off and on from the late 70s until 1984. When Lazarus learned that Ruetten had met another woman and that they were already engaged, the reality that their relationship was not as serious as she had thought hit her hard. Hard enough to make her want to kill.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
18/01/2021 • 37:38
William Riley Gaul had dated Emma Walker off and on for about two years. They were both students at the same high school, but after Gaul graduated and went to college, Emma decided it was time to move on. Instead of respecting the young girl's decision, Gaul decided he was going show her what a mistake that really was.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
25/01/2021 • 35:31
Sabrina Limon began having an affair with Jonathan Hearn at the end of 2012. She felt a strong connection with him despite already being married to Robert Limon. Since Robert was opposed to getting a divorce, the couple would have to come up with another plan to make their dreams of getting married a reality.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
01/02/2021 • 52:35
Jodi Arias was another woman who couldn't handle being broken up with by her boyfriend. When she learned that Travis Alexander was spending time with another woman, she made sure to put an end to that. Permanently.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
08/02/2021 • 58:19
Oscar Pistorius was a World renown athlete who won numerous gold medals in the Paralympics and was one of the few para Athletes who competed in the Summer Olympics. When he thought there were intruders inside his house, he decided to protect himself with deadly force.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
15/02/2021 • 29:27
Steven Pladl was reconnected with the daughter he gave up for adoption 18 years earlier and then began having a sexual relationship with her. When authorities got involved and the relationship was put in jeopardy, Pladl decided that nobody deserved to live.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
22/02/2021 • 29:37
When Rachel Wade and Sarah Ludemann both started dating the same boy, they were each under the impression that the other one was an ex-girlfriend. This led to a social media feud that would escalate to a deadly level.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
01/03/2021 • 34:39
Claudia Hoerig couldn't make her marriage work and once she realized that he was definitely leaving her, she made a plan to get her revenge and ensure she would never be brought to justice.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
08/03/2021 • 55:00
Clifford Burns believed that everything had been taken away from him and that none of his problems were his fault, so he decided to change the course of his life, permanently.For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thisisMONSTERSYou can check out our new merch on TeeSpring! https://this-is-monsters.creator-spring.com/To support the show, donate a few bucks through Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/monstersYou can find more information about ways to support us plus contact info at our website: https://www.thisismonsters.com/
15/03/2021 • 35:19
