DEADLY INTENT - Episode 24: Fred & Rose West - Love, Marriage, and Murder as a Lifestyle

February 24th, 1994. Police arrive at 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester with shovels and a search warrant, looking for one missing teenager. What they uncover is one of Britain's most horrific serial killing operations—a marriage built entirely around murder.

Fred and Rose West didn't stumble into violence. They systematically constructed it. Over more than twenty years, this husband-and-wife team turned an ordinary house into a killing ground and transformed murder into routine domestic activity. They refined their methods with each victim, evolving from reactive killers into calculated predators who genuinely enjoyed what they did.

Tonight, we examine the psychology of complementary pathology—when two dangerous individuals become exponentially more lethal together. We'll walk through their three distinct phases of criminal intent: from reactive concealment to recreational killing to systematized predation. And we'll analyze how Fred and Rose gave each other permission to act on their darkest impulses, creating a closed system where human life had no value beyond the pleasure it could provide them.

This isn't just about what they did—it's about understanding the intent that drove them to kill again and again, and how recognizing these patterns can help prevent future tragedies.

Content Warning: This episode contains detailed discussions of murder, sexual violence, child abuse, and torture. Listener discretion is advised.

Victims Remembered:

Charmaine Costello, Rena Costello, Lynda Gough, Carol Cooper, Lucy Partington, Therese Siegenthaler, Shirley Hubbard, Juanita Mott, Shirley Robinson, Alison Chambers, and Heather West.

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Robert Pickton wasn’t invisible. He was accurate.

From 1995 to 2001, 49 women vanished from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, many Indigenous, many surviving the margins of poverty, addiction, and the sex trade. Their disappearances were minimized, misclassified, or ignored. Meanwhile, a pig farmer 30 kilometers outside the city quietly built a predatory system perfectly aligned with society’s apathy.

Pickton exploited more than victims. He exploited a hierarchy of concern.

In 2002, a search warrant for illegal weapons cracked open Canada’s largest forensic investigation, uncovering dismembered remains, split skulls, trophies, and evidence that bodies had been fed to pigs, buried across 14 acres, or potentially mixed into meat products distributed to the public.

But this episode goes deeper than the horror of how he killed.

We examine:

• The psychology of ecosystem hunting
• Victim selection sophistication
• How institutional bias became structural protection
• Why intent is the key to recognition and prevention
• How predators study vulnerability instead of creating it

This case also sits within a bigger story: the systemic targeting of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG), the failures of cross-jurisdiction policing, and the danger of assuming vulnerability explains disappearance.

The lesson is universal, whether you narrate crime or cryptids:
The darkest legends don’t always lurk in forests. Sometimes they host parties, pay higher than street rates, and wait for the world to look away first.

I’m Carman, and this is Deadly Intent.

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In 1993, three eight-year-old boys were brutally murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas. Within weeks, three teenagers were arrested and convicted based on a false confession and community hysteria about satanic ritual abuse. But what if the real killer has been hiding in plain sight for thirty years?

Join host Carman as we dive deep into the criminal psychology behind one of America's most notorious wrongful convictions. This isn't just a story about three innocent teenagers who lost decades of their lives—it's an examination of how confirmation bias, moral panic, and false memory can transform an entire community's understanding of truth itself.

What You'll Discover: 🔍 The real killer's psychological profile and why Christopher Byers was specifically targeted 🧠 How investigators' need for psychological comfort led them to ignore obvious evidence ⚖️ The intent analysis behind Jessie Misskelley's devastating false confession 🎭 Why prosecutorial ambition and judicial bias created the perfect storm for injustice 🔬 Breaking news: Current DNA testing that may finally identify the real killer in 2025

Intent. It's what separates accident from murder, passion from premeditation, justice from revenge. In the West Memphis Three case, understanding intent reveals how the most dangerous lies are often the ones we tell ourselves.

Content Warning: Discussion of child murder, wrongful conviction, and systemic justice failures.

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