518 // Expert Insight on New England Serial Killer w/ Dr. Michael Arntfield

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🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Welcome to Crawlspace. In this new episode, Tim Pilleri & Lance Reenstierna are joined again by the great Dr. Michael Arntfield, a criminologist, author, consultant and award-winning professor at Western University in Canada as well as a Fulbright Scholar and previous visiting chairman at Vanderbilt University in Nashville where he specialized in victimology and American literature. Arntfield spent more than 15 years as a police officer and detective in London, Ontario. Mike brings his unique and specialized insight into not only the dynamics of how the discovery of multiple bodies in a centralized location can be determined, or excluded, as the work of a serial killer, but also into the psyche of the people and organizations who in fact promote that narrative, creating their own reality. Check out our other episodes with Dr. Arntfield: https://open.spotify.com/episode/277BKYorndAvsyQ808vDbW?si=YlOMuRYBSIKn4LYVviF3bg https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ziSN5KTNSFAtE0HEGrI5Y?si=8815cee9e90c4685 Follow Dr. Arntfield: https://michaelarntfield.com/ http://murderdata.org/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/mikearntfield?lang=en IG: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikearntfield/ Source links: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14708225/new-england-serial-killer-suspect-dies-donald-coffel.html https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/05/13/serial-killer-rumors-new-england/ Follow Crawlspace: Twitter: https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod . Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast . Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast. TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast. Check out our entire network at http://crawlspace-media.com/. Follow Missing: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@missingcsm. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm. IG: https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/. Twitter: https://twitter.com/MissingCSM. FB: https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Lance.
0:30.4	Tim is in the field right now.
0:32.4	So I am flying solo here for this introduction and for this interview with a very special guest as we
0:38.2	continue our coverage on the cultural phenomenon involving the possibility of an active
0:43.8	serial killer here in New England. And the guest today is the great Dr. Michael Arndfield.
0:49.5	He is a criminologist, an author, a consultant, an award-winning professor at Western University in Canada.
0:56.6	Dr. Arnfeld spent more than 15 years as a police officer and detective in London, Ontario.
1:02.1	He is now the founder and director of the Western University Cold Case Society and both
1:07.6	an academic and investigative advisor with the American Investigative Society of Cold Cases.
1:13.1	He's also on the board of directors for the Murder Accountability Project.
1:16.7	And if you want to learn more about him and all of the work that he's done, the website addresses,
1:21.6	and his social media links are in the show notes.
1:24.6	So in this conversation, Mike brings his unique and specialized insight into not
1:29.1	only the dynamics of how the discovery of multiple bodies in a centralized location can be
1:35.0	determined or excluded to be the work of a serial killer, but also into the psyche of the people
1:40.9	and the organizations, be it mainstream media or social media, these organizations
1:46.4	that in fact promote a particular narrative creating their own reality.
1:51.8	I'm going to say what Mike says towards the end of this upcoming conversation, just so listeners
1:56.6	can hear it right at the top here as well.
1:58.9	He asks an important question.
2:02.2	That is, quote,
2:08.7	whose truth does true crime convey? End quote. And when you listen to this conversation,
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