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The Casual Criminalist

Flashback to The Amazon Review Killer

The Casual Criminalist

Cloud10

True Crime

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this flashback episode, Simon delves into the chilling case of Todd Kohlhepp, infamously known as the Amazon Review Killer. Terrible grammar. Wrote down crimes on the internet. 1/5 stars, would not recommend. Sponsor: shopify.com/casual - start your $1 per month trial period today Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everybody, welcome back to another episode of The Casual Criminalist.

0:03.0

As always, I am your host. The Casual Criminalist joins today by absolutely nobody, but how it works here is Callum, the writer for this show, has written me a script which I have in front of me now.

0:15.5

It is seriously hefty. It weighs in at 23 pages. This is going to be what I feel like is going to be a long episode.

0:22.6

I also feel like I'm going to have some good laughs in this one.

0:24.6

For a reason, I'll get into in a moment after I have thanked our wonderful producer, video editor, Jen.

0:30.6

Thank you, Jen. You make it wonderful. If you're watching this show, she adds the images, if you're listening, she adds all the sounds and all of that stuff

0:38.3

Why I think I'm going to enjoy this episode particularly is because I've done similar videos to this before talking about like Amazon reviews and stuff and Amazon reviews can get absolutely wild

0:50.0

Like the shit that people write like at how they review Amazon products is great.

0:54.9

And I really want to give you credit, but I absolutely can't remember who it was and I looked through my old tweets.

1:00.9

Tweets, is that right?

1:01.8

Not my tweets, but like things people are tweeting at me on Twitter.

1:05.0

And someone's like, dude, you've got to check out the Amazon review killer.

1:08.0

He's literally a dude who buys things off Amazon, uses them for killing, and then writes reviews on Amazon about using them for killing. And I'm like, that can't be real. But no, it is real. And you know it's real, because Callum wrote a 23-page script about it, which we're going to get into. I'll stop rambling. Let's do it. Oh, if you're enjoying this show, make sure you leave it a review. If you're a podcast listener, make sure you smash that like button if you are watching on YouTube and let's do it.

1:44.0

How can one truly know the soul of a man?

1:47.0

Some will tell you it's the eyes which are the window to the soul.

1:51.0

That's a Stanis-Salavsky quote, I believe, the eyes of the window to the soul.

1:55.0

I like that one.

1:56.0

A psychoanalyst might look towards his dreams and irritating people with dream catchers above their beds will insist that star signs reveal

2:03.9

Everything you need to know about a person

2:07.9

Yeah, people with dream catchers

2:09.7

I imagine like people who would irritate me is this like really gonna catch all the bad dreams are we?

2:14.8

However, there is one hanging over the bed of my kids and I I'm like, it looks really cool. It's got these feathers and stuff. It looks really nice. And I'm like, well, that's a nice concept. And, you know, honestly, if you believe that stuff, it's probably going to work for you. You'd be like, yeah, it catches the bad dreams, so I don't have bad dreams. And it's like, okay, if you believe that, great. I honestly wish I believed in all that shit. I wish, like the idea of, you know, not just this, but also, wow, we are off the rails already and it's like, what, what, two minutes in? But I wish I believed all that magic stuff, you know, about karma and all of that nonsense. I wish I did, or like heaven. I wish that after we died, there was a glorious place we went to where everyone we knew is alive and great. I just, unfortunately, I just don't. It's a bit depressing. But as we and the NSA know, none of that retro nonsense can hold a candle to the one true avenue to a person's self.

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