Michael Gargiulo: The Hollywood Ripper
Killer Psyche
Audible | Treefort Media
4.6 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the disturbing case of Michael Gargiulo, known as the Hollywood Ripper. For more than a decade, women in the suburbs of Chicago and the Hollywood Hills were being murdered in their own homes, and no one saw it coming -- because the killer was never a stranger. He was the boy next door, the friendly repairman, the neighbor who waved from across the street. Candice examines how Gargiulo used proximity, access, and an unsettling gift for blending in to evade justice for fifteen years -- and how one survivor's refusal to give up changed everything.
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| 0:00.0 | Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of Killer Psyche |
| 0:04.0 | ad-free right now. |
| 0:06.7 | Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app. |
| 0:11.8 | A listener note, this episode contains adult content |
| 0:15.9 | and is not suitable for everyone. |
| 0:18.4 | Please be advised. |
| 0:32.0 | Thank you. not suitable for everyone. Please be advised. In 1943, Alfred Hitchcock released a film he would later call his personal favorite. It was not the one |
| 0:39.8 | with the shower scene, and it was not the one with the birds. It was a quiet movie, set in a |
| 0:46.0 | quiet town, called Shadow of a Doubt. The story is this. A young woman lives in a picturesque |
| 0:53.5 | American neighborhood where everyone knows |
| 0:56.0 | everyone. One day, her beloved Uncle Charlie comes to stay. He is charming, generous, and the life |
| 1:04.0 | of every room. She believes he is the most wonderful man she has ever met. |
| 1:16.8 | And then slowly, in pieces, she begins to understand that her uncle, |
| 1:19.6 | the man sleeping down the hall from her, |
| 1:23.0 | the man who compliments her mother at the dinner table, |
| 1:25.8 | the man the whole town has welcomed in, |
| 1:31.7 | is the Mary Widow killer. Hitchcock's genius was not the twist. His genius was the setting because the horror of shadow of a doubt is not that a murderer |
| 1:39.3 | exists. It is that the murderer is already inside the house. |
| 1:44.5 | He has been invited in. |
| 1:47.0 | He is family. |
| 1:48.5 | He is the neighbor. |
| 1:50.0 | He is the man you would ask to carry your groceries up the stairs. |
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