(Part 1) Homicide and Hate: The Devon Arthurs Murders

DEVIANT

Cold Open Media

Education, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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(Part 1/4) On a Friday afternoon in Tampa, 18-year-old Devon Arthurs walks into an apartment leasing office and says “I just killed two people.” Those two: his roommates...young men caught in the grip of online radicalization. What follows is a hostage standoff, a web of neo-Nazi ideology,and the unraveling of a case that exposes the violent underbelly of American extremism. Hosted by Andrew Iden, this episode of DEVIANT examines how ordinary lives spiral into hate, how the internet fuels extremist communities and how one murder case reveals the very real dangers lurking in plain sight. 🔎 New episodes weekly. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. 👉 Subscribe for more deep-dive true crime conversations: https://www.youtube.com/@deviant.podcast 👉 Support the show + get exclusive content: www.deviantpodcast.com 👉 Follow us on TikTok & Instagram: @deviantdopodcast Copyright 2025 Cold Open Media LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:07.4	Arthur's.
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0:46.2	On the afternoon of May 19th, 2017, Amanda is ready for the weekend.
1:01.9	I remember it being a Friday afternoon.
1:04.3	I had gotten off work just a little bit early because I had wanted to go to happy hour with my friends.
1:10.5	We were going to BJ's brew house,
1:13.1	which is a chain.
1:17.1	So not that exciting, not even like a groundbreaking, earth-shattering, amazing happy hour.
1:24.7	But before all of that, Amanda makes a quick pit stop at home.
1:29.3	The Tampa Palms apartment complex is part of what's called New Tampa.
1:33.3	It's a pretty nice and affluent part of town, and when Amanda gets home, she finds an issue.
1:39.3	I came home and found that my toilet wasn't working, and so it being a Friday afternoon, I knew my apartment
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