(Part 2) Homicide and Hate: The Devon Arthurs Murders

DEVIANT

Cold Open Media

Education, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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(Part 2/4) Two days after the Tampa double murder committed by Devon Arthurs, police in Key Largo, FL arrest Brandon Russell, a Florida National Guard member, nuclear physics student and the co-founder of the extremist Atomwaffen Division. Also, he's Devon Arthurs's only surviving roommate. What they discover in his car and apartment reveal the terrifying reach of a violent, accelerationist neo-Nazi network. In this episode, host Andrew Iden investigates how Russell built Atomwaffen from an online forum into an international terror collective, his obsession with extremism even after serving time in federal prison, and the sinister plans he and his followers carried into the 2020s, including a failed plot to take down Baltimore’s power grid. From bomb-making manuals to propaganda networks, this is the story of how hate mutates, survives, and spreads. New episodes weekly. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. 👉 Subscribe to DEVIANT for more true crime stories about murder, hate, and the American underworld. 👉 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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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, before we start part two of our exploration of the Devin Arthur's murders in 2017 in Tampa, Florida and what was behind them, just a quick warning that there is some salty language in this episode.
0:15.5	Where you won't find salty language is on our social media.
0:19.5	So if you haven't checked it out,
0:21.0	please follow us at devianta.
0:22.7	Podcast on TikTok and on Instagram.
0:26.4	And if you're looking for ways that you can support the show,
0:28.4	and we hope you are,
0:29.8	check out our Patreon at deviantpodcast.com. On Sunday, on Sunday, May 21st, 2017, Officer Deanna Torres of the Monroe County Sheriff's
0:50.1	Department is on patrol in Key Largo, Florida.
0:54.0	It's one of the first keys after leaving the mainland.
0:57.8	It's the blue water, margaritas, and flip-flops kind of Florida. Officer Torres and the other Monroe
1:03.5	County deputies get a Bolo over their radios. For the uninitiated, Bolo is a police acronym for
1:10.8	Be on the Lookout. And this one BOLO is a police acronym for Be on the Lookout.
1:13.0	And this one, specifically, is telling all units to keep eyes open for a blue Dodge Nitro.
1:19.8	When Deanna and two other officers spot the Blue Dodge Nitro, it's pulling into the Burger
1:24.8	King on 9950 overseas highway, and its occupants go inside.
1:30.8	The officers are waiting for them when they come out.
1:34.3	Turn around, but the hands on your back.
1:35.8	Turn around.
1:36.9	Get the other one.
1:38.8	Do you have any weapons on you?
1:40.6	Do you have any weapons on you?
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