S20 Ep90: Speaking Truth To Evil: The Myths & Facts Surrounding Today's Serial Killers w/Phil Chalmers

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🗓️ 29 July 2025

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True Crime Tuesday presents: Speaking Truth To Evil: The Myths & Facts Surrounding Today's Serial Killers with Investigator/Author, Phil Chalmers!

American profiler Phil Chalmers destroys the myths of today's serial killers and offers a new look, updating the research done by the early FBI Profilers in the 1970s. Most of what people believe about serial killers today are myths and are no longer true, including "Most serial killers are white," "Most serial killers kill women," and "Serial killers like to kill up close and personal."

Discover who serial killers are today, and why they kill multiple victims
Hear about the most shocking cases Phil has studied, and the scariest killers he has encountered
Learn the difference between signatures and modus operandi, which drive the serial killer to kill over and over
Learn about cases you have never heard about as Phil shares the longest list of black serial killers ever published, over 1000 cases
Find out if the serial killer predator van is real or an urban legend

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0:00.0	Welcome into the best in true crime podcasting.
0:25.0	This is True Crime Tuesday.
0:26.1	I'm your host, Tim Dennis.
0:27.0	Got a good show ahead today, folks.
0:29.4	In the second segment today, dumb crime, stupid criminals with Travis Thorpe.
0:33.4	But first, I read a great book over the weekend, folks.
0:37.1	I know serial killers are huge on this show.
0:39.9	A lot of people like to delve into that particular topic.
0:43.4	But the book I read this weekend has to do with a man who is changing the game
0:48.2	when it comes to what we know about serial killers, a man who has interviewed many serial killers
0:53.0	and is starting his own project that is getting
0:56.1	into what exactly constitutes a serial killer and who exactly makes up a serial killer, what makes
1:02.8	up a serial killer. Phil Chalmers is my guest. He has a book out there called Speaking Truth to
1:08.4	Evil, the myths and facts surrounding today's serial killers.
1:12.5	Let me tell you a little bit about Phil, Tomers, is an American criminal profiler,
1:19.1	true crime author and television personality, who has spent over 40 years studying the minds of dangerous killers.
1:26.4	Since launching his work in 1985, he has interviewed more than 1,000 convicted murderers,
1:32.9	including some of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. history, such as Charles Manson,
1:37.5	David Berkowitz, and Dennis Raider, otherwise known as a BTK killer.
1:41.0	His expertise has made him a trusted resource for law enforcement and the FBI with his
1:46.6	live profiling sessions gaining legendary status.
1:50.0	Chalmers hosted the globally successful Dennis Quaid-owned podcast,
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