Hey there, we're Sabrina DeAnraoga and Corinne Vien, hosts of Crimes of.

Crimes of is a weekly true crime series with each season diving into a different theme,

from unsolved murders to mysterious disappearances and the cases that haunt us most.

And since this Valentine's season, we are unpacking crimes of passion,

when love turns into obsession, passion twists into paranoia,

and jealousy drives people beyond the edge of reason.

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This is Crime House.

Have you ever heard of the bystander effect?

It's the idea that people who witness a crime are more likely to turn away and do nothing to stop it, rather than step in and say something. But whether the bystander

effect is totally real or not, some serial killers throughout history have certainly benefited

from others inaction. Helmut Schmidt was one of them, a manipulative, overconfident misogynist, who depended on the

apathy of others in order to lure women into his web of lies and murder.

But that apathy only lasted so long.

Eventually, his victim's loved ones, and even his own neighbors, caught on to Helmut's

game. And they would do anything they could to stop a vicious killer in his tracks. The human mind is powerful.

It shapes how we think, feel, love, and hate.

But sometimes it drives people to commit the unthinkable. This is serial killers and

murderous minds, a crimehouse original. I'm Vanessa Richardson. And I'm forensic psychologist Dr. Tristan

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