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The Casual Criminalist

The Worst Serial Killer Fumbles by Police (Of All Time)

The Casual Criminalist

Cloud10

True Crime

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

From Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy to the Zodiac Killer, explore the shocking police mistakes, missed warnings, and investigative failures that allowed some of history’s deadliest serial killers to continue unchecked. Sponsor: shopify.com/casual - sign up for your $1 per month trial today Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everybody, welcome back to another episode of the casual criminals. Oh, these ones are fun.

0:04.7

The last two I've recorded for this podcast, it's absolutely devastating, where it's like,

0:09.4

and then he ate the child's inside. Yeah. But today, the worst police serial killer blunders of all time.

0:16.6

Oh no, first I read it and I was like serial killer blunders. But this just meets them going to be getting really pissed off with how incompetent the police are. Anyway, this episode has been written by Matt. I've never read it before. We're going to read it. We're going to learn about it. We're going to react to it together. I mean, I am. You're going to listen. But, you know, see you with me, friend. Let's jump in. Parasocial, isn't it?

0:48.9

Ah, the police. The boys and girls in blue are charged with protecting the innocent and upholding the law. And while there might sound like a fantasy to a lot of people, that's what they're

0:53.0

meant to be doing. However, over

0:55.1

the lifetime of this channel, a theme has reared its ugly head time and time again, and that's

0:58.6

police incompetence. Whether it's simple, understandable mistakes or a gross misstep of epic

1:03.1

proportions, it has become the bane of this show and a constant headache for us writers. Honestly,

1:09.4

there Matt, it's usually not the, like, understandable

1:12.7

mistakes or the huge scrubs. It's usually the ones in the middle where it's just like, oh, they

1:17.6

just don't give that much of a shit. Or it's like, oh, yeah, it was a sex worker, it was killed.

1:23.7

They get killed all the time. Oh, yeah, that person ran away. I mean, people run away all the time. Oh yeah, that person ran away. I mean people run away all the time.

1:30.3

Oh my god, or it's like, oh that person's a bit powerful. Better leave them alone.

1:34.3

And today we're going to look at several of the most notorious police blunders in modern history.

1:39.3

That's right, dear audience. We're doing something a little new here.

1:43.3

Now usually we focus on a single killer or even have a list of killers with similar motives or age ranges. But today, we're here to discuss a medley of serial killers, many of whom have already been covered in previous episodes. And they all have one thing in common. They would have been caught a hell of a lot sooner, and many of their victims would have lived to see another day if the cops had simply done their

2:01.2

job. Indeed. So, strap in, these are the worst police serial killer blunders of all time.

2:10.4

The Police versus Jeffrey Dahmer.

2:16.3

Jeffrey Dahmer, the Milwaukee cannibal, undeniably one of the worst serial killers of all time,

2:21.1

and one of the most well-known and infamous.

2:23.6

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was born on May the 21st, 1960, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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