Profiling Evil
Profiling Evil

Profiling Evil

Gamut Podcast Network

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The Profiling Evil Podcast delves into unsolved criminal cases from around the world, peeling back the layers of human behavior to reveal what drives evil. We look into the mind of the predator—their motivations, their victim selection, and the patterns that expose them. Each episode goes beyond headlines, examining how investigators identify red flags, connect the dots, and capitalize on the very errors offenders believe will never be found.Your host, Mike King, brings over four decades of experience in criminal justice and behavioral analysis. A retired law enforcement executive, Mike served as Chief of Staff to Utah Attorney General Jan Graham and Weber County Attorney Reed M. Richards. He began his career at the Ogden Police Department, where he worked patrol, motor enforcement, and SWAT before moving into investigations where he led task forces that hunted serial predators and violent offenders.Mike’s expertise earned him national recognition. He served as co-chair of the FBI’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) National Advisory Board, directed UTAP, the Utah Criminal Tracking and Analysis Project, and supported intelligence operations during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.After retiring from public service, Mike joined the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri), where he spent years consulting with police agencies around the globe on intelligence gathering, emergency communications, and major event management. In 2024, he retired again, this time to focus full-time on Profiling Evil and its growing community of true crime investigators, students, and enthusiasts.Mike is an internationally recognized speaker, trainer, and adjunct professor, as well as a visiting scholar at multiple universities. He’s authored several acclaimed works on crime and human behavior, including:·      Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing·      Deceived: An Investigative Memoir of the Zion Society Cult·      She Knew No Fear·      Who Killed King Tut?·      Predators: Who Are They and How Do We Stop Them?·      ProfilersMike’s investigative insight and behavioral expertise have been featured on Court TV, NewsNation, Law & Crime Network, Dr. Phil, History’s Greatest Mysteries, and 60 Minutes Australia, where his calm, analytical style helps audiences understand the why behind the world’s most chilling crimes.At @ProfilingEvil, you’ll find deep dives into real investigations, expert analysis of offender behavior, and lessons in situational awareness and safety. It’s more than storytelling, it’s about learning how to recognize, understand, and ultimately disrupt evil.Watch & Subscribe on YouTube: @ProfilingEvilLearn more at www.ProfilingEvil.comEmail Mike at: [email protected]

Recent Episodes

Missing Melodee Buzzard, & Ashlee Buzzard’s Silence | Profiling Evil
DEC 16, 2025
Missing Melodee Buzzard, & Ashlee Buzzard’s Silence | Profiling Evil
Missing Melodee Buzzard, & Ashlee Buzzard’s Silence | Profiling Evil Nine-year-old Melodee Buzzard vanished somewhere along the Utah-Colorado border after a strange cross-country trip with her mother, Ashlee Buzzard—a journey involving wigs, license-plate swaps, and days of evasive travel through Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and Nebraska. Ashlee Buzzard returned the rental car alone… and has refused to say where Melodee Buzzard is. In this Profiling Evil breakdown, Mike King teams up with former Los Angeles prosecutor and criminal-defense attorney Joshua Ritter—host of Courtroom Confidential and The Sidebar—to examine the legal side of this heartbreaking case. Together, they discuss what investigators need before charging a parent, how digital forensics will guide this search, how the FBI’s involvement shifts the investigation, and what mental-health claims do (and do not) change in a missing-child case. If you know anything about the disappearance of Melodee Buzzard, contact the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office at 805-681-4150 or submit an anonymous tip at 805-681-4171. #MelodeeBuzzard #AshleeBuzzard #JoshuaRitter #MikeKing #ProfilingEvil #MissingChild #Lompoc #SantaBarbaraSheriff #UtahColoradoBorder #InterstateInvestigation #FBI #DigitalForensics #LicensePlateSwap #RentalCarEvidence #WigDisguise #ChildEndangerment #CustodialInterference #TrueCrimeCommunity #CourtroomConfidential #TheSidebar #SearchForMelodee #AmberAlertNotIssued #Colorado #Utah #Nebraska #CaliforniaCrime #RexburgPolice #RayHermosillo #LegalAnalysis #CriminalLaw #InvestigativeBreakdown Courtroom Confidential: https://www.youtube.com/@CRConfidential ======================================== Email your questions to: [email protected] ======================================== 💳 DONATE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=T54JX76RZ455S 💵 PayPal: https://paypal.me/profilingevil 🕵️BECOME A MEMBER: https://www.youtube.com/profilingevil/join 🛒SHOP MERCH: https://www.profilingevil.com/profilingevilshop 📖SHOP BOOKS: https://www.profilingevil.com/store See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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When Holiday Hope Meets Hidden Danger, The Rob Reiner & Bondi Beach Tragedies | Profiling Evil
DEC 15, 2025
When Holiday Hope Meets Hidden Danger, The Rob Reiner & Bondi Beach Tragedies | Profiling Evil
This Rob Reiner story is one of those stories that makes you stop and really think about what’s happening inside families when the doors are closed and the holidays are supposed to bring everyone together. In this review, we’re also going to acknowledge the tragedy at Bondi Beach, because these events didn’t happen in isolation — they reflect a broader pattern of violence and emotional fracture surfacing during moments that are meant to be about peace and connection. The Rob Reiner case forces a hard conversation about how stress, long-standing addiction issues, and unresolved family conflict can quietly build beneath the surface, even in families that love each other deeply. Let’s walk through what’s known so far, what police have said, and why these tragedies fit a pattern we see far too often when emotional pressure peaks and warning signs go unaddressed. #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #NickReiner #BondiBeach #Australia #Sydney #JewishCommunity #StarOfDavid #AntisemitismAwareness #HolidaySafety #HolidayStress #FamilyViolence #DomesticViolence #DV #DomesticRisk #FamilyCrisis #AddictionAwareness #MentalHealth #LAPD #LosAngeles #Brentwood #TrueCrime #ProfilingEvil #HolidayDV #ViolencePrevention #FamilyTragedy #PersonOfInterest Email your questions to: [email protected] ======================================== 💳 DONATE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=T54JX76RZ455S 💵 PayPal: https://paypal.me/profilingevil 🕵️BECOME A MEMBER: https://www.youtube.com/profilingevil/join 🛒SHOP MERCH: https://www.profilingevil.com/profilingevilshop 📖SHOP BOOKS: https://www.profilingevil.com/store See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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The Real Reason Mike Cover’s True Crime, & It’s Not What You Think! | Profiling Evil
DEC 12, 2025
The Real Reason Mike Cover’s True Crime, & It’s Not What You Think! | Profiling Evil
Does true crime help us stay safer? Why do people study predators, behavior, and criminal psychology? In this episode, Mike King breaks down the four core reasons he creates Profiling Evil content — from risk-reduction to evidence-based storytelling — and then answers YOUR questions as part of Feedback Friday. This week’s questions include, the heartbreaking case of 10-year-old Tanishka Sharma in Noida, India. Lisa’s reaction to the beheading case making headlines. Why police can’t immediately arrest the mother in the Melodee Buzzard disappearance, why some people become romantically obsessed with serial killers, including insights from Mike’s interviews with Richard Ramirez #TrueCrime #ProfilingEvil #MikeKing #CrimeAnalysis #CriminalBehavior #VictimAdvocacy #CrimePrevention #Investigations #ColdCases #MissingKids #JusticeMatters #EvidenceBased #BehavioralScience #SerialOffenders #FeedbackFriday #JJVallow #TyleeRyan #TammyDaybell #CharlesVallow #ChadDaybell #LoriVallow #MelodeeBuzzard #CelesteRivasHernandez #DevynMichaels #RichardRamirez #TedBundy #ChrisWatts #BryanKohberger #ScottPeterson #MenendezBrothers #LuigiMangione #TanishkaSharma #TrueCrime #ProfilingEvil #MikeKing #CrimeAnalysis #BehavioralScience #VictimAdvocacy #EvidenceBased Email your questions to: [email protected] ======================================== 💳 DONATE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=T54JX76RZ455S 💵 PayPal: https://paypal.me/profilingevil 🕵️BECOME A MEMBER: https://www.youtube.com/profilingevil/join 🛒SHOP MERCH: https://www.profilingevil.com/profilingevilshop 📖SHOP BOOKS: https://www.profilingevil.com/store See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Why Chad Daybell Doesn’t Deliver. Letter #10 Changes Nothing | Profiling Evil
DEC 9, 2025
Why Chad Daybell Doesn’t Deliver. Letter #10 Changes Nothing | Profiling Evil
Chad Daybell says he’s “pausing” his Letters from Chad series so his appeals can move forward. In Letter #10, Chad Daybell blames the media, the prosecution, his own lawyer, and the justice system—but never himself. Let’s tear this letter apart line by line, showing how it’s really about damage control for Chad Daybell, narrative manipulation, and a failed marketing campaign from death row. We’ll talk about his unmentioned fourth near-death experience, his refusal to explain how he justified an affair with Lori Vallow while Tammy Daybell was alive, and how premortal-life fantasies helped him bend moral laws and, ultimately, justify murder. Through it all, we keep the focus where it belongs: on JJ Vallow, Tylee Ryan, Tammy Daybell, Charles Vallow, and the surviving family members like Brandon Boudreaux and Colby Ryan, who are still living with the consequences of Chad Daybell's and Lori’s choices. #ChadDaybell #LoriVallow #LoriDaybell #TammyDaybell #JJVallow #TyleeRyan #CharlesVallow #BrandonBoudreaux #ColbyRyan #AlexCox #DaybellLetters #Letter10 #IdahoMurders #ArizonaCrime #CultCrime #DoomsdayCult #TrueCrime #ProfilingEvil Email your questions to: [email protected] ======================================== 💳 DONATE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=T54JX76RZ455S 💵 PayPal: https://paypal.me/profilingevil 🕵️BECOME A MEMBER: https://www.youtube.com/profilingevil/join 🛒SHOP MERCH: https://www.profilingevil.com/profilingevilshop 📖SHOP BOOKS: https://www.profilingevil.com/store See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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The Hike That Terrorized Micah Smith's Children | Profiling Evil
DEC 6, 2025
The Hike That Terrorized Micah Smith's Children | Profiling Evil
A Utah father, Micah Smith, took his three young children on what prosecutors now call a “not well planned,” “ill-prepared,” and “extremely dangerous” hike into Big Cottonwood Canyon. Hours later, two children are unconscious from hypothermia, one appears dead when rescuers arrive, and the story Micah Smith tells doesn’t match what investigators later uncover. According to the indictment, Micah Smith pushed toward the top of Broads Fork despite rain, fog, wind, and kids who repeatedly begged to go home, and he taught his 8-year-old daughter CPR because he knew help was too far away. Let’s examine the route, the behavior, the marital strains, the mental-health indicators, the previous suicide-related police encounter, and the troubling allegations prosecutors are laying out against Micah Smith. #MicahSmith #BigCottonwoodCanyon #BroadsForkTrail #SaltLakeCounty #UtahCrime #ChildTorture #ChildAbuse #TrueCrime #ProfilingEvil #MappingEvil #GIS #Esri #CourtTV #WasatchMountains #SearchAndRescue #Parenting #MentalHealth #DomesticStrain The Hike That Terrorized Micah Smith's Children | Profiling Evil ======================================= Email your questions to: [email protected] ======================================== LOOKING FOR WAYS TO SUPPORT PROFILING EVIL? 💳 DONATE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=T54JX76RZ455S 💵 PayPal: https://paypal.me/profilingevil 🕵️BECOME A MEMBER: https://www.youtube.com/profilingevil/join 🛒SHOP MERCH: https://www.profilingevil.com/profilingevilshop 📖SHOP BOOKS: https://www.profilingevil.com/store See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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29 MIN