Control Studies: True Crime Behavioral Analysis

By J.R. Maren

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Control Studies is a true crime podcast that goes beyond the case — analytical deep dives into the predatory psychology and operational failures of real killers across history and around the world. How they got caught. What broke their methodology. What the serial killer mindset looks like when it's functioning at its most disciplined — and where it fails.

Each episode is a behavioral analysis of a real case. No sensationalism. No horror. Just the killer methodology, the failure, and the forensic psychology behind it.

For true crime listeners who want to understand how killers think at the level it actually operates.

A J.R. Maren production — author of The Syllabus series.


Episode Date
Spotsylvania Killer: Richard Evonitz and the Teenager Who Beat Him
Oct 24, 2026
Murder Factory: Amy Archer-Gilligan's Sixty Deaths and One Conviction
Oct 10, 2026
Black Widower: Thomas Randolph and the Dead Witness That Convicted Him
Sep 20, 2026
Keffe D: Duane Davis's 29-Year Evasion and the Ego That Ended It
Sep 02, 2026
Peter Tobin: Evasion Methodology, the Alias Collapse, and Operation Anagram
Aug 16, 2026
Bryan Kohberger: How a Criminology PhD Was Caught by His Own Playbook
Jul 25, 2026
Gilgo Beach Killer: Rex Heuermann's Murder Manual and the Phone Error That Ended 17 Years
Jul 21, 2026
Green Chain Rapist: Robert Napper's Outdoor Methodology and the Indoor Breach
Jun 02, 2026
Rostov Ripper: Andrei Chikatilo's Soviet Evasion and the Exit That Ended It
May 20, 2026
Israel Keyes: Perfect Discipline and the One Decision That Ended It
May 18, 2026
Gay Slayer: Colin Ireland's Serial Method and the Recognition Need
May 03, 2026
Truck Stop Killer: Robert Ben Rhoades's Mobile Methodology That Evaded Detection for 15 Years
Apr 19, 2026
Slavemaster: John Edward Robinson's Internet Methodology — Part 1
Apr 12, 2026
BTK: Dennis Rader's Serial Killer Methodology and the Ego That Destroyed It
Apr 05, 2026