The murder of Tabatha Bryant (Penfield, New York, 2003)

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A successful attorney nearly twice his wife’s age. A young woman he first noticed at church. A marriage that curdled into control, degradation, and exploitation — and endedwhen he hired the one person she trusted most, her own half-brother, to murder her in her sleep for $5,000 and an insurance payout. This episode traces the Tabatha Bryant case from the beginning: who she was, how a powerful older mantook hold of her life, why he forced her into the things he did, and how his need to own her curdled into a decision to erase her. This is a story about coercive control taken to its final conclusion, and about the coward’s calculus of a man who would end a life but never with his own hands.

Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of domestic abuse, coercive control, sexual exploitation and coercion, and graphic violence, including a fatal shooting andstabbing. Listener discretion is advised. If any of this is close to home for you, please take care of yourself while you listen.

Resources mentioned: NationalDomestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233); RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline (1-800-656-4673).

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In November 1988, 17-year-old Junko Furuta was abducted on her way home from her part-time job. For 44 days, she endured unimaginable torture while multiple adults who could have saved her chose to look away. This is not just a story of four teenage criminals—it's the story of how an entire system failed one girl.

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Christian Longo had the picture-perfect family — the boyish good looks, the devoted wife, three beautiful children, the boat in the driveway. Almost none of it was real.

For years, Longo built an elaborate false self out of fraud, forged checks, stolen cars, and lies he told his own father, his church, and the wife who never stopped believing in him. And in December 2001, when the lie was finally about tocollapse — when eviction would have exposed exactly who he'd always been — he made a choice. He decided the people closest to him, the ones who could see the truth, were a problem to be solved.

This week on Deadly Intent, Carman Carrion traces the Christian Longo case from the very beginning — a stolen wedding ring in Michigan, a construction business built ondeception, a cross-country flight from creditors, and finally a quiet condo on the Oregon coast where a husband and father murdered his family and then went to a Christmas party. We follow the fraud as it escalates into the unthinkable,the chilling performance of normalcy that followed, the flight to Mexico under the stolen name of a real New York Times journalist, and the bizarre courtroom lie Longo told to the very end. Told in chronological order, with Intent Segments throughout, this is the anatomy of a man who chose his image over the lives of his own children.

Remembering Mary Jane, Zachary, Sadie, and Madison.

Intent doesn't lie. People do.

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In May 1999, police opened the vault of a disused bank in the tiny South Australian town of Snowtown and found barrels — and bodies dissolving in acid inside them. It wasthe end of the worst series of killings in Australian history: at least eleven people murdered over seven years.

But almost nobody died in Snowtown. The town just owned the vault. The real horror happened in the suburbs of Adelaide, carried out by a group of men led by JohnBunting — a charismatic, certain man who believed he was a hero. He kept a wall of names. He told himself and his followers he was ridding the world of pedophiles.

He wasn't. His victims were vulnerable friends, partners, and family — and the group quietly collected their welfare payments after they died. This episode unpackshow one dominant man built a worldview where murder felt righteous, recruited broken and dependent followers into it — including a groomed teenage stepsonwho became both killer and victim — and nearly got away with all of it. Plus where each of the men stands now, including the accomplice released into the community in 2024.

The most dangerous intent in the world isn't the kind that knows it's evil. It's the kind that's certain it's good.

Intent doesn't lie. People do.

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If this episode brought up something heavy for you, please reach out to a trusted person or a local support line. You don't have to be in crisis to deserve support.

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Content Warning: Before we begin, a warning that's heavierthan usual. This episode deals with the murder of pregnant women, the death of infants, and the loss of pregnancy. If you are pregnant, recently postpartum, or grieving a pregnancy loss, please take care of yourself. This one can wait. It'll be here when you're ready.

Netflix's MATERNAL INSTINCT made Taylor Parker a namepeople can't stop searching. But the crime it shows isn't a one-off — and one nearly identical case happened 30 minutes from my front door.

In this bonus episode of Deadly Intent, we go past thedocumentary. Fetal abduction is one of the rarest crimes on record — roughly 21 cases in 60 years in the entire United States — and yet the women who commit itfollow a pattern so consistent it's almost a script. The faked pregnancy. The deadline that can't be survived without a baby. The confidence trick. And the same lie, every time: "I just gave birth."

To understand Taylor Parker, we go back to the case theexperts call the template — Lisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett — and then we come home, to Benton County, Arkansas, and the murder of Ashley Bush by Amber Waterman: a Facebook lure, a fake job offer, a public library used as a hunting blind. Three women who killed. Three women who died. One psychology running through all of it.

This isn't a recap. It's the why — narcissism, the"elimination crime," and the warning signs worth knowing. And it's a promise this show always keeps: the victims get their names said out loud, and said with respect. Bobbie Jo Stinnett. Reagan Simmons-Hancock. Ashley Bush.Victoria Jo, who lived. Braxlynn and Valkyrie, who didn't.

Intent doesn't lie. People do.

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She arrived at the emergency room too calmly. A little blood on her arm, a story about a bushy-haired stranger on a dark Oregon road, and three shot children in the back seat. One of them — 7-year-old Cheryl — was already gone. The other twowould survive scarred: 8-year-old Christie fighting back from a stroke, 3-year-old Danny paralyzed for life.

There was no stranger.

Diane Downs shot her own children in May 1983 to clear the path to a man who'd told her he didn't want kids. Her motive wasn't madness or mercy — it was arithmetic. Herchildren were obstacles, and she decided to remove them. This episode traces how her story fell apart, how her own daughter relearned how to speak just to testify against her, and how, forty-two years and four parole denials later,Diane Downs still refuses to admit what she did.

Some killers don't look like killers. That's exactly what they're counting on.

Intent doesn't lie. People do.

Next week, we're heading to Australia — to a quiet country town, an empty bank, and the worst series of killings the country has ever seen. The men who did it believed, all the way down, that they were the good guys.

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He was a police officer. A father. A neighbor who waved from his driveway and tended his yard like anyone else. For over a decade, Joseph James DeAngelo moved through California neighborhoods like a shadow — cutting phone lines, tying knots, and leaving behind a trail of trauma that spanned 11 counties, 13 murders, and more than 50 sexual assaults.

He was the Visalia Ransacker. The East Area Rapist. The Original Night Stalker. The Golden State Killer. All the same man. All the same hands.

For 44 years, he was nobody's suspect.

In this episode of Deadly Intent, we trace the full arc of one of the most psychologically complex cases in American criminal history — from DeAngelo's calculated double life as a law enforcement officer to the revolutionary DNA genealogy technique that finally unmasked him. We'll examine the behavioral signature of a power-control predator, the decades of dead ends that frustrated investigators across California, the obsessive true crime writer who named him before she could see him caught, and the retired patent attorney who built his family tree from a crime scene DNA sample and changed forensic investigation forever.

Justice took 44 years. It came anyway.

Intent doesn't lie. People do.

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She was a devoted mother. A beauty queen. A woman who posted family vacations and birthday celebrations on social media. And then, somewhere along the way, she became something else entirely.

Lori Vallow Daybell convinced herself — and those around her — that her own children were possessed by dark spirits. Zombies who needed to be eliminated. What followed was a calculated campaign of murder that claimed the lives of 7-year-old JJ Vallow, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, and Tammy Daybell — all while Lori collected her children's Social Security benefits and honeymooned in Hawaii.

This is the story of faith weaponized. Of maternal instinct turned inside out. Of a belief system so twisted that murder became mercy.

And in 2026, Lori is still fighting her conviction — still insisting nobody was murdered.

Intent doesn't lie. People do.

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