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Patterns & Rituals is a biweekly true crime podcast focusing on killers, cults and the paranormal. Join your host, Cameron Holly Dexter, as she explores serial offender violence, cult belief, unsolved cold case mysteries and paranormal curiosities. Here, we step beyond traditional headlines into the twisted corridors of each haunting narrative. This season, we’re delving into cases like the Boneyard Killers, the Portland Serial Killer, the Bear Brook Murders, and much more. Lock your doors. Light a candle. It's about to get dark.
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English
United States
8 episodes
since Oct. 21, 2025
episodic
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In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Joseph Laycock, a scholar of religion, moral panic, and new religious movements, to explore how fear and belief take shape in modern culture.
We talk about the feedback loop between horror and “real life,” and why certain supernatural narratives feel plausible in …
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In Part Two of The Amityville Horror, the conversation shifts from history into lived experience. Blair Scares shares her own personal horror encounter, grounding the discussion in firsthand reflection. We examine Ed and Lorraine Warren’s involvement in the investigation and trace Amityville’s last…
In Part One of The Amityville Horror, host Cameron Holly Dexter is joined by horror influencer Blair Scares to examine the events that turned 112 Ocean Avenue into one of the most infamous houses in America. Together, they break down the 1974 DeFeo family murders, the unanswered questions surr…
This episode contains information about crimes against children and sexual assault that some listeners may find disturbing. Listener discretion is advised.
In this episode, I sit down with Forensic Psychologist, Dr. Samantha Stein, to talk about her new book, Evil at Our Table: Inside th…
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Bill Kimberlin, criminal psychologist, death penalty expert, and author of Watch Me Die: Last Words from Death Row, for a look inside one of America’s most secretive systems.
We talk about the ethics and conditions of life on death row, explore his corresponden…
In Portland, a series of mysterious deaths exposed a chilling pattern of women gone missing and found murdered. Investigators soon focused on Jesse Lee Calhoun, a convicted felon released early from prison, whose case now questions how the system failed to stop the killings.
If anyone h…
In the summer of 1985, the arrest of Leonard Lake led investigators to a remote property in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Buried around the bunker, were six shallow graves containing the remains of their victims. Police unearthed two VHS videotapes and Lake’s handwritten journal which detailed the t…
Welcome to Patterns and Rituals. I'm your host, Cameron Holly Dexter. Join me as we explore the hidden world of serial offender violence, cult belief, unsolved cold case mysteries, and paranormal curiosities. Here, we step beyond sensational headlines into the twisted corridors of each hauntin…
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