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Control Studies: True Crime Behavioral Analysis

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.

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Episodes
  • Murder Factory: Amy Archer-Gilligan's Sixty Deaths and One Conviction
    10 Oct 2026

    The Murder Factory: Amy Archer-Gilligan ran a home for the elderly where sixty people died in ten years, and every one of those deaths had a signed certificate. This episode is a behavioral analysis of how the Archer Home operated completely in the open for a decade — a pricing structure that paid the operator for every early death, a life insurance policy taken out weeks before a husband died, a will forged in her own handwriting, a proxy network that sent the home's doctor and its own residents to buy the arsenic, and sixty death certificates nobody ever read consecutively — and how one grieving sister with a shoebox of her brother's letters ended it after the district attorney refused to look. A clinical deep dive into predatory psychology, institutional failure, and what a truly disciplined approach would have looked like. No confession, no eyewitnesses, one conviction. The behavioral patterns explored in this episode are fictionally examined in the novel Adam by J.R. Maren — available on Amazon Kindle. Control Studies.


    Read ADAM:

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GQQSH5D1?maas=maas_adg_704A694E91015D9545573371F3063441_afap_abs&ref_=aa_maas&tag=maas


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    50 min
  • Black Widower: Thomas Randolph and the Dead Witness That Convicted Him
    20 Sep 2026

    Thomas Randolph — the man the press called the Black Widower — married six times, and four of those wives died. He was convicted of two murders in Las Vegas, and the evidence that convicted him came from his own attempt to fix an earlier mistake.

    This episode is a behavioral analysis of what prosecutors said the pattern was — insurance taken out early, deaths that arrived with an ordinary explanation already attached, the act outsourced to a recruited man — and how removing the one weakness that nearly ended him in 1986 created the scene that convicted him in 2023. He was acquitted of his second wife's death and never charged over his fourth or fifth. A clinical deep dive into predatory psychology and what a truly disciplined approach would have looked like.

    The behavioral patterns explored in this episode are fictionally examined in the novel Adam by J.R. Maren — available on Amazon Kindle. Control Studies.

    Read ADAM:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GQQSH5D1?maas=maas_adg_704A694E91015D9545573371F3063441_afap_abs&ref_=aa_maas&tag=maas

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    18 min
  • Keffe D: Duane Davis's 29-Year Evasion and the Ego That Ended It
    2 Sep 2026

    Keffe D survived 29 years without charge in the Tupac murder — then dismantled his own evasion through a book and a media tour. This episode is a behavioral analysis of how Davis built a 29-year institutional evasion system — the code of the streets, dead witnesses, a proffer agreement — and how the recognition need, triggered by a cancer diagnosis, made him voluntarily destroy it. A clinical deep dive into predatory psychology and what a truly disciplined approach would have looked like. The behavioral patterns explored in this episode are fictionally examined in the novel Adam by J.R. Maren — available on Amazon Kindle. Control Studies.

    Read ADAM:

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GQQSH5D1?maas=maas_adg_704A694E91015D9545573371F3063441_afap_abs&ref_=aa_maas&tag=maas


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    21 min
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