In today’s episode of Killer Bites, we’re diving into the terrifying legend of Elizabeth Bathory — the 17th-century Hungarian countess whose beauty, power, and sadistic obsession turned her into one of history’s most chilling figures. Known as The Blood Countess, Bathory is accused of torturing and murdering more than 600 young women — a number so staggering it earned her a place in the Guinness World Records as the most prolific female serial killer of all time.

Behind castle walls, she created a world of horror disguised as nobility. Servants vanished. Girls were lured with promises of work or privilege, only to face unspeakable cruelty. Some say she bathed in their blood, believing it would preserve her youth. Others insist the truth was even darker — a twisted blend of power, paranoia, and unchecked evil.

But was she truly the monster history remembers, or the victim of a political plot designed to destroy her empire? Join us as we peel back the layers of myth and murder surrounding Elizabeth Bathory — the woman whose thirst for control, beauty, and blood has haunted history for over four centuries.

In today’s chilling episode, we dive deep into one of France’s most disturbing and puzzling true crime cases — the brutal murders committed by the Papin sisters. In 1933, Christine and Léa Papin, two quiet, devoted maids working for a wealthy family in Le Mans, suddenly turned a night of routine chores into a scene of unthinkable horror. Their employers, Madame and Mademoiselle Lancelin, were found savagely murdered — their faces unrecognizable, their eyes gouged out.

But what could drive two young women, known for their obedience and silence, to such violence? Were they victims of years of mistreatment and class oppression, or had they fallen into what psychologists later called folie à deux — “the madness of two”?

We’ll explore their twisted bond, the eerie calm that followed the murders, and how this shocking case exposed deep cracks in French society. Decades later, the story of the Papin sisters still raises haunting questions about power, isolation, and what happens when reality blurs between two minds too close to separate.

If you think you’ve heard every shocking crime story — this one will make you question everything.

On a cold November night in 1974, British high society was rocked by a shocking crime inside one of London’s most exclusive neighborhoods. The nanny of Lord Richard John Bingham — better known as Lord Lucan — was found brutally murdered in the basement of his family’s home. Upstairs, his wife, Lady Lucan, bloodied and terrified, accused her husband of the attack.

Hours later, Lord Lucan vanished.

What followed was one of the most infamous disappearances in modern British history — a mystery that still baffles investigators, journalists, and conspiracy theorists nearly 50 years later. Some say Lucan drowned himself out of guilt. Others claim he escaped to Africa, living under a new identity. A few even insist he was framed — that the real killer was someone else entirely.

Was Lord Lucan a cold-blooded murderer, or a man wrongly accused who fled in panic?
From secret hideouts to rumored sightings across the globe, this episode dives deep into the strange web of lies, privilege, and scandal surrounding the Lucan case — and the unanswered question that haunts Britain to this day:

Where is Lord Lucan?