March 26th, 1997. Rancho Santa Fe, California. Thirty-nine people are found dead in a mansion, lying neatly in rows. Black clothes. Matching Nike sneakers. Faces covered by purple shrouds. No signs of struggle. They called themselves Heaven’s Gate—and believed their souls had boarded a spacecraft trailing the Hale-Bopp comet. Their leader, Marshall Applewhite, promised they’d ascend to a higher existence, leaving their “human vehicles” behind. To them, this wasn’t suicide. It was graduation. The world saw tragedy; they saw salvation. Heaven’s Gate became proof of how devotion can eclipse reason, and how the need to belong can make even death feel like deliverance.

Inside Apartment 213, loneliness took physical form. Jeffrey Dahmer wasn’t driven by rage or revenge—he was driven by the fear of being left alone. This episode of Splintered Minds peels back the myth of the “monster” to reveal the psychology beneath: how obsession with control twisted into ritual, how the hunger for connection became an act of possession. Through real case detail and clinical insight, we explore how a man trying to preserve love ended up preserving bodies. This is not a story about madness—it’s about the breaking point where the need to hold someone becomes the need to consume them.

A quiet home. Two brutal murders. One daughter accused. More than a century later, the name Lizzie Borden still cuts deep. In this episode of Splintered Minds, we strip away the nursery rhyme and the myth to expose the psychology beneath the axe: power, repression, class, and the breaking point of a life lived under control.