Sacred + Profane: Origins

Mar 17 2022 9 ep. 25 mins 44
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Did you know that Santa Cruz, CA was once considered the murder capital of America? Sacred + Profane is your gateway into the unseen and dives deep into the early 1970s where three very well-known serial killers were actively murdering the residents of Santa Cruz, CA. This quiet little seaside town in Northern California was the hotbed for 30 months of unexplained serial murders - Ed Kemper, Herbert Mullin, and John Linley Frazier. We’ll follow a fascinating and chilling exploration of these heinous murders from those with direct experience and then dive into what’s really happening....we break the grey for you!

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Episode 7: Series Finale - The Devil's Face

Mar 17 2022 33 mins  
In the season finale, we trace the evil paths leading serial killers Herbert Mullin and Big Ed Kemper to a last frenzy of brutal and atrocious acts that sealed their fate and prompted their arrests. Spirit medium Jennifer Lyn gives new perspective to Kemper’s vision of “the devil’s face” that was one more excuse for his senseless slayings, decapitations, and degradations fo

Episode 6: Survivor

Feb 24 2022 50 mins  
The emotional and harrowing story of one woman's survival from a serial killer's kidnapping in the 1970's in the same part of Santa Cruz that continued to harbor two notorious serial killers. Santa Cruz continued to be the Murder Capital of the World of the world and demonic copycat criminals were stalking residents of this seaside town and Jennifer Lyn shares her story.

Episode 5: Vengeance of Demons

Feb 03 2022 24 mins  
After 1972’s body count in Santa Cruz stood at six victims of two serial killers, in the new year of 1973, the communities of Santa Cruz hoped for an end to a terrifying murder spree. But it was just the start of the bloodiest months in the city’s history as Herbert Mullin and Ed Kemper would claim fifteen more victims in a manic rampage between January and April. We detail the

Episode 4: “The Prophet and The Butcher”

Jan 09 2022 32 mins  
As Herbert Mullin (“The Prophet” claiming his killings prevented earthquakes), and Ed Kemper (who earned the moniker “The Butcher” or the “Co-Ed Butcher”) continue their serial killing sprees, this reign of terror marks a dark and fearful time in Santa Cruz. By the end of 1972, Kemper and Mullin had the blood of three victims each on their hands, committed in a city hau

Episode 3: Blood Sacrifices

Dec 23 2021 35 mins  
As John Linley Frazier is put on trial for the mass murder of five victims, details about the killings emerge that show a callous and methodically cruel intent that horrified the jury. The childhood traumas and accumulating anger and hate of the serial killers Mullin and Kemper are shown to reach a boiling point that would terrorize the city less than two years later. Jennifer Lyn

Episode 2: Killer Prophet

Dec 10 2021 24 mins  
As the city of Santa Cruz is gripped in fear of a fugitive mass murderer, and the local hippies become potential suspects, two highly disturbed and violent criminals arrive in the beach community. As serial killers Ed Kemper and Herbert Mullin bide their time before unleashing their terror, an unexpected lead finally uncovers the identity of the “Prophet Killer”; John Linley Fr

Episode 1: “Murder Capital of the World”

Nov 24 2021 26 mins  
In the early 1970s, after the horrific murders of the Ohta family, and with hacked limbs and headless torsos washing up on the shores of the famous Santa Cruz boardwalk, there was no denying that more than one serial killer was on the loose in the city. Facts of the mass murderer John Linley Frazier are revealed as spirit medium Jennifer Lyn tells of growing up in a city gripped in

Sacred + Profane the evil that men do...second trailer

Nov 22 2021 1 mins  
The sacred voice + the profane...the serial killers or Santa Cruz, CA

Sacred + Profane the first trailer...

Nov 05 2021 4 mins  
The true story of a young girl that heroically survived to tell her horrific experience of surviving a serial killer's kidnapping. As mass murderer John Linley Frazier and serial killers Herbert Mullin, and the notorious Ed Kemper were committing twenty-three gruesome killings in the same city; Santa Cruz, California, Jennifer Lyn was abducted in a never before told story. This is