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Every case we cover gets filed somewhere. These are the six recurring patterns Pretty Evil keeps returning to. In a way, each represents a shape destructive behavior can take when given enough room to operate unchecked.
Six lenses. One recurring question: Would you recognize danger if it arrived in disguise?
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Explore Category“What I find most unsettling isn't the exceptional cruelty of the predator, but the predictable complicity of the crowd.”
Human curiosity, authority, and identity, often at the price of those exposed. Pretty Evil is the show's flagship category: cases defined by charismatic leadership, engineered trust, and other social factors that allow some predators to hide in plain sight.
Portrait of a Predator
Behavioral and cultural dissections of dangerous people.
Explore CategoryUnder Observation
Experiments, research, and unsettling things behavioral science has revealed about ordinary people.
Explore CategoryFailure by Design
How system loops, bad incentives, and coverups build modern tragedies.
ExploreHive Mind
Social contagion, mob mechanics, and how moral panic overrides logic.
ExploreSide Notes
Shorter, more casual Pretty Evil episodes focused on a specific question, developing case, recent crime story, or piece of true-crime conventional wisdom.
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