# S21 Ep98: Influencers Who Kill: Real Stories Of Online Fame and Fatal Consequences w/Madison Salters

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Podcast: [Darkness Radio](https://stenobird.com/podcast/darkness-radio-470582)
Published: 2026-08-18T08:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8942398
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Duration seconds: 8460

## Resource

True Crime Tuesday Presents: Influencers Who Kill: Real Stories Of Online Fame and Fatal Consequences with Researcher/Author, Madison Salters! With social media, attention is currency and validation is public. And a chilling new true crime book asks an unsettling question: What happens when the next post… is death? In Influencers Who Kill: Real Stories of Online Fame and Fatal Consequences [A True Crime Collection] [Ulysses Press], author Madison Salters examines nine real-life cases in which online personalities (from TikTok and YouTube to Instagram, OnlyFans, and fringe internet subcultures) committed or attempted acts of murder with audiences watching in real time. Spanning worlds including gaming, anime, cosplay, mommy blogging, and extremist ideology, the book investigates how online performance, parasocial relationships, and the pressure to stay visible can escalate into real-world violence. Moving from curated feeds to crime scenes and interrogation rooms, Influencers Who Kill looks behind internet personas to examine how attention-seeking behavior and public validation can distort identity—and, in extreme cases, fuel deadly outcomes. Influencers Who Kill challenges readers to confront why notoriety is so compelling and why violence committed in the public eye can feel disturbingly consumable. On today's TCT, we sit down with Madison and discuss why society "falls so quickly" for killers in the spotlight. We talk about whether the killers that come from an influencer background may be suffering from a different psychological psychosis than your typical killer, and we discuss a few of these unique cases from the book! PLUS AN ALL-NEW DUMB CRIMES/STUPID CRIMINALS WITH JESSICA FREEBURG! Jessica Freeburg is offering a new program on her website! STOP SHRINKING: A 30…

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