A light hearted look at the darkside of History
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A light hearted look at the darkside of History
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In November 1978, Congressman Leo Ryan (Rep. CA) travelled to The People's Temple in Jonestown, Guyana. He did not return alive.
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Cabbage Patch Kids Dolls were all the rage in the 1980s, but when demand exceeded supply, chaos ensued.
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Join us as we discuss the tragic lives of John and Madeline Astor
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Today we talk about a quirky charity event called hands across America.
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In this episode we discuss people who have died without anyone being aware they died.
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Please join Tim, Chuck, Leanne and Special Guests Larry and Chanda as we discuss this notorious Hollywood murder. Episode Produced by Leanne Scott.
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Please join us as talk history with Joe Coohill, Creator and Host of the popular podcast "Professor Buzzkill".
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Join us as we discuss cases of Mass Hysteria! Written by: Tim Scott Hosted by: Brandy Herrmann, Chuck Walters, Leanne Scott and Tim Scott Produced by: Leanne Scott
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In this episode we take a look at the story of Valentina Vassilyeva who allegedly had 69 children.
written by Tim Scott
Hosted By Tim Scott, Brandy Hermann, Charles Walters and Leanne Scott
Produced and edited by Leanne Scott
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In this episode we take a look at the painful death of Thomas Jefferson.
Written by Tim Scott
Produced by Leanne Scott
Hosted by Tim Scott, Chuck Walters, Brandy Hermann and Leanne Scott
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Due to the Loss of Mad Thadd Scott, the show will be taking a break for a short time. We will resume recording in August. Thank you all!
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When the Australian government declared war on a herd of Emus, the Emus decided to fight back!
Written by: Tim Scott
Hosts: Brandy Herrmann, Chuck Walters, Thadd Scott and Tim Scott
Produced by: Thadd Scott
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Today we discuss the true story behind some of the most popular murder ballads.
Written By: Tim Scott
Hosted by: Shellie, Brandy, Chuck, Thadd and Tim
Produced By: Thadd Scott
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In this episode, we explore the brutal murder of two teenage girls at the mysterious Lumber Baron Inn in Denver.
Written by: Tim Scott
Hosted by: Brandy Herrmann, Chuck Walters, Thadd Scott, and Tim Scott.
Produced by: Thadd Scott
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Written By: Tim Scott
Hosted By: Shellie Shel, Leanne Scott and Brandy Herrrmann
Produced by: Thadd Scott.
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On January 2, 1935, a lone man, checked into the President Hotel in Kansas City. What happened to him is still a mystery to this day.
Written by: Tim Scott
Hosted by Brandy Herrmann, Chuck Walters, Thadd Scott and Tim Scott
Produced by: Thadd Scott
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When the ladies, working at the United States Radium Corporation (USRC), started glowing in the dark, it raised some concerns. Talk about a Glow Up!
Written by: Tim Scott
Hosted by: Brandy Herrmann, Chuck Walters, Thadd Scott and Tim Scott.
Produced by: Thadd Scott
Audio Engineer: Thadd Scott
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The attempted assassination of Teddy Roosevelt
Written by: Tim Scott
Hosted By: Brandy, Chuck, Thadd, and Tim
Produced by Thadd Scott
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When Bonnie Lee Bakley was murdered in downtown Los Angeles in May 2004, suspicion immediately turned to her actor husband Robert Blake. But was Blake guilty?
Hosts: Brandy Herrmann, Chuck Walters, Tim Scott, and Thadd Scott
Written by: Tim Scott
Produced by: Thadd Scott
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Porn Star John Holmes was bigger than life until he met his untimely demise.
Written by: Tim Scott
Produced by: Thadd Scott
Hosted by: Brandy, Chuck, Thadd and Tim
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If you dread spending the holidays with your family members, just be happy, you’re not spending Thanksgiving with Omaima Nelson.
Written by: Tim Scott
Produced by: Thadd Scott
Hosted by an all-star cast: Brandy Herrmann, Chuck Walters, Tim Scott and Thadd Scott
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On April 25, 1935, at Australia’s Coogee Beach aquarium, a shark puked up a human arm and this incident sparked a mystery full of twists and turns. Explore with us as we dive into the Shark Arm Murders case that looms large in Sydney’s true crime.
Hosted by: Tim Scott, Charles Walters, Shellie G. and Thadd Scott
Written by: Shellie G.
Editing and Production: Thadd Scott
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An Artist, A Muse, and Murder.
Written by: Tim Scott and Karen Michelle
Hosted by: Karen Michelle, Thadd Scott, Tim Scott and Chuck “Hawk” Walters
Produced by: Thadd Scott
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Please join us as we discuss unwanted house guests.
Written by: Tim Scott
Produced by: Thadd Scott
Hosted by: Brandy Scott-Herrmann, Chuck Walters, Tim Scott, and Thadd Scott
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Busboy Philip Cline was found responsible for 8 deaths in the fire he started at the Las Vegas Hilton in 1981. Months earlier the MGM Grand went up in flames which was blamed on a pastry case, but some believe Mr. Cline was involved.
As told by: Tim Scott, Chuck Walters, Brandy Herrmann, and Thadd Scott
Written and Produced by Thadd Scott
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Between 1967 and 1971, a serial killer stalked Stamford, Connecticut strangling women with their own bras.
Produced by: Thadd Scott
Written by: Tim Scott
Hosted by: Brandy Herrmann, Tim Scott, and Thadd Scott
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In 1919, a fifty-foot tank, holding 2.3 million gallons of Molasses, collapsed in Boston’s Northside, changing the neighborhood forever.
Produced by: Thadd Scott
Written by: Tim Scott
Hosted by: Chuck Walters, Brandy Herrmann, and Tim Scott
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Join: The Colonel, Tim, Thadd, and special guest host Shellie as we discuss people who were buried a bit prematurely.
Produced by: Thadd Scott
Written By: Tim Scott
Hosted by: Tim Scott, Chuck Walters, Thadd Scott, and special guest star Shellie.
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Join us as we discuss the first woman to die in the electric chair
Written by: Tim Scott
Hosted by: Brandy Herrmann, Chuck Walters and Tim Scott
Audio Engineer: Thadd Scott
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Grady Stiles Jr. became famous on the carnival circuit as “Lobster Boy”. Despite his success on stage, his personal life was in shambles.
Written by: Tim Scott
Hosted by: Brandy Herrmann, Chuck Walters, and Tim Scott
Audio engineer and Editor: Thadd Scott
Intro and Outro Music 'Cheeky Chops' by All Good Folks. Uppbeat.io
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On May 15, 1929 a deadly fire broke out at the Cleveland Clinic that left more than 100 people dead.
Written by: Jason Dikes
Audio Engineer: Thadd Scott
Hosts: Brandy Herrmann, Chuck Walters, and Tim Scott
Intro and Outro Music 'Cheeky Chops' by All Good Folks. Uppbeat.io
Special Thanks to Jason Dikes
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Mary Ann Cotton didn’t believe in divorce, she preferred murder instead.
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Title: Death of a Tsar
Notes: Alexander II was a reformer, who freed 40 million Russian serfs. Yet, he was not a universally beloved figure and faced numerous assassination attempts.
Written by: Tim Scott
Hosted by: Brandy Herrmann, Chuck Walters, and Tim Scott
Editor and audio engineer: Thadd Scott
Intro and Outro Music 'Cheeky Chops' by All Good Folks. Uppbeat.io
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A simple act of kindness turns into a nightmare.
Hosted by: Brandy Herrmann, Chuck Walters, and Tim Scott
Editor and Sound Engineer: Thadd Scott
Written by: Tim Scott
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“In the early 1950s, Spree Killer, William “Cockeyed” Cook, terrorized the American Southwest leading to the deaths of six people”
Written by: Tim Scott
Hosts: Chuck Walters, Brandy Herrman, and Tim Scott
Editor and Audio Engineer: Thadd Scott
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Charles “Kid” McCoy was a flamboyant Boxer who was a champion in the ring. Outside the ring, he was a murderer.
Intro and Outro Music 'Cheeky Chops' by All Good Folks. Uppbeat.io
Special thanks to our audio engineer, Thadd Scott.
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The Live show, 2022
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Martin Bryant killed 35 people and wounded 23 others, the worst massacre in modern Australian history.
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Paul Bateson was a radiological technologist in real life AND in the movie The Exorcist. Then he killed somebody. One, maybe more.
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This is a guy who could hold a grudge. And he did. For 25 years he members of the Crow tribe and ate their livers. (He was on Keto).
They made a movie about him. You'll have to listen to the episode to see what it was.
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Not all women are well hung. This is the story of one.
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The Dweebs discuss the rise and fall of a legend!
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If Teddy Roosevelt ever asks you to go camping, just say no!
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A bad case of contempt of court!
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The next time you are invited to a dinner party ask "what is on the menu". Because it might be you!
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Remember the kindly old mailman you saw on Mr. Rogers? This is not about him!
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Back in a time before stringent axe control laws were enacted, bad things happened.
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A creepy little bastard.
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Showers get you clean. Baths get you dead!
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The life of a rock star is not so glamorous. Add heroin, a knife and you have a tragedy.
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A nasty Russian with a badge.
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Clementine Barnabet- seemed like a sweet woman. Until she had an axe in her hand!
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Boy meets girl, boy get a canoe, girl get cannoodled. A tale as old as time. Trigger warning, the Colonel croons, the ladies swoon.
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Have you ever tried to get into a hole that was just too small? He did. And learned a hard lesson
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This Valentines Day, we present a story of a woman in love. Sometimes love runs hot and passionate. Sometimes cold and stiff. Really, really cold. But love always prevails. Where there is a will, an aching vagina, and a corpse, there is a way!
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Anger issues and heavy equipment are never a good mix. With special guest Nina Innstead!
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People bursting into flames. Like if Brandy went to church.
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Hobos are a nasty lot as a rule. This guy was bad by hobo standards!
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Some info on how duels came to be highly regulated.
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Stuff blows up in Canada. Someone gets a bucket full of eyeballs.
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A new take on keto dieting. A man finds a guy on the internet and eats him. Starting with his "gizzards"
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People were there, then they weren't
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This episode details the dastardly deeds of Christopher Wilder.
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Woman, man, dumbbells. That never works out well.
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BeforTiger King, this woman was creating her own vaginal zoo.
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we talk about recent events and the dastardly duo of Bonnie and Clyde
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Chuck and Tim tell aale about a terrible woman. Brandy interrupts with banter.
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The "Ladies" (using term loosely) discuss thier take on JoeExotic.
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An all woman episode, Charlie, Brany and Erika discuss the Bridge Murders
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In May of 1988, a shy, young woman named Laurie Dann went on a rampage that left her and a young man dead and several others wounded. Due to the graphic nature of this story listener descrition is advised.
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Yvette Vickerswas a B-Movie actress who failed short of movie stardom and then experienced a sad demise.
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In 1892, the death of a young girl named Mercy Brown in Rhode Island, led to the Great New England Vampire Panic.
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In the 1940s five people disappeared from an area in Vermont that has become known as The Bennington Triangle.
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Famed TV personality Art Linkletter led an anti-drug campaign after his daughter, Diane, tragically died while using LSD. But were drugs really to blame?
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On December 3, 1979, eleven young adults were crushed to death while attending a Who concert in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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On March 12, 1928, The St. Francis Dam failed killing hundreds of people in Southern Califrnia. Special thanks to Jason Dikesfor his research and script.
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in 1945 74-year-old Charles Watson was brutally murder and the case has never been solved.
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Jean Harlow was one of Hollywood's biggest stars during the 1930s.
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On July 14, 1984 a heavily armed man, named James Huberty, opened fire a busy McDonalds restaurant in San Ysidro, Califonia. After 77 minutes, 21 people were dead and another 19 people were fighting for their lives. Due to the disturbing nature of this episode, Listener's discretion is advised.
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Small time criminal Mickey Finn is best known for his use of a knock out drug.
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The 1973 film "The Exorcist" was based on a true story of Demonic Possession. Join us as we discuss the real story and the strange things which occured while the film was being made.
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In 1974 fourteen men were found brutally murdered in San Francisco. The case remains unsolved.
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Join us for DweebCon Live with Special Guests: Comedian Nicholas Starr, Southern Fried True Crime Host Erica Kelley, Already Gone host Nina Instead and Spy Stories host Karen Michelle. With script by Nina Instead.
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The true story of Ida Wood one of the richest women in the world with a dubious past
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When 23 year old Evelyn McHale jumped off the Empire State Building on May 1,1947 she had no idea she was about to become famous around the world.
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In 1935, Dr. Buck Ruxton was charged with murdering his wife and housekeeper in a crime that shocked England.
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In September 1922, when the men of New York City committed a fashion faux pas by wearing their staw hats beyond the socially acceptable date of September 15th, a riot ensued.
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Join us as we discuss the life and tragic death of America's first movie star.
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Join us as we discuss the men and women who have met their fate on the chopping block.
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In 1933, when a pair of thugs kidnapped and murdered a popular businessman in San Jose, local citizens took the law into their own hands.
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On November 18, 1987, Keith Dardeen, his pregnant wife Elaine and their 3 year old son were brutually murdered in their Illinois home. Despite numerous theories and leads the case remains unsolved.
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On October 8, 2009, Bobby Dale, his wife Sherilynn and their 6 year old daughter Madyson Jaminson seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth. After a 10 year investigation, police still are unclear what happened to them.
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The Lemp Mansion in St.Louis is said to be haunted. Over the years, It has been the home of many mysterious deaths and suicides.
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On April 16,1947, the port of Texas City,Texas was destroyed when a ship containing 2,200 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded. The accident killed 581 people and left hundreds more hurt or missing. It is still considered one of the deadliest industrial accidents in world history.
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In 1876, three small time crooks planned to rob AbrahamLincoln's grave, steal his corpse and hold it for ransom.
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When two young ladies were burtally murdered and their mutalated bodies found at that Emmanuel Baptist Church in San Francisco, suspicion immediately fell upon a young Sunday school teacher named Theo Durrant.
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Join us as we discuss Serial Killer Richard Fran Biegenwald
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In 1985, five women were kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered in Honolulu, Hawaii. No one has ever been charged for these brutal attacks.
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In 1915, when the City of San Diego hired Charles Hatfield to make it rain, they got more than they bargained for.
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On September 23, 1904 35 students, at the Pleasant Ridge School in Ohio, sought shelter from a storm in a dilapidated outhouse. When the outhouse floor gave way panic ensused. The result was deadly.
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In 1817 a mysterious woman appeared in the small village of Almondsbury, England.
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Ship Builder August Landmesser is known for his defiance for refusing to salute German Chancelor Adolph Hitler.
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When a young American couple learned that they couldn't have children they decided to raise a monkey as their child. It did not end well.
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Two unsolved murders, 157 years apart with so many uncanny similarities.
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A twenty seven year old taxi driver named Posteal Laskey terrorized the Queen City in 1965 by raping and killing seven elderly women. But did the Police arrest the right man?
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Join us as we discuss the Baton Rouge Serial Killer.
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Join us live from Dweeb Con 2018 as we discuss the distrubing story of Roch "Moses" Theriault and the Ant Hill Kids Cult. Script by Jason Dikes.
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In 1933, 6,000 Russian dissidents were deported to Nazino Island in Siberia. The island was sorrounded by arm guards who were ordered to kill anyone who tried to escape. The dissidents,placed on the island without food or shelter, soon resorted to cannibalism. Special Thanks to Jason Dikes for the script.
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The Presidential election of 1884 was rocked by scandal when the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland, was accused of Rape.
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Our very special guest, Ben Fitton from "They Walk Among Us" joins us to discuss the tragic lives of Russia's most famous co-Joined twins Masha and Dasha.
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Between 1993 and 1998, numerous young women disappeared from an area of Ireland dubbed the 'Vanishing Triangle.
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One dark and lonely night in 1953, in a quiet suburb of Wisconsin, a 15 year old babysitter was kidnapped and never heard from again.
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The S Bahn murders were a series of brutal murders which took place on Berlin's rail system in the early days of World War Two.
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James C. Woods was determined to be psychotic by the U.S. Navy, but that didn't stand in his way of becoming head executioner for the Nazi War Criminals. The executions did not go well.
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Join Tim and Brandy as we discuss the brutal Hello Kitty Murder
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Sharon Lapotka was a bored, Maryland housewife who her explored her sexual fantasies on the internet. This would eventually lead to her murder.
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In August 1977, the small community of Seaside, California, was the sight of a brutal, quadruple homicide that left law enforcement officials baffled.
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Join as we discuss the strange haunting of a 19 year old New England girl.
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For years Ken McElroy was known as the town bully. When the justice system failed the citizens of Skidmore, they took the matter into their own hands.
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Kid gets whacked on the head as a baby. Mayhem ensues.
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In 1936, geisha Sada Abe became a media sensation when she killed her lover, cut off his penis and carried it around in her hand bag.
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Graham Frederick Young was a whiz at chemistry just ask his 70 victims. Special Thanks to Leanne Flanagan for the topic suggestion.
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The 1946 Atlanta Winecoff Hotel Fire was the most deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history.
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Rod Ferrell claimed to be a 500 year old Vampire named Vesago. In 1996, the teenager and self proclaimed leader of a group of teens known as the "Vampire Clan" brutually murdered an elderly Florida couple.
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On September 15, 1959 Paul Harold Oregeron arrived at the Edgar Allan Poe Elementary School in Houston Texas to enroll his son. He was carrying a briefcase full of dynamite.
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On Christmas Eve 1971, seventeen year old Julianne Koepcke was on a flight to visit her father. Suddenly, the plane was struck by lightening and Julianne was thrown from the aircraft and landed in the middle of the Peruvian rain forrest. Badly injured, the teenager would survive 10 days alone in the jungle.
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In February 1959, nine experienced hikers died of mysterious circumstances in the Ural Mountains.
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How an American POW joined forces with a Russian woman to defeat the Nazis.
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In 1982, Larry Walters achieved his life long dream to fly when he attached some weather balloons to his lawn chair.
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Clifford Robert Oslon was a notorious Candian Serial Killer who charged the police $100,000 to show them where he hid his victim's bodies.
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Stacey Ruth Castor loved money and she was willing to kill for it.
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Catherine the Great ruled Russia with an iron fist between 1762 and 1796. She had her husband killed to seize power and was known for her insatiable sexual appetite.
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Known as the BTK Killer, Dennis Rader was responsible for the deaths of 10 people between 1974 and 1991.
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Koro is a panic disorder in which a patient is under the delusion that his penis is shrinking or retracting. In October 1967, Koro reached epedemic levels in Singapore.
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This is horrific story of mental illness, self-mutilation and murder. Listener discretion is advised
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On July 5, 1919, 22 year old Bella Wright's body was found along a rural road in England. She was last seen in the company of a man on a green bicycle..Now nearly 100 years later, the case remains unsolved.
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Revised complete Episode
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Married five times Robert James had a unique way of ending his relationships.
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In 1911, 146 garment workers, mostly young women, were killed in a horrfic fire.
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Members of the British aristocracy, the Mitford sisters, were very controversial and known for keeping company with very powerful men including German Chancellor Adolph Hitler.
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In this episode we discuss the tumultuous life and death of screen legend Barbara La Marr.
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This is the true story of Michael Taylor who, after a failed exorcism in 1974, brutally killed his wife.
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Join Tim and Brandy as we discuss the bizzare case of a former beauty queen who allegedly kidnapped, assualted and then proposed marriage to a Mormon missionary. Special Thanks to Jason Dikes for this script.
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Henry Johnson was a private in the all black 139th Infantry regiment. Known as the "Harlem Hellfighters", the unit served valiantly during the First World War. On May 14, 1918, Johnson single-handedly fought off an attack by 40 enemy soldiers. Despite his heroic efforts and being wounded 21 times, it took nearly 100 years for Johnson's contributions to be recognized by the United States government.
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In the early 20th Centrury a beautiful young actress named Evelyn Nesbit became involved with two older, wealthy men and it resulted in murder.
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Join Tim and The Colonel as we discuss the curious case of Tarrare, a Frenchman with an unusual appetite.
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In 1974, Patricia Allanson goaded her husband into killing his parents. Then after he was sentenced to prison, she went after his grandparents.
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Join us as we discuss the incredible life of the first female Lion Tamer Mabel Stark.
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It is believed Peter Kurten is responsible for,as many as, 68 murders in Germany. Listener Discrection is Advised.
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Join Dweebs Live as we discuss the crazy life of cult leader Edmund Creffield and The Holy Rollers. In our bonus segment we interview Nate Hale from "The Conspirators", David and Chelsea from "Based on a True Crime" and Nina Instead of "Already Gone"
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Known as the 1-70 Killer, Herb Baumeister is believed to have murdered as many as 20 men in the 1980s. Most of the victims were buried on Fox Hollow Farm in Indiana. After Baumeister committed suicide in 1996 many strange things started happening on the farm.
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Daisy and Violet Hilton were conjoined twins who were exploited and forced into a long career in show business.
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Known was "Death Row Granny" Velma Barfield is believed to have murdered at least 6 people. She was the first woman in the United States to be executed after the 1976 resumption of capital punishment.
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The Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 were a series of shark attacks along the coast of New Jersey in which four people were killed and one injured. These attacks would later become the basis of the novel and movie "Jaws"
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Michael Carroll was 19 years old in 2002 when he won $14.4 Million dollars in the U.K. National lottery. What followed was a life of parties, women and drugs. Just a few short year laters Michael Carroll was again broke.Special Thanks for Ricky Hardy of the Squirm podcast for joining us.Edited by Ben Fitton
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Known as the "Scorecard Killer" Randy Steven Kraft is believed to have murdered at least 16 young men in a series of killings between 1972 and 1983.
Special Thanks to Jason Dikes for researching and writing the script for this episode.
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Since 2008, detached human feet have been washing ashore in British Columbia, Canada and no one seems to know why.
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Louise Peete loved men..some would even say she loved them to death.
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Robert Lee Yates Jr. was a quiet family man, a decorated war hero and a good neighbor – or so it seemed. In 2002, Yates was convicted of killing two young women in Spokane, Washington. Police believe Yates is responsible for at least eleven other horrific murders in the same area.
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On June 11, 1964 42-year-old Willi Walter Seifert armed with an insecticide sprayer converted into a flamethrower, a lance and a homebuilt mace, entered the a school and opened fire on the girls playing in the courtyard. He then knocked in classroom windows with his mace and fired inside. Eight children and two teachers died in the horrific event.
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Cassie Chadwick was a con artist who posed as the illegitimate daughter of Andrew Carnegie to defraud banks out of millions of dollars.
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From the sinking of the Titanic to the evacuation of Dunkirk, Charles "Lucky" Lightoller always seemed to be in the wrong place at the right time. Research and Script by Jason Dikes.
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Join Tim, The Colonel and our very special guest host, Ricky Hardy from the Squirm podcast, as they discuss the Human Lightning Rod Roy Sullivan. Sullivan was a park ranger in the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. Between 1942 and 1977, Sullivan was hit by lightning on seven different occasions and survived all of them.
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Mia Zapata was the lead singer for the Seattle based punk band "The Gits". In 1993, the band was on the verge of signing a major record deal with Atlantic Records. However, before the contract could be signed, Mia Zapata was found murdered. Her murder would remain unsolved for over 10 years.
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This is the story of Phineas P. Gage, an American railroad construction foreman, remembered for his improbable survival of a rock-blasting accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head.
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David Koresh was the leader of a religious sect known as the Branch Davidians. Koresh and his followers built an "Army of God" by stockpiling weapons in preparation for the apocalypse. On February 28, 1993, the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided the compound in Waco, Texas resulting in a 51-day stand-off. The siege ended with the death of 76 sect members. Research and Script by Jason Dikes.
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Charles Edmund Cullen is a former nurse who is the most prolific serial killer in New Jersey history.
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Known as the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Harland David Sanders went from rags to riches several times during his life. Sanders was as a devout Christian who cussed like a drunken sailor. He was a humanitarian who once shot and almost killed a business competitor. Join us as we take a look at the life of one America's most colorful characters.
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In 1984, Charles Rodman Campbell brutally murdered three victims who had testified against him in an eariler criminal case.
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Harvey Murray Glatman was a serial killer in Califorina during the 1950s. Glatman was a professional photographer in Hollywood where he would prey on aspiring young models. Glatman would lure his victims to his studio where he would then rape and brutally murder them.
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Barbara Payton was a beautiful, promising young actress before she self-destructed in a fog of drugs, alcohol and illicit affairs.
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Joseph Paul Franklin was an extreme racist and serial killer who gained notoriety for numerous murders in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Franklin also attempted to murder famed civil rights leader Vernon Jordan and Hustler Publisher Larry Flynt.
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Join us as we interview some of our favorite listeners Live at Crimecon2017
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William Chester Minor was a skilled surgeon, U.S. Army Officer and distinguished scholar. He was also a lunatic who was obessessed with prostitutes and murdered an innocent man. Minor would go on to help established the Oxford English Dictionary while serving out his sentence in an insane asylum.
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Ray and Faye Copeland were responsible for the murder of at least 5 homeless drifters in the 1980s. Ray and Faye became the oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States.
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Known as "Jolly" Jane for her sunny disposition, Jane Toppan was a serial killer responsible for the murder of at least 33 people.
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As an adult, Eddie Gaedel stood just 3'7" and weighed 65 pounds. Although bullied most of his life, Eddie became an overnight sensation in 1951 when he became the first "Little person" to appear in a Major League Baseball game. Eddie would learn that fame has a dark side though, as a few years later he would tragically die under mysterious circumstances.
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Abraham Shakespeare was generous to a fault. He would often give his last dollar to complete strangers. In 2006, Abraham won $30 million dollars in the Florida State Lottery. Instead of the money making him happy, his life would soon take a very dark turn.
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Chuck and Brandy are going rogue.
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Keith Hunter Jesperson is a Canadian born American serial killer known as the "Happy Face Killer" for the smiley faces he drew on his many letters to the media. A truck driver by trade, it is believed that Jespersen is responsible for at least a series of four murders in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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Nannie Doss was a serial killer who earned the monikers "The Giggling Nanny,” "The Giggling Granny," and "The Jolly Black Widow" after going on a killing spree that began in the 1920s and ended in 1954. Doss was easy to entertain. Her favorite pastimes included reading romance novels and poisoning members of her family to death.
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Dr. Jack Kevorkian was a pathologist who assisted people suffering from acute medical conditions in ending their lives. After years of conflict with the court system over the legality of his actions, he spent eight years in prison after a 1999 conviction. Kevorkian's actions spurred national debate on the ethics of euthanasia and hospice care.
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Lisa Nichol Lopes better known by her stage name Left Eye, was an American rapper, singer, songwriter, producer and the creative force behind the hit group TLC. The group would become the best selling girl's group ever in the United States. Despite her professional success,Lisa's personal life was full of pain and tragedy. This is her story.
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Sean Richard Sellers was a troubled teenager in the 1980s when he turned to Satanism. In 1986, when Sean was just 16 years old, he murdered three people including his mother and step father.
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Leonard Fraser was an Australian serial killer convicted of killing four women in the 1970/80s.
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In the early 20th Century, Emily Davison was a suffragette who fought for the right of women to vote in Great Britain. On June 8, 1913, Davison pay the ultimate price for her convictions, when she stepped in front of King George V's race horse "Anmer" during the final turn of the Epsom Derby.
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The Bizarre story of how a dead homeless man help change the course of World War II.
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Richard Kuklinski was in life a true monster and a sadistic murderer. Some of the crimes he perpetrated are beyond belief, the embodiment of living nightmares. Referred to as the "Ice man" and dreaded throughout the criminal underworld, he was for a time a top mafia hit man. Richard Kuklinski claims to have killed 200 people during his career.
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Carroll Edward Cole was an serial killer who killed his first victim at age 10. Cole was executed in 1985 for killing at least 16 people between 1948 and 1980.
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A tempestuous public life made her popular in tabloids, but English singer Amy Winehouse was embraced by music critics and fans for her rugged charm, brash sense of humor, distinctively soulful and jazzy vocals. She recieved 5 Grammy awards despite having released only two albums. In 2011, Amy tragically joined the "27 Club" after dying of acute alcohol poisoning.
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Jerry Brudos was a sexual freak who killed at least four women in Oregon in the late 1960s.
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On Valentines Day, February 14, 1884, Teddy Roosevelt's mother Mittie Roosevelt and his young bride Alice Lee both died, in the same house, a few hours apart. This tragic day would forever mar the life of the future President of the United States.
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On February 20, 1930, Eva Dugan became the first woman to be hanged in the State of Arizona. The execution did not go well.
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Known as the Internet's first serial killer John Edward Robinson is suspected of being responsible for at least 8 murders in the 1990s.
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Serial killer Joel Daavid Rifkin killed 17 women in the 1990s before the police pulled him over for a missing license plate (and discovered his latest victim).
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Tommy Lynn Sells was a serial killer who claimed responsibility for over 70 murders across the United States. Dubbed with the nickname "Coast to Coast Killer"
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Washington’s largest snowstorm on record began during the evening of January 27, 1922. The weight of the record-breaking snow collapsed the roof of the popular Knickerbocker Theatre. The roof of the theater fell on scores of moviegoers, killing 98 and injuring 133. The disaster ranks as one of the worst in Washington’s history.
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Dana Plato was known for her career as a child actress in the hit TV series "Diff'rent Strokes" before her life came to a tragic end in 1999.
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John Emil List was a convicted multiple murderer and long-time fugitive. On November 9, 1971, he killed his wife, mother, and three children in their home in Westfield, New Jersey. List remained a fugitive from justice for the next 18 years.
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Charles Howard 'Smitty' Schmid, Jr., was known as "The Pied Piper of Tucson," A serial killer, Smitty was responsible for at least 3 murders in the mid 1960s.
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Perhaps the most famous case of past life recall is that of Virginia Tighe who recalled her past life as Bridey Murphy. Virginia was the wife of a Virginia businessman in Pueblo, Colorado. While under hypnosis in 1952, she told Morey Bernstein, her therapist, that over 100 years ago she was an Irish woman named Bridget Murphy who went by the nickname of Bridey. During their sessions together, Bernstein marveled at detailed conversations with Bridey, who spoke with a pronounced Irish brogue and spoke extensively of her life in 19th century Ireland. When Bernstein published his book about the case, The Search for Bridey Murphy in 1956, it became famous around the world and sparked an excited interest in the possibility of reincarnation.
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Leonard Borchardt was a side show performer who became known as "Oofty Goofty: The Wild Man of Borneo" In 1891, he met and fell in love with a fellow performer and con artist named Big Bertha Heyman. The relationship did not go well.
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In 1950, Timothy Evans was convicted of murdering his wife and daughter in England. He was sentenced to death and eventually hanged. Three years after his execution, it was learned that the murders were actually committed by Evan's neighbor and serial killer John Christie.
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On July 15, 1974, Christine Chubbuck, a young and talented newscaster in Sarasota, Florida, pulled out a gun and shot herself on live television. This is her story.
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Serial Killer Dayton Leroy Rogers is responsible for the murder of at least 8 women in the Portland,Oregon area during the 1980s.
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On Dec. 1, 1958, a fire consumed Our Lady of the Angels grade school on the West Side of Chicago, killing 92 children and three nuns.
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Matthew J. Hoffman is a sex offender and killer responsible for a triple homicide and the abduction and rape of a thirteen-year-old girl in November 2010.
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Christian VII ruled Denmark from 1766 until his death in in 1808. The King was rather an odd fellow. His mental instability has been attributed to a brutal childhood governor and to morally corrupt court pages. After his 1766 marriage to Caroline Matilda he gave himself up to debauchery.
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On March 26, 1997 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult, known as "The Crew" committed mass suicide, believing their souls would be transported to a spaceship trailing the Hale-Bopp comet.
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In the 1950s, Janis Joplin grew up as a outcast in the small, conservative town of Port Author, Texas. Leaving her home town behind, Janis would go on to become a Rock and Roll Icon by the age of 25. By the time Janis was 27, she was dead of a heroin overdose.
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The Romanov dynasty ruled Russia for 300 years. But In March 1917, revolution broke out on the streets of St. Petersburg and Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate his throne. The Royal family was at first placed under house arrest. The Bolsheviks, fearing the Tsar supporters may try to reinstall the monarchy, sentenced the Royal family to death. On July 16, 1917 The Tsar, his wife and their five children were brutally murdered.
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The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was a counterculture-era rock concert held on Saturday, December 6, 1969, at the Altamont Speedway in northern-western California. The free concert featured The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, Santna and Jefferson Airplane. The Hell's Angels were hired to provide security. To the shock of the promoters, more than 300,000 people showed up. There were violent confrontations between The Hell's Angels and the fans leading to the death of 18 year old Meredith Hunter.
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On February 18, 1916 Father Hans B. Schmidt became the only priest in U.S. History to die in the electric chair.
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In 1932, a group of New York criminals decided to make a little money by taking out multiple life insurance policies on a homeless man and then have him killed. The problem was he just wouldn't die.
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It took Carl Tanzler 53 years to finally find the love of his life. He wasn't about to let something, as minor as her death, stand in the way of his happiness.
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In 1964, six young women were brutally murdered on London's westside. Although police have interviewed 7,000 suspects, the killer remains at large.
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The investigation, arrest, trial and conviction of Charile Manson and his "Family"
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On Aug. 9 and 10, 1969, two sets of grisly murders took place in Los Angeles, leaving nine people dead and a city on edge.
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In Helter Skelter Part II we take a look at the key members of the Manson "Family".
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Born to an unwed, teenage mother in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1934, Charles Manson would growp up to live a life of crime and become one of the most feared men in the United States. This is part one of a four part series.
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A fictional podcast starring our loyal listeners. Thank you and Merry Christmas!
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On Christmas Eve 1945 in Fayetteville, West Virginia, George and Jennie Sodder had been celebrating the Christmas season with nine of their ten children. During the night, there was a horrific fire. Mr. and Mrs. Sodder, along with four of their children got out safely but five of the children were no where in sight. Their remains were never found. Did they die in the fire? Were they kidnapped? 70 years later it remains a mystery.
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In 1932, struggling actress Peg Entwistle became the only person ever to commit suicide by jumping off the famed HOLLYWOOD sign.
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On December 30, 1903, the Iroquois Theatre, in Chicago, caught on fire, during a standing room only performance. It would become the deadliest theater fire and the deadliest single-building fire in United States history. A total of 602 people died as a result of this tragedy.
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During Christmas week in 1987, Ronald Gene Simmons killed 14 members of his own family. Simmons then killed or wounded several of his previous co-workers. In all, Simmons killed 16 people before turning himself in to the Police.
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Glen Edward Rogers is also known as "The Casanova Killer", is an American serial killer. He was convicted of two murders and is a suspect in several others throughout the United States. There are even some evidence he may be responsible for the death of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
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In 1921, Kip Rhinelander was a socially awkward young when he met and fell in love with the beautiful Alice Jones. Kip was also a wealthy New York aristocrat and heir to his family's fortune. Alice was a domestic helper whose father also happened to be black. Their marriage became a media sensation that sadly tore the young couple apart.
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On December 24, 2008 Bruce Pardo went to a Christmas party dressed as Santa Clause. He was carrying several automatic weapons and a homemade Flame Thrower. After killing 9 people, he torhced the home. In the process, Pardo accidentally caught himself on fire and was force to commit suicide.
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Sophia Scholl was a 21 year old German student who help form the White Rose Society,a non-violent resistance group, in Nazi Germany.
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Huey P. Long was a controversial Louisiana governor and senator in the 1920s and 30s. In August 1935, Long announced that he intended to run for President the following year. One month later he was killed by an assassin in the Louisiana state house. Questions still remain about his death.
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In the early 1920s, William Desmond Taylor, was a popular Hollywood actor and film director. On February 1, 1922 he was murdered in his Los Angeles home. Despite numerous suspects, the crime has never been solved.
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Daniel Edgar Sickles was an politician, soldier, and diplomat. Sickles was involved in a number of public scandals including a murder. He was the first person to use the insanity defense.
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From 1859 until 1880, The U.S. was ruled by the self -proclaimed "Norton I, Emperor of the United States". This is his story.
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On January 11, 1992, 12 year old Shanda Sharer from Madison, Indiana was kidnapped, tortured and burned alive by 4 other teenage girls.
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On November 17, 1978, four young employees were working the night shift at the Burger Chef in Speedway, Indiana. None of them ever made it home. Two days later their remains were found at a nearby park. The case remains unsolved.
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In October 1962, Major Rudolph "Rudy" Anderson Jr. became the only person killed by enemy fire during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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In 2011, Latoya Ammons moved her family into a home in Gary, Indiana. It wasn't long before very strange things started to happen.
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On October 31, 1974, Ronald Clark took his son, daughter and his neighbor's children out to collect candy and Halloween would never be the same.
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At 16, Anneliese Michel was a thoughtful, intelligent and beautiful young lady..and then things went terribly wrong.
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Between 1990 and 1996, a total of seven young backpackers were murdered in Australia. This is the story of Australian serial killer Ivan Milat.
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On December 28,1956 Barbara Grimes, 15 and her sister Patricia 13 ,went to the movies a few blocks from their Chicago home. They never came home.
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Since 1969, at least twenty one girls have either disappeared or have been found murdered along Highway 16 in British Columbia, Canada. This 450 miles stretch of road has become known to the locals as "The Highway of Tears".
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Actor Bob Crane was the star of the hit T.V. series "Hogan's Heros" in the late 1960s. A very likable man, Crane also had a darkside. In June 1978, Crane was found bludgeoned to death in his apartment, a murder that remains officially unsolved.
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Richard T. Chase became known as "The Vampire of Sacramento" because he killed 6 people, drank their blood and cannibalized their remains.
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In the early 1990s, the bodies of young women started turning up on the streets of Dallas, Texas. They all had one thing in common, their eyeballs had been removed.
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Since 2007, in the small town of Bridgend,Wales, 146 young people have hanged themselves and nobody seems to knows why.
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In Austin, Texas in 1864, over the course of one year, a madman brutally murdered 6 women, a man and an eleven year old child in their homes. Then with the whole city in a frenzy, the murders ended as mysteriously as they began.
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On June 13, 1977 three young girl scouts, ages 8 to 10, were brutually murdered in their tent the first night of camp. The crime remains unsolved to this day.
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By age 8, Anissa Jones was a cultural icon starring on one of the most popular shows on television. By age 18, she was an unemployed, high school drop out and dead from a drug overdose.
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Leonard Lake and Charles Ng were a pair of serial killers who were responsible for as many as 25 murders in the 1980s.
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On March 30, 1975, a very meek and mild mannered, James Ruppert killed his mother, brother, sister-in-law and eight nieces and nephews at an Easter Sunday dinner in Hamilton, Ohio.
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Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was a serial killer and sex offender, who committed the rape, murder, and dismemberment of seventeen young men in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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On Christmas day 1929, a beloved family man Charles Lawson murdered his wife and seven children before taking his own life. To this day, no one knows why.
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Anna Marie Hahn was a female serial killer and in 1938 became the first woman ever to be executed in The Ohio electric chair after it was confirmed that she murdered at least five men.
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Pearl Bryan was a 22-year-old pregnant woman from Greencastle, Indiana who was found decapitated in Fort Thomas, Kentucky in 1896. Her head is still missing.
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Larry Bader had it all. A good career, a beautiful wife, three children and another child on the way. On May 15,1957 the Akron, Ohio native went on a short fishing trip. He never returned. This is where the story gets weird.
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Robert Andrew "Bob" Berdella was a serial killer in Kansas City, Missouri who raped, tortured, and killed at least six men between 1984 and 1987.
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John Wesley Hardin was one of the most notorious gunfighters and prolific killers to come out of the Old West. Hardin is believed to have murdered 42 men during his lifetime. Hardin killed one man in his sleep just because he was snoring too loud.
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Perhaps the most evil man ever to live in the U.K., Robert Black was a Scottish serial killer and paedophile who was convicted of the kidnap, rape, sexual assault and murder of four girls aged between 5 and 11 in a series of killings.
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Winfield, Kansas was a quest, peaceful town at the turn on the 20th Century. It was right out of a Norman Rockwell painting. On the evening of August 13, 1903 the townspeople gathered near the gazebo in the city park to listen to a brass band and sip on freshly squeezed lemonade. Those gathered there had no way of knowing they were about to witness the first mass shooting incident in our nation's history.
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The Santa Rosa hitchhiker murders were a series of at least seven unsolved homicides involving female hitchhikers that took place in Santa Rosa,California in 1972 and 1973.
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Hadden Clark liked to feel pretty by sporting a wig and wearing women's underwear. Unlike most cross-dressers, however, Hadden was violent by nature. In 1986, he murdered 6 year old Michelle Dor and ate part of her remains. In 1992, he murdered 23 year old Laura Houghteling in an attempt to assume her identity. Hadden claims to be responsible for 12 other murders in the Baltimore area.
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Fritz Haarmann, referred to as "The Butcher of Hanover". Fritz was a German serial killer responsible for at least 24 murders of young males between 1919 and 1924. After raping and killing the young men he would chop up their bodies and sell their remains to local butchers.
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Dolly Oesterreich seem to have it all, a wealthy husband who loved her and provided for all of her wants and needs. But Dolly had a secret and she kept him in the attic.
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Join Tim and The Colonel as we answer Listener Mail.
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Gary Michael Heidnik was a murderer who kidnapped, tortured, and raped six women, and held them prisoner in his basement.
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Arthur Shawcross was convicted of murdering two small children in 1972. Paroled early for good behavior, Shawcross would go on to murder 12 women in cold blood.
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The Peterborough ditch murders were a series of three murders which took place in the United Kingdom, in March 2013. All of the victims were male, and died from stab wounds. The bodies of all three men were discovered dumped in ditches outside of Peterborough. In November 2013, Joanna Dennehy pleaded guilty to all three murders and two further attempted murders.
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Christine Falling was a 17-year-old babysitter when she murdered five babies and an elderly man. She is one of the youngest female serial killers in U.S. history.
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Known as The Cleveland Strangler, Anthony Sowell, was convicted of murdering 11 women and dumping their remains in and around his house. When he was arrested in 2009, rotting corpses were found throughout his Cleveland, Ohio home.
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David Parker Ray kidnapped women and tortured them in a mobile home kept in New Mexico that he referred to as his “toy box.” He was almost certainly a serial killer and claimed to have murdered countless women. Though no bodies were ever found, several missing persons are believed to have been his victims. He was caught, however, when his final victim managed an incredible escape.
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In the early 1980's, a Satanic Cult, known as the "The Ripper Crew" abducted, raped, tortured, mutillated and murdered 18 young women in the Chicago area. The group would then participate in satanic rituals using the severed breasts of their young victims.
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Since the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge opened in 1937, morethan 1,700 people have ended their life by jumping from the bridgeinto the icy waters below. After climbing over a smallrailing, it takes jumpers just four seconds to hit the waterat a speed of 80 miles per hour. The Golden Gate Bridge isthe number one suicide destination in the United States.
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Dean Corll was a 33-year-old electrician living in Houston,Texas, who with two teen accomplices was responsible forkidnapping, torturing, raping and murdering at least 28 young boysin Houston in the early 1970s. The Houston Mass Murders, as thecase was later called, became one of the most horrific series ofmurders in U.S. history.
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Born on March 17, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois, John Wayne Gacy faced an abusive childhood and conflict over his sexuality. After being convicted of sexual assault in 1968, it was discovered that he had gone on to kill 33 young males, burying most under his home. He was found guilty in 1980 and given multiple death penalty and life sentences.
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In 1931, two white women stepped from a box car in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on the train. So began one of the most significant legal fights of the twentieth century. The trial of the nine falsely accused teens would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War, yield two momentous Supreme Court decisions and give birth to the Civil Rights Movement.
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The Bloody Benders were a family of serial killers who owned a small general store and inn in Osage township, Labette County, Kansas from 1872 to 1873. The inn was a dingy place called the Wayside Inn. Guest would check in but they never checked out.
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A serial killer who murdered six people in New York City in 1976–77, David Berkowitz’s crimes plunged the city into a panic and unleashed one of the largest manhunts in New York history. Known as Son of Sam, Berkowitz was arrested on August 10, 1977, 11 days after his last murder, and was sentenced to 365 years in prison.
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Known as the "The Sunday Morning Slasher" Carl Eugene Watts is believed to have been responsibile for more than 100 brutal murders between 1974 and 1982.
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Born in West Virginia in 1953, Bobby Joe Long endured a troubled childhood. He had an unusal relationship with his mother that lead him to develop a deep hatered for woman. In the early 1980s, he raped at least 50 women after using newspaper ads to find victims. In 1984, Long began an eight-month killing spree that left 10 women dead.
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Sam Cooke was a trailblazing song writer and recording artist in the 1950s and 1960s. Cooke helped shape the soul and pop scene with hits like "You Send Me," "Chain Gang" and "Twistin' the Night Away". Sam started to sing professionally at the age of six. By the time he was in his twenties he was a music superstar. That all came to a tragic end in December 1964 when Cooke, at age 33, was murdered in a seedy Los Angeles motel. Many questions regarding his death remain unanswered to this day.
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George Metesky, better known as the Mad Bomber, terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices. Bombs were left in phone booths, storage lockers, and restrooms in public buildings, including Grand Central Terminal, Pennsylvania Station, Radio City Music Hall, the New York Public Library, the Port Authority Bus Terminal and the RCA Building, and in the New York City Subway.
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Born on November 2, 1755, in Vienna, Austria, Marie Antoinette helped provoke the popular unrest that led to the French Revolution and to the overthrow of the monarchy in August 1792. She became a symbol of the excesses of the monarchy. As a 20-year consort to Louis XVI, she was beheaded by The Guillotine on October 16, 1793.
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"The Lipstick Murders" were a series of brutal attacks which occurred near Chicago in the mid 1940s. Though a serial burglar named William Heirens confessed to the murders, he later recanted his confession on the grounds that it was forced by the Chicago PD. With very little physical evidence connecting Heirens to the crimes, did the Police really get their man?
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Jesse Pomeroy was odd looking as a child. He had a large head, hairlip and one all white eye. In 1874, he became a serial rapist and killer. At 14 years old, Jesse Pomeroy became the youngest person in America convicted of murder.
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Paul Bernado and Karla Homolka were Canadian serial killers who attracted worldwide media attention in the 1990s when they were convicted of raping and murdering teenage girls, including Karla's own sister, Tammy Homolka.
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Known as the Gainesville Ripper, Danny Rolling was an American serial killer who brutally murdered five college students in Gainesville, Florida in 1990. Rolling later confessed to an additional triple homicide in Shreveport, Louisiana and attempting to murder his own father. In total, Rolling confessed to killing eight people.
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In late 1957, teenagers Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate went on a killing spree in Lincoln, Nebraska. Their senseless rampage left 11 people dead including Fugate's entire family.
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Johnny Broderick served as a NYPD Police Detective from 1923 until 1947. One of the most colorful officers ever to wear a badge, Broderick was best known for using excessive force and doling out justice to such famed gangsters as Legs Diamond and "Two Gun" Crawley.
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In the fall of 1996, young women started disappearing in the small town of Poughkeepsie, New York. Police were sure they were dealing with a serial killer, However, they had one problem...they could not find any dead bodies..that is until investigators starting searching the attic of local school employee Kendall Francois.
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In 1945, after a very questionable murder conviction, a 16 year old black teenager, Willie Francis, was sentenced to die in the Louisiana's electric chair. The first execution sent shockwaves through Willie repeatedly but failed to kill him. The drunken executioners had failed to hook up the chair properly. A second execution was scheduled six days later. Willie's new attorneys fought the second execution on the grounds it constitued "Cruel and Unusual Punishment" which is prohibited under the U.S. Constitution This is the story of their desperate attempt to save Willie's life.
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Between July 1963 and October 1965, young lovers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley abducted, sexually assaulted and murdered 5 young people in and around Manchester, England. These sensless acts of violence became known as "The Moors Murders"
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On September 25, 1966 Jerry,his wife Linda and their four year old daughter Debbie Bricca were all brutally murdered in their west side Cincinnati home. Police interviewed more than 400 people, but no one was ever charged. Now, nearly 50 years later, the case remains open.
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The Sydney Mutilator terrorized Australia between 1961 and 1963. William MacDonald would brutally murder and castrate vargarant men.
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In April 1865, Henry Rathbone was a wealthy Lawyer and accomplished Military Officer. He was engaged to be marry to the woman of his dreams. Then events of one awful night changed his life and the life of a nation.
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Bullied as a child, Donald "Pee Wee" Gaskins sought revenge by raping and killing more than 80 people. Gaskins became known as "The Meanest Man in America"
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In life, Elmer J. McCurdy was a bungling, inept bandit. In death, he became a legend.
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When Toni Jo's husband was sentenced to 50 years in prison she vowed to do anthing to get him out...this included murder.
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On February 29, 2000, Katherine Mary Knight stabbed her lover 37 times. She then proceeded to carefully skin him before hanging his hide on a meat hook in their living room. Kathy then cut off his head and boiled it in a pot with baked slices of his buttocks to serve with gravy to his children for dinner.
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In the 1930s, Bar owner, Joseph D. Ball, would entertain his customers by tossing live kittens and puppies into his alligator pit. Soon afterwards, his waitresses started disappearing...
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On August 27, 1931, lurid headlines shocked the town of Clarksburg W. WA. and quickly took the nation by storm as a grisly story unfolded from the nearby community of Quiet Dell. Each extra of the local newspapers revealed more sordid, vivid details about Harry Powers. The nation soon knew him as the “Bluebeard of Quiet Dell.”
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Join Tim as he teaches Brandy and The Colonel the true meaning of Christmas!
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Reckless, vicious, and without any real plan, Alton Coleman and Debra Brown worked their way through the Midwest in 1984, killing when they felt like it and stealing from or harming anyone who got in their way. In total, they are believed to have committed eight homicides, three kidnappings, up to seven rapes and 14 robberies. The 53-day spree from Wisconsin to Kentucky finally ended when the pair was captured in a park in Evanston, IL.
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The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders were a series of abductions, sexual assaults and murders of young boys that occurred in in the city of Los Angeles and in Riverside County, California in 1928.
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On Agust 23, 1912 four year old Bobby Dunbar disappeared while on a family outing. Eight months later, after a nation wide manhunt , Police located the boy and returned him to his rightful parents or did they?
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In March 1968, U.S. Troops entered the Vietnamese Village of My Lai searching for Viet Cong Guerillas. Before the day was over more than 500 unarmed Vietnamese civilians were killed. Helicopter Pilot Hugh Thompson Jr. and his crew members Glenn Andreotta and Lawrence Colburn courageously ended the massacre by turning their weapons on their own troops.
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Christine and Lea' Papin were sisters who had an unusually close relationship. In February 1933, they brutally murdered their employer and her adult daughter. Before beating their victims to death, the sisters gouged out their eyes while they were still living.
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Robert Hansen was an Alaskan serial killer known for abducting and raping his victims. Hansen would turn them loose naked in the Alaskan wilderness. He would then hunt them down and kill them with a cross-bow.
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Robert Ben Rhoades, a former truck driver, raped and killed more than 50 women. He equipped the cab of his truck with a type of dungeon with handcuffs on the ceiling used to incapacitate his victims. He would systematically photograph, sexually assault and torture his victims for weeks before finally killing them.
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In 2005, Sisters Linda and Charlotte Mulhall brutally stabbed and bludgened an African immigrant to death in Dublin, Ireland. After they killed him, they dismembered his body. His head and penis have never been found.
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Winnie Ruth Judd was the nervous type. She liked to carry her own bags because you never knew what (or who) was inside.
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Richard Ramirez was a notorious serial killer known as the "Night Stalker" for murdering 13 people and terrorizing Southern California in the mid-1980s.
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Celebrity Stalkers has been around since at least the 1600s. Everyone from Queen Victoria to Olivia Newton-John has had to deal with them. In some cases,the encounters have been deadly.
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In 1946, a serial killer, known as The Phantom, terrorized the small town of Texarkana, Arkansas. In a two month period eight people were brutually attacked. Five of the victims died of their wounds. The whole community was in a panic. Then, just as quickly as it started, the killing spree stopped. The Killer has never been found.
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The Salem Witch Trials were a series of prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts in 1692 and 1693. The mass hysteria over witchcraft lead to hundreds of arrests. The trials resulted in the executions of 20 innocent people.
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In 1892, Lizzie Borden stood trial for the brutal axe murders of her father and stepmother.
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Griselda Blanco, known as the Black Widow, was a drug lord of the Medellín Cartel and a pioneer in the Miami-based cocaine drug trade during the 1970s and early 1980s. She was a ruthless gangster who was responsible for the murders of up to 200 people.
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Join Casey, Tim, Brandy and Colonel as they discuss gender roles in the 1950s.
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On October 3, 1849 famous writer Edgar Allan Poe was found wandering and delirious on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland. Poe died four days later. The cause of his death remains a mystery.
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At the age of 15, Edmund Kemper killed both his grandparents to "see what it felt like." Upon release from prison, he drifted, picking up and releasing female hitchhikers. But he soon stopped letting them go, killing six college-age women in the Santa Cruz, California, area in the 1970s. Still not satisfied, Big Ed his killed his mother and her best friend.
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Fred and Rose West, an English married couple, abducted, raped, tortured and killed at least 12 women over a 20 year period. They buried their victims under their Gloucester home.
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The Bath School disaster was a series of bombings and violent attacks perpetrated by Andrew Kehoe on May 18, 1927, in Bath Township, Michigan, that killed 38 elementary school children and six adults and injured at least 58 other people.
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Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was one of Hollywood's biggest stars in the early 20th century. In 1921, he was at the center of the film industry's first major scandal. Arbuckle became the defendant in three widely publicized trials for the rape and manslaughter of an aspiring young actress named Virginia Rappe.
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Ottis Toole and Henery lee Lucas were friends, lovers and serial killers. It is believed they were responsible for, as many as, 200 murders in the 1970s and 80s. Their most well known victim was 7 year old Adam Walsh.
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Join us as we discuss the life and death of America's favorite Outlaw - Jesse James.
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Rodney Alcala is a convicted rapist and serial killer responsible for at least 5 murders and perhaps as many as 130. Alcala is known as the "Dating Game Killer" because, in the middle of his killing spree, he appeared as a contestant on the popular T.V. game show.
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The Hartford circus fire was one of the worst fire disasters in the U.S. history. The fire occurred during an afternoon performance of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus that was attended by 6,000 to 8,000 people. More than 168 people died and more than 700 were injured.
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Carl Switzer was better known as the beloved "Alfalfa" from the "Our Gang" series. In 1959, Switzer was brutually murdered during a dispute over $50.
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Charles "Pretty Boy Floyd" was an American Bank Robber and Folk Hero who met his fate when Police gunned him down in 1934.
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Audie Murphy was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II, receiving every military combat award for valor available from the U.S. Army. After the war, he went on to have a remarkable career on the big screen.
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Charles Whitman was an intelligent, mild -mannered former Marine who killed 16 people at the University of Texas in 1966.
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On February 3, 1959, rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with the pilot, Roger Peterson. The event became known as "The day the music died"
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Thomas "Boston" Corbett was a Union Army soldier who shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. A colorful character, Corbett served as a POW in Andersonville, was court martialed twice (once sentenced to be shot), castrated himself and escaped an insane asylum only to die in the Great Hinkley Fire.
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Zona Heaster was only 24 years old when she died in 1897. Initially, it was determined she died of natural causes. That was before Zona's ghost showed up to testify and help convict the man who murdered her.
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Belle Starr, was a notorious American outlaw. She associated with the James-Younger gang and other outlaws. Belle was convicted of horse theft in 1883. She was fatally shot in 1889 in a case that is still officially unsolved. Her story was popularized by novelist Richard Fox, and she later became a popular character in television and movies.
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Nathan Leopold, Jr. and Richard Loeb , commonly known as "Leopold and Loeb", were two wealthy students at the University of Chicago who kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks in Chicago, in 1924, in what was widely described as "the crime of the century".
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George Remus was a Cincinnati pharmacist, businessman and attorney. During prohibition, he was known as "The King of Bootleggers". Remus became the inspiration for the title character in The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It has been reported that Remus made more than 40 million dollars the first three years of prohibition and then....he met a woman.
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Richard Benjamin Speck was an American mass murderer who systematically tortured, raped, and murdered eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital on July 14, 1966.
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Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme was a member of Charles Manson's "Family," who was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to assassinate President Gerald Ford.
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In 1933, Retired Marine Corp Major General Smedley Butler was approached by agents of wealthy businessmen. They wanted Bulter to help them overthrow the government and install a Facist regime in the United States.
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What does a Gangster, a Porn Star, Liberace's lover and four dead bodies have in common? They all are featured in our story today about "The Wonderland Murders".
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Ten year old Mary Bell strangled and mutilated two toddlers in 1968. In 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer, fired 30 rounds of ammo at children in a school playground from her father's apartment in San Diego. She killed two adults and wounded 8 children and a Police Officer. When asked to explain her actions, Spencer simply stated "I don't like Mondays".
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On June 9, 1912 eight people, including six children, were brutually murdered in the small town of Villisca, Iowa. More than 100 years later, the murders remain unsolved.
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On October 1, 1997, 16-year-old Luke Woodham, killed two students and injured seven others at his high school. Before the shooting at Pearl High School began, Woodham stabbed and bludgeoned his mother to death in his home.
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Donald Harvey was a nurse who claims to have murdered 87 people between 1970 and 1987. Known as the "Angel of Death" he is currently serving 27 consecutive life sentences at the Allen Correctional Institution in Ohio.
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On June 28, 1914, 19 year old Gavrillo Princip shot and killed two people and the world has never been the same.
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Alfred Packer was an American prospector who confessed to cannibalism during the winter of 1873–1874. He and 5 other men attempted to travel through the high mountains of Colorado during the peak of a harsh winter. They ran out of food when the snow became too deep for travel. Alfred confessed to eating some of his companions and using their flesh to survive his trek out of the mountains two months later.
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In 1917, the notorious exotic dancer Mata Hari was arrested on the charge of espionage; less than one year later, she was tried and executed, charged with the deaths of at least 50,000 gallant French soldiers. The mistress of many senior Allied officers and government officials, even the French minister of war, she had a sharp intellect and a golden tongue fluent in several languages; she also traveled widely throughout war-torn Europe, with seeming disregard for the political and strategic alliances and borders. But was she actually a spy?
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On August 14, 1936 more than 20,000 people showed up, in Owensboro, Kentucky, to witness the last public execution held in the United States.
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On May 19, 1920 The Stone Mountain Coal Mine Corporation sent hired guns into Matewan, West Virgina to squash attempts by Coal Miners to unionize. This lead to a deadly shoot out that became known as the Matewan Massacre. It was followed a year later by the largest armed rebellion since the civil war, when 10,000 armed Coal Miners took on the coal mining industry's private army at Blair Mountain, West Virgina.
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H.H. Holmes was one of America's first serial killers. During the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, he lured victims into his elaborate Hotel or "murder castle." Guests checked in, but they didn't check out.
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The Influenza pandemic of 1918 infected 500 million people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and killed 50 to 100 million of them—three to five percent of the world's population—making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history,
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Join the Colonel as he discusses this historic advancement in medical technology. This podcast is for Immature Audiences only.
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Join the Dweebs as we discuss the amazing life of Hollywood Legend Hedy Larr
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The Colonel gives us a history lesson on St. Patrick's Day
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Mystic? Holy Man? Con Artist? Drunkard? Whore Monger? All of these terms have been used to describe Grigori Rasputin. An uneducated, sexually promiscuous peasant who help bring down the Russian empire.
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Carl Panzram was not a nice person. He was a burgular, arson and serial killer who murdered more than 20 people. In addition, he claimed to have sodomized over 1,000 men in his life. He once burglarized the home of future President William Howard Taft. Panzram threaten to kill human rights activists who try to stop his execution. He even became annoyed when his executioner took too long to hang him.
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Join the Dweebs for a lighthearted discussion of Teaching contracts in the early 20th century.
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Belle Gunness was a serial killer from La Porte, Indiana, who murdered more than 40 people, including her own children. Most of her victims were men who were lured to her farm through personal ads..Once on her farm, Belle would kill them, chop them up and feed their remains to her hogs. When law enforcement started to close in on her, Belle simply disappeared.
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Albert Fish was a kindly looking old man. In reality, he was pure evil. He was a sexual deviant, serial killer and cannibal. Fish once bragged that he had killed children in every state. He was also known to write taunting letters to his victim's parents after the murders. Listener discretion is advised.
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Join the Dweebs as we discuss World War II Propagandists Axis Sally, Lord Ha Ha and the sad case of Iva Toguri, better known as “Tokyo Rose”.
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Serial killer Ed Gein was obsessively devoted to his mother, a religious fanatic. After her death, Gein began robbing graves—keeping body parts as trophies, practicing necrophilia, and experimenting with human taxidermy. He then turned to murder, killing at least two women in 1957. Listener discretion is advised.
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Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever. She was presumed to have infected 51 people, three of whom died, over the course of her career as a cook. She was twice forcibly isolated by public health authorities and died after a total of nearly three decades in isolation.
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Join the Dweebs as we discuss the courageous and tragic life of the first African American lady pilot.
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A Short Podcast - The Colonel discusses (incoherently at times) the heroic Dr. Jonas Salk and the the first Polio vaccaine.
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Join the Dweebs as we discuss the history of Circus Freak Shows and some of it's most colorful characters.
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From The Spring 1918 to The Fall of 1919, a serial Killer terrorized the city of New Orleans. People were brutally attacked in their beds by an axe wielding maniac. The killer taunted police by writing letters to local newspapers. Little is known of the Axe Man other than he killed 8 people in a one year crime spree and he had a fondness for jazz music. The murders remained unsolved....until now.
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From The Spring 1918 to The Fall of 1919, a serial Killer terrorized the city of New Orleans. People were brutally attacked in their beds by an axe wielding maniac. The killer taunted police by writing letters to local newspapers. Little is known of the Axe Man other than he killed 8 people in a one year crime spree and he had a fondness for jazz music. The murders remained unsolved....until now.
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