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BERMUDA TRIANGLE Ep. 1 | “Ghost Ships” Nov 25, 2020

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Disappearing ships. Disappearing crew members. Disappearing passengers. The Bermuda Triangle has a long history of causing ships and people to vanish without a trace. Here are some of the most puzzling mysteries of the past 200 years.

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TEXAS CHAINSAW Ep. 4 | “Museum of the Morbid” Nov 11, 2020

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The full scope and scale of the crimes of Ed Gein comes to light, and it shocks 1950s America. He becomes the inspiration for books and movies, including “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” In Texas, Tobe Hooper and the producers become embroiled in a series of battles about their film, one of which involves the Mafia. The movie becomes an instant classic, but the unexpected success causes problems. The cast and crew struggle with the fallout and the legacy of the groundbreaking film.

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TEXAS CHAINSAW Ep. 3 | “The Ghoul of Plainfield” Nov 04, 2020

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After another woman goes missing in Plainfield, Wisconsin, the police make horrifying discoveries at the farm of Ed Gein. The scene is beyond their worst nightmares, and Ed’s crimes become national news. In Texas, Tobe Hooper films his movie during a brutally hot summer. It’s a trial by fire for the young, inexperienced cast and crew that sticks with them for the rest of their lives.

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TEXAS CHAINSAW Ep. 2 | “Killing Time” Oct 28, 2020

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After Ed Gein experiences personal tragedy, he becomes a true eccentric. His house fills with junk and squalor. He begins visiting cemeteries in the dark of night. He reads about grave robbing and murder, and then a woman goes missing in Plainfield. In Texas, Tobe Hooper raises the money to produce his film, finds his cast, and receives a brilliant piece of advice about a new title for the movie.

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TEXAS CHAINSAW Ep. 1 | “A Sinister Tale” Oct 21, 2020

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In the 1920s and 1930s, Ed Gein grows up on a Wisconsin farm with a domineering mother and an alcoholic father. He’s bullied by other kids and sinks deeper into a dark mindset. In Austin, Texas in the late 1960s and early 1970s, a film student named Tobe Hooper thinks of an idea for a low-budget horror film. It sets him on a journey that becomes the stuff of myth and legend.

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LIZZIE BORDEN Ep. 3 | “The Verdict” Oct 07, 2020

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Lizzie Borden goes to trial for the murder of her father and stepmother. The stakes are as high as they can get: she could face the death penalty if convicted. The prosecution presents damaging evidence, but the defense counters with a compelling case of its own. The final decision doesn’t seem easy, but the jury reaches a swift verdict in the case of the “Lizzie Borden Axe Murders.”

Lizzie Borden rhyme performed by Anita Mansfield anitamansfield.com

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LIZZIE BORDEN Ep. 2 | “Prime Suspect” Sep 30, 2020

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The Borden murders shock the city of Fall River. The police begin their investigation and they quickly discover a potential murder weapon. They believe poison might have been involved. They question Lizzie extensively and soon arrest her for the murder of her father and stepmother. Her upcoming trial will be a media sensation.

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LIZZIE BORDEN Ep. 1 | “Axe Murders” Sep 23, 2020

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August 4, 1892 is a hot day in Fall River, Massachusetts. The Borden house is quiet until 30-year-old Lizzie screams that her father has been killed. Shortly thereafter, the body of her stepmother is discovered. The murders are gruesome. There are no witnesses; no clues; and within days, suspicion falls squarely on Lizzie Borden.

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LEOPOLD & LOEB Ep. 4 | “Aftermath” Sep 02, 2020

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Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb begin their new lives in prison, and those lives take very different turns. They use their money and intelligence to curry favor with the prison staff, but their stories end in dramatically different ways. One ends in a pool of blood. The other ends on an island in the Caribbean.

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LEOPOLD & LOEB Ep. 3 | “Trial of the Century” Aug 26, 2020

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The families of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb hire the most famous defense attorney in America, Clarence Darrow, to keep their sons off death row. Darrow uses ingenious tactics, long-winded speeches and an army of psychiatrists in his defense of the killers. The courtroom spectacle is dubbed, The Trial of the Century.

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