S6 Ep10: The Fire That Condemned Cameron Todd Willingham
In 1991, investigators of a house fire in Corsicana, Texas, concluded the fatal blaze was arson, pointing to burn patterns they said proved...
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Crimes of the Centuries
Crime is so commonplace that it takes something particularly shocking to be labelled the “crime of the century.” Even so, there are a lot of cases that have earned the distinction. In each e...
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S6: Future Crimes of the Centuries? The Disappearance of Nancy Guthrie
On the night of January 31st, 2026, 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was dropped off at her home in the Catalina Foothills outside Tucson, Arizona....
S6 Ep9: The Torso in the Marsh
In 1949, a headless, legless torso surfaced in the Essex marshes, setting off one of Britain’s most sensational postwar murder investigation...
S6 Ep8: The Covenant Conspiracy
In 1945, a reverend, a realtor, a science teacher, and a white woman in a low-cut dress conspired to help a St. Louis couple buy a house. Th...
S6 Ep7: Reckless Disregard: The Carrollton Bus Crash
In May 1988, a church bus returning to Kentucky was struck head-on by a wrong-way driver. Within seconds, it became an inferno. As families...
S6 Ep6: The Murder That Sparked the Zoot Suit Riots
In August 1942, 22-year-old Jose Diaz was found dying near a Los Angeles reservoir called Sleepy Lagoon. He'd been beaten and stabbed the ni...
ENCORE: The Life and Death of Sam Cooke
Singing his way through the 1950s and early 1960s, appealing to audiences across a segregated music industry, churning out hits of dreamy qu...
S6 Ep5: LIVE Episode: Cincinnati's "Seamstress Slayer"
In November 1958, duck hunters at Cowan Lake State Park stumbled upon a burned body so badly damaged it was nearly unrecognizable. It belong...
S6 Ep4: Stolen Valor: The Woman Who Wasn't There
In the years after September 11, 2001, one survivor’s story rose above nearly all others. She said she had escaped from the South Tower, los...
S6 Ep3: The Shepherd's Bush Massacre
In August 1966, three unarmed London police officers pulled over a suspicious car on Braybrook Street in Shepherd's Bush in West London. Wit...
S6 Ep2: Brief Against Death: After Edgar Smith's Release
In 1976, a woman survived a brutal kidnapping and stabbing in a San Diego parking lot. The man accused of the attack was Edgar Smith—once a...
S6 Ep1: Brief Against Death: The Murder of Victoria Zielinski
In 1957, Edgar Smith was sentenced to death for the murder of a teenage girl in New Jersey. From his prison cell, he began writing letters,...
S5 Ep46: The Mysterious Death of Hitler's Niece
In 1931, Adolf Hitler’s 23-year-old niece, Geli Raubal, was found dead in the Führer's Munich apartment. Authorities ruled it a suicide. But...
S5 Ep45: A Newlywed Murdered: The Sherri Rasmussen Case
Sherri Rasmussen had been married for just three months when she was brutally murdered in her California home. Police quickly decided the ca...
S5 Ep44: Mary Meyer: The Mysterious Murder of JFK's Mistress
In October 1964, a Washington socialite was shot execution-style on the Georgetown towpath. She had been JFK's lover. Her ex-husband worked...
S5: From What If They're Wrong: The Justice Who Won't Let Go
From Amber's other podcast, titled What If They're Wrong? After the Accusation: After charges against former death row inmate Elwood Jones w...
S5 Ep43: The President's Silence: How Thousands Died Before Reagan Said 'AIDS'
In October 1982, journalist Lester Kinsolving asked the White House press secretary about a mysterious disease that had already killed hundr...
S5 Ep42: Mary Ann Cotton: Britain’s First Serial Killer
In the industrial villages of 19th-century England, death was common—but not this common. Over two decades, Mary Ann Cotton married, buried,...
S5 Ep41: My Lai and the Cost of Following Orders
The massacre at My Lai was one of the most lethal attacks on civilians carried out by American troops in Vietnam. For more than a year, the...
S5 Ep40: Diane Downs: Beyond Small Sacrifices
In May 1983, a young Oregon mother arrived at a Springfield hospital with a horrifying story: a stranger had flagged her down on a dark road...
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