Respawn: A Grab Bag of Deaths That Weren't What They Seemed
Death is not always the end. We’re not stepping into any kind of spiritual territory here, though, we’re talking about the very earthly fact...
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True Crime Campfire
Join hosts Katie and Whitney for a different kind of true crime podcast. You can start with season 1, The Puppet Master and the Prince of Darkness, a deep dive into the most bizarre murder c...
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Real People. Real Crimes. | Introducing CRIMES OF REDDIT
Reddit is an endless archive of humanity’s most disturbing, bizarre, and deeply human stories. If you love going down internet rabbit holes,...
Resistance: The Life of Spy Krystyna Skarbek Pt 2
Last week, we introduced you to Krystyna Skarbek, a daring resistance agent who smuggled valuable intelligence and thousands of refugees out...
Resistance: Spy Krystyna Skarbek Pt 1
James Belushi once wrote, “Heroes aren’t born, they’re cornered.” It’s often extraordinary, and sometimes horrifying, circumstance that comp...
Book Smart: The Crimes of William Coday
You can’t judge a book by its cover. There’s no shortage of gold-hearted biker dudes and wicked ministers—you can’t really know what someone...
Changeling: The Crimes of Frederic Bourdin
In Irish and other European folklore, a changeling is a fae child that is swapped with a human baby to be raised by humans. Sometimes it’s b...
Cruelest Cut: The Murder of Elaine O'Hara
In August of 2012, the family of an Irish woman named Elaine O’Hara reported her missing. Investigators located her car near the seashore, b...
The Heir: The Murder of Ben Novack Jr. Pt 2
In Part One of this story last week, we followed the rise to riches of hotel owner Ben Novack Sr. and his glamorous model wife Bernice, and...
The Heir: The Murder of Ben Novack, Pt 1
It has sometimes been said that great wealth is a curse—usually by people who have never had to go hungry, but there is something to it. The...
The Princess and the Poisoner: The Crimes of Arthur Waite
There are some crimes and schemes that must be just about as old as humanity itself. I’m sure handsome scammers have been wooing the daughte...
Freefall: The Crimes of Emile Cilliers
In his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde tells the story of a handsome young man who makes a deal with the Devil—his soul, in ex...
The Secret Life: The Murder of Stefanie Rabinowitz
It’s almost impossible to know someone perfectly. Everyone has their private thoughts and hidden moments from their past, and this is usuall...
Creep: Serial Killer Wayne Nance Pt 2
When we left you at the end of part 1, Wayne Nance had begun his career as a serial killer with the murder of Donna Pounds. As much as he tr...
Creep: Serial Killer Wayne Nance Pt 1
In the 1970s in Missoula, Montana, there was a brief epidemic of unsolved violent murders that shocked the small city down to its roots. A d...
The Gray Man: The Crimes of Russell Williams, Pt 2
Our homes are supposed to be where we’re the safest. It’s where we’re our most vulnerable. Last week, we told you about someone who would us...
The Gray Man: The Crimes of Russell Williams Pt 1
In the military, a “gray man” refers to a service member who neither outperforms or underperforms his or her comrades. Someone who seamlessl...
Labyrinth: The Murder of Re'mano Campbell
I don’t know about you, campers, but I like to have emergency plans for any eventuality. For example, what if I find myself in the center of...
Tales of the Unexpected: A Grab Bag of Odd Stories
People can be pretty strange. And not just people—as we’ll see in one story of this week’s episode, you can add all our extended family of p...
Listen Now: Blood and Water
Today we’re sharing something a little different from our friends at ABC News and 20/20. It’s the first episode of a brand new original true...
The Sausage Kingdom: The Crimes of Stuart Alexander
I’m sure most of you have heard some variant of the phrase, “nobody wants to see how the sausage gets made,” which refers to the often messy...