Beheadings. Hanged bodies on fire. Blowtorch mutilations. For 36 hours in 1980, the New Mexico State Penitentiary just south of Santa Fe became a true Hell on Earth. What led to the worst display of inmate-on-inmate violence in US prison history?

283 - A Descent Into Madness: The 1980 New Mexico Prison Riot

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Jim Bakker, and his wife, Tammy Faye, revolutionized tele-evangelism in the 1970s and 1980s. Their PTL Club, was, at it's height, pulling in millions a WEEK in donations to support their cause. But their cause was a lie. Jim was not who he claimed to be, and financial and sexual improprieties would send him to prison... before he got out and started running his scam all over again.

397 - Jim Bakker: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of an American Grifter

Do you have a plan in mind for what you would do in a doomsday event like nuclear war, alien invasion, a deadly plague, Terminator Skynet style "robots have turned against humanity" scenario, etc.?  Some people do. Some very rich people. And it's insane what they're building in case everything goes off the rails.

Short Suck #7 - Survive the Apocalypse in Style: The World of Luxury Doomsday Bunkers

From 1977 to 1980, Joseph Paul Franklin went on a multi-state murder and mayhem spree, bombing a synagogue, shooting at people exiting another, and shooting interracial couples, lone black men, women who had previously dated black men, and a white porn magazine owner for publishing nude photos of an interracial couple. All in a delusional attempt to ignite a race war.

396 - One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin

Ervil LeBaron was raised by a cult leader... would have several brothers who were cult leaders...and would father several more cult leaders. And out of all of them, he was the worst. The Mormon Manson loved to call for blood atonement -  ordering the execution of between  20 and 30 people, many of them rival cult leaders.

395 - Ervil LeBaron: The Mormon Manson

Have you ever heard of disturbing serial killer Richard Byrd? He raped and strangled eight young women to death in Las Vegas between 1991 and 2001, but almost no one has heard of him, because he was arrested... the day after 9/11. And he took a plea bargain and never went to trial. Hear his wild story today... and never think about hair brushes the same way again.

283 - A Descent Into Madness: The 1980 New Mexico Prison Riot

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