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By Bailey Sarian
The podcast currently has 155 episodes available.
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Before Instagram, before YouTube, there was Josephine Baker—the world's first global superstar and one of the most unlikely spies of World War II. She danced for Hitler's officers while secretly gathering Nazi intelligence. She smuggled documents in her sheet music using invisible ink. She became a member of the French Resistance, a spy for the Allies, and a hero who would eventually be buried in the Panthéon, the first Black woman to receive France's highest honor. This is the dark history of the first influencer who was also a spy.

Close your eyes and step back in time to an era when beauty was a deadly pursuit. A quiet journey through the five deadliest beauty trends in history. Women painted their faces with lead, drank arsenic for a pale complexion, and dropped belladonna into their eyes to make them sparkle. They swallowed tapeworms to stay thin and applied radium to their skin for a radioactive glow. Each trend promised perfection but delivered poison, illness, and an early grave. Let the dark history of vanity carry you gently into deep, restful sleep.

She baked cookies for the church, volunteered at the shelter, and kissed her grandchildren goodnight. Nobody suspected that behind the warm smile lurked a cold-blooded killer. In this chilling true crime story, we explore the case of a grandmother who led a double life as a remorseless murderer. For years, she evaded suspicion, hiding her crimes behind a mask of maternal care. But when investigators finally dug deeper, they uncovered a trail of bodies and a dark secret no one ever expected. This is the story of the killer granny no one suspected.

Close your eyes and step into the suburban New Jersey home where an 18-year-old Citadel cadet returned for Thanksgiving 1976, only to massacre his parents and two brothers . Harry De La Roche Jr. shot his father and mother as they slept, then executed his 15-year-old brother Ronald and 12-year-old brother Eric in a brutal frenzy . He initially confessed to all four murders, signing a detailed 21-page statement, but later recanted, claiming Ronald had killed the rest of the family . A jury convicted him of first-degree murder, and he served 45 years before his parole in 2023 . This is the tragic story of the De La Roche family, a Thanksgiving dinner that became a tomb.

"He claimed to have killed over 100 people. He said a cult called 'The Hands of Death' sent him. And he took the secret of Adam Walsh's murder to his grave." Ottis Toole was a drifter, arsonist, and cannibalistic serial killer who terrorized the American South alongside Henry Lee Lucas. He confessed to the 1981 abduction and murder of six-year-old Adam Walsh, the son of *America's Most Wanted* host John Walsh . Decades later, the case was closed—but DNA was never produced. Toole remained a figure of wild, unverifiable claims and horrifying acts until his death in 1996 .
The podcast currently has 155 episodes available.