Cafe Macabre

This week's episode is very special. The death of Kurt Cobain shocked the world in April 1994, but it may not be as it seems. Was it truly a suicide? Or were more nefarious things at play? Join me, and my special guest Damian, to discuss all the controversy and intrigue surrounding this musician's tragic death.

Sources: 
https://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/kurt-cobain-file-released-by-fbi-27-years-after-his-death/2506248/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/kurt-cobain-murdered
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2019/02/07/kurt-cobains-daughter-frances-bean-talks-guilt-inheriting-fortune/2806822002/
Soaked In Bleach
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck

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The most prolific female serial killer ever. This week, join me as I talk about Countess Elizabeth Bathory, the Hungarian noble who tortured and murdered hundreds of young girls. 

Sources: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bathorys-torturous-escapades-are-exposed

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Homemade submarines and murder? This week's episode is all about Swedish journalist Kim Wall, and how she was murdered by a self-titled 'inventrepreneur.' 


Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54018795
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/mar/13/kim-wall-netflix-distances-itself-from-documentary-after-participants-claim-they-didnt-consent
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a35368170/kim-wall-the-investigation-hbo-series-true-story-death/
https://www.insideedition.com/everything-we-know-about-the-killing-of-kim-wall-the-journalist-slain-after-boarding-peter-madsens

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Forget torture and murder, this week's true crime case is about...aliens? Heaven's Gate was a pseudo-Christian religious cult that believed heaven could be found quite literally, in space. 39 people lost their lives in what would be, and remains to this day, the largest mass suicide on U.S. soil. Bizarre doesn't even begin to cover this true crime case. 

Sources:
https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/heavens-gate-20-years-later-10-things-you-didnt-know-114563/
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/heavens-gate-cult-members-found-dead
https://allthatsinteresting.com/heavens-gate-cult
Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults docuseries
Mark Twain and Heaven's Gate by Cynthia D. Schrager

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In honor of PRIDE month, this week's case is covering one of the most famous murders in the alphabet mafia, that of transgender man Brandon Teena. His story is tragic from the very beginning, but it helped shine a light on trans hate crimes. 

Sources:
All She Wanted by Aphrodite Jones
https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/brandon-teena

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Hold on to your butts everyone, this week is a roller coaster of a case. Jayna Murray was tragically and savagely murdered at a Lululemon store in 2011. Elaborate tales and red herrings abound, but justice was served in just one short week.

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lululemon_murder
https://filmdaily.co/obsessions/true-crime/lululemon-murder/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/brittany-norwood-convicted-of-killing-lululemon-co-worker-jayna-murray/2011/11/02/gIQAXdFvgM_story.html
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/woman-convicted-in-lululemon-murder-wants-new-trial/33734/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2057040/Brittany-Norwood-guilty-Lululemon-yoga-worker-Jayna-Murrays-murder.html

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Knoxville's first serial killer targeted sex workers in the early 1990s. Police had everything from evidence to a confession, but it's never that easy. This week's case is about Thomas Huskey, and how insanity may or may not negate guilt.

Sources:
Death's Acre: Inside the legendary forensic lab The Body Farm, where the dead do tell tales by Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson (Available here: https://www.amazon.com/Deaths-Acre-Inside-Legendary-Forensic/dp/0425198324/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=death%27s+acre&qid=1621287474&sr=8-1 )
https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/huskey-thomas.htm
https://www.wbir.com/article/news/crime/appalachian-unsolved-the-serial-killer-who-got-away-with-murder/51-409311086
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/shadow-boxing/202005/the-zoo-man-murders
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/tn-court-of-criminal-appeals/1164569.html
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9792-dissociative-identity-disorder-multiple-personality-disorder

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This week's case is the most infamous unsolved crime, probably ever. The Zodiac killer terrified San Francisco in the late 60s-early 70s. What is even more terrifying, we will never know who he was. 

Sources: 
https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/zodiac-killer
https://zodiackiller.com

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This week's episode is all about the infamous criminal couple of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. How much of their true story do you know?


Sources:
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/bonnie-and-clyde
https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-bonnie-and-clyde
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bonnie-and-Clyde-American-criminals
https://www.biography.com/news/bonnie-and-clyde-9-facts-lifetime-movie-video
https://www.factinate.com/people/43-outlawed-facts-bonnie-clyde/
https://dustyoldthing.com/8-surprising-facts-bonnie-clyde/4/
https://mashable.com/2014/05/23/bonnie-clyde-anniversary/

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Get ready for a rough one. This week's case is all about a high school girl's 44 days of torture. Junko Furuta is the high school girl encased in concrete in Japan. 

Sources: 
https://japaninsides.com/44-days-of-hell-the-story-of-junko-furuta/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/junko-furuta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Junko_Furuta
https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/a-murder-so-horrific-that-people-dont-believe-it-happened-639e4f0fb744
https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/15/asia/yakuza-yamaguchi-gumi-explainer/index.html
Rotten Mango Podcast

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