Capable: A True Crime Podcast

Mini Episode 2: the Man Who Killed Halloween
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On the day after Halloween in 1974, children across the US watched in horror as their parents threw out every last piece of candy they’d collected the night before during Trick or Treat. It was a severe but necessary precaution - a child had died after consuming a poisoned pixie stick. For Deer Park, Texas Trick or Treat would never feel completely carefree and innocent ever again..

Sources: Daily News. Fort Worth Telegram, Fort Lauderdale News, the Deer Park Progress, the Paris News, the Corsicana Daily Sun, the Statesman.com, USA Today, Herald Journal, the Victoria Advocate, the Post Crescent, the Baytown Sun, Longview News Journal, the Houston Chronicle, CTPpost.com

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Episode 3. Justin Newman

In February of 2008, an Illinois woman discovered a large fire blazing away in her husband’s personal garage. She called 911 and prompted  the response of local Illinois police officers and firefighters. Their initial findings lead them to believe that a freak accident involving a 3-ton hydraulic jack and a large, diesel fueled truck caused the death of  her  husband. But upon further investigation, they quickly discovered that the fire was no freak accident, and that the badly burnt body they recovered from the scene was not the man they were led to believe it was.

Sources: CaseText.com,NBCNews, NBC Chicago, Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Daily Herald, Northwest Herald, Southern Illinoisian, Kenosha News, the Pantagraph, Chicagoist.com, Carmitimes, Lake County Journal, FindaGrave.com, Capital Gazette, Ocala.com

Mini Episode 1: Missing Women in Missouri
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In Missouri in the 1990s, several women suspiciously disappeared in the same general area. Their disappearances have left two of the women's families without answers to this day.

Sources: Charley Project, the Salina Journal, the Daily Journal, the Springfield News-Leader, St. Joseph News, St. Louis Post Dispatch, FindLaw State v Rush, MissouriNet

Episode 2. the Papin Sisters
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Two sisters serving as maids in France in the 1930s suddenly and without warning, committed the most heinous and shocking crime France had ever known. To this day, the motive behind their violent crime has never been very clear. Many believe their brutal actions were a consequence of their unstable upbringing. Others think it was an act of madness while some think their actions were a symptom of the era’s extreme class warfare going on in France.

Sources:
the Leader-Post, Oxford University Press, the Vintage News, the Guardian, NYTimes, True Crimes of the Papin Sisters by Amy Delaney

Episode 1. Hell on Horton Road
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On March 3rd, 1989 a responsible 13 year old girl from Valley Stream New York receives a phone call while babysitting her little brother. She hangs up the phone and leaves 20 minutes later. What was said on this phone call that made her leave him? What was said that prompted her to leave and enter a house only 5 doors down from her own? A house that she’d never be seen outside of again, alive?

Sources:
Against Her Will by Ronald Watkins, NewsDay, LIPress, CBS, People.com, New York Times, LI Herald