Welcome to Cryptic Soup, your after-dark podcast. In this week's episode, join Thena and Kylee to discuss one of Australia’s most notorious crimes, still unsolved to the date. Mr. Cruel was a particularly scary man who was breaking into homes in the 80’s and 90’s to abduct, rape, assault, harm, young girls. This case is a little graphic and hard to handle with it having mentions of children, but it is a case that NEEDS talked about and solved. The families need closure.

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True Crime Guys at @truecrimeguys on IG

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Our sources for this episode:

• https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8c5f843543b740bc96d972e9519ea122

• https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/a-new-profile-of-mr-cruel-who-may-have-been-a-burglar-before-he-was-a-killer-20240704-p5jr1e.html

• https://allthatsinteresting.com/mr-cruel

• https://whoismrcruel.wordpress.com/

• https://whoismrcruel.wordpress.com/lower-plenty-attack/

• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10569225/Masked-child-killer-Mr-Cruel-terrified-city-abducting-young-girls-homes-three-decades-ago-raped-elderly-nun-years-earlier-loose.html

Welcome to Cryptic Soup, your after-dark podcast. In this week's episode, join Thena and Kylee to talk about Nicholas Barclay, the 13-year-old child who went missing from San Antonia, Texas. The family was mourning the loss when miraculously three years later, someone turned up. Supposedly Nicholas was found in Spain! Only problem, it was not Nicholas and instead was “the chameleon”, an imposter from France. Frédéric Bourdin was the person pretending to be the lost teen, and this is that story.

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True Crime Guys at @truecrimeguys on IG

Strange & Unexplained at @sandupodcast on IG

Our sources for this episode:

• https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/missing/8-things-to-know-about-the-nicholas-barclay-disappearance-and-ensuing-deception

• https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/imposter-netflix-frederic-bourdin-nicholas-barclay-b2269897.html

• https://historicflix.com/frederic-bourdin-historys-greatest-imposter/

• https://www.grunge.com/460699/frederic-bourdin-the-crazy-true-story-of-a-serial-impostor/

• https://charleyproject.org/case/nicholas-patrick-barclay

• https://historybyday.com/human-stories/the-true-story-of-a-missing-boy-and-his-imposter/

• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/08/11/the-chameleon-annals-of-crime-david-grann

Welcome to Cryptic Soup, your after-dark podcast. In this week's episode, join Thena and Kylee as they discuss Daniel Perez, the mysterious murder of Patricia Hughes, money appearing out of thin air, and how this might be just what you think it is… a cult. Daniel Perez was the leader who began and ran the Angel’s Landing Cult in Kansas that had some severely questionable themes behind it, sometimes it is better left not knowing I think.

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True Crime Guys at @truecrimeguys on IG

Strange & Unexplained at @sandupodcast on IG

Our sources for this episode:

• DocuSeries - "Angel's Landing" on Deadly Cults, S2E2 on Oxygen
• Article - Angel's Landing survivor recalls escaping deadly cult in new doc: ‘It didn’t take long for things to turn’ by FOX News
• Article - Horrifying cult led by 'centuries-old angel' with sick sex abuse at its heart by Cult Education Institute

Welcome to Cryptic Soup, your after-dark podcast. In this week's episode, join Thena and Kylee as we discuss Anthony "Tony" Carleo, the man who (almost) pulled off one of Las Vegas’s Casino heists. Tony not only robbed the Suncoast Casino but also went about robbing the Bellagio. The Bellagio Bandit almost got away with it… till he made some silly mistakes. 

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True Crime Guys at @truecrimeguys on IG

Strange & Unexplained at @sandupodcast on IG

Our sources for this episode:

• https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/courts/bellagio-bandit-sentenced-to-3-to-11-years-in-robbery/ 

• https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/bellagio-bandit-how-one-man-robbed-vegas-biggest-casino-and-almost-got-away-105349/ 

• https://lasvegassun.com/news/2011/aug/23/bellagio-bandit-gets-3-11-years-15-million-chip-he/

• https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/courts/bellagio-bandit-sentenced-to-3-to-11-years-in-robbery/

• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bellagio-bandits-flops-caused-own-arrest/

This might be the funniest episode we've ever recorded...

Welcome to Cryptic Soup, your after-dark podcast. In this week's episode, join Thena and Kylee as they discuss Wendigos and where the lore and legends came from, how to kill one, how to create one, and everything in between. We even discuss their role in popular culture and how they have changed over time. 

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True Crime Guys at @truecrimeguys on IG

Strange & Unexplained at @sandupodcast on IG

Our sources for this episode:

• https://www.britannica.com/topic/wendigo
• https://allthatsinteresting.com/wendigo
• https://www.legendsofamerica.com/mn-wendigo/

Welcome to Cryptic Soup, your after-dark podcast. In this week's episode, join Thena and Kylee to talk about the death of Shani Louk. Shani was attending the Nova Music Festival when she heard the Red Color go off. Shani had seconds to react before Hamas militants invading the festival, attacking, burning, raping, kidnapping, and murdering attendees.

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True Crime Guys at @truecrimeguys on IG

Strange & Unexplained at @sandupodcast on IG

Our sources for this episode:

• https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/30/middleeast/shani-louk-dead-israel-intl/index.html

• https://www.timesofisrael.com/now-she-can-rest-murdered-hostage-shani-louks-parents-thankful-to-have-a-grave/

• https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-hostages-shani-louk-a37e4fd656b46be36c4c659a9c2aac7d

• https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/europe/parents-german-israeli-woman-whose-body-found-gaza-thankful-have-grave-2024-05-18/

• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67260093

• https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/world/middleeast/shani-louk-german-israel-woman-hamas-dead.html

• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-defense-forces-hostages-bodies-recovered-hamas-gaza/

• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67046444

• https://nypost.com/2023/10/30/news/shani-louk-kidnapped-at-israeli-music-festival-found-dead/

Welcome to Cryptic Soup, your after-dark podcast. In this week's episode, join Thena and Kylee as they discuss the McCarthy Alaska Massacre that occurred one fateful day. It was a normal Tuesday Mail Day when Lou Hastings, a deeply disturbed man with a bad plan, cost the lives of almost half the residents of his community. For what though, just so he could keep his wilderness dream?

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Welcome to Cryptic Soup, your after-dark podcast. In this week's episode, join Thena and Kylee to discuss the heist of Transylvania University in 2004. Four students created a plan to steal some rare books from the schools Special Collection in the Rare Books Room, selling them for millions of dollars. Only problem? Well, there were a lot actually. Warren Lipka, Spencer Reinhard, Eric Borsuk, and Chas Allen II were not as smooth as they thought they were.

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True Crime Guys at @truecrimeguys on IG

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Welcome to Cryptic Soup, your after-dark podcast. In this week's episode, join Thena and Kylee to talk about the mystery that is the life and death of Cindy James. Cindy and her husband separated and four months later she started receiving harassing phone calls, stalkers, attacks, and more. The police didn’t believe Cindy, and ultimately she was found dead. What happened to Cindy James? Was this Munchausen Syndrome or a stalker turned murder?

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True Crime Guys at @truecrimeguys on IG

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Welcome to Cryptic Soup, your after-dark podcast. In this week's episode, join Thena and Kylee to talk about Hyungje Bokjiwon (also known as Brothers Home). Brothers Home was an “internment camp” in South Korea following WWII and the Korean War. Many members of the internet have said it was the visionary basis of the Netflix show Squid Game. However, the truth behind this place is far worse, it was instead a brutal detention centre that held thousands of people while exploiting their human rights.

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True Crime Guys at @truecrimeguys on IG

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