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Oh boy do we have a lot of Murder episodes!! We started off mostly doing true crime before we pivoted to history and some true crime and other fun things! This is part 1 of three of our Murder episodes! Re-releases on the way!

Episodes:

• Ep 4 - Part 1: Tragedy in Manchester - the murder of Kelly Anne Bates
  • A teenage girl trapped in one of the UK’s most horrifying abuse-murder cases.
    
     
• Ep 5 - Part 2: You can just leave your family, calm down! - The Murdaugh Family Murders
  • Wealth, power, and scandal collide in a South Carolina dynasty.
    
     
• Ep 6 - Part 1: Officer Black Widower - The Story of Drew Peterson
  • A charming cop whose wives kept disappearing.
    
     
• Ep 7 - Part 2: Never get in a stranger's van - The Toolbox Killers
  • Two sadists, one van, and crimes too chilling to forget.
    
     
• Ep 9 - Part 2: Do as I say - The murders of Yaser Said
  • A so-called “honor killing” that shocked America.
    
     
• Ep 10 - Part 1: "If he did it" - OJ & Nicole Simpson
  • The trial of the century, murder or fame’s dark price? (it’s murder)
    
     
• Ep 13 - Part 2: Honestly, what an a-hole - Chris Watts
  • The Colorado family annihilator.
    
     
• Ep 14 - Part 1: Demons probably aren't real, but this dude is: Pazuzu Algarad
  • A self-styled satanist killer in small-town North Carolina.
    
     
• Ep 15 - Part 2: You do not know any criminal masterminds - Tiffany Cole and (I can't believe I have to say this) Michael Jackson
  • Betrayal, greed, and a brutal burial alive.
    
     
• Ep 16 - Part 1: The Saddest Thing That Happened - Andrea Yates
  • A mother’s tragedy and the crime that forced America to face postpartum psychosis.
    
     
• Ep 17 - Part 2: Blondes Don't Have More Fun - Scott Peterson
  • The perfect husband with a deadly double life.
    
     
• Ep 19 - Part 2: You're the worst - Ken McElroy
  • The bully whose town struck back.
    
     
• Ep 21 - Part 1: Taylor's Favorite Murder - Hinterkaifeck
  • A farmhouse massacre that remains Germany’s greatest murder mystery.
    
     
• Ep 22 - Part 1: The wild life of Gypsy Rose Blanchard
  • A life of abuse ending in a murder plot, we recorded this episode before she was released from prison.
    
     
• Ep 23 - Part 2: Horror at Home - The Cheshire Murders
  • A home invasion turned nightmare.
    
     
• Ep 24 - Part 1: Impossible that she did it, Impossible that she DIDN'T do it - Lizzie Borden
  • Did she really give her parents forty whacks?
    
     
• Ep 24 - Part 2: A Couple of Real A-holes - The Moors Murders
  • Britain’s most infamous child-killers.
    
     
• Ep 25 - Part 2: Fake it Till You Make It - Andrew Cunanan & Gianni Versace.
  • Murder on the steps of a Miami mansion.
    
     
• Ep 29: The true story of Wolf Creek: The story of Ivan Milat
  • The backpacker killer who inspired horror films.
    
     
• Ep 28: Real life Chucky dolls: The story of James Bulger
  • The shocking child-on-child murder that horrified the world.
    
     
• Ep 30: I'M JACK RUBY YOU KNOW ME! - The story of Jack Ruby - Lee Harvey Oswald's killer
  • The man who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, live on TV.
    
     
• Ep 32: Black Widow Chronicles: The Dark Saga of Betty Lou Beets
  • Marriages, murder, and buried bodies.
    
     
• Ep 34: Love, Lust, and Murder in the Gilded Age: The Riveting Tale of Evelyn Nesbit, Henry K. Thaw, and Stanford White
  • The Gilded Age’s most scandalous love triangle turned deadly.
    
     
• Ep 35: The most doomed to fail relationship in history: Bonnie & Clyde
  • America’s most romanticized killers.
    
     
• Ep 40: The Indian Jeffrey Dahmer: The tale of Surinder Koli
  • India’s “house of horrors” murder case.
    
     
• Ep 44: Unimaginable Cruelty - The Chilling Tale of Nurse Lucy Letby
  • Britain’s most prolific baby killer.
    
     
• Ep 49: Consensual homicide: The true story of cannibal Armin Meiwes
  • The “consensual homicide” case.
    
     
• Ep 56: A Man in the Attic: The Villisca Axe Murders
  • An Iowa farmhouse drenched in blood.
    
     
• Ep 60: 3 Guys, 1 Hammer - The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs
  • Ukraine’s teenage thrill killers.
    
     
• Ep 64: Lonely Hearts Club - The terrible relationship of Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck
  • seduction and slaughter.
    
     
• Ep 88 - Yachting in Hell: Skylar 'Scumbag' Deleon
  • The child actor turned yacht-murdering con man.
    
     
• Ep 100 - Murder in a Locked Room: William H. Wallace
  • The puzzle of a perfect crime.
    
     
• Ep 103 - The Final Bow: Tragedy and Treachery of Daniel Wozniak
  • A community theater actor with blood on his hands.
    
     

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Speaking of religious history - here's a re-release of our episode on Friar Diego De Landa & the Mayans. There are many Maya people still living in Central / Meso America. They have a rich culture, but they did have tons of written history burned away by Spanish Friars - because Jesus would want you to do that? It's heartbreaking, and Taylor will always be mad about that. 

If you are tempted for a moment to say 'but it stopped human sacrifices' I'll stop you there & ask you to please see our episode 145 about Witch Hunts. #bless

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Religion has sparked wars, inspired art, toppled empires, and comforted the faithful. In these episodes, we explore the stories where belief shaped human history in unforgettable and sometimes unsettling ways.

Episodes:

• Ep 5 - Part 1: Divorce is fine, calm down! - The Story of Anne Boleyn & Henry VIII
  • When Henry VIII wanted out of his first marriage, he set off a chain reaction that changed religion across Europe. Anne Boleyn’s story is one of love, power, and a church forever altered.
    
     
• Ep 6 - Part 2: Love you Forever! - The Story of the Taj Mahal
  • The Taj Mahal isn’t just an architectural wonder — it’s a monument to faith, love, and loss. This is the story of Shah Jahan and the devotion that built one of the world’s most sacred sites.
    
     
• Ep 14 - Part 2: Big Trouble in Little Plymoth - William Bradford & Thomas Morton
  • Puritan leader William Bradford clashed with free-spirited Thomas Morton in early New England. Their fight over religion, freedom, and morality set the stage for America’s culture wars.
    
     
• Ep 18 - Part 2: Our Favorite Demon Hunters - Ed & Lorraine Warren
  • The Warrens claimed to battle demons, ghosts, and the devil himself. We dig into their faith-driven investigations and the blurred line between belief and exploitation.
    
     
• Ep 43: Maya's Curse Unveiled: The Friar Diego De Landa Enigma
  • Friar Diego De Landa tried to stamp out Maya religion by burning their sacred texts. But his work left behind the very records that now help us understand their spiritual world.
    
     
• Bonus: Interview with Marcos Antonio Hernandez - Author of "Where They Burn Books, They Also Burn People""
  • An intimate conversation on religion, censorship, and the power of faith in shaping societies. Hernandez explores how burning books often foreshadows darker persecution.
    
     
• Ep 127 - Suffering for Salvation: The Complicated Legacy of Mother Teresa
  • he Complicated Legacy of Mother Teresa — Mother Teresa is remembered as a saint, but her methods and motives sparked global debate. We explore the tension between faith, charity, and suffering.
    
     
• Ep 129 - Mother of Sparrows: The Vengeance of Saint Olga of Kiev
  • Saint Olga is venerated for her piety — but her story is also soaked in blood and vengeance. How did a woman who burned villages alive become canonized as a holy figure?
    
     
• Ep 145 - Witch Trials: Not just in Salem!
  • Europe burned, drowned, and hanged thousands of supposed witches long before Salem. We trace the hysteria, fear, and power struggles behind these trials.
    
     
• Ep 177: What's the worst that could happen? - The Münster Rebellion of 1534
  • A radical religious sect seized the German city of Münster and declared it the New Jerusalem. The bloody siege that followed proved just how dangerous faith and fanaticism can become.
    
     
• Ep 194: The Vatican State: How did it come to be?
  • The Vatican didn’t always exist as its own nation. This episode traces the religious and political twists that carved out the world’s smallest country with the biggest influence.

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Sybil - by Flora Rheta Schreiber - https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/sybil-by-flora-rheta-schreiber/259328/item/84207467/?#edition=4801599&idiq=3086510

Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case - By Debbie Nathan - https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/sybil-exposed-the-extraordinary-story-behind-the-famous-multiple-personality-case_debbie-nathan/271028/?

Today, we delve into the 1970s sensational 'novel non-fiction' book 'Sybil.' Sybil is the heroic journey of a woman plagued with 16 separate personalities - they came from [and trigger warning here] horrific childhood abuse and were eventually merged with the help of her psychiatrist. The book made A LOT of money, was a made-for-TV movie, and started a company called Sybil, Inc.

Was it true? Kind of? Was the real Sybil pushed into it by her doctor? Also kind of?

We will talk about what's true, what isn't, and how complicated and 'magical' our human brains are. 

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Imagine you have a lot of money and months of free time, so you decide to climb the highest mountain we've got. That's good for you, but if you die there, you stay there, and recently, there's a line to the top.

In this re-release, we'll discuss the first time, tragic times, and the sherpas who keep the whole thing going. Aren't they the heroes?

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Remember the 1950s? We don't either, and it wasn't like, ideal for women and minorities... but there WAS this idea of a place you could go to get away - think Palm Springs now (if you ignore all the unhoused people, which you should not, someone should do something about Palm Springs).

ANYWAY - here's a re-release of a time when men tried to create a paradise by changing nature, and they absolutely did not.

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Let's go back to our Volcano Series for Natural Disaster Week! Today, we'll tell the story of how Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. We'll cover what type of volcano, the warnings of doom, the cities themselves, how Nero sent help, how they were discovered centuries later, and how climbing Mt. Vesuvius is hella boring.

This was part 2 in our 7 part series that you can find anywhere you listen!

Ep 38: Volcanoes Pt 1 - Mt. Toba's Echo: Journey into Earth's Cataclysmic Past

• A prehistoric eruption so massive it may have nearly wiped out humanity.

Ep 42: Volcanoes Pt 2 - Time Capsule of Tragedy: Exploring Pompeii's Frozen History

• Mount Vesuvius destroys—and preserves—an entire Roman city in one day.

Ep 46: Volcanoes Pt 3 - The Silent Summer: Tambora's Echo in Time

• An eruption in 1815 caused global famine and the “year without a summer.”

Ep 51: Volcanoes Pt 4 - Krakatoa: Exploring the Tectonic Plates Beneath the Cataclysmic Eruption

• One of the loudest sounds in history, an eruption that reshaped the map—and the climate.

Ep 59: Volcanoes Pt 5 - Mud, Fire, and Ash: The Mt. Pelée Eruption

• In 1902, a pyroclastic flow annihilated the city of Saint-Pierre in seconds.

Ep 66 - Volcanoes Part 6 - George Vancouver, this is it!: The Eruption of Mt. St. Helens

• When the mountain blew in 1980, it was one of the most iconic eruptions of the 20th century.

Ep 71 - Volcanoes Part 7 - The End of the World - Yellowstone & Mass Extinctions

• The mother of all volcanoes—and how super-eruptions may have ended worlds before.

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Ep 38: Volcanoes Pt 1 - Mt. Toba's Echo: Journey into Earth's Cataclysmic Past

• A prehistoric eruption so massive it may have nearly wiped out humanity.

Ep 42: Volcanoes Pt 2 - Time Capsule of Tragedy: Exploring Pompeii's Frozen History

• Mount Vesuvius destroys—and preserves—an entire Roman city in one day.

Ep 46: Volcanoes Pt 3 - The Silent Summer: Tambora's Echo in Time

• An eruption in 1815 caused global famine and the “year without a summer.”

Ep 51: Volcanoes Pt 4 - Krakatoa: Exploring the Tectonic Plates Beneath the Cataclysmic Eruption

• One of the loudest sounds in history, an eruption that reshaped the map—and the climate.

Ep 59: Volcanoes Pt 5 - Mud, Fire, and Ash: The Mt. Pelée Eruption

• In 1902, a pyroclastic flow annihilated the city of Saint-Pierre in seconds.

Ep 66 - Volcanoes Part 6 - George Vancouver, this is it!: The Eruption of Mt. St. Helens

• When the mountain blew in 1980, it was one of the most iconic eruptions of the 20th century.

Ep 71 - Volcanoes Part 7 - The End of the World - Yellowstone & Mass Extinctions

• The mother of all volcanoes—and how super-eruptions may have ended worlds before.

Ep 73: Disaster in the Desert: Saga of the Salton Sea

• An accidental inland sea created by engineering mistakes. Still a toxic mess today.

Ep 74 - Get Your 'Blood's Worth': The Great Fire of London

• 1666: a bakery fire reduces London to ashes and reshapes the city.

Ep 77 - Cloudy with a Chance of Terror: Cumulonimbus

• Towering thunderclouds that can shred planes and spark terror.

Ep 78 - Ditka's Inferno: The Great Chicago Fire

• A cow, a lantern, or just bad luck—Chicago burns in 1871.

Ep 86 - Shake it like you mean it - The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

• One of the deadliest quakes in U.S. history levels the city in seconds.

Ep 89 - Fire In the Rubble: The Great San Francisco Fire

• If the quake didn’t get you, the fires afterward did.

Ep 95 - The Highest Graveyard on Earth: Mt. Everest

• The world’s tallest mountain doubles as the world’s highest graveyard.

Ep 99 - Dying in the Deep: The Blue Hole

• A diving paradise turned deadly trap in the Red Sea.

Ep 136 - Cave of Doom: John Jones & Nutty Putty Cave

• A caver gets trapped in a narrow tunnel—rescue efforts turn into tragedy.

Ep 142 - Death Lurking in the Deep - Limnic Eruptions

• Lakes that suddenly explode with CO₂, suffocating entire villages.

Ep 163: Deep Blue Something - Tom & Eileen Lonergan

• A couple left behind at sea after a scuba trip. Their disappearance haunts divers to this day.

Ep 164: Incarcerated & Fire Fighting - California's Conservation Camps

• Incarcerated people fight wildfires for pennies on the dollar.
• BONUS: Real Life Stories - Incarcerated Firefighting with Brett Crawford

Ep 196: Table for 87? - The Donner Party

• Snowbound pioneers resort to cannibalism in one of America’s darkest survival stories.

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We've said it before, and we'll say it again - divorce is an option. It's not great, people will be sad, kids will be traumatized, but it's WORSE to be the child of a murderer and not have a mom.

Today, Farz tells us about how Helle Crafts's husband, Eastern Airlines pilot Richard Crafts, thought that the best way to keep sleeping with floight attendents would be to get rid of his wife, and her body. We won't spoil it here, but it's gross (not goopy though!).

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Episodes:

• Ep 7 - Part 1: Dorian Gray-t Expectations - Oscar Wilde's wild ride
  • Oscar Wilde’s wit, scandal, and downfall - the wild ride of one of literature’s sharpest voices.
    
     
• Ep 23 - Part 1: Our Lady of the Night - Mary Shelley
  • Mary Shelley, teenage author of Frankenstein, inventor of science fiction, and survivor of endless tragedy.
    
     
• Ep 79 - Germany's love affair w/ 1st Nation culture: The story of Karl May
  • The strange case of Karl May - Germany’s most popular writer who inspired a national obsession with the American West.
    
     
• Ep 97 - A Famous British Woman is Missing!!!: It's Agatha Christie this time
  • Agatha Christie disappears for eleven days, sparking a real-life mystery worthy of her novels.
    
     
• Ep 125 - Book Hunting in The Renaissance: Poggio Bracciolini
  • Poggio Bracciolini, the humanist who scoured Europe’s monasteries to rescue lost classical texts.
    
     
• Ep 149 - The Fairytale Man: Hans Christian Andersen
  • Hans Christian Andersen, the oddball genius who gave us The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, and more.
    
     
• Ep 152 - Grammar Nerds for the Ages: The Brothers Grimm
  • The Brothers Grimm weren’t just about fairytale - they were obsessed with cataloging language itself.
    
     
• Ep 153 - Silly Rhymes, Serious Messages: Dr. Seuss
  • Dr. Seuss, beloved for his whimsical rhymes but deeply political at heart.
    
     
• Ep 174: We're men, we're men in tights (Tight tights!) - Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Geoffrey Chaucer, courtier and chronicler, and the bawdy brilliance of The Canterbury Tales.
    
     
• Ep 195: The men who wrote the Dictionary - Professor James Murray & Dr. W. C. Minor
  • Professor James Murray and Dr. W. C. Minor are unlikely partners who built the Oxford English Dictionary.

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