A 19th-century island experiment founded by two nature-loving Germans goes from Gilligan's Island to Lord of the Flies when an entitled and eccentric heiress moves in.

Sources for this episode include:

Satan Came to Eden: A Survivor's Account of the "Galapagos Affair by Dore Strauch
Floreana by Margaret Wittmer
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (Documentary)
“An Unsolvable Mystery: Captain Hancock and the Case of the Quarrelsome Castaways” (PBS)

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When a lonely Milwaukee housewife lives a double life, her secret world spirals into a decade of deception — culminating in a deadly confrontation, a staged burglary, and one of the strangest true-crime scandals in American history.

Sources for this episode include:
“‘Bat Man’ Case: a Lurid Tale of Love and Death” (LA Times)
“Old Killing Recalled, Spook Stuff Seen in Queer Case” (The Independent Record)
Contemporaneous reporting by The Daily Herald, Brainerd Dispatch, and The Duluth News Tribune

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Molly Watson had waited seven long years for her happily-ever-after wedding with her boyfriend, Jim. Then, less than 48 hours before they were supposed to walk down the aisle, Molly was murdered. And Jim either had the wildest, unluckiest story ever... or he'd fabricated a strange and demented series of lies.

Sources for this episode include:
State of Missouri vs. James Addie (Respondent’s Brief)
20/20, “I Now Pronounce You Dead” (ABC, 2022)
Trial Testimony (Court TV, 2021)

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A charismatic leader convinces his devoted followers that salvation awaits aboard an alien spacecraft trailing a comet—leading the Heaven’s Gate cult to a tragic, otherworldly mass suicide that exposed the dangerous power of blind faith and cosmic delusion.
Sources for this episode include:

Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults (HBO Max)
Heaven’s Gate: America’s UFO Religion by Benjamin E. Zeller
Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults by Janja A. Lalich

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A brilliant con man turns his life into a high-stakes romantic heist, embezzling fortunes and pulling off mind-bending jailbreaks—all to keep the man he loves in the lifestyle he thinks he deserves.

Sources for this episode include:

I Love You Phillip Morris : A True Story of Life, Love and Prison Breaks by Steve McVicker

Reporting from Alex Hannaford in Esquire

The Guardian

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26-year-old "trunk murderess" Winnie Ruth Judd killed her two best friends one hot Phoenix night in 1931. Then she stuffed both of them into trunks and loaded them on a train to Los Angeles. What the press assumed was a simple case of jealousy only got messier with each new version of the story Winnie told.
Sources for this episode include:

The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd by Jana Bommersbach The Arizona Memory Project

“Ruthless: A Long-Lost Confession Letter May Finally Tell the Real Story of Winnie Ruth Judd” by Robrt L. Pela (Phoenix New Times)

“'Trunk Murderess': Shocking new info about notorious Phoenix murders” by Meredith G. White (Arizona Republic)
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When McDonald’s ran its beloved 1990s Monopoly sweepstakes, Jerome "Uncle Jerry" Jacobson had one job: Protect the game pieces. Instead, he used his position as Head of Security to rig the game. For years. To the tune of over $24 million in cash and prizes.

Sources for this episode include:
"How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions." by Jeff Maysh The Daily Beast, July 29, 2018.

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When two members of the same family contract a mysterious illness, evidence points toward one lethal commonality: the manipulative matriarch, Audrey Marie Hilley. But once she’s caught, she escapes, evading capture for years by turning her life into a soap opera.

Sources for this episode include:

Poisoned Blood: A True Story of Murder, Passion, and an Astonishing Hoax by Philip E. Ginsburg
Hilley v. State
AP News Archives

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A boisterous entertainer and wannabe opera singer disappears from her London home. Before detectives find human remains in the basement, her mild-mannered husband flees across the Atlantic with his lover, in disguise.
Sources for this episode include:

Thunderstruck by Erik Larson

Molecules of Murder: Criminal Molecules and Classic Cases by John Emsley

Story of a Murder by Hallie Rubenhold“Was Dr Crippen innocent of his wife's murder?” (BBC)
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In 1980s Los Angeles, a charismatic prep-school hustler builds the Billionaire Boys Club—part investment syndicate, part illusion—until a high-stakes con, a missing mogul, and a pair of brutal murders expose how greed, privilege, and cocaine turned a fantasy of wealth into a deadly spiral.

Sources for this episode include:

Billionaire Boys Club (HBO)

“The True Story of the Billionaire Boys Club” (Esquire)

“Notorious founder of the Billionaire Boys Club wants parole.” (LA Times)

“Fast Cars, Armani Suits, Pretty Women: How the 'Billionaire Boys Club' Led to Murder” (People)

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