Are you ready for the ultimate law enforcement origin story? Ok....maybe it's not that serious, but it is important! You have the right to remain silent if you get questioned by law enforcement, and you probably already know that because of a ridiculous man named, Ernesto Miranda. So, press play for a true crime history lesson that will leave you with whiplash and a little knowledge of your Constitutional rights!

Sources: 

1. Broward County Bar Association, Miranda v. Arizona... The Story Behind the Opinion, Broward County Bar Ass’n, https://www.browardbar.org (last visited Oct. 26, 2025).

2. The Miranda Decision, 51 Years Later, Am. Heritage, https://www.americanheritage.com/miranda-decision-51-years-later (last visited Oct. 26, 2025).

3. National Constitution Center, Ernesto Miranda’s Role in Constitutional History, Nat’l Const. Ctr., https://constitutioncenter.org (last visited Oct. 26, 2025).

4. Miranda, Ernest, Encyclopedia.com, https://www.encyclopedia.com (last visited Oct. 26, 2025).

5. You Have the Right to Remain Silent, Am. Heritage Mag., https://www.americanheritage.com (last visited Oct. 26, 2025).

6. Ernest Miranda — Life of Crime, Law JRank, https://law.jrank.org (last visited Oct. 26, 2025).

7. Ernesto A. Miranda, Citizendium, https://en.citizendium.org (last visited Oct. 26, 2025).

The year is 1982. Neon is in, synth-pop is it, and America's favorite headache cure is suddenly… well, a terminal headache. Join us as we unpack the OG corporate crisis—where Johnson & Johnson had to prove their best-selling pain reliever wasn't a secret cyanide delivery system. It’s a story of random victims, a nationwide panic, and the birth of the tamper-evident seal. Because nothing says "we care" like a plastic wrap you can barely open.

Sources:

Netflix’s Tylenol Murders Doc Dives Into a Chilling Unsolved Crime

https://time.com/7287680/tylenol-murders-documentary-netflix/

Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders

Netflix

“Revisiting Chicago’s Tylenol Murders: An Oral History” Chicago Magazine

https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/october-2012/chicago-tylenol-murders-an-oral-history/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Who Was Tylenol Murders Suspect James W. Lewis?

https://www.biography.com/crime/a64853063/james-w-lewis-tylenol-murders?utm_source=chatgpt.com

“How an unsolved murder case changed the way we consume medicine”

https://www.ksbw.com/article/unsolved-murder-case-changed-way-consume-medicine/62930659?utm_source=chatgpt.com

“Chicago Tylenol Murders: 3 members of Janus family died in 1982…”

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/1982-tylenol-poisoning-murders-janus-family/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Today, we go to Russia. Well, actually we go back to the USSR where war wasn't the only thing that was cold. Dee tells Isaac about the fate of 8 hikers that lost their lives on the now named Dyatlov Pass. But what happened? Was it Nature or something more sinister? 

SOURCES:

https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files

www.History.com — “The Dyatlov Pass Incident: Why the Hiker Deaths Remain a Mystery”

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-tragic-mystery-of-the-dyatlov-pass-incident-has-a-new-scientific-explanation?

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/has-science-solved-history-greatest-adventure-mystery-dyatlov?

We're back with another episode where a strange phone call leads to very interesting findings in a cold case. Dee tells Isaac about a murder in 1987 that sat in a cold case pile for 22 years until it was solved by a very dedicated NOT homicide detective. You have to hear this one to believe it. 

Sources

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/amy-weidner-murder-a-look-at-the-evidence/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-hours-amy-weidner-cold-case-a-familys-quest-for-justice/ - Decades of Decit

MRBallen Podcast episode  “Sick Day”

Crime Junkie Podcast episode MURDERED: Amy Weidner

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2014/04/17/hours-takes-rape-murder-amy-weidner/7819631/

Want to hear a scary story? Good, because this week Dee tells Isaac about a Murder case. A Murder Case with some interesting supernatural events and possibly a new spectral legal defense.

Sources:

Rob Warden, The Washington Post, “‘Voice From the Grave’ Evokes a Murder Trial” (Sept. 17, 1978).

AllThat’sInteresting — “How Teresita Basa’s ‘Ghost’ May Have Solved Her Murder” 

Esquire Philippines — “Teresita Basa: The Filipino Nurse Who Solved Her Own Murder”

John O’Brien, Chicago Tribune, “‘Voice From Grave’ Case a Mistrial” (Jan. 27, 1979) 

John O’Brien & Edward Baumann, Chicago Tribune reporters, co-authors of Teresita: The Voice From the Grave 

Chicago Tribune report of police discovery of the “Get tickets for A.S.” note and early investigation in 1977 

Chicago Tribune reference in Decatur Herald, March 1979: “Man Pleads Guilty; Named by ‘Voice From the Grave’.”

On today's Episode, Dee tells Isaac about the gruesome and unimaginable crimes of Paul Warren Powell, who thankfully also happened to be one of the dumbest people to ever exist.

Episode notes: I mistakenly refer to this criminal as Paul WARREN Powell, his middle name is WARNER.

Sources:

• Paul Warner Powell #1198 http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/powell1199.htm
• PAUL WARNER POWELL v. COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA Record No. 031421 https://www.vacourts.gov/static/opinions/opnscvwp/1031421.pdf
• Paul Warner Powell : Rapist-Killer Executed by Electrocution https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paul-warner-powell-pictures-rapist-killer-executed-by-electrocution/