The Max Headroom TV hijacking was a 1987 broadcast intrusion in Chicago where a masked person dressed as Max Headroom briefly hijacked signals from WGN-TV and later WTTW.

The surreal, rambling interruption lasted about 90 seconds, and the culprits were never caught.

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In 2002 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her home in Salt Lake City, which sparked a massive search and intense national media attention. The story focuses on the investigation, the family’s fight to keep hope alive, and broader questions about how missing-child cases are handled in the public eye. abduction of a 14-year-old girl from her home in Salt Lake City, which sparked a massive search and intense national media attention. 

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James Frey became the center of major controversy after it was revealed that significant parts of his bestselling 2003 memoir A Million Little Pieces were exaggerated or fabricated. The scandal intensified in 2006 when Frey appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and admitted to embellishments, sparking a public debate about truth, memoir, and author credibility, and leading his publisher to issue corrections and refunds.

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Lucy Letby is a British former neonatal nurse who was convicted in 2023 of murdering seven newborn babies and attempting to murder others while working at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016. She is serving a whole-life prison sentence, continues to deny the charges, and her case remains highly controversial and widely discussed.

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Kenneth Rex McElroy was an American criminal and convicted attempted murderer who lived in Skidmore, Missouri. Infamous as “the town bully,” his unsolved killing became an international story.

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Before dawn on November 15, 1959, something went terribly wrong in a quiet farmhouse on the outskirts of Holcomb, Kansas. By the time the sun rose over the fields, Herb Clutter, his wife Bonnie, and their teenage children, Nancy and Kenyon, were all dead—and no one in the small farming community yet knew who had come in the night, or why.

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This week we are lucky enough to sit down (over zoom) with the legendary writer and documentarian Jon Ronson.

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Elisa Lam was a 21-year-old student traveling alone who vanished while staying at a downtown Los Angeles hotel in 2013. After days of searching, police released eerie elevator footage showing her behaving erratically—pressing buttons, hiding, and gesturing at something unseen—sparking global speculation. Weeks later, guests complained about low water pressure and a strange taste… leading to a discovery no one expected.

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It's our one year anniversary so we're joined by Myf Warhurst and Oliver Clark to unpack the Kim Kardashian Paris Heist. In 2016, Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in her Paris hotel room during Fashion Week, where masked thieves tied her up and stole about $10 million worth of jewelry—most notably her diamond ring—before fleeing. She wasn’t physically harmed, but the incident led her to drastically change her security and public social-media habits.

Warning: it's our one year anniversary so there are a lot of tangeants and chit chat.

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In the quiet suburbs of Ontario during the early 1990s, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka appeared to be a picture-perfect couple — young, attractive, and seemingly in love. But behind their charming smiles lay a darkness that would soon shock Canada to its core. Together, they embarked on a series of crimes so disturbing that the nation would forever remember their names. And it all began when Karla made a chilling decision — one that blurred the line between love and evil...

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