Published on 04 Feb 2019. We like to think we’ll see it coming. That we can plan ahead and prepare—even defend ourselves. But death comes in all shapes and sizes, sometimes so small and featureless that it slips through our carefully constructed defenses without us even knowing. And history shows us that all of us should be worried about that.

Published on 06 Apr 2018. In 1984, Sheila Wysocki found herself helping the police investigate the murder of her college roommate. Detectives asked her to help gather information, even sending her out to dinner with the main suspect.

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Published on 23 Feb 2019. In early 2000, 21-year-old Lucie Blackman and her long-time best friend Louise Phillips devised a plan to spend a few months living and working in Japan...

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Published on 11 Mar 2019. Mother and daughter Diane and Rachel Staudte committed two horrific murders and attempted a third. These two women made the decision to poison their family members using antifreeze. They planned the murders, researched the use of antifreeze, and almost go away with it.

Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss these extremely troubling murders. The decisions they made and the crimes they carried out were horrible. But when you hear from the women themselves, the reasoning they give behind their actions is bone-chilling.

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Published on 25 Feb 2019. On July 17th, 2016, Cara Beckerle went up to the bedroom of her 19-year-old daughter, Aleah, to check on her. When she opened the door, the bed was empty, and Aleah’s wheelchair was sitting next to it.

Aleah could not have left of her own free will, as she was incapable of moving on her own due to physical disabilities, and she was nonverbal due to mental disabilities. She was also prone to seizures and had to take daily medication for them. That medication was also still in her room.

What happened to Aleah Beckerle?

Published on 28 Mar 2019. Karen and Georgia cover the Cincinnati Who Concert Stampede and Glennon Engleman.

Published on 21 Jan 2019. Humans have a tendency to collect things. From baseball cards to Twitter followers, we enjoy bringing everything into one place. But when that collection represents the very worst of humanity—both in how it’s managed and where it comes from—the act of collecting comes with dire consequences.

Published on 25 Sep 2015. In the early 90s, a wealthy magazine publisher was convicted of fraud and sentenced to 18 months in a minimum security prison in Louisiana. But white collar criminals weren't the only people living there, and the other people inside had basically been forgotten about by the outside world, some of them for decades.

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Published on 18 Aug 2017. In the autumn of 1998, 23-year-old Amy Lynn Bradley was told by her parents that they had been gifted a Caribbean cruise. Amy wasn’t excited by the news like they were, she had only just moved into her own apartment after graduating from her degree in Physical Education, and she was about to start a new job.

She was busy. But more than that, the idea of a cruise across the sea gave her the creeps. She didn’t really want to go. She would be just as happy settling into her new place, which was nearby her parents and brother’s home in Chesterfield, Virginia…

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Published on 30 Apr 2018. Gypsy Rose Blancharde was a girl who had been told by her mother Dee Dee all her life that she was sick. Her mother even put her in a wheelchair from a very young age. There was one problem with all of this, Gypsy wasn't sick and she could walk just fine. This charade continued for many years, but as Gypsy became an adult she wanted out. And she conspired with her boyfriend to kill her mother.

Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss the details of this bizarre but fascinating true crime tale. Dee Dee Blanchard, they would add the 'e" to their last name sometime later, displayed all the signs of Munchausen by proxy. But this is a case that will have yourself asking, "how could a mother do that to their child". At the same time you may be conflicted about the outcome of this case and wonder who the real victims is.

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