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  • EP127 - Dan White and the Anatomy of a Sweet Deception

    EP127 - Dan White and the Anatomy of a Sweet Deception
    Aug 14 2025
    In 1978, San Francisco's progressive mayor and its first openly gay supervisor were assassinated in City Hall by a former colleague. The killer’s defense, infamously mislabeled the "Twinkie Defense," would ignite a city, challenge the definition of justice, and create a legal myth that endures to this day.
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    45 min
  • EP126 - The Kremlin's Alchemist: Anatomy of the Sochi Conspiracy

    EP126 - The Kremlin's Alchemist: Anatomy of the Sochi Conspiracy
    Aug 13 2025
    In the dead of night at the 2014 Winter Olympics, a tiny hole in a laboratory wall became a portal for the greatest sporting fraud in history. This is the story of the scientist who designed a sophisticated state-sponsored doping program, and how his escape from Russia exposed a conspiracy that reached the highest levels of power, shattering the myth of the Olympic games.
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    39 min
  • EP125 - The Anarchist's Shadow: Fear and Forensics in the Sacco and Vanzetti Trial

    EP125 - The Anarchist's Shadow: Fear and Forensics in the Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
    Aug 12 2025
    In 1920, a brutal payroll robbery in a small Massachusetts town leads to the arrest of two Italian immigrant anarchists. But as the case unfolds, a terrifying question emerges: were Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti on trial for murder, or for their beliefs? This is the story of a prosecution where fear itself became the evidence, and a verdict that would echo for a century.
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    44 min
  • EP124 - The .44 Caliber Letter: How the Son of Sam Held a City Hostage

    EP124 - The .44 Caliber Letter: How the Son of Sam Held a City Hostage
    Aug 11 2025
    In the sweltering summer of 1977, a killer known as the Son of Sam paralyzed New York City. But his weapon wasn't just a .44 caliber revolver; it was the city's own newspapers, used to forge a terrifying public dialogue that transformed a lonely postal worker into a demonic celebrity and redefined the relationship between crime and the media forever.
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    35 min
  • EP123 - The Lockerbie Puzzle: Anatomy of an Impossible Crime Scene

    EP123 - The Lockerbie Puzzle: Anatomy of an Impossible Crime Scene
    Aug 10 2025
    On a cold December night in 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 vanished from the sky, raining fire and debris onto a small Scottish town. This episode dissects the anatomy of the unprecedented global investigation that followed, a painstaking effort to reassemble a jumbo jet from millions of fragments and follow a microscopic clue across continents to unmask the ghost who committed murder at 31,000 feet.
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    42 min
  • EP122 - The Ghosts of Seymour Avenue: The Resilience of the Cleveland Survivors

    EP122 - The Ghosts of Seymour Avenue: The Resilience of the Cleveland Survivors
    Aug 9 2025
    For a decade, an ordinary house on a quiet Cleveland street held an unimaginable secret. This is the story of three young women who vanished into thin air, the monster who kept them in darkness, and the anatomy of the survival, resilience, and hope that ultimately led them back into the light.
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    39 min
  • EP121 - A Sip of Treason: The Radioactive Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko

    EP121 - A Sip of Treason: The Radioactive Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko
    Aug 8 2025
    When a former Russian spy falls violently ill in London, doctors are baffled by his rapid, agonizing decline. The search for a diagnosis uncovers a terrifying truth: an assassination with a nuclear poison so rare it rewrites the rules of espionage, launching an international investigation that traces a radioactive trail from a single cup of tea all the way to the Kremlin.
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    41 min
  • EP120 - The Silent Deck: The Anatomy of the Mary Celeste Enigma

    EP120 - The Silent Deck: The Anatomy of the Mary Celeste Enigma
    Aug 7 2025
    In 1872, the merchant ship Mary Celeste was discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic, her crew vanished without a trace. With the vessel in perfect condition and cargo intact, their disappearance launched one of history's most enduring maritime mysteries. We dissect the strange collection of clues left behind and the cascade of theories that attempt to explain what happened to the ten souls aboard the ghost ship.
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    41 min