S4 Ep42: Aberfan's Lost Generation

S4 Ep42: Aberfan's Lost Generation

Students at Pantglas Junior School had just settled in at their desks the morning of Oct. 21, 1966, when an avalanche of slurry swept through the building, trapping hundreds of children and teachers and wiping out nearby homes and businesses. Known as the Aberfan Disaster, the collapse of a colliery spoil tip ultimately killed 116 children and 28 adults. While the official cause was weeks of heavy rain, what happened was no mere act of God.

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S5 Ep25: The Hitler Diaries

S5 Ep25: The Hitler Diaries

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S5 Ep24: Who Killed Barbara Hamburg? The True Story Behind El Dorado Drive

The murder of Barbara Hamburg might read like fiction — a bitter divorce, a mysterious pyramid scheme, a family full of secrets — but for her son Madison, it was all too real. In 2010, Barbara was fou...

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Future Crimes of the Centuries? The Death of John O’Keefe and the Trials of Karen Read

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S5 Ep23: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: Separating Fact from Fiction

S5 Ep23: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: Separating Fact from Fiction

In 1981, 21-year-old Danny Hansford was shot and killed inside one of Savannah’s grandest mansions. The man who pulled the trigger, antiques dealer Jim Williams, claimed self-defense. What followed wa...

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S5 Ep22: The Green Bicycle Mystery

S5 Ep22: The Green Bicycle Mystery

Bella Wright was a shy, working-class woman whose life was cut short on a summer night in 1919, just short of her 22nd birthday. At first, her death looked like a tragic accident – until a single bull...

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S5 Ep21: Gun on the Ferry: The Ruin of Laura Fair

S5 Ep21: Gun on the Ferry: The Ruin of Laura Fair

Laura Fair wanted what many women in Gilded-Age San Francisco wanted: security, respectability, and a husband who told the truth. What she got instead was a years-long affair and a heap of public scor...

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S5 Ep20: The Fox in the Henhouse: Klaus Fuchs and the Secret That Changed the World

S5 Ep20: The Fox in the Henhouse: Klaus Fuchs and the Secret That Changed the World

You’d think the guy helping build the deadliest weapon in history would be someone the Allies vetted carefully. You’d be wrong. Klaus Fuchs was a physicist, a refugee, and a trusted member of the Manh...

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S5 Ep19: Karen Silkwood and the Price of Speaking Up

S5 Ep19: Karen Silkwood and the Price of Speaking Up

In 1974, 28-year-old Karen Silkwood left her home with a binder full of evidence and a plan to blow the whistle on dangerous conditions at the plutonium plant where she worked. She never arrived. What...

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