S6 Ep2: Brief Against Death: After Edgar Smith's Release
In 1976, a woman survived a brutal kidnapping and stabbing in a San Diego parking lot. The man accused of the attack was Edgar Smith—once a cause célèbre, hailed as a wrongfully convicted intellectual...
2 Maalis 45min
S6 Ep1: Brief Against Death: The Murder of Victoria Zielinski
In 1957, Edgar Smith was sentenced to death for the murder of a teenage girl in New Jersey. From his prison cell, he began writing letters, essays and arguments build a case not in court, but on the p...
23 Helmi 50min
S5 Ep46: The Mysterious Death of Hitler's Niece
In 1931, Adolf Hitler’s 23-year-old niece, Geli Raubal, was found dead in the Führer's Munich apartment. Authorities ruled it a suicide. But the evidence didn’t settle easily—and neither did the silen...
16 Helmi 48min
S5 Ep45: A Newlywed Murdered: The Sherri Rasmussen Case
Sherri Rasmussen had been married for just three months when she was brutally murdered in her California home. Police quickly decided the case was a burglary gone wrong—and then stopped looking. It wo...
9 Helmi 55min
S5 Ep44: Mary Meyer: The Mysterious Murder of JFK's Mistress
In October 1964, a Washington socialite was shot execution-style on the Georgetown towpath. She had been JFK's lover. Her ex-husband worked for the CIA. Her diary vanished. And the man accused of kill...
2 Helmi 50min
S5: From What If They're Wrong: The Justice Who Won't Let Go
From Amber's other podcast, titled What If They're Wrong? After the Accusation: After charges against former death row inmate Elwood Jones were dismissed, Ohio Supreme Court Justice Joe Deters—the for...
30 Tammi 50min
S5 Ep43: The President's Silence: How Thousands Died Before Reagan Said 'AIDS'
In October 1982, journalist Lester Kinsolving asked the White House press secretary about a mysterious disease that had already killed hundreds of Americans. The response? Laughter. For years, as the ...
26 Tammi 52min
S5 Ep42: Mary Ann Cotton: Britain’s First Serial Killer
In the industrial villages of 19th-century England, death was common—but not this common. Over two decades, Mary Ann Cotton married, buried, and moved on with chilling regularity as children, husbands...
19 Tammi 48min
