EP290: Leopold and Loeb - Nein Übermenschen (p1 of 2)

EP290: Leopold and Loeb - Nein Übermenschen (p1 of 2)

In 1924, two wealthy, brilliant University of Chicago students set out to commit what they believed would be the perfect crime.Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb believed themselves intellectually superior and beyond ordinary moral restraint. Inspired (and deeply misreading) the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, they convinced themselves that rules applied to other people.It became the first true Trial of the Century. A national referendum on free will, punishment, privilege, youth, psychology, and whether the state should answer killing with killing.Were Leopold and Loeb supermen?Or were they privileged, deluded young men who mistook intelligence for immunity? Join us as we dismantle the myth.Because intelligence without empathy is not superiority. It’s danger.

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EP282: The Sleepover That Never Ended

EP282: The Sleepover That Never Ended

On a warm summer morning in Calgary, a family home sat strangely still—a sense of unease settling over the quiet suburban street. Five-year-old Nathan O’Brien had spent the night at his grandparents’ ...

20 Nov 202530min

EP281: Harry Thaw - The First 'Trial Of The Century'

EP281: Harry Thaw - The First 'Trial Of The Century'

Before O.J., before Menendez, before every “trial of the century” that would follow—there was Harry K. Thaw. The millionaire playboy who gunned down famed architect Stanford White in front of hundreds...

7 Nov 202540min

EP280: Blood on Sutton Place

EP280: Blood on Sutton Place

It started as just another night in Manhattan — a birthday party, a few drinks, the blur of city lights against the windows of a luxury high-rise on East 59th Street. The kind of place where people go...

29 Okt 202533min

EP279: The Slender Man Stabbing

EP279: The Slender Man Stabbing

In 2014, two 12-year-old girls lured their best friend into the woods during a sleepover… and stabbed her 19 times to prove their loyalty to Slender Man—a fictional internet character created on Creep...

21 Okt 202533min

EP278: What the Camera Found

EP278: What the Camera Found

Today, we travel to the Czech Republic, to a quiet town that once seemed ordinary. Behind closed doors, however, a nightmare was unfolding—one so disturbing it shocked not only the local community but...

14 Okt 202541min

EP277: The Murder Of Holly Bobo

EP277: The Murder Of Holly Bobo

In April 2011, 20-year-old nursing student Holly Bobo vanished from the quiet town of Parsons, Tennessee, after being seen walking into the woods near her home. What followed was one of the most massi...

30 Sep 202546min

EP276: The Murders at Fox Hollow Farm

EP276: The Murders at Fox Hollow Farm

They called it Fox Hollow Farm, a quiet estate tucked away in the Indiana woods. By day, its owner, Herb Baumeister, was a family man, a businessman, someone who seemed perfectly ordinary. But at nigh...

15 Sep 202543min

EP275: Dennis Nilsen - Britain's Kindly Killer

EP275: Dennis Nilsen - Britain's Kindly Killer

He looked like the friendly neighbor everyone trusted. A soft-spoken civil servant with a kind smile, Dennis Nilsen appeared anything but dangerous. But behind the closed doors of his North London fla...

13 Sep 202552min

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