S3 Ep5: The Deaths of Herman and Irving Arthur

S3 Ep5: The Deaths of Herman and Irving Arthur

Brothers Herman and Irving Arthur wanted to leave their life as Southern sharecroppers in Texas and move to the North in search of better opportunities. But after an encounter with the landowners turned lethal, they found themselves on the run from a town setting out for revenge.

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S5 Ep41: My Lai and the Cost of Following Orders

S5 Ep41: My Lai and the Cost of Following Orders

The massacre at My Lai was one of the most lethal attacks on civilians carried out by American troops in Vietnam. For more than a year, the Army’s official line held firm: it was an encounter with the...

12 Jan 51min

S5 Ep40: Diane Downs: Beyond Small Sacrifices

S5 Ep40: Diane Downs: Beyond Small Sacrifices

In May 1983, a young Oregon mother arrived at a Springfield hospital with a horrifying story: a stranger had flagged her down on a dark road and shot her and her three children. One child was dead, th...

5 Jan 48min

S5: Bonus: Gary Glitter and the Dark Side of Glam Rock

S5: Bonus: Gary Glitter and the Dark Side of Glam Rock

For this holiday week, we're releasing an episode that initially was available only to subscribers through GrabBagCollab.com and Apple Podcasts. In the 1970s, Gary Glitter was a glam rock sensation: s...

29 Des 202533min

Introducing The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance

Introducing The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance

On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children, was instantly a suspect. Another youn...

26 Des 202514min

S5 Ep39: All the Queen's Money: The Fall of Rita Crundwell

S5 Ep39: All the Queen's Money: The Fall of Rita Crundwell

For two decades, the small Illinois town of Dixon couldn't afford new trucks, fresh asphalt, or summer pools. Meanwhile, their trusted treasurer lived like royalty—breeding champion horses, dripping i...

22 Des 202551min

S5 Ep38: Milkshakes and Murder: The Kissel Brothers

S5 Ep38: Milkshakes and Murder: The Kissel Brothers

When two wealthy brothers from the same family were murdered three years and 8,000 miles apart, it seemed too strange to be coincidence. But behind both crimes lay the same forces—greed, arrogance, an...

15 Des 202549min

S5 Ep37: The Murder Farm of Jasper County

S5 Ep37: The Murder Farm of Jasper County

A boy’s discovery in the Yellow River launched one of the South’s most shocking murder investigations. What authorities found on John S. Williams’s farm in 1921 exposed a brutal system hiding in plain...

8 Des 202547min

S5 Ep36: Thomas Jefferson and the $157,000 Bottle

S5 Ep36: Thomas Jefferson and the $157,000 Bottle

In 1985, Christie’s auctioned off a dusty Bordeaux engraved with the initials “Th.J.” The seller claimed it had once belonged to Thomas Jefferson, and the bottle fetched an astonishing $157,000. It wa...

1 Des 202552min

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