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
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
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
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
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
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
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
S5 Ep35: The Saint and the Survivors: The Story of Junípero Serra
He gave up comfort for a calling, left Spain for the wilds of California, and walked thousands of miles to bring the Gospel to Indigenous people. Father Junípero Serra is revered by some as a saintly ...
24 Nov 202545min
