Short Suck 59: The Alligator Man aka The Butcher of Elmendorf
Long before serial killers became podcast and true crime doc celebrities in the US, there was Joe Ball: a bootlegger, bar owner, womanizer, and suspected murderer who kept a pit full of hungry alligat...
12 Jun 49min
510 - Black Death: The Bizarre Kidnapping of Chloe Ayling
A young British glamour model flies to Milan for what she believes is a routine photo shoot in 2017 — and vanishes into one of the strangest kidnapping cases in modern true crime history. Drugged, stu...
8 Jun 2h 21min
509 - 13 Hours of Terror: The 2020 Nova Scotia Massacre
In April of 2020, while the rest of the world fixated on the terrifying early days of the Covid pandemic, a 51-year-old denturist in rural Nova Scotia launched one of the deadliest mass shootings in N...
1 Jun 2h 19min
508 - John of God: Ghosts, Grift, and Psychic Surgery
For decades, hundreds of thousands of desperate people (maybe even millions) traveled to rural Brazil seeking miracles from João Teixeira de Faria — better known as “John of God” — a self-proclaimed p...
25 Mai 2h 28min
Short Suck 58: Roaring! Spinning! Winning! The Rise of the Big Wheel
Before helmets, hoverboards, and helicopter parenting… there was the Big Wheel. Louis Marx and Company turned a low-slung plastic tricycle into one of the most iconic - and unexpectedly controversial ...
22 Mai 58min
507 - Finding The Lost City of Z: Percy Fawcett's Suicide Mission
What began as a search for a mythical city hidden deep within the Amazon became an obsession that consumed famed British explorer Percy Fawcett. In 1925, convinced that an advanced lost civilization k...
18 Mai 3h 12min
506 - The Charmer: Serial Killer George Russell
Big episode today! There were just too many interesting details out there about George Russell to cut out. Such a strange, unique, and ultimately terrible human being who is alive and in prison right ...
11 Mai 3h 7min
Short Suck #57: Return to the Land: The Ravenden Experiment
Deep in the Ozarks, outside a tiny Arkansas town, a group of white nationalists believe they’ve found a legal loophole to resurrect segregation in America. They call it Return to the Land — a “traditi...
8 Mai 1h 9min
