515 - Fort Hood: Murders, Mysteries, and Silence
For years, Fort Hood has been plagued by an unsettling string of murders, disappearances, suspicious deaths, and allegations of institutional failure that have left grieving families searching for ans...
13 Jul 2h 31min
Short Suck 61: Why Are Nordic People So.... Happy?
For over a decade, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Sweden have consistently ranked among the happiest nations on Earth—but why? We dig into the research behind the World Happiness Report, separ...
10 Jul 1h 5min
514 - Carl Tanzler: Romantic... Necrophiliac?
In Key West, Florida during the Great Depression, an obsessed German radiology technician, Carl Tanzler, became convinced that a dying young woman named Elena de Hoyos was his supernatural soulmate. A...
6 Jul 2h 58min
513 - The Dark Strangler: Serial Killer Earle Nelson
For at least sixteen months in the 1920s, Earle Nelson terrorized North America, murdering at least twenty-two women while drifting from city to city under false identities. Known as the Gorilla Man a...
29 Jun 2h 26min
Short Suck 60: The Mystery of the Yuba County Five
In February of 1978, five friends left a college basketball game in Northern California and seemingly vanished into thin air. Months later, four of them were found dead deep in the wilderness, miles f...
24 Jun 1h
512 - The Stonewall Riots
On June 28th, 1969, New York City police expected another routine raid on a gay bar. Instead, they found a community that had finally had enough. This week, we explore the long history of anti-LGBTQ+ ...
22 Jun 2h 41min
511 - The 1991 Austin Yogurt Shop Murders
On a December night in 1991, four teenage girls gathered at an Austin frozen yogurt shop for what should have been an ordinary evening of work, pizza, friendship, and weekend plans. Instead, they beca...
15 Jun 2h 36min
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
