237 - The Pig Farmer Killer: Canada's Filthy Robert Pickton
Robert Pickton was born in 1949 just outside of Vancouver, CA, in Port Coquitlam, on a pig farm. His parents were Helen and Leonard Pickton, two insanely filthy human beings who couldn’t have cared le...
29 Mar 20212h 15min
236 - The Yosemite Killer and the Abduction of Steven Stayner
We got a wild one today. Today's Suck is really three Sucks in one. There is the abduction of Steven Stayner, the backstory of a notorious pedophile, Kenneth Parnell, and the story of serial killer, C...
22 Mar 20212h 18min
235 - Ward MF'n Hall
Today we take a huge deviation for the type of topic we typically cover here on Timesuck. The Space Lizards on Patreon vote on two topics a month through the app, and for today, they voted in my grand...
15 Mar 20212h 15min
234 - The Elan School, the Cult of Synanon, and the Troubling Troubled Teen Industry
Founded in 1974 by a man named Joe Ricci, the Elan School was supposed to be someplace where you could send your troubled teen so they could be rehabilitated and put back on the right track. But in re...
8 Mar 20212h 24min
233 - Blackwater and the US Private Military Industry
Blackwater. Now known as Academi. Once known as Xe Services. A private military company. One of many PMCs very active in Iraq and Afghanistan in the first decade of this century. One of many employers...
1 Mar 20212h 23min
232 - The Great Emu War
The Great Emu War! Such a weird and fun tale to tell. What an odd historical period. As World War I came to an end, Australia - whose economy was tanking, tried to figure out what to do with their ret...
22 Feb 20212h 6min
231 - Dante's Inferno
Dante's Inferno! One of the most influential literary works ever written. Put to parchment in the early 14th century, Dante's opening third of the Divine Comedy presented a clear vision of Christian H...
15 Feb 20212h 33min
230 - Armenian Genocide
This might be the first episode to get me death threats. The Turkish government does NOT like being accused of genocide, and neither do many of its citizens. But during WW1, genocide is exactly what t...
8 Feb 20212h 28min
