Episode 291 - The Silk Road: Drugs, Data & The Dread Pirate Roberts
For some, the end of the world's most infamous online marketplace was a major victory in the never ending war on drugs. But for others, the global, multi-agency investigation into the Silk Road set a ...
30 Mar 202353min
Episode 290 - Jack Parsons: The Occultist Sex-Crazed Father of Modern Rocketry
From Copernicus to Newton, the greatest minds in history have had a crater named after them on the moon. But one name you may not know is Jack Parsons, a pioneer of rocket science whose contributions ...
23 Mar 202346min
Episode 289 - David vs Robin: The Bain Family Killings - Part 2
Last week we left off with the absolutely batshit-craziness of Margaret’s “Bel”-filled diaries and the rumoured accusations of incest made by Laniet Bain against her father Robin.And we’ll come back t...
16 Mar 20231h 12min
Episode 288 - Black Magic, Incest & Murder: The Bain Family Killings - Part 1
On 29 June 1994 the entire Bain family, except for eldest son David, were found murdered in their house in Dunedin.The investigation that followed would go on to become New Zealand’s most controversia...
9 Mar 202358min
Episode 287 – The Murdaugh Family Murders
The Murdaugh murders are not one story; they are a seemingly endless web of lies, entitlement, and confusion. At the centre of the web are the bodies of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh, found at their huntin...
2 Mar 20231h 4min
Episode 286 - Emanuela Orlandi: The Vatican’s Only Missing Citizen
Organised crime, sex scandals, terror plots, hundreds of millions of missing dollars, a gangster known as ‘God’s Banker’ found hanging from a bridge in London, a 100-year-old apocalyptic prophecy, an ...
23 Feb 202350min
Episode 285 - The Murder of Rachel Nickell
Rachel Nickell’s brutalised body was found on Wimbledon Common with her two-year-old son Alex wiping her bloodied face and begging her to 'wake up'. The nature of the broad daylight attack and the hor...
16 Feb 202358min
Episode 284 - Dorothea Puente: The Boarding House of Death
Dorothea Puente may have looked every bit the placid old lady she played. In reality, she was in her early fifties, and was using her self-made status as a ‘pillar of the community’ to divert attentio...
9 Feb 202353min
