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
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
