S4 Ep14: Voyage of the Damned: The M.S. St. Louis
The 937 passengers aboard the M.S. St. Louis had every reason to be optimistic as they left Hamburg, Germany, on May 13, 1939. After years of their rights being slowly stripped away, the Jewish men, w...
3 Jun 202440min
S4 Ep13: Kidnapped and Buried Alive: The Nightmare in Chowchilla
When 26 California schoolchildren and their bus driver failed to show up after a swimming trip on the penultimate day of summer school, authorities launched a search that grew much more frantic after ...
27 Mai 202436min
S4 Ep12: The Tsavo Man Eaters
In 1898, a pair of killers stalked a worksite in the Tsavo region of Kenya. They evaded blockades and booby traps to torment hundreds of men who'd simply signed up to do a job but instead found themse...
20 Mai 202437min
S4 Ep11: Marie Noe and Her Cradle of Death
In the 1960s, after losing all 10 of the babies they'd conceived, Marie Noe and her husband, Arthur, became the most famous bereaved parents in America, with most of the deaths attributed to "crib dea...
13 Mai 202438min
S4 Ep10: The Walk of Death: Howard Unruh
On September 6, 1949, 28-year-old World War II veteran Howard Unruh ate the breakfast his mother made him, then armed himself with a Luger pistol and walked calmly through his Camden, New Jersey, neig...
6 Mai 202437min
S4 Ep9: The Monster of Wall Street
While the grift he deployed had been named for another man, Bernie Madoff took the concept of a Ponzi scheme and pumped it full of steroids, allowing it to keep him -- and plenty of others -- filthy r...
29 Apr 202441min
S4 Ep8: Charles Ponzi's Scheme
Italian-born Charles Ponzi had grown up hearing from his mother that he was destined for greatness, so it was no surprise to her when she visited him in America to find him wealthy beyond her wildest ...
22 Apr 202441min
S4 Ep7: The Los Angeles Times Bombing
In the midst of nationwide bombings that pit union backers against anti-union bosses, an explosion at the Los Angeles Times building crossed a line that changed everything. At 1:07 a.m. on Oct. 1, 191...
15 Apr 202438min
