Short Suck #36 - The Shocking Case of Mary Bell
In the summer of 1968, two young children, both under the age of five, turned up dead in Scotswood, a run down neighborhood of primarily government housing in the industrial English city of Newcastle ...
27 Jun 202558min
460 - Real Life Supervillain Mike DeBardeleben
Ever heard the name Mike DeBardeleben? I hadn't either until very recently. This guy was something else. A prolific counterfeiter the Secret Service spent many years chasing. Also someone who kidnappe...
23 Jun 20252h 49min
459 - The Acid King, the Grateful Dead, and the Birth of the Counterculture Revolution
Do you recognize the name, Owsley Stanley? If you're not a devoted Dead Head, probably not. But he's the guy who met the Dead when they had just formed, supplied them with LSD, and helped them form th...
16 Jun 20252h 54min
Short Suck #35 - Issei Sagawa: The Unrepentant Cannibal
Issei Sagawa aka the Kobe Cannibal, made a living for most of his life off of the infamy he attained... for murdering and then eating a young Dutch woman in 1981, when Issei was thirty-two years-old. ...
13 Jun 202550min
458 - WTFF? The Madness of the Zizian Cult
Do you believe that all non-vegans should die? In part for their needless murder of senseless people like.... cows? And in part because their predatory, cruel, EVIL behavior is providing a model for a...
9 Jun 20252h 45min
457 - Samuel Little: The Choke-and-Stroke Killer
This week we cover the life and crimes of the most prolific serial killer in US history, Samuel Little. A monster the LAPD once dubbed "The Choke and Stroke Killer." Before he died in 2020 at the age ...
2 Jun 20252h 25min
456 - The Staircase Murders
Did you ever watch the Staircase docu-series on Netflix? Or the 2022 HBO MAX adaptation? I watched both, and still wanted to learn more about the divisive trial over the murder of Kathleen Peterson. D...
26 Mai 20252h 33min
Short Suck #34 - The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood
In the 1960s, Natalie Wood was one of the world's leading actress, her star shining as bright as Elizabeth Taylor's. She'd been acting since she was a small child, appearing in movies like Miracle on ...
23 Mai 20251h 1min
