Elliot Williams: Five Bullets
We’re talking about a very famous case this week. In 1984, Bernie Goetz shot four Black teenagers on a subway in Manhattan. He was hailed as a hero in the press, a man who stopped would-be robbers. Bu...
16 Feb 1h 7min
Paul Solet: Chowchilla
In 1976, 26 kids were riding on a school bus in Chowchilla, California when they were kidnapped along with their driver by three men. The men buried them all underground in the middle of nowhere. The ...
9 Feb 49min
Skip Hollandsworth: She Kills
I’m really thrilled to have my buddy Skip Hollandsworth on the show this week. He wrote a book called "She Kills.” And it’s a collection of updated stories from Texas Monthly focusing on fascinating a...
2 Feb 41min
Adam Rittenberg & Kyle Bonagura: Finding Dolores Wulff
An assistant college football coach never thought they’d find his mother because Dolores Wulff had been missing for more than 40 years. Paul Wulff, along with most everyone else, believed that his fat...
26 Jan 1h 8min
Michael F. Weisberg: A Second Shot
In 1971, James Tappen Hall was gunned down in Maryland as the deputy sheriff patrolled the grounds of a country club. The police searched for suspects, which included a gang of teens known for breakin...
19 Jan 1h 1min
Meg Gardiner: UNSUB
Meg Gardiner is a thriller writer, a really great one. She has several series, but the one I’m most interested in started with a book called UNSUB about a serial killer. And it’s based on two real ser...
12 Jan 52min
Brad Ricca: Lincoln’s Ghost
Harry Houdini, the world’s greatest magician, wowed audiences around the world in the 1920s. He must have felt invincible, but then an evil spirit cursed him during a seance. And soon, Houdini would w...
5 Jan 56min
Conversation Rewind with Kate Summerscale: The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
The brutal murder of a 3-year-old shocked Victorian England not only because of how it happened, but because of who the police suspected. Could one of Britain’s most famous detectives solve the case? ...
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