A Walking Miracle: Escape artist survives brutal attack – Ep. 58
Raped. Stabbed. Disemboweled. Nearly beheaded. How could anyone survive such an attack? The co-hosts take The Escape Pod back to December 1994, when a young woman in South Africa was kidnapped, brutal...
7 Mar 202555min
Protecting Our Kids: The real dangers of their digital world – Ep. 57
A 2nd grader sends nude photos to a stranger online. How? Why? Who or what could compel a child to do such a thing? It happens, and it happens far more often than most people realize, according to a f...
28 Feb 20251h 12min
A Fateful Ride: The story of the Scottsboro Boys – Ep. 56
The Escape Pod observes Black History Month this February with a tale of true crime out of the Depression-era Deep South. Nine Black teenagers traveling by train found themselves caught in the middle ...
21 Feb 20251h 4min
Valentine's Days So Bad, They’re Criminal – Ep. 55
A day set aside to celebrate love and romance ... what could possibly go wrong?! You know as well as we do, A LOT can go wrong on Valentine’s Day. Hop into The Escape Pod for a light-hearted episode a...
14 Feb 202540min
Liars and Aliens and Pedophiles, Oh My! – Ep. 54
A traveling salesman befriends a woman and her daughter Heidi in 1978. While Heidi sees “B” (his nickname) as a father-figure, B sees Heidi in a very different way. But, as is typical with child preda...
7 Feb 202559min
Serial Squatter Strikes Again – Ep. 53
There are terrible roommates, and then there’s THIS guy. For more than a decade, a man with extensive knowledge of squatters’ rights made life miserable for multiple people – a girlfriend, landlords, ...
31 Jan 202544min
The Long Game: Fighting crime by creating connections – Ep. 52
Police officers typically meet residents of high-crime neighborhoods on their worst days – when they’re either victims of crime or contributors to it – and providing long-term help and support while a...
24 Jan 202547min
Escape Artist Overcomes Trafficking, Trauma, Addiction, and More – Ep. 51
At age 5, she remembers being touched inappropriately; at 7, doing drugs for the first time; at 10, going into foster care, where she was a “lost child” until getting adopted in her teens. As an adul...
17 Jan 202555min
