357 - Whitey Bulger: How the FBI Built a Mob Boss
Today we take a fascinating look into how Whitey Bulger rose to power in Boston's underworld in the 70's and 80's, with not only the FBI's protection, but also their direct help. No one (that we're aw...
17 Jul 20232h 39min
356 - Jerry Brudos: The Shoe Fetish Slayer
We got a weird one today! Wow. Jerry Brudos was a serial killer who became completely consumed with sexual fantasies revolving around women's shoes - specifically high heels - and women's undergarment...
10 Jul 20232h 55min
355 - Witchcraft!
Today we do a deep dive on the history of witchcraft. What is witchcraft? How does it differ from organized religion? Why did burning witches ever become a thing, and do witch hunts still occur in the...
3 Jul 20233h
354 - The Redemption Experiment of Serial Killer Jack Unterweger
In the Spring of 1990, when Jack Unterweger was released from prison in Austria after serving fifteen years for strangling an eighteen year-old to death with her own bra (amongst numerous other crimes...
26 Jun 20232h 18min
353 - The Crusades
From 1095 to 1291 CE, thousands and thousands of knights, peasants, nobles, soldiers, and more left Europe for the Holy Land around Jerusalem to take land and power away from Muslims, and into Christi...
19 Jun 20232h 20min
352 - R. Kelly's Sex Cult
Did R. Kelly truly have a sex cult? For around a quarter-of-a-century Robert Sylvester Kelly wrote hit after hit after hit, becoming one of the most successful musical artists in American history. Bu...
12 Jun 20232h 56min
351 - Pizza Bomber: The Mysterious Death of Brian Wells
On August 28, 2003, a 46 year-old pizza delivery man named Brian Douglas Wells robbed a PNC Bank near his hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania, with a bomb locked to his body at his neck. After the bomb det...
5 Jun 20232h 22min
350 - The Hillside Stranglers
Between October 1977 and February 1978, with a nickname originating from the fact that many of the victims' bodies were discovered in the hills surrounding the city, the Hillside Stranglers terrorized...
29 Mai 20232h 15min
