27. Femme Fraud: Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos
SURPRISE EPISODE!!! A special Saturday treat because you deserve it, baddies. Elizabeth Holmes was just 19 years old in 2003 when she founded what would become a multi-billion dollar health technology...
2 Maj 2h 25min
26. The Bermuda Triangle: We Went Looking… and Got Lost Too
We're back Baddies and this time, we are covering the famous Bermuda Triangle. Spoiler… It’s Literally Just Water (or is it?).The Bermuda Triangle refers to a region in the Western North Atlantic wher...
27 Nov 20251h 19min
24. Fools Gold: The Bre-X Gold Fraud Scandal
In 1996, Canadian businessman Adam Walsh was the owner of one of the highest valued junior mining companies in North America, which had several major mining companies bidding for shares and many mutua...
11 Mars 20251h 35min
23. Don’t drink the (Flavor)aid: Jim Jones and the Jonestown massacre
Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918 people died at the settlement in a mass poisoning and group suicide at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma; and at ...
25 Feb 20251h 43min
22. H. H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer and his Murder Castle (...?)
H. H. Holmes was an American serial killer and con artist who operated in the early 1890’s and is most well known for luring victims to his “Murder Castle”, a hotel that he built to accommodate guests...
29 Apr 20241h 6min
21. Auschwitz Angel of Death: Nazi Doctor Josef Mengele
Josef Mengele is one of the most infamous figures of the Holocaust. Despite being trained as a doctor, Josef spent little time preserving life and instead brought a sadistic cruelty to experiments tha...
22 Apr 20241h 9min
20. George Leonidas Leslie and the Manhattan Savings Institution Heist
This weeks story takes us back to the late 1870’s in Manhattan, New York, where a seasoned criminal was planning his most daring heist yet – a robbery of The Manhattan Savings Institution on Broadway ...
15 Apr 20241h 15min
