ENCORE: The Life and Death of Sam Cooke
Singing his way through the 1950s and early 1960s, appealing to audiences across a segregated music industry, churning out hits of dreamy quality like “You Send Me” and inspirational fortitude like “A...
30 Mars 39min
S6 Ep5: LIVE Episode: Cincinnati's "Seamstress Slayer"
In November 1958, duck hunters at Cowan Lake State Park stumbled upon a burned body so badly damaged it was nearly unrecognizable. It belonged to Louise Bergen, a 32-year-old Cincinnati mother whose d...
23 Mars 1h 3min
S6 Ep3: The Shepherd's Bush Massacre
In August 1966, three unarmed London police officers pulled over a suspicious car on Braybrook Street in Shepherd's Bush in West London. Within minutes, all three were dead—shot in cold blood by three...
9 Mars 49min
S6 Ep2: Brief Against Death: After Edgar Smith's Release
In 1976, a woman survived a brutal kidnapping and stabbing in a San Diego parking lot. The man accused of the attack was Edgar Smith—once a cause célèbre, hailed as a wrongfully convicted intellectual...
2 Mars 48min
S6 Ep1: Brief Against Death: The Murder of Victoria Zielinski
In 1957, Edgar Smith was sentenced to death for the murder of a teenage girl in New Jersey. From his prison cell, he began writing letters, essays and arguments build a case not in court, but on the p...
23 Feb 52min
S5 Ep46: The Mysterious Death of Hitler's Niece
In 1931, Adolf Hitler’s 23-year-old niece, Geli Raubal, was found dead in the Führer's Munich apartment. Authorities ruled it a suicide. But the evidence didn’t settle easily—and neither did the silen...
16 Feb 48min
S5 Ep45: A Newlywed Murdered: The Sherri Rasmussen Case
Sherri Rasmussen had been married for just three months when she was brutally murdered in her California home. Police quickly decided the case was a burglary gone wrong—and then stopped looking. It wo...
9 Feb 55min
