S5 Ep41: My Lai and the Cost of Following Orders
The massacre at My Lai was one of the most lethal attacks on civilians carried out by American troops in Vietnam. For more than a year, the Army’s official line held firm: it was an encounter with the...
12 Jan 51min
S5 Ep40: Diane Downs: Beyond Small Sacrifices
In May 1983, a young Oregon mother arrived at a Springfield hospital with a horrifying story: a stranger had flagged her down on a dark road and shot her and her three children. One child was dead, th...
5 Jan 48min
S5: Bonus: Gary Glitter and the Dark Side of Glam Rock
For this holiday week, we're releasing an episode that initially was available only to subscribers through GrabBagCollab.com and Apple Podcasts. In the 1970s, Gary Glitter was a glam rock sensation: s...
29 Dec 202533min
Introducing The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance
On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children, was instantly a suspect. Another youn...
26 Dec 202514min
S5 Ep39: All the Queen's Money: The Fall of Rita Crundwell
For two decades, the small Illinois town of Dixon couldn't afford new trucks, fresh asphalt, or summer pools. Meanwhile, their trusted treasurer lived like royalty—breeding champion horses, dripping i...
22 Dec 202551min
S5 Ep38: Milkshakes and Murder: The Kissel Brothers
When two wealthy brothers from the same family were murdered three years and 8,000 miles apart, it seemed too strange to be coincidence. But behind both crimes lay the same forces—greed, arrogance, an...
15 Dec 202549min
S5 Ep37: The Murder Farm of Jasper County
A boy’s discovery in the Yellow River launched one of the South’s most shocking murder investigations. What authorities found on John S. Williams’s farm in 1921 exposed a brutal system hiding in plain...
8 Dec 202547min
S5 Ep36: Thomas Jefferson and the $157,000 Bottle
In 1985, Christie’s auctioned off a dusty Bordeaux engraved with the initials “Th.J.” The seller claimed it had once belonged to Thomas Jefferson, and the bottle fetched an astonishing $157,000. It wa...
1 Dec 202552min
