Holiday Break: How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer
Happy holidays, listeners! We're starting off our winter break by bringing you an episode from our colleagues at Science Vs about how a notorious murder case was solved with help from an unlikely sour...
2 Dec 202451min
Holiday Break: What’s Hiding in the Wizard of Oz?
You may have seen the movie and heard the musical, but do you know the secrets? As we take a break from our regular programming for the holidays, we’re revisiting one of the most influential films of ...
25 Nov 202437min
The Smiley Face Murder Theory (with Murder Sheet)
Three decades. Eleven states. Over 600 bodies. Across the United States, college-aged men have ended up dead in rivers, lakes, and ponds. The deaths have been ruled accidental drownings, but a team of...
18 Nov 202448min
The Hello Kitty Killers
In May 1999, Hong Kong police found the scattered remains of a young mother in a flat in the city’s Kowloon district. The crime scene was like nothing anyone had seen before: unimaginable brutality se...
11 Nov 202429min
The Rainbow Murders: The Serial Killer Theory
Nancy Santomero and Vicki Durian hitchhiked from Arizona to West Virginia in the summer of 1980. They planned to attend the Rainbow Gathering, an annual event where like-minded, free spirits could pea...
4 Nov 202445min
True Urban Legends: Candyman, with Ashley Flowers
Say Candyman’s name five times in a mirror and you’ll summon his vengeful spirit, then he’ll slaughter you with his hook. That’s how the urban legend goes anyway. It was directly inspired by a short s...
28 Okt 202432min
True Urban Legends: The Babysitter & The Man Upstairs, with Annie Elise
If you’ve babysat, you’ve heard this tale: While her charges sleep, a babysitter receives harassing phone calls telling her to “check the children”. But this urban legend has disturbing real-life para...
21 Okt 202442min
True Urban Legends: The Hex Hollow "Witch" Murder, with Kaelyn Moore
In a remote area of York County, Pennsylvania, a two-story clapboard house stands in Rehmeyer’s Hollow, aka “Hex Hollow” – where some say the spirit of Nelson Rehmeyer still resides. Perhaps that’s b...
14 Okt 202443min
