290 - Amish Killer Edward Gingerich

290 - Amish Killer Edward Gingerich

Long before he brutally murdered his wife Katie - crushing her head and disemboweling her on March 18th, 1993 - Ed was really struggling with his mental health. He'd been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia a year earlier. He'd been really sick long before that. He's been battling powerful hallucinations and delusions for over a year. He'd been tormented by visions of things like a giant rabbit. He was convinced the devil was using his wife to keep him from salvation. He thought he could read messages from god by studying his spit. Despite all this, instead of getting proper treatment, he was encouraged to not take his antipsychotic medication. He was told his ills could be prayed away. He was told he was cured by a quack chiropractor who thought he could ease Ed's troubled mind by pulling on his toes and making him drink blackstrap molasses. Seriously. Today's episode is a fascinating, ridiculous, darkly funny at times, so sad in others, cautionary tale to remind us all to take our mental health very seriously.

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515 - Fort Hood: Murders, Mysteries, and Silence

515 - Fort Hood: Murders, Mysteries, and Silence

For years, Fort Hood has been plagued by an unsettling string of murders, disappearances, suspicious deaths, and allegations of institutional failure that have left grieving families searching for ans...

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Short Suck 61: Why Are Nordic People So.... Happy?

Short Suck 61: Why Are Nordic People So.... Happy?

For over a decade, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Sweden have consistently ranked among the happiest nations on Earth—but why? We dig into the research behind the World Happiness Report, separ...

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514 - Carl Tanzler: Romantic... Necrophiliac?

514 - Carl Tanzler: Romantic... Necrophiliac?

In Key West, Florida during the Great Depression, an obsessed German radiology technician, Carl Tanzler, became convinced that a dying young woman named Elena de Hoyos was his supernatural soulmate. A...

6 Juli 2h 58min

513 - The Dark Strangler: Serial Killer Earle Nelson

513 - The Dark Strangler: Serial Killer Earle Nelson

For at least sixteen months in the 1920s, Earle Nelson terrorized North America, murdering at least twenty-two women while drifting from city to city under false identities. Known as the Gorilla Man a...

29 Juni 2h 26min

Short Suck 60: The Mystery of the Yuba County Five

Short Suck 60: The Mystery of the Yuba County Five

In February of 1978, five friends left a college basketball game in Northern California and seemingly vanished into thin air. Months later, four of them were found dead deep in the wilderness, miles f...

24 Juni 1h

512 -  The Stonewall Riots

512 - The Stonewall Riots

On June 28th, 1969, New York City police expected another routine raid on a gay bar. Instead, they found a community that had finally had enough. This week, we explore the long history of anti-LGBTQ+ ...

22 Juni 2h 41min

511 - The 1991 Austin Yogurt Shop Murders

511 - The 1991 Austin Yogurt Shop Murders

On a December night in 1991, four teenage girls gathered at an Austin frozen yogurt shop for what should have been an ordinary evening of work, pizza, friendship, and weekend plans. Instead, they beca...

15 Juni 2h 36min

Short Suck 59: The Alligator Man aka The Butcher of Elmendorf

Short Suck 59: The Alligator Man aka The Butcher of Elmendorf

Long before serial killers became podcast and true crime doc celebrities in the US, there was Joe Ball: a bootlegger, bar owner, womanizer, and suspected murderer who kept a pit full of hungry alligat...

12 Juni 49min

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