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Journalist Karen K. Ho covers the case of Jennifer Pan, a woman now in prison for ordering the hit on her parents, which ended with the death of one of them. But this story was personal for Ho because...

9 Aug 202137min

Author Mike Vance gives us details on the murders of five people in the same Houston, Texas house in 1910. The police had a suspect but there was little evidence--was the killer a jealous lover? An en...

2 Aug 202140min

Texas Monthly Senior Editor Katy Vine reports on the controversial criminal trial of Warren Jeffs, the polygamous prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Written, re...

26 Juli 202140min

Author Piper Weiss relives her privileged childhood in Manhattan when she was coached by a tennis instructor who was protecting a terrible secret; Weiss’s memoir is a cautionary tale about why young w...

19 Juli 202137min

In this episode author Melissa del Bosque takes us through her investigation into one of Mexico’s deadliest drug cartels and how it infiltrated American horseracing, leaving so many victims dead.  Wri...

12 Juli 202140min

Author Buddy Moorehouse investigates the murder of his mother’s cousin, a Hollywood actress who starred in movies with Elvis Presley and Ronald Reagan. Did Jenny Maxwell really die during a botched ro...

5 Juli 202141min

Former journalist Russell Maines takes us back to Upstate New York in 1989 when someone brutalized and murdered a mother, father and two children, and then set their home on fire just days before Chri...

28 Juni 202142min

Award-winning journalist Pamela Colloff reports on how the murder of Mickey Bryan stunned her small Texas town. But when Mickey's husband, Joe Bryan, was charged with killing her, controversial forens...

21 Juni 202144min