Two Women, One Axe, and Zero Convictions
Send us Fan Mail In 1977, Yale students Terri Jentz and Avra Goldman were cycling across the United States when they stopped to camp at a park in Oregon. While they slept, a man drove his truck over t...
28 Apr 27min
Girly Chew: The Woman Who Predicted Her Murder
Send us Fan Mail The case of Girly Chew Hossencofft is a study in how “weirdness” can become a weapon. And I truly mean weird. Con men, fashion designers, UFO’s, and conspiracy theories about otherwo...
21 Apr 25min
A Daughter’s Betrayal: The Murder of Barbara Keim
Send us Fan Mail In July 2005, 41-year-old Barbara Keim was killed in her own home in an act of violence orchestrated by her daughter. Investigators eventually uncovered a planned conspiracy involving...
18 Apr 27min
The French Family Annihilator
Send us Fan Mail We've all heard the expression "fake it till you make it", right? Well, Jean-Claude Romand did just that for 18 years, but never truly made it. Instead, he chose to murder his entire ...
7 Apr 33min
The Unsinkable Terry Jo
Send us Fan Mail It was November 1961. The waters in the Bahamas were as blue and beautiful as ever. But for Nicolaos Spachidakis, a second officer on a Greek freighter called Captain Theo, something ...
31 Mars 23min
Virginia Hall: The Limping Spy They Couldn't Catch
Send us Fan Mail Today we are talking about Virginia Hall, an American Spy who was able to completely evade the Gestapo during WWII. The Gestapo labeled her as “The enemy’s most dangerous spy.” During...
24 Mars 32min
Josephine Baker: The Spy No One Suspected
Send us Fan Mail Today we’re talking about Josephine Baker, the remarkable entertainer who took France by storm and used her unsuspecting identity for subterfuge in World War II - truly a badass woman...
17 Mars 41min
Elizebeth Smith Friedman – The “Mother of Cryptology”
Send us Fan Mail In honor of Women's History Month, this week we are talking about Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a woman who turned her love for decrypting Shakespeare’s plays into cracking codes and ciph...
10 Mars 26min
