Bishop's Gambit: A Story of Rage and Revenge
Richard Rohr once wrote, “The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to failing or changing or dying.” And he was just talking about your garden variety, Joe Average ego. Not the supercharge...
5 Feb 202153min
Mad Science: The Murder of Paul Maasland
Michel de Montaigne once wrote that obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness. If today’s story isn’t a flawless example of that, then I don’t think there’s ever been one. It’s almost a cliché...
29 Jan 202152min
Fox Hollow: Serial Killer Herb Baumeister, Part 2
In Part 1 we introduced you to Herb Baumeister: Husband, father of three, prominent Indianapolis businessman…secret necrophile. By the early 1990s, Herb and his wife Julie were practically printing mo...
22 Jan 202159min
Fox Hollow: Serial Killer Herb Baumeister, Part 1
We talk a lot about masks on our show. Most people wear them sometimes. We have our professional mask, our “make a good first impression” mask, our “fake it til you make it” one, when we don’t want an...
15 Jan 202140min
Neighborhood Watch: The Kidnapping of Doe Roberts
Small towns are interesting places. Everybody acts like they’re the “real” America—simple, safe places where life moves at a slower pace and everybody can trust everybody else. As true crime shows nev...
8 Jan 202148min
Bad, Bad Choices: Dipshits Grab Bag
The movie “The Room” is an interesting study. If you’ve never seen it, you should. Director (and I put that in air quotes) Tommy Wiseau, who may actually be an alien or some kind of undead creature fr...
1 Jan 202156min
A Spider's Web: A Killer Who Almost Got Away
We like to think we can trust ourselves—that our read on a situation, whatever that situation may be, is correct. We need to believe we’ve got this, we’re seeing the world as it really is, nobody’s go...
25 Dec 20201h 21min
Mommy Darkest: Sante and Kenny Kimes, Part 2
So, campers. Last week we introduced you to Sante Kimes: Liz Taylor lookalike, scammer, arsonist, sadist, and mother of Kenny Kimes, a promising young man she groomed as her partner in crime from the ...
18 Dec 202048min
