Episode 309 - Thabo Bester: Twisted Firestarter
At 2am, on the 3rd of May last year – inmates at Mangaung prison in Bloemfontein, South Africa, were woken up by an explosion. Word spread that Thabo Bester, the infamous “Facebook Rapist”, had set hi...
3 Aug 202349min
Episode 308 - Christine 'Chris Chan' Chandler: Lifelong Lolcow
Graphic Sonic fanfiction, a botched DIY sex change, incest and relentless psychosexual trolling are just some of the hallmarks of Christine Weston Chandler's story. As one of the most documented peopl...
27 Juli 202341min
Episode 307 - Warren Jeffs: Bleeding the Beast - Part 2
Last week, we looked at the formation of the ultra-obedient, bigamist Mormon cult, the FLDS – in which plural marriage to pregnant preteen girls is just the tip of the fundamentalist iceberg. In this ...
20 Juli 202346min
Episode 306 - Warren Jeffs: God’s Chosen People - Part 1
According to Warren Jeffs’ thousands of followers, he was the leader of a secretive but devoted religion – their prophet, and the representative of God on Earth. But according to US law, he was a dang...
13 Juli 20231h 3min
Episode 305 - Natalia Grace: The Orphan
In 2009, the horror film ‘Orphan’ told the tale of a couple who unwittingly adopted a 9-year-old girl, who (spoilers) turned out to be a murderous, adult woman.Sometimes though, reality is stranger th...
6 Juli 20231h 17min
Episode 304 - Jasmine Richardson & Jeremy Steinke: Natural Born Killers
Violently stabbed to death in their own home, the bodies of Debra and Marc Richardson showed the signs of an almighty struggle.The body of their eight-year-old son Tyler Jacob was upstairs, and their ...
29 Juni 20231h 6min
Episode 303 - Anthony Gignac: Prince of Fraud
How did an orphan from Bogotá, Colombia, become one of the most audacious white-collar criminals in the US during early 2000s? Starting his con career in Michigan at the age of just 12, Anthony Gignac...
22 Juni 202349min
Episode 302 - Grenfell Tower
On 14th June 2017, a fire engulfed Grenfell Tower, a high-rise residential building in West London. 74 people died, and the tragedy became one of the darkest days in recent British history.But worst o...
15 Juni 20231h 6min
