472 - The Girl in the Box
On May 19th, 1977, 20-year-old Colleen Stan was hitchhiking from her home in Eugene, Oregon, to a friend's birthday party in the little Northern California town of Westwood. She was picked up in Red B...
15 Sep 20252h 41min
Short Suck #41: Stalin's Cannibal Gulag: Nazino Island
In 1933, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin had his secret police goons round up hundreds of thousands of former farmers and he sent them into Siberia to create labor camps where they would be forced to wo...
12 Sep 20251h 7min
471 - South Africa's Ted Bundy: Moses Sithole
In the mid-1990's, convicted rapist Moses Sithole went on a murderous rampage in South Africa. He would blame his sadistic crimes on being falsely imprisoned for a rape conviction in 1989 for which he...
5 Sep 20252h 12min
470 - Trial of the Century: The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping
In many ways, America's modern obsession with true crime began on March 1st, 1932, when the 20th-month-old-son of the most famous man in America, aviator Charles Lindbergh, was kidnapped from his fort...
1 Sep 20252h 29min
469 - Action Park: America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park
If you were lucky enough to have gone to New Jersey's Action Park before it closed in the '90s, you probably have the scars to prove it. This place was WILD. And while I understand why there are no lo...
25 Aug 20252h 40min
Short Suck #40: 764 The Real Global Satanic Pedophile Cabal
I have long dismissed whisperings of secret Satanic pedophile networks. But, it turns out there truly is an international group associated with a kind of Satanism reminiscent of 1980's Satanic Panic. ...
22 Aug 20251h 2min
468 - Richard Cottingham: The Times Square Killer
The Times Square Killer didn't just kill in Times Square. Richard Francis Cottingham committed at least six murders in New York State between 1972 and 1980, plus an additional thirteen murders in New ...
18 Aug 20252h 25min
467 - Russian Wizards, Witches, and Folk Magic, Oh My!
Did you know that roughly a million people in Russia today make their living as some kind of wizard, witch, or folk healer? And that some of the most popular TV programs in Russia in the '90s were pre...
11 Aug 20252h 32min
