S5 Ep19: Karen Silkwood and the Price of Speaking Up

S5 Ep19: Karen Silkwood and the Price of Speaking Up

In 1974, 28-year-old Karen Silkwood left her home with a binder full of evidence and a plan to blow the whistle on dangerous conditions at the plutonium plant where she worked. She never arrived. What followed was a national uproar, a swirl of conspiracy theories, and a battle over the truth that still echoes today.

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S5 Ep42: Mary Ann Cotton: Britain’s First Serial Killer

S5 Ep42: Mary Ann Cotton: Britain’s First Serial Killer

In the industrial villages of 19th-century England, death was common—but not this common. Over two decades, Mary Ann Cotton married, buried, and moved on with chilling regularity as children, husbands...

19 Jan 48min

S5 Ep41: My Lai and the Cost of Following Orders

S5 Ep41: My Lai and the Cost of Following Orders

The massacre at My Lai was one of the most lethal attacks on civilians carried out by American troops in Vietnam. For more than a year, the Army’s official line held firm: it was an encounter with the...

12 Jan 51min

S5 Ep40: Diane Downs: Beyond Small Sacrifices

S5 Ep40: Diane Downs: Beyond Small Sacrifices

In May 1983, a young Oregon mother arrived at a Springfield hospital with a horrifying story: a stranger had flagged her down on a dark road and shot her and her three children. One child was dead, th...

5 Jan 48min

S5: Bonus: Gary Glitter and the Dark Side of Glam Rock

S5: Bonus: Gary Glitter and the Dark Side of Glam Rock

For this holiday week, we're releasing an episode that initially was available only to subscribers through GrabBagCollab.com and Apple Podcasts. In the 1970s, Gary Glitter was a glam rock sensation: s...

29 Dec 202533min

Introducing The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance

Introducing The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance

On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children, was instantly a suspect. Another youn...

26 Dec 202514min

S5 Ep39: All the Queen's Money: The Fall of Rita Crundwell

S5 Ep39: All the Queen's Money: The Fall of Rita Crundwell

For two decades, the small Illinois town of Dixon couldn't afford new trucks, fresh asphalt, or summer pools. Meanwhile, their trusted treasurer lived like royalty—breeding champion horses, dripping i...

22 Dec 202551min

S5 Ep38: Milkshakes and Murder: The Kissel Brothers

S5 Ep38: Milkshakes and Murder: The Kissel Brothers

When two wealthy brothers from the same family were murdered three years and 8,000 miles apart, it seemed too strange to be coincidence. But behind both crimes lay the same forces—greed, arrogance, an...

15 Dec 202549min

S5 Ep37: The Murder Farm of Jasper County

S5 Ep37: The Murder Farm of Jasper County

A boy’s discovery in the Yellow River launched one of the South’s most shocking murder investigations. What authorities found on John S. Williams’s farm in 1921 exposed a brutal system hiding in plain...

8 Dec 202547min

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