A Fateful Ride: The story of the Scottsboro Boys – Ep. 56
The Escape Pod observes Black History Month this February with a tale of true crime out of the Depression-era Deep South. Nine Black teenagers traveling by train found themselves caught in the middle ...
21 Feb 20251h 4min
Valentine's Days So Bad, They’re Criminal – Ep. 55
A day set aside to celebrate love and romance ... what could possibly go wrong?! You know as well as we do, A LOT can go wrong on Valentine’s Day. Hop into The Escape Pod for a light-hearted episode a...
14 Feb 202540min
Liars and Aliens and Pedophiles, Oh My! – Ep. 54
A traveling salesman befriends a woman and her daughter Heidi in 1978. While Heidi sees “B” (his nickname) as a father-figure, B sees Heidi in a very different way. But, as is typical with child preda...
7 Feb 202559min
Serial Squatter Strikes Again – Ep. 53
There are terrible roommates, and then there’s THIS guy. For more than a decade, a man with extensive knowledge of squatters’ rights made life miserable for multiple people – a girlfriend, landlords, ...
31 Jan 202544min
The Long Game: Fighting crime by creating connections – Ep. 52
Police officers typically meet residents of high-crime neighborhoods on their worst days – when they’re either victims of crime or contributors to it – and providing long-term help and support while a...
24 Jan 202547min
Escape Artist Overcomes Trafficking, Trauma, Addiction, and More – Ep. 51
At age 5, she remembers being touched inappropriately; at 7, doing drugs for the first time; at 10, going into foster care, where she was a “lost child” until getting adopted in her teens. As an adul...
17 Jan 202555min
The Call: 12 year old escapes bowling alley massacre – Ep. 50
911: Emergency. Melissa, 12: Please help me ... We were all shot. A child, suffering from multiple bullet wounds, still manages to provide critical information to emergency dispatch in hopes of help...
10 Jan 202544min
HERsterical! Escaping Myths Surrounding Menstruation – Ep. 49
The curse. Aunt Flow. Code Red! Whatever you call it, women have been experiencing periods since women came to be; yet, historically, this “monthly visitor” has made people – mainly men, if we’re bein...
3 Jan 20251h 9min
