337 - Heist! The $600 Million Gardner Museum Robbery
On March 18th, 1990 two men disguised as Boston police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and overpowered the two security guards on duty. In just 81 minutes, the thieves stole over ...
27 Feb 20232h 23min
336 - The Night Witches
On October 8th, 1941, with Stalingrad surrounded, Leningrad besieged, and the Nazis making new gains on Russian territory every day, Joseph Stalin ordered the creation of three new Air Force regiments...
20 Feb 20232h 52min
335 - Leopold and Loeb: The Perfect Murder
What is the the Perfect Murder? It's what two affluent and academically brilliant young Chicagoans, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, wanted to pull off in 1924 when the murdered fourteen-year-old Bob...
13 Feb 20232h 25min
334 - The Tiananmen Square Massacre and Protests
The Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, China in 1989 is one of the most important, noteworthy tragedies in modern Chinese history. It was the biggest protest against communism rule in over sixty y...
6 Feb 20232h 38min
333 - The Sullivanians: Therapy Sex Cult
In the 1960s, a strange new cult emerged in Manhattan's Upper West Side out of the Sullivan Institute. A cult created by shady "therapist" Saul Newton, who twisted the psychoanalytical teachings of He...
30 Jan 20233h 2min
332 - Patrick Kearney: The Trash Bag Killer
This week we investigate the life and crimes of one of the Freeway Killers. Patrick Kearney, the Trash Bag Killer, was convicted for 21 murders, confessed to 32, but is suspected of up to 43 killings ...
23 Jan 20232h 12min
331 - Julius Caesar: Roman Daddy Dictator
Today we dig into the life of Julius Caesar and the final days of the Roman Republic. How was Caesar and what was Rome when he lived there? How did he transform himself from a random minor noble in a ...
16 Jan 20232h 21min
330 - Amanda Knox and the Murder of Meredith Kercher
What do you think you know about Amanda Knox? Do you think she was a sex-crazed party girl who got away with the murder of Meredith Kercher in Italy in 2007? That's what I thought before I dug into th...
9 Jan 20232h 41min
