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Episode 16: "The Devil Goes to the Movies"
American pop culture in the 1920s and 1930s was on the verge of a new sort of entertainment. Cultural shifts and breakthroughs in technology had led …
1 day, 20 hours ago
American Nightmares 16: "The Devil Goes to the Movies"
American pop culture in the 1920s and 1930s was on the verge of a new sort of entertainment. Cultural shifts and breakthroughs in technology had led …
2 days, 13 hours ago
Gangs of Chicago
Season 10 Episode 5
John Torrio was finally exactly where he wanted to be.
With his uncle, Big Jim Colosimo out of the way, his business expanding across the South Side …
5 days, 12 hours ago
American Dread: Three Minutes Underwater, the Lisa Cutler Story
A mother. A bathtub. A death ruled suspicious.
In 2012, Lisa Cutler was found drowned in her Mount Zion, Illinois home while her children slept upstai…
1 week, 4 days ago
American Nightmares Episode 16: "The Devil Goes to the Movies, Part One
American pop culture in the 1920s and 1930s was on the verge of a new sort of entertainment. Cultural shifts and breakthroughs in technology had led …
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Eulogy For Big Jim Colosimo
Season 10 Episode 4
John Torrio was ready when the new Prohibition law went into effect, but he seemed to be the only one. He was waiting impatiently for everyone else t…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Episode 15: "The King of America"
The strange and sometimes sinister world of America’s homegrown religions, faith movements, and cults is filled with bizarre characters. There are ma…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
American Dread: The Girl Who Never Reached the Door
She was only a few feet from safety.
On a freezing December night in 1975, Carol Ann Rofstad never made it inside her sorority house. Instead, she was…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Episode 14: "The Holy Rollers' Sex Cult"
The date when a shaft of divine light came down from the heavens and transformed Franz Edmund Creffield from an obscure, backwater evangelist into Pr…
4 weeks, 2 days ago
Torrio
Season 10 Episode 3
John Torrio was 31 years old when he first came to Chicago to free his uncle by marriage – Big Jim Colosimo – from threats by Black Hand gangsters. B…
1 month ago