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ShortHand: Cursed Films
Episode 227
For almost as long as we’ve made films, we’ve made horror films – but what happens when the terror isn’t just on screen? Movie-making lore is riddle…
11 hours ago
The Golden State Killer - Part 3: The Dark Arts of DNA Databases | #462
Episode 462
To find the most prolific and violent serial rapist and killer the state of California had ever seen, took over fifty years, and some ethically ques…
1 day, 10 hours ago
ShortHand: Kapustin Yar – Russia's Area 51
Episode 226
For decades, the Soviet Union’s top-secret testing site Kapustin Yar didn’t appear on any maps. It was so top-secret, the government relocated an en…
3 days, 11 hours ago
UPDATE: Will Bryan Kohberger Actually Get A Trial?
Bryan Kohberger is now claiming his innocence in the Idaho Student Murders.
And he wants a trial to prove it.
A year after admitting to the horrific…
1 week ago
ShortHand: Roanoke
Episode 228
When 90 men, 17 women, and 11 children disappeared without a trace – leaving behind nothing but a single cryptic word carved into a tree – it began …
1 week ago
The Golden State Killer - Part 2: I’ll Be Gone In the Dark | #461
Episode 461
Michelle Eileen McNamara dedicated her life to closing the net on the man she called “The Golden State Killer’. A man whose prolific spree of violen…
1 week, 1 day ago
ShortHand: The Bling Ring
Episode 225
What happens when a group of fame-obsessed teens with a passion for fashion go for a shopping spree in their favourite stars’ wardrobes?
You get the …
1 week, 3 days ago
ShortHand: Lili’uokalani - The Last Queen of Hawai’i
Episode 226
America the beautiful: from sea to shining sea! (...Plus a bunch of random islands 2,000 miles away in the Pacific Ocean.)
The story of why these sev…
2 weeks ago
The Golden State Killer - Part 1: A Horror Beyond Belief | #460
Episode 460
The Golden State Killer, The Easter Area Rapist, The Visalia Ransacker, and The Original Night Stalker. All pseudonyms for a man who committed one o…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
ShortHand: Alcatraz – Escape from Devil's Island
Episode 224
When the night guards passed Frank Morris’s cell, in San Francisco’s “inescapable” island super-prison, Alcatraz, he seemed to be sleeping soundly. …
2 weeks, 3 days ago