Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Dane Huckelbridge: Queen of All Mayhem
Episode 69
We hear a lot about gunslingers and outlaws in the American West, and those stories are mostly about men. But there were female outlaws, too—like Bel…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Áine Cain and Kevin Greenlee: Shadow of the Bridge
Episode 68
The murders of Liberty German and Abigail Williams in Delphi, Indiana shook the country. But the impact of the attention, the speculation and the fea…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Rich Cohen: Murder in the Dollhouse
Episode 67
The disappearance in 2019 of Jennifer Dulos is one of the most chilling stories I’ve ever read about. When the mother of five vanished from her wealt…
5 months ago
Jane Borden: Cults Like Us
Episode 66
What is the origin story of cults? Author Jane Borden says it goes all the way back to the Puritans and their doomsday beliefs. She says that from th…
5 months, 1 week ago
Anne Soon Choi: L.A. Coroner
Episode 65
When you write a biography about a man dubbed “Coroner to the Stars,” it’s bound to be a compelling story. Who doesn’t want to read about the coroner…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Patricia Cornwell: Scarpetta
Episode 64
I’ve interviewed quite a few authors who are inspired by real people or real crimes. And then they write these fantastic novels. Patricia Cornwell’s …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Ross Halperin: Bear Witness
Episode 63
A gang in a mountain barrio in Honduras terrorized the people there for years. The police claimed that their hands were tied because witnesses refuse…
6 months ago
Michael Beach Nichols: Perfect Wife
Episode 62
Most of us have heard about Sherri Papini. She’s the woman who faked her own kidnapping in 2016, which terrified her husband and soon sparked outrage…
6 months, 1 week ago
Bryan Burrough: The Gunfighters
Episode 61
We’ve heard from my buddy Bryan Burrough before for one of his Audible books based on a true crime story. His new book is very different. It’s called…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
James Polchin: Shadow Men
Episode 60
Our story this week is set in the 1920s in Westchester County, New York…it’s a Jazz Age mystery. A young ex-sailor is found dead on a desolate road. …
6 months, 3 weeks ago