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429 - Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos: Damsel of Death
The true story behind the incredible 2003 film, Monster, about sex worker and serial killer, Aileen Wuornos, who killed seven men over the course of one year beginning in November of 1989. Aileen's s…
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428 - Andrew Higgins: D-Day's Secret War Hero
Happy Veteran's Day! On D-Day, June 6th, 1944, over 150,000 Allied troops stormed Nazi-defended beaches in northern France in the largest military amphibious assault operation the world had ever seen…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Short Suck #21 - The Servant Girl Annihilator aka The Midnight Assassin
Today I'm sharing the little known Servant Girl Annihilator murders. A series of crimes just as shocking as the crimes of London's Jack the Ripper murders, but occurred three years earlier, in Austin…
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427 - McCarthyism: When Red Scare Paranoia Destroyed Innocent Lives
Back in the 1950s, America was very afraid of Soviet spies and communist sympathizers infiltrating the government and destroying the United States from within. And there were actual spies sharing sec…
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426 - The San Francisco Witch Killers
In the early 1980s, Suzan and Michael Carson were very worried about witches. They thought there witches all over America, even the President, Ronald Regan, was a witch. And sometimes, in order to de…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Short Suck #20 - Are Tulpas Real? The Spooky Story of Olivia Mabel
Today I’ll be sharing the strange and spooky story of Olivia Mabel. It's a story presented as a true story, centered around the unsettling concept of a “tulpa.” A thought form and sentient being will…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
425 - Ireland's True Houses of Horror
In 1975, two young boys in Tuam were exploring the grounds of one of Ireland's abandoned Mother and Baby Homes when they lifted up a loose concrete slab and found several tiny human skulls hidden und…
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424 - The Puppet Master: Robert Hendy-Freegard
I highly doubt you have ever been conned by anyone to the degree Robert Hendy-Freegard conned his victims. This 21 year-old pub bartender, waiting to go on trial for planning to kidnap his ex-girlfri…
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Short Suck #19 - Magdalena Solís: The High Priestess of Blood
Magdalena Solís was a Mexican cult leader and the extremely rare sexually motivated female serial killer. She was recruited to help a couple of grifters keep running a cult-based scam out of a cave i…
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423 - Serial Killer Carl Panzram: One Man Apocalypse
Carl Panzram is one of the most interesting serial killers we've ever covered. He was incredibly self-aware. He knew he was bad. He didn't pretend, following his final arrest, that he hadn't done any…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago