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341 - The Kirtland Cult Killings and Jeffrey Lundgren: 1 of 2
The craziest cult story I had never heard of. Jeffrey Lundgren was a cult leader and a mass leader before being caught, imprisoned, and executed. What a wild ride he had before it all came to an end.…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
340 - The Skull and Bones aka The Brotherhood of Death
Skull and Bones has been shrouded in mystery ever since it was founded nearly two centuries ago now, back in 1832. All members take an oath promising NEVER to reveal the group’s activities and secret…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
339 - The Death Angels
The Zebra Murders were a series of racially motivated attacks and murders committed in San Francisco, California, by some so-called "Death Angels." From October of 1973 to April of 1974, a group of c…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
338 - Three Mile Island Nuclear Disaster
Early in the morning of March 28th, 1979, equipment failures and a stuck open relief valve prevented the removal of heat from Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island Unit 2 nuclear reactor’s core - an essen…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
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…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
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 regiment…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
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 Bo…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
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 …
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
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 H…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
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…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago