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357 - Whitey Bulger: How the FBI Built a Mob Boss
Today we take a fascinating look into how Whitey Bulger rose to power in Boston's underworld in the 70's and 80's, with not only the FBI's protection…
2 years, 9 months ago
356 - Jerry Brudos: The Shoe Fetish Slayer
We got a weird one today! Wow. Jerry Brudos was a serial killer who became completely consumed with sexual fantasies revolving around women's shoes -…
2 years, 9 months ago
355 - Witchcraft!
Today we do a deep dive on the history of witchcraft. What is witchcraft? How does it differ from organized religion? Why did burning witches ever be…
2 years, 10 months ago
354 - The Redemption Experiment of Serial Killer Jack Unterweger
In the Spring of 1990, when Jack Unterweger was released from prison in Austria after serving fifteen years for strangling an eighteen year-old to de…
2 years, 10 months ago
353 - The Crusades
From 1095 to 1291 CE, thousands and thousands of knights, peasants, nobles, soldiers, and more left Europe for the Holy Land around Jerusalem to take…
2 years, 10 months ago
352 - R. Kelly's Sex Cult
Did R. Kelly truly have a sex cult? For around a quarter-of-a-century Robert Sylvester Kelly wrote hit after hit after hit, becoming one of the most…
2 years, 10 months ago
351 - Pizza Bomber: The Mysterious Death of Brian Wells
On August 28, 2003, a 46 year-old pizza delivery man named Brian Douglas Wells robbed a PNC Bank near his hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania, with a bomb…
2 years, 11 months ago
350 - The Hillside Stranglers
Between October 1977 and February 1978, with a nickname originating from the fact that many of the victims' bodies were discovered in the hills surro…
2 years, 11 months ago
349 - The 1928 Banana Massacre
Did you know that American banana corporations turned almost all of Central America into US satellite states in the late 19th and early 20th centurie…
2 years, 11 months ago
348 - The Fountain Cult
We've covered a lot Los Angeles area cults from the 1960s and 70s, but as it turns out, there were cults in LA long before that. Lots and lots of cul…
2 years, 11 months ago