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271 - The Menendez Brothers: Parent Killing Sociopaths? Victims? Both?
I had a lot of fun on this one taking a nostalgic look at US culture in 1989 and 1993. Also found the story of Lyle and Erik Menendez incredibly interesting. Why did two brothers viciously murder the…
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
270: Boone Helm the Kentucky Cannibal: One the Wild West's Wildest Outlaws
Levi Boone Helm. The Kentucky Cannibal. Born in 1828 in Kentucky, and hanged in Montana Territory in 1864, this guy was mayhem on legs. He spent nearly his entire adult life fighting, robbing, killin…
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
269 - Japan's Deadliest Doomsday Cult: Aum Shinrikyo
Aum Shinrikyo was a Japanese doomsday cult led by psychotic madman Shoko Asahara, a man who claimed to be Jesus who was nicknamed the Japanese Charles Manson. He was actually a much more dangerous cu…
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
268 - The Dark History of Nursery Rhymes
Who put the rock-a-bye-baby up in the tree branch, and why? Seems irresponsible. When it was raining and pouring, why didn't the old man get out of bed after bumping his head? Did he die? What is Rin…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
267 - Doctor Satan: The Insane Story of Serial Killer Marcel Petiot
Happy Halloween! This episode feels appropriately dark enough for Halloween week. French serial killer Marcel Petiot was an evil genius. A master manipulator. And the greatest scam artist we've cover…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
266 - The Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail was 2,100 plus mile journey from Independence, Missouri all the way to Oregon City, Oregon. And along this trail and its offshoots, between 1841 and 1869, somewhere between 250,000 a…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
265 - The Dolphin Point Experiment: LSD, Aliens, NASA, and Dolphin Sex
Oh boy. This is an especially weird one. Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction. In the summer of 1965, John C. Lilly, a medic and neuroscientist, and his assistant Margaret Howe, a young la…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
264 - Alcatraz: Prison Escapes, Infamous Inmates, and More
Today we head to The Rock, America's Devil Island - Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. So much prison-related info and history to go over today! I'll share the history of Alcatraz Island - how it was dis…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
263 - The Freeway Killer William Bonin and His Death Van
William Bonin is a little known serial killer who died via lethal injection in 1996 in San Quentin, after sitting on California's death row for over a decade. Surprising that he isn't more well known…
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago
262 - The Jehovah's Witnesses: Doomsday Cult
I'm guessing you know of the Jehovah's Witnesses. You've heard of them. Maybe you've noticed their "Kingdom Halls." Maybe they've knocked on your door. But - do you really know anything about them? B…
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago