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Elizabeth Smart: What Really Happened in the Kidnapping and Rescue Case
Episode 148
A 14-year-old girl was taken from her bedroom in Salt Lake City, and the case became one of America’s most closely watched true crime stories. Elizab…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Hillside Strangler: Historical True Crime and the Los Angeles Serial Killer Case
Episode 147
Los Angeles thought one killer was stalking its hillsides. The truth was even stranger: two men, a trail of murdered women, and a case that exposed h…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Bobby Dunbar: What Really Happened in the Missing Child DNA Mystery
Episode 146
A four-year-old vanished near Swayze Lake in 1912, and the child who came home may not have been the child who disappeared. The Bobby Dunbar case is …
5 months ago
Lucy Letby: What Really Happened in the Baby Deaths Case and Trial
Episode 145
A neonatal nurse was convicted. A hospital was questioned. And the medical evidence behind one of Britain’s most disturbing modern trials is still be…
5 months, 1 week ago
Bone Wars: Weird History and the Dinosaur Rivalry That Changed Palaeontology
Episode 144
One fossil feud helped build the age of dinosaurs — and nearly wrecked the reputations of the men chasing it.
The Bone Wars were a furious 19th-centu…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Body in Room 348: The Locked Room Death Explained
Episode 143
A man is found dead in a locked hotel room, apparently alone, with no clear weapon, no obvious struggle and injuries that do not seem to belong to th…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Millionaire Cough: Britain’s Biggest Game Show Scandal
Episode 142
A million-pound question, a nervous contestant, and a series of suspicious coughs turned a Saturday-night quiz show into one of Britain’s most famous…
6 months ago
Guy Fawkes: Dark History Behind Treason, Torture and Bonfire Night
Episode 141
A failed explosion beneath Parliament became a national ritual of fire, fireworks and remembered treason.
Guy Fawkes is the face of Bonfire Night, bu…
6 months, 1 week ago
Frida Kahlo: Famous Women in History, Pain, Politics and Iconic Self-Portraits
Episode 140
A young woman survives a catastrophic accident, spends years in pain, and turns her own body into one of the most recognisable subjects in modern art…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Fyre Festival: What Really Happened at the Greatest Party That Never Happened
Episode 139
A private-island fantasy sold by supermodels and social media hype became a stranded, rain-soaked disaster almost overnight. Fyre Festival promised a…
6 months, 3 weeks ago