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The Backstory: From prostitute to queen of the pirates
You think the pirates of the Caribbean ruled the seas? They had nothing on the pirate queen who commanded the largest and most powerful pirate fleet …
1 year, 7 months ago
The Backstory: Politics meets The Purge
We think the political scene these days is intense...let’s go back to the 19th century and see how political passion led to legal murder!
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1 year, 7 months ago
The Backstory: Searching for the killer called the Axeman
New Orleans was terrorized in 1918 and 1919 by the Axeman. He targeted the families of Italian grocers, broke into their homes in the dead of night, …
1 year, 7 months ago
The Backstory: Back from the dead to take the gold
At age 16, Betty Robinson ran in the 1928 Olympics, the first games that allowed women to compete in track and field. She won gold and tied a world r…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Backstory: Demons to moon landings – the story that inspired The Exorcist
The Exorcist was a best-selling book and an iconic movie over 50 years ago. But the true story that inspired it is even more chilling…and still unexp…
1 year, 8 months ago
(Replay) The Backstory: Cannibalism on the wild frontier
In this re-release episode: The Netflix hit film Society of the Snow is the true story of South American athletes trapped in the snowy mountains afte…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Backstory: All the money in the world…and a torturous upbringing
You’d think having the richest father in America would make you fabulously happy. But for Consuelo Vanderbilt, it meant a cruel childhood and a force…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Backstory: Fatal obsession with a rising star
We’ve seen it too many times: A young star begins the climb to the top, only to be murdered by an obsessed lover or fan. Dorothy Stratten burst onto …
1 year, 8 months ago
The Backstory (Replay): Mass murder at the home of an icon of tranquility
On this replay episode: Frank Lloyd Wright, the most famous architect in American history, brought nature and tranquility to design. So how did his c…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Backstory: Getting inked…5,000 years ago
Body art...tattoos...are pretty ubiquitous these days. But where did it all start…and why? The first documented evidence of tattooing goes back over …
1 year, 8 months ago