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Back to SearchRobert ‘Willie’ Pickton – Part 1: The Pig Farm Killer | #457
Episode 457
For years, women were vanishing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside…
But the police refused to admit it.
In the first of a two-parter on the grisly cri…
1 month ago
ShortHand: Spontaneous Human Combustion
Episode 220
People who seem to have suddenly burst into flames – leaving just a pile of ash, a foot or skull, and a puddle of strange grease – have left biologi…
1 month, 1 week ago
ShortHand: Tutankhamun's Curse
Episode 219
The gold-lined, intact tomb of Tutankhamun is without a doubt the most important archaeological discovery in Egypt's history. But what if Tutankhamu…
1 month, 1 week ago
Royal Scandal: The Murder that Shocked Buckingham Palace | #456
Episode 456
Tom Cressman’s brutal murder – beaten with a cricket bat by the ex-royal dresser to Sarah Ferguson, the ex-Dutchess of York – was a truly British tr…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
ShortHand: How To Live to 100
Episode 218
Reliably living to 100 years old – a once unthinkable goal – is slowly creeping closer to becoming a reality. But there’s a catch: we’re still not e…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
ShortHand: So You’ve Fallen Out of a Plane…
Episode 217
You’re free falling towards the ground at 120mph, and below you all you can see is an expanse of open wilderness. What are you going to do? Had you …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Barbara Daly Baekeland: Maternal Incest & Murder | #455
Episode 455
They say money can’t buy happiness…
And that certainly proved true in 1972, when Tony Baekeland – heir to the Bakelite plastic dynasty – plunged a kn…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
ShortHand: The Church of Kardashian
Episode 216
From crypto scams to ‘diet tea’, intellectual property fraud and everything in between, clan Kardashian has set the blueprint for turning followers …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
ShortHand: The Men Who Stare at Goats & the Psychic Arms Race
Episode 215
If someone told you they could read your mind, levitate, walk through walls, or make your heart explode in your chest, you’d probably either say the…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Pulse Nightclub Shooting | #454
Episode 454
When Omar Mateen stepped into Orlando’s Pulse nightclub and fired into the crowd, 10 years ago this week, it was the start of three hours of unimagi…
1 month, 4 weeks ago