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Back to SearchBarbara 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…
3 months, 4 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 …
4 months 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…
4 months 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…
4 months ago
ShortHand: The Princes in the Tower
Episode 214
Back in 1483, two young princes mysteriously vanished from the Tower of London…
And more than 500 years later, we’re still arguing about what happene…
4 months, 1 week ago
FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell | #285
Episode 10054
Netflix's new drama 'The Witness' and documentary 'The Murder of Rachel Nickell' have brought Rachel Nickell's case back into public attention. For …
4 months, 1 week ago
ShortHand: The Secrets of Göbekli Tepe
Episode 213
The 1994 excavation of curious buried ruins in southeastern Turkey might have chucked a big rock through the window of archaeological history – shat…
4 months, 1 week ago
David “D4vd” Burke - Part Two: The Arrest & Trial | #453
Episode 453
Two chainsaws and a paddling pool; a very public relationship; along with a litany of texts and Discord messages, all pointing to one thing: David “…
4 months, 1 week ago
ShortHand: The Death of Marilyn Monroe
Episode 212
Naked, clutching the telephone receiver, and with a stomach full of prescription meds, Marilyn Monroe was pronounced dead at 4:25am on the 5th of Au…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
ShortHand: The Ku Klux Klan
Episode 211
The KKK are the OG far-right trolls: one of the most evil groups in US history, and the best-known purveyors of white racism in the United States.
T…
4 months, 2 weeks ago