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26.07.
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Episode 278: Millions of Pills (7.26.2024)
“There was a saying I heard a few times: ‘under the influence, above the law.’ And I think that describes the mindset of a certain type of fraternity guy.”
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19.07.
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Episode 277: Los Hipopótamos (7.19.2024)
In the 1980s, Pablo Escobar smuggled four hippopotamuses into Colombia for a zoo on his ranch. After he was killed, the hippos were left on their own.
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12.07.
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Episode 276: The Disappearance of Leslie Arnold (7.12.2024)
In 1967, a 24-year-old named Leslie Arnold escaped from prison. The FBI looked for him for years. And then, in 2022, a U.S. Marshal got a message from his son.
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05.07.
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Episode 275: Ten Thousand Feet in the Air (7.5.2024)
On the afternoon of June 23rd, 1972, Martin McNally walked into the St. Louis airport with a wig, a sawed-off rifle, and a plan.
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28.06.
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Episode 274: State of North Carolina v. Joan Little (6.28.2024)
When Karen Bethea-Shields was in college, she heard a judge say, “No way in the world a Black woman can get raped.” A few years later, in 1975, she helped successfully defend Joan Little—a Black woman—who became the first woman in the U.S. to be found not guilty of murder using the defense that she used deadly force to resist sexual assault.
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21.06.
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Episode 273: The Demon Spread (06.21.2024)
“The ingenuity of depraved human genius has culminated in the production of margarine.”
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14.06.
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Episode 272: One Troy (6.14.2024)
The Lawrence H. Woodward funeral home in Brooklyn has been run by one family for generations, and has handled many funerals for victims of violent crime.
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07.06.
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Episode 271: 11 to 1 (6.7.2024)
When JonRe Taylor was called for jury duty in 2007, she voted ‘not guilty’ on every charge. But the defendant was convicted and sent to prison anyway.
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24.05.
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Episode 270: The Six (5.24.24)
In 1989, three people confessed to participating in a murder. Eventually, a total of six people were arrested. But when DNA tests were run on crime scene evidence almost 20 years later - the results showed that none of them had been there at all.
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17.05.
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Episode 269: Type B (5.17.2024)
Six people were arrested for a murder in Nebraska. Some said they couldn't remember details of the crime, or being there at all - but then they began to have dreams about it.