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Episode 348: Gone (1.16.2026)
One night in 1989, Karen Palmer got in her car with her husband and two daughters and drove away from their home in California. They didn’t tell anyone where they were going.
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09.01.
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Episode 347: Like a Bad Dream (1.9.2026)
One day in 2011, Lindsey Schweigert’s roommate came home to an open garage, a missing dog, and an overflowing bathtub. Lindsey remembers waking up in police custody.
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26.12.2025
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Episode 346: Sister Helen (12.26.2025)
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean was invited to write a letter to a man on death row named Elmo Patrick Sonnier. She told us, “I thought that all I was going to be doing was writing letters. And lo and behold, two years later, I am in that execution chamber.” When we spoke to her in 2021, she was 81, and had been present at the executions of six men.
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19.12.2025
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Episode 345: The Speeding Duck, the Hungry Javelina, and “Leonardo da Pinchy” (12.19.2025)
Stories of animals really going for it.
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12.12.2025
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Episode 344: The Knock (12.12.2025)
On Christmas morning, Laura Nowlin was in her living room with her infant son. They were getting ready to leave to spend the day with family. Then, Laura heard a knock on the door. She says it sounded frantic.
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05.12.2025
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Episode 343: Fall River (12.5.2025)
In 1833, a writer named Catharine Williams was working on a new book. It was going to be about a Methodist minister, a mill worker, and a murder.
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28.11.2025
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Episode 342: The Manual (11.28.2025)
In 1993, a family was found murdered in their home. A Maryland police spokesperson described the homicide investigation as the most “exhaustive and labor intensive” in the department’s history. And then investigators found a strange manual - written by someone calling themselves Rex Feral.
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21.11.2025
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Episode 341: The Post Office (11.21.2025)
Scott Darlington ran the post office in a village outside Manchester – until he was accused of theft and fraud. “I started thinking, ‘Maybe I’ve done this and I just haven’t realized that it’s been me.’”
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14.11.2025
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Episode 340: The Boy Scout (11.14.2025)
When David Hahn was 16, he started working on something that caught the attention of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the FBI.
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07.11.2025
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Episode 339: Rogers Park (11.7.2025)
The story of one day in one neighborhood in Chicago – and the people living there who try to stop ICE agents from arresting their neighbors.