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17.07.

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gelesen Episode 372: 125 Acres (7.17.2026) George Dinning was emancipated in 1865, when he was 10 years old. By the time he was in his mid-thirties, he’d bought the land on which he had been enslaved. Years later, 25 white men approached the house George had built by hand and told him to come outside.
10.07.

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gelesen Episode 371: That’s Not Me (7.10.2026) Porcha Woodruff was eight months pregnant when she was arrested by police one morning at her home in Detroit. When she spoke with a detective at the police station hours later, she asked them, “Why am I here?”
26.06.

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gelesen Episode 370: All the Time in the World (6.26.2026) The “body farm” at Texas State University is a place almost no one is allowed to see, because it’s one of very few places in the world that deliberately puts out human bodies to decompose in nature. We asked if we could visit, and they agreed.
19.06.

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gelesen Episode 369: The Caller (6.19.2026) In 2008, an article in the monthly FBI bulletin argued that 911 calls could contain clues for homicide investigations. “The caller, in fact, may be the killer.”
12.06.

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gelesen Episode 368: Riverwalk (6.12.2026) In November 2019, nineteen-year-old Zac Brettler went missing. When his parents began looking for him, they discovered that Zac had been living a double life.
05.06.

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gelesen Episode 367: A Man to Be Afraid Of (6.5.2026) Sheriff Buford Pusser said he and his wife had come under gunfire early one morning on a country road - leading to her death. He told one reporter, “I'm pretty sure about who did it, and I'm pretty sure about where he is."
22.05.

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gelesen Episode 366: Mantrap (5.22.2026) Ed and Bertha Briney’s unoccupied farmhouse was reportedly broken into 50 times over 10 years. They put up “No Trespassing” signs, repeatedly complained to sheriffs in two different counties, nailed doors shut, and boarded up windows – but nothing worked. So they decided to try something else.
15.05.

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gelesen Episode 365: The Mountain (5.15.2026) On January 18, 2025, Thomas Plamberger and his girlfriend Kerstin Gurtner began climbing the tallest mountain in Austria. But when they were almost to the top, they got stuck. One year later, prosecutors filed charges against Thomas for Kerstin’s death.
08.05.

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gelesen Episode 364: The Poison Squad (5.8.2026) In 1902, twelve young men volunteered for a government experiment. They agreed to eat food laced with chemicals like formaldehyde, borax, and salicylic acid every day, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They were called The Poison Squad.
01.05.

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gelesen Episode 363: Poisoned (5.1.2026) In January 1993, a lot of children started showing up at Seattle Children’s Hospital with the same unusual symptoms. Doctors didn't know what was going on – until they realized that most of the children had recently eaten at the same restaurant: Jack in the Box.
24.04.

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gelesen Episode 362: The Numbers (4.24.2026) When Fannie Davis and her family moved to Detroit in the mid-1950s, they hadn’t prepared themselves for how hard it would be. They had trouble finding steady work. So, Fannie found a way to take care of her family. She started small, but built a robust and lucrative operation… a business that a lot of people knew about but no one talked about.
17.04.

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gelesen Episode 361: Unwarranted (4.17.2026) On the morning of May 20, 1957, a bomb exploded under Don King’s front porch. Police got a tip that they should search the home of someone he knew - a woman named Dollree Mapp. But when they got there, she refused to let them in.
10.04.

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gelesen Episode 360: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander (4.10.2026) Alice and Leonard Rhinelander had only been married for a few weeks when his family lawyer came to their house and took Leonard away with him. The next time Alice saw her husband was a year later, in a courtroom.
03.04.

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gelesen Episode 359: The Longline (4.3.2026) For years, John Moore and Tanner Mansell ran shark diving tours off the coast of Florida. One day, they came across a fishing line in the middle of the ocean – with over a dozen sharks caught on it. “This looked like something very illegal going on. And we felt like if we didn’t act, these sharks would definitely die.”
27.03.

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gelesen Episode 358: The Formula (3.27.2026) On Christmas Eve in 1926, a man came running into Bellevue Hospital in New York screaming that Santa Claus had been chasing him for blocks with a baseball bat. Not long after that, he died. And then another person arrived in the emergency room. And then another. This started happening in emergency rooms around the country. And it was happening because of a plan created by the U.S. government.
20.03.

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gelesen Episode 357: The Quintuplets (3.20.2026) When Elzire Dionne gave birth to five identical babies in Ontario, she caught the attention of reporters hundreds of miles away – and the attention of the legislature. The welfare minister said, “These children are our own royal family.”
13.03.

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gelesen Episode 356: Cecilia (3.13.2026) When Cecilia Gentili was growing up in Argentina, she felt so different from everyone around her that she thought she might be from another planet. “I think that we are all aliens until we find our communities.”
06.03.

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gelesen Episode 355: Excited Delirium (3.6.2026) When Angelo Quinto died, his family said police were responsible for his death. But a lawyer told them his official cause of death would likely be something called “excited delirium.”
27.02.

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gelesen Episode 354: The Mug Book (2.27.2026) After a gang leader was murdered in San Francisco’s Chinatown, the only witnesses who would talk with the police were tourists. They looked through so-called “mug books” filled with photographs of Asian men - and pointed out a man named Chol Soo Lee. He insisted he was innocent.
20.02.

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gelesen Episode 353: The Plot (2.20.2026) In 1864, a 41-year-old woman named Mary Surratt was running a boarding house in Washington, D.C. Soon, one of the most famous actors in the country began visiting her – his name was John Wilkes Booth.
13.02.

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gelesen Episode 352: The Big Lie (2.13.2026) In the early 2000s, the hip hop group Silibil N’ Brains seemed like they were on the brink of becoming very famous. They had a record deal with Sony, had been on MTV, and were talking about making a TV show. But they weren’t who they said they were.
06.02.

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gelesen Episode 351: The Test (2.6.2026) When Mike Williams went missing while duck hunting on Lake Seminole, investigators wondered if he had been eaten by alligators. But Mike’s mother was sure something else had happened.
30.01.

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gelesen Episode 350: An American Original (1.30.2026) In 1963, Jeanne and Alan Abel went to Washington, DC. They said they were part of a campaign that wanted to put clothes on the first lady’s horse.
23.01.

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gelesen Episode 349: Amok (1.23.2026) While investigating a murder, a Polish detective discovered an unusual clue – a novel that contained an odd number of similarities to the real-life crime.
16.01.

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gelesen 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.
09.01.

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gelesen 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.
26.12.2025

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gelesen 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.
19.12.2025

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gelesen Episode 345: The Speeding Duck, the Hungry Javelina, and “Leonardo da Pinchy” (12.19.2025) Stories of animals really going for it.
12.12.2025

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gelesen 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.
05.12.2025

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gelesen 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.
28.11.2025

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gelesen 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.
21.11.2025

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gelesen 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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