165: The Disappearance of Phoenix Coldonn Part 2: Where is She
This is part 2 of our coverage. If you're looking for part 1, you can find it here (https://audioboom.com/posts/7769577-the-disappearance-of-phoenix-coldon) . Shawndrea and Jo continue their search for 23-year-old Phoenix Coldon. In this episode, they track down a friend of Phoenix who is certain she saw Phoenix on a flight 2. YEARS. AFTER. PHOENIX. VANISHED. They also learn new details about ...
54m Jan 19, 2021
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164: The Disappearance of Phoenix Coldon
FAM! This is a two part series! Episode 2 is available ad-free right now at the $5 tier on our Patreon. (https://www.patreon.com/TrueCrimeObsessed) Part 2 will be our regular episode next week. At 3pm on December 18, 2011, 23-year-old Phoenix Coldon got in her card and left her family home. Her parents thought she was going to a convenience store and then to a friend’s house. She was expected ...
48m Jan 12, 2021
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163: BTK: A Killer Among Us
From 1974 – 1971, a serial killer tormented the people of Kansas. He called himself BTK, which stood for BIND, TORTURE, KILL. He wanted to incite fear and panic, and so his killings were especially brutal. He taunted police with postcards, letters, and voice messages, but no matter how many clues the madman gave them, they still couldn’t catch him. But then, in 2005, after 10 murders and more t...
57m Jan 05, 2021
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162: Dead Man's Line
On February 8, 1977, 43-year-old Tony Kiritsis walked into the office of mortgage broker Dick Hall and WIRED THE BARREL OF A SAWED OFF SHOT GUN TO HALL’S NECK.  This "dead man's line" meant that if a policeman shot Kiritsis the shotgun would go off and shoot Hall in the head. The same would happen if Hall tried to escape. Kiritsis called the police from Hall's office and told them that he had t...
54m Dec 29, 2020
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Unsolved Mysteries Ep 12: Stolen Kids
In May and August of 1989, two toddlers were stolen from the same New York city playground. The playground was full of witnesses, but, seemingly, nobody saw anything. Were the kidnappings connected? Was there a "baby selling ring" as rumors suggested? And 30 years later, is there still a chance that these families can find their missing children?  LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon feed (htt...
50m Dec 24, 2020
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Unsolved Mysteries Ep 11: The Lady in the Lake
FAM!!! THIS ONE WAS DIRECTED BY OUR FRIEND SKYE BORGMAN (Director of "Abducted in Plain Sight" and Patrick's colaberator on the podcat "Obsessed With: Abducted in Plain Sight). On the night of January 12, 2010, JoAnn Matouk Romain vanished from the parking lot of her church after an evening prayer service. The police on the scene were convinced she'd walked across the 4 lane highway behind the...
50m Dec 17, 2020
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161: HBO's The Mystery of D.B. Cooper
THIS IS THE CASE PATRICK’S BEEN WAITING TO COVER ALL YEAR! On the afternoon of November 24, 1971 a man using the name Dan Cooper boarded a passenger flight at Portland international airport, and hijacked the plane. He demanded $200,000 in cash and 4 parachutes. And then, money in hand, he jumped out of the plane at 10,000 feet. No trace of Cooper was ever found—though some of the money eventual...
56m Dec 15, 2020
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Unsolved Mysteries Ep 10: Tsunami Spirits
In March, 2011, an earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter Scale rocked Japan. 30 minutes later, the country experienced the largest tsunami in its history. And then came the blizzard. The three coinciding natural disasters killed over 15,000 people. In the moths following these events, hundreds of paranormal occurrences were recorded including ghost sightings and spiritual possessions. This ep...
48m Dec 10, 2020
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160: The Trials of Ted Haggard
It's a weird one, you guys, but I really think it's one of our best episodes yet: Ted Haggard was living the life. As the founder and head, like, Pastor (?) of the New Life Church, Haggard was one of the most rich, famous, influential Evangelicals in America. He, his wife Gayle, and their two kids had it all. And then Ted Haggard got busted buying Crystal Meth from and paying for sex with a g...
53m Dec 08, 2020
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Unsolved Mysteries Ep 9: Death Row Fugitive
In November, 1965, Lester Eubanks brutally murdered 14 year old Mary-Ellen Deener. He was swiftly convicted of the crime and sentenced to death. However in 1973, he was able to just walk away from his sentence while out of the prison on a shopping trip that had been arranged for inmates on an honor program. He hasn't been seen since. Lester Eubanks has been on the run for more than 40 years, an...
51m Dec 03, 2020
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159: Missing 411
On July 10, 2015, two-year-old DeOrr Kunz vanished while on a camping trip with his young parents. The circumstances were...bizarre to say the least. The family was in the middle of the woods, miles from the nearest road. Little DeOrr had been walking with his parents, then turned to walk the 100 or so feet back to his grandfather. It was broad daylight. And in the split second that nobody was ...
53m Dec 01, 2020
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Unsolved Mysteries Episode 8: A Death in Oslo
At 10:44pm on May 31, 1995, a woman named Jennifer Fairgate checked into the Plaza Hotel in Oslo, Norway. It was the most exclusive hotel in Norway at the time. Two days into her stay, a security officer at the hotel knocked on the door to her room. Within seconds a gunshot rang out. When the police arrived, they found the woman dead on the bed. It turned out that she'd given a false name at ch...
48m Nov 26, 2020
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Natalie Wood: American Murder Mystery
At 43 years old, actress Natalie Wood had it all. She was an adored icon who'd been acting since before she could remember. She'd married the love of her life and had a thriving career and a loving family. But on Thanksgiving weekend in 1981, she disappeared from the yacht she was sharing with her husband Robert Wagner and actor CHRISTOPHER FREAKING WALKEN. Hours later, her body was recovered i...
50m Nov 24, 2020
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Unsolved Mysteries Ep 7: Washington Insider Murder
When the body of former White House aide, Jack Wheeler, is found in a landfill, confusion and conspiracy theories abound as the authorities try to figure out what happened. And the search turns up hours of bizarre surveillance video of Jack who was inexplicably miles from home--and on foot-- in the days leading up to his death. How did he wind up in the landfill? Was he murdered? And if so, by ...
48m Nov 19, 2020
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158: Dannemora Prison Break
Is it just me, or should breaking our of a SUPER MAX PRISON be hard? AND YET SOMEHOW THESE TWO IDIOTS FIUGURED OUT HOW TO DO IT? On the night of June 5, 2015, two MURDERERS, broke out of  a prison fortress thought to be impenetrable. A little after 11 p.m., they climbed through holes they had cut — over months, with tools smuggled in by a prison guard — in the cell walls. They snaked through t...
54m Nov 17, 2020
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Unsolved Mysteries Ep 6: Missing Witness
At 17 years old, Lena Chapin made a startling confession, and the whole thing was captured on tape. 4 years earlier, she’d helped her mother, Sandra Klemp dispose of a body. It was the body of Sandra’s husband, whom Sandara had killed in cold blood earlier that day. Three years later , Lena was set to testify against her mother in court—she was going to tell everything she knew. But then Lena v...
46m Nov 12, 2020
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157: Son of Sam: Hunt for a Killer
"Go out and kill, commands father Sam. I am here on Earth to create havoc and terror."--letter to cops from The Son of Sam. 1977. In the summer of 1977, a serial killer is targeting young couples. He stalks them late at night. He waits until they get into their car, he shoots, and then runs into the shadows. With six people dead and New York City paralyzed by fear, the cops have no leads. And ...
53m Nov 10, 2020
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Unsolved Mysteries Ep 5: Berkshires UFO
On the night of September 1, 1969 residents of Berkshire County, Massachusetts witnessed UFOs--and they're recounting their experiences in EVERY. TERRIFYING. DETAIL. Some were abducted, some are missing hours of their lives, some are telling their stories for the very first time. Is this real? Many of these people have never met--to this day--but their accounts are shockingly similar. What real...
50m Nov 05, 2020
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156: An Honest Liar
WE DID A QUIRKY ONE FOR ELECTON DAY TO HELP TAKE YOUR MIND OFF THINGS!! An Hones Liar is all about the Amazing Randi, a world renowned magician and artist who dedicated his life to exposing fake psychics and others who claimed to have paranormal powers. WE LOOOOOOOOOOOVED THIS ONE, YOU GUYS....or at least we loved most of it..... LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon feed (https://www.patreon....
59m Nov 03, 2020
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Unsolved Mysteries Ep 4: No Ride Home
On April 3, 2004, 23 year old Alonzo Brooks and 3 friends drove to a party in La Cygne, Kansas--about 50 miles from where they lived in Garner Kansas. It would later be said that Alonzo was the only black person at the party, and though by all accounts he was having fun, racial slurs had been directed at him. Later that night, Alonzo's three friends left the party, unknowingly stranding him the...
49m Oct 29, 2020
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155: Charles Manson: The Women
THIS WAS NOT WHAT WE MEANT WHEN WE SAID "LET THE WOMEN DO THE WORK." Charles Manson WAS NOT AN EVIL GENIUS. He was, as Gillian describes him, a puny little twerp. HOWEVER, the crimes committed at his behest are infamous. And surely you've heard the stories before, but this time we're hearing them FROM THE WOMEN WHO WERE THERE!! Squeaky, Gypsy, A THIRTEEN YEAR OLD NAMED SNAKE, you can't make th...
53m Oct 27, 2020
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Unsolved Mysteries Ep. 3: House of Terror
In early April, 2011—nobody knows the exact date—a prominent family vanished from their lavish townhome in Nantes, France. A few day later, close family members and friends of the family received a typewritten, unsigned letter from the mother and father stating that they had relocated to the Unitec States with their four children. They were now deep undercover working with the US government and...
50m Oct 22, 2020
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154: Death at the Mansion: Rebecca Zahau. Part 2
WILLIAM ELIZABETH AND BLAZER HOLES ARE BACK! On July 13, 2011, the body of 32 year-old Rebecca Zahau was found naked, bound, and hanging from a balcony at the Spreckels Mansion in Coronado, California. The death was quickly ruled a suicide, but many strange facts surround the case. The son of Rebecca's boyfriend, the Billionaire Jonah Shacknai, had fallen from a staircase inside the mansion ju...
53m Oct 20, 2020
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Unsolved Mysteries Ep 2: 13 Minutes
On April 15, 2004, 38 year-old hair dresser Patrice Endres vanished from her salon sometime in a 13 minute time frame--in the time between a client leaving at 11:30 am and an unanswered phone call that came into the salon 13 minutes later. Patrice was a beloved member of the community and a doting mother who adored her son, Pistol. Who would take her? And Why? And how did they do it in broad da...
57m Oct 15, 2020
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153: Death at the Mansion: Rebecca Zahau Part 1
On July 13, 2011, the body of 32 year-old Rebecca Zahau was found naked, bound, and hanging from a balcony at the Spreckels Mansion in Coronado, California. The death was quickly ruled a suicide, but many strange facts surround the case. The son of Rebecca's boyfriend, the Billionaire Jonah Shacknai, had fallen from a staircase inside the mansion just 2 days before and was now in critical condi...
50m Oct 13, 2020
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Unsolved Mysteries Ep 1: Mystery on the Rooftop
FAM!! SPOOKY SEASON IS HERE! To celebrate, we're adding an extra episode each week for the next 12 week to cover the FREAKING GLORIOUS NETFLIX REBOOT OF "UNSOLVED MYSTERIES!" Episode 1 delves into the mysterious death of Rey Rivera. On May 16, 2006 Rey was seen leaving his home in a hurry after getting a phone call. His wife was away on a business trip, so it was a house guest who heard him sa...
51m Oct 08, 2020
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152: Athlete A
As the 2016 Summer Olympics get underway in Rio, The Indianapolis Star newspaper breaks a story about rampant sexual abuse inside the world of US Gymnastics by team doctor, Larry Nassar. How could this happen? Who knew? And how deep was the cover up? Athlete A gets all the answers.  LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon feed (https://www.patreon.com/TrueCrimeObsessed) , you'll find over 140 FUL...
51m Oct 06, 2020
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151: Who Killed Chandra Levy?
In May of 2001, 24 year old Washingtond DC intern, Chandra Levy, vanished. As her parents and investigators frantically searched for her, rumors of a relationship with a powerful Congressman surface. A year later, when her body is found 4 miles from where she was last seen, it raises more questions than answers. A suspect is named and charged, but is he the right guy? What is the Congressman hi...
49m Sep 29, 2020
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150: Class Action Park
Here's the gist: During its 1980s and 1990s heyday, New Jersey’s Action Park earned a reputation as the most insane — and possibly the most dangerous — amusement park that ever existed.  It was known as a lawless land, ruled by drunk teenage employees and frequented by even drunker teenage guests. The rides were experimental and illogical, and seemed to ignore even the most basic notions of ph...
52m Sep 22, 2020
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: Episode 1: Murder Habit
FAM!! We're SO excited to share episode 1 of our Patreon coverage of "I'll Be Gone in the Dark." It is truly one of the best series we've ever covered and we think it's some of our best work!! You can find all 6 episode right now and ad free on Patreon! (https://www.patreon.com/TrueCrimeObsessed) That's where you'll also find over 150 FULL BONUS episodes covering everything from "Tiger King" t...
53m Sep 17, 2020
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149: Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam Of Crystal
SEX! DRUGS! EXOTIC BIRDS? You all know Heidi Fleiss, right? The 'madam' of the 90s with the infamous black book who got busted for selling sex but never, like, named names, so took the fall for all the people who used her services? WE SEE YOU CHARLIE SHEEN, YOU PILE OF HUMAN GARBAGE. Anyway, after an encounter with ROSEANNE-GARBAGE-BARR she decides to move to Nevada to open a stud farm....WHAT...
55m Sep 14, 2020
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148: Atlanta Child Murders: Part 2
It's been two and a half years of terror. 28 young black children have vanished and later been found dead in and Around Atlanta. When a man is pulled over at 3 am, after tossing something that sounded like a body off the side of a bridge, the police finally have a suspect. Who is this man? Is he the real killer? A scapegoat? Are Atlanta's children finally safe again?  LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On ...
52m Sep 08, 2020
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147: Atlanta Child Murders: Part 1
From 1979 - 1981, a string of murder of black children terrorized the city of Atlanta, igniting terror and frustration from a community that increasingly feels neglected. Is it the work of the KKK or a cold blooded serial killer? After years of dead ends, the police get creative and stop a man on a bridge just after 3 am. Did he just dump a body? Could he be their guy? LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On...
46m Sep 01, 2020
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146: Drew Peterson: American Murder Mystery
When Stacy Peterson, a 23-year-old mother of 4, vanishes without a trace, authorities look to her husband Drew, a man 30 YEARS HER SENIOR! Peterson, a cop, claims--we swear to Goddess, you guys--that Stacy grabbed $25,000, the deed to the house, AND HER BIKINI-- and took off with another man. AND GUESS WHAT, THERE'S MORE! Turns out, Drew's third wife, Kathy, died under very mysterious circumsta...
50m Aug 25, 2020
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The Jinx
FAM!!! We are SO excited to share episode 1 of our Patreon coverage of "The Jinx." This might be our most beloved of ALL the Patreon episodes! You can get our other 5 episodes covering "The Jinx" plus over 140 FULL BONUS episodes at the $5 level on Patreon RIGHT NOW BY CLICKING HERE! (https://www.patreon.com/TrueCrimeObsessed) All patreon episodes are Ad-Free! And we've covered all the great s...
40m Aug 20, 2020
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145: Blago: The Rise and Fall of Rod Blagojevich
Rod "Blago" Blagojevich had a charmed path to the Governor's Mansion in Illinois: He married Patty Mell, the daughter of a powerful Democratic Alderman who helped him jump from state legislator to Governor in just 10 years. And then he F***ED it all up. When Obama (COME BACK, GIRL!) was elected President, and it was up to Blago to appoint a replacement, he went all over Chicago trying to SELL. ...
51m Aug 18, 2020
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144: Big Dan's: The Nation's First Televised Rape Case
In 1983, a 21 year-old woman walked into a bar in New Bedford, Massachusetts. When she tried to leave a little later, the door was locked and 4 men raped her over the course of 2 hours on the bar's pool table while a group of other men cheered them on. Nobody helped her. When the case went to court, it would be the nation's first televised rape case. And the woman, who wished to remain anonymou...
51m Aug 11, 2020
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143: King Richard (Trial By Media Episode 4)
THIS ONE IS ALL ABOUT THE PIZZAZZ FACTOR, YOU GUY! CUE. THOSE. JAZZ. HANDS. Richard Scrushy (a name you can't say without sounding hammered) is a mediocre, yet very rich, white dude. He runs a huge company! AND GUESS WHAT? HE'S BEEN STEALING HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM IT! Or, so says the government.....and the 5 CFOs who worked for him. But who cares! Scrushy is rich and totally the ...
50m Aug 04, 2020
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142: 41 Shots: The Killing of Amadou Diallo (Trial By Media Episode 3)
In the early hours of February 4, 1999, 23-year-old Amadou Dialo, an unarmed black man standing on the steps of his apartment building, was fatally shot by four plain clothes New York City police officers. The officers shot 41 times with 19 of the bullets striking Dialo. The four officers were charged with second degree murder as New York City was taken over by protests and and demonstrations i...
50m Jul 28, 2020
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141: The Subway Vigilante (Trial By Media Ep. 2)
On December 22, 1984, a white man named Bernhard Goetz shot 4 black teenagers on the New York City subway. He claimed self defense--that the 4 boys were in the process of robbing him. But eye witness accounts and crime scene evidence said otherwise. Still New Yorkers, who had lived in fear for years, rallied to the man's defense and he became an instant celebrity.  LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our...
52m Jul 21, 2020
52m
McMillions
Fam! We are so excited to share episode 1 of our coverage of HBO's "McMillions." It's perfect for week 729 of quarantine because there's no murder! It's mostly just Mafia idiot (come for us Frank Colombo!) and hot FBI guys (Call us, Doug Matthews!). Go get your laugh on! The rest of this series is available right now and ad-free on Patreon! (https://www.patreon.com/TrueCrimeObsessed) On our Pa...
47m Jul 20, 2020
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140: Talk Show Murder (Trial By Media Ep. 1)
Two words: Jenny Jones. On March 6, 1995, Scott Amadure and Jonathan Schmitz went on the Jenny Jones show. On the show, Scott revealed to Jonathan that he had a crush on him. Jonathan, seemed to take it in stride. But three days later, he bought a gun, drove to Scott's home, and murdered him in broad daylight. What happened? Who is responsible? Was Johnathan pushed to a breaking point by his f...
55m Jul 14, 2020
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139: 13th
The title of Ava DuVernay's extraordinary and galvanizing documentary refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which granted freedom to enslaved people. Except, it didn’t really. The drafters of the amendment included a loophole that allowed for the re-enslavement of any person convicted of a crime. 13th explores The progression from that loophole to the horrors of mass criminalization...
50m Jul 07, 2020
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138: Killing Versace: The Hunt for A Serial Killer
A little after 8:45 am on the morning of July, 15, 1997, famed fashion designer Gianni Versace was shot execution-style on the front steps of his Miami Beach mansion. The assassin was 28 year old Andrew Cunanan--a hanger on who claimed to have met Versace in San Franciscio a few years before (though nobody knows if this is true.). When Cunanan flees the scene of the murder, a week long manhunt ...
48m Jun 30, 2020
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137: The Zodiac Killer: The Most Dangerous Animal of All (Part 2)
Based on The New York Times best-selling book of the same name, The Most Dangerous Animal of All is a documentary series that explores one man's search for the father who abandoned him, only to uncover the worst: he believes his father is the Zodiac killer, one of the most infamous serial killers in American history. In this episode, the evidence is scrutinized and Gary claims new DNA evidence ...
56m Jun 23, 2020
56m
Tiger King: Episode 1: Not Your Average Joe
Hey Fam! We're so excited to share with you episode one of our Patreon coverage of Netflix's Tiger King. This is BY FAR our most requested series to cover, so buckle up! All 7 episodes are available RIGHT NOW AND AD FREE at the $5 level on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/TrueCrimeObsessed) LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon feed (https://www.patreon.com/TrueCrimeObsessed) , you'll find over...
44m Jun 18, 2020
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136: The Zodiac Killer: The Most Dangerous Animal of All (Part 1)
Based on The New York Times best-selling book of the same name, The Most Dangerous Animal of All is a documentary series that explores one man's search for the father who abandoned him, only to uncover the worst: he believes his father is the Zodiac killer, one of the most infamous serial killers in American history. In this episode, the evidence is presented, and it's compelling. From a near i...
55m Jun 16, 2020
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135: Unseen
In 2009, Cleveland police discovered the bodies of eleven women decomposing in the house and yard of known sex offender Anthony Sowell. With unprecedented access to the surviving victims, UNSEEN tells a chilling story about the invisibility of women on the margins of society and raises troubling questions about why this killing spree went unnoticed for so long. WHERE TO GO FROM HERE: Donate: 11...
49m Jun 09, 2020
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Rebroadcast: Say Her Name: The Life and Death Of Sandra Bland.
On July 10, 2015, a 28 year-old black woman named Sandra Bland was pulled over in a small Texas town for failing to use a turn signal when she changed lanes. She was ultimately arrested and taken to the county jail. Three days later, she was found dead in her cell. The official coroner's report ruled the death a suicide, but many people believe that Sandra Bland was murdered. Sandy, as she was ...
46m Jun 06, 2020
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Israel Keyes: Method of a Serial Killer
Israel Keyes is the most terrifying serial killer you’ve maybe never heard of.  Here’s what we know about him: He was methodical—he left “kill kits” hidden all across the country. He hid them years before using them, so he was also patient and self controlled. He picked his victims at random to avoid detection and is believed to have murdered at least 11 people across the United States between ...
52m Jun 03, 2020
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