OJ: Made In America (Patreon Bonus Episode)
FAM: We're THRILLED to share this episode from our Patreon feed! (https://www.patreon.com/TrueCrimeObsessed) You can get our complete 5-part coverage of OJ: Made In America on our Patreon Feed! There you can also get over 100 Full Bonus Episodes TO BINGE IMMEDIATELY! Including our episode-by-episode coverage of "The Jinx," "Serial" season 1, "Making A Murderer," "The Staircase," "Casey Anthony:...
59m Oct 18, 2019
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105: 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 Oct 15, 2019
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104: The Eyes of Tammy Faye
FAM!! Lady RuPaul (Charles) herself narrates this one!! This episode is an affectionate look at everyone's favorite televangelist / Gay Icon / Face Tattoo-er, Tammy Faye Bakker. The eldest of eight children in rural Minnesota, Tammy Faye married Jim Bakker in 1960, and soon they found a following on the gospel circuit. Riding a tide of religious fundamentalism, the Bakkers reached their gaudy h...
54m Oct 08, 2019
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103: Roll Red Roll
In Steubenville, Ohio, high school football players are untouchable. So when two players are accused of assaulting an underage girl at a pre-season party, it seems almost impossible to get the real story. But when an amateur crime blogger uncovers disturbing evidence on the players’ social media accounts, the town—and quickly the country—are forced to face what these boys have done. With unprec...
1hr Oct 01, 2019
1hr
102: Oxygen's The Disappearance of Susan Cox Powell: Part 2
This is part 2 of our 2 part coverage. For Part 1, click here. (https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/post/101-oxygen-s-the-disappearance-of-susan-cox-powell) It's one of the most shocking disappearances in recent history. A young mother vanishes from her home in Utah. Her husband is the only suspect. His behavior is so bizarre that it has to be him, right? But there's no evidence. Then a second s...
57m Sep 24, 2019
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The Disappearance of Maura Murray: Part 2 (Rebroadcast!)
In perperation for our upcoming live show ALL ABOUT MAURA MURRAY (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/true-crime-obsessed-with-missing-maura-murray-tickets-64366112776) with Maggie Freleng and Tim Lance of the Missing Maura Murray podcast, we rebroadcasting these episodes! Come to the live show (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/true-crime-obsessed-with-missing-maura-murray-tickets-64366112776) at The Bell...
47m Sep 20, 2019
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The Disappearance of Maura Murray: Part 1 (Rebroadcast)
In perperation for our upcoming live show ALL ABOUT MAURA MURRAY (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/true-crime-obsessed-with-missing-maura-murray-tickets-64366112776) with Maggie Freleng and Tim Lance of the Missing Maura Murray podcast, we rebroadcasting these episodes! Come to the live show (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/true-crime-obsessed-with-missing-maura-murray-tickets-64366112776) at The Bell...
49m Sep 20, 2019
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101: Oxygen's The Disappearance of Susan Cox Powell: Part 1
It's one of the most shocking disappearances in recent history. A young mother vanishes from her home in Utah. Her husband is the only suspect. His behavior is so bizarre that it has to be him, right? But there's no evidence. Then a second suspect emerges and things only get stranger. What happened to Susan Cox Powell? This is part 1 of our 2 episodes covering this series. Episode 2 will be ou...
58m Sep 17, 2019
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100: The Imposter: FOR OUR 100th EPISODE, WE'RE GIVING OUR 1st EPISODE A REDO!
THIS IS NOT A DRILL! AND THIS IS NOT A RERUN! For our 100th episode, we're remaking our very first episode AND IT MIGHT BE OUR FUNNIEST, MOST PERFECT EPISODE YET! Nicholas Barclay was 13 years old on the day he disappeared—June 13, 1994. Three and a half years later he is found alive, thousands of miles away in a village in southern Spain. He says he was kidnapped and has suffered unimaginable...
1hr 7m Sep 10, 2019
1hr 7m
Casey Anthony: American Murder Mystery Episode 1 (A Patreon Bonus Episode!)
2 year old Caylee Antony is missing. Her mother, Casey Anthony, insists she was abducted by the nanny. But investigators are soon to discover that Caylee has been missing for 31 days AND WAS NEVER REPORTED MISSING. Where is Caylee?? You guys, it's sort of how to express how completely bonkers-bananas-pants this one is. And Gillian gets MAAAAAAAAD! To hear the rest of this series and INSTANTLY g...
46m Sep 05, 2019
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The Seven Five
Meet the dirtiest cop in New York City history. In the 1980s, Michael Dowd patrolled the mean streets of one of the toughest precincts in Brooklyn. He also headed a ruthless criminal network that stole money and drugs, ultimately resulting in the city's biggest ever corruption scandal. In this explosive true crime saga, Dowd tells all as he relives his days as a criminal with a badge. The story...
57m Sep 03, 2019
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99: Remastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke
Sam Cooke was one of the most famous singers of his time. He was an icon and a civil rights revolutionary. His power made him a target. So when he was murdered at age 33, conspiracy theories abounded. Was it the FBI? Was it the mob? Who else could have benefited from such a promising life cut so short? LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? WHO COULD BLAME YOU! Join our Patreon fam (https://www.patreon.com/Tru...
55m Aug 27, 2019
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98: Smash and Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers
Their crimes resemble high-octane Hollywood action movies: a sports car speeds through a Dubai shopping mall, crashing into the windows of a Graff jewelry store. Masked, gun-wielding men jump out of the car and stuff fistfuls of diamonds into their satchels before screeching off. In London, they took all of three minutes to make off with $30 million in diamonds. Dubbed the Pink Panthers, they'r...
51m Aug 20, 2019
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97: Betting On Zero
HERBA LIFE! Ever heard of it? For some, it's just a health food company. For others, it's a Pyramid scheme--a company that preys on the poor to keep it's investors rich. In "Betting on Zero," find out what happens when a Wall Street bro makes it his mission to expose Herba Life for the scam that it is. LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? WHO COULD BLAME YOU! Join our Patreon fam (https://www.patreon.com/Tru...
58m Aug 13, 2019
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Patreon Bonus Episode: The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann Episode 1
In May of 2007, Gerry and Kate McCann took their family on vacation to the resort town of Praia De Luz, Portugal.  On the evening of evening of May 3, their daughter, three-year-old Madeleine, was abducted out of her bed sometime around 10 pm while her parents and their friends dined at a restaurant about 55 meters (180 feet) away from the villa where she slept. Almost over night, Madeleine's d...
36m Aug 12, 2019
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96: The Cheshire Murders
In the quiet suburb of Cheshire, Connecticut, Jennifer Petit and her two young daughters were killed in a horrific home invasion; husband and father William Petit was the only one who escaped alive. This film explores the events of that shocking triple homicide and the disturbing revelation that were it not for police failures and untold personal dramas, this unimaginable crime could have been ...
48m Aug 06, 2019
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95: Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
Eliot Spitzer was a rising star in the Democratic Party...But then he got caught having sex with escorts. Client 9, as you might imagine, introduces us to a host of fascinating characters. From the take-no-shit escorts who love their jobs, to the weirdo downtown artist who....well, we're still not quite sure why he's here...to Spitzer himself--a powerful man with great intentions who simply th...
55m Jul 30, 2019
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94: HBO's I Love You Now Die Part 2: The Defense
In July 2014, 18-year-old Conrad Roy died by suicide in his car at a parking lot in Fairhaven, Mass. Police soon discovered a series of alarming text messages from his girlfriend, 17-year-old Michelle Carter, that seemed to encourage him to kill himself. This discovery sparked sensational headlines nationwide, leading to a trial that raised difficult questions about technology, social media and...
57m Jul 23, 2019
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93: HBO's I Love You, Now Die: Part 1
In July 2014, 18-year-old Conrad Roy died by suicide in his car at a parking lot in Fairhaven, Mass. Police soon discovered a series of alarming text messages from his girlfriend, 17-year-old Michelle Carter, that seemed to encourage him to kill himself. This discovery sparked sensational headlines nationwide, leading to a trial that raised difficult questions about technology, social media and...
54m Jul 16, 2019
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92: All The Queen's Horses
FIFTY. THREE. MILLION. DOLLARS. That's how much cash Rita Crundwell stole FROM HER CITY GOVERNMENT JOB without anyone noticing. She bought houses, and horses, and spa retreats AND A TWO MILLION DOLLAR BUS. How did she do it? HOW DID NOBODY NOTICE? This story is exactly as insane as it sounds! ON THIS WEEK'S AFTER PARTY (https://www.patreon.com/TrueCrimeObsessed/posts) , P & G talk all about the...
53m Jul 09, 2019
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91: The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story
In the 1990s, boy bands were king. Groups like N'SYNC and the Backstreet Boys were international sensations. But that wasn't the whole story. To tell the whole story, you have to talk about Lou Pearlman--the producer behind the pop explosion of the early 90s. Produced by Lance Bass, "The Boy Band Con" features interviews and never-before-told stories about how Pearlman conned the young artists-...
52m Jul 02, 2019
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90: 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 ...
56m Jun 25, 2019
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89: Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine
On October 7, 1998, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten, tied to a fence and left to die because he was gay. It was one of the most notorious hate crimes in US history. Years later, Michele Josue, a close friend of Matt's, revisits the shocking case with never-before-seen photos and rare video footage as Matt's all-too-brief life is remembered through the vivid tes...
56m Jun 18, 2019
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88: Oklahoma City
On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, a former soldier deeply influenced by the literature and ideas of the radical right, parked a Ryder truck with a five-ton fertilizer bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City. Moments later, 168 people were killed and 675 were injured in the blast. OKLAHOMA CITY traces the events--including the deadly encounters between American ...
59m Jun 13, 2019
59m
PATREON BONUS EPISODE: "Lorena" Episode 1
FAM! This week, as a fun little bonus, we wanted to share with you one of our FAVORITE episodes from our Patreon feed! We think that our coverage of "Lorena" is some of our funniest, most intense, rage-iest work so we wanted to share the first episode on the regular feed! If you'd like to hear the rest, become a part of the Patreon Fam for just $5 per month. If you do that, you'll also get almo...
47m Jun 07, 2019
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87: Upstairs Inferno
On June 24, 1973, an arsonist set fire to the Up Stairs Lounge, a New Orleans gay bar. The result was the largest gay mass murder in U.S. history--Thirty-two people were killed and some three bodies were never identified. And despite the staggering historical significance, few people know about the tragedy and the circumstances that have made this one of the most viscous unsolved crimes in US h...
54m Jun 04, 2019
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86: Behind The Curve
IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE EARTH IS FLAT? Turns out, there are LOTS of people believe it is. Is their evidence compelling? Not really, but their conspiracies run deep and cross over into everything from being anti-vaccination to, you know, believing that the school systems invented dinosaurs to keep kids dumb...or something like that. For us, this was 90 minutes of rage, and that always makes for ...
54m May 28, 2019
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Tabloid
FAM! QUEEN GILLIAN GOT SUPER SICK THIS WEEK AND SO WE HAD TO RUN A CLASSIC EPISODE! First please note that, unbeknownst to us before we picked this episode to rerun, THIS IS THE EPISODE WHERE WE INVENTED BOTH OUR THEME SONG AND…WAIT FOR IT…THE GARBAGE BELL!! Any-who, Gillian is much better now and we'll be back next week with that bonkers #FlatEarthDoc "Behind the Curve. ENJOY! Meet Joyce McKi...
57m May 21, 2019
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85: The Disappearance of Maura Murray: Part 2
This episode covers episodes 4 - 6 of the Oxygen series. For part 1, covering episodes 1 - 3, go here. (https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/episodes/copy-of-84-the-disappearance-of-maura-murray-part-1)  Or listen on Spotify here (https://open.spotify.com/show/7IcgcyLSmDUsNfpI3dEroP) .  It's the most famous--and most obsessed over--missing person's case of our time: On February 9, 2004, Maura Mu...
54m May 14, 2019
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84: The Disappearance of Maura Murray Part 1
This episode covers episodes 1 - 3 of the Oxygen series. It's the most famous--and most obsessed over--missing person's case of our time:  On February 9, 2004, Maura Murray, a promising young nursing student, left her college dorm, emptied her bank account, and drove to a remote New Hampshire town where she didn't know a soul. Just after 7pm, her car crashed into a tree. A witness spoke to he...
53m May 07, 2019
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83: Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four excavates the nightmarish persecution of Elizabeth Ramirez, Cassandra Rivera, Kristie Mayhugh, and Anna Vasquez - four Latina lesbians wrongfully convicted of gang-raping two little girls in San Antonio, Texas. The film begins its journey inside a Texas prison, after these women have spent nearly a decade behind bars. They were 19 and 20 yea...
59m Apr 30, 2019
59m
The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson
Who killed Marsha P. Johnson? When the beloved, self-described "street queen" of NY's gay ghetto was found floating in the Hudson River in 1992, the NYPD chalked it up as a suicide and refused to investigate. But Marsha was a lover of life and many who knew her refused to believe she would have taken her own life. Now, a quarter century later, at a time of unprecedented visibility and escalat...
59m Apr 23, 2019
59m
82: The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, 19 year old Elizabeth Holmes became the world's youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, it was revealed that the technology she'd invented didn't work--it never had. Her $10-billion-dollar company dissolved, investors lost everything, and Holmes now faces jail time.  LOOKING FOR...
55m Apr 16, 2019
55m
81: Studio 54
GAYS! DRAG QUEENS! LIZA! DISCO! DRUGS! TAX FRAUD! DO I REALLY NEED TO GO ON? Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism--a place that not only redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolize an entire era. Its co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, two friends from Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere to suddenly preside over a new kind of New York society. Now, 39 years after the v...
56m Apr 09, 2019
56m
80: The Case Against Adnan Syed Part 4: Time is the Killer
This episode covers episode 4 of the HBO series.  For our episode on Part 1 go here (https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/episodes/77-the-case-against-adnan-syed-part-1) For our episode on Part 2 go here (https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/episodes/78-the-case-against-adnan-syed-part-2) For our episode on Part 3 go here (https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/episodes/79-the-case-against-adnan-syed-p...
58m Apr 01, 2019
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79: The Case Against Adnan Syed Part 3: Justice Is Arbitrary
This episode covers part 3 of the 4-part HBO series. For our take on Part 1, go here! (https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/episodes/77-the-case-against-adnan-syed-part-1) For our take on Part 2, go here! (https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/episodes/78-the-case-against-adnan-syed-part-2)  And stay tuned till THE VERY END of the episode to hear a preview of our interview with Rabia Chaudry.  In par...
1hr 4m Mar 25, 2019
1hr 4m
78: The Case Against Adnan Syed Part 2: In Between The Truth
This episode covers part 2 of the 4-part HBO series. For Part 1, go here! (https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/episodes/77-the-case-against-adnan-syed-part-1) In part 2, Private investigators attempt to recreate circumstances at the crime scene, questions arise about the veracity of alleged accomplice Jay Wilds, the centerpiece of police and prosecutors’ case against Adnan Syed, we meet Jenn Pus...
59m Mar 18, 2019
59m
77: The Case Against Adnan Syed Part 1: Forbidden Love
Directed by Academy Award nominee Amy Berg, The Case Against Adnan Syed will explore the 1999 disappearance and murder of 18-year-old Baltimore County high school student Hae Min Lee, and the subsequent conviction of her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, a case brought to global attention by the hugely popular Serial podcast. In Part 1, we meet Adnan, Hae, and their friends in the magnet program at Wo...
58m Mar 11, 2019
58m
76: The Ted Bundy Tapes: Part 2
This podcast episode covers episodes 3 &  4 of the Netflix series. Listen to Part 1 (covering episodes 1 & 2 of the Netflix series) HERE. (https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/episodes/75-conversations-with-a-killer-the-ted-bundy-tapes) In this episode, Ted Bundy breaks out of prison TWICE. He terrorizes south Florida where he takes at least 6 more victims. When he's finally caught, he decides to...
58m Mar 05, 2019
58m
PATREON BONUS EPISODE! Making A Murderer Season 2, Ep. 1 "Number 18"
SURPRISE! this week we wanted to do something we’ve never done before—give every member of the TCO fam access to one of our Patreon full bonus episodes. We decided that our take on "Making A Murderer" season 2, episode 1 would be a great example to share of what we’re doing over on the Patreon feed. Tick Tock, it's Zellner 0'Clock, you guys. CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE PATREON FAM! (https://www.pa...
40m Mar 01, 2019
40m
75: The Ted Bundy Tapes: Part 1
This podcast episode covers episodes 1 & 2 of the Netflix series. On the 30th anniversary of his Florida execution, CONVERSATIONS WITH A KILLER: THE TED BUNDY TAPES brings the infamously twisted mind of serial killer Ted Bundy into the light for the very first time in a fresh yet terrifying way through exclusive, never-before-heard interviews from the "Jack the Ripper of the United States," hi...
54m Feb 26, 2019
54m
Mommy Dead and Dearest
It's Daisy's school vacation week, so Patrick is on full time dad duty! We'll be back with a brand new episode next week covering episodes 1 & 2 of Netflix's "The Ted Bundy Tapes." The following week, we'll cover episodes 3 & 4! Mommy Dead And Dearest: Late on the evening of June 14, 2015, deputy sheriffs in Greene County, Missouri, found the body of Dee Dee Blancharde laying facedown in a poo...
49m Feb 19, 2019
49m
74: Grizzly Man
For 13 summers, Timothy Tredwell journeyed into the Alaskan wilderness to spend four months living among the grizzly bears. Though Treadwell believed that he and the bears had an understanding--he considered them his close friends--he and his girlfriend Amy Huguenard were eventually killed and devoured by one of the bears. For the five summers before his death, he took a video camera on his tri...
59m Feb 12, 2019
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73: Fyre Fraud
The Fyre Festival was the defining scam of the millennial generation. Marketing for the 2017 music event went viral with the help of rapper Ja Rule, instagram stars, and models, but wound up being an epic failure as it stranded thousands of people in the Bahamas. Featuring an exclusive interview with Billy McFarland, the convicted con-man behind the festival, FYRE FRAUD is a true-crime comedy d...
59m Feb 05, 2019
59m
72: Three Identical Strangers
Three strangers are reunited by astonishing coincidence after being born identical triplets, separated at birth, and adopted by three different families. Their jaw-dropping, feel-good story instantly becomes a global sensation complete with fame and celebrity, however, the fairy-tale reunion sets in motion a series of events that unearth the unimaginable secret behind their separation.  LOOKIN...
55m Jan 29, 2019
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71: 51 Birch Street
Mike and Mina Block were married for 54 years. Friends, family, and neighbors all thought they had the perfect marriage. But then Minna died suddenly, and three months later Mike was married to his former secretary. Suddenly everyone realized that nothing in the Block home had been what it seemed to be. LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? Binge our 40+ bonus episodes via Patreon! (https://www.patreon.com/Tr...
1hr 4m Jan 22, 2019
1hr 4m
70: Hot Coffee
Seinfeld mocked it. Letterman ranked it in his top ten list. And more than fifteen years later, its infamy continues. Everyone knows the McDonald's coffee case. It has been routinely cited as an example of how citizens have taken advantage of America's legal system, but is that a fair rendition of the facts? Hot Coffee reveals what really happened to Stella Liebeck, the Albuquerque woman who sp...
57m Jan 15, 2019
57m
69: Jonestown: The Life and Death of the Peoples Temple
In the summer of 1977, Jim Jones, leader of The Peoples Temple, moved nearly 1,000 of his followers to a plot of land in Guyana, South America. Less than a year later, on November 18, 1978, 908 of the followers died after drinking Kool-Aid laced with poison. Was it murder or suicide? And what had made all of these people follow Jones to their deaths? LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? Binge our 40+ bonus e...
58m Jan 08, 2019
58m
Beware The Slenderman
BEWARE THE SLENDERMAN tells the story of the internet's elusive Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would kill for him. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier lured their best friend into the woods, stabbed her 19 times, then set out on an odyssey to meet the tall and faceless man known online as Slenderman. Shot over 18 months with heartbreaking access to the families of the would-be murderers, th...
49m Jan 01, 2019
49m
68: Oswald's Ghost (Was the JFK Assassination a Conspiracy?)
On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States, was assassinated in broad daylight in front of hundreds of people--at least 55 of whom were filming or taking pictures. And yet we still don't know what happened. Lee Harvey Oswald was the prime suspect. But then he too was killed in the middle of the day in front of almost 100 people.  Was it a lone gunman? The CIA? Fidel ...
57m Dec 18, 2018
57m