187: LISK - New Evidence
Attorney John Ray held a symposium in New York City and invited fellow collaborator, Rachael, along as he was presenting evidence she helped uncover.
36m Feb 18, 2024
36m
186: Gluttony - Nazi-era Foot Soldier Turned Cult Leader - Paul Schäfer
Paul Schäfer was a German minister that absconded to Chile after child abuse allegations surfaced in Germany after WWII in 1945. He went on to found and lead an agricultural commune of 300 German immigrants called Colonia Dignidad located in Parral, Chile. For over 40 years the gluttonous thirst for his sinful tendencies, led this evil man to abuse and torture the members of Colonia Dignidad, ...
44m Feb 11, 2024
44m
185: Interview with Ex-Moonie Teddy Hose
Rachael conducts and exclusive interview with ex-moonie Teddy Hose revealing his first hand experience living inside the cult and with the moon kids in New York.
1hr 3m Feb 04, 2024
1hr 3m
184: Wrath - Pastor Sean Moon & The Legacy of the Moonies Part 3
If you thought mass marriages were radical - just wait until you hear what the legacy of the Unification Church, the son of Sun Myung Moon, is adding to the mix - Assault Rifles. Sean Moon, son of the late Sun Myung Moon, has branched off from the church created his own Rod of Iron ministry that not only promotes buying AR-15s - they want you to take it to church with you.
47m Jan 28, 2024
47m
183: Pride - Sun Myung Moon & "The Moonies" Part 2
You know it's a cult when your followers get dubbed "The Moonies" - sounds like a great band from the 70s but beware - The Moonies were cult recruiters trolling college campuses deceptively indoctrinating unsuspecting college kids into the Unification Church one dinner party at a time.
33m Jan 21, 2024
33m
182: Pride - Sun Myung Moon and The Unification Church
Like so many Con-Man prophets, Sun Myung Moon, of course, heralds himself as Jesus 2.0 to his followers - known as "Moonies" Moon started The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification in 1954 and the Unification Church became widely recognized for its well known mass weddings they call Blessing ceremonies. The Church has been criticized for its teachings, its social and political influ...
31m Jan 14, 2024
31m
181: Pride - The Survival Story of Ada Blackjack
The Deadly Sin this week is dedicated to Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Stefansson's con-man laden pride produced multiple failed Arctic expeditions and was ultimately responsible for sending five people unprepared and underfunded with a quarter of the rations they would need on an expedition to Wrangel Island north of Siberia where all but the crew's seamstress, Ada Blackjack, would perish in the hars...
35m Jan 07, 2024
35m
180: The Folk Legends of Saint Nick
Greg returns for another Christmas special edition of Seven Heavenly Virtues with a story on Charity and how the real life Saint Nicholas initiated a thousand years of gift giving.
39m Dec 31, 2023
39m
179: Mother Anna Young's House of Horrors
Anna Young's "House of Prayer" cult was ultimately responsible for the deaths of two children in the 1980s and investigators fear more deaths are possible....
38m Dec 24, 2023
38m
178: Greed - The Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping
In the summer of 1976 in a small cattle town in northern California, a school bus full of 26 children - disappeared. When the parents started realizing their kids hadn't made it home from summer school - the entire town quickly jumped into action and within hours the bus was discovered by a farmer flying over a dry riverbed in his crop duster.... the only problem - it was empty...
49m Dec 17, 2023
49m
177: Wrath - Miriam Rodríguez Martínez Part 2
Miriam Rodríguez Martínez was a mother scorned and as we found out in episode one there is no wrath like a mother scorned... in this episode we dive deeper into Miriam's vigilante justice and her list of cartel members she was going to make pay for their crimes against her daughter.
32m Dec 10, 2023
32m
176: Wrath - Miriam Rodríguez Martínez
This episode is a MUST LISTEN! When Miriam Rodríguez Martínez' daughter, Karen, was kidnapped by the cartel she armed with a handgun, a fake ID and a couple disguises and began hunting down her daughter's killers. She stalked them for months and one by one took their lives repaying the sin of taking her daughters life.
36m Dec 03, 2023
36m
175: Lust - Mary Kay Letourneau
mary kay letourneau
38m Nov 26, 2023
38m
174: Wrath - Scarsdale Diet Murder Part 2
Rachael pays tribute to her friend Matthew Perry up top and then dives into the depths of what drove Jean Harris to bring a gun into her lover's bedroom unannounced on that fateful night in 1980.
40m Nov 19, 2023
40m
173: Lust - Scarsdale Diet Murder
Rachael tried it. Your Mom tried it. If you we're trying to shred some LBs in the 80's you probably tried it - The Scarsdale Diet. And in 1980, the headmistress of The Madeira School for girls in Virginia, Jean Harris, made national news when she was tried and convicted of the murder of her ex-lover, Dr. Herman Tarnower, a well-known cardiologist and author of the best-selling book The Com...
37m Nov 12, 2023
37m
172: Spooky Tales from the Inbox
Rachael visits Cripple Creek's sister city Victor, CO and it's haunted hotels where she opens up the Seven Deadly Sinner's inbox and pulls out a few creepy, culty listener stories.
51m Nov 05, 2023
51m
171: Paranormal Tales from the Ranch
A cattle mutilation with no explanation, lights in the sky and tree knocking... Does Rachael live on a paranormal ranch? Greg leads the investigation into a suspected alien cattle mutilation that happened only a few miles from their homestead in Colorado.
34m Oct 29, 2023
34m
170: An Incredible Survival Story with Jeremy Evans
On August 2017, 32-year-old Jeremy Evans endured multiple ferocious attacks by a protective female grizzly bear while hunting in the Alberta wilderness.
1hr 20m Oct 22, 2023
1hr 20m
169: Wrath - Gypsy Rose Blanchard Part 2
Gypsy Rose Blanchard was born as healthy baby but her mother's undiagnosed Munchausen by Proxy syndrome turned her life into a living hell for nearly 20 years until she was empowered by her online boyfriend, who claimed he was a 500 year old Vampire, hatched a plot to murder her mother.
36m Oct 15, 2023
36m
168: Wrath - Gypsy Rose Blanchard
SO THIS EPISODE, WELL IT HAS A BIT OF EVERYTHING, manipulation, misdiagnosis, murder and the twists and the turns that get stranger and stranger. It sounds like a movie or a work of fiction - and just when you think it’s over, the plot completely takes a left turn.
31m Oct 08, 2023
31m
167: 'Helter Skelter' the Manson Murder Plot
We left off last week with the murder of Gary Hinman. Bobby Beausoliea was the one said to have murdered Hinman and when he was arrested Charlie was not happy. Nervous in fact. Thought that bobby’s arrest may point the finger at the rest of the family, mostly himself. And Charlie had plans that didn’t include that. Still wanting to be a rockstar but likely confidence dwindling in that category ...
1hr Oct 01, 2023
1hr
166: The First Manson Family Murder of the Summer of '69
It was the summer of 1969 and just a few weeks before the infamous Manson murders of actress Sharon Tate and Leno Labianca; Manson ordered his follower Bobby Beausoleil to get drug money from their friend Gary Hinman. Hinman was a local music teacher and dealt a little drugs on the side - what started as a shakedown for money turned into 3 days of torture and a murder that would propel the Ma...
36m Sep 24, 2023
36m
165: The Manson Girl Who Attempted to Assassinate a President
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme of the Manson family attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975.
36m Sep 17, 2023
36m
164: Leslie Van Houten of the Manson Family
Rachael talks with Ashley from That's So F***ed Up! about Leslie Van Houten and the beginnings of the Manson Family
1hr 1m Sep 10, 2023
1hr 1m
163: Long Island Serial Killer Case Update
Rachael dives deeper into her research on the LISK case interviewing a victim and known associate of one the suspects in Amanda Wienckowski case comparing stories and making a case to show he wasn't acting alone.
41m Sep 03, 2023
41m
162: Sloth - The Turpin House of Horrors
David and Louise Turpin held their 13 children hostage and tortured them their entire lives.
34m Aug 27, 2023
34m
161: Pride - Larry Nassar
Larry Nassar is a master at the art of deception, a man who used his brain to manipulate and con young girls, their parents, school boards, Olympic heads of the industry. He used his brain. He was smart, and he was bold often committing his life shattering crimes to people who considered him family, often right when the parents were in the room, or upstairs at their own home.What Larry Nassar s...
39m Aug 20, 2023
39m
160: Terra Newell from 'Dirty John'
Rachael talks with her friend Terra Newell for a exclusive interview on how to spot coercive control from a master manipulator.
1hr 3m Aug 13, 2023
1hr 3m
159: Pride - The Institute in Basic Life Principles
This episode covers the documentary "Behind the Shiny, Happy People" focusing on the movement that made the Duggars keep on counting: the Institute in Basic Life Principles, and its founder, Bill Gothard Jr.
42m Aug 06, 2023
42m
158: Bigfoot Sightings with Kristen Doute
Kristen & Luke are hanging at the ranch this week and Rachael sits them down to ask the big question: Is Bigfoot real?
1hr 1m Jul 30, 2023
1hr 1m
157: A Crack in the Long Island Serial Killer Case
Rachael presents a new listener driven theory further cracking the Long Island Serial Killer case.
34m Jul 23, 2023
34m
156: Sloth - Profundity Yours Cult
In the middle of nowhere Texas, Marietta Texas to be exact, there is a woman from a trailer park claiming to be the commander of the Intergalactic Federation of Worlds.... and no she isn't auditioning for a part in the next installment of Star Wars.... this is Linda McGillis, a true cult con artist, taking her followers money and sanity with it.
50m Jul 16, 2023
50m
155: Gluttony - Kenyan Starvation Cult Part 2
We took a much needed breather from the topic of this episode. We recorded part 1 several months ago and news has continued to pour in from Kenya regarding the Shakahola massacre. If you haven’t listened to that first episode, I highly recommend doing so before jumping in here (it is episode 145 from May 7). Now that we have a bit more insight … .it seemed high-time to record this second episod...
35m Jul 09, 2023
35m
154: Pride - Bernarr McFadden
This week's episode is about Bernarr McFadden - Yes, he made his name up - he also created the violent magazine "True Detective" ... And guess who was an avid reader of true detective and credits many of his murderous urges to the Magazine one Theodore Bundy oh and Ed Gein oh, and the green river killer sorry, Otis Toole, Richard ramerirez, and the self named BTK Dennis Lynn Radar.
47m Jul 02, 2023
47m
153: The Tragic Murder of Tyler Lewis Part 3
In this bonus episode on the case of Tyler Lewis we hear from his girlfriend, Karla, who Erie County D.A. John Flynn did not call to the stand despite the family asking for it....
52m Jun 26, 2023
52m
152: The Tragic Murder of Tyler Lewis Part 2
The Erie County District Attorney said Friday that no one will be charged in the death of Buffalo State student Tyler Lewis because the grand jury ruled his killing as justifiable. Lewis’ mother, Roquishia Lewis, says “There's no justification for murder.” In part two we dive into D.A. John Flynn's press conference. TIPLINE: 716-226-6336 Justice4TylerLewis.com
1hr 1m Jun 25, 2023
1hr 1m
151: The Tragic Murder of Tyler Lewis Part 1
The Erie County District Attorney said Friday that no one will be charged in the death of Buffalo State student Tyler Lewis because the grand jury ruled his killing as justifiable. Lewis’ mother, Roquishia Lewis, says “There's no justification for murder.” In part one we dive into who the young man Roquisha raised was and how he ended up in a parking lot on a supposed pot deal... TIPLINE:...
31m Jun 18, 2023
31m
150: Vanity - Belle Gibson The Miracle Diet Con
Belle Gibson is an Australian convicted scammer and pseudoscience advocate
39m Jun 11, 2023
39m
149: Vanity - The Fraud of Miracle Diets
Rachael lays down the framework for the biggest wellness Con in the game, Belle Gibson. A woman who claimed her diet cured her of stage four brain cancer and she certainly did not have a malignant tumor anymore... but the thing is... she never did. SOURCES: The Woman Who Fooled the World“ Written By Beau Donnely and Nick Toscano “Broccoli is bad for you, like, really toxic bad” by Tim Crowe
35m Jun 04, 2023
35m
148: Pride - Twelve Tribes
Rachael attempts to infiltrate the Twelve Tribes cult in Manitou Springs, Colorado and stumbles across a defected former member who was willing to speak anonymously.
34m May 28, 2023
34m
147: Wrath - Ariel Castro Part 2
Part Two of the Ariel Castro hostage nightmare.
46m May 21, 2023
46m
146: Wrath - Ariel Castro Part 1
Imagine a typical, midcentury kit-home in the suburban midwest... Two-stories, white siding, black roof, red brick front steps and red trim....  But this typical midwestern house was anything but ordinary, it held secrets behind its front door that neighbors were suspicious of... The number of times police missed opportunities to solve this case is mind-blowing... Because locked behind the ...
33m May 14, 2023
33m
145: Kenyan Starvation Cult
The death toll in the African nation seems to tick higher and higher each time I open my web browser to continue my research. I’m honestly afraid to know what the number will be by the time we record this episode Saturday evening. Dozens more bodies have been found in less than 24 hours in this bizarre starvation cult and I don’t even know where to begin as I grapple with that sheer fact alone. 
33m May 07, 2023
33m
144: The Long Island Serial Killer Part 2
Part two
27m Apr 30, 2023
27m
143: The Long Island Serial Killer Part 1
I got too deep again and feel I’m getting closer and closer as I dig further and further into The Long Island Serial Killer and the connection with Amanda Weinkoski.... If you’ve listened to her episodes I’ve become heavily invested in and have been silently researching on the side until I can uncover more on what I believe to be a connection, it’s just no coincidence the elements that line...
48m Apr 23, 2023
48m
141: Pride - Teal Swan Part 3
Trigger Warning - Teal Swan's advice on suicide is well.... more than concerning... it almost possesses a taunting connotation. Please advise - listen with care and if you're in a dark place - this may not be the episode for you. We love you!
28m Apr 09, 2023
28m
140: Pride - Teal Swan Part 2
Part Two on Teal Swan
32m Apr 02, 2023
32m
139: Pride - Teal Swan
We dig back into the archive this week and release the previously unreleased Teal Swan episodes that we're initially pulled from air out of fear of her flock.
36m Mar 26, 2023
36m
138: Folktales From The Inbox
Rachael and Greg read stories sent to SevenDeadlySinnersPodcast@gmail.com corroborating and connecting to past episodes.... along with some personal asides of near miss run-ins with Mexican cartels while on vacation.
40m Mar 19, 2023
40m
137: Gluttony - Camp Kanakuk
Beyond the sunburns and poison ivy, some of these Christian summer camps sing a more sinister song... and this episode will explain why...
34m Mar 12, 2023
34m