Episode #227
2023-07-14 07:51:40
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In the summer of 1984, a local newspaper reporter outside of Manchester, England, got a tip from the police. A foot had been found in a nearby bog.
Episode #226
2023-07-07 05:00:32
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A little over sixty years ago, there were 250 prison newspapers being published on a regular basis. Today, there are 26. We talked with the editor of one of them.
Episode #225
2023-06-30 05:00:23
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Mary Jones could sing just like Aretha Franklin. One night, a James Brown impersonator saw her perform at a Motown tribute show and got an idea. “He thought he would take her on the road, and tell everyone that she was the real Aretha.”
Episode #224
2023-06-23 05:00:02
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A Cleveland man collecting driftwood along the Lake Erie shore found a human torso on the beach. No one could figure out what had happened.
Episode #223
2023-06-16 05:00:42
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When a toymaker and a doctor teamed up to make the world’s first CPR doll, they decided to make the doll’s face look like one specific woman – a woman who they thought had drowned.
Episode #222
2023-06-09 05:00:08
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As recently as 1965, if you had a medical emergency, the people who showed up at your door would be volunteer firefighters, police officers, or undertakers with a hearse. Today, the story of how a group of Black men from Pittsburgh changed that.
Episode #221
2023-06-02 05:00:19
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Helen James grew up in a military family — her great-great-grandfather fought in the Civil War, her father in WWI, and her uncles in WWII. So when she enlisted in 1952, she felt like she belonged. Shortly after, she realized she was being watched.
Episode #220
2023-05-26 05:00:57
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There’s an old sailors’ saying about the ocean at the southernmost part of the world — “below 40 degrees latitude, there is no law; below 50 degrees, there is no God.” The story of what happened when five British warships sailed around the very bottom of South America, at 56 degrees latitude.
Episode #219
2023-05-19 05:00:44
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Today, the story of the woman running a Ponzi scheme before Charles Ponzi was even born.
Episode #218
2023-05-12 05:00:22
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“What we ask jurors to do is to just absorb all this trauma and just to keep on absorbing it and not process it with anyone. Just hold it in and hold it in and hold it in.” A look at what happens during and after a trial – and how some courts are trying to help jurors.
Episode #217
2023-05-05 05:00:05
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In 2008, Sven Berger was chosen to serve on the jury for a murder trial. He says the sentence that he and his fellow jurors handed down “felt like a mistake right away.”
Episode #216
2023-04-28 05:00:41
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At 14, Elizabeth Coppin was sent to work at a laundry business in Cork, Ireland. When she arrived, she noticed bars on the windows.
Episode #215
2023-04-21 05:00:07
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In 1948, a dead man was discovered on a beach in Australia. No one could identify him — until last year.
Episode #214
2023-04-14 05:00:38
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Remembering the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials.
Episode #213
2023-04-07 05:00:04
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When Debra Miller woke up on October 8th, 1964, she was expecting to see a black Volkswagen in her family’s driveway. Instead, she saw a police car. “And I knew my father was dead.”
Episode #212
2023-03-24 05:00:13
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In 1911, two sisters traveled to Seattle to meet a "doctor" named Linda Hazzard. The sisters didn’t seem very sick, but when they arrived, Dr. Hazzard told them they didn’t have a moment to lose – they needed to begin her treatment right away.
A few months later, one of the sisters wrote a letter to her old governess. “I am wonderfully better in fact,” she said, “getting stronger by leaps.” But her handwriting was messier than usual, and her sentences ran together and overlapped.