Episode #117
2019-06-21 13:50:34
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Amanda Hamm and her boyfriend Maurice LaGrone drove to Clinton Lake one night in 2003. The next day, DeWitt County Sheriff Roger Massey told a local newspaper, “We don’t want to blow this up into something that it’s not. But on the other side, we’ve got three children who are...
Episode #116
2019-06-07 12:33:37
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In our last episode we spoke Cecilia Gentili, a trans Latina who worked for many years as an undocumented sex worker. Today, we get two more views of sex work in America. We speak with a high-end escort in New York City, and take a trip to one of the...
Episode #115
2019-05-24 19:43:44
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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. “Some of us find our community with our own family and some of us don’t.” Today, Cecilia runs a policy reform organization called Trans Equity....
Episode #114
2019-05-10 12:51:05
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When Philip Benight met Becky Golden, they made a promise to stick together, no matter how bad things got.
Episode #113
2019-04-26 13:19:01
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One summer in 1973, two men robbed a bank in Stockholm. They held four people hostage for six days. Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist Nils Bejerot coined the term "Stockholm Syndrome" to describe the response of the hostages. One of the bank robbers, Clark Olofsson, told us, "It was fun."
Episode #112
2019-04-12 12:21:18
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This episode contains adult content. Please use discretion.
When Sarah Garone was 13 years old, she received something very strange in the mail. She didn't know who it was from, or why they would have sent it. And then it happened again.
Episode #111
2019-03-29 11:54:27
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"My first instinct, to be honest, was they shot this guy and now there’s a coverup."-Liz Riley, Special Assistant Public Defender, Monroe County Public Defender's Office.
Episode #110
2019-03-15 12:05:51
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Georgia Tann bragged that she had a rigorous selection process that matched the perfect child with the perfect home.
Episode #109
2019-03-01 13:51:14
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It's one thing to get into an argument with a stranger on Facebook. It's another thing to try to ruin that stranger's life.
Episode #108
2019-02-15 13:35:16
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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...
Episode #107
2019-02-01 13:48:28
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When Sarah Winchester's husband died, she inherited millions from the family business: the manufacture of the famous Winchester Rifle. A medium reportedly told Sarah that she would be haunted by the victims of that rifle unless she used her fortune to build a house, and never stop building. That's exactly...
Episode #106
2019-01-18 13:52:36
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In a suburb outside of Salt Lake City, a 69-year-old woman named Linda Gillman hired a man named Christian Olsen to do some repairs on her condo. After months of working together, Linda Gillman asked for Christian’s help with a different sort of project.
Episode #105
2018-12-21 13:45:12
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John "Sonny" Franzese was once described as "largely responsible for the glamorization of the Mafia over the past century.” He'd been active in the Colombo crime family since the 1960s. And then, when he was 93, he was given an 8-year sentence. The evidence that helped convict him came from...
Episode #104
2018-12-07 13:14:27
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We speak to a man who has given thousands of people new names, told them where they would live, and warned them they could never go back home.
Episode #Bonus
2018-11-30 14:26:27
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A story about doing things a little differently.
Episode #103
2018-11-16 13:59:13
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On a hot summer day in 1978, a group of friends started renovating an old house in Atlanta. They were steaming wallpaper off of the walls when two strangers just walked in. One of them had a gun.