Episode #316
2025-05-09 05:00:53
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The night before she gave birth, Susan Horton had a salad for dinner. The next day, doctors told her she’d tested positive for opiates - and reported her to child welfare authorities.
Episode #315
2025-05-02 05:00:30
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When Tabatha Trammell was 50 years old, she started studying to become a doula — a support person for pregnant women. Today, most of her clients are incarcerated. She says she always tells them her own story when she meets them: “I went down that same road. But I'm here today. And I'm going to tell you how to navigate this prison system.”
Episode #314
2025-04-25 05:00:53
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Frank Thompson had to prepare his staff to perform Oregon's first lethal injection in three decades. They simulated each step of the process over and over and over.
Episode #313
2025-04-18 05:00:26
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“Was I surprised that he escaped? Not really.”
Episode #312
2025-04-11 05:00:29
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Between 1998 and 2000, more than 40 stores and chain restaurants across the country were robbed by a masked man who always entered through the roof. Police couldn’t figure out where he’d turn up next.
Episode #311
2025-04-04 05:00:25
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In the midst of the 1996 race for North Carolina governor, a new candidate emerged. Her name was Jolene Strickland, and her campaign slogan was “Too Good to be True.”
Episode #310
2025-03-28 05:00:16
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In May of 2021, the National Park Service received a call that a woman had fallen over the Grandview Overlook at New River Gorge National Park. After days of searching with rappel lines, infrared cameras, and dogs, they didn't find anyone.
Episode #309
2025-03-21 05:00:48
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A Toronto police officer was having an affair with a government worker – and then they found out about an elderly man who died with a large estate, and no will.
Episode #308
2025-03-14 05:00:44
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Right after sunset, three boats sailed towards the rice plantations on the Combahee River. Harriet Tubman knew they had to hurry - they only had six hours before the changing tide would make it very difficult to get away.
Episode #307
2025-03-07 05:00:13
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“Christopher Kinahan is probably the most successful and entrepreneurial criminal that Ireland has ever produced.”
Episode #306
2025-02-28 05:00:08
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Last year, a committee of state lawmakers in Texas issued a subpoena for a man on death row to testify four days after he was scheduled to be executed. Today, what happened next in Robert Roberson's case.
Episode #305
2025-02-21 05:00:14
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The first time Ed Newcomer went to the L.A. Bug Fair, he met a man who called himself the world’s most wanted butterfly smuggler.
Episode #304
2025-02-14 05:00:57
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“He stole my watch. He stole my jewelry. I stopped wearing jewelry – just to see what else he would steal.”
Episode #303
2025-02-07 05:00:31
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On May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls took command of a Confederate ship and liberated himself and his family from slavery. His great-great-grandson, Michael Boulware Moore, tells the story.
Episode #302
2025-01-31 05:00:49
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“No one ever expected anything like this to happen.”
Episode #301
2025-01-24 05:00:10
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“Anything you can think of is going to be in the water.”