Episode #289
2024-10-18 05:00:16
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Today, a personal story from Phoebe about her mother, Valentine, who died this spring.
Episode #288
2024-10-11 05:00:21
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Soon after the Berlin Wall went up, a group of students knocked on Joachim Rudolph’s door. They told him they were trying to get people out of East Germany - and they wanted his help.
Episode #287
2024-10-04 05:00:38
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Before Guantánamo Bay became the prison we know today, Marie Genard spent more than a year of her life there. She was 14.
Episode #286
2024-09-27 05:00:42
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In 1977, a new bar opened on North Wells Street in Chicago. Things weren’t as they seemed at the aptly named “Mirage Tavern.”
Episode #285
2024-09-20 05:00:40
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One morning, two men got in a boat and sailed down a river in the Amazon rainforest. They were never heard from again.
Episode #284
2024-09-13 05:00:21
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In the summer of 1975, two best friends attempted a robbery unlike any they’d ever pulled off before. Their target: the mob.
Episode #283
2024-09-06 05:00:22
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When Madison Smith went to her county attorney’s office to talk about her rape case, he told her he wouldn't bring a rape charge. Then she discovered a loophole in an old Kansas law.
Episode #282
2024-08-23 05:00:19
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In 2010, a $16.5 million Hot Lotto ticket was sold at a gas station in Des Moines, Iowa. At first, no one showed up to claim the prize. Things got very strange.
Episode #281
2024-08-16 05:00:25
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Two men turned in the winning catch at a Lake Erie fishing tournament. But when the tournament director squeezed one of their fish - he felt something inside.
Episode #280
2024-08-09 05:00:21
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Phoebe: Are there a lot of spies in this country today?
Scott: Far more than people can probably even imagine. You can't rule anybody out. You never know what it is that motivates people to do this.
Episode #279
2024-08-02 05:00:15
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“If you’re working alone in the wilderness, no witnesses, and the people that you’re going up to are armed, it’s really dangerous.”
Episode #278
2024-07-26 05:00:16
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“There was a saying I heard a few times: ‘under the influence, above the law.’ And I think that describes the mindset of a certain type of fraternity guy.”
Episode #277
2024-07-19 05:00:01
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In the 1980s, Pablo Escobar smuggled four hippopotamuses into Colombia for a zoo on his ranch. After he was killed, the hippos were left on their own.
Episode #276
2024-07-12 05:00:16
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In 1967, a 24-year-old named Leslie Arnold escaped from prison. The FBI looked for him for years. And then, in 2022, a U.S. Marshal got a message from his son.
Episode #275
2024-07-05 05:00:29
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On the afternoon of June 23rd, 1972, Martin McNally walked into the St. Louis airport with a wig, a sawed-off rifle, and a plan.
Episode #274
2024-06-28 05:00:39
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When Karen Bethea-Shields was in college, she heard a judge say, “No way in the world a Black woman can get raped.” A few years later, in 1975, she helped successfully defend Joan Little—a Black woman—who became the first woman in the U.S. to be found not guilty of murder using the defense that she used deadly force to resist sexual assault.