Episode #291
2024-11-01 05:00:13
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This week, part two of the Reels family story – how two brothers went to jail for eight years in an attempt to save their family land.
Episode #290
2024-10-25 05:00:13
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Melvin Davis and Licurtis Reels refused to leave the land that had been in their family for generations – so they were sent to jail. They expected to be in jail for 90 days. They were there for 8 years.
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.