Best Joe Kuner Podcasts (2025)

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Adeline Watkins and Ed Gein: Separating Fact From Fiction 11:31

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Adeline Watkins and Ed Gein: Separating Fact From Fiction When Ed Gein was arrested in 1957, the press needed someone to explain how a monster could hide in plain sight. Enter Adeline Watkins, a quiet woman from Plainfield who claimed a decades-long romance with America's most infamous killer. But two weeks later, she took it all back. So what real…

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The Austin Yogurt Shop Murders: How DNA Finally Solved a 34-Year-Old Cold Case 13:02

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The Austin Yogurt Shop Murders: How DNA Finally Solved a 34-Year-Old Cold Case In December 1991, four teenage girls were murdered inside an Austin yogurt shop. The crime scene was burned. The evidence was destroyed. Two innocent men went to prison for nearly a decade. And the real killer? He was already dead by the time they were arrested. This is …

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The Pixy Stix Killer: How Ronald O'Bryan Weaponized Halloween 12:19

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The Pixy Stix Killer: How Ronald O'Bryan Weaponized Halloween Halloween 1974 was supposed to be another night of trick-or-treating in Pasadena, Texas. Instead, it became the night that changed Halloween forever. When 8-year-old Timothy O'Bryan died from poisoned candy, investigators uncovered a twisted plot orchestrated by the one person who should…

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The Midnight Baseball Bat Murders: A Grandson's Unthinkable Crime 12:36

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The Midnight Baseball Bat Murders: A Grandson's Unthinkable Crime When a 20-year-old calls 911 covered in blood claiming he has no memory of the night, investigators uncover one of New Jersey's most devastating family tragedies. Louis and Betty Simon thought they were helping their grandson by letting him live with them. Instead, they became victim…

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Adnan Syed Part 2: Alternative Suspects, DNA Evidence, and Legal Chaos 13:15

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Adnan Syed Part 2: Alternative Suspects, DNA Evidence, and Legal Chaos After Serial turned Adnan Syed into the most famous convicted murderer in podcast history, his legal team kept fighting. What happened next reads like legal fiction: prosecutors found alternative suspects, DNA evidence excluded Syed, and he walked free after 23 years. Then came …

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Adnan Syed Part 1: Cell Phone Evidence and the Conviction That Started It All 11:55

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Adnan Syed Part 1: Cell Phone Evidence and the Conviction That Started It All When a teenage girl goes missing in Baltimore, police follow the oldest rule in the book: look at the ex-boyfriend. What they found was Jay Wilds, a friend willing to testify that Adnan Syed confessed to murder in exchange for a plea deal, and cell phone data from 1999 th…

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The Death of Candace Newmaker: When Therapy Becomes Torture 13:01

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The Death of Candace Newmaker: When Therapy Becomes Torture Sometimes the people we trust most to help our children are the ones who cause the most harm. In April 2000, ten-year-old Candace Newmaker traveled from North Carolina to Colorado for what her adoptive mother hoped would be life-changing therapy. Instead, it became a 70-minute session that…

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Hidden in Plain Sight: How Joseph Naso Killed for 50 Years Undetected 13:35

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Hidden in Plain Sight: How Joseph Naso Killed for 50 Years Undetected When a routine probation check in 2010 uncovered a handwritten "List of 10" on a kitchen table in Reno, Nevada, investigators had no idea they were about to crack open decades of cold cases. Joseph Naso, a 76-year-old former photographer with a history of petty crimes, had been l…

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The Grim Sleeper: How a Pizza Crust Ended 25 Years of Terror 11:46

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The Grim Sleeper: How a Pizza Crust Ended 25 Years of Terror The Grim Sleeper terrorized South Central Los Angeles for over two decades, targeting vulnerable women while hiding behind a facade of normalcy. Lonnie Franklin's 25-year killing spree included a mysterious 14-year break that earned him his chilling nickname. From his early conviction for…

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The Scottsdale Explosion: How Robert Fisher Murdered His Family and Disappeared 16:43

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The Scottsdale Explosion: How Robert Fisher Murdered His Family and Disappeared What happens when a man's deepest fear becomes his family's nightmare? Robert Fisher's story shows how childhood trauma, control, and the terror of becoming what you hate most can drive someone to the unthinkable. In April 2001, this Navy veteran and firefighter obliter…

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From Cat Killer to Cannibal: How Online Sleuths Tracked Down Luka Magnotta 15:11

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From Cat Killer to Cannibal: How Online Sleuths Tracked Down Luka Magnotta When someone posts animal cruelty videos online, where's the line between justice and vigilantism? This is the story of how a group of internet sleuths tracked down a man they called the "vacuum kitten killer," only to discover their worst fears were coming true. Luka Magnot…

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America's Deadliest School Attack: The Bath School Disaster of 1927 13:29

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America's Deadliest School Attack: The Bath School Disaster of 1927 What happens when financial ruin meets unchecked rage? In 1927, a small Michigan farming community learned the devastating answer when Andrew Kehoe, their own school board treasurer, orchestrated what remains America's deadliest school attack. This isn't a story about random violen…

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The Feral Child Who Became Florida's Deadliest Serial Killer 13:36

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The Feral Child Who Became Florida's Deadliest Serial Killer When a six-month-old baby was abandoned at a Schenectady orphanage in 1952, nurses found a child so traumatized he could barely speak and had resorted to eating his own waste to survive. Most thought little Paul Zeininger was beyond help, but one nurse refused to give up on him. What foll…

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The True Crime Author Whose Greatest Mystery Was Her Own Daughter's Death 13:37

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The True Crime Author Whose Greatest Mystery Was Her Own Daughter's Death When eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette called her mom to say she was breaking up with her boyfriend, it should have been routine relationship drama. Instead, it became the last conversation they'd ever have. Hours later, Kaitlyn was shot twice in the head while stopped at a …

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The Serial Killer Who Begged for Help and Got Ignored 12:35

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The Serial Killer Who Begged for Help and Got Ignored Here's what makes the Charles Ray Hatcher case absolutely infuriating. This young man literally wrote a letter from prison begging for psychological help, and every single person in authority ignored him. By the time they finally paid attention, sixteen people were dead and an innocent man was r…

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The Cup That Cracked A 30-Year Murder Case: Mandy Stavik's Story 12:02

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The Cup That Cracked A 30-Year Murder Case: Mandy Stavik's Story When 18-year-old Amanda Stavik went for a Thanksgiving weekend jog in the tiny town of Acme, Washington, nobody expected her to vanish without a trace. What happened next would haunt this tight-knit community for three decades. This is the story of how a coworker's courage, a discarde…

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Naval Academy Confession: The Murder That Shocked Texas 12:15

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Naval Academy Confession: The Murder That Shocked Texas Sometimes the most dangerous people are the ones who think they're perfect. In 1995, two teenage honor students had their entire lives mapped out - military careers, marriage, maybe even space travel. But when seventeen-year-old David Graham confessed to his girlfriend Diane Zamora that he'd h…

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Robert Lee Yates: The Decorated Soldier Who Hunted Women for Sport 12:52

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Robert Lee Yates: The Decorated Soldier Who Hunted Women for Sport You know that feeling when you find out your seemingly perfect neighbor has been living a completely different life? Robert Lee Yates took that concept and ran it straight into nightmare territory. This decorated Army helicopter pilot spent over two decades flying into combat zones,…

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The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing: Four Girls Who Changed America Forever 12:11

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The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing: Four Girls Who Changed America Forever Four girls were getting ready for Youth Day at church on September 15, 1963, doing what kids do before big moments - checking their hair, smoothing their dresses, making sure they looked perfect. Denise McNair was 11 and loved poetry. Addie Mae Collins was 14 and sold he…

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Patrick Crusius and the Conspiracy Theory That Inspired Mass Murder 12:43

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Patrick Crusius and the Conspiracy Theory That Inspired Mass Murder On August 3rd, 2019, a twenty-one-year-old drove 600 miles through the night to commit what would become the deadliest attack on Hispanic and Latino people in modern American history. But here's what makes this story so disturbing: Patrick Crusius looked like any other customer whe…

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The Idaho Four: How a PhD Student Became a Quadruple Murderer 13:04

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The Idaho Four: How a PhD Student Became a Quadruple Murderer You know how some stories stick with you long after you've heard them? This is one of those stories. Four college students in Moscow, Idaho, were living their normal, messy, beautiful young adult lives when everything changed in one night. Xana, Ethan, Maddie, and Kaylee weren't famous b…

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The Sunday Morning Slasher: Carl Watts and the Deal That Almost Set Him Free 14:05

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The Sunday Morning Slasher: Carl Watts and the Deal That Almost Set Him Free Sometimes the most dangerous people are the ones who slip through every crack in the system. Carl Eugene Watts should have been stopped at fifteen when he first attacked a stranger. He should have been caught in college when a student was stabbed thirty-three times. He def…

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From Disney to Death Row: The Oba Chandler Case That Shocked Florida 12:40

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From Disney to Death Row: The Oba Chandler Case That Shocked Florida When Joan Rogers and her two teenage daughters took a wrong turn after their Disney vacation, they ended up in Tampa instead of heading home to Ohio. What should have been a simple request for directions turned into one of the most horrific crimes in Florida history. This is the s…

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The Golden State Killer: When Evil Wore a Badge 12:33

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The Golden State Killer: When Evil Wore a Badge We all have that one neighbor who seems a little off, right? Maybe they're too quiet, maybe they mow their lawn at weird hours, maybe they wave just a little too enthusiastically. Well, Joseph James DeAngelo was that neighbor for decades, except his secret wasn't hoarding cats or playing music too lou…

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The Catfish Killer: How a Snapchat Romance Led to Murder 11:51

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The Catfish Killer: How a Snapchat Romance Led to Murder You know that feeling when you hear a story that makes you want to immediately check your teenager's phone? This is one of those episodes. We're talking about nineteen-year-old Denali Brehmer, who fell for a guy on Snapchat who promised her nine million dollars to kill her best friend. And be…

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Philadelphia's Shoemaker Killer: How Joseph Kallinger Turned His Son Into a Murderer 14:37

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Philadelphia's Shoemaker Killer: How Joseph Kallinger Turned His Son Into a Murderer Sometimes the most disturbing true crime cases are the ones that show us exactly how monsters get made. Joseph Kallinger's story starts with a father who vanished when his son was four years old and ends with that same son terrorizing families across three states w…

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The Brooklyn Vampire: How Albert Fish Became America's Boogeyman 14:47

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The Brooklyn Vampire: How Albert Fish Became America's Boogeyman Some stories stick with you long after you hear them, and Albert Fish's case is one that refuses to let go. Born in 1870 into a family tree riddled with mental illness, Fish's early years were marked by abandonment, abuse, and the complete failure of every system meant to protect vuln…

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Israel Keyes and the Kill Kits Still Buried Across America 10:10

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Israel Keyes and the Kill Kits Still Buried Across America After his arrest, Israel Keyes started talking. He confessed to Samantha Koenig’s murder, then casually gave investigators the names of two more victims.He described how he traveled thousands of miles to kill strangers, how he planned every move, and how he buried evidence years before usin…

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The Secret Life of Israel Keyes: America’s Most Organized Killer 12:11

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The Secret Life of Israel Keyes: America’s Most Organized Killer Israel Keyes spent years living like a normal guy. He ran a construction business in Alaska, paid in cash, and took his daughter on cruises. But behind that routine was a system built for murder.He studied serial killers, mapped out his own methods, and buried kill kits across the cou…

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The Taylor Schabusiness Case: Murder, Meth, and a Head in a Bucket 13:29

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The Taylor Schabusiness Case: Murder, Meth, and a Head in a Bucket On February 21, 2022, Shad Thyrion was killed in the basement of his mother’s house by someone he knew well. Taylor Schabusiness had a long history of drug use, recent run-ins with law enforcement, and a growing obsession with Jeffrey Dahmer. What happened that night was violent, in…

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Bart Whitaker: The Son Who Staged a Hit on His Own Family 13:11

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Bart Whitaker: The Son Who Staged a Hit on His Own Family Bart Whitaker had every advantage growing up. Private schools, expensive gifts, and parents who bent over backwards to give him the kind of life most people only read about. So when the family sat down to celebrate his college graduation over dinner and handed him a Rolex, no one expected wh…

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Craig Price: The Teenager Who Terrified Rhode Island 10:35

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Craig Price: The Teenager Who Terrified Rhode Island Craig Price looked like the kind of teenager you might ask to help you with your groceries. Quiet. Polite. A little awkward. But at thirteen, he stabbed his neighbor to death in one of the most brutal crimes Rhode Island had ever seen. And it did not stop there. Before he turned sixteen, Craig ki…

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The Killers Who Bragged: Inside the Murder of Amy Robinson 10:54

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The Killers Who Bragged: Inside the Murder of Amy Robinson Amy Robinson was doing everything right. She got through high school, started building a life of her own, and found some freedom riding her bike to work every day. But on a February afternoon in 1998, that routine put her in the path of two men who saw her as a target, because of who she wa…

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Donuts, Death, and the Devil: The True Story of the Chicago Ripper Crew 13:35

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Donuts, Death, and the Devil: The True Story of the Chicago Ripper Crew Most people have never heard of the Chicago Ripper Crew, which is wild considering how brutal and bizarre this story actually is. It starts with a kid working at a donut shop and ends in an attic filled with severed body parts and something that loosely resembles a satanic shri…

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The Tokyo Subway Sarin Attack: How a Cult Brought Terror to Japan 13:33

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The Tokyo Subway Sarin Attack: How a Cult Brought Terror to Japan In the mid-90s, a doomsday cult launched a deadly chemical attack on the Tokyo subway system during rush hour. But that attack wasn’t random. It was the result of years of planning, delusion, and violence led by a self-proclaimed messiah who went from acupuncture to apocalypse in one…

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Lyda Southard: The Serial Widow Who Cooked with Arsenic 11:18

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Lyda Southard: The Serial Widow Who Cooked with Arsenic Lyda Southard wanted a quiet life. She wanted a husband, a child, maybe a porch to sit on and watch things grow. What she left behind instead was a string of dead husbands, a trail of insurance payouts, and enough arsenic to make even the most optimistic pharmacist raise an eyebrow. In this ep…

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The Incel Ideology: Roots and Radicalization 24:34

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The Incel Ideology: Roots and Radicalization This one’s not your usual 10 Minute Murder. It started as a blog I wrote for the site, and a lot of people asked to hear it out loud. So here we are. This is a more thoughtfully written piece than what I usually record... something I originally meant for reading, not necessarily narrating. But the topic …

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Ruby Ridge Revisited: Fear, Firearms, and Family on the Edge 11:24

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Ruby Ridge Revisited: Fear, Firearms, and Family on the Edge The Weaver family retreated to Idaho hoping to protect their kids from a world they saw as collapsing. But their attempt to live off the grid pulled them into a web of suspicion tied to white supremacist groups, federal agents, and a neighbor’s feud. What began as a land dispute escalated…

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Inside the Mind of Eugene Butler: Paranoia and Murder on the Farm 11:10

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Inside the Mind of Eugene Butler: Paranoia and Murder on the Farm Eugene Butler was a man who built a fortune on 480 acres of North Dakota farmland. On the surface, he was a hardworking, thrifty farmer who kept to himself. But beneath that quiet exterior, something darker was unfolding. As paranoia took hold, Eugene’s life spiraled into isolation a…

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The True Story of The Bluebeard Killer 11:50

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The True Story of The Bluebeard Killer Harry Powers lied to lonely women during one of the hardest times in American history and turned it into a full-blown system. While people were standing in breadlines and trying to keep their families fed, he was writing letters. Not looking for love—looking for leverage. He promised wealth, mansions, and stab…

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Muscles, Marriage, and Murder: The Sally McNeil Story 11:21

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Muscles, Marriage, and Murder: The Sally McNeil Story Sally McNeil was trained for war, but her real battles happened at home. A former Marine, mother of two, and competitive bodybuilder, Sally spent years trapped in a violent marriage with a man who had the muscles of a champion and the temper of a ticking time bomb. The abuse started early and go…

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Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate: Nebraska’s Deadly Crime Duo 10:43

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Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate: Nebraska’s Deadly Crime Duo Charles Starkweather wasn’t your average small-town kid, and his crime spree wasn’t your average headline. Dragging along Caril Ann Fugate, barely a teenager herself, this pair tore through 1950s Nebraska in a brutal blur nobody saw coming. Was Caril just a scared kid caught in …

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Inside the Toy Box: The David Parker Ray Story 11:41

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Inside the Toy Box: The David Parker Ray Story In a small New Mexico town with a name that sounds like a game show, a nightmare was unfolding behind closed doors. David Parker Ray wasn’t your average maintenance man—he built a torture chamber he called the “Toy Box,” where vulnerable women were trapped, tormented, and left to disappear. This episod…

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Convict Leasing, Lynch Mobs, and the Killing of Mary Turner 12:11

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Convict Leasing, Lynch Mobs, and the Killing of Mary Turner In May of 1918, a white plantation owner in Georgia was killed by a Black laborer he had beaten and abused. What followed wasn’t a trial or investigation… it was a mob. A violent, racist mob that left 13 people dead, including a pregnant woman and her unborn child. This episode walks throu…

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When Trust Becomes a Weapon: The Lisa Knoefel Case 12:07

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When Trust Becomes a Weapon: The Lisa Knoefel Case Lisa Knoefel was asleep in her own bed when everything unraveled. Her foster daughter, Sabrina Zunich, was standing over her with a knife… and it wasn’t random, or sudden, or some spur-of-the-moment break. This had been planned. Encouraged. Groomed. And the person behind it wasn’t just a bystander.…

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Viral to Violent: The Nasim Aghdam Story 12:04

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Viral to Violent: The Nasim Aghdam Story In 2018, Nasim Najafi Aghdam walked into YouTube headquarters with a loaded gun and a personal vendetta. But this story doesn’t start with violence—it starts with viral vegan videos, fitness content, and a YouTube channel that once brought her internet fame. Nasim believed the platform was silencing her. Cen…

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Who Was the Skid Row Stabber? 15:08

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Who Was the Skid Row Stabber? In 1978, someone started targeting the most vulnerable people in Los Angeles—men living on the streets of Skid Row. Over the course of a year, eleven of them were stabbed to death. The press called the killer the “Skid Row Stabber,” but despite witness accounts, a creepy bathroom confession, and a guy named Luther who …

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The Making of Ted Bundy: Secrets, Shame, and Silence 17:51

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The Making of Ted Bundy: Secrets, Shame, and Silence Before the headlines. Before the manhunt. Before the courtroom smirks and the fan mail from strangers—Ted Bundy was just a kid with a fake name and a made-up family. In this episode, we’re not talking about what he did. We’re talking about who he was before anyone knew what he was capable of.From…

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Delivering Death: The Leaflet Lane Murders 11:37

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Delivering Death: The Leaflet Lane Murders A man dressed like a FedEx driver knocked on the door of a quiet Texas home. But he wasn’t delivering a package. He was there to deliver payback. Ronald Lee Haskell had a long and ugly history of violence, and on this day, it all came to a head. What followed was a targeted, calculated attack on an entire …

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Suitcase in the Pond: The Sandra Cantu Case 12:57

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Suitcase in the Pond: The Sandra Cantu Case Eight-year-old Sandra Cantu left her house on a Friday afternoon to play with friends. She never made it home. What followed was a frantic search, a community gripped by fear, and a discovery that would shake even the most seasoned investigators. But what makes this case especially disturbing isn’t just w…