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Welcome to Season 4 – Episode 15! In our final episode this season, we hitch a ride back to the summer of Chicago, 1966, to tear apart the horrific rampage of Richard Speck.  This is a breakdown of pure, random predation, and a deep-seated psychological complex against women. Speck systematically terrorized, bound, and slaughtered eight young student nurses in a single night. Sixty years later, we...

Welcome to Season 4 – Episode 14! In this episode, we travel into the suffocating desert heat of Scottsdale, Arizona, to dissect the cold-blooded, meticulously calculated crimes of Robert William Fisher . To the outside world, he tried to project the image of a devoted family man, but behind closed doors, he was a volatile tyrant who operated under an obsession with absolute control over his house...

Welcome to Season 4 – Episode 13! In this episode, we travel to the backroads and coastal highways of South Carolina to dissect the staggering, chaotic crimes of Donald "Pee Wee" Gaskins. Standing at just 5'3", Gaskins was underestimated, yet he operated under a monstrous, self-styled philosophy he called his "Serious Mind" to become one of the most prolific serial ki...

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 12 - PART 2 We're back for part two!  Part Two follows the fallout of the missing $40 million from the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union and the investigation into Lawrence E. King Jr . as allegations of abuse and exploitation, involving vulnerable youth, begin to surface. While these claims were documented in testimony and hearings, they were never proven i...

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 12 - PART 1 We're back and I accidentally did another two-parter! We’re digging into the case that turned Omaha into the epicenter of a political and social nightmare: The Franklin Scandal. We’re looking at the $40 million collapse of a credit union and the man at the center of the storm - Lawrence E. King Jr . Was he just a high-society fraudster, or was he the g...

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 11. We’re back in murder land. We’re digging into one of the most heartbreaking and controversial chapters in true crime history: The Atlanta Child Murders . We’re looking at the victims the world almost forgot and the man the system was desperate to pin it on - Wayne Williams . Was he a prolific predator, or a convenient scapegoat for a city on the brink of a race war...

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 10, Part 2. We’re back in it. In the final chapter of our dive into Whitney Webb’s One Nation Under Blackmail Vol 2. , we move out of the smoky backrooms of the 20th-century mob and into the high-tech, high-def world of the modern technocracy. Volume 2, Part 2 is about the digital harvest. We’re picking up right where the "stray cats" met - Jeffrey Epstein an...

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 10. We’re back in it. In this episode, we continue the conversation started in Volume 1, this time diving into “One Nation Under Blackmail: Volume 2” by Whitney Webb . If Volume 1 taught us anything, it’s this: the system was designed this way.  Volume 2 drops us directly into the rise of Jeffrey Epstein. Not just the headline version of Epstein or the crimes we alread...

Welcome to Season 4 – Episode 9! In this episode, we descend into the suburbs of 1970s Houston to examine the case of Dean Corll , a man the world remembers as “The Candy Man,” but whose neighborhood knew as  "The Pied Piper". Behind the friendly persona was one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. Corll groomed and manipulated teenage boys, ultimately recruiting two...

Welcome to Season 4 – Episode 8 - PART 2! In Part 2, we move from smoky back rooms to boardrooms with better lighting. If Part 1 built the foundation - Prohibition money, mob logistics, compromised officials - Part 2 shows what happens when the underworld goes corporate. The old guard dies off, but the infrastructure evolves. Drawing exclusively from Whitney Webb’s One Nation Under Blackmail (Vol....

Welcome to Season 4 – Episode 8 - PART 1! In this episode, I pull back the curtain on One Nation Under Blackmail Vol 1. by Whitney Webb - a meticulously sourced deep dive that reframes power, corruption, and control in America as a long-running business model, not a conspiracy theory.  We'll talk about how intelligence agencies, organized crime, financial institutions, and political elites co...

Welcome to Season 4 – Episode 7! In this episode, we examine the case of Jane Toppan , a woman often reduced to the label of “killer nurse,” but whose crimes reveal something far more disturbing. Toppan didn’t simply murder her patients - she manipulated them.  Charged with twelve murders and confessing to at least thirty-one, she exploited a system that trusted caregivers implicitly and rarely qu...

In this Sober Take, we examine the federal sentencing memorandum in Pamela Anne Hemphill , a January 6 case that shows how courts evaluate individual conduct inside a mass event. *CORRECTION:KEPT CALLING HER PATRICIA IN THE EPISODE* Hemphill pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a restricted Capitol building , a misdemeanor offense. On its face, the charge appears minor. But t...

Welcome to Season 4 – Episode 6! In this episode, we step deep into Chicago history to unpack the myth and the menace of Sylvester “Two Gun Pete” Washington , one of the most infamous and contradictory figures in the city’s law enforcement past. Celebrated by newspapers as a fearless crime fighter and quietly feared by the communities he policed, Washington was the most recognizable Black police o...

In this Sober Take, I ramble about a federal class-action lawsuit alleging that Stake.us operates as an illegal online casino in the United States while marketing itself as a “free” social gaming platform. The lawsuit also names celebrity promoters, including Drake and Adin Ross , alleging they were paid to livestream gambling activity using funds supplied by the platform—creating a misleading pic...

Welcome to Season 4 – Episode 5! MERRY CHRISTMAS! This week, We're on a road trip. I'm joined by my sister, Kirrah, as we take on one of the most disturbing cases in modern American crime history. His name was Samuel Little , and for decades he moved through cities virtually invisible. Between the 1970s and early 2000s, Little murdered women across the United States while law enforcement...

Welcome to Season 4 – Episode 4! This week, we’re taking a sharp left turn from Kansas and landing in Miami Beach.  In July of 1997, world-renowned fashion icon Gianni Versace was gunned down on the steps of his own mansion. And at the center of it all? A social climber named Andrew Cunanan. Today, we’re digging into how a kid from San Diego spiraled into a cross-country killing spree, how he mana...

Welcome to Season 4 - Episode 3! This week, we’re heading to Wichita, Kansas. The quiet little town that wasn’t so quiet once BTK showed up. Bind. Torture. Kill. That’s what he called himself. And for thirty years, he hid behind the mask of a husband, father, church leader, and city code enforcer while secretly turning his darkest fantasies into reality. My sister Kirrah is joining me this week to...

Welcome to Season 4 - Episode 2! **THIS EPISODE HAS SOUND ISSUES** This week, we're going to blast off (literally) into one of the strangest true stories in American history: Heaven’s Gate. In 1997, 39 people dressed in identical black outfits and Nike Decades “left their vehicles” in hopes of catching a ride on a UFO trailing the Hale–Bopp comet. Behind the headlines were Marshall Applewhite...

Welcome to Season 4 - Episode 1! This Halloween, we’re back — and we’re not just telling a ghost story, we’re living one. Join me! I'm with Sal as we record inside the infamous Congress Plaza Hotel in downtown Chicago. A place that’s been called one of the most haunted hotels in America. From shadowy hallways to creaking elevators, we’re chasing the same whispers that terrified guests for ove...

Welcome to Season 3 - Episode 10! In this episode, I’m joined by my homeboy, Jeremy! We'll talk about the chilling case of the Idaho Four—the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students that shook the nation. We'll walk through the known facts, the timeline of events, and the arrest of suspect Bryan Kohberger. The poison in this episode is the Tequila Bee's Knees . If you want...

Welcome to Season 3 - Episode 9! In this episode, I’m joined by my homeboy, Dustin! We’re diving into the final hours of Bobby Franks’ life and peering into the twisted minds of two wealthy kids who thought they were too smart to ever get caught—spoiler alert: they absolutely weren’t. We’ll talk Nietzsche, terrible alibis, why murder isn’t exactly a team-building exercise, and the hidden forces th...

Welcome to Season 3 - Episode 8! This week, my sister Kirrah joins me to explore Chicago’s explosive Red Summer of 1919. We unpack the racial tensions that triggered Eugene Williams’ death, discuss the violence that erupted after, and connect how these historic struggles reflect the political divides we still grapple with today.  The poison in this episode is the Crooked Cowboy . If you want to dr...

Welcome to Season 3 - Episode 7! In this episode, we're diving headfirst into the twisted road of the Happy Face Killer: a long-haul trucker who turned America's highways into his hunting grounds. False confessions, a trail of dead women, chilling letters signed with a...Happy Face? Weird much? The poison in this episode is the Blackberry Bourbon Smash. If you want to drink with us, you...

Welcome to Season 3 - Episode 6! She's back! After a long break, my sister, Kirrah rejoins the poddy as we take a deep, emotional dive into the tragic and haunting case of Andrea Yates. We unpack the events leading up to that fateful day, and the deeper mental health struggles that were overlooked. It's a heavy episode, but having her back makes it a little lighter...and it's my BIR...