Seven Deadly Sinners

Rachael conducts and exclusive interview with ex-moonie Teddy Hose revealing his first hand experience living inside the cult and with the moon kids in New York.

If you thought mass marriages were radical - just wait until you hear what the legacy of the Unification Church, the son of Sun Myung Moon, is adding to the mix - Assault Rifles. Sean Moon, son of the late Sun Myung Moon, has branched off from the church created his own Rod of Iron ministry that not only promotes buying AR-15s - they want you to take it to church with you.

You know it's a cult when your followers get dubbed "The Moonies" - sounds like a great band from the 70s but beware - The Moonies were cult recruiters trolling college campuses deceptively indoctrinating unsuspecting college kids into the Unification Church one dinner party at a time.

Like so many Con-Man prophets, Sun Myung Moon, of course, heralds himself as Jesus 2.0 to his followers - known as "Moonies" Moon started The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification in 1954 and the Unification Church became widely recognized for its well known mass weddings they call  Blessing  ceremonies. The Church has been criticized for its teachings, its social and political influen...

The Deadly Sin this week is dedicated to Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Stefansson's con-man laden pride produced multiple failed Arctic expeditions and was ultimately responsible for sending five people unprepared and underfunded with a quarter of the rations they would need on an expedition to Wrangel Island north of Siberia where all but the crew's seamstress, Ada Blackjack, would perish in the harsh c...

Greg returns for another Christmas special edition of Seven Heavenly Virtues with a story on Charity and how the real life Saint Nicholas initiated a thousand years of gift giving.

Anna Young's "House of Prayer" cult was ultimately responsible for the deaths of two children in the 1980s and investigators fear more deaths are possible....

In the summer of 1976 in a small cattle town in northern California, a school bus full of 26 children - disappeared. When the parents started realizing their kids hadn't made it home from summer school - the entire town quickly jumped into action and within hours the bus was discovered by a farmer flying over a dry riverbed in his crop duster.... the only problem - it was empty...

Miriam Rodríguez Martínez was a mother scorned and as we found out in episode one there is no wrath like a mother scorned... in this episode we dive deeper into Miriam's vigilante justice and her list of cartel members she was going to make pay for their crimes against her daughter.

This episode is a MUST LISTEN! When Miriam Rodríguez Martínez' daughter, Karen, was kidnapped by the cartel she armed with a handgun, a fake ID and a couple disguises and began hunting down her daughter's killers. She stalked them for months and one by one took their lives repaying the sin of taking her daughters life.

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Rachael pays tribute to her friend Matthew Perry up top and then dives into the depths of what drove Jean Harris to bring a gun into her lover's bedroom unannounced on that fateful night in 1980.

Rachael tried it. Your Mom tried it. If you we're trying to shred some LBs in the 80's you probably tried it - The Scarsdale Diet. And in 1980, the headmistress of The Madeira School for girls in Virginia, Jean Harris, made national news when she was tried and convicted of the murder of her ex-lover, Dr. Herman Tarnower, a well-known cardiologist and author of the best-selling book The Complete Sc...

Rachael visits Cripple Creek's sister city Victor, CO and it's haunted hotels where she opens up the Seven Deadly Sinner's inbox and pulls out a few creepy, culty listener stories.

A cattle mutilation with no explanation, lights in the sky and tree knocking... Does Rachael live on a paranormal ranch? Greg leads the investigation into a suspected alien cattle mutilation that happened only a few miles from their homestead in Colorado.

On August 2017, 32-year-old Jeremy Evans endured multiple ferocious attacks by a protective female grizzly bear while hunting in the Alberta wilderness.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard was born as healthy baby but her mother's undiagnosed Munchausen by Proxy syndrome turned her life into a living hell for nearly 20 years until she was empowered by her online boyfriend, who claimed he was a 500 year old Vampire, hatched a plot to murder her mother.

SO THIS EPISODE, WELL IT HAS A BIT OF EVERYTHING, manipulation, misdiagnosis, murder and the twists and the turns that get stranger and stranger. It sounds like a movie or a work of fiction - and just when you think it’s over, the plot completely takes a left turn.

We left off last week with the murder of Gary Hinman. Bobby Beausoliea was the one said to have murdered Hinman and when he was arrested Charlie was not happy. Nervous in fact. Thought that bobby’s arrest may point the finger at the rest of the family, mostly himself. And Charlie had plans that didn’t include that. Still wanting to be a rockstar but likely confidence dwindling in that category aft...

It was the summer of 1969 and just a few weeks before the infamous Manson murders of actress Sharon Tate and Leno Labianca; Manson ordered his follower Bobby Beausoleil to get drug money from their friend Gary Hinman. Hinman was a local music teacher and dealt a little drugs on the side - what started as a shakedown for money turned into 3 days of torture and a murder that would propel the Manson...

Lynette " Squeaky " Fromme was considered Charles Manson's right hand woman and the Spahn ranch mother hen. She tried to keep the Manson family together after the Tate–LaBianca murders which ultimately failed. Later, in an effort to prove her commitment to Manson, she attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975. SOURCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeaky_Fromme MANSON THE WOMEN - OX...

Rachael talks with Ashley from That's So F***ed Up! about Leslie Van Houten and the beginnings of the Manson Family

Rachael dives deeper into her research on the LISK case interviewing a victim and known associate of one the suspects in Amanda Wienckowski case comparing stories and making a case to show he wasn't acting alone.

I remember being so shocked and saddened when this family’s story hit the news several years ago and it’s one that I’ve been hesitant to tell on this podcast because it is so graphic and unimaginable. What these kids (some of them adults) went through at the hands of their parents for years … it turns my stomach and brings tears to my eyes. But their perseverance and strength is so admirable that...

Larry Nassar is a master at the art of deception, a man who used his brain to manipulate and con young girls, their parents, school boards, Olympic heads of the industry. He used his brain. He was smart, and he was bold often committing his life shattering crimes to people who considered him family, often right when the parents were in the room, or upstairs at their own home. What Larry Nassar suc...