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Episodes
In 1989, actress Rebecca Schaeffer is on the verge of becoming a big star. Her celebrity status has taken off with the sitcom "My Sister Sam" and she is preparing to audition for Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather Part III". But for the past two years, Rebecca has been receiving some intense fan-mail... Carrie presents this weeks case.
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Clare joins the team again to present one of her favourite cases! On the morning of April 30, 1989, the congregation at the Olive Branch Church waited patiently for their service to begin. Reverend Robert Pelley never showed. Even his family was absent from their pews. After walking next door to check on the family, churchgoers found a horrifying scene.
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This week, Benny covers the case of a woman whose actions are said to have contributed to, perhaps even caused, one of the most talked about maritime disasters of all time. But she will escape any interrogation or conviction for her role in the disaster, disappearing under a false identity and living a successful life as an illegal immigrant in the United States. This episode has been release April 1st 2024, almost 112 years since ...
Seoul, South Korea. June 29th, 1995. Within a luxury mall known as the Sampoong Department Store, an emergency board meeting is taking place. Members of the board have been called together within this nine story, pastel pink building to discuss serious concerns with the buildings structural integrity.
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This week Carrie introduces us to Paul Bern, a film director, screenwriter, and producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He helped launch the career of Jean Harlow, whom he married in July 1932. But only two months later, he was found dead of a gunshot wound, leaving what appeared to be a suicide note.
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Benny covers this bizarre story about a TV show that "ruined lives" during the dawn of the reality TV era.
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At 11pm on Friday December 6th, 1991, two seventeen-year-old girls lock the front door of a popular yogurt store and commence the nightly closing procedure. Two fifteen-year-old girls are also inside waiting for a lift home, and they are excited to be having a sleepover.
This week, Benny covers a shocking unsolved crime that will haunt Austin to this day: the Austin Yogurt Shop Murders.
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In 1979, the president of a small country on the west coast of Central Africa was found guilty of genocide, mass murder, embezzlement of public funds, violations of human rights and treason. He was sentenced to death, but nobody was willing to form part of a firing squad in order to execute him. The reason for this? The President was also a witch doctor, and swore that his ghost would return and take vengeance on anybody who had h...
In this episode, Carrie brings you a Hollywood mystery that still endures(?) almost ninety years on. Who killed "Hot Toddy"? Was it a cold-blooded, sinister murder plot? A lovers tiff with accidental, tragic consequences? Or did she decide to take her own life?
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This week, Lizzie covers the horrific story of five divers who were meant to be performing routine maintenance but ended up being sucked into a vortex and trapped in a narrow oil pipe... on the ocean floor. This case is crazy, and not for the claustrophobic.
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This week’s case is about a young autistic boy who put every aspect of his life up on the internet and gained a phenomenal following in modern internet culture. Some say he’s the most documented person on the internet. But this vulnerability made him a prime target for trolls. Obsessed with every detail of his life, those online trolls would eventually discover that the boy’s mental state and home life had deteriorated so horrifica...
This week, Carrie shares two cases of world records... gone wrong! Balloonfest 1986, and the 2016 Verrückt waterslide fatality. And this week, special guest Clare joins the team!
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Benny covers the Wineville Farm Murders. In 1926, Gordon Stewart Northcott would purchase a plot of land in rural California with the pretence of running a chicken farm. In reality, he would use the remote location to sexually assault and murder young boys, and he would have help doing it.
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Carrie covers the life of musician Sinéad O'Connor. Sinéad had a troubled existence, but consistently used her celebrity platform to draw attention to issues such as child abuse, human rights, racism, organised religion, and women's rights. This is the tragic death of an interesting person, but it's not true crime. If that doesn't leave you completely satisfied... well, that's life.
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In October of 1998, husband and wife Howard and Kathy Walmsley visit a department store Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Howard tells his wife that she should treat herself to some £8 strappy (but sensible) high heels, because their money woes are over!
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In 1984, Arnold Friedman was accused molesting boys in his care as an after-school computer teacher. And whilst there’s no doubt that Arnold Friedman was a man with secrets and guilt, Benny also discusses the impact that implanted memories, snowballing accusations, and moral hysteria had on the Friedman family.
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This week Carrie shares the case of Charles Harrelson, an American hitman and organised crime figure who was convicted of assassinating federal judge John H. Wood Jr. in 1979. He is also the father of actor Woody Harrelson who believes his father may be innocent.
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Benny covers the case of Jho Low, a Malaysian businessman in his 20s who would mastermind a $4.5 Billion dollar fraud. He would spend government funds on lavish Gatsby-style celebrity bashes, boats, mansions, jets, hotels, artwork, cars, and jewellery. He would even fund the making of major Hollywood movies. All at the expense of Malaysian taxpayers and Saudi investors.
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This week, Lizzie covers the case of Robert Hanssen, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001. His espionage was described by the Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history."
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This week, Carrie tells Benny and Lizzie the story of the Manacled Mormon. This is the case the of reputed kidnap and sexual assault by an American woman, Joyce McKinney, of a young American Mormon missionary, Kirk Anderson, in England in 1977.
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