After their mother’s death and years living under a controlling father, two Texas teens are pulled into their dad’s string of bank robberies—turning a broken family into an outlaw crew and forcing a daughter to choose between loyalty, survival, and the truth she was raised to ignore.
Sources for this episode include:

“I Would Only Rob Banks for My Family” by Skip Hollandsworth, Texas Monthly20/20, “A Family Affair”
Crime Files: The Homefront “Family Bank Robbers”

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A teenage runaway becomes a folk hero and a nationwide fugitive as he steals planes, boats, and cars—often barefoot—turning a two-year crime spree into one of the most unlikely manhunts in modern American history.

Sources for this episode include:
Reporting by The Daily Herald (Everett, Washington)
"Barefoot Bandit: His Life and Crimes" (CBS News)

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A notorious internet troll builds a revenge-porn empire that terrorizes thousands—until a determined mother launches a relentless campaign to bring him down and dismantle the most toxic community on the web.

Sources for this episode include:
The Netflix docuseries The Most Hated Man on the Internet
“Hunter Moore: The Most Hated Man on the Internet” (Rolling Stone)

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When a brilliant intelligence officer from MI6 is discovered dead inside a padlocked duffel bag in his London flat, investigators face an impossible crime scene—no signs of forced entry, no fingerprints, and theories ranging from suicide to espionage—as the shadow of secrecy around his work at GCHQ breeds one of the most perplexing mysteries in British intelligence history.

Sources for this episode include:
“Spy last seen alive eight days before body was found in bag” (The Guardian)
“MI6 officer Gareth Williams and the ‘missing hours’ before his death” (BBC)
“MI6 codebreaker Gareth Williams’ death ‘perfect crime,’ expert says” (CNN)
“Police claim to have solved London ‘spy in the bag’ mystery” (The Independent)
“The Death of The Spy In the Bag is Linked to Russia By Secret Intelligence Files” (BuzzFeed News)

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To some, Helen Duncan is a powerful medium who bridges the realms of the living and the dead. To others, she's a dangerous con artist blending deception and stolen top-secret information to prey on the grieving and the gullible.

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Sources for this episode include:

The Strange Case of Hellish Nell: The Story of Helen Duncan and the Witch Trial of World War II by Nina Shandler
Six Feet Over: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
Regurgitation and the Duncan Mediumship by Harry Price

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A libertarian idealist known only as “The Dread Pirate Roberts” builds the Silk Road—an anonymous online black market that explodes into a billion-dollar empire—until the digital kingpin is unmasked, revealing how one man’s dream of radical freedom spiraled into crime, paranoia, and downfall.

Sources for this episode include:

American Kingpin by Nick Bilton
Joshuah Bearman’s reporting for Wired magazine

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In 1977, candy heiress Helen Brach – one of the richest women in America – vanishes. Detectives consider the many people who might have wanted to get their hands on her money. Ultimately, the primary suspect that emerges is… the Chicago horse mafia.

Sources for this episode include:

Hot Blood: The True Story of an Heiress, a Gigolo, and a Shocking Murder by Ken Englade
“The Puzzle That’s Missing One Piece” (WashPo)
“Candy Heiress's Murder Probe Exposes Brutality in Horse World” (LA Times)

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A 19th-century island experiment founded by two nature-loving Germans goes from Gilligan's Island to Lord of the Flies when an entitled and eccentric heiress moves in.

Sources for this episode include:

Satan Came to Eden: A Survivor's Account of the "Galapagos Affair by Dore Strauch
Floreana by Margaret Wittmer
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (Documentary)
“An Unsolvable Mystery: Captain Hancock and the Case of the Quarrelsome Castaways” (PBS)

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When a lonely Milwaukee housewife lives a double life, her secret world spirals into a decade of deception — culminating in a deadly confrontation, a staged burglary, and one of the strangest true-crime scandals in American history.

Sources for this episode include:
“‘Bat Man’ Case: a Lurid Tale of Love and Death” (LA Times)
“Old Killing Recalled, Spook Stuff Seen in Queer Case” (The Independent Record)
Contemporaneous reporting by The Daily Herald, Brainerd Dispatch, and The Duluth News Tribune

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Molly Watson had waited seven long years for her happily-ever-after wedding with her boyfriend, Jim. Then, less than 48 hours before they were supposed to walk down the aisle, Molly was murdered. And Jim either had the wildest, unluckiest story ever... or he'd fabricated a strange and demented series of lies.

Sources for this episode include:
State of Missouri vs. James Addie (Respondent’s Brief)
20/20, “I Now Pronounce You Dead” (ABC, 2022)
Trial Testimony (Court TV, 2021)

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A charismatic leader convinces his devoted followers that salvation awaits aboard an alien spacecraft trailing a comet—leading the Heaven’s Gate cult to a tragic, otherworldly mass suicide that exposed the dangerous power of blind faith and cosmic delusion.
Sources for this episode include:

Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults (HBO Max)
Heaven’s Gate: America’s UFO Religion by Benjamin E. Zeller
Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults by Janja A. Lalich

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