Today we're talking with Jen Miller, journalist, author of five books, and the reporter and co-producer behind Blood Will Tell, a new limited series podcast from Wondery and Campside Media.
Jen's work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and many other esteemed publications. She holds both an MFA in fiction and a master's in journalism from Columbia. She's also spent the last decade running the Senior Media Fellows Program at the American Immigration Council, helping over a thousand people tell their own immigration stories in their own words.

The story that brought her to us today started with a Washington Post assignment about Shakespeare being used as therapy in prisons and ended with her down a rabbit hole that led to the creation of Blood Will Tell. The podcast overs the true story of 18-year-old Anh and Trung, Vietnamese-American identical twin brothers in San Jose, California and a birthday party that turned fatal.

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In the 1970s, a French journalist claimed he was contacted by extraterrestrial beings who revealed that humanity was scientifically created by an advanced alien race. From that encounter, the Raëlian Movement was born, blending UFO belief, sensual freedom, and a futuristic vision of human destiny. In this episode of Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes, Vanessa Richardson examines the rise of founder Claude Vorilhon, known as Raël, and the group’s teachings about the Elohim, cloning, and eternal life through science. As the movement spread internationally and made headlines with controversial claims of human cloning, critics challenged its credibility and internal practices. This episode explores how a message of cosmic origins and technological salvation evolved into one of the most unusual and debated new religious movements of the modern era.

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A frog with his pants pulled down. A suspiciously powerful Reddit account. And one of the craziest news days in American history. Who knew the internet could be so powerful in the real world? This week's episode is 4chan, WikiLeaks, and Pizzagate: Part 2.

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It all started with radical opacity: a website was born where people could gather and post anonymously, free from consequence or identity. Elsewhere, another site's radical transparency hosted damning documents meant to dismantle authoritarian regimes. But what happens when those two forces converge, and anonymity and exposure become weapons aimed at the same target? This week's episode is 4chan, WikiLeaks, and Pizzagate: Part 1.

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I am an Accidental Killer; My 4th Grade Teacher Tried Recruiting Me into her Cult; The Paper Shredder Pervert; My Survivor Story; “Just Creepin?”; and The Scarecrow in My Closet

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From the waters of Newfoundland to the dusty desert of Nevada, to the bridges of Virginia and the green of Ireland, We can find laughs anywhere. This week's episode is Best of Funny Moments!

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The Time I was Interviewed by Homeland Security; But What Kind of True Crimes?; In This World Full of Anger; Learn from my Mistakes; When the Missiles Fell pt.2; Aliens? Jesus? Lucas CPR Machine?; Follow Up From a "Way Back" Freaky Friday (FF 18)

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Just after his death was announce, online rumors circulated that perhaps the disgraced financier and sex trafficker wasn't dead. Then with the drop of millions of new files, a picture emerged of a man who may not be dead, but may instead be in hiding. This week's episode is: Is Jeffrey Epstein Still Alive?

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Epstein and Why I Wish What We're Hearing Would Shock Me; Another Fucking Day in Paradise; Pizzagate Stole My Co-workers Picture; Cult Recruitment at Walmart?; Missing in Marquette; The Goddamn Dash Cam Scam; And The Blink

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He had been busted once before, so when the well-connected financier was arrested again a decade later, survivors’ hopes for justice weren’t high. Then, just weeks after he was behind bars, we all heard the news: he was dead from an apparent suicide. But now with the release of millions of new files, what was once a viral joke is looking more likely to be true. This week’s episode is Did Jeffrey Epstein Kill Himself?

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