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Welcome to an after-dark world of new money, hedonism and excess. A world of luxurious nightclubs where racketeers, gamblers and glamorous women mixed with entrepreneurs, bunny girls, politicians and policemen. Bandit Country is a gripping, atmospheric true-crime noir. It is the story of Britain's 1960s gambling boom, as the country emerged from years of hardship to embrace exotic night-life and entertainment, all supplied by the Mafia.

“A haunting true crime tale of systemic incompetence and racism” (New York Times) – and its devastating effect on innocent lives After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and Levon...

In June of 1968, Irene Izak, a young French teacher from Scranton, Pennsylvania, was pulling an all-nighter on the road toward the promise of a new life in Quebec. The last time she was seen alive was at 2:09 a.m. by a toll collector at Thousand Island Bridge, who claimed Irene was visibly afraid. Less than a half-hour later, Irene was found bludgeoned to death in a ravine bordering DeWolf Point State Park. There were no signs of robbery or sexual assault. For reasons unknown, Irene had been compelled to pull off the interstate and abandon her car, only to be brutally murdered.

Coal Country Killing revolves around the cold-blooded 1969 assassination of United Mineworkers of America "reform candidate" Jock Yablonski, and the murder of his wife and daughter in their Pennsylvania farmhouse. But driving the story are the extraordinary efforts of a special prosecutor and his "army" of investigators to bring the gunmen, the union boss who ordered the murders, and his henchmen who saw them carried out, to justice.

Step off the main roads and into the shadows with Dark Country: Cryptid Tales, a Media Squatch Original podcast that ventures into eerie, spine-tingling accounts of the creatures said to stalk America’s backwoods and beyond. Each episode unravels cryptids, monsters, and unexplained encounters, weaving folklore, legend, and chilling narration into unforgettable storytelling.Media Squatch x AIThis is an AI-driven podcast project by Media Squatch, crafted and edited by our team, with elements generated by artificial intelligence to enhance the atmosphere and narrative.

In 1981, ambitious young Ma Anand Sheela transported the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh to the United States to fulfill his dream of creating a utopia for his thousands of disciples. Four years later, the incendiary Rajneeshpuram commune in Oregon collapsed under the weight of audacious criminal conspiracies hatched in its inner sanctum, including the largest bioterrorism attack in US history, an unprecedented election fraud scheme, and multiple attempted murders. Rajneeshpuram explores how this extraordinary spiritual community went so wrong.

Country Roads Creeps covers all manor of creepy, scary, morbid, and mysterious. We try to focus on the paranormal, cryptids, strange phenomena, and similar subjects and, while not necessarily a true crime show, we will delve into some cases from time to time as is relevant to our main focus.Hosted by Shane and HannahRSSVERIFY

Thousands of Black men, women, and children are missing and murdered each year. While Black people make up 13% of the U.S. population, we also account for 40% of all missing persons and 55% of all homicides, yet, those stories are often overlooked and underrepresented in the national media. No Country For Melanin: A True Crime Podcast aims to spotlight those stories and bring awareness to the unconscious bias that has led to the disproportionate reporting of people of color.

Country Music’s Dead examines historical folklore, high crime in the western plains, crooked lawmen, moonshiners and grifters from Texas to Appalachia with some of our favorite songwriters and troubadours from Americana, Folk, Red Dirt and beyond.

Tom Fogleman was a quiet, meticulous, and generous man who managed his family's country store right off a small highway in Alamance County, North Carolina. He ran the kind of store where you could buy most anything with an IOU, that's just the way he did business. So who would brutally attack him hitting him more than 27 times in the head leaving him for dead on the floor of his store? It's a mystery nearly 20 years old. It's one of many cold cases, but this one is about to heat up as detectives put new eyes on the January 2002 murder.

The Coffin Kidnapper and the Monster of Cannock Chase are just two of the horrific people from the region's past covered in this limited series true crime podcast from Black Country newspaper Express & Star. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1976, the body of Anna Mae Aquash, an American Indian luminary, was found frozen in the Badlands of South Dakota—or so the FBI said. After a suspicious autopsy and a rushed burial, friends had Aquash exhumed and found a .32-caliber bullet in her skull. Using this scandal as a point of departure, The Unquiet Grave opens a tunnel into the dark side of the FBI and its subversion of American Indian activists. But the book also discovers things the Indians would prefer to keep buried. What unfolds is a sinuous tale of conspiracy, murder, and cover-up.

Dead Wrong is a study of the scientific and forensic facts of four assassinations of the 1960s (President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black Panther leader Fred Hampton), as well as an examination of new and incriminating evidence indicative of murder, not suicide, in the deaths of Marilyn Monroe, White House Counsel Vincent Foster, U.N. Weapons Inspector Dr. David C. Kelly and bioweapons expert Frank Olson.

On July 24, 1964, 24-year-old Matthew Kerry Smith disguised himself with a mask and a Beatle wig, hoisted a semi-automatic rifle, then held up a bank in North York, Ontario. The intelligent but troubled son of a businessman and mentally ill mother, Smith was a navy veteran with a young Indigenous wife and a hazy plan for violent revolution.

This is your Boom, Bust & Bodies: Murder in Oil Country podcast.Boom, Bust & Bodies: Murder in Oil Country is a gripping true crime podcast exploring the dark underbelly of oil-rich regions. Dive deep into tales of greed, corruption, and mystery as each episode uncovers shocking murders and disappearances tied to the rise and fall of the oil industry. Perfect for true crime enthusiasts, this podcast offers in-depth investigations, expert interviews, and chilling narratives that reveal the sinister side of prosperity. Tune in to discover the hidden narratives lurking beneath the surface of oil ...

El 27 de octubre de 2002, María Marta García Belsunce fue encontrada sin vida. Este hecho desató polémicas mediáticas, sospechas de encubrimiento y acusaciones que todavía hoy generan muchas teorías. Magnus Mefisto analiza la nueva serie original de HBO y los acontecimientos que la inspiran, en compañía de sus creadores y protagonistas. Esto es María Marta: El Crimen del Country, El Podcast.

Out of Sight tells the stories Indian Country has lived but most of the media has ignored. Reporting from the ground — not from behind a desk — this podcast cuts through the official lines and public statements to hear directly from the people most affected. These aren’t sanitized narratives. They’re raw, unfiltered accounts of truth, survival, and the fight to be heard.

Across the 2000s and early 2010s, family man and trusted construction worker Israel Keyes is living a double life. He is also a master murderer who selects victims at random, carries out untraceable kills and covers his tracks with precision.  In this 6-part series, hear through recorded interviews how one of the US's most prolific, but not widely known, serial killers perceived himself and how he committed these horrific killings. Criminal psychologist Dr. Michelle Ward talks with friends and colleagues of Israel Keyes, investigators and detectives from the case, all to uncover the ...

Take a trip with Andy Tate (Let’s Not Meet, Odd Trails), your travel companion into stories about the worst vacations of all time, real stories from real people about their once in a lifetime getaways that turned unforgettable for all the wrong reasons. Welcome to Paradise (It Sucks) — it’s a hell of a time.