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The Glitched Gavel: Justice, Out of Sync.Every landmark trial ends with the strike of a gavel—but what happens when the echoes of that strike never fade? We like to think of the law as a finished product, but our legal history is full of glitches: outdated precedents, eccentric judges, and bizarre verdicts that have quietly shaped the world you live in today.In each episode, we reopen the files on history’s most famous trials—from the Salem Witch Trials to the Scopes Monkey Trial—to find the "code" that still runs in the background of our modern lives. Whether it’s how a 19th-century...

Unravel the Earth's darkest truths. Let your host, Kendall Hudson, guide you into the dark & twisted tales told of true crime and the paranormal. New episodes weekly!

Making a Killing explores how corruption is reshaping global politics, and fueling some of the most deadly security threats facing the world today - from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, to terrorist networks, nuclear proliferation, drug trafficking and other organized crime. Making a Killing is a podcast project from the Hudson Institute's Kleptocracy Initiative, hosted by Nate Sibley.

Just after midnight on April 21, 1842, John McLoughlin, Jr. - the chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Stikine, in the northwest corner of the territory that would later become British Columbia - was shot to death by his own men. They claimed it was an act of self-defence, their only means of stopping the violent rampage of their drunk and abusive leader. Sir George Simpson, the HBC's Overseas Governor, took the men of Stikine at their word, and the Company closed the book on the matter.

Canadian women judges and criminal lawyers tell of cases that they have found particularly challenging in this fourth book of the Durvile True Cases series. Some were disquieting and perplexing or had surprising turns, many are high-profile, and many continue to have interesting social or personal effect.