This week, we begin our three-part series in which Alcatraz will be covered at length, from the torturous conditions of the prison to the infamous escapes — both successful and failed.
We're kicking off the series by talking about the types of people who ended up on Alcatraz, starting with one of its best known prisoners: Robert Stroud AKA "The Birdman of Al ... Show More
Yesterday
Predator Badlands: An Interview with Dan Trachtenberg
<p>Hot off the presses Eddie sits down with the director of 10 Cloverfield Lane, Prey, Predator: Killer of Killers, the new hit installment in the Predator Franchise, Predator: Badlands - Matt Trachtenberg joins the show to discuss his latest film that gives us a new angle on the ... Show More
37m 43s
Nov 21
Episode 643: The Battersea Poltergeist Part I - The French Prince
<p>This week, the boys open the dusty case file of the Battersea Poltergeist, embarking on a two-part tale that charts the story of an allegedly telekinetic young British girl & the rise of a mysterious paranormal presence whose knocks, voices, and messages crown him the so-calle ... Show More
1h 12m
Nov 19
Side Stories: Blowin' Bubba
<p>Henry & Eddie bring you this week's juiciest stories and true-crime news - The Ghost of Epstein returns to haunt Trump with scandalous new e-mail reveals, Hitler's Micropenis: Revealed, Michael Duarte aka @FoodWithBearHands's cause of death revealed to be an incident, Online s ... Show More
58m 10s
Feb 2023
The Escape from Alcatraz Prison
Locked cells, surrounded by an impenetrable concrete fortress, surrounded by high barbed wire fences, surrounded by water, on an island in San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz was considered the most 'inescapable' prison in the world. The worst of the worst were sent there. So how, in 196 ... Show More
52m 14s
Oct 2023
The Great Escape: The True Story of Three Alcatraz Inmates
Though the prison has been closed for decades, Alcatraz has earned its place in infamy. In its heyday, “The Rock” was considered impenetrable. At least 36 prisoners attempted to escape the island – all were captured, shot, or swallowed by the sea. All of that changed one fateful ... Show More
34m 41s
Jul 2020
S2 Ep3: Steven Grieveson
In February 1994, in Sunderland, England, a badly burned body of a teenager was found on a plot of land. It was the third in just three months. Despite all three deaths being similar, and suspicious, pathologists initially ruled out murder. Police didn’t know it yet, but there is ... Show More
37m 57s
Jun 2022
S4 Ep4: Robert Berdella, The Kansas City Butcher
It's 1988 in Kansas City, Missouri. Young, vulnerable men are going missing without a trace, and no one can seem to figure out why. A local man named Robert Berdella–known as an upstanding member of the community–has been secretly holding these men in his house, torturing them to ... Show More
41m 53s
Nov 2020
158: Dannemora Prison Break
Is it just me, or should breaking our of a SUPER MAX PRISON be hard? AND YET SOMEHOW THESE TWO IDIOTS FIUGURED OUT HOW TO DO IT?
On the night of June 5, 2015, two MURDERERS, broke out of a prison fortress thought to be impenetrable. A little after 11 p.m., they climbed through h ... Show More
54m 8s
May 2017
Episode 06 - Kelly Ann Ecker - Part 1
PART #1 - On Sunday, October 5th, 2014 at 1:20 am in the morning, Terre Haute Indiana emergency dispatchers began receiving a series of frantic calls. Kelly Ann Arney Ecker had in total made 4 attempts to alert authorities to the immediate danger she found herself in. But by the ... Show More
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