In the 1990s a vicious turf war between the Hell’s Angels and rival bike gang The Rock Machine turned the streets of Montreal into a deadly battleground.
Over an eight year period bombings, arsons and brazen shootouts terrorized Quebec, leaving more than 160 people dead including innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire.
On this episode of History of the ... Show More
Oct 25
Introducing... Stop Rewind: The Lost Boy | Through A Glass Darkly | 1
Taj Khyber Rowland knows he’s not who people think he is but he can’t quite remember how his life went so off course. He decides to spool backwards, to his younger self. A daredevil seven year old Chellamuthu, living happily, but in abject poverty, with his large family in rural ... Show More
36m 6s
Nov 2021
Gangs of England: The Real Peaky Blinders and the Racecourse Wars
On the smog-filled streets of industrial Birmingham, groups of ‘Peaky Blinders’ earned a reputation as Britain’s most feared gang, terrorizing anybody who stepped in their paths with bats, blades and whatever else they could get their hands on. They ruled the UK’s second city unt ... Show More
47m 23s
Mar 2022
The Brutal Russian Mafia Wars of Tolyatti, Russia's Detroit
In the 1980s, as the Soviet empire crumbled, organized criminals eyed up the sprawling VAZ automobile plant in the city of Tolyatti, “Russia’s Detroit.” When it collapsed all hell broke loose. Old-school “thimble kings” battled it out with bodybuilding skinheads, Chechen paramili ... Show More
46m 4s
Mar 2023
Quebec's 1970 October Crisis
Canada has a reputation for being a rather low-key, friendly place.
For the most part, this is true. It is a nice place to visit and is never usually that controversial.
However, that hasn’t always been the case. Fifty years ago, Canadians faced the threat of extremism and terr ... Show More
13m 9s
Nov 2023
Episode 134: Montreal Mobster Greg Woolley
On Friday November 17, 2023, Montreal organized crime kingpin Gregory Woolley was killed in a hail of bullets. He over the years became a gigantic and influential drug dealer and connector of various Mob groups. As we know though, Montreal's continued Mob violence is out of contr ... Show More
33m 13s
Feb 2024
Case 272: The Annecy Shootings
<div>On September 5 2012, a cyclist driving through the French Alps came upon a shocking scene. Married couple Saad and Iqbal al-Hilli, along with Iqbal’s elderly mother Suhaila al-Allaf, were shot execution-style while sitting in their BMW in a secluded parking spot in the woods ... Show More
1h 18m
Apr 2024
EP. 153: SYRIA - JIHADI JOHN: The ISIS Executioner Who BEHEADED Americans On Video
In today's episode of the show, we tackle the insane story of "Jihadi John", AKA Mohammed Emwazi, who terrorized the globe after his videotaped executions of hostages and threats towards foreign countries went viral on the internet. This is one of the darkest stories we've ever c ... Show More
2h 20m
Feb 2024
Peking to Paris: the world’s first great motor race
In June 1907, five plucky teams departed the Chinese capital and embarked on a 9,317-mile automobile race to Paris. Traversing scorching deserts and perilous mountain passes in ill-equipped vehicles, the participants regularly risked their lives – but their tenacity would transfo ... Show More
32m 20s
Aug 2021
The Baader Meinhof Gang's 'Revolution' of Murders, Bank Robberies, & Blowing Themselves Up
The Baader Meinhof Gang, or Red Army Faction, came about as post-war Germany sought to rebuild from the death and destruction of the Nazi era. As the Cold War gripped the world and self-declared revolutionary groups rose up, the gang's reign of violence across Germany in the 1970 ... Show More
42m 45s