A Dangerous Kind Of Self-Delusion

NPR's Pentagon Correspondent, Tom Bowman, receives a shocking tip from a trusted source: A deadly explosion during the Iraq War was an accident—friendly fire, covered up by the Marine Corps—and the son of a powerful politician may have been involved. Listen to the full story in N ... Show More

In our final episode of the season, we start researching the names on the secret list of 2,746 Cuban excludables. What we find confirms many of our suspicions about the arbitrariness of how the U.S. government created the list. Our reporting takes us — where else? — to Cuba, to f ... Show More

Since we began reporting this story, we've been after a list. A secret list. On it are the names of 2,746 people whom the US government deemed excludable, including the men on the roof. The government has kept this list so secret that at one point it went so far as to classify it ... Show More

For the Stiles family, destiny was determined at birth. A rare birth defect called ectrodactyly has been passed down from generation to generation. However, the family has learned how to turn misfortune into profit in the strange world of the traveling carnival sideshow. Taking t ... Show More

Terry King always wanted to be a good father to his two sons, Derek and Alex, but the family is destroyed when Terry dies in a mysterious fire and the boys go missing. Before it's over, a world of lies, deceit and a shocking murderer will be revealed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c ... Show More

On the conclusion to our Children of Thunder series, the inept cult of 3 carries out a series of some of the most foolishly executed crimes ever covered on this show, before committing the brutal, senseless murders that would eventually lead to their own demise. Subscribe to Siri ... Show More

Families of Ripper victims often suppressed the memories of their murdered loved ones - fearing the stigma of being related to supposed "prostitutes". And descendants of men accused of being the infamous killer have also had to endure seeing their ancestors' reputations sullied.W ... Show More

A double murder rocks the Murdaugh family, and causes investigators to reexamine two more unexplained deaths in the family’s past. Just how many skeletons does one family need in their closet?This podcast contains sensitive information about violence, sexual assault, and domestic ... Show More

Even after Phyllis Phares' husband passed away, she insisted on staying in her friendly neighborhood on the west side of Charleston, West Virginia. But life takes a turn for the worse when the Mallo family moves in across the street. From the start, the family is an aggressive bu ... Show More

نحن بصدد قصة توأمين يتشابهان إلى حدود التطابق .. أحدهما سعى دوما إلى تسخير هذا الشبه في تنفيذ مخططات إجرامية وحمل شقيقه التوأم على الاشتراك في التنفيذ .. وكان هذا الشقيق يعاني من هذا الشبه إذ كان شقيقه يستغله ليزحف على مناطق محرمة من حياته الشخصية وما لبث أن حدث ما لم يكن في الحس ... Show More