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A True crime Podcast
The true crime podcast that uncovers the most notorious murders, heists, and mob sagas from the shadows of the past. Each episode transports you to crime scenes long forgotten, weaving gripping narratives of betrayal, bloodshed, and justice—or the lack thereof. From Prohibition-era gang wars to modern-day mysteries. we explore the dark motives, shocking twists, and enduring legacies that still haunt us today. Perfect for armchair detectives and history buffs alike—listen if you dare,
Episodes
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The Immortal Who Chose the Enemy: Abel Hermant’s Fall from the Académie
He was one of France’s literary Immortals — elected to the Académie française, celebrated for his sharp novels of high society and his defense of the pure…
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La France a Peur: The Crimes of Patrick Daniel Henry
On January 30, 1976, seven-year-old Philippe Bertrand vanished after school near Troyes, France. Within the hour, his parents received a ransom demand…
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The Criminal Backpacker: Francis Heaulme’s Trail of Blood Across France
Between 1984 and 1992, a quiet, drifting man with no car and no fixed address left a trail of brutal, impulsive murders across France. Hitchhiking, jumping…
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Jacquy Haddouche: The Serial Killer Who Struck at Random
Three victims. No clear pattern. No elaborate plan. Just opportunity, impulse, and sudden brutality. In 1992, a French teacher is poisoned and asphyxiated in…
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The Wimbledon Finalist Who Packed a Body in a Trunk
In August 1907, a leaking trunk at a Marseille train station revealed a horrific discovery: a woman’s dismembered body. The couple who left it claimed it was…
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The Beast of the Bastille: How Guy Georges Terrorized Paris
Paris, 1991. A 19-year-old student returns home. By morning she is dead — the first of seven women raped, tortured, and murdered by a predator who stalked the…
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The Quiet Traitor: How Georges Pâques Sold NATO’s Secrets to the KGB
He was a devout Catholic, an elite civil servant, and a trusted insider at the heart of NATO. For nearly 20 years, Georges Pâques handed the West’s most…
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The Barbarian of Aix-en-Provence: The Locked House Murders of Meyrargues
In a quiet Provençal villa, firefighters force open a door and find a mother and daughter bound, gagged, and slaughtered. The house is locked from the inside…
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King Kong of Nîmes: The Crimes of Maurice Gateaux
On May 16, 1967, inside the sewing workshop of Nîmes Central Prison, a man known as “King Kong” sharpened a pair of scissors… then used them to kill a guard in…
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The Orly Bombing: The Man Who Walked Free
July 15, 1983. A suitcase explodes at the Turkish Airlines check-in desk in Paris’s Orly Airport. Eight people are killed. More than fifty are injured. The…
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The French Officer Who Joined the SS: Paul Gamory-Dubourdeau
A decorated hero of the Great War. A career officer of the French Foreign Legion. A holder of the Légion d’Honneur. Then, in 1943, he put on the black uniform…
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Jacques Fruminet: The Killer France Kept Setting Free
In November 1998, two women were murdered within eight days in eastern France. One body was pulled from a canal, weighted with sewer grates. The other was…
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The Ogre of the Ardennes: Michel Fourniret’s Reign of Terror
A quiet road. A teenage girl walking home from school. A van pulls up… and she never makes it home. Between 1987 and 2003, Michel Paul Fourniret — known as the…
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The Librarian of Darkness: Bernard Faÿ and the Card Index of Death
He was a celebrated historian, a professor at the Collège de France, and a close friend of Gertrude Stein. Then Bernard Faÿ turned France’s greatest library…
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The Axe Killer of Sochaux: Mohamed Faleh
In the industrial shadow of the Peugeot factories, a quiet foundry worker lived a double life. By day, Mohamed Faleh was a reliable colleague. By night, debts…
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The Admiral Who Opened the Door: The Treason of Jean-Pierre Esteva
November 1942. As Allied forces storm North Africa, a French admiral in Tunis holds the key to the fate of the campaign. German planes circle. Fuel stocks sit…
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Patrick Dils: 15 Years for a Crime He Didn’t Commit
Sixteen years old. An apprentice cook. Quiet. One afternoon the police take him in over the brutal murders of two eight-year-old boys. After 36 hours of…
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The Pious Poisoner: Antoine François Desrues
A devout Paris grocer. A trusted host. A man who knelt in prayer by day and measured poison by night. In 1770s France, Antoine François Desrues invited a…
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The Archivist of Hate: Henry Coston
In occupied France, one man never needed a gun. Henry Coston built lists, published pamphlets, and celebrated the camps. After the Liberation he was sentenced…
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The Neon Traitor: Georges Claude and the Crime of Collaboration
He was called the Edison of France—the inventor of neon lighting, a scientific genius who helped build industrial empires. Then came the Nazi occupation. In…
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Papillon: The Murder, the Bagne, and the Butterfly Who Wouldn’t Stay Caged
In 1930 Paris, a single gunshot in Montmartre kills a pimp named Roland Legrand. The dying man names his killer: “Papillon.” Police arrest Henri Charrière, a…
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Carlos the Jackal: Blood on the Streets of Paris
On a sunny Sunday in 1974, a grenade exploded in a crowded Paris drugstore, killing two and wounding dozens. The man behind it—and a trail of bombings…
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The Rambo of Brittany: Arrigo Candela’s Deadly Escape to France
September 17, 1992. A quiet French town. A bank robbery. Children leaving school. And a municipal officer gunned down in cold blood. Host Alexander Lawson…
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Claude Buffet: The Killer Who Demanded the Guillotine
In 1967, Claude Gabriel Buffet murdered a young woman in a stolen taxi and staged the scene as a sadistic crime. Sentenced to life, he told the court they…
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Pierrot le Fou: The Madman Who Walked Free
Three little girls. One woman. Eight days. And a man the French justice system had already set free. In the summer of 2004, the quiet villages of Alsace were…
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The Backpacker Rapist: Jean-Luc Blanche and the Roads of France
In the dead of night, a stranger enters a woman’s home, binds her hands, and forces her into his car. What follows is a calculated nightmare — and then…
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The Polish Exile Who Tried to Kill a Tsar in Paris
June 6, 1867. In the heart of Paris, a 20-year-old Polish patriot steps from the crowd, raises a cheap double-barreled pistol, and fires at Tsar Alexander II…
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The Butcher of Lyon: Klaus Barbie’s Reign of Terror in Occupied France
In the spring of 1944, forty-four Jewish children were torn from a quiet home in the village of Izieu. Almost none survived. The man who ordered their…
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Joëlle Aubron: The Bourgeois Killer of Action Directe
On a cold November night in 1986, Renault CEO Georges Besse was gunned down outside his Paris home. One of the shooters who finished him off was Joëlle Aubron…
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The Blond Angel of Death: How Alfredo Astiz Marked Two French Nuns for Murder
In December 1977, a young Argentine naval officer with an angelic face infiltrated a group of grieving mothers in Buenos Aires. He called himself Gustavo Niño…
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The Colonel Who Displayed the Dead: Antoine Argoud
In the late 1950s, a French Army colonel ordered suspected rebels executed in public squares—and left their bodies on display as a deliberate tool of terror…
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The Strangler of Haute-Garonne: Patrice Alègre
Between 1989 and 1997, a charming nightclub doorman from Toulouse left a trail of raped and strangled women across southern France and Paris. Two of the deaths…
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The Sole Survivor: Salah Abdeslam and the Paris Attacks
On the night of November 13, 2015, coordinated terrorist attacks struck Paris, killing 130 people. Nine of the attackers died that night. One did not. In this…
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The Diplomat Killings: Georges Ibrahim Abdallah and the Shadow War in Paris
In 1982, two diplomats are gunned down on the streets of Paris. One American. One Israeli. A little-known Lebanese Marxist group claims the murders as…
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He Fired 70+ Rounds at 27 Cops on July 4th… and Got 736 Years 🔥
Independence Day 2012. Castle Rock, Colorado. Lonnie James Pebley turns a quiet neighborhood into a war zone, pinning down 27 officers with an AK-47 for 30…
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La Mataviejitas: The Wrestler Who Terrorized Mexico City’s Grandmothers
In Mexico City, elderly women opened their doors to a helpful stranger… and never lived to close them. Police hunted a man. They were wrong. The killer was…
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The Hipercor Bombing: ETA’s Deadliest Attack
On a Friday afternoon in June 1987, shoppers filled a Barcelona supermarket. In the underground parking garage, a stolen car sat loaded with explosives and an…
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845 Years for White-Collar Crime: The Sholam Weiss Insurance Fraud
Imagine trusting an insurance company with your life savings—only to have nearly half a billion dollars drained away. In this episode of A True Crime Podcast…
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The NorCal Rapist: 15 Years of Terror and the DNA That Finally Caught Him
For fifteen years, a masked predator slipped into homes across Northern California, binding his victims and leaving a trail of fear that stretched from Rohnert…
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The Father Who Delivered Death: Raymond Rodriguez and the Murder of His Daughter
A father drops his two young daughters at a babysitter’s apartment and casually says one of them is sick. Within hours, that little girl is dying from massive…
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Richard Speck: The Night Eight Nurses Died
In March 1963, 19-year-old Carl Junior Hackathorn from Akron, Ohio, shot 20-year-old Dallas mother Bobbie Jewell Smith three times above the left ear, killing…
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The I-57 Killer: Henry Brisbon’s Trail of Blood
On a June night in 1973, a teenage gunman forced an engaged couple to the side of Interstate 57 and ordered them to “kiss your last kiss” before opening fire…
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The Man With Over 1,000 Years: Miguel Krassnoff and the Disappeared of Chile
In Chile, one man carries more than a thousand years of prison sentences for kidnapping, torture, and forced disappearance. His name is Miguel Krassnoff…
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The T4 Bombing: ETA’s Final Strike on Barajas Airport
December 30, 2006. A van packed with hundreds of kilos of explosives detonates in the parking garage of Madrid’s brand-new Terminal 4. Two Ecuadorian workers —…
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Richard Speck: The Night Eight Nurses Died
On a quiet July night in 1966, a stranger with a gun and a knife walked into a Chicago townhouse where nine student nurses lived. By morning, eight were dead…
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The 1,216-Year Sentence: Cristian Alexander Vigil Campos & MS-13’s Eastern Killings
In April 2023, a Salvadoran court sentenced Cristian Alexander Vigil Campos—alias Petra, a homeboy of MS-13’s Los Ángeles clique—to 1,216 years in prison for…
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1,256 Years: The Bank Robbery Spree of Daryl Lamont Keener
A man walks into a Colorado Springs bank with his face covered and a gun drawn. He does it again. And again. Eight times in three months. When police finally…
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Nocturno: The MS-13 Leader Sentenced to 1,335 Years
Imagine a judge handing down a prison sentence longer than recorded human history. In December 2025, Marvin Abel Hernández Palacios — better known as Nocturno…
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1,800 Years: The Christopher Bennett Case
July 25, 2003. Craigsville, Virginia. 18-year-old Christopher Bennett enters a house, raises a gun, and leaves a man dead. He claims he caught his mother’s…
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1,823 Years for a Robbery: The Case of Lawrence Jacob Stephens
At just 18 years old, Lawrence Jacob Stephens walked into a York County, Virginia home with a gun. No one was killed. No one was seriously injured. The judge…
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La Bestia: The Crimes of Luis Garavito
In the coffee fields and cane thickets of Colombia, children vanished. Boys no one was watching closely enough followed a stranger who offered a few pesos, a…
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The Man Who Collected Centuries: Billie Glenn Woolsey
In 1988, an Oklahoma jury looked at a 47-year-old inmate already serving two life sentences and 2,000 years… and decided it still wasn’t enough. They added…
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The ABC Killer: Moses Sithole and South Africa’s Deadliest Serial Murder Spree
In the dusty fields of Atteridgeville, Boksburg and Cleveland, the bodies of young women kept appearing—strangled with their own underwear after answering a…
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The Shadow of Pakito: ETA’s Deadliest Leader and the Zaragoza Massacre
In the dead of night on December 11, 1987, a car bomb tore through a Guardia Civil barracks in Zaragoza, Spain, killing eleven people—including five children…
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The 3,000-Year Sentence: The Crimes of Terry Eugene Culley
On a quiet September afternoon in 1971, three armed men invaded a Dallas home. Within minutes, Jean Geron was dead. His wife, child, and the children’s teacher…
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The West Side Rapist: Ronnie Shelton’s Reign of Terror
Between 1983 and 1988, a masked intruder terrorized women on Cleveland’s West Side. He broke into their homes, ordered them not to look at him, and left them…
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3,828 Years for 24 Murders: The Case of Inés del Río Prada
July 14, 1986. A bomb tears through Plaza de la República Dominicana in Madrid. Twelve young Civil Guards are killed. Fifty-six more are wounded. Behind the…
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5,005 Years: The Ransonette Brothers and the Kidnapping of Amanda Dealey
In December 1972, a 22-year-old Dallas newlywed was forced into a car at gunpoint, blindfolded, and held for ransom. Three days later, after $250,000 was paid…
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Dos Erres: The Massacre That Erased a Village
In December 1982, elite Guatemalan Kaibil soldiers descended on the remote jungle settlement of Dos Erres. Over three days they slaughtered more than 200 men…
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Blood in the Parking Lot: Feanyichi Uvukansi and the Blue Room Massacre
Just after 2 a.m. on June 20, 2012, a crowded Houston nightclub parking lot erupted in gunfire. Fifteen to twenty shots. Bodies dropped. Three people dead. Two…