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Two stories. Two different worlds. The same ugly engine underneath: power without accountability.

We’re sitting down with drinks and recapping our last two releases, starting with the House of Prayer cult in Micanopy, Florida. The more we read and watched, the more it felt like a blueprint for high control: authority dressed up as religion, secrecy baked into daily life, and victims left to carry the cost. We talk through ...

A woman vanishes, a husband’s timeline bends with every retelling, and the people closest to her act like the truth is something they can outwait. We’re talking about the Susan Cox Powell case, a missing person mystery wrapped in coercive control, financial abuse, and a family dynamic so disturbing it still shocks seasoned true crime listeners.

We trace Susan’s life from her early goals and tight knit community to a marria...

A cute little town can still hold a nightmare. Jesse finally tells the story he’s been avoiding for weeks: the House of Prayer cult connected to Mother Anna, also known as Anna Elizabeth Young, and the years of abuse tied to Micanopy, Florida. We keep our usual drink-and-talk rhythm, but this one comes with heavy trigger warnings because the details are hard to say out loud, let alone hear.

We trace how a charismatic leade...

A cocaine empire stitched into lingerie. A courtroom thriller built on a fractured mind. We go live, buzzed and unfiltered, to recap two of our wildest full-length true crime stories and to say the quiet part out loud about what still doesn’t sit right.

First up, we retrace the rise of Griselda Blanco, the Cocaine Godmother whose reach stretched from Colombia to New York and into the Miami drug wars. We talk through the me...

One man gets arrested for violent crimes near Ohio State University. Then he says something that sounds impossible: “It wasn’t me.” Not an alibi, not a lie detector story. He claims it was one of his alternate identities, part of a system of 24 personalities living in the same body. That’s the rabbit hole we go down with our guests as Lindsay walks us through the Billy Milligan case, the “campus rapist” headline, and the DID defens...

A woman runs cocaine through corsets, builds a distribution machine across New York, and turns Miami into a headline factory of fear. That’s the real-world legend of Griselda Blanco, and we take you through the story with all the messy details intact: the childhood violence in Colombia, the leap into large-scale cocaine trafficking, and the tactics that made her both powerful and infamous.

We talk about how her operation w...

He was a 13-pound baby who grew into a 6'9 presence people could not ignore, yet the scariest part of Ed Kemper is how easily he blended into ordinary life. We’re back with a raw recap of our deep dive on the Co-Ed Killer, and we walk through the mix of warning signs, family cruelty, and isolation that helped shape a predator long before Santa Cruz realized what was happening.

We talk about the “serial killer salad” i...

Anniversary weekend starts with sunshine and whiplash: pool plans, Disney stories, and the kind of budget “wins” that only happen when you sit through a timeshare pitch and master the art of saying no. We talk about the weird time-warp of recording while traveling, what we’re drinking, and the tiny punches of aging like the moment you realize you’re no longer getting ID’d and the “kids” next to you suddenly look like actual kids.

A tidy Victorian house, fresh flowers in the yard, and a kindly woman serving meals to people who needed a second chance—everything about Dorothea Puente signaled safety. Then the shovels went in. We unpack how a master manipulator built a reputation for charity while exploiting tenants, forging identities, and, according to investigators, burying secrets beneath her garden.

We start with the unstable origin story—neglect,...

A prim Victorian house. Fresh cement in the yard. A landlady who speaks softly, cooks beautifully, and always finds a way to “help” with your Social Security. The story of Dorothea Puente unsettles because it hides in plain sight: charity on the surface, control and murder underneath. We follow her from a brutal childhood and a lifetime of invented identities to the meticulously staged boarding house where tenants vanished, benefit...

A sprawling mansion with 44 rooms, an overbearing mother, and a boy who learned to equate belonging with possession—our deep dive into the Armin Meiwes case follows the tangled path from childhood humiliation to an online marketplace of taboo desire. We walk through the early internet’s Cannibal Cafe and Nullo forums, where attention rewarded escalation and “consent” became a mask for self-harm, and where Meiwes finally met Bernd B...

 We take you to Germany to map the life of Armin Meiwes: a boy abandoned by his father, micromanaged and shamed by a domineering mother, and raised inside a cavernous 44-room estate that magnified his isolation. Those early years—paired with exposure to animal slaughter and a fixation on tales like Hansel and Gretel—fed a fantasy he kept hidden for decades: consuming others to keep them from leaving and to “absorb” what made them l...

A bustling Black business district, a rumor on an elevator, and a city ready to ignite—our deep dive into the Tulsa Massacre follows Greenwood from its remarkable rise as Black Wall Street to the coordinated violence that tried to erase it. We walk through the misaligned elevator landing that sparked a lie, the headlines that fed a lynch mob, and the moment Greenwood’s veterans arrived armed to defend due process. What followed was...

A bathroom trip. A scream. Then an entire neighborhood set on fire. We take you through the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre—how Greenwood, called Black Wall Street for its thriving Black-owned businesses, became a target and how a lie in print turned into a night of terror. We start with the moment in the elevator, follow the swelling mob at the courthouse, and track the split-second when a standoff became a gunfight. From there, we map t...

One drink in and we head straight into one of Florida’s hardest truths: how a single accusation on New Year’s Day 1923 ignited a mob, leveled a thriving Black community, and left families hiding in winter swamps while their homes burned. We trace the Rosewood Massacre through names and places that deserve to be remembered—Fanny Taylor’s lie in Sumner, the murder of blacksmith Sam Carter, and the Carrier family’s stand inside a hous...

A lie, a mob, and a thriving Black town erased. We pour a drink and walk straight into the history so many of us were never taught: the Rosewood Massacre of 1923. Rosewood was more than a dot on a map—it was a self-sustaining Black community with churches, mills, a post office, a ball team, and two-story homes rising from Florida’s red cedar country. When a white woman’s accusation in nearby Sumner collided with a sheriff’s posse a...

A boy leaves Chicago for a summer with family in Mississippi. A whistle, a store, and a night that exposes the machinery of Jim Crow—what came next would force the nation to look. We walk through Emmett Till’s life with care, tracing the Great Migration roots that shaped his home, Mamie Till’s steady strength as a mother and professional, and the impossible talk she had to give her 14-year-old about surviving the Deep South.

A friendly hello, a surprising rock icon message, and a round of drinks set an easy scene—then the floor drops. We shift into the life and legacy of Emmett Till with the care this story demands, tracing his childhood in Chicago, Mamie Till’s warnings before his trip south, and the fatal stop at Bryant’s Grocery. We walk through the kidnapping, the recovery of his body, and Mamie’s unflinching decision to hold an open-casket funeral...

A garden of roses and bones once turned a North Florida yard into a destination. We follow the trail of Aunt Aggie, a Black and Creek healer, poet, and fortune teller whose Lake City “bone garden” drew travelers, couples, and curiosity-seekers from across the country in the early 1900s. What began as a story for Black History Month becomes a vivid journey through local memory, segregation-era resilience, and the strange beauty of a...