Crimes Of...

Crimes Of...

Power. Fame. Obsession. Betrayal. Sabrina and Corinne are diving into Crimes Of… Cults. From infamous leaders and apocalyptic prophecies to psychological manipulation, devotion, and deadly control, this season explores the real stories behind some of history’s most notorious cults. The Manson Family. NXIVM. Heaven’s Gate. Each episode unravels how charisma curdled into coercion, belief turned into obedience, and unquestioning loyalty led to chilling, devastating consequences. Crimes Of... is a Crime House Original, powered by PAVE Studios. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or check us out on YouTube @crimehousestudios. New episodes out every Tuesday.

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CULTS: The Night Jim Jones Ended the World: Peoples Temple Pt. 1

June 30, 2026 • 68 mins
Jim Jones told his people he loved them. He built a church that preached racial equality and social justice at a time when those words carried weight. Then he moved nearly a thousand followers to a jungle compound in Guyana and called it paradise. On November 18, 1978, 918 people died at Jonestown — including 304 children — in a mass poisoning Jones called a revolutionary act. We trace the full arc of the Peoples Temple...
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CULTS: The Cult That Mummified Its God: Love Has Won Pt. 2

June 23, 2026 • 43 mins
Love Has Won centered on Amy Carlson, who claimed to be a divine being leading followers toward ascension. After her death, authorities discovered her mummified body decorated in lights, exposing severe psychological control within the group. The crimes illustrate how online-age cult dynamics can spiral into neglect, abuse, and fatal delusion. Head over to our Crimes Of… YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.yo...
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The Crimes that Built America | Murder: True Crime Stories

June 18, 2026 • 49 mins
Crime House’s Murder: True Crime Stories presents a special series for America’s 250th Birthday: The Crimes That Built America. Listen every Monday until July 6th on Murder: True Crime Stories. Join Crime House+ to get all 4 episodes right now ad-free. To subscribe, go to crimehouseplus.com or if you are listening on Apple Podcasts, tap “Try Free” at the top of this show’s page. 250 years ago, a brand...
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CULTS: The Cult That Mummified Its God: Love Has Won Pt.1

June 16, 2026 • 42 mins
Love Has Won centered on Amy Carlson, who claimed to be a divine being leading followers toward ascension. After her death, authorities discovered her mummified body decorated in lights, exposing severe psychological control within the group. The crimes illustrate how online-age cult dynamics can spiral into neglect, abuse, and fatal delusion. Head over to our Crimes Of… YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www....
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CULTS: Death Was the Destination: The Order of the Solar Temple Pt. 2

June 9, 2026 • 42 mins
The Order of the Solar Temple was an apocalyptic secret society that orchestrated mass murder-suicides across Switzerland, Canada, and France in the 1990s. Leaders convinced members that death was a “transit” to a higher spiritual realm tied to cosmic prophecy. The crimes reveal how esoteric belief systems can escalate into coordinated, ritualized violence. Head over to our Crimes Of… YouTube channel to WATCH ...
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CULTS: Death Was the Destination: The Order of the Solar Temple Pt.1

June 2, 2026 • 58 mins
The Order of the Solar Temple was an apocalyptic secret society that orchestrated mass murder-suicides across Switzerland, Canada, and France in the 1990s. Leaders convinced members that death was a “transit” to a higher spiritual realm tied to cosmic prophecy. The crimes reveal how esoteric belief systems can escalate into coordinated, ritualized violence. Head over to our Crimes Of… YouTube channel to WATCH th...
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CULTS: Kingdom of Blood: The Rod Ferrell Vampire Cult

May 26, 2026 • 68 mins
Rod Ferrell led a group of teenagers who believed they were vampires, blending goth subculture with authoritarian devotion. In 1996, Ferrell and an accomplice murdered the parents of one member in a violent attempt to cement control. The case demonstrates how identity fantasy combined with cult hierarchy can culminate in real-world homicide. Head over to our Crimes Of… YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.yo...
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CULTS: The Salad Bar That Started a War: The Rajneesh Movement

May 19, 2026 • 78 mins
Led by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho), the movement built a utopian commune in Oregon that devolved into bioterrorism, immigration fraud, and assassination plots. In 1984, members carried out the largest bioterror attack in U.S. history by poisoning salad bars to sway a local election. The case shows how charismatic leadership and insular power structures can turn spiritual movements into criminal enterprises. Head over to our Crim...
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CULTS: The Vow You Couldn't Break: NXIVM

May 12, 2026 • 70 mins
NXIVM presented itself as a self-improvement organization but concealed a secret inner circle where women were branded and coerced into sexual servitude. Founder Keith Raniere was convicted on charges including racketeering, sex trafficking, and forced labor. The crimes expose how corporate-style structures can mask coercion and exploitation. Head over to our Crimes Of… YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.you...
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CULTS: The End of the Summer of Love: The Manson Family

May 5, 2026 • 81 mins
In the summer of 1969, Los Angeles was living in the long glow of the counterculture — until two nights of murders shattered it beyond repair. Charles Manson never held the knife himself, but he held something more powerful: the total psychological devotion of young men and women who would kill on his word. We examine how Manson built his family, what he promised them, the ideology of race war he called Helter Skelter, and th...
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CULTS: The Last Transmission: Heaven's Gate

April 28, 2026 • 91 mins
Marshall Applewhite believed — and made others believe — that Earth was about to be wiped clean, and that the only escape was to shed the human body and board a spacecraft trailing the Hale-Bopp comet. In March 1997, 39 members of Heaven's Gate were found dead in a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California, dressed in matching black and wearing new Nike sneakers. They had packed bags for the journey. Applewhite had been re...
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DECEPTION: The Worst Race Ever Run: The Olympic Marathon of 1904

April 21, 2026 • 54 mins
The Olympic Marathon at the 1904 St. Louis Games was supposed to be a showcase of human endurance. Instead, it became one of the strangest, most chaotic sporting events in recorded history. Competitors ran in ninety-degree heat through clouds of dust kicked up by the officials' cars. One runner was chased off course by a dog. Another was unknowingly given strychnine by his coach. The first man to cross the finish line was disqualif...
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DECEPTION: The Heiress Who Never Was: Anna Delvey

April 14, 2026 • 67 mins
Between 2013 and 2017, Anna Sorokin — a Russian-born, German-raised young woman with a sharp eye for luxury and a sharper tongue for anyone who doubted her — convinced New York's elite that she was Anna Delvey, heiress to a vast European fortune. She stayed in five-star hotels, flew on private jets, defrauded banks out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and nearly secured a $22 million loan to fund her own private art...
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DECEPTION: The Hustle That Didn't Hustle Back: Jen Shah

April 7, 2026 • 72 mins
Real Housewives of Salt Lake City cast her as a larger-than-life personality with an enormous entourage, designer everything, and a lifestyle that demanded constant explanation. What Jen Shah didn't explain — until federal agents showed up at a cast event — was that her business empire was built on a telemarketing fraud scheme that targeted thousands of vulnerable people across the country, many of them elderly. She ple...
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DECEPTION: The Mother Who Invented an Illness: Gypsy Rose Blanchard

March 31, 2026 • 103 mins
Gypsy Rose Blanchard spent most of her childhood in a wheelchair she didn't need, taking medications for conditions she didn't have, and telling the story her mother Dee Dee had written for her — of a sick little girl who needed constant care. Dee Dee Blanchard fabricated illness after illness, collecting charity, sympathy, and total control. When Gypsy finally found a way out, it ended in her mother's murder. We examine the ...
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DECEPTION: The Great Canadian Syrup Heist

March 24, 2026 • 47 mins
In one of the strangest and stickiest white-collar crimes ever committed, a group of Quebec thieves siphoned off nearly 3,000 tons of maple syrup—worth over $18 million—from the Global Strategic Maple Reserve, an actual government-run stockpile meant to stabilize syrup prices. Head over to our Crimes Of… YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@crimehousestudios If you’re new here,...
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DECEPTION: Superthief: The Outlaw Who Wouldn’t Stay Locked Up

March 17, 2026 • 75 mins
He stole trucks. He stole cattle. He stole a plane. And every time he was arrested, he seemed to walk free. Joshua Paul Calhoun, known as the Texas Superthief, turned small-town chaos into a years-long game of cat and mouse with law enforcement. Sabrina and Corinne unpack one of the wildest crime sprees in Texas history. Head over to our Crimes Of… YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@crimehouses...
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DECEPTION: The Wine Scammer Who Fooled Billionaires

March 10, 2026 • 70 mins
Rudy Kurniawan rose to fame as a rare wine prodigy, dazzling collectors with his knowledge of vintage Burgundy. But behind the prestige was a counterfeit operation worth tens of millions. Sabrina and Corinne uncover how Kurniawan blended cheap wine in his kitchen and sold it as priceless French vintages in one of the biggest luxury fraud cases in history. Head over to our Crimes Of… YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: ht...
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DECEPTION: Balloon Boy: The Hoax That Gripped America

March 3, 2026 • 71 mins
In 2009, a Colorado family claimed their six year-old son had floated away inside a homemade flying saucer. As helicopters tracked the balloon live on national television, the country braced for tragedy, until the story began to fall apart. Sabrina and Corinne revisit the Balloon Boy hoax, a crime that turned panic into spectacle and exposed the power of a well-timed lie. Head over to our Crimes Of… YouTube channel to WATCH...
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PASSION: The Truth Behind the Tabloids: The Lorena Bobbitt Case

February 24, 2026 • 74 mins
Lorena Bobbitt became one of the most infamous women of the 1990s after she severed her husband John Bobbitt’s penis in 1993. But behind the sensational headlines was a harrowing story of domestic violence, marital rape, and a system that repeatedly failed her. Sabrina and Corinne unpack the Lorena Bobbitt case, unpacking the abuse, the trials, and the crime of passion that forever reshaped public conversations about gender-b...
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