Femme Fatales Pt. 1: WWII and Origins

Over the ages, arsenic has had many lives — beauty fad, household product, medical prescription… and weapon of choice wielded by killers everywhere from Alabama to ancient Rome. Brine your turkey, knead your dough, and listen to our Thanksgiving Special on the regime-changing, as ...  Show more

A young mother’s routine day took a tragic turn when she believed she was meeting her new lover in a parking lot. Instead, 30-year-old Ashley Bocanegra arrived to find two women waiting for her. Seventeen-year-old Janine Gonzalez and 27-year-old Antonetta Stevens had allegedly lu ...  Show more

The victims of ruthless killers, genocide, or deranged predators didn’t choose to put their lives at risk. But they did choose to survive. Ash and Alaina tell the harrowing tales of victims who got away — but just barely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com ...  Show more

A woman tells the story of her successful father being taken advantage of by the sketchy people he surrounds himself with. Including the series of increasingly terrible women he dates. Eventually, he starts dating a woman who is far worse than the rest and earns her the nickname ...  Show more

In 1997, people in the small town of Aman Damai unearthed a woman's body in a sugarcane field. It was clear she'd been murdered — and she'd last been spotted visiting the local shaman. As authorities dug deeper, they learned that the woman was only the latest victim of a prolific ...  Show more

Dating is celebrated as the natural and necessary path toward love, stability, and family—all things that humanity has held dear for centuries. Complaints about a bad first date are usually tempered by the knowledge that it’s all worth it in the end...but the search for "the one" ...  Show more