319 - The Bloody Harpes

319 - The Bloody Harpes

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486 - Vigilante Justice: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (A Lot)

What happens when ordinary people decide the legal system isn’t enough — and to take justice into their own hands? From real-life “superheroes” to tragic misfires, from folk-hero avengers to catastrophic citizen’s arrests, this episode explores the wild, messy, often dangerous wo ...  Show more

485 - The Family: Australia's Most Notorious Cult

In the 1960s and ’70s, yoga teacher–turned–self-proclaimed messiah Anne Hamilton-Byrne built one of Australia’s most shocking cults—an LSD-fueled blend of New Age mysticism, stolen children, and her own delusions of divine destiny. With doctors, psychiatrists, and academics convi ...  Show more

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