Season 3, Episode 3: Sounds Like Murder

Two conflicting stories about what happened that day emerge—one from the Marines involved in the killings, and another from a very different perspective. 
 
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Was it a face-off with insurgents or the murder of four innocent brothers? We investigate what happened in the final house the Marines entered that day. 

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It's Dark History time this week as the boys set their sights on the high seas for a treacherous tale of mutiny, madness... and murder! We're traveling way back to 1628 for the tragedy of the Batavia and the story of the ship's doomed voyage from the Netherlands to Indonesia.< ...

This week the boys celebrate 600 episodes with one of the most infamous unsolved murder cases in U.S. History... Hop on board cuz' we're heading to 1940's Hollywood for the story of The Black Dahlia Murder - beginning with the tragic tale of Elizabeth Short.

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The boys are back for a classic historical true-crime deep dive, this time on a fascinating story that's often forgotten about in American History - This week we begin the story of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, starting with the backstory of the man who took the life o ...

Yarrrr, This week the boys pick back up with the surviving passengers of the shipwrecked Batavia, stranded on a reef in the Abrolhos Islands, off the Western coast of Australia - where Jeronimus Cornelisz's bloody reign of terror had only just begun...

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