346: Carnegie Deli Murders

A Substack post became a federal probe in eight weeks. That's faster than most podcast episodes get edited. So what actually happened — and what does it mean that it can happen again? In Part 2, Tyrella and Nikita move from the individual cases and start interrogating the system. ...  Show more

A plasma physicist texted a former spy: "If you ever see a report that I killed myself — I most definitely did not." Then that's exactly what the report said. In under eight weeks, one Substack post turned into a White House briefing, an FBI probe, and a House Oversight Committee ...  Show more

On September 25, 2007, 22-year-old Amy Winnick left her job near Calabasas, California, and headed home. Her cell phone rang. It was was her 25-year-old brother Jesse. "Don't go home," he told her. And then he said "I just killed Mom," and then he hung up. This unimaginable night ...  Show more

<h3>The first ep this week sees the wonderful writer and comedian, Jessica Knappett join the force to divulge the time she had the most authentic American experience possible, while also helping to solve a crime which leaves Taylor and Hannah feeling all at sea.</h3><h3>And to fi ...  Show more

I Think My Father Helped Kidnap a Woman in the 1980s; 'Dr Death' Harold Shipman Came into My House!; The Day I Accidentally Stopped My Kidnapping?; My Brush with Moorish Sovereign Citizens; Some Hope for Wildfire Survivors from a Survivor; and (Almost) Real Death at a Fake Murder ...  Show more

We continue our cross analysis of the HBO Max scripted version of "The Staircase" starring Toni Collette, and how it stacks up to the true events in the death of Kathleen Peterson. Laura and Jim both question the 911 calls made by Michael Peterson compared to how it was depict ...