“Terminator” - Anatoly Onoprienko

26-year-old "trunk murderess" Winnie Ruth Judd killed her two best friends one hot Phoenix night in 1931. Then she stuffed both of them into trunks and loaded them on a train to Los Angeles. What the press assumed was a simple case of jealousy only got messier with each new versi ...  Show more

When McDonald’s ran its beloved 1990s Monopoly sweepstakes, Jerome "Uncle Jerry" Jacobson had one job: Protect the game pieces. Instead, he used his position as Head of Security to rig the game. For years. To the tune of over $24 million in cash and prizes. Sources for this episo ...  Show more

Though John Vasquez had always looked back on his military service with pride, something about his infantry training in Georgia in 1977 had never sat right with him. When he decided to recover his memories from this time period using hypnosis therapy, he realized that his entire ...  Show more

Welcome to the Dark History podcast. And welcome to part two of our deep dive into the life of one of the most influential and destructive dictators of all time, Joseph Stalin. Stalin was responsible for the deaths of MILLIONS, and that’s just the beginning. Today, we’ll be cover ...  Show more

In April 1988, a top Soviet scientist, Valery Legasov, died by suicide. Before his death, he recorded a series of chilling deathbed confessions concerning one of the world's deadliest disasters: the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. Over four hours, Legasov confessed terrifying truths ...  Show more

If you enjoy the stories told in Secret Societies, check out this episode from our series Dictators: Now in total power, Joseph Stalin went on to transform the Soviet Union into a modernized country—but at the cost of millions of lives. In order to fulfill his vision of communism ...  Show more