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  • The Price of Love: The Murder of Franklin Bradshaw Pt 2 (Final)

    The Price of Love: The Murder of Franklin Bradshaw Pt 2 (Final)
    Oct 10 2025
    In part one of this story last week, we learned about Utah millionaire Franklin Bradshaw, who over the years had gained both a stupendous fortune and a strained relationship with some of his family—in particular with his youngest and wildest daughter, Frances. Frances had for years been pressuring and manipulating her mom, Berenice, to steer some of the family fortune her way, and whenever Frank got in the way of that, Frances would be furious. At the end of last week’s episode, we met Frances’s own young family, two boys, Marc and Larry, that she was strangely insistent on keeping apart. Marc was the favored son, allowed to stay at home. Frances told him his brother Larry had been sent to a mental institution, but he was in fact just staying with relatives. This was a family of strange pressures and manipulations that would ultimately lead to Franklin Bradshaw being shot dead. This is part two of “The Price of Love: The Murder of Franklin Bradshaw.”

    Sources:
    Shana Alexander, “Nutcracker. Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album”
    Investigation Discovery's A Crime to Remember, S5E8, “Mother’s Little Helper”

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    1 h
  • The Price of Love: The Murder of Franklin Bradshaw Pt 1

    The Price of Love: The Murder of Franklin Bradshaw Pt 1
    Oct 3 2025
    All the money in the world can’t buy peace of mind. Family life, with its jealousies and rivalries, carries the same pressures no matter the size of the bank account—but when wealth is measured in millions, those pressures can twist into something far darker. Arguments over favoritism, inheritance, and control—the kind of disputes most families recognize in small ways—become battles with stakes that can determine the course of lives. And when greed collides with resentment, and morality is already thin on the ground, the results can be catastrophic. This week’s story is about what happens when the bonds of family are tested not by love, but by money.

    Sources:
    Shana Alexander, “Nutcracker. Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album”
    Investigation Discovery's A Crime to Remember, S5E8, “Mother’s Little Helper”

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    48 min
  • Swindles and Sacraments: A Story of Deception and Belief

    Swindles and Sacraments: A Story of Deception and Belief
    Sep 26 2025
    The Buddha said, "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and common sense." Ignore that advice, and you might find that you're clouding your vision--that instead of seeing what's really in front of you, you're filtering everything so it fits in with your beliefs. An unwavering, unquestioned belief in anything--a philosophy, an institution, or a person--can lend us strength sometimes, but it can also make us vulnerable. And there are plenty of people out there just waiting to exploit that vulnerability. This story is about two of them, each with a very different MO, and the havoc they wreaked in the lives of the people around them.

    Sources
    The German newspaper BZ (translated from German to English): Blackmail Sect: Now Former Members Speak Out by Romeo Regenass, Nov. 12, 2008
    Documentary "Seduced and Blackmailed" by Aldo Gugolz and Romeo Regenass
    Time: https://time.com/archive/6945942/the-swiss-gigolo-and-the-german-billionaire/
    NBC News: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna29594154
    The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/09/bmw-blackmailer-jailed
    Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5051613/Religious-leader-denies-blackmailing-woman-in-Swiss-gigolo-case.html
    Forbes:https://www.forbes.com/2009/03/09/scarbi-klatten-bmw-markets-faces-celebrity-blackmail.html
    The Standard: https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/gigolo-who-seduced-bmw-heiress-boasted-he-read-women-like-a-map-6824827.html

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    40 min
  • Not Today: Amazing Stories of Survival

    Not Today: Amazing Stories of Survival
    Sep 19 2025
    We deal with a lot of real-life horror stories, and because it’s real life, they’re often chaotic and cruel. Justice might ultimately be served, but more often than not, the victims are already cold in the ground. If someone is dead-set on killing you, there’s a very good chance they’ll succeed. In the most satisfying fictional horror stories, of course, there’s a survivor, someone who faces the monster or killer and lives to tell the tale, someone who finds deep wells of courage and resilience inside themself and defeats the horrors the world throws at them. And these stories are not only limited to fiction.

    Sources:
    Investigation Discovery's Surviving Evil, S3E7, “The Bathtub Killer”
    A&E's Cold Case Files, S4E24, “Déjà Vu/Secret in the Well”
    People: https://people.com/bathtub-killer-dateline-nbc-murders-texas-8659842
    Court papers: https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/591471c6add7b04934373412
    https://multco.us/news/susan-walters-who-fended-hitman-provides-guidance-multnomah-county-crime-victims-portal
    Willamette Week: https://www.wweek.com/news/2016/08/17/a-hit-man-came-to-kill-susan-kuhnhausen-she-survived-he-didnt/
    Investigation Discovery's Nothing Personal: Murder for Hire, "This Man Brainwashed His Friend into Killing His Pregnant Wife"
    Oregon Live: https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2014/06/portlander_who_hired_hitman_to.html
    The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker

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    38 min
  • The Man Who Wasn't There: The Murder of Shannon Mohr

    The Man Who Wasn't There: The Murder of Shannon Mohr
    Sep 12 2025
    If there’s one constant in the kind of people we cover, it’s this—they’re liars. Con artists trying to scam their way into money, murderers denying their crimes, spouses with secret affairs, liars, all of them. This week’s case is about a man who checks all three of those boxes, a man who learned that, if he didn’t have a conscience, deceit could make him more money that hard work ever did. Once he’d learned that lesson, nothing was going to stop him from lying his way to more and more wealth. Certainly not the continued health and well-being of his wife.

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    Sources:
    https://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/2014/11/man_infamous_for_killing_wife.html https://www.cetient.com/case/people-v-davis-1751715
    https://www.newspapers.com/article/detroit-free-press-um-2a/75455510/
    Bonnie's Blog of Crime: https://mylifeofcrime.wordpress.com/2013/06/29/psycho-for-love-david-davis-killed-his-new-wife-shannon-mohr-for-the-insurance-money/
    "Unsolved Mysteries" Wiki: https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/David_Davis
    A&E's "American Justice," episode "The Shannon Mohr Story"

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    40 min
  • Stooperheroes: A Grab Bag of Unlikely Avengers

    Stooperheroes: A Grab Bag of Unlikely Avengers
    Sep 5 2025
    Most of us grew up loving superhero stories. My favorite was always the X-Men. I liked the idea of these people who were born with mutations that initially made them targets of bigotry or fear, then harnessing those differences to do good in the world. I’ve always been a big believer in “give what you’ve got”—if you have a special gift or talent, use it to make the world better. But here’s the thing: Most of us recognize that superheroes are a metaphor for this idea. You’re not supposed to literally dress up in a cape and tights and go around town looking for muggers to fight off, or create a mysterious fake identity to rally people toward a nebulous cause. Evidently, though, some folks never got the memo on that. We’re gonna tell you about a couple of them.

    Sources:
    Phoenix New Times: https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/penis-man-graffiti-returns-to-phoenix-after-yearslong-absence-15573929
    https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/penis-man-grafitti-tagger-sentenced-and-fined-in-tempe-11533751
    https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/penis-man-graffiti-tempe-arizona-vandalism-culture-neighborhood-11421292
    Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7943525/Penis-Man-tagger-reveals-just-one-vandals-using-slogan-Arizona.html
    YouTuber Gavin Wants Pizza
    Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/seattle-superhero-phoenix-jones-charged-after-undercover-drug-bust/
    The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/apr/12/the-superhero-complex-masked-man-real-life-inspired-podcast-phoenix-jones
    Real Life Superheroes Wiki, Phoenix Jones: https://wiki.rlsh.net/wiki/Phoenix_Jones
    YouTuber Interesting Stuff From Around the World
    YouTuber Atrocity Guide
    https://youtu.be/HWo9OchEdg4?si=onwsCoGnBIpAqRg6
    https://wiki.rlsh.net/wiki/Rex_Velvet
    https://komonews.com/news/local/12-year-old-secret-agent-helps-foil-local-villain

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    46 min
  • U Be Dead: The Stalking of Dr. Falkowski

    U Be Dead: The Stalking of Dr. Falkowski
    Aug 29 2025
    Cell phones are amazing, aren’t they? You have a little magic box in your pocket that you can look at and use to call halfway across the world. New parents can send photos of their babies to their loved ones that live hours away, best friends can start a podcast even though they don’t live in the same state, and soulmates can meet, even from entirely different countries. Of course, we can’t have good things without someone using it for evil. Some people use phones as a means of harassment, of control. In today’s case, a stalker uses their phone as a weapon of mass destruction in order to try to get the attention of one man.

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    Sources:
    Stalker, episode The Phonebox Stalker
    https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/prosecutor-terrified-of-stalker-after-rape-allegations-dropped-kx55hnh279p
    https://www.lccsa.org.uk/doctors-stalker-had-record-of-lies-and-false-allegations/ https://www.thefreelibrary.com/THE+SHE+DEVIL%3B+She+stalked+a+leading+psychiatrist+and+his+fiancee...-a0158019869
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-399250/My-terrifying-ordeal-victim-fiendishly-clever-stalker.html
    https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/1136377.text-terror-stalker-is-jailed-for-nine-years/ https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2010/sep/01/u-be-dead-david-morrissey https://crimeline.co.uk/uploads/cases/sentencing/2008ewcacrim389.pdf https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL19421172/

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    36 min
  • Invader: A Story of Madness and Revenge

    Invader: A Story of Madness and Revenge
    Aug 15 2025
    Home is the one place in the world that’s ours and ours alone. It’s the place we’re meant to feel completely safe and comfortable. The warm, beating heart of our lives. So when that sacred space is violated, where does that leave us? Can we ever really feel safe again? This is the story of one of the strangest home invasions ever investigated, and the aftermath that left two innocent people’s lives changed forever.

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    Sources:
    Court papers, People v Schmuhl: https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/circuit/sites/circuit/files/assets/documents/pdf/opinions/cl-2021-2333-schmuhl-v-clarke-va-doc.pdf
    Court papers, Schmuhl v Clarke: https://law.justia.com/cases/virginia/supreme-court/2023/211114.html
    The Washingtonian, Jason Fagone: https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/10/02/schmuhl-home-invasion-torture-session-one-lawyer-nearly-killing-another-washington-suburb-mclean/
    True Crime News (formerly Crime Watch Daily): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3zTO-3TE_Q
    NBC Washington: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/ex-lawyer-sentenced-to-45-years-in-home-invasion-torture-attack-of-former-boss-his-wife/18765/
    Investigation Discovery's: James Patterson's Murder Is Forever, episode "Home Sweet Murder"

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    39 min