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“I think it was around 3:00 a.m., and that’s when I heard a strange man’s voice waking me from sleep.”
This is part one of a two-part episode. Lis...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 52:27
Qandeel Baloch grew up in a conservative village in Pakistan, a place where it was shocking to see a woman swimming outdoors. She ran away from hom...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 34:33
This story shows the process and the drastic change from an alcoholic and addict to a wife , a mother , a grandmother, 12 year recovering addict an...
- Added: Jan 21, 2021
- Length: 07:29
Birds - Doreen Bazile is a social worker. She sees many different patients with distinct needs and issues, regarding spirituality and religion, fam...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 01:25
Love - Alee Opuiyo is a 2005 Howard University School of Communications graduate. She majored in Broadcast Journalism and minored in Political Scie...
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 01:19
After experiencing domestic abuse, Michelle Dirienzo started her own company to teach women self-defense in a non-threatening environment
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- Added: Feb 19, 2020
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 1
This episode picks up where Episode 91 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order.
The early 20th century’s biggest murder trial, and a part...
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 21:05
The story behind the face of New York’s Gilded Age, Evelyn Nesbit.
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 27:24
David Dovala has lived in Casper, Wyoming since he was 19. He’s worked all kinds of cases, first as a detective and later as sheriff, but a 1973 mu...
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 19:42
When the Coen Brothers released "Fargo" in 1996, pretty much all of North Dakota and Minnesota got upset. "We don't talk like that," they said. Wel...
- Added: Sep 20, 2017
- Length: 19:42
Kim Dadou says she wishes she had a nickel for every person who has asked why she didn’t leave her abusive boyfriend. They stayed together for four...
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- Added: Mar 17, 2017
- Length: 26:32
- Purchases: 1
SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to Episode 53: Melinda and Judy before you listen to this. This is the second episode of a two-part story.
Melinda...
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: 31:45
- Purchases: 2
When Melinda Dawson was seven years old, she learned that she was adopted under mysterious circumstances. As she got older and had children of her ...
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: 25:27
- Purchases: 2
2008 was an exciting time to be a Harry Potter fan. The final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, had been released. Movies were on the way...
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- Added: Aug 15, 2016
- Length: 22:36
- Purchases: 1
Jane Toppan was born in Massachusetts in 1857. She attended the Cambridge Nursing School, and established a successful private nursing career in Bo...
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- Added: Mar 07, 2016
- Length: 25:01
- Purchases: 2
In February of 1896, a little boy discovered a woman’s headless body in a farmer’s field in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. No one knew who she was, or what...
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- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 19:25
- Purchases: 1
This piece investigates the particular difficulties of struggling with addiction as a mother.
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- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 08:45
- Purchases: 1
Sandie Alger is a 71-year-old woman with a very long rap sheet. She was in and out of prison throughout the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, and upped her game...
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- Added: Apr 28, 2015
- Length: 19:28
- Purchases: 1
Connecticut man remembers a murder that changed course of the civil rights movement.
- Added: Nov 13, 2014
- Length: 04:16
How magic and law shaped the witch trials of early modern Europe
- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 29:33
In this episode we talk about a lesser known tale, The Armless Maiden. How does she get her arms chopped off you ask? Maybe her dad does it to save...
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 19:56
in 1790 the Yankees fully intended to turn this "New World" into their own nation. The Native Americans, on the other hand, indigenous to the conti...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:36
She was a small, dark-haired Polish Catholic who somehow managed to save 2500 Jewish children from the Nazis. How? Here's the tale.
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- Added: Sep 12, 2012
- Length: 03:00
For fourteen years, a singular event has shaped Valencia McMurray's life: her mother, Charlene Sanders, was violently attacked by her father when s...
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- Added: Aug 14, 2011
- Length: 09:54
- Purchases: 1
Libby St. Pierre knew since she was a young girl that she wanted only a few simple things in life: a career, which she has as a nurse in Auburn, Ma...
- Added: Jan 05, 2011
- Length: 05:50
- Purchases: 3
