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The riveting true story of a sham school run by longtime con men whose scheme crashed and burned live on television In August of 2021, a high school football team became the talk of the nation. A featured matchup on ESPN pitted national powerhouse IMG Academy against a school called Bishop Sycamore- a program with an unfamiliar name, a barely functional website, and a long list of baggage. The supposedly elite Bishop Sycamore lost 56-0, embarrassing...
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Former Alaska newspaper reporter Betsy Longenbaugh brings to life 10 stories of murder that occurred between 1902 and 1959. Learn about Alaska's first serial killer, a Polish Jewish prostitute who met her end in the town of Douglas, and a World War I vet whose greed led to a double homicide.
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In this episode, Harold Brandon, dubbed "Don Williams", the new Don of the Acapulco Cartel, forms an alliance with Don Ahmet, the Don of Istanbul....
Rather than take the Don out; at the request of the CIA and INTERPOL, Harold has decided to let him live since he is an "asset" to both international agencies....
Harold Brandon formulates a plan to take over some of the smaller cartels in Mexico, fortifying his position in the "Don Hierarchy", now...
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Ann Rule in 1995 published Dead by Sunset. She claimed it was a true story that described my life, and relationships. Literally nothing in DBS was true. When there was a shred of truth, she then exaggerated it to an incredulous level. For years I struggled with how to deal with this. My poverty precluded any meaningful litigation. Besides, I was a convicted murderer and any jury instruction would have limited any recovery to nominal damages. Ann Rule...
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"In my 23 years of policing, I have never encountered a man as manipulative as Greg Wilson... a compulsive liar who has shown absolutely no remorse... If somebody wrote this as a script for Coronation Street, it would be too outrageous." - Detective Constable Chris Bentham
Coleen Greenwood was overjoyed to meet James Scott, a heroic firefighter and man of her dreams. Little would she know her dreams would soon become a nightmare as his web of...
86) Fallen Woman
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Linda May Spencer is a secret keeper.
As a madam, discretion led to success.
As a maven, diligence led to prosperity.
And, as a mother, obscurity led to happiness.
Or, did it?
Saint Paul, Minnesota, is a quiet and comfortable city rich with history. Little known are the days when prostitution was a thriving business hidden in storefront saunas and health clubs. For decades, madams and business owners made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling...
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Where does a moderately popular internet star who never leaves her house look for potential suitors? Online. Tinder, Bumble, Match.com, OkCupid-I tried them all. My thirty-one-year-old self-clicked and swiped her little heart out, leading to more dates than I could count, and more disappointment than I was prepared for. Maybe you can relate. Maybe you know all too well the perils of modern dating. But let's say, eventually, you meet someone. You think...
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To many, the name Carl Switzer doesn't right a bell-the name Alfalfa, however, does.
As Alfalfa, the freckle-faced kid with an unmanageable cowlick, Switzer won movie fame in the Our Gang comedies of the early 1930s. He later became known to a new generation of children when the Hal Roach films were reissued to television under the title The Little Rascals.
Carl Switzer played the iconic character from 1935-1940, and his popularity surpassed many...
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"A captivating new gift book featuring over 100 real-life mysteries that might just give you goosebumps! Does the Loch Ness monster really exist? Whatever happened to the crew of the Mary Celeste? And where exactly are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Get ready to be amazed as you uncover the world's greatest mysteries, from Bigfoot to the Bermuda Triangle. Including alien abductions, haunted houses, mind-blowing natural phenomena, and much more, this...
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Suppose you were accused of a crime you did not commit. Now suppose you were denied all available defense and therefore, convicted of this crime and then shipped off to prison where you will spend the next 54 months of your life. Finally, suppose the accusation was proven false, but one judge blocks all of your redemption efforts. Now ask yourself this question, "How far would you go to prove you're innocent."
This is the story of a police officer...
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Irene Schroeder was an armed robber who was the first woman to be electrocuted in the state of Pennsylvania for her role in a grocery store robbery that led to the shooting of a policeman. She and her boyfriend went on the run, Bonnie and Clyde style, until they were finally arrested after a long shootout. But what led Irene, once a sweet and doting waitress, to take on a life of crime? This is her story.
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After her parents' divorce, Jessica, age eleven, is responsible for overseeing the household and watching her younger siblings while her ever-absent mother manages her three businesses.
At sixteen, she is introduced to Jim, nearly a decade older than she. Their friendship blossoms into a summer romance, which results in her pregnancy. Confident she can raise the baby with Jim's support, she sets a goal to graduate from high school at age seventeen...
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Courtney Schulhoff and Michael Morin had spent the previous day like any other teenage couple, watching a double-bill movie at the local cinema. Courtney, sixteen at the time, had been dating twenty-year-old Michael Morin for about a year, and their story was nothing like a typical teenage romance story.
When they finally got to the home of Stephen Schulhoff, Courtney's dad, in Altamonte Springs, Florida, what happened next is still somewhat a mystery....
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Imagine being condemned to death for murder, when even the prosecutors admit that you didn't actually kill anyone. This is what happened to Richard Glossip, a death-row inmate who was found guilty of murdering motel owner Barry van Treese. Despite being convicted on the word of the actual self-confessed killer, the state of Oklahoma is still intent on executing him, raising international outcry and controversy. Ian Woods, a reporter for Sky News in...
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Nikki White was a 34-year-old African-American mother of 16-year-old identical twins named Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah. But on the afternoon of January 13, 2010, she was found murdered in the bathroom of her boyfriend's home. Her twin daughters would be arrested for her murder in a crime that shocked their small Georgia town. But what really prompted the girls to murder their own mother?
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he McKay kidnapping is one of Britain's most notorious cases of kidnap and, perhaps, murder. The story itself is interesting enough- it involves mistaken identity, lords and ladies, newspaper magnates and mystery. But the story of how two brothers were punished for the crime, despite a body not having been found (and not ever found to this day), is what sets this case apart.
97) Manson's Girls
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A look back at the many women who become followers of Charles Manson during his Helter Skelter siege in California in the 60s & 70s. All were hippie girls who became loyal to the maniac who told them to kill for him...Among those featured here are the stripper Susan Atkins, a sweet-voiced stripper whose looks belied a devil within. Leslie Van Houten who was an educated young woman that became a murderous animal under Manson's control. Patricia Krenwinkel...
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In October of 2015, a decrepit old man named Robert Howard died of natural causes in his cell. In jail he'd led a solitary existence and spoke rarely, indeed he could have been any criminal counting down his time to release except for the fact he never stood a chance of ever getting out of prison. He was serving a life sentence for murder and simultaneously under investigation for the disappearances of other young girls that he would have had access...
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AN ANTHOLOGY OF WOMEN BEHAVING BADLY "Fatal Attractions" is a look back at women who killed both their husbands and in some cases the wives of their lovers. Carolyn Warmus was the Glenn Close character come to life as she killed the wife of the man she obsessed over. Samantha Scott was a former Playboy model who was married six times with her fifth and sixth husbands feeling her violent wrath. Sheila Davalloo was a time bomb in waiting, masking a...
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January 15th 1947,local police had arrived to the nightmarish scene, hardly believing it was possible as they stared down at the porcelain lifeless body of Elizabeth Short. Her limp arms raised above her head, her torso precisely sliced through and her lower half of her body and legs erotically laid out some 30 cm away. This young woman had suffered at the hands of some evil that police and investigators had never come across, some deranged individual...
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