Scoundrel: History's Forgotten Villains
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Scoundrel: History's Forgotten Villains
History consists of heroes and villains (and, I suppose everything in between)... but it's usually the villains who are the most interesting: Their flaws, their quirks, the voids in their hearts that force them to do the unthinkable. These are the characters that fascinate us, that pull us in, that...
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33 bölümWang Ti: The Icarus of Beijing
Born in Dalian province, China, Wang Ti always had her sights on becoming a fixture in the elite circles of Beijing aristocracy. Her place as the wife...
Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street
At the turn of the 20th century, Hetty Green was possibly the richest woman in America. She outsmarted the men of Wall Street at their own game, amass...
Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General
In 1645, the English Civil War caused a great divide in England - on both sides, the destruction, violence and famine were all blamed on malevolent wi...
Pearl and James O'Dell: The Honeymoon Murderers
In January of 1920, as their locomotive headed into Rochester, New York, a group of brakemen happened to spot a corpse lying in a nearby ditch. After...
Cattle Annie & Little Britches: Teen Girl Old West Outlaws
They were two of the most feared outlaws in the Wild West. Known for their crack shots, and overall disregard of Oklahoma law, their names were on mos...
Alferd Packer: Colorado Cannibal
On April 16, 1874, a desperate and frostbitten man wrapped in rags wandered into a basecamp in the frosty Colorado San Juan Mountains. Famished and ha...
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Franziska Schanzkowska: Fake Anastasia
On July 17, 1918, Nicholas II, Czar of Russia and his entire family were ushered into a dark basement where they were all killed by Bolshevik revoluti...
Julian Harvey: Murderer At Sea
He had it all. Good looks, a privileged upbringing, the adoration of women...yet in November 1961, Julian Harvey was responsible for murdering almost...
Ching Shih: One Mean Pirate Queen
You may have heard of famous pirates like Black Beard and Calico Jack, but did you know a 19th century former peasant girl assembled a pirate confeder...
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In 2014, Dutch friends Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers disappeared while hiking a jungle trail in Panama. Two months later, investigators found their r...
Charles Boles: The Shotgun-Wielding Gentleman Outlaw
The Wild West after the Civil War was famous for its unruly hooligans. But buried in the headlines under the rowdy shenanigans of Billy The Kid and Je...
Linda Hazzard: The Doctor Who Starved Her Patients
The year is 1911. In the idyllic beauty of Olalla Washington, sits a sanitarium - a supposed sanctuary for those suffering from health conditions to...
John Taylor: The Man Who Killed Bach
Everyone knows the Academy award winning film Amadeus, where a dramatic jealous-ridden Antonio Salieri contributed to the death of Mozart. But what y...
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Good Cult is an investigative podcast about the dark corners of the New Age self-help movements and the American counterculture. In season one, host R...
Domenica Guillaume: Picassos, Hitmen and Murder
Ever visit the world famous Louvre Museum in Paris? Ever gaze up at Picassos? How about the Matisses? Well, what if we told you that behind the beaut...
The Fox Sisters: The Girls Who "Saw" Dead People
Mediums, Clairvoyants, Psychics. You can't turn on TV these days without seeing a reality show where some self-proclaimed "Communicator" is conversing...
Mata Hari: Exotic Dancer War Criminal
October 15, 1917. A war criminal is marched before a French firing squad to receive their brutal final punishment. Their crime... selling secrets to...
William Bailey: Radioactive Snake Oil Salesman
The turn of the 20th century was a wild and weird time, especially in medicine. New discoveries of radioactive elements created a medical craze with c...
Belle Starr: Misunderstood Bandit Queen
You've heard her name in the same breath as other gun slinging wild west hooligans like Billy the Kid and Jesse James. But who really was Belle Starr?...
Emerich Juettner: The Worst Counterfeiter Who Ever Lived
Remember the film, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN with Leonardo DiCaprio about the world's greatest counterfeiter? Well, this is the opposite. Yup.The world's a...
Bernarr MacFadden: The Man With the Perfect Body
Before there was Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jack LaLanne, a very different strong man captured the imagination of the planet. A man so powerful and mus...
Sarah Wilson: Fake British Princess
You might have heard of Anna Delvey, or the Tinder Swindler but what if we told you, 250 years ago...a lowly English maid named Sarah Wilson made the...
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Tim Miller is a famous search-and-rescuer in Dickinson, Texas, who's helped track down more than 300 missing persons. After 38 years of searching, he’...
Hong Xiuquan: Demon-Slaying Rebel and Brother to Jesus Christ
Ten years before the US Civil War, a little revolt broke out in China that was commanded by a 37-year-old former school teacher who believed himself t...
Belle Gunness: The Murderous Black Widow
It's 1908 in La Porte, Indiana and a farmhouse belonging to Belle Gunness, a 50-year-old immigrant from Norway, is engulfed in flames. As firefighters...
Sidney Gottlieb: The Man Who Tried To Control Minds
Sidney Gottlieb led a fairly simple life. He and his wife lived on a farm. He milked goats and practiced meditation. From the looks of this spectacu...
Thomas Blood: The Man Who Stole England's Crown Jewels
On an early morning in the year 1671, a 53-year-old man named Thomas Blood enters the Tower of London to perform perhaps the most daring heist in the...
Sister Virginia Maria: The Murderous Nun of Monza
It's 1606 in the Italian peninsula and you can feel the beauty and euphoria of the Renaissance in the air. But at the same time, in a small garden in...
George Remus: The Real Great Gatsby
It's 1920 and George Remus, a Chicago attorney, stands before the bench in a Federal courtroom. He watches in horror as the Judge finds his client, a...
James McClintock and His Magical Killing Machines
It’s 1880 and a man claiming to be famed bomb and submarine builder James McClintock walks into the British Consulate in Philadelphia. He smoothly off...
The Many Deaths of Iron Mike Malloy
It’s 1933 and the Great Depression is ravaging New York City. A group of men calling themselves the Murder Trust come up with the perfect scheme to sc...
Welcome to Scoundrel: History's Forgotten Villains
History consists of heroes and villains (and, I suppose everything in between)... but it's usually the villains who are the most interesting: Their fl...