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  • EP219 - The Dinner, the Dioxin, and the Face That Testified

    EP219 - The Dinner, the Dioxin, and the Face That Testified
    2026/10/18
    In September 2004, opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko sat down to dinner at the country villa of a senior secret-police official. Within hours he was dying; within weeks his face had been transformed into something out of a horror film, and the world's toxicologists would confirm the unthinkable — pure military-grade dioxin, in quantities never before seen in a human being. We dissect the anatomy of a poisoned candidate. If you enjoy the show and want to support it, you can buy me a coffee: https://paypal.me/podcast8
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    36 分
  • EP218 - The State That Would Not Kneel: Germany's Autumn of Terror

    EP218 - The State That Would Not Kneel: Germany's Autumn of Terror
    2026/10/15
    For six weeks in 1977, West Germany was held hostage — an industrialist seized at a fake traffic accident, an airliner hijacked across the Mediterranean with its captain executed on a sand strip in Yemen. The republic's answer was to refuse every demand, build a counter-terrorism unit from nothing, and bet eighty-seven lives on seven minutes of gunfire at Mogadishu. We dissect the anatomy of an unbending state. If you enjoy the show and want to support it, you can buy me a coffee: https://paypal.me/podcast8
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    34 分
  • EP217 - Known to Every Service, Seen by No One: The Paris Attacks

    EP217 - Known to Every Service, Seen by No One: The Paris Attacks
    2026/10/12
    On Friday the thirteenth of November 2015, nine men trained in Syria and organized from Belgium split into three teams and turned Paris into a battlefield, killing one hundred and thirty people in a single hour of horror. The deepest shock came afterward, when investigators counted how many of the killers were already known to the police of Europe. We dissect the anatomy of an intelligence failure. If you enjoy the show and want to support it, you can buy me a coffee: https://paypal.me/podcast8
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    34 分
  • EP216 - The Final Bow: The Human Bomb Who Killed Rajiv Gandhi

    EP216 - The Final Bow: The Human Bomb Who Killed Rajiv Gandhi
    2026/10/06
    On a May night in 1991, a young woman garlanded India's former prime minister at an election rally, bowed to touch his feet in reverence, and detonated ten thousand steel pellets packed into a belt of RDX against his body. The killer left behind almost nothing but bone fragments, a scrap of blue denim, and one roll of undeveloped film. We dissect the anatomy of the world's most intimate assassination, and the forensic science that gave its silent victim a name. If you enjoy the show and want to support it, you can buy me a coffee: https://paypal.me/podcast8
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    34 分
  • EP215 - God's Banker: The Bricks Beneath Blackfriars Bridge

    EP215 - God's Banker: The Bricks Beneath Blackfriars Bridge
    2026/10/03
    In June 1982, Roberto Calvi, chairman of Italy's largest private bank and the Vatican's favorite financier, was found hanging beneath London's Blackfriars Bridge with bricks stuffed into his pockets. The first coroner called it suicide. It would take two inquests, a private investigation, an exhumation, and a murder trial to establish what really happened, and even then no one would answer for it. If you enjoy the show and want to support it, you can buy me a coffee: https://paypal.me/podcast8
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    34 分
  • EP214 - The Reporter, the Gangster, and the State That Changed

    EP214 - The Reporter, the Gangster, and the State That Changed
    2026/09/30
    In 1996, crime reporter Veronica Guerin was shot dead at a Dublin traffic light by a hitman working for drug kingpin John Gilligan. Her murder shattered Ireland's complacency and forced a reluctant state to build the legal weapons, asset seizure, witness protection, a non-jury court, that finally broke the gangs she died exposing. If you enjoy the show and want to support it, you can buy me a coffee: https://paypal.me/podcast8
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    30 分
  • EP213 - The Park, the Stranger, and the DNA That Knew the Truth

    EP213 - The Park, the Stranger, and the DNA That Knew the Truth
    2026/09/27
    On a June evening in 2000, ten-year-old Nienke Kleiss was strangled in a Dutch park while her friend survived to describe the killer. The wrong man confessed under pressure and was convicted, while a pioneering DNA technique had been pointing at the true culprit all along. We dissect the anatomy of a scientific injustice, and how this case rewrote the Netherlands' rules for confessions, DNA, and doubt. If you enjoy the show and want to support it, you can buy me a coffee: https://paypal.me/podcast8
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    39 分
  • EP212 - A President in the Dock: The Anatomy of International Justice

    EP212 - A President in the Dock: The Anatomy of International Justice
    2026/09/24
    In 2012, Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, became the first head of state convicted by an international tribunal since the Nuremberg trials. We dissect how sovereign immunity failed, how blood diamonds and smuggled arms proved a case of aiding and abetting, and how the RUF's crimes against child soldiers, amputees, and enslaved women were finally laid at his feet.
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    34 分