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  • The 49ers owner gets caught in a trailer park

    The 49ers owner gets caught in a trailer park
    2026/08/27
    A billionaire’s son gets caught in a trailer park sting. The league says it is reviewing the matter. This is what happens when the story a man tells himself finally meets the version everyone else can see.

    Every case has a moment before the moment. A man sits in an SUV at a mobile home park in East Palestine, Ohio, waiting for something he told himself was one thing while some other part of him knew it was another. That is where this story starts, not with the arrest, but with the choice that made the arrest inevitable.
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    3 分
  • "Don't Shoot, G-Men!" — How a Bureau PR Line Became FBI Legend

    "Don't Shoot, G-Men!" — How a Bureau PR Line Became FBI Legend
    2026/08/30
    The legend goes that gangster "Machine Gun" Kelly coined the term "G-Men" when he begged federal agents not to shoot during his 1933 arrest — but the real story is a lesson in institutional myth-making. This episode traces how J. Edgar Hoover's Bureau and a cooperative press turned a routine capture into a branding coup months after the fact. It's a case study in how authority, narrative control, and media complicity combine to shape public memory long before anyone had a Twitter account.
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    5 分
  • Trapped on the Roof: The Killing of a correctional officer

    Trapped on the Roof: The Killing of a correctional officer
    2026/08/31
    On May 20, 2012, a gang fight inside a privately run Mississippi prison exploded into a multi-hour riot that left the facility in chaos. Twenty-four-year-old Senior Correctional Officer Catlin Carithers, called in on his day off, was cornered and beaten to death on the roof after inmates used food carts as a makeshift ladder to reach him. This episode walks through how the riot escalated, what happened to Carithers, and how prosecutors later held accountable the men who took part in the attack and destroyed evidence in its wake.
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    2 分
  • The Psychology of the Vigilante — Applying the PEPS Model to Real-World Cases

    The Psychology of the Vigilante — Applying the PEPS Model to Real-World Cases
    2026/08/31
    In part two of their look at vigilantism, Carlos and retired FBI profiler Andrew Bringuel dig into what actually motivates someone to bypass the justice system and act on their own. Using the PEPS model — personal, economic, power/political, and social motives — they break down real cases, including the Bernhard Goetz shooting, to separate the myth of the vigilante from the psychology behind it. The conversation also turns practical, weighing what "good" versus destructive vigilante behavior looks like when communities feel the system has failed them.
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    15 分
  • PART TWO: THE JUMP SHE WASN’T SUPPOSED TO SURVIVE

    PART TWO: THE JUMP SHE WASN’T SUPPOSED TO SURVIVE
    2026/08/24
    Nine years after Belgium, in the English countryside, a military-trained parachute instructor jumped from four thousand feet with both her main and reserve chutes disabled — and lived. Behind it sat a husband, a life insurance policy, and a marriage already in freefall long before she was. This part covers the near-impossible survival, the motive, and what two cases a decade apart reveal about this method of killing.
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    3 分
  • Cut Lines: The Anatomy of a Parachute Murder: PART ONE: THE FALL IN BELGIUM

    Cut Lines: The Anatomy of a Parachute Murder: PART ONE: THE FALL IN BELGIUM
    2026/08/23
    In 2006, an experienced Belgian skydiver stepped out of a plane and discovered mid-air that neither of her parachutes would open. What looked at first like an unthinkable equipment failure turned out to be something far colder — a killing engineered days in advance by someone who never had to be in the room. This part covers the jump, the investigation, and the rival who built a death out of patience.
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    3 分
  • Why Bank Robbers Still Skip the Optimal Window: Updated Stats on a Declining Crime

    Why Bank Robbers Still Skip the Optimal Window: Updated Stats on a Declining Crime
    2026/08/17
    Bank robberies in the United States have plunged to historic lows, yet the patterns of when and where they occur still reveal surprisingly suboptimal choices by perpetrators. Drawing on the latest FBI Bank Crime Statistics and regional breakdowns, this episode revisits classic insights about morning versus afternoon yields alongside current numbers showing a sharp national decline concentrated in certain areas. Listen for a clear-eyed look at risk, reward, human habits, and how the crime itself has changed.
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    4 分
  • The Imposter in the Abbey: Michael Dongarra and the Psychology of Sanctuary

    The Imposter in the Abbey: Michael Dongarra and the Psychology of Sanctuary
    2026/08/16
    1997, a fugitive con man who had stolen over a million dollars in religious artifacts while posing as an Anglican priest sought refuge inside a Benedictine monastery in Massachusetts. This episode examines how Michael Dongarra exploited the psychological architecture of trust that monastic life depends on, and what his case reveals about the blind spots built into institutions designed around faith rather than suspicion. We explore the intersection of psychopathy, religious performance, and the human need to believe in redemption, even when redemption is the con.
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    3 分