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In March 1970, a Los Angeles highway construction supervisor named Mack Ray Edwards walked into a police station, set a loaded handgun on the counter, and confessed to killing children for sixteen years. Only three of those killings were ever charged. The rest of his claimed victims - a number that grew to as many as eighteen or twenty across his own retellings - were never charged, and the sites he directed investigators to, decades apart, have all come up empty. This week, Eli and Simone dig into what's left when a confession outruns the evidence behind it: a freeway built over one victim's grave, two more empty excavations under freeways and overpasses across two counties, and a debate about how much a dying man's word should count when the physical record can't confirm or rule it out.

CONTENT NOTE: This episode discusses the murders of children, including cases involving surviving family members who may still be living. Several of the discussed cases remain open, unresolved cold cases with no other suspect. Neither host resolves any specific uncharged case as fact - the debate stays at the level of how much an uncorroborated confession should be credited.

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The hosts' voices in this episode are AI-generated. All research, writing, and production are done by a human team.

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Every case has a body, a mystery, and no confession. Precision and Instinct is a true crime debate show built around two hosts who never agree: Eli argues the hard evidence, Simone argues the pattern underneath it, and neither one wins. There's no narrator telling you what to think — just two sides of every case, and you decide which one holds up.

New cold cases, argued out in full, every episode. First case drops soon — a man found dead on an Australian beach in 1948 with no name and no explanation. Follow now so it's waiting for you the moment it's live.

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Episode 1: The Somerton Man

Precision and Instinct is a true crime debate show. Every episode, Eli argues the hard evidence. Simone argues the pattern. Neither one wins — you decide.

December 1st, 1948. A man in a full suit and tie is found propped against a seawall on a quiet Australian beach, legs crossed, arms folded, like he simply sat down and never got up. No wallet. No ID. Every label cut out of his clothes. Seventy-five years later, nobody has ever definitively said who he was — and the deeper the case goes, the stranger it gets: an unclaimed suitcase, a scrap of paper reading Tamam Shud sewn into a hidden pocket, a rare book with an unbreakable code scrawled in the back, and an unlisted phone number belonging to a nurse who denied everything.

Eli says it's a man who built himself to disappear — no conspiracy required. Simone isn't so sure. Tonight, they argue it out, and you get to decide who's right.

A note before you press play: this episode covers a real, still-unidentified death. We approach it with the same care we'd want if it were someone we knew.

You'll find the source list here: https://verbeditorial.github.io/precision-and-instinct-notes/episodes/01-somerton-man.html

The hosts' voices in this episode are AI-generated. All research, writing, and production are done by a human team.