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01/09/2023

In the early 20th century, Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland would usher in the modern era of plastic with the invention of Bakelite, the world's first inexpensive synthetic plastic. Two generations later, his granddaughter Barbara Baekeland was murdered by her son Tony, with whom she'd had an obsessive, decades-long co-dependent and potentially incestuous relationship.

We made an episode about Barbara.

Barbara Daly Baekeland: socialite, model, high society wife, and loving mother. Very, VERY loving. Barbara was devoted to her son, Tony, from the day he was born, leading to an obsessive, mutual co-de

30/08/2023

What happens when you combine two ships, a boatload of confidence, and a doomed mission to locate a Northwest Passage through the Canadian arctic?

As it turns out... cannibalism. So, so much cannibalism.

The quest for the Northwest Passage -- a navigable sea route through the Canadian arctic -- was long and dangerous. Even so, when Sir John Franklin led two ships, the Erebus and Terror, on a last miss

29/08/2023

Lizzy Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one... or did she?

We know that the Borden murders involved a lot less than eighty-one blows and that that the murder weapon wasn't an axe, but was daughter Lizzie really responsible? Join us on a two-part journey as we re-adjudicate a 130-year-old muder case (and the subsequent jump rope rhyme).

Lizzie Borden took an axe Gave her mother forty wacks When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one [Citation Needed]

27/08/2023

Apologies for our recent technical difficulties! An issue with our host recently took most of our catalogue temporarily offline. Rest assured that we have not shut down; it takes more than the nefarious forces of 2-factor Soundcloud authentication errors to stop us. Our whole catalogue is now back online for your enjoyment!

We'll be back with new episodes very soon!

13/01/2022

Following the increasingly strange and nebulous theme of this podcast, we present a two part episode on a silent film star (falsely) accused of a horrifying crime.

Before Leonardo DiCaprio, before Rock Hudson, before Clark Gable, before even Charlie Chaplin, the biggest star in American television was none other than Roscoe Arbuckle. A larger than life character

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