Goodpods Top 100 True Crime Podcasts
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He lived a wild life and died of a “multimillion-dollar high” Andrew Carter Thornton II was on the run. He realized after successfully flying a half-of-a-billion dollars’ worth of Colombian cocaine that he had turned into a valuable member of the Cartel. Thornton had made his millions, but knew that
It was a little past 9am when Jose Alfredo Esquivel woke to frantic knocking. Wiping the sleep from his eyes, Jose got out of bed and walked to the front door, arriving just in time to see a dark-skinned woman get into the driver's seat of a shiny-red
"It started like many South Florida murders."—The Miami Herald. There were 1,193 murders in Florida in 1983 by the time the two joggers discovered the “beaten and strangled” body of “Liquid Matthew” on December 6th. By the end of that year, there would be several more
"Screams of joy quickly turned to cries of terror." They waited in line all day, or at least it felt like all day, but now the long wait was finally over. Some of the smaller children had reached the gate and chickened out at the last second. They
The boy's body was a horrible sight to see. Wrapped around his little neck was a cord tied so tightly that the police struggled to untangle it. Ultimately, they would just leave it wrapped around Jesualdo Giordano in fear that removing it may do more damage to his
The phone rang incessantly until Wallace Swartz finally answered. It was 2:13am, and he knew that a call this late must be an emergency. He wiped the sleep from his eyes, removed the phone from its cradle, and placed the receiver to his ear. The late caller was Swartz&
Since August 20th, 2007, at least 21 tennis shoes containing human feet have washed up on the shores of the Salish Sea in Washington State. For years detectives undertook the arduous tasks of identifying the ‘owners’ of these severed feet, and to explain why they keep floating up around the
Dennis “Scooter” Abrahamsen had made a lot of enemies. The 41-year-old entrepreneur was well known to police through his tow trucking business for illegally repossessing cars and extorting their owners for payments. He also owned a seedy tattoo shop, but that brought in meager pay, so he began working with
By 1988, Suzanne Eaton was already venturing into her second scientific field, and to say that was an accomplishment is an understatement — because even decades later, the statistics surrounding women in STEM are disheartening. Suzanne Eaton was a pioneer, and she worked nonstop to improve her field. She received distinguished
When a Brisbane power company received a call concerning a blown fuse box, they had no reason to suspect anything sinister. The caller was Peter Volke, a well-known cruise ship chef who often used the small apartment kitchen to create new menu items. Focused on perfection, the young chef would