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Dec. 4, 2017

Episode 069: The 12 Crimes of Christmas: Very Bad Santas

Episode 069: The 12 Crimes of Christmas: Very Bad Santas

We kick our true crime holiday season with stores of Santas who go bad. #Christmascrime #badsantas #historicalcrime

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We kick our true crime holiday season with stores of Santas who go bad.

#Christmascrime #badsantas #historicalcrime

 

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  • Episode 238: The Ties That Bind: The Crimes of Shelly Knotek - Part 1
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  • Episode 075: Survivor Stories: Tracey Thurman
  • Episode 058: With Friends Like These: Kirsten Costas
  • Episode 042: A Woman Scorned: Betty Broderick

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Episode 238: The Ties That Bind: The Crimes of Shelly Knotek - Part 1 Image
April 12, 2022

Episode 238: The Ties That Bind: The Crimes of Shelly Knotek - Part 1

Shelly Knotek has been called “America’s Most Evil Mom”. She abused, tortured, and humiliated her children and partners, but her control and abuse went beyond her own family members. One-by-one people she took into her home a...

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Episode 215: Getting Away With Murder: Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick Image
Sept. 7, 2021

Episode 215: Getting Away With Murder: Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick

In 1969, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy was the front runner to become the next Presidential candidate on the Democratic Party ticket. But, decisions he would make one fateful night on Chappaquiddick Island would result in the death of a young …

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Episode 075: Survivor Stories: Tracey Thurman Image
Jan. 22, 2018

Episode 075: Survivor Stories: Tracey Thurman

A woman leaves her abusive husband and spends months trying to get law enforcement authorities to help her escape her abuser. In 1983, she survives one of the most brutal and vicious incidents of domestic violence I've ever encountered. She …

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Episode 058: With Friends Like These: Kirsten Costas Image
Sept. 4, 2017

Episode 058: With Friends Like These: Kirsten Costas

Our new series "With Friends Like These" I detail cases where friends turn upon friends - and become deadly. The first is a case of high school jealousy. Kirsten Costas is attacked by a classmate in Orinda, California. Kirsten Costas …

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Episode 042: A Woman Scorned: Betty Broderick Image
May 1, 2017

Episode 042: A Woman Scorned: Betty Broderick

In 1989, Betty Broderick guns down her ex-husband and his new wife. Did her cheating husband cause her to snap or did she commit cold-blood, premeditated murder? This is Chapter 1 of our new series "A Woman Scorned". ...

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Once Upon a Crime is a weekly true crime podcast that tells “the story behind the story” of real life crime. Told in a storytelling style, host Esther Ludlow digs into the details of each case to bring listeners the facts and information they won’t hear anywhere else.

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