Episodes

  • EP160 - The People vs. The Blue Wall: The Anatomy of a Police Conviction

    EP160 - The People vs. The Blue Wall: The Anatomy of a Police Conviction
    Nov 27 2025
    On a Minneapolis street, a nine-and-a-half-minute video recording changed the world and sparked a trial of historic consequence. This is the story of the murder of George Floyd, and the unprecedented legal strategy that forced a police department to testify against one of its own, systematically dismantling the blue wall of silence, piece by painstaking piece.
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    35 mins
  • EP159 - The Unintended Consequence of Dylann Roof's Hate

    EP159 - The Unintended Consequence of Dylann Roof's Hate
    Nov 24 2025
    On a summer evening, a stranger was welcomed into a historic church's Bible study, only to unleash an act of calculated, racist terror designed to ignite a war. But when the smoke cleared, the architect of this massacre would discover his message of hate had produced a powerful and entirely unintended result. This is the story of a crime that, instead of tearing a nation apart, exposed its deepest reserves of grace.
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    35 mins
  • EP158 - The King in Shorts: Anatomy of the Sam Bankman-Fried Deception

    EP158 - The King in Shorts: Anatomy of the Sam Bankman-Fried Deception
    Nov 21 2025
    He was the benevolent wunderkind of crypto, a philosopher-king in cargo shorts set to save the world with his digital fortune. But when Sam Bankman-Fried's multi-billion dollar empire FTX imploded overnight, it exposed a staggering fraud built on a foundation of lies. This is the story of how a carefully crafted myth hid one of the largest financial crimes in American history.
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    40 mins
  • EP157 - The Anatomy of Malice: Deconstructing Nikolas Cruz

    EP157 - The Anatomy of Malice: Deconstructing Nikolas Cruz
    Nov 18 2025
    On Valentine's Day 2018, Nikolas Cruz committed one of the deadliest school shootings in American history. His guilt was never in doubt, but the story of his trial became a complex and agonizing battle over a single question: was he a monster born of pure evil, or a broken child whose brain was damaged before he ever took his first breath? This is the anatomy of a sentence, and the search for accountability in the face of unimaginable loss.
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    37 mins
  • EP156 - The Cipher on the 32nd Floor: Stephen Paddock's War Without a Why

    EP156 - The Cipher on the 32nd Floor: Stephen Paddock's War Without a Why
    Nov 15 2025
    On October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock committed the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history from a hotel window in Las Vegas. Investigators found a meticulously planned attack but no manifesto, no clear motive, and no explanation. This episode dissects the anatomy of a motive vacuum, exploring the life and final calculations of a killer who left behind only a profound and terrifying silence.
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    40 mins
  • EP155 - Satilla Shores: The Anatomy of a Two-Minute Video

    EP155 - Satilla Shores: The Anatomy of a Two-Minute Video
    Nov 12 2025
    On a Sunday afternoon in a quiet Georgia neighborhood, a 25-year-old man out for a run was chased, cornered, and killed by three men who saw him as a threat. For seventy-four days, the story was buried, until a two-minute video exposed the truth and forced a national reckoning. This is the story of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery and the long fight for a justice that almost never came.
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    36 mins
  • EP154 - The Architect of Ocean Parkway: Anatomy of a Digital Ghost

    EP154 - The Architect of Ocean Parkway: Anatomy of a Digital Ghost
    Nov 9 2025
    For over a decade, a phantom haunted the salt marshes of Long Island, leaving a trail of bodies along a desolate stretch of beach highway. This is the story of how a new generation of investigators resurrected a cold case, dissecting a ghost's digital and genetic footprints to unmask the man who lived a meticulous double life in plain sight.
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    36 mins
  • EP153 - The Anatomy of the 144,000: A Prophecy of Zombies, Greed, and Murder

    EP153 - The Anatomy of the 144,000: A Prophecy of Zombies, Greed, and Murder
    Nov 6 2025
    When two children vanish from a quiet Idaho town, the search for them exposes a trail of suspicious deaths stretching from Arizona to Hawaii. The investigation uncovers their mother and her new husband, a doomsday author, wrapped in a bizarre apocalyptic faith of zombies and chosen saviors. This episode dissects the anatomy of a shared delusion, exploring how a toxic ideology was meticulously crafted to justify the elimination of an entire family for money, power, and a prophesied new world.
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    31 mins