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Host Jack Maddox investigates the unwritten codes that governed life and death on the American frontier, testing legendary rules of honor against brutal historical reality. Through famous gunfights and court records, discover whether the West's code of conduct was genuinely followed or simply frontier mythology. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Host Jack Maddox unearths the true story of Nevada's Comstock Lode through mining records, legal battles, and firsthand accounts. Explore disputed claims, deadly underground conditions, and the fortunes that flowed from Virginia City's silver tunnels to San Francisco's elite. History told through the documents and voices of those who lived it. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Jack Maddox digs into the Donner Party disaster using the survivors' own diaries, letters, and testimony to reveal what really happened in the snowbound camps. From the deadly shortcut decision to the Forlorn Hope's desperate trek and unthinkable choices, these firsthand accounts expose the raw truth behind America's most infamous pioneer tragedy. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Host Jack Maddox cracks open the dusty case files of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency to examine how a private firm became America's most powerful law enforcement body. Through reward circulars, operative reports, and courtroom testimony, discover how private detectives shaped justice in the Wild West and beyond. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

When wealthy Wyoming cattle barons hired an army of assassins with a 70-name death list in 1892, they nearly got away with mass murder — protected by corrupt courts, complicit cavalry, and a president who looked the other way. Host Jack Maddox uncovers the documented conspiracy, explosive trials, and brutal class warfare that defined America's most notorious range war. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Christopher Wilder was about as bad as they get. A predator and serial killer, he first came to the attention of police in Sydney, when as a teenager in 1963 he was charged with rape. A good behaviour bond was not a deterrent and over the years his crimes escalated. After moving to the USA in...

Days after Richard Dorrough violently takes his own life at a public gun range in Perth, Western Australia, his fiancée receives a parcel from him in the post - a book filled with the former sailor’s handwriting. She starts to read and, horrified by the chilling confession inside it, quickly hands the book to police....

BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR WIRED | LA TIMES | FINANCIAL TIMES | WASHINGTON POST | GLOBE AND MAIL USED IN EVIDENCE IN THE TRIAL OF SAM BANKMAN-FRIED In 2021, cryptocurrency goes mainstream. Giant investment funds are buying it. Politicians endorse it. TV ads hail it as the future of money. Hardly...

William Neal, who called himself "Wild Bill Cody," was seductive and skillful at separating love-struck women from their money, and ultimately, their lives. Apprehended by police, Neal, who proclaimed himself “better than Ted Bundy,” pleaded guilty to three murders then insisted on representing himself at his death penalty trial. But the psychopathic killer found himself up against the incredible courage of his one surviving victim.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Spider Network by David Enrich, read by Mike Chamberlain. Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The Spider Network is the almost-unbelievable and darkly entertaining inside account of the Libor scandal – one of the...

How the fatal shooting of Kumanjayi Walker exposes the power of race in Australia, from Walkley Award-winning journalist Kate Wild. A young Aboriginal man and a white police officer face each other in a house in the desert. The violence that passes between them carries the pain and anger of generations of unfinished business. The Red House is not just a book about the fatal shooting of Kumanjayi Walker and Constable Zachary Rolfe's murder trial: Walkley Award-winning journalist Kate Wild exposes the potent power of race in Australia.

On a November morning in 2015, Christopher Jackson waited for his fiancée, Angila Wilder, to pick him up from work as she always did. But this time, she didn’t show - and Christopher’s calls went unanswered. The police found what looked like a scene from a horror movie at their home. The backdoor kicked in. A bedroom splattered with blood. And a pregnant young woman violently stabbed to death.

Host Jack Maddox reconstructs real vigilante cases from America's lawless frontier, using historical records and eyewitness accounts to examine citizens who took justice into their own hands. Each episode questions where the line falls between keeping order and committing murder when there's no law to enforce it. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Host Jack Maddox separates fact from fiction in the legendary violence of Dodge City, using firsthand accounts and eyewitness testimony to reveal what really happened when bullets flew, badges meant little, and newspapers transformed frontier chaos into American mythology. Each episode examines a deadly flashpoint where law, vigilante justice, and reputation collided. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Host Jack Maddox investigates the real locations where Wild West outlaws disappeared from the law, using historical records and on-the-ground details to reveal how these fugitives built hidden worlds in America's most unforgiving landscapes. Each episode explores a different legendary hideout. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Of all the many psychopaths and sociopaths that have hunted for human victims throughout history, few have been more disturbing or mysterious than Christopher Bernard Wilder - the Beauty Queen Killer. From the middle of the 1960s until 1984, Wilder sexually assaulted countless women and murdered at least nine in Australia and the United States. The Beauty Queen Killer was not only a true psychopath, but also a hunter, as he carefully chose attractive girls and young women to victimize.

Host Jack Maddox reconstructs the Lincoln County War through court records and survivor testimony, exposing the corrupt alliances, economic monopolies, and dueling badges that transformed New Mexico Territory into a lawless battlefield where Billy the Kid became legend and institutional power crumbled into violence. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

From an award-winning former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure follows the author’s quest to find missing hikers along the Pacific Crest Trail by pairing up with an eclectic group of unlikely allies. ​ As a park ranger with the National...

The “rollicking” (The Economist), “masterfully written” (The Washington Post) account of the crypto delusion, and how Sam Bankman-Fried and a cast of fellow nerds and hustlers turned useless virtual coins into trillions of dollars—hailed by Ezra Klein in The New York Times as one of...

Gaia was groomed, abused and enslaved – but then she fought back Gaia Cooper is just 14 years old when she is groomed by a criminal gang and forced to commit organised credit card fraud. Despite being placed in care – somewhere Gaia should feel safe – she is left even more vulnerable, and...