Episodi

  • EP226 - Sixteen Cups Of Medicine: The Teikoku Bank Poisoning

    EP226 - Sixteen Cups Of Medicine: The Teikoku Bank Poisoning
    Nov 8 2026
    Just after closing time on a January afternoon in nineteen forty-eight, a man wearing an epidemic-prevention armband talked sixteen employees of a Tokyo bank into drinking his preventive medicine; twelve of them never got up. The police arrested a celebrated painter, drew out a confession, and sent him to death row, where he waited thirty-two years while every justice minister in Japan refused to sign his warrant. What follows is the story of the country's most disputed conviction, and of a poison that may never have been identified at all. If you enjoy the show and want to support it, you can buy me a coffee: https://paypal.me/podcast8
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    38 min
  • EP225 - Candelária: Eight Dead Children and a Wall of Impunity

    EP225 - Candelária: Eight Dead Children and a Wall of Impunity
    Nov 5 2026
    Just before midnight in July nineteen ninety-three, men in cars with covered plates opened fire on roughly seventy homeless children sleeping beside Rio de Janeiro's most famous church. Eight died — and the story of who pulled the triggers became a decades-long lesson in how a state investigates, prosecutes, and forgets its own violence. If you enjoy the show and want to support it, you can buy me a coffee: https://paypal.me/podcast8
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    34 min
  • EP224 - Your War, Our Dead: Madrid and the Politics of Blame

    EP224 - Your War, Our Dead: Madrid and the Politics of Blame
    Nov 2 2026
    On the morning of March eleventh, two thousand and four, ten bombs tore through Madrid's commuter trains in the deadliest terrorist attack in Spanish history. What followed lasted three days — a government insisting on one culprit, citizens assembling the contrary evidence themselves, and an election that turned on which story Spain chose to believe. If you enjoy the show and want to support it, you can buy me a coffee: https://paypal.me/podcast8
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    36 min
  • EP223 - The Tofu-Dregs Schools: When Only the Classrooms Fell

    EP223 - The Tofu-Dregs Schools: When Only the Classrooms Fell
    Oct 30 2026
    On the twelfth of May, two thousand and eight, a magnitude eight earthquake tore through China's Sichuan province, and thousands of school buildings came down in seconds while neighbouring structures stood. Grieving parents kept asking the same question — why only the classrooms? — and the people who pressed that question too hard paid for it with their freedom. If you enjoy the show and want to support it, you can buy me a coffee: https://paypal.me/podcast8
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    37 min
  • EP222 - Mister Singh's Suitcase and the Tapes Canada Erased

    EP222 - Mister Singh's Suitcase and the Tapes Canada Erased
    Oct 27 2026
    In June 1985, a polite man with a cash ticket checked a brown Samsonite suitcase onto a connecting flight in Vancouver, then simply never boarded. Fifty-five minutes before Air India Flight 182 vanished off the Irish coast with three hundred twenty-nine people aboard, his accomplice's twin bomb killed two baggage handlers in Tokyo. This is the story of the deadliest terrorist attack in Canadian history — planned, warned about, surveilled, and somehow allowed to happen. If you enjoy the show and want to support it, you can buy me a coffee: https://paypal.me/podcast8
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    35 min
  • EP221 - Four Little Girls, Three Verdicts, and Thirty-Nine Years

    EP221 - Four Little Girls, Three Verdicts, and Thirty-Nine Years
    Oct 24 2026
    On a Sunday morning in September 1963, a bomb tore through the basement of Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four girls as they changed into choir robes. Police identified the Klansmen responsible almost immediately — and then the case vanished into a filing cabinet for a generation. This is the story of a crime that took minutes, and a reckoning that took most of a lifetime. If you enjoy the show and want to support it, you can buy me a coffee: https://paypal.me/podcast8
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    41 min
  • EP220 - A Village Vendetta Goes to Europe: The Duisburg Massacre

    EP220 - A Village Vendetta Goes to Europe: The Duisburg Massacre
    Oct 21 2026
    On a summer night in 2007, six young Italian men were executed outside a pizzeria in the German industrial city of Duisburg — seventy bullets fired into parked cars by two calm gunmen who vanished across an open border. German police were baffled; an Italian prosecutor solved it from memory within days. We dissect the anatomy of a globalized mafia, and the fifteen-year village feud it exported to the heart of Europe. If you enjoy the show and want to support it, you can buy me a coffee: https://paypal.me/podcast8
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    36 min
  • EP219 - The Dinner, the Dioxin, and the Face That Testified

    EP219 - The Dinner, the Dioxin, and the Face That Testified
    Oct 18 2026
    In September 2004, opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko sat down to dinner at the country villa of a senior secret-police official. Within hours he was dying; within weeks his face had been transformed into something out of a horror film, and the world's toxicologists would confirm the unthinkable — pure military-grade dioxin, in quantities never before seen in a human being. We dissect the anatomy of a poisoned candidate. If you enjoy the show and want to support it, you can buy me a coffee: https://paypal.me/podcast8
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    36 min