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  • Corn Liquor and a Nickname He Hated: The Real Pretty Boy Floyd

    Corn Liquor and a Nickname He Hated: The Real Pretty Boy Floyd
    Apr 27 2026
    Corn Liquor and a Nickname He Hated: The Real Pretty Boy Floyd

    He robbed banks during the Great Depression, destroyed mortgage papers so regular people wouldn't lose their farms, and handed out cash to strangers on the side of the road. The FBI called him Public Enemy Number One. The people of Oklahoma called him a hero. Pretty Boy Floyd was one of the most complicated criminals in American history, and the story of his life, his death, and the controversy that followed is unlike anything you've heard before. In this deep-dive episode of True Crime Blueprint, we go beyond the legend to examine the poverty, the system, and the relationships that shaped Charles Arthur Floyd into the outlaw who helped birth the modern FBI. If you think you know this story, you don't. Not yet.

    True Crime Blueprint explores the psychology, history, and human drama behind America's most compelling true crime cases.

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    28 min
  • Grape Flavored Massacre: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown

    Grape Flavored Massacre: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown
    Apr 20 2026
    Grape Flavored Massacre: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown

    Jim Jones started with a dream that sounded reasonable. Racial equality. Communal living. Taking care of people the government forgot. In post-war Indiana, that message resonated. By the mid-1970s, the Peoples Temple had thousands of followers, serious political clout in San Francisco, and the ear of some of California's most powerful politicians.Then on November 18, 1978, deep in the jungle of Guyana, South America, 918 people died. Including 304 children.Today we go deep on the full story of how a broken child from rural Indiana weaponized the most sincere human desires, for belonging, for equality, for a better world, and built an institution so psychologically fortified that by the time anyone understood what it had become, the exits were already gone.This is the story of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and the largest loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster before September 11, 2001. The people who died were American citizens who believed they were building something real. Understanding how it happened is the only honest tribute we can pay them.

    This is True Crime Blueprint.

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    34 min
  • The Boy They Called Pee Wee: A Serial Killer's Origin Story

    The Boy They Called Pee Wee: A Serial Killer's Origin Story
    Apr 13 2026
    The Boy They Called Pee Wee: A Serial Killer's Origin Story

    He weighed four pounds at birth, grew up without knowing his own name, and died in South Carolina's electric chair claiming he'd killed over a hundred people. Donald Henry Gaskins, nicknamed "Pee Wee" almost from his first breath, became one of the most prolific and disturbing serial killers in American history. This episode goes much deeper than the crimes themselves. It's a story about what happens at every level of society — family, school, the courts, the prison system — when every single structure that's supposed to protect a child instead walks away.

    This is a deep dive into the psychology, history, and environment that shaped Gaskins from a neglected, abused, four-pound infant in rural South Carolina into a man who sorted his murder victims into categories like items on a grocery list. We examine his poverty-stricken origins, the reform school years that turned bad into catastrophic, his escalating crimes, and the prison chapter that proved he could kill even from behind bars.

    This is True Crime Blueprint.


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    23 min
  • The Man Who Stole Trust: Inside the Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme

    The Man Who Stole Trust: Inside the Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme
    Apr 6 2026
    The Man Who Stole Trust: Inside the Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme

    Bernie Madoff stole sixty-five billion dollars. Not from banks. Not from governments. From his closest friends, from Holocaust survivors, from widows living off retirement savings, and from the Jewish philanthropic community he publicly championed for decades. He did it all while serving as chairman of the national stock exchange and advising the very regulators who were supposed to stop him. This is the full story of how a lifeguard from Queens built the most trusted lie in Wall Street history, why it lasted forty years, what it destroyed, and why it still matters today. True Crime Blueprint dives deep into the psychology, the relationships, the community betrayal, and the regulatory failures that allowed Bernard Madoff to operate the largest Ponzi scheme in human history right out in the open.



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    30 min
  • Robin Hood Hills: The West Memphis Three Story

    Robin Hood Hills: The West Memphis Three Story
    Mar 29 2026
    Robin Hood Hills: The West Memphis Three Story

    In 1993, three eight-year-old boys were murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas. Three teenagers were convicted. Eighteen years later, those three men walked free, as convicted murderers who pled guilty and say they didn't do it. And the DNA evidence? It pointed somewhere else entirely. This is the full story of the West Memphis Three, and honest answer: we still don't know exactly what happened in those woods.


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    27 min
  • JonBenét: The Family, the Secrets, and the Case That Broke America

    JonBenét: The Family, the Secrets, and the Case That Broke America
    Mar 9 2026
    JonBenét: The Family, the Secrets, and the Case That Broke America

    On the morning after Christmas 1996, Patsy Ramsey called 911 to report her six-year-old daughter missing. By that afternoon, JonBenét was found murdered in the basement of their own home. Nearly thirty years later, nobody has been charged. In this deep dive, we go beyond the tabloid headlines and pageant photos to examine who the Ramseys really were, what the evidence actually shows, and why this case became one of the most consequential unsolved murders in American history. We cover the family's psychological history, the catastrophic investigative failures, the shadowy list of outside suspects, and where the case stands today with cutting-edge DNA technology.

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    35 min
  • Pink Clouds and Dead Ends: The Murder of Bianca Devins

    Pink Clouds and Dead Ends: The Murder of Bianca Devins
    Mar 2 2026
    Pink Clouds and Dead Ends: The Murder of Bianca Devins

    In 2019, a 17-year-old artist and mental health advocate from Utica, New York named Bianca Devins was murdered by a man she considered a friend. What made this case unlike anything before it? He broadcast the crime on the internet in real time… and hundreds of thousands of people saw it before anyone could stop it. This is the full story of Bianca's life, the toxic online culture that shaped her killer, and how one grieving mother turned the worst moment of her life into a law. True Crime Blueprint goes deep on the psychology, the misogyny, the social media failure, and the legacy of a girl who just wanted to help people.

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    28 min
  • The All-American Killer: How Ted Bundy Murdered Across America

    The All-American Killer: How Ted Bundy Murdered Across America
    Feb 23 2026
    The All-American Killer: How Ted Bundy Murdered Across America

    He was handsome, charming, and educated. He volunteered at a suicide hotline and worked on political campaigns. Women trusted him. And that's exactly how Ted Bundy killed at least 30 young women across seven states in the 1970s. This is the complete story of how a law student with a fake cast and a Volkswagen Beetle became one of America's most prolific serial killers, how he escaped from jail twice, and how a bite mark finally put him on death row. From his troubled childhood and the girlfriend who rejected him, to the multi-state killing spree that changed how we think about serial predators, this is the blueprint of Ted Bundy's murders. This is True Crime Blueprint.
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    38 min