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Podcast · By Calista and Theresa Whitney · English · Official site

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Sep 10, 2026
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Jul 12, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 10, 2026

    Episode 56 - Stephen Seddon: Hounded by Furies (opens the original)

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    Robert and Patricia Seddon did everything right. They worked hard and raised two children. Sadly, their daughter, Lesley, would be diagnosed with epilepsy as a child and would die when she was just 40, leaving her parents to raise their grandchild. Their son, Stephen, began getting in trouble as a teen, serving prison time twice, but the Seddons didn’t abandon their son. They bought him a house and gave him money. He repaid their love and kindness with murder.Sources: https://www.thetimes.com/tr

  2. Episode · Aug 23, 2026

    Episode 55 - Roberto Martinez-Marinero: A Son, a Brother, a Killer (opens the original)

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    Salvadoran Jesus Ismenia Marinero came to the United States in 1999 in search of a better life. She must have felt that she was on her way to finding it when one of the five children she had been forced to leave behind, Roberto Martinez-Marinero, came to join her a decade later. Over the next six years, Ismenia gave birth to two more sons, Josue and Angel, but in May 2015, the son whose reappearance she had gladly welcomed would be the one to irreparably destroy the family she had been trying to

  3. Episode · Aug 9, 2026

    Episode 54 - Jason Harris: Cereal Killer (opens the original)

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    We should all hope to have the kind of family Christina Harris had. When their beloved daughter and sister, a 36-year-old mom of a 4-year-old and a 4-month-old, died unexpectedly, they wanted answers, but the answers they hoped to gain from an autopsy came in the form of more questions. The autopsy revealed an accidental overdose. This made no sense. Christina didn’t struggle with substance use disorder. It would take years before investigators would finally listen to the family and reveal what

  4. Episode · Jul 26, 2026

    Episode 53 - Chisako Kakehi: Widow by Design (opens the original)

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    For nearly two decades, Chisako Kakehi watched on as her partners passed away one by one. Although she claimed that she had been “doomed by fate” to endure these tragedies, after the death of her fourth and final husband, Isao Kakehi, in 2013, the Japanese authorities finally became suspicious enough to perform a postmortem. After the autopsy confirmed that he hadn’t died from natural causes, investigators began digging into her past, ultimately discovering a series of poisonings that had made C

  5. Episode · Jul 12, 2026

    Episode 52 - Robert Wood: Loathsome Loser (opens the original)

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    Murder and arson in the small Eastern Washington town of Newman Lake were rare. Neighbors looked out for each other and couldn’t have imagined that a member of their community, a single dad who was caring for two of his six children, would ever do what he was accused of, but how well do we really know our neighbors? What could drive a mild-mannered, middle-aged man to commit such a heinous act? Financial stress can cause people to do unimaginable things.Sources: https://news.google.com/newspaper

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