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The Tromp Family Mystery: The Australian Family Who Fled Their Own Minds (opens the original)
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In 2016, five members of the Tromp family fled their farm in a single car, leaving behind their passports, credit cards and mobile phones. Why they fled remains one of Australia's greatest modern mysteries—a mystery that not even the Tromp family can fully explain.
MKUltra: The Dark History of CIA Mind Control and Frank Olson (opens the original)
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MKUltra was the CIA’s secret Cold War programme built around drugs, hypnosis, interrogation, and the dream of controlling the human mind. This episode follows Frank Olson, LSD testing, Operation Midnight Climax, Donald Ewen Cameron, destroyed files, and the questions still buried under national security.
Lucy Letby: The Evidence, the NHS Failures, and the Question That Won’t Go Away (opens the original)
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The Lucy Letby case begins inside a neonatal unit where the most vulnerable babies in the hospital were supposed to be receiving round-the-clock care. When deaths and sudden collapses rose sharply, consultants at the Countess of Chester Hospital began to notice a pattern: Lucy Letby seemed to be present again and again.
Michael Jackson: From Gary, Indiana to the Biggest Star Alive (opens the original)
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Long before the moonwalk and the stadiums, Michael Jackson was one of ten children crammed into a small house on Jackson Street in Gary, Indiana. His father, Joe, a steelworker with stalled musical ambitions of his own, recognised something extraordinary in his sons and set about shaping them into a group, drilling them through relentless rehearsals enforced, by several accounts, with belts, mockery, and fear.
Aileen Wuornos: The Female Serial Killer Who Said It Was Self Defense (opens the original)
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Aileen Wuornos is remembered as one of the most notorious female serial killers in American history, the woman Charlize Theron played in Monster and the press dubbed the Damsel of Death. The truth underneath that label is much harder to sit with. She killed seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990, all of them clients she met while working as a sex worker on the highways, and she first insisted she had killed in self defense, beginning with a man who really did have a history of sexual violenc
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