WILDCIDE
Wildcide is a hybrid true crime podcast comprised of the wildest, most bizarre true crime cases mixed with interviews from filmmakers, authors, survivors, researchers, criminal investigators, psychiatrists, therapists and more.
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Take Her Down: The eBay Stalking Scandal (opens the original)
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What happens when one of the world's largest corporations decides its critics have become the enemy? In August 2019, David and Ina Steiner, publishers of the independent news site EcommerceBytes, found themselves at the center of a nightmare. Anonymous threats escalated into doxxing, harassment, and disturbing package deliveries. Strange cars began circling their quiet Massachusetts neighborhood, and someone appeared to be watching their every move. The truth was even stranger than they imagined
Shortcide: A Petty Betty's Guide to War (opens the original)
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How petty can people be? Apparently...petty enough to go to war. This week's shortcide episode, Chelsea unpacks The Pastry War, where a French baker's complaint escalated into an international conflict, while Bailey explores The War of Jenkins' Ear, proving that one severed ear became the perfect excuse for two empires already itching to fight. From unpaid pastries to missing body parts, we're diving into two of history's most absurdly named wars to uncover the far more complicated stories hidin
The Kentler Experiment: A Ped*phile Foster Project (opens the original)
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In this episode, we dive into the Kentler Experiment, a case so horrifying it sounds impossible but was very real. In late-1960s West Berlin, psychologist Helmut Kentler promoted a dangerous idea: that vulnerable foster boys could be placed with men known to be pedophiles, under the claim that they would provide “care” and stability. Instead, what unfolded was a state-supported failure that exposed children to abuse while academics, social workers, and officials looked the other way. This is not
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