Episódios

  • EP295: Killer Dad Mick Philpott

    EP295: Killer Dad Mick Philpott
    Apr 6 2026
    Before six children died inside a burning home on Victory Road, there was a man who had spent decades constructing a life where power flowed in one direction—toward him. Mick Philpott wasn’t just a father. He was the center of a chaotic, benefits-funded household built on manipulation, domination, and fear.In this Early Release episode of Crimes & Consequences, we follow the timeline from control to catastrophe—through the investigation, the courtroom, and the unraveling of a man who believed he could outmaneuver everyone, including the truth.
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    54 minutos
  • EP294: Sid and Nancy Pt 2 of 2

    EP294: Sid and Nancy Pt 2 of 2
    Mar 31 2026
    On the morning of October 12, 1978, the Chelsea Hotel looked like it always did after a long New York night, with its hallways dim, its air heavy, and its secrets still clinging to the walls, but behind the door to Room 100, one of the most infamous mysteries in rock-and-roll history was waiting to be found. Inside, twenty-year-old Nancy Spungen lay bleeding on the bathroom floor, her life ended by a single stab wound, while just feet away, her boyfriend—Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious—stumbled through the room in a haze of drugs, shock, and confusion. What happened in those final hours would become more than a tabloid scandal or a punk-rock tragedy; it would become a case suspended somewhere between love story, crime scene, and cultural collapse, where every witness had a different version, every answer seemed to raise a darker question, and the truth, if anyone ever knew it, may have died inside that room.

    SOURCES:
    1) "Please Kill Me: The Uncensored History of Punk" by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
    2) "Why We Love the Chelsea Hotel" -- The New York Historical Society
    3)Punk Rock Romeo and Juliet: Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen -- Crime Library
    4) Sid Vicious Accused of Murder -- Rolling Stone
    5) Flashback: Nancy Spungen Found Dead at Chelsea Hotel -- Rolling Stone
    6) The Arrest of Sid Vicious -- History Daily Podcast by Wondery
    7) Sid Vicious Biography Page
    8) Sid and Nancy: A Punk Mystery -- The Independent
    9) 16 Truly Disturbing Moments That Made Punk Rocker Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols Live Up to His Name
    10) My New York: Sid and Nancy -- The New York Post
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    34 minutos
  • EP293: Sid and Nancy Pt. 1 of 2

    EP293: Sid and Nancy Pt. 1 of 2
    Mar 23 2026
    On the morning of October 12, 1978, the Chelsea Hotel looked like it always did after a long New York night, with its hallways dim, its air heavy, and its secrets still clinging to the walls, but behind the door to Room 100, one of the most infamous mysteries in rock-and-roll history was waiting to be found. Inside, twenty-year-old Nancy Spungen lay bleeding on the bathroom floor, her life ended by a single stab wound, while just feet away, her boyfriend—Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious—stumbled through the room in a haze of drugs, shock, and confusion. What happened in those final hours would become more than a tabloid scandal or a punk-rock tragedy; it would become a case suspended somewhere between love story, crime scene, and cultural collapse, where every witness had a different version, every answer seemed to raise a darker question, and the truth, if anyone ever knew it, may have died inside that room.

    SOURCES:
    1) "Please Kill Me: The Uncensored History of Punk" by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
    2) "Why We Love the Chelsea Hotel" -- The New York Historical Society
    3)Punk Rock Romeo and Juliet: Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen -- Crime Library
    4) Sid Vicious Accused of Murder -- Rolling Stone
    5) Flashback: Nancy Spungen Found Dead at Chelsea Hotel -- Rolling Stone
    6) The Arrest of Sid Vicious -- History Daily Podcast by Wondery
    7) Sid Vicious Biography Page
    8) Sid and Nancy: A Punk Mystery -- The Independent
    9) 16 Truly Disturbing Moments That Made Punk Rocker Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols Live Up to His Name
    10) My New York: Sid and Nancy -- The New York Post
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    25 minutos
  • EP292: Vashished Before Sunrise

    EP292: Vashished Before Sunrise
    Mar 12 2026
    In the quiet winter of 1994, the small town of New Haven woke to a mystery that would refuse to fade. On the morning of April 3, a young convenience store clerk named Heidi Allen unlocked the doors at D&W Convenience Store just as she had countless times before. Customers came and went, the coffee brewed, and the ordinary rhythms of a Sunday morning settled in. Then, sometime between one routine moment and the next, something went terribly wrong. Within hours, the register sat open, Heidi’s car remained in the parking lot, and a handful of chilling clues hinted that whatever had happened inside that small roadside store had unfolded in seconds. What followed would consume investigators, divide a community, and leave a question hanging in the cold air for decades: how does someone simply vanish in the middle of a normal morning?

    1) Heidi Allen's Page on The Doe Network
    2) Heidi Allen's Page on The Charley Project
    3) People v. Gary Thibodeau
    4) People v. Gary Thibodeau
    5) Gary Thibodeau Looks to Have Conviction Overturned
    6) Gary Thibodeau, convicted of kidnapping Heidi Allen in 1994, dead at 63
    7) Thibodeau's death offers no closure for either side
    8) Judge Denies Thibodeau Motion for New Trial
    9) State’s Highest Court Turns Down Thibodeau’s Attempt For New Trial
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    30 minutos
  • EP291: Leopold and Loeb - Nein Übermenschen (p2 of 2)

    EP291: Leopold and Loeb - Nein Übermenschen (p2 of 2)
    Mar 5 2026
    In 1924, two wealthy, brilliant University of Chicago students set out to commit what they believed would be the perfect crime.Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb believed themselves intellectually superior and beyond ordinary moral restraint. Inspired (and deeply misreading) the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, they convinced themselves that rules applied to other people.It became the first true Trial of the Century. A national referendum on free will, punishment, privilege, youth, psychology, and whether the state should answer killing with killing.Were Leopold and Loeb supermen?Or were they privileged, deluded young men who mistook intelligence for immunity?🎙️ Join us as we dismantle the myth.
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    44 minutos
  • EP290: Leopold and Loeb - Nein Übermenschen (p1 of 2)

    EP290: Leopold and Loeb - Nein Übermenschen (p1 of 2)
    Feb 28 2026
    In 1924, two wealthy, brilliant University of Chicago students set out to commit what they believed would be the perfect crime.Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb believed themselves intellectually superior and beyond ordinary moral restraint. Inspired (and deeply misreading) the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, they convinced themselves that rules applied to other people.It became the first true Trial of the Century. A national referendum on free will, punishment, privilege, youth, psychology, and whether the state should answer killing with killing.Were Leopold and Loeb supermen?Or were they privileged, deluded young men who mistook intelligence for immunity? Join us as we dismantle the myth.Because intelligence without empathy is not superiority. It’s danger.
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    35 minutos
  • EP289: The Disappearance That Never Left the Backyard

    EP289: The Disappearance That Never Left the Backyard
    Feb 17 2026
    On a quiet stretch of Midwestern road, just outside the small town where everyone knew everyone else, DiAnne Kiedel disappeared into the kind of mystery that only seems possible in places that feel safe. She was a mother. A neighbor. The woman who waved when she drove past. And then, suddenly, she was the center of whispered conversations, late-night searches, and a question that refused to fade: what really happened that night? In this episode, we peel back the layers of a story that starts with an ordinary evening—and spirals into something far darker than anyone in town was prepared to face.

    SOURCES:
    1) Old Time Crime: 1966 missing person case solved 27 years later
    2) The Eternal Flame
    3) The Eternal Flame Part 2
    4) Memory of Slaying Kept Secret for 29 Years
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    35 minutos
  • EP288: The Crime No One Saw Coming

    EP288: The Crime No One Saw Coming
    Feb 4 2026
    On a quiet night that should have ended like any other, one violent act set off a chain of events that would fracture a community and leave more questions than answers. The murder of Trent Digiuro didn’t arrive with warning signs or a clear villain—it unfolded in the blurred space between friendship and fear, impulse and intention. In the days that followed, whispers traveled faster than facts, and investigators began pulling at threads that revealed a far more complicated story than it first appeared. What happened to Trent wasn’t just about a single moment of violence, but about the choices made before it—and the ones that followed—that would ultimately force everyone involved to reckon with the truth.

    SOURCES:
    1) Man convicted of killing UK player in ‘90s back in court in another new case
    2) Dateline: The Motive
    3) DiGiuros Find Closure in Wrongful Death Suit
    4) Notorious 1990s slaying of UK football player featured in new true crime series
    5) A Killer Among Friends: A Killer on Campus
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    27 minutos