Sex, Lies & Murder PodcastOne

West Palm Beach is known for fun, sun, beautiful beaches - and in 1990, killer clowns. Marlene Warren opens her front door to find a clown delivering balloons, who then shoots her point blank. Police have their work cut out for them to figure out who is behind the killer clown’s makeup.  
  
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Introducing Jonathan Haidt on the Plague of Anxiety Affecting Young People from The New Yorker Radio Hour.
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Both anecdotally and in research, anxiety and depression among young people—often associated with self-harm—have risen sharply over the last decade.  There seems little doubt that Gen Z is suffering in real ways.  But there is not a consensus on the cause or causes, nor how to address them.  The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt believes that enough evidence has accumulated to convict a suspect.  Smartphones and social media, Haidt says, have caused a “great rewiring” in those born after 1995.  The argument has hit a nerve: his new book, “The Anxious Generation,” was No. 1 on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction best-seller list.  Speaking with David Remnick, Haidt is quick to differentiate social-media apps—with their constant stream of notifications, and their emphasis on performance—from technology writ large; mental health was not affected, he says, for millennials, who grew up earlier in the evolution of the Internet. Haidt, who earlier wrote about an excessive emphasis on safety in the book “The Coddling of the American Mind,” feels that our priorities when it comes to child safety are exactly wrong.  “We’re overprotecting in [the real world], and I’m saying, lighten up, let your kids out! And we’re underprotecting in another, and I’m saying, don’t let your kids spend nine hours a day on the Internet talking with strange men. It’s just not a good idea.” To social scientists who have asserted that the evidence Haidt marshals does not prove a causative link between social media and depression, “I keep asking for alternative theories,” he says. “You don’t think it’s the smartphones and social media—what is it? … You can give me whatever theory you want about trends in American society, but nobody can explain why it happened so suddenly in 2012 and 2013—not just here but in Canada, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Northern Europe. I’m waiting,” he adds sarcastically, “for someone to find a chemical.” The good news, Haidt says, is there are achievable ways to limit the harm.  
Note: In his conversation with David Remnick, Jonathan Haidt misstated some information about a working paper that studies unhappiness across nations. The authors are David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson, and Xiaowei Xu, and it includes data on thirty-four countries. 

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Tragedy strikes Miami Beach royalty in 2009 when heir to the FONTAINEBLEAU HOTEL fortune, Ben Novack Jr, and his mother Bernice die only three months apart. While Bernice’s death is determined accidental, police find the circumstances around Ben’s death to be suspicious. As police look into Ben Novack Jr’s life, the investigation takes dark and kinky turns for the worse.  
  
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Florida’s Boynton Beach police department is in the midst of filming an episode of COPS when they come across Michael and Dalia Dippolito. A murder-for-hire plot goes wrong, and police unravel a history of drugs, ponzi schemes, and escorts. 
  
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Christie and Thomas Sehorne were unconventional to say the least and frequented the Pleasure Palace - a local swinger’s club. Their alternative lifestyle takes a turn when they engage with two men who also frequent the same sex club. Sex and drugs meet gangs and the combination leads down a twisted road to murder. 
  
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Winning the lottery is just a pipe dream for most - but for Abraham Shakespeare it is a reality. After winning a $30 million dollar jackpot, he is even befriended by someone who wants to write a book about him. Life is good - until he winds up dead. 
  
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