Episodes
Deliveries of anthrax through the mail gripped post-9/11 America. Was the perpetrator the expert who was helping solve the crime? We’ll review the podcast “Cover Up: The Anthrax Threat.”
Published 04/22/24
He said the murders of their children were a hoax. The parents of those slain at Sandy Hook ask a court to finally hold him accountable for his lies. We’ll discuss the HBO Original “The Truth vs. Alex Jones.”
Published 04/18/24
Two high-profile disappearances put the spotlight on missing indigenous women in the Navajo Nation. Connie Walker is back with a new investigation in the Spotify Original podcast “Stolen: Trouble in Sweetwater.”
Published 04/15/24
Did a high school class project about some local cold cases lead to the identification of a serial killer? We’ll talk about the podcast “Murder 101.”
Published 04/11/24
A murder on an ocean liner. A ship full of rich suspects with secrets to hide. Is the crime connected to the world’s greatest detective and the old case he could never solve? We’ll review the Hulu mysteries series “Death and Other Details.”
Published 04/08/24
It was the scandal that took down a President…but it didn’t happen all at once. We’ll revisit our 2017 review of the classic podcast “Slow Burn.”
Published 04/04/24
A man says his sister was accused of killing her mother-in-law, but did his brother set her up to take the fall? Host Amory Sivertson searches for the truth in the podcast “Beyond All Repair” from WBUR.
Published 04/01/24
We'll revisit our 2018 review of Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.
Published 03/28/24
He went from being a celebrated human rights activist shining a light on oppression in China to being in Washington on January 6th. How did he get there? We’ll discuss the podcast “Dissident at the Doorstep” from Crooked Media.
Published 03/25/24
Did a Columbian drug lord buy off an entire North Carolina town to get cocaine into the United States? A journalist and a famous actor explore that story in the podcast “Varnamtown.”
Published 03/21/24
Years after she left a brutal school for troubled teens, a filmmaker returns to the facility to confront its ghosts and its previous operators. We’ll discuss the Netflix documentary series “The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping.”
Published 03/18/24
A journalist flips the script by allowing her subjects to shape their stories. Does it create documentaries that are elevated...or just watered down? We’ll talk about the podcast “Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative” from Radiotopia Presents.
Published 03/14/24
A woman digs into the past of a late family member…was he responsible for a string of unsolved murders from the 1970s? We’ll talk about the Max Original “The Truth About Jim.”
Published 03/11/24
A young filmmaker sets off to find his mother’s killer. What he uncovers shocks him. In this CWO Classic Rewind we talk about HBO’s “Murder on Middle Beach.”
Published 03/07/24
Residents now know why the local funeral home offered deep discounts on cremations. The director was secretly selling body parts for profit. We’ll talk about the podcast “Cover Up: Body Brokers.”
Published 03/04/24
An aging detective with a failing memory struggles to solve the kidnapping case that has haunted him his whole career. In this CWO Classic Rewind we’ll look back on our many discussions on season three of HBO’s “True Detective.”
Published 02/29/24
How are the strange deaths of a team of scientists and an indigenous woman in the Alaskan arctic connected? A pair of cops must put aside their differences to solve the mystery in season four of HBO’s “True Detective: Night Country.”
Published 02/26/24
A man accused of murdering his wife escapes custody and flees to Ireland. After being captured years later, he escapes again. We’re talking about the podcast “Runaway Joe” from RTÉ.
Published 02/22/24
A group of online sleuths work to identify a mysterious dead hiker. Will they be shocked by who they’re looking for? We’ll talk about the Max Original “They Called Him Mostly Harmless.”
Published 02/19/24
Was the death of a corrections officer linked to his investigation into abuse and corruption inside California’s most violent prison? We’ll discuss the podcast “On Our Watch: New Folsom” from KQED.
Published 02/15/24
He said his cutting-edge treatments could cure cancer and HIV, but it was all an illusion…one that may have ended in murder. We’ll discuss season four of “Dr. Death: Bad Magic.”
Published 02/12/24
Who crashed into whom on that Utah ski slope: the optometrist or the rich movie star? We’ll talk about “Gwyneth vs. Terry: The Ski Crash Trial.”
Published 02/08/24
They’re the daughters of the most powerful man in Dubai. Why do they keep trying to escape the country - and failing? We’ll talk about the new podcast "The Runaway Princesses” from The New Yorker and "In the Dark."
Published 02/05/24
Why are indigenous men and women disappearing from the same tribal area in the Pacific Northwest? And what is being done to solve their cases? We’ll discuss the podcast The Vanishing Point.
Published 02/01/24