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Deadly Truths

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Season 5: Kansas City’s Darkest Crimes — Heartland Homicide Deadly Truths exposes the violence, corruption, and hidden history shaping America’s cities. This season we return to Kansas City—the place I lived the longest and still consider home. From Jesse James to the Union Station Massacre, the KC Mob, and modern mysteries, we uncover the stories behind the Heartland’s darkest crimes. No myths. No filters. Step inside the Murder Factory.

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00:15:28

He Walked Free: The Mel Ignatow Case, He walked free...

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2025/11/14

Brenda Sue Schaefer was 36, kind, devout, and ready to end her relationship with Mel Ignatow — a controlling, 51-year-old real estate broker from Louisville. On September 23, 1988, she vanished.For years, Ignatow taunted investigators, manipulating the media while police searched for proof. When her body was finally found, the case still fell apart in court — and Ignatow walked free.Then, six months later, a man remodeling Ignatow’s home opened a floor vent… and found five undeveloped rolls of film

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00:20:45

The Murder of Pearl Bryan: The Headless Mystery of 1896

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2025/11/14

In 1896, the body of 22-year-old Pearl Bryan was found in a frozen Kentucky field—pregnant, murdered, and beheaded.Her killers, Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling, were educated, well-dressed medical students.Her missing head was never found.This episode uncovers Pearl’s final days, the lies that lured her into danger, the forensic trail that exposed her killers, and the explosive double execution that shocked America. We examine the rumors of satanic rituals, the courtroom chaos, and the haunting

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00:14:22

Two Trunks, One Ticket: The Butcher of Lexington...

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2025/11/14

In December 1901, two young women vanished from a Lexington boarding house. Days later, two wooden trunks arrived in Cincinnati — leaking blood.Inside were the dismembered remains of Lillian Rodin and Minnie Everly… and the calling card of a man named Claude O’Brien.He was charming, well-dressed, and deadly — a salesman who turned seduction into slaughter.His arrest and public hanging shocked Kentucky, giving birth to forensic science in the Bluegrass and inspiring one of America’s earliest urban

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00:18:48

The Harpe Brothers: America’s First Serial Killers

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2025/11/13

Before the words serial killer ever existed, the frontier already knew their kind.In the late 1790s, Micajah “Big Harpe” and Wiley “Little Harpe” roamed the Kentucky-Tennessee wilderness with three captive “wives” and a trail of mutilated bodies behind them. They didn’t kill for money or revenge — they killed because it made them feel alive.This season premiere of Deadly Truths takes you into the birth of American sadism — a land without law, mercy, or conscience.From the Revolutionary War’s ruins

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00:23:54

The Last of the Outlaws — The Forgotten Names of the...

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2025/11/11

They weren’t the legends — they were the wreckage left behind.In this Morally Bankrupt season finale, we go beyond Dillinger, Nelson, and Bonnie & Clyde to uncover the men who died forgotten: John Paul Chase, Homer Van Meter, Adam Richetti, Doc Barker, Red Hamilton, Eddie Green, and others erased by J. Edgar Hoover’s myth-making machine.They bled out in cornfields, cheap hotels, and back alleys while the FBI built its empire and Hollywood wrote its heroes.This episode strips away the headlines

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00:24:21

Creepy Karpis: The Last Public Enemy | Deadly Truths:...

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2025/11/06

He was the last man standing — calm, brilliant, and impossible to catch.Alvin “Creepy” Karpis wasn’t the romantic outlaw Hoover’s FBI wanted you to believe in.He was the strategist — the man who made the Bureau look foolish, survived Alcatraz, and taught a young Charles Manson how to play guitar.This episode of Deadly Truths: Morally Bankrupt exposes the truth behind Hoover’s staged arrest, the propaganda that buried Karpis’s legacy, and the irony of America’s final Public Enemy — a man who never

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00:30:08

The Coward and the Gun: George “Machine Gun” Kelly...

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2025/11/04

He never fired the gun that made him famous.He never wanted to be an outlaw.But his wife — and the FBI — turned him into one.In 1933, George “Machine Gun” Kelly shouted “Don’t shoot, G-men!” as federal agents surrounded a Memphis farmhouse.It was the line that built the legend — and the lie — that made J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI a national empire.In this 40-minute episode of Deadly Truths: Morally Bankrupt, Becca unravels the story of fear, ambition, and manipulation behind the myth:how Kathryn Kelly

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00:11:25

The Blast Inside the Walls — The Leavenworth...

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2025/10/31

On April 7th, 1919, a violent explosion ripped through the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth — a blast so powerful it shattered windows a mile away and left dozens of soldiers dead.The government called it an accident.The prisoners called it revenge.And more than a century later, guards still whisper that something beneath those walls remembers.In this Halloween finale, Becca unearths the haunting true story of The Blast Inside the Walls — a mix of fact, fire, and the ghosts of justice

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00:48:25

Pretty Boy Floyd: The Outlaw America Needed

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2025/10/30

He robbed banks when the banks were robbing everyone else.He burned mortgage records so families could keep their homes.And when the FBI called him Public Enemy Number One, Oklahoma called him a hero.In this episode of Deadly Truths, we uncover the rise and fall of Pretty Boy Floyd — from barefoot farm boy to Depression-era legend — and how the government’s war on crime turned a desperate man into an American myth.Was he a cold-blooded killer… or the outlaw America needed most?Some will rob you with

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00:21:53

The Mother of all Lies: Ma Barker

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2025/10/29

She wasn’t a mastermind. She was a mother — and Hoover needed a monster.Before she was a headline, she was just a woman standing in a kitchen in the Ozarks — a pot boiling, four boys yelling, and a husband running out of patience.Arizona Donnie Clark Barker — “Ma” — wasn’t born a monster. She was born poor, in a world that punished women for being anything but quiet.When the FBI raided her Florida hideout in 1935, they claimed she was the criminal mastermind behind one of America’s most dangerous

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00:30:51

The Trigger Man — Baby Face Nelson (Deadly Truths:...

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2025/10/24

He wasn’t just another outlaw — he was a storm with a gun.Lester Gillis, better known as Baby Face Nelson, wasn’t driven by fame like Dillinger or fantasy like Bonnie and Clyde. He was driven by rage.In this episode of Deadly Truths: Morally Bankrupt, we unravel the violent rise and fall of America’s most unpredictable Public Enemy — from his days under Al Capone to the bloody shootout in Barrington that left federal agents dead and the country shaken.Nelson wanted respect. What he got was

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00:22:37

The Lie We Loved: Bonnie & Clyde and the Price of...

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2025/10/23

They were young, reckless, and deadly — and America couldn’t look away.In this episode of Deadly Truths: Morally Bankrupt, Becca unravels the myth of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, the outlaw lovers who turned bloodshed into legend. From dusty backroads and stolen Fords to the FBI ambush that ended their story, this is the truth behind the glamour — the grief, the bodies, and the lies we told ourselves to make it all sound romantic.Discover how newspapers turned criminals into celebrities, how

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00:41:33

The Making of a Myth: John Dillinger and the Price of...

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2025/10/22

He was the man who made America fall in love with crime.John Dillinger didn’t just rob banks — he robbed the line between fame and infamy.In this episode, Deadly Truths unravels how a restless boy from Indianapolis became the “Gentleman Bandit,” how the media built his legend, and how J. Edgar Hoover used his death to build the FBI’s empire.From the charm to the bloodshed, from the wooden gun to the Biograph alley — this is the story of the outlaw who taught America that fame can outlive morality.⚠️

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00:12:16

Bonus: The Last Call at Leavenworth — The Gallows,...

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2025/10/18

It was tradition at the Leavenworth Penitentiary: before a man walked to the gallows, he was offered one last drink. Some refused. Some asked for whiskey. Others stayed silent.But behind that ritual lay a darker story — one about the guards who built the scaffolds, the warden who signed the orders, and the soldiers who watched death become routine.In this episode of Deadly Truths, Becca uncovers the hidden history of execution at Leavenworth — the hangmen, the condemned, and the uneasy morality that

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00:14:42

26) The Last Withdrawal: Bank Robbers and the Gallows...

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2025/10/17

They called them Public Enemies — men who robbed banks by day and captured headlines by night.But by the end of the 1930s, their hideouts had been replaced with cellblocks, and their getaway cars with wooden coffins.This is The Last Withdrawal — the true story of America’s final outlaw generation and the gallows that waited for them inside the walls of Leavenworth.The Great Depression gave birth to desperate men who became legends: John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun

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00:13:24

25) The Spy Who Went Silent” — The Execution of...

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2025/10/16

He traded his pen for a microphone — and his freedom for a cell.This is the story of Robert Henry Best, the American journalist who defected to Nazi Germany and became “Mr. Guess Who,” one of Hitler’s English-speaking propagandists.He believed he was telling the truth. Instead, he became the vice of treason.Captured by Allied troops in 1945, Best was convicted of twelve counts of treason and sentenced to life in prison at Leavenworth.His broadcasts were delusional — rants dressed up as patriotism.He

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00:17:06

24) Marcus Reno: The Man Who Survived Custer

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2025/10/15

On June 25, 1876, Major Marcus Albert Reno led part of the 7th Cavalry into the valley of the Little Bighorn River — and straight into legend.He survived what became known as Custer’s Last Stand, but instead of glory, he inherited disgrace.Branded a coward, court-martialed, and forgotten by history, Reno’s story became one of survival turned scandal.This episode explores the man behind the myth — the officer who lived through America’s most infamous defeat and spent the rest of his life trying to

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00:15:40

23) Shots on the Parade Field — William Kreutzer &...

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2025/10/15

On October 27, 1995, Sgt. William J. Kreutzer Jr. opened fire on a brigade formation during morning PT at Fort Bragg. He killed Major Stephen Mark Badger and wounded 18 fellow soldiers. This episode unpacks the events before, during, and after the shooting — from Kreutzer’s mindset to the struggle to subdue him, the trial, and the long legacy of that day.In this episode you’ll hear about:Kreutzer’s history, mental health struggles, and motivesThe sequence of the shooting — hidden in the trees,

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00:16:27

22) Robert Bales & The Kandahar Massacre — Deadly Truths

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2025/10/15

On the night of March 11, 2012, Staff Sergeant Robert Bales left his post in Kandahar and murdered 16 Afghan civilians, including children, in two villages — triggering one of the most brutal massacres by a U.S. soldier in modern history.In this episode of Deadly Truths, we explore:Who Robert Bales was — before, during, and afterThe sequence of events in the villages of Alkozai and BalandiTestimonies, investigations, and the military trial that followedThe moral, psychological, and political fallout

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00:16:34

John Brown: Bonus : The Firebrand of Kansas — Before...

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2025/10/14

Bonus Episode: Before the Civil War ever began, Kansas was already on fire.In the 1850s, one man made it his mission to end slavery — not with speeches, but with blood.This episode dives into the life and legacy of John Brown, the radical abolitionist who turned the Kansas frontier into America’s first civil war. From the Pottawatomie Massacre to the Battle of Osawatomie, Brown’s war on slavery changed the course of a nation — and set the stage for the bloodiest conflict in American history.🔥

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