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Anatomy of Crime

True Crime Podcast

Every crime has a story. But beneath that story lies a complex organism of motive, method, and madness. Welcome to Anatomy of Crime, the podcast that methodically dissects true crime cases to understand not just what happened, but precisely how and why. In each episode, we place a new case under the microscope. We deconstruct the investigation from the first 911 call to the final arrest. We analyze the critical forensic evidence that turned the tide. We explore the psychological profile of the

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00:39:55

EP106 - The Happy Land Fire: A Dollar's Worth of Rage

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2025/07/13

In March 1990, a vibrant social club in the Bronx became a tomb for 87 people. This wasn't the work of a criminal syndicate or a terrorist, but of a spurned lover with a dollar's worth of gasoline. We dissect how a simple, bitter argument escalated into one of the deadliest acts of arson in American history.

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00:42:45

EP105 - Ayotzinapa: Anatomy of a Disappearance...

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2025/07/10

On a dark night in Iguala, Mexico, 43 student teachers vanished without a trace after a confrontation with local police. The government offered a swift and simple story of cartel violence, but the truth was far more terrifying. This is a story about the anatomy of a crime where the state itself was the perpetrator, and a lie was built to hide a massacre.

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00:39:02

EP104 - Utøya's Shadow: Dissecting the Mind of a...

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2025/07/07

On a tranquil summer day, a meticulously planned terror attack plunged Norway into darkness, leaving behind a nation in mourning and a world in shock. This episode dissects the chilling anatomy of Anders Behring Breivik's dual assaults, tracing his path from a solitary life to a self-proclaimed crusader, and examining the complex legal and psychological battle to define the very nature of his evil.

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00:41:20

EP103 - The Commission: Anatomy of a Guillotine

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2025/07/04

In the glittering heart of New York City, an invisible government ruled with impunity, its power absolute and its crimes legendary. This is the story of the landmark Mafia Commission Trial, dissecting the audacious legal strategy that aimed not just to convict a few mobsters, but to decapitate the entire leadership of the American Mafia in one fell swoop.

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00:44:24

EP102 - Dealey Plaza: The Anatomy of a Wound That...

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2025/07/01

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not just a crime; it's a national trauma with a fiercely contested narrative. This episode dissects the investigation itself—the flawed forensics, the impossible physics of the "magic bullet," and the official story so riddled with doubt it created the conspiracy theories that haunt us to this day.

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00:40:22

EP101 - Leopold and Loeb: The Anatomy of the...

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2025/06/28

In 1924 Chicago, two brilliant, wealthy college students set out to commit the perfect murder, not for revenge or greed, but for the intellectual thrill. Their victim was a 14-year-old boy, and their undoing was a single, tiny piece of evidence. This is the story of a crime that tested the very limits of morality and the legendary legal battle that questioned the nature of justice itself.

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00:37:45

EP100 - The Shadow of the Blitz: Anatomy of the...

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2025/06/25

In the pitch-black streets of wartime London, a new terror emerged, one that didn't fall from the sky. As the city huddled in fear of the Blitz, a predator known as the Blackout Ripper used the cover of darkness to commit a series of horrific crimes. This is the story of the man who turned London's greatest defense into his most terrifying weapon, and the landmark forensic investigation that hunted him in the dark.

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00:41:18

EP99 - Han van Meegeren and the Anatomy of a Vengeful...

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2025/06/22

In the ashes of World War II, a Dutch artist faces a charge of treason for selling a national treasure to the Nazis. To save his own life, he must confess to an even more audacious crime and prove to the world that its most celebrated new masterpiece is a lie. This is the story of a perfect forgery, an epic act of revenge, and the swindle that fooled an empire.

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00:36:43

EP98 - The Golden Grandson and the Billionaire's Loan

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2025/06/19

In 1973, the grandson of the world's richest man is snatched from the streets of Rome, sparking a brutal five-month ordeal. But when the kidnappers demand a multi-million dollar ransom, the patriarch, J. Paul Getty, refuses to pay. This is the story of a kidnapping that became a gruesome negotiation, where a boy's life was weighed against a fortune, and a severed ear was sent to prove a point.

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EP97 - The Salvation Salads of Rajneeshpuram

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2025/06/16

In 1984, a mysterious illness swept through a small Oregon town, sickening over 750 people and baffling the CDC. The cause wasn't a natural outbreak; it was a deliberate act of terror, a rehearsal orchestrated by a Rolls-Royce-driving guru and his followers to seize political power, one contaminated salad bar at a time.

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EP96 - The Terrible Winter: Charles Starkweather and...

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2025/06/13

In the winter of 1958, a nineteen-year-old garbageman and his fourteen-year-old girlfriend embarked on a killing spree that terrorized Nebraska and shocked the nation. This episode dissects the anatomy of that rampage, exploring the nihilistic rage of Charles Starkweather and wrestling with the still-debated question: was Caril Ann Fugate a terrified hostage or a willing killer?

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EP95 - Hillsborough: The Anatomy of a Thirty-Year Lie

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2025/06/10

On a sunlit afternoon in 1989, a historic football stadium became a tomb for ninety-seven men, women, and children. The horror of the crush was only the beginning, sparking a decades-long war between bereaved families and a powerful establishment determined to blame the dead. This is the story of how a national tragedy was twisted into a national lie, and the relentless fight for the truth.

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EP94 - Robert Hanssen and the Hollowness of the Gray...

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2025/06/07

For two decades, a mole deep within the FBI methodically dismantled American counterintelligence, leading to the executions of agents and the compromise of the nation’s most sensitive secrets. The traitor wasn't a shadowy outsider, but one of their own: a devout Catholic, a father of six, and a senior agent hunting for the very spy he was. This is the story of Robert Hanssen, and the anatomy of a betrayal from the inside out.

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00:38:53

EP93 - The Valentine Killings: Anatomy of a Gangland...

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2025/06/04

On February 14, 1929, seven men were lined up against a garage wall in Chicago and executed in a storm of machine-gun fire. This is the story of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, a crime so meticulously planned and brutally efficient that it transformed the war on the Mob and cemented the legend of Al Capone. We dissect the cold, corporate anatomy of the perfect gangland hit.

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EP92 - The Narborough Murders: Colin Pitchfork and...

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2025/06/01

In the quiet English countryside of the 1980s, two teenage girls are brutally murdered three years apart, leaving police with no leads. The investigation would trigger the single greatest leap in forensic science, exonerating an innocent man and creating a genetic trap to catch a killer living in plain sight. This is the story of how a scientific breakthrough, born in a university lab, forever changed the anatomy of crime itself.

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EP91 - The People v. The Videotape: Anatomy of the...

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2025/05/29

A grainy home video captures the brutal beating of a man by police, creating what seems to be an open-and-shut case. But when the trial is moved and the evidence is reframed, a series of shocking acquittals ignites one of the most destructive riots in American history. This is the anatomy of a verdict that set a city on fire.

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EP90 - The Boy in the Box: Anatomy of a Stolen Name

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2025/05/26

For sixty-five years, he was America's Unknown Child, a young boy found dead in a cardboard box in a Philadelphia woods. This is the story of the decades-long investigation, the haunting theories, and the revolutionary science that finally uncovered the anatomy of a stolen identity and gave the boy his name back: Joseph Augustus Zarelli.

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EP89 - The Anatomy of a Catalyst: Gavrilo Princip's...

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2025/05/23

On a sunny June morning in Sarajevo, a stalled car and a despondent young assassin converge in a moment of terrible chance. We dissect the anatomy of a catalyst: the single crime that set in motion the intricate machinery of alliances and plunged the world into the catastrophic First World War.

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EP88 - The Enterprise: Anatomy of a Shadow Government

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2025/05/20

When Congress outlawed aid to Nicaraguan rebels, a secret cabal within the Reagan White House took matters into their own hands. This is the story of how a scheme to trade arms for hostages with Iran morphed into an off-the-books foreign policy operation, funded by illegal profits and run from the shadows, creating a constitutional crisis that questioned the very nature of presidential power.

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EP87 - The Quiet Room: Charles Cullen and the Anatomy...

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2025/05/17

For sixteen years, nurse Charles Cullen moved from hospital to hospital, leaving a trail of dead patients in his wake. This is the story of how a man, seen by many as a quiet and competent caregiver, became America's most prolific serial killer, and how the very institutions meant to protect life enabled his reign of terror. We dissect the anatomy of a medical murderer, where the deadliest instrument was not a scalpel, but a syringe and a system of silence.

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