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Fresh Hell Podcast

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Two women, from opposite sides of the Atlantic, talk about murder, mystery and the macabre. This is your award winning, international true crime podcast, hosted by Annie and Johanna.

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E324: The Great Molasses Flood (part II)

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2026/04/10

This week we’re in January of 1919, in Boston’s North End. People are still recovering from the First World War and the 1918 flu, the area is packed with people, noise, and a molasses tank that never should have been there in the first place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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E323: MACABRE - The Great Molasses Flood (part I)

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2026/04/03

When we first started Fresh Hell, people kept asking us to cover the Boston Molasses Flood. So…here we are. And because Annie researched this one, we’re not taking the direct route.Part 1 is less about the disaster itself and more about everything that led up to it, because as always...none of this happened in a vacuum. We’re in Boston’s North End, one of the oldest and most crowded neighborhoods in the city, and we’re going way back. Fires, smallpox, the Salem witch trials, rum, slavery,

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E322: Friedrich Zawrel (part IV)

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2026/03/27

After everything he survived as a child at Spiegelgrund, Friedrich ends up back in prison in the 1970s, where he is sent for a psychiatric evaluation. It's hard to believe what would happen next!This is the part of the story where things don’t resolve neatly, and where the idea of justice becomes complicated, delayed, and in many ways incomplete. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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E321: Friedrich Zawrel (part III)

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2026/03/20

In Part 3 of Friedrich Zawrel’s story, we follow him through detention, sentencing, and a harrowing journey along the Danube as the Third Reich falls apart in its final weeks.After multiple escape attempts, Friedrich is arrested again...this time landing in the Nazi youth justice system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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E320: Friedrich Zawrel (part II)

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2026/03/13

In Part 2 of Friedrich Zawrel’s story, we meet the doctors of Spiegelgrund.Dr. Ernst Illing and Dr. Heinrich Gross were psychiatrists working inside Vienna’s infamous children’s institution during the Nazi period. Under the banner of “racial hygiene,” they helped run a system that targeted children considered disabled, difficult, or socially undesirable. In this episode we look at their backgrounds, their roles within the Nazi medical system, and how ordinary medical careers became intertwined

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E319: Friedrich Zawrel (part I)

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2026/03/06

Friedrich Zawrel grew up in Vienna during the Third Reich. As a child, he was labeled “difficult” and “unmanageable” by the authorities. That was enough to place him inside the Nazi welfare and psychiatric system...a system that decided which children were worth keeping alive.In this episode, we look at Friedrich’s early life and how he ended up at Spiegelgrund, the children’s ward in Vienna where hundreds of young patients were imprisoned, abused, and murdered as part of the Nazi “child

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E318: The Children of Spiegelgrund

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2026/02/27

Vienna, 1940. On the hills above the city stood a children’s psychiatric institution called Am Spiegelgrund. Officially it was a place for treatment, observation, and care. In reality though, it became part of the Nazi system that classified vulnerable children as “unfit,” subjected them to medical abuse, and in hundreds of cases sent them to their deaths.This episode focuses on the historical background: how a modern medical system was abused as mechanism for sorting, controlling, and ultimately

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E317: The Campden Wonder

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2026/02/20

In 1660, a respected estate steward left the English market town of Chipping Campden to collect rent and never came home. His bloodstained belongings were soon found by the roadside, and suspicion quickly fell on his servant, John Perry. What followed was a chain of confessions, accusations, arrests, and a trial that ended in execution.There was only one problem....Nearly two years later, the supposedly murdered man walked back into town alive. BUT...where had he been?! ampden Wonder, William

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E316: MACABRE - Say What?!

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2026/02/13

Why do we casually reference pillories, hunger, or medieval tally sticks while talking about our week?In this episode, we’re digging into the origins of everyday German and English sayings, specifically the ones we use without thinking about what we’re actually saying. From “spill the beans” to „die Katze im Sack kaufen“... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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E315: Friedrich II. - The Great Escape (part III)

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2026/02/06

In Part 3, we follow Friedrich after Küstrin. This episode looks at what Friedrich became once he held absolute power: the military strategist, the administrator, the enlightened absolutist who read philosophy while sending tens of thousands to their deaths. We talk about Sanssouci as a deliberate retreat, his devotion to animals over people, his refusal of intimacy, and the contradictions that defined his reign. It’s the story of a man who learned how to rule by never again allowing himself to

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E314: Friedrich II. - The Great Escape (part II)

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2026/01/30

After being arrested and imprisoned at Küstrin, Friedrich is stripped of rank, freedom, and is forced into isolation, surveillance, and humiliation, while the fate of his closest friend, Hans Hermann von Katte, hangs over everything.Friedrich knows exactly what’s at stake. He’s seen how this ends for other crown princes. Only a few years earlier, Peter the Great had imprisoned, tortured, and executed his own son. Will he face the same fate? Friedrich der Große, Frederick the Great, Crown Prince

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E313: Friedrich II. - The Great Escape (part I)

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2026/01/23

Friedrich II of Prussia is remembered as “the Great.”But before he became the most famous Prussian king, he tried to run!In this first part of a two-episode series, we go back to the beginning: to Friedrich II von Preußen’s childhood under the rule of his father, the so-called Soldier King. We talk about Prussia before it was shaped into a European super power, a court ruled by discipline and fear, and a father whose effectiveness as a ruler did not necessarily make him a great dad. Also: if you

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E312: MACABRE - Edith Kadivez

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2026/01/16

In 1920s Vienna, a woman calling herself Baroness Cadvé ran what appeared to be a private language school for children. Behind the polite advertisements and the respectable address in the city center was something much darker.This episode tells the story of Edith Kadivec, the woman at the center of the 1924 Vienna "Sadist Trial,” in which she was accused of abusing children for the sexual gratification of wealthy and powerful clients. The case exposed not just one abusive teacher, but a whole

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E311: MYSTERY - My Cousin Vanished

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2026/01/09

If you want to watch Henry's wonderful documentary, you can find the English version here:https://www.henryhauck.de/en-us and the German version here: https://www.henryhauck.de/de In this episode we speak with filmmaker Henry Hauck, a cousin of one of the "Missing Children of Pirmasens", a series of missing person cases from the 1960s, that have never been resolved and continue to haunt the town to this day. Decades later, Henry chose to confront this history by making a documentary, not

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Fresh Hell presents: Our True Crime Podcast -Murder...

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2026/01/05

Today we’re sharing an episode from our friends at Our True Crime Podcast, covering the deeply troubling murder of Michelle McNeill.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Special: Best of Fresh Hell (Vol.4)

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2026/01/02

We’re back to bridge the space between the holidays and the return of brand-new episodes.This volume revisits the 1904 murder of Lucie Berlin in a rapidly modernizing Berlin, the still-unsolved killing of Peggy Andrews in Columbus, Ohio, and the controversial 1902 murder of Bertha Schippan in rural South Australia. If you want the full versions, with expanded background, investigative detail, and all the frustrating unanswered questions: they’re waiting for you in our back catalogue. Learn more

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Special: Best of Fresh Hell (Vol.3)

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2025/12/26

While we take a holiday break, we’re bringing you Best Of, Vol. 3: a condensed revisit to three cases from the Fresh Hell archives.This episode features the disappearance of the three lighthouse keepers on Eilean Mòr, the chilling crimes of Viennese con man and serial killer Hugo Schenk, and the Victorian-era murder of Anna Evans Skeeters in Bermuda. If you want the full versions, with all the background, forensic detail, and inevitable side tangents, you can find them in our back

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E310: The Minneapolis Christmas Bombing

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2025/12/19

On December 24th 1996, in Minneapolis, a series of escalating disturbances unfolded across the city, leading to an explosion during the city’s Christmas celebrations. What began as isolated incidents at shopping centers and local businesses quickly revealed themselves to be connected, linked by the same individuals. Jingle Bells Calm by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source:

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E309: MYSTERY - Ruth Wilson

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2025/12/12

In November 1995, 16-year-old Ruth Wilson vanished after leaving her home in Surrey. She didn't go to school as planned though. Instead she ordered some flowers, and took a taxi to a quiet rural lane near Box Hill. Then...she disappeared without a trace. Thirty years later, her family and investigators are still searching for answers. Was Ruth planning to run away? Did she meet someone that day? And why did she choose that isolated spot? In this episode, Annie and Johanna take a closer look at

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E308: MURDER - Hawley Harvey Crippen (part IV)

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2025/12/05

In the final part of our Dr. Crippen series, we’re heading into the Old Bailey for one of the most sensational trials in Edwardian history. We’ll walk you through the courtroom, the personalities, the evidence, the theatrics, the “Saul Goodman–before-Saul-Goodman” defense strategy, and the moment the jury returned in just twenty-seven minutes.Part 4 brings the story to its end… or at least as close to an end as this case has ever gotten. Because more than a century later, Crippen’s guilt is still

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