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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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00:25:22

Bugsy Siegel: The Gangster Behind Las Vegas and His...

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2025/12/15

Bugsy Siegel helped change Las Vegas — but not in the way history usually tells it.In this episode of Deadly Truths, we strip away the Hollywood mythology and examine Bugsy Siegel through a psychological lens: his volatility, ego-driven violence, treatment of women, and why the very traits that made him powerful also made him expendable.This is not a story about glamour or genius.It’s a case study in emotional dysregulation, narcissistic entitlement, and how organized crime ultimately destroys the

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00:29:02

Meyer Lansky: The Mob’s Invisible Architect and...

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2025/12/15

Meyer Lansky is often called the mob’s accountant—but that undersells what he really was.Lansky didn’t build his power with street violence or flashy brutality. He built it with math, patience, and ruthless calculation. While others pulled triggers, Lansky moved money, engineered gambling empires, and quietly shaped the financial backbone of American organized crime.In this episode of Deadly Truths, we strip away the myths and look at Lansky through a psychological lens:his emotional detachment,

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00:40:06

Dutch Schultz: Paranoia, Power, and the Gangster Who...

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2025/12/13

Dutch Schultz is usually remembered as a brutal Prohibition-era gangster.This episode tells a different story.In Dutch Schultz: Paranoia, Power, and the Gangster Who Lost Control, Becca examines how violence, fear, and psychological dysregulation turned one of the most feared men in New York into a liability even the mob couldn’t tolerate.This is not a bootlegging highlight reel.It’s a deep dive into:Schultz’s upbringing and environmentHow Prohibition amplified his worst traitsWhen his violence

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00:45:27

Lucky Luciano: The Mob Boss Who Invented Modern...

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2025/12/07

Lucky Luciano: The Mob Boss Who Invented Modern Organized CrimeLucky Luciano didn’t just survive the Mafia — he rebuilt it.From the night he was beaten, stabbed, and left for dead on a Coney Island beach… to the murders of Joe Masseria (mah-SAIR-ee-uh) and Salvatore Maranzano (mah-rahn-ZAH-no)… to creating the Commission and secretly working with U.S. Naval Intelligence during WWII — Luciano shaped the American underworld more than any other figure in history.In this episode, I walk you through

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00:45:24

The Disappearance of Nick Spero: Inside Kansas City’s...

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2025/12/06

In May 1973, Kansas City mob associate Nick Spero walked out of his home and vanished. No body was ever recovered. No one was ever charged. And inside the Kansas City underworld, everyone immediately understood what had happened.This episode dives into the internal mob tensions that led to Spero’s disappearance, the power struggle between the Spero brothers and the Civella crime family, and the silent, efficient method the mafia used to eliminate one of their own. No spectacle. No headlines. Just a

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00:37:16

The Assassination of Leon Jordan: Kansas City’s...

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2025/12/06

On July 15, 1970, Missouri State Representative Leon Mercer Jordan was gunned down outside his own bar, the Green Duck Tavern. His murder was fast, professional, and executed with the precision of a contract killing. For decades, the case sat in silence—until a cold-case investigation uncovered the names of the likely gunmen, all tied to Kansas City’s criminal underworld.This episode breaks down the final hours of Leon Jordan’s life, the political power he built, the enemies he made, and the tangled

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00:21:58

1880s Frontier Murders in Clay County: The Hillyard...

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2025/12/06

Bones on the Prairie: Frontier Murders dives into two chilling, true 1880s Missouri–Kansas borderland cases: the Hillyard Double Murder and the Clay County Corpse Mystery. Both crimes emerged from the same frontier era when isolation, post–Civil War tensions, and primitive investigations shaped how violence unfolded — and why so many murders stayed unsolved.Through original archival reporting, regional history, and an unflinching look at frontier justice, we explore how these victims lived, how they

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00:30:30

The 1950 Kansas City Double Mob Murder: Binaggio &...

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2025/12/05

On April 6, 1950, two of Kansas City’s most powerful men—political boss Charles Binaggio and mob enforcer Charles “Mad Dog” Gargotta—were found executed inside the First Ward Democratic Club.No witnesses.No suspects.No charges.This episode uncovers the documented facts behind the murders, the political machine that protected them, and how their deaths reshaped the Kansas City mob for the next 50 years. From high-level Mafia pressure to federal investigations and the fallout of the Kefauver hearings,

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00:21:21

Unsolved KC: The 1915 Boice Mystery and the 1933...

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2025/12/03

Two Kansas City socialites. Eighteen years apart.Both dead under circumstances the city never fully explained.In this episode of Deadly Truths, Becca uncovers the parallel tragedies of Mary Virginia Boice, the 24-year-old society woman found dead in a locked hotel room at the Savoy in 1915, and Bonnie Bolding Hester, the wealthy widow discovered strangled inside her upscale home in 1933.Both cases triggered headlines, scandal whispers, and carefully managed investigations that revealed more about

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00:32:32

The Assassination of Mob Boss Johnny Lazia (1934):...

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2025/12/03

Johnny Lazia wasn’t just a gangster — he was KansasCity. Political fixer, mob kingpin, and the man behind Tom Pendergast’s muscle, Lazia controlled bootlegging, gambling, bombings, and election fraud across the city.On July 10, 1934, his reign ended in a burst of machine-gunfire outside St. Joseph’s Hospital. The hit shocked the city, the newspapers exploded, and the fallout exposed one of the deepest criminal-political networks in American history.In this episode, we break down Lazia’s rise, his

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00:44:21

The I-70 Serial Killer: Inside America’s Most Elusive...

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2025/11/29

He walked into quiet shops off America’s interstate… and killed in under ninety seconds.Between 1992 and 1994, the unidentified I-70 Serial Killer murdered clerks in Kansas, Missouri, Indiana, and beyond — striking in broad daylight, vanishing onto the interstate within minutes, and leaving one of the most chilling cold cases in American history.In this episode, we break down:• The confirmed victims across the I-70 corridor• Why Kansas City became part of his hunting ground• Behavioral profile and

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00:41:45

The Kansas City Butcher — Inside the Crimes of Bob...

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2025/11/28

This is Deadly Truths with Becca.Today we’re going straight into one of the most disturbing cases in Kansas City history — a predator who hid in plain sight, manipulated the vulnerable, and turned an unassuming neighborhood house into a torture chamber. This episode breaks down who Bob Berdella really was, how he blended into KC’s flea-market culture, how he selected victims, and the methods he documented in chilling detail.We cover his early life, the Art Institute years, the expulsions, the

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00:24:17

The Kansas City Two Trunks Murder (1890s) — A...

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2025/11/23

The Kansas City Two Trunks Murder is one of the Midwest’s most chilling forgotten cases—a woman dismembered, packed into two cheaply made trunks, and shipped through Union Depot in the 1890s. This is not the Kentucky trunk murder. This is Kansas City’s own nightmare, buried in the archives and nearly erased by time.In this episode, we uncover the victim’s life, the killer hiding in the same boarding house, and the investigation that chased him across the rail lines.None of the shock. All of the

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00:41:11

The Kansas City Massacre: Machine Guns, Mobsters, and...

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2025/11/19

On June 17, 1933, a burst of gunfire outside Union Station changed American law enforcement forever. The Kansas City Massacre wasn’t just a botched prisoner transfer — it was a deadly collision of mobsters, machine guns, and corruption that exposed how unprepared the FBI truly was.In this episode of Deadly Truths, we break down the ambush minute-by-minute: the gunmen, the escape attempt, the political cover-ups, and how four men died on the concrete before the sun even came up. We dive into the

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00:30:55

The Assassination of Jesse James: Betrayal in the...

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2025/11/17

Jesse James didn’t die in a gunfight or on horseback.He died unarmed, dusting a picture frame in a rented house while the Ford brothers aimed a pistol at the back of his head.This premiere episode of Season 5: Kansas City’s Darkest Crimes — Heartland Homicide cuts through the Hollywood myth and exposes the real Jesse James: a violent outlaw, a master manipulator of the press, and a man trapped by the legend he created.We break down his early years as a Confederate guerrilla, the real crimes of the

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00:23:19

The Bardstown Murders: The Town That Became a Crime...

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2025/11/15

Between 2013 and 2016, the quiet bourbon town of Bardstown, Kentucky became the center of one of America’s most disturbing clusters of unsolved cases. A police officer ambushed. A mother and teenage daughter brutally murdered. A young mother of five who vanished without a trace. And the father who was shot and killed while searching for her.In this season finale, we break down every major case:• Officer Jason Ellis (2013) — executed on the Bluegrass Parkway• Kathy & Samantha Netherland (2014) —

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00:36:34

The Murder of Shanda Sharer: The Brutal Truth Behind...

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2025/11/15

Twelve-year-old Shanda Sharer thought she was sneaking out to see a friend. Instead, she was walking straight into one of the most brutal and disturbing crimes in American history.In this episode, we break down the real story behind the 1992 murder of Shanda Sharer—jealousy, manipulation, group psychology, and a night of escalating violence led by four teenage girls who crossed every line of humanity. From the abduction to the torture, the fire, the aftermath, and the shocking decisions made in

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00:32:37

The Bluegrass Conspiracy: Corrupt Cops, Cocaine...

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2025/11/15

The Bluegrass Conspiracy is one of the wildest true-crime stories to ever come out of Kentucky — a sprawling network of corrupt cops, wealthy insiders, drug-running pilots, political protection, and a smuggling pipeline that stretched from Lexington to Colombia. At the center of it all was former narcotics officer Andrew Thornton II, a man who went from badge to trafficker, flying low-altitude cocaine runs through the Appalachian mountains… until he fell out of the sky wearing night-vision goggles,

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00:25:38

The Murder of Marion Miley: Kentucky’s Golf Prodigy...

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2025/11/15

Marion Miley was one of the brightest stars in American golf — a 25-year-old prodigy with national titles, international attention, and a future the sports world was already predicting. But in the early hours of September 28th, 1941, everything ended in a violent burst of gunfire inside the Lexington Country Club.In this episode, we uncover the full story:• Marion’s rise as one of golf’s most promising female athletes• Her final night inside the clubhouse apartment• The break-in by three desperate

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00:19:49

The Rowan County War: Kentucky’s Bloodiest Feud

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2025/11/14

Kentucky has seen violence, but nothing like what hit Rowan County in the 1880s.This wasn’t a feud — it was a war.In this episode, we uncover the brutal story of The Rowan County War, a three-year bloodbath that turned the quiet town of Morehead into a battlefield. What began as a political dispute exploded into public executions, ambushes, burned homes, and open-street shootouts, all led by the ruthless Craig Tolliver and his armed clan.You’ll hear how a single Election Day killing lit the fuse…

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