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Deadly Truths

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Deadly Truths exposes the crimes, cover-ups, and institutional failures buried in American history. From forgotten murders and cold cases to Hollywood myths, mob violence, and frontier bloodshed—this is true crime without glamor. Archival facts. Hard questions. No fiction. Because the past isn’t dead—it’s just been rewritten.

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00:32:53

Paul John Knowles: The Casanova Killer’s Interstate...

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2026/03/14

He was handsome, mobile, and easy to underestimate. But behind the charm was one of the most chaotic and far-ranging killing sprees in America. In this episode of Interstate: Highly Deadly, Becca traces how Paul John Knowles used highways, stolen cars, false identities, and jurisdiction gaps to move across state lines and leave devastation behind him. This is the story of a predator who turned the open road into a weapon.Call to actionFollow Deadly Truths with Becca on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and

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00:24:47

The Happy Face Killer: Keith Hunter Jesperson and...

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2026/03/13

Keith Hunter Jesperson looked ordinary enough to keep moving. But behind that ordinary surface was a man who used America’s highways, roadside corridors, and transient spaces as cover for murder.In this episode of Interstate: Highly Deadly, we examine the known victims of the man later labeled the Happy Face Killer, starting with Taunja Bennett and moving through the women whose lives were taken across multiple states: Cynthia Lyn Rose, Laurie Ann Pentland, Patricia Skiple, Suzanne Kjellenberg, and

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00:19:57

Joe Naso: The Alphabet Killer | Interstate: Highly...

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2026/03/11

In this sound-improved re-release bonus episode of Interstate: Highly Deadly, we examine the disturbing case of Joe Naso, often called the Alphabet Killer — a man who lived a double life as a traveling salesman and photographer while investigators later tied him to a series of murders.This episode explores the road-based nature of his movements, the unsettling overlap between mobility, anonymity, and predation, and the chilling question at the center of so many highway crime stories: how does

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00:31:48

The Redhead Murders, the I-70 Killer, and America’s...

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2026/03/11

America built millions of miles of highway to move people, connect towns, and promise freedom. But for some killers, the road became something else entirely: cover.In this episode of Deadly Truths with Becca, we examine two of the most haunting patterns in American true crime: the so-called Redhead Murders—a loose cluster of murdered and unidentified women found near highways in the 1970s and 1980s—and the still-unsolved case of the I-70 Killer, who moved through small stores along the interstate in

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00:18:39

The Great Basin Jane Does: Unidentified Victims Found...

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2026/03/10

Across the empty desert highways of Nevada, a disturbing pattern has emerged over the decades — unidentified women found along Interstate 80 in the Great Basin, their names lost but their stories still waiting to be told.These victims are known only as Jane Does.In this episode of Interstate: Highly Deadly, we examine the cases of the Great Basin Jane Does, women whose remains were discovered along one of America’s longest highways. Many investigators believe these victims may be connected to

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00:01:02

Interstate: Highly Deadly | America’s Highways,...

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2026/03/09

We built the interstate system to connect America. But for some killers, those same roads became the perfect hunting ground.In this new season of Deadly Truths with Becca, Interstate: Highly Deadly investigates the murders, disappearances, predator patterns, and forgotten victims tied to America’s highways. From long-haul truck routes to roadside dump sites, from isolated exits to cases that crossed state lines before law enforcement could catch up, this season follows the blood trail left behind on

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00:28:25

The Truck Stop Killer: Robert Ben Rhoades and...

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2026/03/09

In 1990, an Arizona state trooper made what appeared to be a routine traffic stop along Interstate 10. Inside the sleeper compartment of a long-haul semi-truck, he found a woman alive — bound and chained to the cab.The driver was Robert Ben Rhoades.Over the next several years, investigators linked Rhoades to the murders of Lisa Stasi, Regina Walters, and Ricky Lee Jones. Evidence recovered from his truck — including photographs and logbooks — exposed how mobility, state lines, and fragmented

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00:30:19

Natalie Wood’s Mysterious Death: Accident, Argument,...

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2026/03/04

In November 1981, Hollywood icon Natalie Wood drowned off Catalina Island during a Thanksgiving weekend aboard her yacht, the Splendour. Present that night were her husband, Robert Wagner, co-star Christopher Walken, and the yacht’s captain.The original ruling: accidental drowning.Decades later, the case was reopened. The cause of death was amended to “drowning and other undetermined factors.” Robert Wagner was later named a person of interest — but no charges have ever been filed.So what actually

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00:45:23

George Remus and the Eden Park Murder: The Bootlegger...

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2026/03/02

During the height of Prohibition, George Remus wasn’t just a bootlegger — he was one of the richest and most powerful liquor traffickers in America. Operating out of Cincinnati along the Ohio–Kentucky corridor, he built a whiskey empire worth millions while bribing officials and manipulating the law.But the real scandal wasn’t just his criminal enterprise.It was what happened in Eden Park in 1927 — when Remus shot and killed his wife, Imogene, in broad daylight after believing she had betrayed him

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00:41:23

The Demon of the Belfry | San Francisco’s Church...

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2026/02/24

In 1895, San Francisco was a city of fog, faith, and reputation. Inside the walls of a respected church, that illusion shattered.He was educated. Religious. Trusted. A young medical student who volunteered in the congregation. And yet, beneath the sanctuary’s quiet order, two women would be lured, assaulted, and murdered — their bodies hidden in the belfry of the very place meant to symbolize safety.The press would call him “The Demon of the Belfry.”In this episode of Dead City, we examine the

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00:24:55

The Bloody Benders of Kansas: America’s First Serial...

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2026/02/23

Before fingerprinting.Before national manhunts.Before modern policing.A family built a roadside inn along the Osage Trail in southeastern Kansas — about three hours south of Kansas City — and turned it into a killing chamber.They sat travelers at the head of the table.Struck from behind a curtain.Dropped bodies through a trapdoor.Buried them in an apple orchard.At least ten victims were uncovered in 1873.The killers were never officially caught.In this episode of The Frontier Is Dead, we examine

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00:23:02

Theodore Durrant, 1895 Church Murders, Demon of the...

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2026/02/19

In April 1895, two young women walked into a San Francisco church — and never walked back out.Blanche Lamont was found hidden in the belfry of Emmanuel Baptist Church. Days later, Minnie Williams was discovered concealed inside the same building.At the center of it all was Theodore Durrant — a Sunday school teacher, choir member, and medical student, the press would later call The Demon of the Belfry.In this episode of Dead City: San Francisco, we examine the timeline, the psychological profile, the

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00:23:05

The Servant Girl Annihilator | Dead City: Austin

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2026/02/18

In the winter of 1884, something began moving through the dark streets of Austin, Texas.Women were attacked in their beds. Doors splintered. Skulls crushed. Bodies dragged into the yard before dawn. The first victims were Black domestic workers sleeping in servant quarters behind wealthy homes. The city barely reacted.Then the violence escalated.In just over a year, between 1884 and 1885, eight women were brutally attacked. Seven died. The killer was never identified. No confession. No arrest that

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00:14:51

The Whyos: New York’s First Murder-For-Hire Gang |...

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2026/02/16

Before the Mafia.Before organized crime wore tailored suits.There were the Whyos.In the late 1800s, New York’s Five Points neighborhood was ruled by a violent Irish street gang known for selling brutality by the job. Beatings. Retaliation. Murder. Their reputation was so notorious that newspapers claimed they even had a price list.But the Whyos weren’t masterminds building empires. They were products of poverty, humiliation, overcrowding, and a city that treated immigrant neighborhoods as

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00:20:33

Monk Eastman: The Gang King New York Erased | Dead City

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2026/02/15

Before organized crime wore tailored suits and answered to syndicates, New York’s streets were ruled by brute force.Monk Eastman controlled large swaths of the Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century. His gang enforced protection rackets, operated gambling dens, and served as muscle for Tammany Hall’s political machine. But as crime became more structured and less theatrical, Eastman’s brand of visible violence became a liability.In this episode of Dead City: New York, we examine the

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00:37:25

Lizzie Borden: The House That Never Gave an Answer |...

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2026/02/14

On a suffocating August morning in 1892, two people were killed inside a locked house in Fall River, Massachusetts.No forced entry.No robbery.No confession.The only suspect was their daughter, Lizzie Borden — a churchgoing, unmarried woman who stood to inherit her father’s fortune. She was arrested, tried, and acquitted.But acquittal is not the same as certainty.In this episode of Dead State: Massachusetts, we examine the pressure inside the Borden household — inheritance tension, Victorian gender

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00:19:53

Helen Jewett and America’s First Media Murder | Dead...

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2026/02/12

In 1836, the brutal murder of Helen Jewett shocked New York City—and changed how crime was covered in America forever.Jewett was found killed inside a boarding house, struck with a hatchet and left in a deliberately set fire. Suspicion quickly centered on Richard Robinson, a young, educated man known to her. The evidence appeared strong. The outcome did not.As newspapers competed for readers, the case unfolded in real time, transforming private violence into public spectacle. The trial exposed how

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00:30:31

William “Bill the Butcher” Poole: Political Violence...

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2026/02/11

Before the Mafia learned how to hide violence inside systems, American cities practiced it in public.This episode examines the life and death of William “Bill the Butcher” Poole, a figure often mythologized by film but rarely understood for what he truly was: a political enforcer whose brutality was tolerated — even celebrated — because it aligned with power.Poole’s murder was not a random gang killing. It was a public political act. His influence shaped street warfare between the Bowery Boys and

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00:26:47

Five Points Murders: The Killing of the Dead Rabbits...

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2026/02/09

In the mid-1800s, New York called it a riot.The newspapers called it disorder.But what happened in Five Points was something far more deliberate.This episode of Deadly Truths with Becca reexamines the Dead Rabbits—not as the violent gang popular culture remembers, but as a group of young Irish immigrants who became targets in a city that had already decided their lives were expendable.Through a cinematic retelling of murder, the 1857 Dead Rabbits Riot, and the political forces that shaped Five

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00:19:06

Why Hollywood Feared Black Female Desire | Dorothy...

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2026/02/07

🔥 Black desire was never the problem — visibility was.Hollywood likes to sell itself as progressive, but for decades it enforced an unspoken rule: Black women could be admired, but they could not be openly desired without consequence.This episode examines how that line was drawn — and defended — through the lives of Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, and Eartha Kitt.From the Production Code and Southern box office pressure to white male sexual panic and containment-by-design, this isn’t a story about

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