File 187 True Crime Podcast

Episodios

• Blood and Soil - Episode 3 “The Money" 18.06.2026 22m

  Blood and Soil | Episode 3: "The Money" In 1984, Robert Mathews and The Order robbed a Brinks truck on a California highway and walked away with $3.6 million. The men went to prison. The money went to work. Episode 3 traces how white nationalist financing evolved from armed robbery to donor-advised funds at Fidelity and Vanguard, a Christian crowdfunding platform that raised over six million dollars for extremist causes, and privacy coins that leave no transaction record. The funding model didn't collapse. It learned. Runtime: 22 minutes. All facts sourced from federal court records, ADL and SPLC research, Chainalysis reports, and FinCEN filings. File 187 | Blood and Soil is an investigative series on domestic extremism. Written and produced by Joe McReynolds. Hosted by Dan Kewley.
• Blood and Soil - Episode 2 “The Machine" 16.04.2026 12m

  Before The Order ever acted, someone else built the blueprint. In Episode Two, we trace how white nationalist ideology separated from organization and became infrastructure , from a physics professor's West Virginia farmhouse to the private servers recruiting teenagers tonight. The compound was a prototype. What replaced it has no address.
• Blood and Soil - Episode 1: "The Declaration" 24.03.2026 22m

  Blood and Soil — Episode One: ”The Declaration” In 1983, nine men stood in a field in Idaho and swore an oath that would lead to the largest armored car robbery in American history, a political assassination, and a standoff that ended in flames. The FBI called it a victory when The Order fell — but something survived.
• Case 4: The Slavemaster 03.02.2026 39m

  Before dating apps, before social media, there was a man who hunted through a modem. John Edward Robinson known online as Slavemaster. He used contracts, kindness, and the illusion of consent to trap women seeking connection. What police found on his farm wasn’t just murder… it was an archive. This is the chilling, fully-solved true story of how trust became a weapon and how the internet learned its first hard lesson.
• Case 3: The Widow-maker. Merry Xmas 24.12.2025 26m

  A few days after Christmas, a quiet Midwestern town wakes up to a nightmare. A wife is found dead. A husband calls 911 in panic. And a friend steps forward… smiling. What follows is a true crime story so twisted it feels scripted  but every word is real. The Widowmaker is the chilling case of Pam Hupp, a woman who didn’t look like a monster, didn’t act like a killer, and didn’t run when the blood was spilled. Instead, she stayed close. She testified. She lied. And for years, she got away with it. This episode of File 187 peels back the layers of deception, wrongful conviction, and calculated murder  revealing how the justice system failed, how an innocent man lost years of his life, and how a killer nearly walked free by hiding in plain sight. This isn’t just a true crime podcast. It’s cinema for your mind.    Put the lights down.  Sit back.  And maybe don’t trust the friend offering you a ride home. File 187: The Widowmaker Executive Producer: Joe McReynolds Narrated by Dan Kewley    
• Case 2: Satan’s Carnival - A Halloween True Crime Event 29.10.2025 26m

  File 187: Satan’s Carnival peels back the panic, the headlines, and the faith-fueled fear that gripped a Midwestern town convinced the Devil came to visit on Halloween week. A traveling carnival rolls into the quiet farm town of Auburn, Indiana lights, music, and strangers promising a weekend of fun. By the time the Ferris wheel stops turning, a young waitress has vanished, and what’s left behind in a muddy field looks more like a ritual than a robbery.    
• Case 1: Buried in God’s Country 20.09.2025 44m

  In God’s Country Two women vanish on the backroads of rural Oklahoma — a place where church steeples pierce the sky and secrets fester in the soil. What begins as a simple trip to pick up children spirals into a nightmare of cult ties, family betrayals, and a community bound by silence. In God’s Country unravels the haunting story of faith turned weapon, where loyalty is tested, lives are shattered, and the truth hides in plain sight.