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  The Night Seven Planes Should Have Fallen - How They Almost Succeeded 17.09.2026 19мин

  The Night Seven Planes Should Have Fallen - How They Almost SucceededA single internet café search in Walthamstow nearly set a synchronized window for seven transatlantic flights to be destroyed, risking roughly two thousand lives over open ocean. What stopped the plot was ordinary-looking shopping - and a discarded carrier bag - but how such everyday items became the linchpin of mass murder is the question that drives this episode.In this episode, we follow the surveillance and intelligence that tracked a small network in 2006 and reveal the moment ordinary behavior became evidence of an aviation plot; could a bottle bought at a corner shop really be the world’s most dangerous bomb?Date: August 6, 2006Person: Ahmed Ali KhanLocation: Walthamstow, east LondonOperation: Operation OvertController: Rashid Rauf- Ahmed Ali Khan, age 25, logged flight schedules for seven transatlantic routes from an internet café on August 6, 2006.- Investigators estimated the target window could have killed roughly 2,000 people if all seven planes were downed simultaneously.- Operation Overt began in early 2006 with 28 surveillance teams and 8-14 officers per shift monitoring suspects.- Surveillance found a discarded carrier bag in Lloyd Park containing hollowed-out batteries linked to bomb construction.- Codified communication included the message "the bat and the bottles are ready, only need the juice now," indicating final assembly using hydrogen peroxide-based materials.To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected].
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  She Faked Dying - How Six Men Gave Her £250,000 16.09.2026 17мин

  She Faked Dying - How Six Men Gave Her £250,000She told a different man she was dying and within weeks they handed over hundreds or tens of thousands of pounds; across two years six victims lost a total of £250,000 while she kept inventing stories and identities. What made ordinary people hand over their lives to a woman who seemed plain, vulnerable and in a hurry?In this episode, we follow the timeline of Emma Go Lightly’s deceptions, from her first online marriage to multiple simultaneous identities, and ask why so many men waited months or never reported the betrayals. How did small, believable details-pills, fake ceremonies, a ringing “PA”-become enough to convince them she was real?Person: Emma Go LightlyDate of arrest: January 2006Birth year: 1984Total taken: £250,000Duration of fraud: two years- Married Chris Williams seven months after meeting him online in May 2004.- Chris Williams spent £17,000 on the marriage and aftermath; a £12,000 cheque she gave him bounced.- Spent £5,000 on Andrew Norris’s card within a single month.- Charged approximately £88,000 to Stephen Bell’s credit card over less than a year.- Posed as "Dr Taylor Go Lightly" at Nuffield Hospital, while the hospital confirmed no record of her on staff.To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected].
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  She Baked Cookies While Burying Them: Inside 1426 F Street 15.09.2026 22мин

  She Baked Cookies While Burying Them: Inside 1426 F StreetThe backyard of 1426 F Street hid seven bodies beneath neat mounds of fresh soil while the housekeeper baked cookies for officers and collected tenants' Social Security checks. This episode follows the discovery that began November 11, 1988 - but how could a woman trusted by social workers conceal multiple murders in plain sight?In this episode, we tell how a welfare check led detectives into a Victorian rooming house with a historic landmark status, the moment a detective unearthed a human femur, and the questions about decades of abuse and forgery that followed. Could the house’s ordinary appearance and Dorothea Puente’s careful routines have masked a calculated pattern of killings?Address: 1426 F StreetDate: November 11, 1988Person: Dorothea PuenteVictims recovered: 7 bodiesEarlier conviction: forging tenants' benefit checks (released 1985)- The first bone recovered was a human femur pulled from the backyard by Detective John Cabrera.- Seven bodies were recovered from the garden after three days of excavation following the November 11, 1988 discovery.- Dorothea Puente had been released from the California Women's Institution at Chowchilla in 1985 and returned to run the boarding house.- Everson Gilmouth, aged 77, was the first confirmed victim found outside the property, his body discovered in a handmade wooden box along the Sacramento River.- Ruth Monroe, aged 61, died in April 1982 and had been ruled a suicide before later scrutiny linked her to Puente.To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected].
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  He Drank Blood at Twelve - Krakow's Bayonet-Boy of Terror 14.09.2026 21мин

  He Drank Blood at Twelve - Krakow's Bayonet-Boy of TerrorBeneath Krakow's ancient stones, a string of silent, precise attacks left women wounded and dead, and the city sewing metal plates into coats. A boy who drank slaughterhouse blood at twelve wore a German bayonet at seventeen - who was this boy and why did he choose his victims?In this episode, we tell the story of the attacks that began in late September 1964 in Krakow, the background of Carol Kot, the changes to daily life in the city, and the forensic observations that hinted at a practiced hand; can a seemingly ordinary seventeen-year-old hold such calculated violence?Person: Carol KotDate of birth: 18 December 1946Location: Krakow, PolandPeriod: September 1964Witness account: "a young boy, today."- He drank a cup of slaughterhouse blood at age 12 in front of slaughterhouse workers.- The first attack on 21 September 1964 struck Helena, age 48, between the shoulder blades while she stood in a church.- Francesca, age 78, was struck two days later as she entered an apartment building and suffered a spinal wound that left her unable to walk properly.- Maria, age 86, was attacked eight days after the first incident, suffered a fatal wound near a convent, and told a nun "a young boy, today" before dying.- By 1964 women in Krakow sewed metal balls and iron plates into the backs of their coats to protect against rear attacks.To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected].
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  He Heard the Dead - Then Stole Their Lives 13.09.2026 19мин

  He Heard the Dead - Then Stole Their LivesThe car parked by the canal bore the plate PSYCHIC, and the man who drove it told grieving widows he could hear their dead husbands - then rewrote their wills and emptied their accounts. How did one charismatic reader turn bedside comfort into legal control and cash theft from the very people he claimed to help?In this episode, we follow the timeline of Paul Williams from his cottage beside a Staffordshire canal to the Tolbert Hotel readings and into the hospital room where he presented himself as a son. We trace the cases of Irene Hixson and Gerard Rowley and ask how social trust, a forged war story, and legal access combined to take what had been left for funerals and homes.Person: Paul WilliamsLocation: Staffordshire, English West MidlandsDate: 1997-2003Case: Irene Hixson and Gerard (Gerald) RowleyEvent: Will signed 12 February 1999; Irene Hixson died 22 December 2000- Paul Williams was 39 years old in 1997 and lived in a lock keeper's cottage beside a canal with a car plate reading PSYCHIC.- Irene Hixson signed a will at Williams's personal solicitor’s office on 12 February 1999 leaving the greater part of her estate to Paul Williams.- Irene Hixson died on 22 December 2000, approximately two years after first attending Williams’s sessions.- Gerard Rowley, aged 82 and nearly blind from cataracts, had £6,500 saved in the Tipton Building Society earmarked for his funeral.- Williams added his name as joint holder on Rowley’s bank account, withdrew £2,900 in cash, and forged three cheques totaling £3,591, emptying the account.To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected].
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  The Mother Who Smiled: Confessions Behind the Hospital Door 12.09.2026 19мин

  The Mother Who Smiled: Confessions Behind the Hospital DoorA red car crawled into McKenzie-Willamette Hospital on May 19, 1983, carrying a mother who laughed and three children each shot - one dead, two gravely wounded. Forensic evidence in the vehicle and Christie's courtroom testimony would contradict Diane Downs's "stranger" story; how did her carefully wrapped wound and the blood patterns point to a different truth?In this episode, we recount the timeline from Old Mohawk Road to the hospital and through the trial, laying out the physical evidence, witness reactions, and Diane Downs's history that framed motive and opportunity - and we return to the question that haunted the case: did Diane act alone or was someone else involved?Person: Diane DownsDate: May 19, 1983Location: McKenzie-Willamette Hospital, Springfield, OregonVictims: Cheryl (7, deceased), Christie (8, survived with stroke), Danny (3, survived)Sentence: Life in prison plus fifty years- Diane Downs was 27 on the night of the shootings and drove a red Nissan with Arizona plates into the hospital at about ten miles per hour.- First responders found Diane's left-arm gunshot wound already wrapped in a pre-made bandage taken from the trunk.- Forensic examiner Jim Pex documented a bloodstain on the passenger door edge running from outside inward and micro-droplets one to two millimeters across consistent with a close-range shot from inside the vehicle.- Christie, age eight, testified at trial: "My mom did it," and described the sequence, positions, and the gun used.- On June 17, 1984, a jury convicted Diane of Cheryl's murder and the attempted murder of Christie and Danny; she was sentenced ten days before giving birth to a daughter placed for adoption.To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected].
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  The Name That Killed London: How "Jack" Was Invented 11.09.2026 20мин

  The Name That Killed London: How "Jack" Was InventedA single invented name turned a city into a hunting ground - newspapers coined "Jack" and a metropolis that already counted some lives as less than nothing consumed itself in fear. Two women were dead within eight days, then two more in an hour, and the man who may never have existed walked free through streets packed at 800 people per acre; who profited from naming the killer?In this episode, we tell the story of the events, laws, and lives that set the stage for those murders, following the lives of the victims and the social forces that amplified a name into terror. How did a journalist’s word, a crowded slum, and a law meant to protect combine to create one of history’s most infamous labels?Person: Maryanne Nichols (Polly)Person: Annie Eliza Smith ChapmanDate: August 31, 1888 (Polly left pub just after midnight; found before dawn)Date: September 7, 1888 (Annie turned out of lodging before 2 a.m.)Location: Buck's Row (where Polly's body was found)Density: 800 people per acre (Dorset Street cluster)- Parliament passed the Criminal Law Amendment Act in 1885, which forced many sex workers onto the street.- London overall averaged roughly 50 people per acre while Whitechapel ran at 175 people per acre.- Polly Nichols was turned away from Wilmot's lodging house on Thrawl Street before her last walk.- Polly Nichols had five children and left her husband in March 1880 at age 34 after maintenance was canceled in 1882.- Annie Chapman was 47, penniless, suffering tuberculosis, and was turned out of Crossingham's Lodging House just before 2 a.m. on the night she disappeared.To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected].
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  He Wore His Real Name While Stealing Millions - The Professor Ghost 10.09.2026 20мин

  He Wore His Real Name While Stealing Millions - The Professor GhostThe thought of a con man who uses his real name draws a quieter, colder dread: Robert Hyams walked into Christie's in February 2002 with a forged bank document for up to £5,000,000 and still signed every lease, check, and court paper with his own name-so why did he keep daring people to trust him? What drove a University of Warwick-trained scientist to repeat frauds across countries for fifteen years while never hiding who he was?In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from his 1990 bankruptcy through the Christie's scandal, showing the methods, arrests, and courtroom moments that define Hyams's career in deception; we close on the question of whether his crimes were about money or something else he couldn't stop doing.Person: Robert HyamsDate of birth: 13 May 1954Education: Master's degree from the University of WarwickEvent: Christie's auction fraud, February 2002Court: Southwark Crown Court judgment, 20 January 2006- Hyams presented a forged bank document claiming spending authority of up to £5,000,000 at Christie's in February 2002.- His daughter won six paintings worth over £1,000,000 at the Christie's auction on his behalf.- On 20 January 2006 a judge said Hyams appeared to have "almost a compulsion to deceive people" after he pleaded guilty to 10 charges and asked the court to consider 77 additional offenses.- Between 1990 and 2005 Hyams committed repeated frauds across multiple countries, with arrests and prison sentences during that period.- In approximately 1992 Hyams was convicted on 19 counts of deception, sentenced to four years (reduced to one year on appeal), involving £236,000 taken from a farming community.To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected].
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  The Man Who Hid in Plain Sight: How a Truck Painter Became a Monster 09.09.2026 21мин

  The Man Who Hid in Plain Sight: How a Truck Painter Became a MonsterA single swab of dried saliva sat in an evidence envelope for fourteen years before a 2001 test turned it into the most damning piece of evidence in Washington State history; meanwhile, the man it named kept painting trucks in Renton, married to his third wife and going to church every Sunday. How did fifty people die and the answer sit in a lab drawer while he lived a routine life under everyone’s radar?In this episode, we trace the chronology of the Green River killings, the slow failures of early investigations, and the moments that let a killer remain unremarked for decades - asking whether procedural gaps or plain invisibility allowed him to continue. Will the evidence recovered from 1987 finally explain why so many opportunities to stop him were missed?Person: Gary RidgwayDate collected: 1987Date of breakthrough test: 2001Location: Renton, Washington; Pacific Highway South; Green RiverConfirmed deaths by end of 1982: 11- A gauze swab of dried saliva was collected in 1987 and tested two or three times inconclusively before 2001.- In 2001, a new testing method turned that single swab into decisive evidence in Washington State history.- Gary Ridgway was born in 1949 in Salt Lake City and worked as a truck painter at the Kenworth plant in Renton.- On July 15, 1982, children found a 16-year-old sex worker’s body near Frager Road; she had been dead about one week.- By the end of 1982, the Green River Task Force had recovered victims two to three times per week and confirmed 11 deaths.To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected].
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  He Showed Her a Passport - Then Stole Half a Million Pounds 08.09.2026 17мин

  He Showed Her a Passport - Then Stole Half a Million PoundsShe produced a valid British passport unprompted on their first date and the man across from her used it to convince her he was who he claimed - a charmed Dr. Alexander de Arriken with a laminated identity. That single gesture led Christine Handy to lose £500,000, her home, and three years of her life; how did a fabricated identity include an apparently official passport?In this episode, we follow the timeline from the first morning coffee in a Cheltenham cafeteria to the wine-bar date when the passport appeared, tracing the payments, the parallel life he maintained, and the unanswered question of where that passport came from - could it have been manufactured, stolen, or obtained another way?Person: Christine HandyPerson: Mark Hatton (also used names Dr. Alexander Mark Alphonsus Nathanael de Rothschild Arakan Hatton, Alexander de Arriken)Location: CheltenhamDate: June 23, 2003Sentence: 18 years (Crown Court)- Christine transferred £75,000 in December 2003 for what he said was London Business School tuition.- Christine owned a house valued at £500,000 before the fraud.- Mark Hatton was living simultaneously with another woman in Cirencester while courting Christine.- The other woman’s daughter was 13 years old when Hatton moved in with them.- The passport with the long aristocratic name was produced unprompted on the first proper date at a wine bar downstairs in Cheltenham.To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected].
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  The Man Who Answered the Door: The Silence Behind the Plants 07.09.2026 18мин

  The Man Who Answered the Door: The Silence Behind the PlantsA stranger claimed he was simply watering the plants while a dead man's car sat in the driveway, an explanation that froze Greg Seal and set off a homicide built almost entirely on absences. Routine details - five days of newspapers, a missing duvet, rugs pushed aside - became the only clues to a deliberate erasure; who left a thumbprint and bare-foot blood impressions at the sink, and why did no one act sooner?In this episode, we follow the timeline from Harley Walker's last normal Thanksgiving Monday through the terse Friday the thirteenth email and the first, underwhelming police response, to the moment detectives discover cleaned surfaces, hidden blood, and the small disruptions that revealed a larger violence; can the gaps in a life point to the person who took it?Person: Harley WalkerAge: 72Location: Cabbagetown, TorontoDate of email sent: Friday the thirteenthDetective: Pauline Gray- Harley's car was parked in the driveway the day Greg Seal went to the house.- Five days of newspapers had accumulated on Harley's front step.- An email from Harley's address requested immediate liquidation of his entire investment portfolio.- A thumbprint belonging to the man who answered the door was found inside the house.- Hemoglobin reagent revealed bare-foot blood footprints at the kitchen sink.To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected].
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  The Forensic Phantom: How a Fake Expert Ruined 700 Cases 06.09.2026 20мин

  The Forensic Phantom: How a Fake Expert Ruined 700 CasesThe idea that a courtroom can be deceived for decades is chilling: a man billed public funds at professional rates, presented fake PhD and BSc diplomas, and influenced roughly seven hundred criminal cases across England. How did a manufactured laboratory, purchased degrees from Rochville University, and an FBI-style sign go unquestioned for twenty-six years - and what happens to the people whose fates rested on his testimony?In this episode, we tell the story of Gene Morrison’s long career as a self-styled forensic expert, the small moments that allowed him to thrive in courtrooms, and the single prison phone call that triggered an investigation. What failures in verification and professional trust let this continue until 2004?Person: Gene MorrisonOrganization: Criminal and Forensic Investigation Bureau (CIB)Credential source: Rochville University diplomasYears active: 1977-2004 (approximately 27 years)Public funds received (2002-2005): at least £250,000- Morrison appeared as an expert witness in approximately 700 cases.- He received at least £250,000 of public funds between 2002 and 2005.- Morrison began presenting himself as a forensic investigator in 1977.- He subcontracted CCTV analysis to a retired filmmaker for £50 and invoiced £2,800.- The operation was exposed after a staff member at Strangeways Prison reported a suspicious phone call in 2004.To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected].
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  The Night a Bite Mark Sent Ted Bundy to Death Row 05.09.2026 20мин

  The Night a Bite Mark Sent Ted Bundy to Death RowFear tightened inside a locked sorority house where four women were attacked in fifteen minutes; three survived, two died, and the only physical evidence that ultimately put Theodore Bundy on death row was a bite mark smaller than a silver dollar pressed into the skin of a twenty-year-old victim. How did a single dental impression-rather than a fingerprint or an eyewitness photo-become the case-closer after years of missed chances?In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events across four years and seven states that led to Bundy’s capture and conviction, focusing on the bite-mark evidence, the sheriff who had to petition court to inspect a suspect’s mouth, and the moments when the investigation could have ended earlier. What does a single piece of forensics reveal about a case built over thirty confessed murders and repeated failures by authorities?Person: Theodore Robert BundyDate of birth: November 24, 1946Victim: Lisa, age 20Duration of attacks in sorority: 15 minutesConfessions: 30 murders across 7 states- Four women were attacked inside a locked sorority house over a fifteen-minute period.- The only physical evidence tying Bundy to that crime was a double bite mark on the body of a twenty-year-old woman named Lisa.- Bundy was born at the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers in Burlington, Vermont on November 24, 1946.- He escaped from a Colorado jail by jumping from a law library window and was recaptured six days later.- In 1976 Bundy was convicted of Carol’s aggravated kidnapping and assault, not murder, and later identified in a 1975 lineup by Carol after she escaped a mall abduction.To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected].
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  He Decided to Kill on New Year's - Hunting the Gay Slayer 04.09.2026 19мин

  He Decided to Kill on New Year's - Hunting the Gay SlayerThe first call to The Sun said there was a body in a Battersea flat and asked, almost casually, if someone could check on the dogs - a domestic afterthought that followed a man who had planned a murder down to how he'd clean the scene. Five men were found dead across London in just over three months while three separate police teams never compared notes; what drove a 38-year-old to resolve on January 1, 1993, that he would become a serial killer and hunt within a trusting subculture?In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the New Year’s resolution through the killings in March-June 1993, following the killer’s methods, the staged scenes, and the police response - and ask how a pattern that should have been visible remained invisible until it was almost too late.Person: Colin IrelandDate: January 1, 1993 (decision) and March 10, 1993 (first discovery)Location: Battersea; Colehern Arms, Old Brompton Road, Earl's Court; Willstone; West KensingtonCase: Five men killed across London in just over three monthsStatus: Investigated by three separate Metropolitan Police teams with no cross-comparison- Colin Ireland resolved to become a serial killer on January 1, 1993, at age 38.- Peter Walker, 45, was suffocated and staged with two teddy bears; his body was found March 10, 1993.- Christopher Dunn, 37, was found strangled in his North London flat on May 30, 1993, labeled as a "possible accidental perverse act."- Perry Bradley III, 35, an American visitor, was strangled on June 7, 1993, with no defensive injuries and likely killed while asleep.- Ireland used gloves, cleaned surfaces, and disposed of murder weapons by dropping them from a moving train into a river.To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected].
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  The Man Who Lived in Sealed Furniture: Fraud, Spells, Betrayal 03.09.2026 19мин

  The Man Who Lived in Sealed Furniture: Fraud, Spells, BetrayalA house stacked with unopened plasma TVs and designer clothes became the stage for a confidence trick that stole nearly half a million pounds; the conman could never spell the single word that defined his fake life - barrister - without leaving out the second r. What did a wrapped sofa and a misspelled profession hide about how he fooled people so completely?In this episode, we tell the story of Stephen Clenshaw, from earlier convictions to the rented five-bedroom house in Sutton Coldfield, the train meeting that began the deception, and the trial that ended it; how did his small lies become a life built on other people's losses?Person: Stephen ClenshawLocation: Sutton Coldfield, West MidlandsDate of arrest: 29 April 2008Total estimated fraud: £470,000Sentence: 5 years' imprisonment- Police found plasma televisions still sealed in their boxes and designer clothing wrapped in plastic across four bedrooms.- Clenshaw had defrauded an estimated £470,000 by the time of his arrest.- More than £250,000 of the stolen money went to online gambling and an extravagant lifestyle.- He was charged with 12 counts of dishonesty and changed his plea to guilty on the morning of his Crown Court trial in January 2009.- Clenshaw had two prior fraud convictions, one in 1995 and another in 2005, before the 2007-2008 offences.To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected].
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  The 13-Year-Old Con Man Who Built a Citywide Fraud Empire 02.09.2026 20мин

  The 13-Year-Old Con Man Who Built a Citywide Fraud EmpireThe image of a child at a keyboard hiding tens of thousands of pounds in bank accounts is unnerving: by age thirteen James Blake Cameron had registered companies, rented London offices, hired staff and taken payments for goods that never arrived. How did a boy inherit £16,000, spend it on books about criminology and business, and turn grief into a blueprint for serial fraud before anyone stopped him?In this episode, we follow the documented timeline of Cameron's schemes from July 2004 through 2005, detailing the businesses he ran, the sums moved, the arrests and the brazen continuation of fraud after release under investigation. What allowed him to keep scaling the operation even after police intervention?Person: James Blake CameronDate of birth: 1990Location: West LondonEvent: Website selling plasma televisions launched in July 2004Status: Arrested January 2005 and released under investigation- He inherited approximately £16,000 at age eleven after his mother's death.- He launched a website selling plasma televisions in July 2004 at age thirteen.- Tens of thousands of pounds were paid into several bank accounts he opened himself.- He owed his first landlord approximately £8,000 when he disappeared from rented London offices.- He spent roughly £20,000 on national newspaper advertisements for Dyson vacuum cleaners in December 2004.To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected].
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  The Night Two Women Died: Jack the Ripper's Unsolved Shadow 01.09.2026 20мин

  The Night Two Women Died: Jack the Ripper's Unsolved ShadowA street vendor found a body at 1:00 a.m. and a patrolman found another at 1:45 a.m. on September 30, 1888 - two women killed ninety minutes and less than a mile apart across different police jurisdictions. How did a killer cross a hard boundary between the Metropolitan Police and the City of London Police and vanish without trial or name?In this episode, we follow the events of that night and the lives behind the headlines, from Louis Diemschutz lighting a match in Dutfield's Yard to PC Edward Watkins finding Catherine Eddowes in Mitre Square, and consider what those facts meant for the investigation and the women themselves. What does the split jurisdiction tell us about why no arrest was ever made?Person: Louis DiemschutzDate: September 30, 1888Location: Dutfield's Yard; Mitre SquarePerson: Elizabeth StridePerson: Catherine Eddowes- Louis Diemschutz found Elizabeth Stride at 1:00 a.m. in Dutfield's Yard after his horse stopped completely.- PC Edward Watkins discovered Catherine Eddowes at 1:45 a.m. in Mitre Square during his fifteenth patrol sweep.- Elizabeth Stride's throat was cut with a knife described in the examination as very blunt and lacked extensive mutilations.- Catherine Eddowes had extensive injuries including removal of a kidney and was not identified for five days.- Dutfield's Yard was under the Metropolitan Police while Mitre Square was under the City of London Police, two separate forces with no obligation to coordinate.To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected].
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  The Phone Number on Her Palm: How Dawn's Ink Unmasked a Killer 31.08.2026 17мин

  The Phone Number on Her Palm: How Dawn's Ink Unmasked a KillerCold ink on skin survived Maine winter, then nearly erased by March frost-investigators had to remove skin to read the phone number that finally gave her a name. A seventeen-year-old carried one contact as her only safety net while hitchhiking toward a missing friend-how did that smudged number turn an anonymous body into Dawn Marie Birnbaum, and almost let a killer go free?In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the night Dawn left her residential program through the discovery of her body and the forensic work that identified her. We follow where she was, who she spoke to, and the single piece of ink that connected her to the life she’d been building-will that tiny mark answer who took her life?Person: Dawn Marie BirnbaumAge: 17Date found: March 24, 1993Last confirmed call: March 22, 1993 at 10:00 AM to Mandy GrayLocation found: entrance ramp near Bellefonte, Pennsylvania- Dawn wrote her counselor Mark Rosenberg’s phone number on the inside of her left palm at Dysart's Truck Stop in Bangor, Maine.- A fuel receipt places truck driver James Robert Cruz Jr. at Dysart's the same morning, approximately 15 feet from where Dawn made her calls.- Dawn was less than four months from graduating a residential program for at-risk youth in Poland Springs, Maine.- John Hoffpower, a friend Dawn was searching for, had disappeared in September 1992 after his car was found in Mississippi with multiple bullet holes.- The mortician Stephen Mondock gave the unidentified body the working name "Spring Dawn" when she arrived at the morgue.To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected].
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  The Last Words: 'Mother Ships Ready' - Eileen's Final Claim 30.08.2026 18мин

  The Last Words: 'Mother Ships Ready' - Eileen's Final ClaimOn the morning of October 9, 2002, minutes before her execution, Eileen Wuornos told witnesses through the glass that "the mother ships were ready to launch" and that she would be back - not as a threat, but as a fact. Seven men were dead and six death sentences had been handed down when the woman who confessed to all of it chose those as her final words; what did she mean?In this episode, we tell the life story and crimes of Eileen Wuornos from her childhood in Rochester, Michigan through the string of homicides along Florida highways, and we trace how a pattern of abuse, early arrests, and transient living led to seven deaths and a final, cryptic statement - what could explain those last words?Person: Eileen WuornosDate of execution: October 9, 2002Birth date: February 29, 1956First known murder series start: November 1989Number of victims mentioned: Seven- Eileen was born on February 29, 1956, in Rochester, Michigan.- At age four in March 1960 she was handed to and adopted by her maternal grandparents.- At sixteen she hitchhiked over 1,000 miles west to Colorado and shortly after was arrested for DUI and illegal discharge of a .22-caliber firearm.- In 1976, at age 20, she married Lewis Gratz Fell, age 69; the marriage lasted weeks and he filed for annulment and a restraining order after she beat him with his cane.- The bodies connected to her began appearing in November 1989, including Richard Mallory found in late November shot four times and David Spears found in May 1990 shot six times.To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected].
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  The Gentleman Thief: How He Vanished with a €16,000 Rolex 29.08.2026 19мин

  The Gentleman Thief: How He Vanished with a €16,000 RolexHe walked into a five-star Dublin hotel wearing a novelty t-shirt and, seventy-five minutes later, left with a Rolex worth sixteen thousand euros and a falsified American passport already bearing his photograph. The passport shows he had pulled the same con many times before-so how did a man wanted by Interpol keep slipping out of custody and disappearing into plain sight?In this episode, we follow the sequence of thefts, false identities, arrests and escapes that tracked Juan Carlos Guzmán Betancourt from Miami to London to Dublin, and we ask what allowed him to repeatedly vanish after high-profile robberies. Could the same pattern explain where he planned to go next?Person: Juan Carlos Guzmán BetancourtDate: June 16, 2005Location: Dublin five-star hotelStatus: Wanted by Interpol at time of Dublin theftEvent: Theft of a Rolex worth sixteen thousand euros- He walked into the hotel on June 16, 2005, wearing a t-shirt that said "Save water. drink beer."- He had been released from a British prison ten days earlier after serving part of a three-and-a-half-year sentence.- By 2001 he stole more than fifty thousand pounds across multiple London hotels in a single month.- In 2003 he allegedly stole two hundred thousand pounds in cash and jewelry from two Las Vegas hotels.- Police found multiple false IDs and passports, thousands of pounds in various currencies, and stolen high-value clothing and watches in his 2004 arrest.To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected].