True Crime: 365 Days

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  MASS DEATH OF: The Jonestown 918 14.10.2026 46min

  On 18 November 1978, 918 Americans died in a single afternoon at the Peoples Temple commune in Jonestown, Guyana, after leader Jim Jones ordered followers to consume cyanide-laced liquid. No court ever heard the case, no independent forensic record has established the individual circumstances of each death, and the chain of command behind the final orders remains undocumented. The question of how many of the 918 acted under coercion, and who carried out the orders, is unresolved to this day.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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  FRAUD: Billy McFarland 13.10.2026 58min

  In April 2017, thousands of ticket-holders arrived on Great Exuma in the Bahamas to find that Fyre Festival, sold to them through a massive influencer campaign as a luxury music event, did not exist as advertised. Billy McFarland was convicted of wire fraud and sentenced to six years in federal prison, but the restitution order remains largely unpaid, local Bahamian vendors have never been made whole, and the full accounting of where the money went is still disputed. Anyone with unpaid vendor claims or investor documents related to Fyre Festival should contact the Fyre Festival bankruptcy trustee. Anonymous tips can be reported to the FBI New York field office tip line at 1-800-225-5324.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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  FRAUD: Elizabeth Holmes 12.10.2026 48min

  In 2003, Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford University and founded what would become Theranos, a Silicon Valley blood-testing company that promised revolutionary diagnostics from a single fingerstick sample. For over a decade, the company ran patient tests on an unvalidated device, raised nearly 945 million dollars from investors, and used legal pressure to silence employees who raised alarms. Holmes was convicted of investor fraud in January 2022, but the full extent of patient harm from inaccurate test results has never been publicly quantified, and the regulatory gap the company exploited remains only partially closed.If you received a Theranos blood test in Arizona or California, contact your physician to review your results. For laboratory safety concerns, contact the CMS Division of Laboratory Services at 1-800-736-2631, or FDA MedWatch at 1-800-332-1088.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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  CORPORATE COLLAPSE: Enron Corporation 11.10.2026 45min

  In December 2001, Enron Corporation, once the seventh-largest company in the United States by revenue, filed for bankruptcy in Houston, Texas, erasing billions in shareholder value and the retirement savings of approximately 20,000 employees. The collapse followed years of fraudulent accounting through special purpose entities and mark-to-market manipulation, yet the full extent of those transactions and the exact personal profits extracted from the LJM partnerships were never fully established in court. The total number of entities created, the complete list of enabling financial institutions, and the precise moment senior executives understood the structures were insolvent remain unresolved in the public record.Anyone who held Enron stock in a retirement account and wishes to review claim records may access public bankruptcy filings through PACER, the federal court electronic records system, at pacer.gov.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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  FRAUD: Charles Ponzi 10.10.2026 47min

  In 1920, Italian-born Boston promoter Charles Ponzi collected millions from investors by promising 50 percent returns in 90 days, backed by a postal coupon arbitrage scheme that was mathematically impossible at the scale he claimed. The Securities Exchange Company collapsed in August 1920, leaving an estimated 15 million dollars in investor losses and a full list of individual investors that has never been officially published or reconciled. The exact total of what was lost, and what Ponzi personally retained, remains disputed more than a century later.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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  FRAUD: Bernard Madoff 09.10.2026 45min

  In December 2008, Bernard Madoff confessed to operating the largest Ponzi scheme in financial history from inside his own Wall Street firm, defrauding thousands of investors across multiple countries of billions of dollars over decades. Despite multiple warnings submitted to regulators, the fraud went undetected for at least 17 years, and the full scope of knowing participation and the movement of all transferred funds has never been fully established. The Madoff Victim Fund, administered by the Department of Justice, continues to accept claims from eligible investors who lost funds in the scheme and can be reached at 1-800-896-7665.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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  STOLEN: View of the Sea at Scheveningen & Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen 09.10.2026 45min

  On 7 December 2002, two Van Gogh paintings were stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam through a rooftop break-in, disappearing for fourteen years before resurfacing in a Naples drug investigation in September 2016. Two men were convicted of the theft, and the man found in possession of the paintings later admitted to holding them, but the full route the canvases traveled and the identity of whoever brokered their movement between Amsterdam and Naples have never been publicly established.Anyone with information about the movement of the two paintings between 2002 and 2016 is asked to contact the Carabinieri TPC in Rome at +39 06 6920 3069, or the Dutch National Police at 0900 8844.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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  ART THEFT: Green Vault Dresden 09.10.2026 46min

  In November 2019, thieves broke into the Grünes Gewölbe museum inside the Dresden Residenzschloss and stole 21 jewelled objects from the 18th-century Saxon treasury in a meticulously planned pre-dawn raid. Five defendants were convicted in January 2024 after a plea deal led to the partial return of pieces, but several irreplaceable baroque jewels remain missing and the full extent of the operation is still unknown.Anyone with information about the location of the missing Green Vault pieces is asked to contact the LKA Sachsen at +49 351 855 0.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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  ART THEFT: The Scream 09.10.2026 44min

  In February 1994, thieves scaled the wall of the National Gallery in Oslo and removed Edvard Munch's The Scream in approximately fifty seconds; a decade later, armed men walked into the Munch Museum in broad daylight and took a second version of the painting along with Madonna. Both paintings were eventually recovered, but the identities of all accomplices in the 1994 theft remain officially unresolved, and the full account of where the stolen works were hidden for two years has never been publicly disclosed.Anyone with information about either theft or the whereabouts of the paintings between 2004 and 2006 is asked to contact Norwegian police at 02800.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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  STOLEN: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Collection 09.10.2026 45min

  On March 18, 1990, two men posing as police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and removed thirteen works of art, including a Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas pieces, in eighty-one minutes. More than thirty-five years later, no suspect has been charged, the FBI's publicly unnamed persons of interest have never been identified to the public, and all thirteen works remain unrecovered. The empty frames still hang on the museum walls, legally required to remain exactly where the paintings once did.Anyone with information about the stolen works or their current location is encouraged to contact the FBI Boston Field Office at 1-800-225-5324.To reach the Gardner Museum reward line directly, call 617-278-5114. A reward of $10 million is available for information leading to the recovery of the works in good condition.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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  ART CRIME: Mona Lisa 09.10.2026 44min

  On 21 August 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in Paris by Vincenzo Peruggia, a former contractor who had worked inside the museum itself, and the painting remained hidden for over two years before its recovery in Florence in December 1913. Peruggia was convicted, but whether he acted alone, what his true motive was, and whether an alleged commission by an Argentine con man was ever real remain unresolved questions more than a century later.Anyone with information about unresolved accomplice claims or archival material connected to the 1911 Louvre investigation is asked to contact the Carabinieri TPC (Tutela Patrimonio Culturale) at +39 06 6920 3333.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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  MISSING: Martin Krugman 09.10.2026 45min

  In December 1978, a meticulously planned armed robbery at the Lufthansa cargo terminal at JFK Airport in Queens, New York, yielded roughly 5 million dollars in cash and jewelry - and then nearly every man connected to the score was killed or disappeared within months. Decades later, no one has ever been convicted of the Lufthansa heist, the stolen money has never been recovered, and the full crew list for the morning of December 9, 1978 has never been officially established.Anyone with information about the 1978 Lufthansa heist is asked to contact the FBI New York field office at 1-212-384-1000.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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  HEIST: Brink's-Mat Gold 09.10.2026 44min

  On 26 November 1983, six armed men entered a Brink's-Mat warehouse at Heathrow and removed three tonnes of gold bullion worth approximately 26 million pounds in one of the most consequential robberies in British history. Decades later, the majority of the gold's value remains unrecovered, the full identities of all six raiders have never been confirmed in court, and several deaths linked to the proceeds remain unsolved under active Metropolitan Police review. Operation Abelard continues to examine unsolved killings connected to the financial network the robbery created.Anyone with information about unresolved deaths linked to Brink's-Mat proceeds can contact the Metropolitan Police on 0800 789 321. To give information anonymously, contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.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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  VICTIM: Jack Mills 09.10.2026 44min

  On 8 August 1963, the Glasgow to London overnight mail train was stopped at Bridego Railway Bridge in Buckinghamshire and robbed by a gang who made off with millions in used banknotes, leaving train driver Jack Mills injured and unable to return to work. Decades of investigation and prosecution never resolved who provided the original inside intelligence about the high-value load, and the man who struck Mills was never conclusively identified. Approximately 2.3 million pounds of the stolen money has never been accounted for.Anyone with documents or family accounts related to the 1963 investigation is asked to contact Buckinghamshire Police heritage unit or Thames Valley Police on 101.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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  HEIST: Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd 09.10.2026 53min

  Over Easter 2015, a gang of men in their late fifties to mid-seventies drilled through a vault wall in London's diamond district and broke into 73 safety deposit boxes, carrying out what became known as the biggest burglary in English legal history. All five main defendants pleaded guilty and were sentenced, but the majority of the stolen gems and valuables, estimated at a minimum of 14 million pounds, has never been recovered. The full value of the theft remains disputed, the whereabouts of most stolen property unknown, and the case remains open.If you have information about the whereabouts of property stolen from Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd in April 2015, please contact Crimestoppers UK anonymously at 0800 555 111.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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  HEIST: Leonardo Notarbartolo 09.10.2026 46min

  In February 2003, a crew broke into the Antwerp Diamond Centre vault in Belgium and stole an estimated $100 million in diamonds, gold and cash from at least 109 safe-deposit boxes, bypassing ten documented layers of security. Only one man, Leonardo Notarbartolo, was convicted, sentenced to five years, and the stolen goods have never been recovered. The identities of the full crew and the alleged inside organiser remain officially unconfirmed.Anyone with information about the unrecovered Antwerp diamonds should contact Belgian Federal Police at +32 2 642 74 11, or the CDGEFID diamond fraud unit in Antwerp.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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  MURDERED: The Moore Family 09.10.2026 45min

  On the night of June 9, 1912, eight people were killed with an axe inside a locked house on East Second Street in Villisca, Iowa, among them Josiah and Sarah Moore, their four children, and two young overnight guests. More than a century later, two separate trials of the same suspect both failed to produce a conviction, and the case has never been formally reopened. The question of who entered that house and why has never been answered by any court.Anyone with information about the deaths of the Moore and Stillinger families in Villisca, Iowa, is asked to contact the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office in Villisca, Iowa.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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  MURDERED: The Gruber Family 09.10.2026 45min

  On the evening of 31 March 1922, six people were killed at the remote Hinterkaifeck farm in rural Bavaria, Germany: farmer Andreas Gruber, his wife, his widowed daughter, two grandchildren and a newly arrived maid. The case was never solved, no one was ever charged, and evidence of an unknown presence sheltering in the farmhouse attic before the killings has never been explained. The identity of whoever lived in that attic, and whoever tended the farm animals for days after the murders, remains officially unknown.Anyone with family records from the Schrobenhausen area of Bavaria after 1922 is asked to contact the Bayerisches Landeskriminalamt München at +49 89 1212 0. That number again: +49 89 1212 0.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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  MURDERED: Mary Ann Nichols 09.10.2026 44min

  In the autumn of 1888, five women were killed in the Whitechapel district of London in a series of murders that remain officially unsolved after 136 years. The case became the origin of the named serial killer as a cultural phenomenon, with a press-coined name circulating before police had identified a single confirmed suspect, two police forces operating without unified command, and key evidence destroyed or never recovered. The identity of the killer, the author of the letters that named him, and the reason the murders stopped have never been established.Anyone with information relevant to authenticated physical evidence from the 1888 Whitechapel murders is encouraged to contact the Metropolitan Police Service historical case unit or the City of London Police press office.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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  MURDERED: Elizabeth "Black Dahlia" Short 09.10.2026 46min

  On January 15, 1947, the bisected and drained body of Elizabeth Short was discovered in a vacant lot in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, in one of the most forensically unusual homicides in American history. The killer mailed Short's belongings to a newspaper, more than 500 suspects were investigated across seven decades, and no one was ever charged. The primary crime scene has never been found, and whether surviving biological evidence could support modern DNA analysis remains publicly unconfirmed.Anyone with documented knowledge of the death of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles is urged to contact the LAPD Homicide Special Section at 213-486-6890.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].