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Youâre free falling towards the ground at 120mph, and below you all you can see is an expanse of open wilderness. What are you going to do? Had you not listened to this ShortHand, youâd most likely panic and die. Luckily for you though, weâve decided to give you a comprehensive (without assuming any legal responsibility) guide to what to do if you find yourself in a spot of bother.
From the best way to hit the ground to finding your way back to civilization, this is the ShortHand.
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They say money canât buy happinessâŠ
And that certainly proved true in 1972, when Tony Baekeland â heir to the Bakelite plastic dynasty â plunged a knife into his mother Barbaraâs heart in their London penthouse.
But behind the lurid headlines lay a trail of dysfunctional family secrets, taboo mother-son incest and twisted DIY conversion therapy: all washed down by a toxic cocktail of wealth and excess.
And after being released from Broadmoor Hospital, Tony would strike again...
Was this poor little rich boy mad, bad, or a victim of something much darker?
Inspiring the 2008 film Savage Grace starring Julianne Moore and Eddie Redmayne, this is the most shocking true story youâve probably never heard of.
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From crypto scams to âdiet teaâ, intellectual property fraud and everything in between, clan Kardashian has set the blueprint for turning followers and influence into cold, hard cash.
This is the run down on how Kim, Kylie, Kris and the rest of the gang have put their fame to work â and how a small âcommunity churchâ in Los Angeles allows them to keep their finances well behind closed doors...
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If someone told you they could read your mind, levitate, walk through walls, or make your heart explode in your chest, youâd probably either say they were crazy or wait to hear the punchline, and youâd be right to do so.But for over 30 years, the US government spent tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money attempting to create psychic super soldiers of the future, with all those skills and more. This is the ShortHand on Jim Channon and the First Earth Battalion.
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When Omar Mateen stepped into Orlandoâs Pulse nightclub and fired into the crowd, 10 years ago this week, it was the start of three hours of unimaginable terror for the cityâs gay community. The Islamic State claimed responsibility. The FBI rushed to explain it. The media searched for answers.
But as investigators uncovered Mateenâs history, the picture only got more complicated. There were zero clear ties to any terrorist groups. And then, reports emerged that he had been a regular at the club, flirting and dancing with patrons, going back years. Whatever the 2016 Pulse attack was â devastating, senseless, heartbreaking, profound â it was not simple.
On the 10th anniversary of the Pulse shooting, Hannah and Suruthi revisit the tragedy, and ask what really drove one of the deadliest attacks in modern American history.
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Back in 1483, two young princes mysteriously vanished from the Tower of LondonâŠ
And more than 500 years later, weâre still arguing about what happened to them.Were Edward V and his little brother Richard murdered on the orders of their dastardly uncle, Richard III? Or did they secretly survive â becoming pretenders to the throne amid the bloody War of the Roses?
From Tudor propaganda to academic skulduggery, weâre digging up one of Britainâs greatest unsolved mysteries.
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Netflix's new drama 'The Witness' and documentary 'The Murder of Rachel Nickell' have brought Rachel Nickell's case back into public attention. For the true story behind the murder that rocked the UK, we've resurfaced our episode from February 2023.
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Rachel Nickellâs brutalised body was found on Wimbledon Common with her two-year-old son Alex wiping her bloodied face and begging her to 'wake up'. The nature of the broad daylight attack and the horrific injuries put enormous pressure on the Met to get the case solved and fast. However, none of that justifies the shoddy police work, cut corners, and tunnel vision that allowed serial rapist Robert Napper to go unchecked for years.
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The 1994 excavation of curious buried ruins in southeastern Turkey might have chucked a big rock through the window of archaeological history â shattering everything we thought we knew about our ancient ancestors.
With its intricate carvings, and towering megaliths built long before the wheel or even written language, Göbekli Tepe could rewrite the story of civilisation. But who built it? And why? Join us on a journey into the distant past as we attempt to find out.
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Two chainsaws and a paddling pool; a very public relationship; along with a litany of texts and Discord messages, all pointing to one thing: David âD4vdâ Burke killed Celeste Rivas Hernandez. In the eyes of the public, it was that simple.
And yet, it took prosecutors seven months to arrest and charge Burke with Celeste Hernandezâs death, even after her body was found decomposing in his car. Why?
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Naked, clutching the telephone receiver, and with a stomach full of prescription meds, Marilyn Monroe was pronounced dead at 4:25am on the 5th of August 1962.
Today, a century after her birth, the iconic âblonde bombshellâ is still one of the most famous people who has ever lived. She epitomised Hollywood: the fame, the fortune, and the chaos. Rumours placed her in bed with two Kennedys â and under surveillance from the FBI and CIA. Marilyn Monroe was the tainted American Dream.
Could someone so special really have died from something as simple as an overdose?
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The KKK are the OG far-right trolls: one of the most evil groups in US history, and the best-known purveyors of white racism in the United States.
They have been responsible for countless deaths and acts of discrimination â but where did it all begin? And what do wizards and dragons have to do with it? This is the ShortHand.
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Dismembered and stuffed into the âfrunkâ of David âD4vdâ Burkeâs Tesla: 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez's body was found more than four months after she visited the up-and-coming singerâs house in the Hollywood Hills. Immediately, the story exploded across the internet.
Burke had always maintained that heâd only met Celeste once, and that he didnât know that she was underage. However, Burkeâs fanbase knew all too well that this wasnât the truth.
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Shot and killed in front of a crowd of terrified onlookers, Harambe, a western lowland gorilla, will go down in history. His death â seemingly while trying to rescue a small boy who had fallen into his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Biological Gardens â caused ripples across the world.
On the ten year anniversary of his death, we try to answer the million-dollar question: did Harambe need to die?
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She was days away from a major race. A rising star in cycling. Then, she was found shot to death in a friend's apartment.
We're sharing an episode of Clues, a true crime podcast hosted by Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore. Each week, Morgan and Kaelyn take you deep into the world of the most notorious crimes, uncovering the hidden details, analyzing the overlooked evidence, and following the trail of clues behind some of the biggest cases in history.
New episodes of Clues drop every Monday. Clues is a Crime House Original, powered by PAVE Studios. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or watch on YouTube. Listen here: https://pod.link/1792283951
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What if we told you that the brand responsible for some of your favourite foods and drinks, has also been accused of being responsible for the deaths of over 10 million babies?
Yes, you read that correctly.
Nestlé, the biggest food and beverage company in the world, is also at the heart of one of the most heinous corporate crime cases in history.
This is the ShortHand.
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âJuiced to his gillsâ on a combination of testosterone, steroids, and god knows what else, three times Olympic medalist James Magnussen put on over 30 lbs of lean muscle in just a few months, risking his health, his reputation and his legacy, all in an attempt to break the 50m freestyle world record, and launch the âEnhanced Gamesâ into history books.
Yet, two years later, the classic thought experiment of âthe Olympics â but everyone can take whatever substances they wantâ has struggled to get off the starting blocks.
Why? Join us, and our friends from The Upshot, to find out some of the wildest stories from the history of doping.
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Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, changed the course of English history â despite being queen for just 1,000 days before her beheading at the Tower of London. And despite being one of the most infamous and influential figures ever to sit the throne, people still get Anne wrong. This is the Tudor ShortHand.
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In 2024, a year on from RedHandedâs episode on the Murdaugh Family Murders, we had the great pleasure of talking to Mandy Matney, the foremost independent expert on the Murdaugh family and their rampant trail of destruction through South Carolina.
Mandy filled us in on everything that happened since we last checked in â including Stephen Smithâs death being re-classified as a murder and the potential for a retrial.
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BREAKING NEWS: Alex Murdaugh WILL face a new trial. A South Carolina court has overturned the 2023 murder convictions of ex-lawyer Alex Murdaugh. Five out of five Supreme Court judges ruled that he deserved a new trial because the jury had been unfairly biased against him.
Listen to our full episode from 2023, to get the full story on one of the most sprawling true crime cases out thereâŠ
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The Murdaugh murders are not one story; they are a seemingly endless web of lies, entitlement, and confusion. At the centre of the web are the bodies of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh, found at their hunting lodge.
But tangled in it are the tragic deaths of three other completely innocent people, dragged in by the most powerful family in South Carolina.
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As wrongful convictions go, the trial of Leo Schofield â who stood accused of killing his young wife Michelle Schofield â had it all: bias, speculation, and pure fabrication. And through the years, through a combination of bad luck and bad representation, Schofield stayed behind bars.
In this second part, we look at how this cold case finally warmed up, thanks in no small part to the journalists behind Bone Valley. And, the bigger question: if not Leo, then who?
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