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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.
Listen to The Upshot
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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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Critically lauded dance troupe, or sinister, human-trafficking, brainwashing, child-abusing cult? However you slice it, there is a lot more going on to Shen Yun than the glitzy public posters let on.
This week we open the curtain on Shen Yun, and the cult behind it, Falun Gong â whose founder Li Hongzhi believes he can levitate, predict the future and read his followersâ minds. So: what does Falun Gong want to achieve? What do we make of their claims of torture, at the hands of the Chinese government? And HOW exactly how do they sell out shows of traditional Chinese dancing in every major city across the world?
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A deadly virus that causes hydrophobia, frothing at the mouth and delirious aggression might sound more like science fiction than real life. But thatâs what awaited 15-year-old Jeanna Giese when she was bitten by a rabid bat in 2004. This is the history of one of the oldest and most deadly viruses known to man â and how a 15-year-old girl and her doctor managed to overcome it, against all odds. This is the ShortHand.
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When the body of 18-year-old Michelle Schofield was found in a canal in Bone Valley, Florida, the police quickly closed in on her guitar-playing, heavy-metal husband, Leo Schofield.
Leo claimed to be innocent, but investigators couldnât shake the fact that Leoâs own father had been the one to discover Michelleâs body - after receiving âa message from GodââŠ
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Party favours full of drugs, a hose-down rubber sex balcony, and Bianca Jagger on a real horse. Itâs often said that the brightest flames burn for the shortest time â and by god did Studio 54 burn bright.
Under the helm of Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, 254 West 54th was the single coolest place on the planet â and set the blueprint for exclusive nightclubs to this day. Bowie, Warhol, the Jaggers, and every other celebrity you could think of felt lucky to set foot on its gigantic dance floor.
But what comes up, must come down, and it only took three years for the greatest club on earth to come unstuck. This is the story of sex, drugs, and disco â the rise and fall of Studio 54.
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Zombies, incantations and dolls full of pins⊠the version of voodoo that most of us get has been suffused with decades of Hollywood magic, and a dusting of light xenophobia.
But the reality of Haitian vodou is much more complex â and way more fascinating. So, how did slaves reconcile their own folklore and religions, with the Catholicism that colonisers were forcing down their throats? Who are the main lwa â or spirits â of vodou? And how can an offering of black coffee, rum and cigars help you to commune with the dead?
Find out in this weekâs ShortHand!
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Trapped in a soundproof underground bunker, sleeping in a coffin-shaped box, abused and forced to watch news footage of her December 1992 disappearance on a loop, 10-year-old Katie Beers wondered if sheâd ever see the world outside her makeshift prison ever againâŠ
But one thing her captor didnât know? Katie was a survivor.
This is the story of a little girl who fought against the odds â and managed to escape a lifetime of abuse.--
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Rage-inducing viruses that spread through bites; a flesh-eating fungus that controls its host like a puppet; deadly pathogens trapped for millennia in Arctic ice⊠sometimes nature is more gruesome than fiction.
From the Walking Dead to the Last of Us, stories of contagion are never far from our screens. So what are the closest real-life scenarios that could turn our world into a full-on zombie wasteland? (And, what makes insects go on a sex-crazed, amphetamine-fuelled rampage until their literal butts fall off?) This is the ShortHand.
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