Hosted by Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart from the hit show Morbid.When 90-year-old Laurence Pilgeram drops dead on the sidewalk outside his condo, you might think that’s the end of his story. But, really, it’s just the beginning. Because Laur

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New Series: The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh

Jan 6th, 2023 3m 12s

Billionaire Zappos founder and tech CEO Tony Hsieh was obsessed with happiness and helping people achieve it. After running “the world’s happiest company” for two decades, Hsieh created his experimental community — The Downtown Project — dedica

Introducing: The Evaporated: Gone With The Gods

Dec 12th, 2022 7m 23s

What if someone close to you just … vanished one day? That happens to tens of thousands of families a year in Japan, and it happened to Jake Adelstein, too, back in 2018 — when his accountant disappeared, just before tax day. Adelstein, the aut

Special Preview Episode: Elizabeth the First. Control.

Nov 21st, 2022 23m 1s

Here’s your special preview episode of the new series Elizabeth the First – about the remarkable life of Elizabeth Taylor.In our preview, we hear how Elizabeth Taylor’s career takes off, and she finds herself navigating a patriarchal movie st

New Series: The Paddlefish Caviar Heist

Nov 11th, 2022 5m 19s

Warsaw, Missouri, is a small, rural town of just over 2,000 people in the American Midwest. Locally it’s known as the “quiet end of the Lake of the Ozarks.” Very few realize that it’s the paddlefish capital of the world. But when a new group ar

Imperative Presents: Standoff

Mar 25th, 2022 3m 43s

A new series on the 1974 Huntsville, TX prison siege, one of the most infamous hostage crises in American history that played out in dramatic fashion over 11 days – all in front of a terrified national audience. 100 hours of newly uncovered aud

A Clip From Smoke Screen: The Sellout

Oct 25th, 2021 8m 23s

Enjoy a clip from Smoke Screen: The Sellout. Subscribe and listen to Smoke Screen: The Sellout wherever you get your podcastsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Series: Fox Hunter

Aug 17th, 2021 1m 59s

The murder of 18-year-old Rhonda Sue Coleman in 1990 has been a thorn in the side of the small community of Hazlehurst, GA for over 30 years. No arrests, no answers, and no justice. The family, friends and townspeople have never let go of the h

Imperative Entertainment presents 'American Coyote'

Jan 14th, 2021 3m 30s

Subscribe today: https://link.chtbl.com/americancoyoteWhat happens when a California-born tour guide and father of five finds two Guatemalan stowaways in the back of his tour van while on a trip to Mexico? A legend is born. This is American Co

The Pain That Cannot Forget | Chapter 10

Nov 17th, 2020 52m 57s

25 years after the first serial murder in Juarez, local authorities have failed to bring their perpetrators of these crimes to justice. As the city emerges from years of unprecedented violence, the story of the femicides begins to recede from n

The Imaginary War | Chapter 9

Nov 10th, 2020 48m 38s

“Chapo” Guzman’s Sinaloa Cartel tries to seize control of drug trafficking in Juarez, plunging the city into years of crime and bloodshed. Mexican President Felipe Calderon sends federal troops in the hopes of ending the conflict; but by 2010,

Ni Una Menos, Ni Una Mas | Chapter 8

Nov 3rd, 2020 47m 10s

Outrage over cotton field murders prompts an international outcry, focusing worldwide attention on the story of the Juarez serial murders. Jane Fonda, Eve Ensler, and other celebrities travel to Juarez to protest the killings alongside local ac

The Cotton Field Case, Part 2 | Chapter 7

Oct 27th, 2020 44m 46s

Forensic examiner Oscar Maynez resigns after Juarez officials order him to plant evidence that would help implicate the two cotton field suspects. The FBI and Mexico’s federal government try to launch their own investigations of the serial murd

The Cotton Field Case | Chapter 6

Oct 20th, 2020 45m 2s

The discovery of eight womens’ bodies at a cotton field in central Juarez sends shockwaves through the city. Forensic examiner Oscar Maynez contends that the cotton field murders prove that an organized criminal network is behind the serial mur

The Usual Suspects | Chapter 5

Oct 13th, 2020 41m 36s

A 13-year-old maquiladora worker survives a brutal assault outside Juarez and identifies several bus drivers as her assailants. After local officials allege that the gang of drivers conspired with Sharif to commit the serial murders, Juarez res

Hunting Monsters | Chapter 4

Oct 6th, 2020 45m 56s

Facing widespread protests over his handling of the femicides investigation, Chihuahua’s governor invites FBI profiler Robert Ressler to Juarez in the hopes of solving the serial murders. Host Lydia Cacho examines how sex trafficking grew into

The Invisible Hand | Chapter 3

Sep 29th, 2020 46m 55s

After Sharif is charged with dozens of serial murders in Juarez, a local politician, Irene Blanco, agrees to take over the Egyptian’s defense. The members of a local gang are arrested in the city’s red light district and accused of conspiring w

"The Juarez Ripper" | Chapter 2

Sep 22nd, 2020 46m 35s

Forensic examiner Oscar Maynez starts to suspect that a serial killer is on the loose in Juarez, but his theory is ignored by local officials. Facing a public outcry over their failure to solve the femicides, investigators in Chihuahua finally

The Crimes | Chapter 1

Sep 22nd, 2020 48m 43s

In 1993, residents of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico begin noticing a string of serial murders that appear to be linked by a common signature. But for more than two year, these brutal crimes are ignored by local investigators. As host Lydia Cacho explor

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Trailer: The Red Note

Jul 15th, 2020 3m 11s

Since 1993, thousands of women have been murdered or disappeared along the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Follow investigative journalist Lydia Cacho on a journey to uncover the powerful forces behind these shocking crimes – and the investiga