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27. Femme Fraud: Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos
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Join us each as we unpack some seriously messed up history. Hosted by self-proclaimed comedians and real life scientists, Carly and Tab. New episodes when we make them.
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- 27. Femme Fraud: Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos · 2 h 25 minSURPRISE EPISODE!!! A special Saturday treat because you deserve it, baddies. Elizabeth Holmes was just 19 years old in 2003 when she founded what would become a multi-billion…
- 26. The Bermuda Triangle: We Went Looking… and Got Lost Too · 1 h 19 minWe're back Baddies and this time, we are covering the famous Bermuda Triangle. Spoiler… It’s Literally Just Water (or is it?).The Bermuda Triangle refers to a region in the…
- 25. Hell’s Belle: America’s Most Notorious Female Serial Killer · 1 h 10 minSurprriissee Baddies! We're back with a brand new episode! When a fire broke out at a farm in LaPorte, Indiana, in 1908. a disgruntled farmhand was immediately suspected of arson…
- 24. Fools Gold: The Bre-X Gold Fraud Scandal · 1 h 35 minIn 1996, Canadian businessman Adam Walsh was the owner of one of the highest valued junior mining companies in North America, which had several major mining companies bidding for…
- 23. Don’t drink the (Flavor)aid: Jim Jones and the Jonestown massacre · 1 h 43 minJonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918 people died at the settlement in a mass poisoning and group suicide at the nearby airstrip in…
- 22. H. H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer and his Murder Castle (...?) · 1 h 6 minH. H. Holmes was an American serial killer and con artist who operated in the early 1890’s and is most well known for luring victims to his “Murder Castle”, a hotel that he built…
- 21. Auschwitz Angel of Death: Nazi Doctor Josef Mengele · 1 h 9 minJosef Mengele is one of the most infamous figures of the Holocaust. Despite being trained as a doctor, Josef spent little time preserving life and instead brought a sadistic…
- 20. George Leonidas Leslie and the Manhattan Savings Institution Heist · 1 h 15 minThis weeks story takes us back to the late 1870’s in Manhattan, New York, where a seasoned criminal was planning his most daring heist yet – a robbery of The Manhattan Savings…
- 19. Hedonistic haven, drugs and disco: The rise and fall of Studio 54 · 1 h 38 minFor 33 months Studio 54 was the place for hedonism, drug consumption and every type of sex you can think of, public and all. Over those months, the club became known as a disco…
- 18. Classroom Criminal: Mary Kay Letourneau · 1 h 35 minVili Fualaau is a Samoan American man who was just 8 years old when he met his future wife and the mother of his children. From a young age he was gifted, with a particular…
- 17. The Salem Witch Trials · 1 h 9 minThe Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200…
- 16. Historically Bad (Taylor's Version): The Story of Taylor Swift's Re-Recordings - Part 2 · 1 h 22 minTaylor Swift is no stranger to breaking records and making historic moves in the music industry. Whether you are a full-send Swifite or don't listen to her music at all - there…
- 15. Historically Bad (Taylor's Version): The Story of Taylor Swift's Re-Recordings - Part 1 · 1 h 5 minTaylor Swift is no stranger to breaking records and making historic moves in the music industry. Whether you are a full-send Swifite or don't listen to her music at all - there…
- 14. David Koresh and the Wacky Waco Siege - Part 2 · 48 minDavid Koresh was born Vernon Wayne Howell on August 17, 1959 in Houston Texas and died on April 19, 1993 at age 33 on a momentous day in American history known as the Waco siege…
- 13. David Koresh and the Wacky Waco Siege - Part 1 · 44 minDavid Koresh was born Vernon Wayne Howell on August 17, 1959 in Houston Texas and died on April 19, 1993 at age 33 on a momentous day in American history known as the Waco siege…
- 12. The Exploitation of the Dionne Quintuplets · 1 h 15 minThe odds of identical quintuplets like the Dionne sisters being born and surviving into adulthood is only 1 in 57 million. So when the Dionne quintuplets were born in small town…
- 11. Area 51 and Bob Lazar · 1 h 22 minArea 51 has caused more conspiracy theories than other other military facility in the world. Officially dubbed a United States Air Force base to test "top secret" aerial…
- 10. Hotel Cecil and the Disappearance of Elisa Lam · 1 h 10 minThe Cecil Hotel was built in Los Angeles, California in 1926 and opened as a budget-friendly hotel for travellers and affordable housing for long-term tenants. However – there…
- 9. The Mysterious Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar · 1 h 28 minBobby Dunbar was only four years old when he went missing on a family fishing trip to Swayze Lake near Opelousas, Louisiana in 1912. Join Carly and Tab one of the most mind…
- 8. Russia's Greatest Love Machine: Grigori Rasputin · 1 h 7 minGrigori Rasputin, born Grigori Yefimovich Novykh, was later given the name Rasputin (which translates to “debauched one”) because of his sinister and scandalous personal life. He…
