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Killer Shipwrecks II - The SS City of Cairo
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Welcome to the always entertaining and informative Killer Means Awesome podcast.
Season 1: Killer Shipwrecks - Think of shiny coins and sunken dreams. Each episode features an incredible story of a recently discovered shipwreck.
Season 2: Killer Biographies - Do you get Pocahontas and Sacagawea mixed up? So do we! Check out these true stories about historical figures you really should know better.
Season 3: Killer Inventions - Incredible true stories about inventors and the inventions that changed the world.
Season 4: Killer Crime - Trues stories of crimes you have to hear to believe!
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- Killer Shipwrecks II - The SS City of Cairo · 42 min · Sesong 5 Episode 11During the global disruptions of World War II, even civilian ships on the sea were regularly attacked by combatants, as the passengers and crew aboard the British steamship City…
- Killer Shipwrecks II - The Arabia · 45 min · Sesong 5 Episode 10The steamboat Arabia sank in the Missouri River in 1856 and was written off as a total loss. But in 1988 five enterprising treasure hunters dug deep under Kansas cornfields to…
- Killer Shipwrecks II - Nuestra Señora de la Concepcion · 45 min · Sesong 5 Episode 9Nothing about his upbringing in the wilds of 17th century New England suggested William Phips would one day be knighted by the English king and then made governor of the…
- Killer Shipwrecks II - The SS Edmund Fitzgerald · 39 min · Sesong 5 Episode 8On November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald vanished in a matter of minutes. She was the largest ship on the Great Lakes. No mayday. No distress call. Just a captain's last…
- Killer Shipwrecks II - The Accidental Aquanaut · 36 min · Sesong 5 Episode 7Harrison Okene, a crew member on the Jascon-4 tugboat, was using the bathroom in the middle of the night when the boat -- and his whole life -- turned upside down. A rogue wave…
- Killer Shipwrecks II - The Antikythera · 41 min · Sesong 5 Episode 6In 1900, a Greek sponge diver surfaced in a panic, describing rotting bodies and horses on the seafloor. His captain thought he was hallucinating, so he went down himself. He…
- Killer Shipwrecks II - La Girona · 46 min · Sesong 5 Episode 5The Spanish Armada of 1588 was supposed to be invincible. But its ships fared poorly in battles in the English Channel and then began to suffer catastrophic losses while…
- Killer Shipwrecks II - Nuestra Señora de Atocha · 35 min · Sesong 5 Episode 4In 1622, a Spanish galleon loaded with half a billion dollars in gold, silver, and Colombian emeralds sank in a hurricane off the Florida Keys, taking 260 lives with it. Spain…
- Killer Shipwrecks II - Whydah Gally · 42 min · Sesong 5 Episode 3Few 18th century pirates had more success than Sam Bellamy. In one remarkable year, he seized or looted no fewer than 53 ships in the Atlantic Ocean. But then in 1717 Bellamy and…
- Killer Shipwrecks II - The White Ship · 36 min · Sesong 5 Episode 2In 1120, a drunken midnight party aboard a brand-new luxury ship killed nearly 300 of England's young nobility, including the only legitimate male heir to the throne. What…
- Killer Shipwrecks II - USS Indianapolis (CA-35) · 43 min · Sesong 5 Episode 1It was one of the worst maritime disasters in US military history, and naval historians would spend decades studying what went wrong. But the sinking of the USS Indianapolis also…
- Killer Crimes - The Mona Lisa Heist · 40 min · Sesong 4 Episode 12In 1911, a handyman hid in a Louvre closet overnight, then simply walked out the next morning with the Mona Lisa under his apron—pulling off the most famous art theft in history…
- Killer Crimes - Murder by Pilot · 39 min · Sesong 4 Episode 11As horrifying as the crash of Air India flight 171 was, investigators soon shocked the world again. They said the plane was likely intentionally crashed by a suicidal pilot…
- Killer Crimes - George Leslie · 47 min · Sesong 4 Episode 10In the late 1860s, George Leslie walked among New York's elite as a respected architect, all while planning the most audacious bank robberies in American history. Using…
- Killer Crimes - Garret Rodriguez · 37 min · Sesong 4 Episode 9An avid surfer and fisherman, San Diego native Garret Rodriguez dreamed of building a home for himself on a small piece of land which his father had bought for him along the…
- Killer Crimes - New Name, New Life: Ted Conrad’s Perfect Crime · 48 min · Sesong 4 Episode 8In 1969, twenty-year-old Ted Conrad walked out of a bank in Ohio with the equivalent of two million dollars and vanished completely—cutting off all contact with family and…
- Killer Crimes - Death by Mail · 54 min · Sesong 4 Episode 7Just days after the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001, people in Florida, New York, and Washington D.C. began to receive letters containing deadly spores of the bacteria which…
- Killer Crimes - United California Bank Heist · 45 min · Sesong 4 Episode 6The United California Bank burglary took place on March 24th, 1972, in Laguna Niguel, California, The ingenuity employed by criminal mastermind Amil Dinsio and his crew is…
- Killer Crimes - Brenda Ann Spencer · 40 min · Sesong 4 Episode 5When it occurred in 1979, the mass shooting at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego appeared to be a bizarre anomaly, a horrible act of violence with no obvious…
- Killer Crimes - Albert Johnson Walker · 34 min · Sesong 4 Episode 4The life and crimes of Albert Johnson Walker span two continents and include a virtual laundry list of offenses: financial fraud, money laundering, embezzlement, stolen identity…
