Das Criminal
76 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -Aamer and Erin bring you weekly true crime with a political twist. Assassinations, terrorism, war crimes, and revolutions—nothing is off-limits! New episodes drop Tuesdays with bonus content available on our Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/dascriminal
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69 - The Murder(?) of Hitchbot
August 09, 2022 10:00 - 46 minutes - 36.9 MBIn 2015, Hitchbot — a hitchhiking robot made from pool noodles and a bucket by the eager students of Canada’s Ryerson University-slash-Toronto Metropolitan University — was dismembered by unidentified assailants on the streets of Philadelphia. Its decapitated cake-container of a head has never been recovered. In this episode, we’re going to try to answer the question: Can you murder a robot? Plus, social experiments, baby seal violence, and everyone's favorite sci-fi topic: sex robots. P...
68 - Menzel v. List: The Case of the Looted Painting
July 19, 2022 10:00 - 37 minutes - 30.2 MBIn 1932, the Menzel family purchased Marc Chagall’s painting, Jacob’s Ladder, and hung it in their apartment in Brussels, Belgium. But as the Nazi regime advanced, the Menzels, fearing for their own safety, fled Brussels for the United States, leaving their Chagall painting behind. After the Allied Forces declared victory, the Menzels returned to their Brussels apartment, only to find their Chagall painting missing. The Einsatzstab Rosenberg, a Nazi Party organization responsible for looti...
67 - Marco Muzzo & The Driving While Intoxicated Epidemic
July 05, 2022 10:00 - 52 minutes - 42 MBOn Sunday September 27th, 2015 Marco Muzzo landed at Toronto Pearson International Airport. He was returning on a private jet from a trip to Miami. He got into his SUV and drove off, reaching 85 kilometers per hour (or ~53 mph). At around 4:10 PM, Muzzo’s SUV sped past a stop sign in Vaughan (a city in Ontario, north of Toronto and within the GTA), smashing a family minivan. Gary Neville, 65, was killed instantly. Children Daniel (9), Harry (5), and Milaga (Milly, 2) Neville-Lake also died...
66 - Juvenile Penal Labor: The Killing of Gina Score
June 21, 2022 10:00 - 52 minutes - 41.8 MBDonate to Every Bottom Covered: https://www.everybottomcovered.org/support-us On July 21st, 1999, the girls at the Plankinton juvenile detention boot camp in South Dakota were forced to do a 2.7 mile — or 4.3 kilometer — run. Fourteen-year-old Gina Score was having trouble. Gina had not even finished a week at the boot camp, and she almost immediately fell behind the other girls. Gina was showing signs of heat stroke — the most severe form of heat illness. Gina had several serious indica...
65 - Meng Wanzhou & The Two Michaels
August 17, 2021 10:00 - 45 minutes - 36.2 MBOn August 10th, 2021, the Dandong City court found Michael Spavor guilty of espionage and sentenced him to 11 years in prison and the payment of a fine and deportation following the sentence. Spavor was arrested alongside another Canadian, Michael Kovrig, on charges of espionage in December of 2018. The “Two Michaels,” as the cases are commonly known, have caused a stir in Canadian politics and strained Canada’s relationship with China. Many believe that the arrest of the two Michaels was ...
64 - Conflict Is Not Abuse: Jodi Arias & Travis Alexander
August 10, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBOn June 4th, 2008, Jodi Arias murdered Travis Alexander — her ex, her on-again/off-again boyfriend, her friend-with-benefits, her stalking victim, or her fuck buddy, depending on how you view their relationship. Media pundits like Nancy Grace saw this as a case of a beautiful, narcissistic psychopath slaughtering her ex-boyfriend in cold blood. Arias’s defense team painted her as a woman abused. But we want to take another approach — one that recognizes the toxic nature of Jodi and Travis’...
63 - Shrooms & Section 33.1: The Thomas Chan Case
July 20, 2021 10:00 - 48 minutes - 39.1 MBIn the early hours of December 28, 2015, Lynn Witteveen was woken up in her Haggis Drive, Peterborough home by a commotion in the kitchen. She made her way to the source of the noise just in time to see her partner, Dr. Andrew Chan, plead with his son Thomas as Thomas stabbed him to death. Thomas then turned his attention to Lynn. He stabs her multiple times, but she manages to flee to the bedroom and call 911. The operator hears Lynn plead with her partner’s son, “I love you, I love you.”...
62 - The 2018 YouTube Shooting
July 13, 2021 10:00 - 44 minutes - 35.3 MBOn April 3rd, 2018, around 12:45 pm Pacific Time, someone with a grudge against YouTube went to the platform’s physical headquarters at 901 Cherry Avenue in San Bruno, California, armed with a semi-automatic pistol. That person shot and wounded three people before turning the weapon around and killing themselves with a shot to the heart. When details emerged about the YouTube attacker, social media lit up. This person didn’t conform to so many of the stereotypes we hold about mass shooters. ...
61 - The Attempted Assassination of George Wallace
July 06, 2021 10:00 - 33 minutes - 26.6 MBAt his inaugural address in 1963, Alabama Governor George Wallace infamously declared, “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” An avowed racist, he opposed the Civil Rights Movement and its mission to end legalized racial discrimination in the United States. To label him a “controversial” figure would be an injustice to the people he hated and devoted his political career to oppressing. On Monday, May 15th, 1972, at approximately four in the afternoon, Arthur Herman B...
60 - Jennifer Pan
June 22, 2021 10:00 - 50 minutes - 40.7 MBOn November 8th, 2010, three intruders entered the Pan family household in Markham, Ontario near Toronto. After stealing the cash in the home, they tied up the family's 24-year-old daughter, Jennifer, and shot her parents. Her mother, Bich, died instantly, but her father, Han, miraculously survived. When York Regional arrived at the scene, they quickly realized that not everything was as it seemed. They turned their attention toward one of the central characters in the event: Jennifer Pan ...
59 - China's McDonald's Cult Murder: The Death of Wu Shuoyan
June 15, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 52.6 MBOn May 28th, 2014, a group of five adults and one child attempted to proselytize people in a McDonald's in Zhaoyuan, China. When a woman name Wu Shuoyan refused to give them her contact information, they beat her to death inside the restaurant. Join us for a deep dive into cults and new religious movements in China, Mao's stance on religion, the so-called Eastern Lightning sect and its female Jesus, and a family whose collective delusion eventually drove it to murder. Patreon: https://ww...
58 - Slaughterhouse-Five: The Bombing of Dresden
June 08, 2021 10:00 - 34 minutes - 27.5 MBBetween February 13 and February 15, 1945, RAF and USAAF bombers flew over the German city of Dresden, dropping hundreds of tons of incendiary and high explosive bombs over the densely populated city. Incendiary bombs caused a widespread fire that ravaged the city. All in all, the attack resulted in around 25,000 Germans killed and many more injured. In the weeks and years that followed, the attack on Dresden would occupy a central role in the debates over Allied war crimes and whether su...
*BONUS* - Hillsborough: Justice for the 96
June 01, 2021 10:00 - 50 minutes - 40.7 MBThis episode is upcycled from our Patreon page; it was originally published in April for our Connolly Collective. We will be back next week with a brand new episode! It is April 15th, 1989. Your club, Liverpool FC, have reached the semi-finals of the oldest club competition in the world - the FA Cup. They are due to face Nottingham Forest in the neutral venue of Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield. Somehow, you manage to snag a couple of tickets. You go in. You are in the Leppings Lane ter...
57 - Marie Antoinette, Historical Revisionism & Revolutionary Terror
May 25, 2021 10:00 - 31 minutes - 25.3 MBIf you search for biographies of Marie Antoinette, most of them focus on her fashion sense, her romantic relationships, and even how some of the French tabloids published misleading stories about her, such as the infamous “Let them eat cake” line and the Diamond Necklace Affair. It’s almost as though — nearly 230 years after her execution — we’re meant to believe that Marie Antoinette was a victim of the French Revolution rather than a symbol of its grievances in the first place. So, why h...
56 - The Mysterious Death of Frank Olson | Part II
May 18, 2021 10:00 - 34 minutes - 27.3 MBIn this episode, we continue our discussion on the death of Frank Olson ― the U.S. Army biochemist who mysteriously fell out a New York City hotel window in 1953. Content warning: This episode includes discussions of drug use and possible suicide. If you feel suicidal and need to talk, Wikipedia has a list of crisis lines around the world. Please check out decolonizepalestine.com to learn more about things like greenwashing! Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/DasCriminal Sources: https:...
55 - The Mysterious Death of Frank Olson | Part I
May 11, 2021 10:00 - 45 minutes - 36.5 MBIn the early hours of November 28th, 1953, U.S. Army biochemist Frank Olson plummeted out the window of room 1018A at the Statler Hotel in New York City. Though his colleagues first reported this as a jump or fall, details about Frank Olson's opposition to the use of bioweapons in the Korean War, his connections to the CIA's Project MKUltra, and a recent unwitting LSD trip would eventually come to light. What happened to Frank Olson? Did he fall out the window in the middle of the night? D...
54 - Josh Duggar: How Purity Culture Protects Predators
May 04, 2021 10:00 - 55 minutes - 44.6 MBOn Thursday, former reality TV star and right-wing lobbyist Josh Duggar was arrested by U.S. Marshals; Friday, news broke that Duggar is charged with receiving and possessing child sexual abuse images. These aren’t the first allegations of sex crimes against children for Josh Duggar; in 2015, In Touch Weekly reported that between 2002 and 2003 — when he was 14 and 15 years old — Duggar molested five girls — four of whom are his sisters. Cable channel TLC canceled the Duggar family’s real...
53 - Arab Uprisings: Syria | The Bethnal Green Girls
April 27, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 50.4 MBOn February 17th, 2015, three teenage girls from Bethnal Green, London, boarded a flight at Gatwick Airport for Istanbul, Turkey. The schoolgirls — Amira Abase, Shamima Begum, and Kadiza Sultana — weren’t headed for a Mediterranean holiday; they were en route to Syria to join the Islamic State — otherwise known as ISIS or Daesh. The news shocked the British public. Though thousands of men — and at least dozens of women — had already traveled from Europe to Syria and Iraq to join jihadist o...
52 - Arab Uprisings: Syria | Who's Who in the Civil War?
April 20, 2021 10:00 - 53 minutes - 42.6 MBThis week, we’re going to break down who is involved in Syria’s Civil War, which groups are allied with which, and clear up some common misconceptions or repetitive misinformation about the conflict. We’re mostly going to focus on the major players — namely the government forces, opposition forces, autonomous administration (sometimes erroneously called ‘the Kurds’), and the Islamic State. Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/DasCriminal Sources: https://bit.ly/3bhoMVw
51 - Arab Uprisings: Syria | A Gay Girl in Damascus
April 06, 2021 10:00 - 53 minutes - 42.8 MBOn June 6th, Syrian-American blogger Amina Abdallah Arraf al Omari — known for her web page about being a lesbian in Syria titled, A Gay Girl in Damascus — was reported to have been abducted by men who appeared to be Syrian government forces. International media outlets like The Guardian picked up the story, and well-meaning LGBT activists worldwide began to organize to support her release. But as with so many threads that make up the complex web of the Syrian Civil War, Amina’s arrest and...
50 - Arab Uprisings: Yemen | Civil War
February 23, 2021 11:00 - 36 minutes - 29.2 MBWhen we last discussed Yemen, longtime president Ali Abdullah Saleh had fled, and his vice president — Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi — had been put in charge of forming a new constitution. But things started to go quickly awry as Hadi appeared to consolidate power for himself, and a group of anti-government rebels popularly known as the Houthis began to fight back. In this episode, we discuss Yemen's Civil War, Saudi Arabia's war crimes, and how the United States and the United Kingdom are no stra...
49 - Arab Uprisings: Yemen | 2011 Spring
February 16, 2021 11:00 - 31 minutes - 25.4 MBOn January 27th, 2011, Yemen's people followed the example set by Tunisia and Egypt and flooded the streets, demonstrating against the incumbent regime of Ali Abdullah Saleh. Much like the other countries experiencing revolutions, Yemenis were tired of endemic unemployment, mass immiseration, and no prospects of improvements. After months of protests and, in some cases, armed encounters between revolutionaries and the government, the people finally felled Saleh on November 23, 2011. An ele...
48 - Arab Uprisings: Libya | Second Civil War & Mediterranean Catastrophe
February 09, 2021 11:00 - 30 minutes - 24.1 MBIn this episode, we break down the Second Libyan Civil War and review how the havoc wreaked on the country by Western forces has enabled some of the most opportunistic characters to exploit the most desperate people. Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/DasCriminal Sources: https://bit.ly/3bhoMVw
47 - Arab Uprisings: Libya | Benghazi
February 02, 2021 11:00 - 33 minutes - 27 MBOn September 11th and September 12th, 2012, members of an Islamic militant group in Libya known as Ansar al-Sharia attacked the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi and a CIA annex approximately one mile away. The attack resulted in the deaths of U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, US Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith, and CIA contractors Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty. In the US-centric lexicon, ‘Benghazi’ has become synonymous with a series of i...
46 - Arab Uprisings: Libya | The First Civil War
January 26, 2021 11:00 - 37 minutes - 30 MBOn the 14th of January, 2011, Tunisia — Libya’s neighbor to the northwest — toppled longtime dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and vowed to establish a democracy in the small country. Less than a month later — on the 11th of February, 2011, Egypt — Libya’s neighbor to the east — overthrew its authoritarian president, Hosni Mubarak. A few days later, protests began in Benghazi, Libya, attempting to oust Libya’s longtime ruler, Muammar Gaddafi. But despite being sandwiched between Tunisia and...
45 - Arab Uprisings: Bahrain
January 19, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 48.1 MBBahrain is a land of contrasts: Arab and Persian, Sunni and Shi’a, indigenous and migrant, rich and poor. As the Arab Spring swept through the region in 2011, Bahrainis of all stripes saw the opportunity to express their discontent with the status quo in the country. However, unlike the other nations that experienced protests, Bahrain’s Spring was brutally crushed by the regime within a few weeks. Today, dissidents are either exiled, in jail, or dead, and the rule of the House of Khalifa is ...
44 - Arab Uprisings: Egypt | The Murder of Giulio Regeni
January 12, 2021 11:00 - 23 minutes - 18.5 MBOn January 25th, 2016 — exactly five years after the explosion of the Egyptian uprising that ousted longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak — an Italian graduate student named Giulio Regeni went missing in Cairo. Nine days later — on February 3rd, 2016 — his body was discovered on the side of a highway with definite signs of torture. Regeni had been researching Egypt’s independent trade unions. To this day, his murder remains officially unsolved. Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/DasCriminal Sourc...
43 - Arab Uprisings: Egypt | Counter-Revolution
January 05, 2021 11:00 - 38 minutes - 30.4 MBIn January and February of 2011, Egyptians led an uprising against the country’s authoritarian leader, Hosni Mubarak, shouting — among other slogans — “We are never going back.” Back to oppression, dictatorship, and cruelty at the hands of regimes subservient to Western interests. But now — ten years after the events that took power back from Mubarak — that’s exactly Egypt’s situation. How did the country go from a fledgling democracy — and beacon of hope for other countries in the region ...
Current Criminal #19 - Stop It, Ya Zealots!
December 29, 2020 11:00 - 35 minutes - 28.5 MBAamer and Erin review Pixar's Toy Story (1995) and discuss the hierarchy of toys, gender representation in films and video games, abandonment issues, and their proposal to recast Wallace Shawn as Cleopatra. Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/DasCriminal Sources: https://bit.ly/3bhoMVw
42 - Arab Uprisings: Egypt | Eighteen Days in Tahrir
December 22, 2020 11:00 - 46 minutes - 37.1 MB“The people demand the downfall of the regime,” echoed the cry by tens of thousands of Egyptians as they occupied Tahrir Square on January 25, 2011. January 25th was celebrated annually as Police Day in Egypt. Unlike previous years, however, this January 25th saw the rage of a people brutalized by police for years explode onto the streets. Perhaps the most famous of the Arab Spring uprisings, and certainly the one most covered at the time, Egypt saw its own uprising. Egyptians flooded Cair...
41 - Arab Uprisings: Tunisia
December 15, 2020 16:00 - 42 minutes - 34 MBOn December 17th, 2010, at approximately 11:30 AM, a 26-year-old Tunisian street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi approached the governor’s office in his town, Sidi Bouzid. Standing in the middle of traffic, he shouted, “How do you expect me to make a living?” before dousing himself in gasoline and lighting a match. Bouazizi never recovered from a coma and died in a Tunisian hospital several weeks later. But his self-immolation would literally ignite protests across Tunisia against state corr...
40 - The Assassination of Jill Dando
December 08, 2020 17:00 - 38 minutes - 31 MBOn Monday, April 26th, 1999, at approximately 11:30 AM, BBC presenter Jill Dando approached the front door of her house in Fulham, London. As she was about to put her keys into the lock, someone grabbed her from behind. He forced Jill Dando to the ground, so her face was almost touching the front step. According to one of Britain’s leading pathologists, the assailant then used his left hand to fire a single shot into Dando’s left temple. She died instantly. Jill Dando was beloved among the...
39 - The 2013 Rana Plaza Factory Collapse
December 01, 2020 11:00 - 40 minutes - 32.7 MBChances are, most of your closet probably consists of ready-made garments — clothing manufactured en masse to fit most people. And, most of us probably know that the conditions in these factories are less than ideal. International corporations like Nike and Gap have repeatedly been caught exploiting workers — having them work long hours with little pay in factories with few safety precautions. On April 24th, 2013, a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed, killing 1,134 people and...
38 - Kony 2012 and the Imperial Slacktivists
November 24, 2020 19:00 - 53 minutes - 42.9 MBIf you had internet access in 2012, you likely remember a film and social media campaign dubbed ‘Kony 2012’ — a drive to apprehend Ugandan militia leader and war criminal Joseph Kony. The 30-minute viral video created and posted by an organization called Invisible Children, Inc. urged viewers to spread awareness of Kony, with the mission of apprehending him by the end of that year. In this episode, we have two stories unfolding at the same time: the first is the calamity of the Kony 2012 c...
37 - The Everest Industry: The Death of David Sharp
November 17, 2020 11:00 - 41 minutes - 33 MBOn May 13th, 2006, British mountaineer David Sharp set out on a solitary expedition to the summit of Mount Everest. Though an experienced hobbyist climber, David never made it back down the mountain and is thought to have died on the 15th of May, 2006, at age 34. Whether he reached the peak is unknown. Ascending and descending Mount Everest is extraordinarily dangerous; people die nearly every year climbing the mountain, bringing the total recorded death count to over 300 people. But David...
36 - The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
November 10, 2020 11:00 - 54 minutes - 43.6 MBOn August 6th and August 9th of 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Combined, these bombs killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people. The two bombs — named Little Boy and Fat Man — were the first and only nuclear weapons used in armed conflict, though the global nuclear arsenal has increased to an alarming size. In this episode, we discuss the atomic bombings of Japan — the precipitating events, the explosions themselves, and the controversy th...
35 - Elizabeth Holmes & The Theranos Grift
November 03, 2020 16:00 - 45 minutes - 36.7 MBHenry Kissinger. George Schultz. James Mattis. William Perry. David Boies. What do these men have in common — besides being war criminals or attorneys representing war criminals? They all invested millions of dollars in a Silicon Valley start-up called Theranos. Unfortunately for them, the company once worth $9 billion dissolved in 2018 amid fraud investigations. Founder Elizabeth Holmes is set to face trial in 2021 for her role in this fraud. But who is Elizabeth Holmes, and how did a 19-ye...
34 - The 2019 El Paso Walmart Shooting
October 27, 2020 15:00 - 43 minutes - 34.5 MBOn August 3rd, 2019, a gunman attacked the Walmart Supercenter near the Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso, Texas. Armed with a Romanian WASR-10 rifle, the shooter killed 23 people and injured 23 others. As El Paso has a large population of reported Hispanic or Latino people, and that specific Walmart serves people from both the El Paso area and neighboring Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, the assault has been described by The New York Times as “the deadliest anti-Latino attack in modern American history.”...
33 - Korea's Patient 31 and Shincheonji
October 20, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 50.7 MBIn the first few weeks of South Korea's coronavirus onset, efforts to test, contact trace, quarantine, and treat kept recorded infections down to just 30 people in the entire country. Then came Korea’s very own Typhoid Mary — Patient 31. The 61-year-old's escapades around the city of Daegu led to a cluster of over 5,000 cases in the area. Even stranger are Patient 31's connections to Shincheonji, Church of Jesus — a new religious movement many consider to be a cult. In this episode, we break...
32 - Jack Unterweger: Do Prisons Rehabilitate?
October 13, 2020 15:00 - 41 minutes - 33.3 MBIf you’ve been listening to our podcast for a while now, you’ll likely have noticed that we fall pretty firmly on the side of prison abolition, but one big question looms: What about the sexually-motivated criminals? In this episode, we tackle the case of Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger and discuss whether prison successfully rehabilitated this misogynist menace to society, and how we might create a world that is safer for everyone. Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/DasCriminal Sour...
31 - Operation Finale: The Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann
October 06, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBIn 1960, Israeli secret agents tracked down Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann to a house on Garibaldi Street in Buenos Aires. Without assistance from the Argentine government or police, they planned and executed Eichmann’s capture and clandestinely brought him back to Israel. The following year, Eichmann was tried and eventually convicted of 15 counts of crimes against humanity, war crimes, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership in a criminal organization. He was hanged shortly af...
30 - The Alleged War Crimes of Eddie Gallagher
September 28, 2020 10:00 - 41 minutes - 33.5 MBOn May 4th, 2017, Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher of SEAL Team 7 allegedly stabbed and killed a teenage prisoner-of-war in Mosul, Iraq. The events that followed prompt questions about war crimes, rules of engagement, and American exceptionalism. We discuss the case and these topics in this episode about the case centering on U.S. soldier / right-wing Instagram influencer Eddie Gallagher. Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/DasCriminal Sources: https://bit.ly/3bhoMVw Aamer's Radio War ...
30 - The Alleged War Crimes of Eddie Gallagher
September 28, 2020 10:00On May 4th, 2017, Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher of SEAL Team 7 allegedly stabbed and killed a teenage prisoner-of-war in Mosul, Iraq. The events that followed prompt questions about war crimes, rules of engagement, and American exceptionalism. We discuss the case and these topics in this episode about the case centering on U.S. soldier / right-wing Instagram influencer Eddie Gallagher. Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/DasCriminal Sources: https://bit.ly/3bhoMVw Aamer's Radio War ...
29 - The Assassination of Dr. Barnett Slepian
September 21, 2020 10:00 - 37 minutes - 30.4 MBOn October 23rd, 1998, Dr. Barnett Slepian was shot and killed by a sniper rifle while in his kitchen in East Amherst, New York. Slepian was targeted for his work at the Buffalo Womenservices clinic, where he provided a spectrum of OB-GYN care, including safe, legal abortions. The killer — an anti-choice extremist named James Charles Kopp — fled the country, but he couldn't hide forever... AAMER'S RADIO WAR NERD EPISODE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41683290 Aamer is expected to return ...
28 - The Jakarta Method: Indonesia's 1965 Counter-Revolution
September 14, 2020 10:00 - 49 minutes - 39.3 MBOn September 30th, 1965, people in Indonesia went to bed thinking that the following day would be like any other. However, that assumption was sadly wrong. In the early hours of October 1st — before the sun had even risen — members of the Gerakan 20 September (G30S) initiated a failed putsch for power that triggered a genocide. In a campaign of bloodletting that would shake Indonesia to its core, General Suharto attacked communists, feminists, and all believed to associate with them. Over a ...
27 - Norway's Black Metal Murders
September 07, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 52 MBAbandon all hope, ye who enter here. We are about to embark upon a dark and twisted journey into The Black Circle — the infernal heart of Norway’s heavy metal scene. On this adventure, we will encounter ear-splitting music, edgelords, Satanism, arson, Nazis, and murder. Join us as we discuss the life and times of characters with titles like Euronymous, Dead, Faust, and Count Grishnack, gate-keeping fan cultures, death of the author, and the artistic merit of the hit song, WAP. If you are h...
26 - The Trump-Russia Fiasco
August 31, 2020 10:00 - 56 minutes - 45.3 MBYou’ve heard all the references and allegations, the accusations and wild claims, the guesses and suspicions. You’ve probably seen Rachel Maddow scream about Russia interfering with US elections on MSNBC at least once over what feels like a century ago. Terms like ‘interference, ‘kompromat,’ and ‘leaks’ have been drilled into our heads. Despite the countless hours pundits have debated Russiagate on CNN, it remains as baffling and utterly incomprehensible as ever. In this episode, we break do...
25 - The Murder of Amy Biehl: Truth & Reconciliation
August 24, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 49.6 MBFrom 1992 to 1993, 26-year-old white American Fulbright Scholar Amy Biehl lived and worked in Cape Town, South Africa, while studying women’s participation in the anti-apartheid struggle and transition to democracy. On the 25th of August, 1993, Amy decided to give some of her Black friends a ride home. While passing through the township of Gugulethu, the car was attacked by a crowd of Black residents, who shouted “anti-white slurs.” Some of these angry young men zeroed in on Amy Biehl — stab...
24 - The Condor That Killed Orlando Letelier
August 17, 2020 10:00 - 49 minutes - 39.9 MBOn September 21, 1976, at roughly 9:35 AM, a massive explosion pierced the quiet Washington DC air at Sheridan Circle. A bomb placed under their vehicle killed exiled Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier and his colleague, Ronni Moffitt. The murder corresponds to a shady campaign of terror called Operation Condor, which ultimately traces back to the United States government and Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet himself. In this episode, we discuss the life and death of Orlando Letelier, and t...
23 - The Watcher: The Broaddus Family's Real Estate Nightmare
August 10, 2020 10:00 - 50 minutes - 39.1 MBIn the summer of 2014, Derek and Maria Broaddus purchased their dream family home at 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey. Soon after, the Broadduses started receiving strange and threatening letters from a person only known as The Watcher. Someone was fixated on 657 Boulevard and wanted the Broadduses out... Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/DasCriminal Sources: https://bit.ly/3bhoMVw