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Season 4, Episode 11: Leaving the FLDS, Part 1: How Do You Spot False Teachings?
If you had been told all through your childhood that people outside your faith are plotting to hurt you, you might feel safer sticking close to people who believe just like you do, even if you knew that at least some...
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Season 4, Episode 10: Cult Guru or Serial Killer: Who Murdered Patricia Hicks?
For many years, a set of remains found in Yosemite National Park were known as Summit Meadow Jane Doe. Just over a year ago, genetic genealogy revealed that the remains belonged to a woman named Patricia Hicks. Just...
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Season 4, Episode 9: Like Ripples in Water: The Effects of Incarceration on Families
When a loved one is in prison, you’re serving a sentence of your own. The experience can break you, or shape you. Learn how today’s guest was able to overcome a system seemingly designed to tear families apart and...
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Season 4, Episode 8: Domestic Violence Statistics Don't Lie: Meet the Man Trying to Change Them
If you Google the words “Domestic Violence Statistics”, you’ll find some very sobering information. Did you know that according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV), 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men...
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Season 4, Episode 7: How Coroners Use DNA to Make Bones Talk
It’s hard enough for me to imagine having a missing loved one. Can you? Then picture finding out that a serial killer has been operating where and when your loved one went missing. That’s the scenario we have for this...
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Season 4, Episode 6: Murdered and Missing on Long Island
We’ve all heard about the Long Island Serial Killer, but there are so many more true crime stories there. Did you know that Long Island is the home of roughly 40% of the entire population of New York State? With that...
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Season 4, Episode 5: The Boy in the Box: America's Unknown Child is Unknown No Longer
Digging into a family search is no longer just for families tracing their own ancestry. It’s now a crime fighting tool, used by experts in the fast-growing field of forensic genealogy. I’m really going to be geeking...
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Season 4, Episode 4: Surviving: Doing Whatever You Need to Do
I didn’t know that it takes about four pounds of pressure to pull the trigger on a 9 mm handgun, did you? I read that that’s like the pressure in a firm handshake. That’s not all that much, especially when someone is...
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Season 4, Episode 3: Third Time's the Charm - Too Bad He Was Number Four
Murder by poisoning has been a popular method of getting rid of someone for centuries. As life insurance policies became more commonplace, arsenic was given the nickname “the inheritance powder”. And who else would...
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Season 4, Episode 2: Beyond Evil: Russell Smrekar and the Logan County Murders
Most people in Lincoln, Illinois, didn’t lock their doors in the 1970’s. They weren’t worried about murderers roaming around. Mike Hartnett and his wife arrived in town to work at Lincoln College, a private junior...
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Season 4, Episode 1: Deliver Us From Evil: Purging Guilt from Unsolved Murders
Jim Duckett was a lot of things to a lot of people - father, son, brother, uncle, friend, horse lover, good listener, veteran and more. That’s why it’s so hard to understand how he came to be tied to a chair in his...
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Season 3, Episode 52: The Wages of Sin is Death: Vigilante "Justice" in a Small Texas Town
Capital punishment is a hotly debated topic among Christians, and rightly so. Both the old and new testaments talk about it being within the government’s rights. But let me know if you are aware of any verses that...
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