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Episode 176: Fifty States of Murder: Mississippi
What do you get when a rich woman goes missing, there’s no shortage of suspects, but almost no evidence? The latest episode of Fifty States of Murder, of course! Eli and Mel document the unsolved disappearance of Jacqueline Levitz, a wealthy social climber who went through three husbands before vanishing in late 1995. Was she
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Episode 175: Fifty States of Murder: Maryland
The DUSE waxes philosophical in our latest episode of Fifty States of Murder as Eli and Mel paint a picture of innocence lost in post-WWII America and the influence of pivotal thinkers like Soren Kierkegaard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and of course Friedrich Nietzsche. What does existentialism have to do with murder? We’re glad you
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Episode 174: Fifty States of Murder: Wyoming
Get ready for another trip to the wild wild west as The DUSE books a room for you at the Murder Inn! The hostess is one heckuva cook so long as you like your steak dinner with a wink and a nod and a generous helping of arsenic. Then again, Polly Bartlett didn’t target just
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Episode 173: Fifty States of Murder: Nevada
The West Coast has seen its share of murderers but how many of them flagged down a cop and said hey, I’m thinking of becoming a murderer? TWICE! And how many cops, parole officers, and shrinks who encountered this guy just passed him off onto someone else? If you guessed all of them, you’re right!
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Episode 172: Fifty States of Murder: Connecticut
Fifty States of Murder rolls on — right across that overgrown lawn your neighbors are always complaining about. That’s right folks, it’s time for another pit-stop on our cross-country tour: the story of William Devin Howell, a man who earned the nickname The Sick Ripper in a year-long rampage of violence and death. Eli and
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Episode 171: Halloween Special: Massachusetts
Happy Halloween from your friendly neighborhood true-crime pumpkin heads at Deliver Us Some Evil! And what better way to celebrate the spooky season in style than putting a new spin on an old story: the infamous Salem Witch Trials! If you think necks were stretched over religious hysteria, food poisoning, or something out of a
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Episode 170: Three Year Duse-i-versary Special: Vermont
What’s the difference between a podcast host who researches serial killers as a hobby and a budding psychopath who researches serial killers as a hobby? Motivation? Destiny? Being in the right place at the wrong time? Seriously, we’re asking you. We don’t know. What we do know is that Eli and Mel have been doing
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Episode 169: Fifty States of Murder: Texas
The DUSE turns the turntables on this week’s episode of Fifty States of Murder as they destroy the reputation of the one state in the union that never fails to put the capital T in capital punishment. It wasn’t mercy that opened the prison door for convicted murderer Kenneth McDuff, but paperwork shuffling bean-counters who
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Episode 168: Fifty States of Murder: Missouri
Buckle up for another marathon episode of Fifty States of Murder as The DUSE takes a page from the dictionary under the word… GROSS! The case of Robert Berdella is the poster child for the ugly underbelly of the 1980’s from the drug-fueled gay sub-culture that definitely wasn’t its own worst enemy to the trash
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Episode 167: Fifty States of Murder: Indiana
Fifty States of Murder rolls on as Eli stumps Mel with trivia questions (seriously, aren’t Warsaw and Notre Dame in Europe??) before getting too close for comfort with one of America’s most notorious murderers: Gertrude Baniszewski. This chain-smoking mother of seven could have done a lot of things in the summer of 1965 — hosted
