Off and on from 2006 to 2012, Snowden had worked as a CIA analyst, a subcontractor for the NSA, and several other positions that gave him access to classified NSA information that enabled him to see the true scope of how the US was surveilling its own citizens. Does leaking those docs to the press in 2013 make him a traitor? Or does it make him a hero who opened the eyes of the American public to the dangerous and unconstitutional surveillance our government has been clandestinely carrying out for years?
Big episode today on Peter Nygard, a man often called the Canadian Jeffrey Epstein. A fashion mogul who used his wealth and influence to sexually abuse girls and women for roughly five decades, primarily in Canada, the US, and the Bahamas. Also, we interview Chris Hansen from To Catch a Predator, who executive produced a docuseries called: Unseamly: The Investigation of Peter Nygard.
Insurance fraud, amnesia, escaping legal consequences, not liking your family and never wanting to see them again... these are some of the various reasons people have chosen to disappear. A big collection of interesting disappearance stories, today, on Timesuck!
On October 13th, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in the Andes while carrying 45 passengers and crew, most of them members of the Old Christians rugby team from the Christian Brothers College of Montevideo, headed to Santiago, Chile for a match. Sixteen survivors would spend up to 72 days in the most harrowing of conditions, resorting to two months of cannibalism to survive. No one should have lived - their story is both horrific and inspiring.
In October of 2002, the DC Snipers terrorized residents of Washington DC, Virginia, and Maryland for three weeks, killing ten, and wounding others after having killed seven in the weeks leading up to the DC attacks. We look into who they were and why today.
The story of Bass Reeves - the most badass American Wild West lawman/bounty hunter you (likely) never heard of. He gunned down between a dozen and twenty men, and tracked down and arrested over 3,000. And I try and tell his story after taking two double-hits of LSD... :)
The "how is this actually true?" story of Chicago's Ripper Crew. Four men, a murder van, a Satanic Chapel, and so much sexual violence, murder, and cannibalism.
In the early 1980s, a sex cult from India tried to take over a county in rural Oregon. And they almost did it. They did take over the town of Antelope, and they built an entirely new city of roughly 7,000 people before being run out of the country.
An interesting look into how Germany has dealt with its dark legacy of the Holocaust. And an examination of how deniers go to incredible lengths to try and prove that this heavily documented tragedy never happened.
Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its allies established more than 44,000 concentration camps, sub-camps, and various incarceration sites. And they would use these camps, along with roving murder squads, to kill roughly six million European Jews. Why did they do it? And how did they carry out this horrible plan? These horrifying questions are answered in this week's episode.