Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén

To some, Helen Duncan is a powerful medium who bridges the realms of the living and the dead. To others, she's a dangerous con artist blending deception and stolen top-secret information to prey on the grieving and the gullible.

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Sources for this episode include:

The Strange Case of Hellish Nell: The Story of Helen Duncan and the Witch Trial of World War II by Nina ShandlerSix Feet Over: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary RoachRegurgitation and the Duncan Mediumship by Harry Price

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A libertarian idealist known only as “The Dread Pirate Roberts” builds the Silk Road—an anonymous online black market that explodes into a billion-dollar empire—until the digital kingpin is unmasked, revealing how one man’s dream of radical freedom spiraled into crime, paranoia, and downfall.

Sources for this episode include:

American Kingpin by Nick BiltonJoshuah Bearman’s reporting for Wired magazine

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In 1977, candy heiress Helen Brach – one of the richest women in America – vanishes. Detectives consider the many people who might have wanted to get their hands on her money. Ultimately, the primary suspect that emerges is… the Chicago horse mafia.

Sources for this episode include:

Hot Blood: The True Story of an Heiress, a Gigolo, and a Shocking Murder by Ken Englade“The Puzzle That’s Missing One Piece” (WashPo)“Candy Heiress's Murder Probe Exposes Brutality in Horse World” (LA Times)

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A 19th-century island experiment founded by two nature-loving Germans goes from Gilligan's Island to Lord of the Flies when an entitled and eccentric heiress moves in.

Sources for this episode include:

Satan Came to Eden: A Survivor's Account of the "Galapagos Affair by Dore StrauchFloreana by Margaret WittmerThe Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (Documentary)“An Unsolvable Mystery: Captain Hancock and the Case of the Quarrelsome Castaways” (PBS)

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When a lonely Milwaukee housewife lives a double life, her secret world spirals into a decade of deception — culminating in a deadly confrontation, a staged burglary, and one of the strangest true-crime scandals in American history.

Sources for this episode include:“‘Bat Man’ Case: a Lurid Tale of Love and Death” (LA Times)“Old Killing Recalled, Spook Stuff Seen in Queer Case” (The Independent Record)Contemporaneous reporting by The Daily Herald, Brainerd Dispatch, and The Duluth News Tribune

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