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Season 56, Episode 8

What the attorney thinks - Christopher Bennette

In the summer of 2003, in the small Virginia town of Craigsville, an 18 year old boy shot and killed the man the town knew as a former rescue squad captain and a pillar of the community. Christopher Bennett never denied it. He confessed, took a plea deal to avoid the death penalty, and was handed three consecutive life sentences totalling 1,800 years. But behind that front door, Chris and his siblings say, was a man the town never saw. Years of abuse. Children told to pray for help that never came. And a report of what was happening to his little sisters, made just one day before the shooting. Over this series, Jack chats with Chris from inside Buckingham Correctional Center about his childhood, that night, the sentence designed to outlive him, and a family still fighting to bring him home. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This series contains discussion of child sexual abuse, physical abuse and domestic violence. If you or someone you know needs support, help is available. Australia 1800RESPECT (sexual assault and domestic violence, 24/7): 1800 737 732 Blue Knot Foundation (adult survivors of childhood trauma): 1300 657 380 Bravehearts (child sexual abuse support): 1800 272 831 Kids Helpline (ages 5 to 25, 24/7): 1800 55 1800 Lifeline (crisis support, 24/7): 13 11 14 United States Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline (24/7): 1-800-422-4453 RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline (24/7): 1-800-656-4673 National Domestic Violence Hotline (24/7): 1-800-799-7233 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (24/7): call or text 988 United Kingdom NSPCC Helpline (adults concerned about a child): 0808 800 5000 Childline (for anyone under 19, 24/7): 0800 1111 NAPAC (adult survivors of childhood abuse): 0808 801 0331 Rape Crisis England and Wales (24/7): 0808 500 2222 Samaritans (24/7): 116 123 International For domestic violence services in other countries, visit hotpeachpages.net for a directory of helplines and agencies worldwide. If a child is in immediate danger, call emergency services: 000 in Australia, 911 in the US, 999 in the UK. EARLY AND AD FREE ACCESS: for as little as $1.69 a week! Apple + HERE Patreon and find us on Facebook here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Season 3, Episode 1

Undercover in The Real Soprannos P1

For three years, Giovanni Rocco lived two lives. By day, he was a man with a wife and children. By night, he was Giovanni Gatto—a mob associate climbing the ranks of the DeCavalcante crime family, one of America's most powerful organised crime organisations.He was brilliant at it. Too brilliant. So brilliant that his captain, Charlie Stango, loved him like a son. So brilliant that he was proposed for membership—to become a made man.But there was a price. Everything he built was a lie. Everyone he loved was in danger. And when Charlie Stango asked him to arrange a murder, the FBI had to pull him out.What happened next was worse than anything that came before: witness protection, erasure, a life lived in hiding, and the realisation that the man he'd become—the only version of himself that felt real—could never exist again.This is the story of an undercover operation that succeeded brilliantly and destroyed everything in the process. This is what it costs to survive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Season 56, Episode 7

No One Was Coming P7

In the summer of 2003, in the small Virginia town of Craigsville, an 18 year old boy shot and killed the man the town knew as a former rescue squad captain and a pillar of the community. Christopher Bennett never denied it. He confessed, took a plea deal to avoid the death penalty, and was handed three consecutive life sentences totalling 1,800 years. But behind that front door, Chris and his siblings say, was a man the town never saw. Years of abuse. Children told to pray for help that never came. And a report of what was happening to his little sisters, made just one day before the shooting. Over this series, Jack chats with Chris from inside Buckingham Correctional Center about his childhood, that night, the sentence designed to outlive him, and a family still fighting to bring him home. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This series contains discussion of child sexual abuse, physical abuse and domestic violence. If you or someone you know needs support, help is available. Australia 1800RESPECT (sexual assault and domestic violence, 24/7): 1800 737 732 Blue Knot Foundation (adult survivors of childhood trauma): 1300 657 380 Bravehearts (child sexual abuse support): 1800 272 831 Kids Helpline (ages 5 to 25, 24/7): 1800 55 1800 Lifeline (crisis support, 24/7): 13 11 14 United States Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline (24/7): 1-800-422-4453 RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline (24/7): 1-800-656-4673 National Domestic Violence Hotline (24/7): 1-800-799-7233 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (24/7): call or text 988 United Kingdom NSPCC Helpline (adults concerned about a child): 0808 800 5000 Childline (for anyone under 19, 24/7): 0800 1111 NAPAC (adult survivors of childhood abuse): 0808 801 0331 Rape Crisis England and Wales (24/7): 0808 500 2222 Samaritans (24/7): 116 123 International For domestic violence services in other countries, visit hotpeachpages.net for a directory of helplines and agencies worldwide. If a child is in immediate danger, call emergency services: 000 in Australia, 911 in the US, 999 in the UK. EARLY AND AD FREE ACCESS: for as little as $1.69 a week! Apple + HERE Patreon and find us on Facebook here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Season 2, Episode 9

Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

Jim Latrache grew up poor in Denmark, joined the French Foreign Legion as a young man, and spent years as a high-end cocaine dealer to Copenhagen's wealthy elite before a prison sentence gave him five and a half years to reconsider his life choices. What came next nobody could have predicted. When Danish filmmaker Mads Brügger needed someone to pose as a shady arms dealer willing to negotiate illegal weapons and drug deals with North Korean regime officials, he needed someone who could be utterly convincing in the role. Someone with the background, the nerve, and the complete absence of fear that the job required, he called Jim. Under the alias Mr James, Jim travelled to Uganda, Spain, Norway and deep into North Korea itself, meeting with regime officials, sitting across tables from people willing to discuss Scud missiles and methamphetamine factories, all while wearing hidden cameras and knowing that if his cover was blown, people have been killed for considerably less. The result was The Mole, one of the most extraordinary undercover documentaries ever made. But behind the footage is the story of the man who lived it what it actually felt like to walk into the world's most dangerous dictatorship wearing a wire, and what it takes to come out alive. Jims books can be found here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Season 3, Episode 2

Undercover in The Real Soprannos P2

For three years, Giovanni Rocco lived two lives. By day, he was a man with a wife and children. By night, he was Giovanni Gatto—a mob associate climbing the ranks of the DeCavalcante crime family, one of America's most powerful organised crime organisations.He was brilliant at it. Too brilliant. So brilliant that his captain, Charlie Stango, loved him like a son. So brilliant that he was proposed for membership—to become a made man.But there was a price. Everything he built was a lie. Everyone he loved was in danger. And when Charlie Stango asked him to arrange a murder, the FBI had to pull him out.What happened next was worse than anything that came before: witness protection, erasure, a life lived in hiding, and the realisation that the man he'd become—the only version of himself that felt real—could never exist again.This is the story of an undercover operation that succeeded brilliantly and destroyed everything in the process. This is what it costs to survive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Season 47, Episode 13 • Subscribers Only

A glimmer of hope? Dwight Bergeron

Today I catch up with Dwight Bergeron a man who has been incarcerated in the state of Louisiana for 34 years for a crime his supposed victims say never happened. Earlier this year another man who had been sitting on Louisianas death row for 30 years was exonerated, could this mans case hold the key to getting Dwight back into court?
Season 2, Episode 16

Getting Jnr Home - P1

Evaristo Salas was accused of firing two shots into Jose Arreola’s head in Sunnyside in November 1995. He was tried as an adult and convicted by a jury of first-degree murder three days after his 16th birthday and was sentenced to nearly 33 years in prison. The gun used in the murder was never recovered and there was no physical evidence linking Jnr to the killing. His conviction was based on the testimony of a police informant, Bill Bruhn, and Arreola’s girlfriend, Ofelia Cortez (formerly Gonzalez), who was there when her partner was shot. Many TV shows have uncovered horrific truths about the so called 'evidence' in this case, yet Jnr still remains incarcerated. This is his story, as told by him. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Season 2, Episode 14

Hollys Hell P1

Holly Deane-Johns grew up in a comfortable suburb of Perth, Western Australia. But beneath the surface of a privileged childhood lay a darkness that would shape the entire course of her life. When her mother became addicted to heroin, the drug found its way into their home — and into Holly's life — before she was old enough to fully understand what it would cost her. By her mid-twenties, Holly found herself in Bangkok facing a sentence that would take her breath away. Caught attempting to traffic heroin out of Thailand, she was sentenced to thirty one years in Lard Yao Women's Prison — one of the most notorious and brutal correctional facilities in the world. A place so far removed from anything she had ever known that she struggled to find the words to describe it. This is the story of how a girl from Perth ended up behind bars in a foreign country, what surviving seven years inside a Thai prison actually looks like, and how Holly Deane-Johns found a way not just to endure — but to come back. What I Survived is available on all major podcast platforms. get Hollys book here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Season 2, Episode 13

The Night Mumbai Burned - Will Pike p3

On the evening of November 26, 2008, British freelance filmmaker Will Pike and his girlfriend checked into the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai for a one-night stopover on their way to Goa. It was meant to be a treat. A single night in one of the world's most famous hotels. By midnight, terrorists were moving through the corridors executing guests. Will and his girlfriend barricaded themselves in their room as the siege unfolded around them. They could hear the gunfire, they heard people being executed in the hallway outside their door. When smoke began filling the room they had no choice but to act. They broke the window, knotted together bedsheets and curtains, and tried to climb down the outside of the building, Will fell fifty feet. He broke his back, his pelvis, both wrists and his elbow. He was confined to a wheelchair. 167 people died that night at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. Will Pike survived and then came the part nobody tells you about, rebuilding a life, a body and a sense of self when the world that existed before November 26, 2008 is simply gone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Season 1, Episode 26

Running from Spies MI5 - P1

Born in 1968, the daughter of a former pilot who became a Gurnsey newspaper editor, Annie won a scholarship to a private school and would go on to study at Britain's elite Cambridge University. In 1990, Annie sat a Foreign Office examination in hopes of becoming a diplomat but instead would receive a rather obscure letter suggesting there might be other careers that would suit her better and that was the start of her recruitment into the infamous MI5, Britain's secret service. She was posted to their counter-subversion department, officially known as 'F2' and almost from day 1 found herself uncomfortable with what was happening behind the scenes. In 1996, she resigned from MI5 in order to help her then partner and MI5 officer David Shayler reveal a series of alleged crimes committed by the agency. In doing so they had broken the official secrets act, a crime punishable by imprisonment, David and Annie we're now Wanted and being hunted by their former employer. You can get a copy of Annie's book here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What I Survived explores the extraordinary true stories of people who survived the unthinkable. Each story takes you back to who these people were before everything changed, then inside the moment their lives were pushed to the edge, shipwrecked at sea for weeks, held captive by terrorists, falling 15,000 feet from a plane after a parachute failure, and other extreme, life-or-death situations. Through first-hand accounts, we follow the ordeal as it happened, the decisions made under unimaginable pressure, and the will it took to survive. Then what came after, the physical and psychological recovery, and the process of rebuilding a life forever altered. From the creator of award winning shows One Minute Remaining, Wanted and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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In 'One Minute Remaining' I speak with inmates serving lengthy prison sentences for a range of different crimes. From arson to robbery, attempted murder and even murder itself and everything in between. I'm not here to try and prove them innocent or guilty, what I am here to do is allow them the chance to tell their stories. We'll look at the case's against them and allow them to tell us their accounts of the events that lead up to their incarceration. Join the OMR Family and help support the show in a way that suits you, plus get bonus content, all the links are here HOTLINE:03 5294 0569 Got a Question about a case? comment or just thoughts you'd like to share. Call the OMR hotline and leave a message and you could be featured in an upcoming episode Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Crime at bedtime is a show dedicated to those who love all things crime stories, even as you drift off to sleep at night. So relax take a minute, unwind and let me tell you some fascinating stories. Crime at Bedtime is written and hosted by Jack Laurence. tickets to LIVE show here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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From the creator of the chart topping Crime at Bedtime comes Mysteries at Bedtime - Step into the unknown with Mysteries at Bedtime — a podcast that takes you deep into the world’s strangest unsolved mysteries, eerie disappearances, and real-life encounters with the unexplained. Each week, journalist and storyteller Jack Laurence guides you through immersive, true stories of UFO sightings, missing persons, paranormal events, government secrets, and historical oddities. Told in a calm, captivating style perfect for late-night listening, Mysteries at Bedtime is your weekly ritual for drifting off to stories that chill, intrigue, and mesmerise. So relax take a minute, unwind and let me tell you some fascinating stories. Mysteries at Bedtime is hosted and created by Jack Laurence. LIVE SHOW EVENT TIX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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