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If you've ever gone down a rabbit hole at 2am and couldn't find your way back out, you're right at home! Pretty Wicked shares the stories you can't stop thinking about: murder, scandal, obsession, cults, and the cases that are just too wild to let go of. New episodes every Wednesday. 🖤 Subscribe so you never miss an episode. 📩 prettywickedthepodcast@gmail.com ✨ Instagram @prettywickedthepodcast If you're enjoying Pretty Wicked, consider leaving a rating and review. It makes a huge difference and helps other people find the show. It genuinely means the world!

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  1. 16h ago

    Into the Triangle: The Devil's Sea

    Some stretches of ocean don't give people back, and the Bermuda Triangle is the most famous one. Navy squadrons. Cargo giants. A cabin cruiser that called for a tow on a calm December night and was gone before the Coast Guard could get there. This week we're going into the lore. The famous cases. The ghost ships. And what science actually thinks is happening out there, because the real answers might be stranger than the myth. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywicked.thepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES Naval History and Heritage Command - H-057-4: The Disappearance of Flight 19 National Archives - The Official Record and the Loss of Flight 19 History.com - The Mysterious Disappearance of Flight 19 Naval History Magazine (USNI) - USS Cyclops, The Deadliest Unsolved Mystery in the Navy History.com - Bermuda Triangle Mystery: What Happened to the USS Cyclops? Naval Historical Foundation - The Unanswered Loss of USS Cyclops Library of Congress - The Mysterious Disappearance of Ghost Ship Carroll A. Deering's Crew NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources - The Carroll A. Deering, Ghost Ship National Park Service - The Ghost Ship of the Outer Banks PlaneHistoria - BSAA Star Tiger coverage and inquiry summary PlaneHistoria - BSAA Star Ariel coverage Bernews - Plausible Solutions To Bermuda Triangle Mysteries (Tom Mangold reporting) Civil Aeronautics Board / USDeadlyEvents - Report on DC-3 NC16002 Coast Guard Inquiry Findings, summarized - USDeadlyEvents on Marine Sulphur Queen Porchlight International - Burack and Father Horgan / Witchcraft case file NOAA Ocean Service - What is the Bermuda Triangle? National Geographic - Gas Craters Off Norway Linked to Bermuda Triangle Theory Live Science - Could Gas Explosions Explain Bermuda Triangle Mystery? Fox News - Bermuda Triangle Rogue Wave Theory (Dr. Simon Boxall, Channel 5 documentary) Britannica - What Is Known (and Not Known) About the Bermuda Triangle Smithsonian Magazine - How the Disappearance of Flight 19 Fueled the Legend ElectronicFog.com - Bruce Gernon's account of his 1970 flight 📚 BOOKS The Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved - Lawrence David Kusche, 1975 The Bermuda Triangle - Charles Berlitz, 1974 Invisible Horizons: True Mysteries of the Sea - Vincent Gaddis, 1965 Beyond the Bermuda Triangle: True Encounters with Electronic Fog, Missing Aircraft, and Time Warps - Bruce Gernon and Rob MacGregor, 2017 Sailing Alone Around the World - Joshua Slocum, 1900 Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals: The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering - Bland Simpson, UNC Press, 2005 🎬 DOCS The Bermuda Triangle Enigma - Channel 5 documentary featuring Dr. Simon Boxall of the University of Southampton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 10m

  2. May 27

    The Recipe: Blood and Lye

    In a quiet Italian town, there was a woman everyone trusted. She baked. She welcomed people in. She was the kind of person no one questioned. And then people started disappearing. When she finally confessed, it wasn’t just what she had done… it was why. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES Weird Italy - Leonarda Cianciulli, the Soapmaker of Correggio https://weirditaly.com/2013/04/25/leonarda-cianciulli-the-soapmaker-of-correggio/ All That's Interesting - The Chilling Story of Leonarda Cianciulli https://allthatsinteresting.com/leonarda-cianciulli Utterly Interesting - The Crimes of Leonarda Cianciulli https://www.utterlyinteresting.com/post/the-crimes-of-leonarda-cianciulli-the-soap-maker-of-correggio Cardinal Points Online - Soap Maker of Correggio https://cardinalpointsonline.com/cardinal-sins-soap-maker-of-correggio-murders-three-women/ Medium - Mother Dearest: The Crimes of Leonarda Cianciulli https://medium.com/@rocknrollgeek1975/mother-dearest-the-crimes-of-leonarda-cianciulli Museo Criminologico, Rome - The Correggio Soap-Maker http://www.museocriminologico.it/correggio_uk.htm Life in Italy - Italy During the Second World War https://lifeinitaly.com/italy-second-world-war/ History Rise - Italy Under Mussolini https://historyrise.com/italy-under-mussolini-fascism-propaganda-and-world-war-ii/ Chapman University - Italian Society During World War II https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1038&context=history_books Working Class History - Italian Resistance https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/ Baltimore Sun - "Rendered Her Friends to Wax, She Says" (April 28, 1946) Referenced in multiple secondary sources above - original print archive only. 📚 BOOKS The Curse: A Shocking True Story of Superstition, Human Sacrifice and Cannibalism - Ryan Green (2019) Confessioni di Un'Anima Amareggiata (Confessions of a Bitter Soul) - Leonarda Cianciulli Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    28 min

  3. May 27

    Boogeyman: The Hook-Handed Stranger

    What if the boogeyman you grew up hearing about wasn't just a story? On Staten Island, there was a figure parents whispered about to keep their kids close to home. Bedtime warnings, campfire dares, everyone thought it was just make-believe. But then children started to vanish. And suddenly, it wasn't just scary anymore. It was real. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. Quick corrections: Ethel Atwell disappeared October 1978, Rand legally changed his name in 1972, and Tiahease Jackson was sent to the supermarket by another motel resident while her mother was napping, not on an errand from home. Sources in the show notes 🔗 WEB SOURCES The Charley Project - Holly Ann Hughes The Charley Project - Alice Pereira The Doe Network - 136DFNY Holly Ann Hughes The Doe Network - 134DFNY Alice Pereira NCMEC - Have you seen this child? Alice Pereira UPI Archives - Jennifer mourned as loveable child who comforted all All That's Interesting - The Haunting Story of Andre Rand, the Real-Life Cropsey Killer Who Stalked Staten Island in the 1980s The Line-Up - Cropsey: The Terrifying Urban Legend Brought to Life Historic Mysteries - Cropsey: New York's Terrifying Urban Legend Disability Justice - The Closing of Willowbrook NYU Undercover Reporting - Willowbrook: The Last Disgrace - Geraldo Rivera, WABC-TV The New York Review of Books - The Horrors of Hepatitis Research Our Black Girls - Tiahease Jackson, 11: May Have Fallen Victim to Serial Killer in 1983 Whereabouts Still Unknown - Ethel Atwell Find a Grave - Holly Ann Hughes Memorial 🎬 DOCUMENTARY & FURTHER LISTENING Cropsey (2009), directed by Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace (1972), Geraldo Rivera for WABC-TV Killer Psyche Daily episode on Staten Island's "Cropsey" Killer Production notes: Specific quotes from Andre Rand have been attributed broadly to prison staff and fellow inmates rather than named individuals where the named source could not be independently verified. Some details about the missing victims, particularly the adult cases, are circumstantial and Rand was never charged in connection with them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    37 min

  4. May 22

    England's Most Haunted: What the Stones Don't Tell

    Today Megan is revisiting a medieval building in a quiet Cotswolds village. A 900-year legend that doesn't quite hold up under the tree rings. A pagan burial ground nobody can find in the archaeological record. And the man who spent fifty years inside it, telling stories nobody could verify and experiencing things he couldn't explain. The Ancient Ram Inn calls itself the most haunted building in England. The reality is stranger, and more layered, than the marketing. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES Triskele Heritage - Mediaeval Mythbusting Blog #26: The Ancient Ram Inn Historic England - The Ancient Ram Inn, List Entry 1088885 Historic England - Educational Resource: The Ancient Ram Inn The Ancient Ram Inn - Official Website Higgypop Paranormal - The Former Gloucestershire Inn Where History and the Paranormal Collide Higgypop Paranormal - Ancient Ram Inn Ghost Hunt Review Find a Grave - John Humphries Memorial Stroud Times - Owner of Ancient Ram Inn Speaks of Plans for the Iconic Former Pub Ex Utopia - The Ancient Ram Inn: A Visit to England's Most Haunted House Travel Channel - Ancient Ram Inn's Haunted History Astonishing Legends - The Ancient Ram Inn From Tiny Pennies - The Ancient Ram Inn, Wotton-Under-Edge Visit Herefordshire - Introducing Alfred Watkins, a Fascinating Man Woolhope Club - Alfred Watkins English Heritage - Witchcraft: Eight Myths and Misconceptions English Heritage - Building Stonehenge University of Reading - New Research Reveals Origin of Stonehenge's Great Sarsen Stones University College London - Stonehenge Bluestone Quarries Confirmed 140 Miles Away in Wales Birmingham Museums Trust - Sarehole's Inspiration for Tolkien's Middle-earth Wotton Heritage - Wotton-Under-Edge Local History British History Online - Wotton-under-Edge (RCHME 1976) Gloucestershire Archives - Deeds D1193/16/1 (1350-1724) IMDB - Most Haunted: The Ancient Ram Inn (Season 5, 2005) 📚 BOOKS Historic Building Mythbusting: Uncovering Folklore, History and Archaeology - James Wright, The History Press, 2024 The Old Straight Track - Alfred Watkins, 1925 Early British Trackways - Alfred Watkins, 1922 Vernacular Architecture Group Spring Conference 2014 - Gloucestershire - Linda Hall, Vernacular Architecture Group, 2014 Tree-ring Dates from the Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory List 263 - Daniel Miles and Martin Bridge, in Vernacular Architecture Volume 45, 2014 🎬 DOCUMENTARY & FURTHER LISTENING Ghost Adventures (Travel Channel) - The Ancient Ram Inn episode Most Haunted, Series 5 - The Ancient Ram Inn (originally broadcast 29 January 2005) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    44 min

  5. May 20

    Borrowed Faces: Forty Million in Two Minutes

    In August 2009, two men in tailored suits walked into the most exclusive jewelry store on London's most exclusive street, and two minutes later they walked out with forty million pounds in diamonds. No masks. The makeup artist who'd spent four hours disguising them thought they were working on a music video. The man who planned it all was out on police bail for cocaine, still living at his mother's house. Sixteen years on, not a single stone has been recovered. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast Please leave a rating and review. It really does help small podcasts like this one find new ears. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES The Cinemaholic - Michelle Hogg: Where Is the Make-up Artist Now? Chris Dennis Talks Makeup - Charles H. Fox turns into Kryolan Store Jack the Ripper Tour - An Interview With Charles H. Fox CBC News - How British drag queen La Voix unwittingly provided the makeup for a $73M jewel heist HuffPost UK - How La Voix Became Embroiled In The UK's Biggest Ever Jewels Heist Hello Magazine - Inside Strictly star La Voix's private life – from tragic loss to 'frightening' diamond heist The Natural Sapphire Company - The Graff Diamond Heist: One of London's Biggest Robberies Art Hostage - Stolen Art Watch: Graff Jewel Heist CBS News - Caught on Tape: Dirty Sexy London Heist France24 - Robbers raid London store in Britain's biggest jewel heist WWD - Graff Robbers Sentenced IDEX Online - First Conviction in Graff Robbery Case The London Daily News - £40 million Graff diamond heist 21 year prison sentence The New Yorker - The Pink Panthers JCK Online - Interview With Director of Documentary About the "Pink Panther" Jewel Thieves CBS News 60 Minutes - The Pink Panthers: Daring heists rake in half-a-billion dollars LCCSA - Graff robbery diamond turns up in Hong Kong pawn shop Professional Jeweller - Stolen Graff jewel turns up in Hong Kong Headspace Group - Laurence Graff: A lifetime with diamonds Bloomberg - Laurence Graff profile ARTnews - Laurence Graff, Top 200 Collector profile Hancocks London - Graff maker profile Thought Economics - A Conversation with Laurence Graff OBE Interview Magazine - Peter M. Brant interviews Laurence Graff Rapaport - The Heart of Graff Graff - House Heritage Graff - London New Bond Street store 🎬 DOCUMENTARY & FURTHER LISTENING Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers (2013, dir. Havana Marking) Little Did You Know podcast (2021), hosted by David McGillivray, episode 12 with Chris Dennis - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82Ier5pYLRE ABC News original 2009 broadcast featuring the bystander cell phone footage VICE short documentary on the Pink Panthers (2014) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    52 min

  6. May 13

    Hidden in Plain Sight: The Hollywood Ripper

    In February 2001, Hollywood star Ashton Kutcher drove to a woman's house to pick her up for a date. She didn't answer the door. He looked through the window, saw what he thought was a red wine stain on the carpet, assumed she had gone out without him, and left. The next morning her roommate came home and found her body. She had been stabbed 47 times. The man who killed her had been living a block away, watching her, for months. He had introduced himself as a helpful guy who could fix her furnace. He was friendly at parties. He was, by every account, completely ordinary. He had done this before. He would do it again. And he would not be caught for another seven years. 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you liked this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES CBS News / 48 Hours - The Hollywood Ripper: How 48 Hours Helped Crack the Case https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-hollywood-ripper-how-48-hours-helped-crack-the-case-of-convicted-serial-killer-michael-gargiulo/ E! Online - The Chilling Details of the Murder of Ashley Ellerin and the Hollywood Ripper Trial https://www.eonline.com/news/1045255/a-murder-trial-years-in-the-making-3-deaths-an-alleged-serial-killer-and-the-chilling-reason-ashton-kutcher-s-knock-went-unanswered NBC News - Ashton Kutcher Testified He Was Freaking Out When Police Told Him Woman Had Been Killed https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ashton-kutcher-testified-he-was-freaking-out-when-police-told-n1011656 The Daily Beast - Hollywood Ripper Sexual-Thrill Killer Survivor Breaks Her Silence https://www.thedailybeast.com/hollywood-ripper-sexual-thrill-killer-survivor-breaks-her-silence-i-woke-up-with-someone-on-top-of-me/ The Daily Beast - Hollywood Ripper Michael Thomas Gargiulo Sentenced to Death https://www.thedailybeast.com/hollywood-ripper-michael-thomas-gargiulo-sentenced-to-death-for-slaying-2-women/ KTLA - LA Serial Killer Michael Gargiulo Convicted in Murders of Young Women https://ktla.com/news/local-news/trial-begins-in-l-a-for-alleged-serial-sexual-thrill-killer-michael-gargiulo/ Investigation Discovery - How Serial Psychosexual Thrill Killer Michael Gargiulo Got Caught https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/serial-killer/how-serial-psychosexual-thrill-killer-michael-gargiulo-got-caught/ Fox News - Hollywood Ripper Michael Gargiulo Liked to Watch Death https://www.foxnews.com/us/hollywood-ripper-michael-gargiulo-liked-watch-death-inflicting-pain-victims Chicago Sun-Times - Michael Gargiulo Trial: Prosecutor Links Illinois, California Attacks https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2019/8/7/20758568/michael-gargiulo-trial-california-illinous-murders CBS Chicago - Convicted Serial Killer Michael Gargiulo Extradited to Illinois for 1993 Murder of Tricia Pacaccio https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/serial-killer-michael-gargiulo-extradited-murder-tricia-pacaccio/ Fox 32 Chicago - Hollywood Ripper Faces Charges in 1993 Glenview Murder of Tricia Pacaccio https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/michael-gargiulo-1993-glenview-murder-tricia-pacaccio Criminal Discourse Podcast - Michael Gargiulo https://criminaldiscoursepodcast.com/michael-gargiulo/ 🎬 DOCUMENTARY & TV 48 Hours - The Boy Next Door (2011) / The Hollywood Ripper (CBS) The CBS News program that first connected Gargiulo's California murders to the 1993 killing of Tricia Pacaccio in Illinois, and whose broadcast directly prompted witnesses to come forward with information that led to new charges. Once Upon a Crime in Hollywood - Season 2 (2023/2024) Features new interviews with LAPD Homicide Detective Tom Small, the lead investigator on the Ashley Ellerin case, and other key figures. Available to stream. People Magazine Investigates - The Hollywood Ripper (Max/Discovery) In-depth documentary on the full arc of the case from the 1993 Illinois killing through the California murders and the 2019 trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    54 min

  7. May 6

    Poison in the Pocky Aisle

    In 1984, something really unsettling started happening across Japan. Boxes of children’s candy were showing up on store shelves laced with cyanide, and it didn’t feel random or hidden. It felt intentional, like someone wanted people to notice. The group behind it called themselves The Monster with 21 Faces, and for 17 months they turned the whole thing into a kind of performance with kidnappings, arson, poisoned sweets, and dozens of letters sent to police and the media, openly mocking them. And then, just as suddenly as it started, it stopped. No arrests, no answers, and now too much time has passed for anyone to be held accountable.  🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you liked this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES CrimeReads - Japan's Most Notorious Kidnapping Is Still Unsolved https://crimereads.com/japans-most-notorious-kidnapping-is-still-unsolved/ All That's Interesting - full case profile https://allthatsinteresting.com/monster-with-21-faces The Ghost in My Machine - deep dive narrative https://theghostinmymachine.com/2019/08/12/unresolved-the-monster-with-21-faces-the-glico-morinaga-case-and-the-candy-poisoning-incident-of-1984-kidnapping-katsuhisa-ezaki-extortion-unsolved-fox-eyed-man-video-man/ Unresolved - Monster with 21 Faces case file https://unresolved.me/the-monster-with-21-faces Historic Mysteries - full case timeline https://www.historicmysteries.com/major-crimes/monster-21-faces/1240/ Monster with 21 Faces - dedicated case archive https://www.monsterwith21faces.com/ Who was the Fox-Eyed Man - case archive https://www.monsterwith21faces.com/who-was-the-foxeyed-man Marilyn Ivy - "Tracking the Mystery Man with the 21 Faces" Critical Inquiry, Vol. 23, No. 1, Autumn 1996. The only serious English-language academic analysis of the Monster's letters and their cultural significance. Available via JSTOR or university library access. 📚 BOOKS MENTIONED Lady Joker, Volumes 1 & 2 - Kaoru Takamura The closest thing to a definitive literary treatment of this case. A 1997 Japanese epic, only translated into English in 2021–2022, by the author often called the Queen of Japanese crime fiction. It's a fictional reimagining - the candy company becomes a beer company, the Monster becomes "Lady Joker" - but it's directly inspired by the real events and goes deep into the social wounds of postwar Japan that made this case possible. Made TIME magazine's 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time. Devastating and extraordinary. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/598484/lady-joker-volume-1-by-kaoru-takamura-translated-by-allison-markin-powell-and-marie-iida/ Toppamono - Manabu Miyazaki The autobiography of the prime suspect. Deals with his experience of being publicly named as the only person of interest in Japan's most notorious unsolved case. Currently available in English and Japanese. 🎬 FILM & TV The Voice of Sin (Tsumi no Koe) - 2020 A Japanese thriller film based on Takeshi Shiota's 2016 novel of the same name, which uses the Glico Morinaga case as its backdrop. Stars Shun Oguri and Gen Hoshino. Japanese-language with subtitles. A rare piece of fiction that engages directly with the actual events rather than fictionalizing them. Lady Joker - Film & TV Adaptations Kaoru Takamura's Lady Joker novel has been adapted into both a film and a television series in Japan. Japanese-language productions. Worth seeking out for anyone who reads the books and wants more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    49 min

  8. Apr 29

    The Price of a Lie: When the Con Turns Deadly

    For thirty years, a man called himself Clark Rockefeller, claimed to be an heir to one of the most powerful families in American history, and the world believed him. He moved through the most elite circles in the country, he married a Harvard educated millionaire, and charmed everyone he ever met. The only problem? He didn't exist. And somewhere in a California backyard, there were bones that told a very different story. This is Pretty Wicked's very first episode and we are starting with one of the craziest cons ever pulled and the murder hiding underneath it. Welcome to the show! 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast  If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES History.com overview - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rockefeller-imposter-and-convicted-felon-born All That's Interesting full profile - https://allthatsinteresting.com/clark-rockefeller ABC News - murder conviction, April 2013 https://abcnews.go.com/US/clark-rockefeller-impostor-found-guilty-1985-murder/story?id=18924924 ABC News - kidnapping trial opening day https://abcnews.go.com/News/story?id=7672617 CNN - Sandra Boss trial testimony https://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/02/massachusetts.rockefeller.trial/index.html CNN - murder sentencing, August 2013 https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/15/justice/rockefeller-impersonator-sentence San Diego Union-Tribune - Sandra Boss cross-examination https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-us-rockefeller-mystery-060209-2009jun02-story.html Boston Herald - Sandra Boss on the stand https://www.bostonherald.com/2009/06/02/rockefeller-lawyer-grills-sandra-boss-on-stand/ Fox News - first wife Amy Jersild-Duhnke testimony https://www.foxnews.com/story/first-wife-of-clark-rockefeller-to-testify-at-kidnap-trial NPR interview with journalist Mark Seal https://www.npr.org/2011/07/10/137624164/30-year-con-from-german-kid-to-rockefeller-scion CBS News 48 Hours - full case profile with jailhouse interview https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unmasking-con-man-and-rockefeller-imposter-christian-gerhartsreiter/ CBS News 48 Hours - did he almost commit the perfect crime? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rockefeller-impostor-murder-case-did-a-con-man-almost-commit-the-perfect-crime/ Walter Kirn - Pedigree, The New Yorker, June 2013 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/06/10/pedigree-personal-history-walter-kirn RealClearInvestigations - deep dive on the original Vanity Fair investigationhttps://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/05/30/investigative_classics_the_con_man_in_the_rockefeller_suit.html Oxygen - full Sohus case breakdown https://www.oxygen.com/blood-money/crime-news/what-happened-to-john-linda-sohus-christian-gerhartsreiter Oxygen - murder conviction details https://www.oxygen.com/a-wedding-and-a-murder/crime-news/christian-gerhartsreiter-convicted-murder-john-sohus Oxygen/Dateline - investigation narrative https://www.oxygen.com/dateline-secrets-uncovered/crime-news/christian-gerhartsreiter-convicted-of-john-sohus-murder Unsolved Mysteries Wiki - John and Linda Sohus case filehttps://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/John_and_Linda_Sohus Boston Globe - interview with Alexander Gerhartsreiter in Bergen, Bavaria https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2008/08/08/the-little-town-and-life-rockefeller-left-for-fame/l20Zs5ZzVbgic07Sf0MB6M/story.html Boston Herald - You found my brother https://www.bostonherald.com/2008/08/09/you-found-my-brother/ WildAboutTrial - murder trial coverage https://wildabouttrial.com/trial-coverage/clark-rockefeller/ 📚 BOOKS MENTIONED The Man in the Rockefeller Suit by Mark Seal (Viking, 2011) The definitive book on the case. Seal's original Vanity Fair investigation is what blew the lid off the story. Blood Will Out by Walter Kirn (Liveright, 2014) Kirn's personal account of his fifteen year friendship with Gerhartsreiter. One of the most unsettling memoirs you'll ever read. 🎬 DOCUMENTARY My Friend Rockefeller (2015), directed by Bernhard von Büttner Features interviews with Gerhartsreiter's Bavarian family and the Americans who knew him. Available on documentary streaming platforms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    55 min
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If you've ever gone down a rabbit hole at 2am and couldn't find your way back out, you're right at home! Pretty Wicked shares the stories you can't stop thinking about: murder, scandal, obsession, cults, and the cases that are just too wild to let go of. New episodes every Wednesday. 🖤 Subscribe so you never miss an episode. 📩 prettywickedthepodcast@gmail.com ✨ Instagram @prettywickedthepodcast If you're enjoying Pretty Wicked, consider leaving a rating and review. It makes a huge difference and helps other people find the show. It genuinely means the world!

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    Pretty Wicked | Southern Gothic Media
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    8
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