Switchblade Sisters Social Club

The Switchblade Sisters
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A true crime podcast where two friends exploit their worst fears for your entertainment. You're welcome! www.switchbladesisterssocialclub.com

  1. 6d ago

    Dee-Brief: Las Poquianchis

    In January 1964, police arrived at a remote ranch in the Mexican state of Guanajuato and discovered eleven women being held in secret. What those women told investigators would expose a network of exploitation, violence, corruption and death that had operated for around two decades and turn the González Valenzuela sisters, better known as Las Poquianchis, into some of the most infamous women in Mexican criminal history. In this episode of Dee-Brief, Dee travels back to Mexico in the 1940s, 50s and 60s to examine how sisters Delfina, María de Jesús, María Luisa and Carmen González Valenzuela built a network of brothels across Jalisco and Guanajuato. Content warning This episode discusses human trafficking, sexual exploitation, violence against women and girls, sexual assault, starvation and murder. SOURCES Guinness World Records “Most prolific murder partnership”

    Dee-Brief: Las Poquianchis

  2. Sep 23

    Dee-Brief: Fiona Beal and the Murder of Nicholas Billingham

    In November 2021, primary school teacher Fiona Beal told her headteacher that she and her partner, Nicholas Billingham, had tested positive for COVID and needed to isolate. It was the perfect cover story. Neither of them had COVID. And by the end of those ten days, Nick was dead and buried in the garden of the Northampton home they had shared. In this episode of Dee-Brief, Dee examines the extraordinary case of Fiona Beal: a highly regarded Year 6 teacher with no previous criminal record who meticulously planned the murder of her partner and then spent months constructing an elaborate fiction designed to convince his family and friends that he was still alive. Content warning This episode discusses domestic abuse allegations, sexual violence, suicide and self-harm, murder, and the concealment of a body. Sources

    Dee-Brief: Fiona Beal and the Murder of Nicholas Billingham

  3. Sep 16 ·  Bonus

    Dee-Brief: The Ripper Crew

    In the early 1980s, women began disappearing from the streets of Chicago. Some were later found murdered. Others, remarkably, survived. And the distinctive injuries inflicted upon them would eventually lead police to believe they weren’t dealing with isolated attacks at all. Their investigation led to four men: Robin Gecht, Edward Spreitzer and brothers Andrew and Thomas Kokoraleis. The press would give them the suitably horrifying name the Ripper Crew or Chicago Rippers. Dee, however, refuses to give them a nickname they might actually have enjoyed - so welcome to the story of the Loser Crew. Content warning: This episode discusses murder, sexual violence and mutilation. Some details are disturbing, although graphic descriptions have been kept to what is necessary to understand the case. 🎧 Listen to Dee-Brief wherever you get your podcasts. Sources  People v. Spreitzer (1988), Supreme Court of IllinoisRead via Justia People v. Kokoraleis (1989), Supreme Court of IllinoisRead via Justia People v. Kokoraleis (1990), Illinois Appellate CourtRead via CaseMine People v. Gecht (2008), Illinois Appellate Court Read via FindLaw Spreitzer v. Peters (1997), US Court of Appeals for the Seventh CircuitRead via Justia Kokoraleis v. Gilmore (1998), US Court of Appeals for the Seventh CircuitRead via Justia United Press International archives (1982–1987)UPI report, 10 November 1982UPI report, 11 November 1982 Illinois Department of Corrections.Robin Gecht recordEdward Spreitzer record Associated Press and ABC7 Chicago, 2019Associated Press reportABC7 Chicago report CBS Chicago, 2019 CBS Chicago interview and report Amnesty International, 1999Read the Amnesty International document “Satanic Abuse, False Memories, Weird Beliefs and Moral Panics”Read via City St George’s, University of London

    Dee-Brief: The Ripper Crew

  4. Sep 2 ·  Bonus

    Dee-Brief: The Not So Merry Widow of Bicester

    Dee-Brief: The Not So Merry Widow of BicesterThe wartime love triangle that ended in triple murder Dee explores one of Britain's most sensational murder cases of the Second World War, a story of jealousy, deception, and a relationship so unconventional it shocked 1940s Britain. When successful publisher Walter Fisher began living openly with his mistress, Florence Ransom, while his wife Dorothy pursued a relationship of her own, the arrangement appeared to work. Until July 1940. One summer afternoon, Dorothy Fisher, her daughter Freda, and housekeeper Charlotte Saunders were all shot dead at a cottage in rural Kent. Police quickly focused on Florence Ransom after witnesses reported seeing a well-dressed woman travelling more than one hundred miles carrying a suspicious parcel wrapped in brown paper. What followed was one of the most talked-about murder trials of wartime Britain. Dee examines the extraordinary investigation, the forensic work of the legendary Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the evidence that convicted Florence, and why her death sentence was ultimately commuted when doctors declared her insane. Although later true crime writers dubbed her "The Merry Widow of Bicester," there's nothing merry about this tragic story, one that left three innocent women dead and many questions unanswered. 🎙 Follow Switchblade Sisters Social Club wherever you get your podcasts, and don't forget to leave us a rating and review—it really helps independent podcasts reach more listeners. Sources The Times archives Daily Telegraph archives

    Dee-Brief: The Not So Merry Widow of Bicester

  5. Aug 26

    Dee-Brief: Frank Sinatra - The Crooner, the Mob & the FBI

    Was Ol' Blue Eyes simply well connected… or something more? Frank Sinatra sold more than 150 million records, won an Academy Award, helped define Las Vegas, and became one of the most recognisable entertainers in history. But alongside the music was another story. One involving Mafia bosses, FBI surveillance, politicians, casinos, Hollywood, and a 2,300-page FBI file. Did Sinatra simply move in circles where organised crime figures were impossible to avoid? Or were his relationships with some of America's most powerful mobsters closer than he ever admitted? Dee separates fact from fiction, exploring Sinatra's early arrest, his friendship with notorious gangster Willie Moretti, the famous Tommy Dorsey contract rumours, the Cal-Neva Lodge scandal, his connections to John F. Kennedy, and why the FBI spent decades watching one of America's favourite singers. Despite years of surveillance, one fact remains clear: Frank Sinatra was never convicted of any organised crime offence. So how much was evidence… …and how much became legend? 🎙 Follow Switchblade Sisters Social Club wherever you get your podcasts, and don't forget to leave us a rating and review—it genuinely helps independent podcasts reach new listeners. Sources FBI Records: The Vault – Frank Sinatra Smithsonian Magazine website History.com

    Dee-Brief: Frank Sinatra - The Crooner, the Mob & the FBI

  6. Aug 19 ·  Bonus

    Dee-Brief: Birmingham's Last Public Execution

    The man who was hanged for murdering someone who wasn't dead In this episode of Dee-Brief, Dee uncovers one of Birmingham's strangest and most misunderstood criminal cases. In 1806, Philip Matsell was publicly hanged before a crowd of around 40,000 people after being convicted of murdering night watchman Robert Twyford. There's just one problem. Twyford wasn't dead. In fact, he survived the shooting and lived for another eight years. So how could someone be executed for murder when the victim was still alive? The answer lies in a fascinating mixture of nineteenth-century law, public opinion, unreliable witnesses, and the way history sometimes simplifies a much more complicated story. Along the way, Dee explores Birmingham before modern policing, the role of night watchmen, the dramatic public execution that became the city's last, and the lingering questions over whether Philip Matsell was even the right man. 🎙 Follow Switchblade Sisters Social Club wherever you get your podcasts, and don't forget to leave us a rating and review. It really helps independent podcasts grow. Sources The Birmingham Dispatch – The Murder That Never Was: The Strange Story of Birmingham's Last Public Execution Contemporary reports from The Birmingham Gazette

    Dee-Brief: Birmingham's Last Public Execution

  7. Aug 12 ·  Bonus

    Dee-Brief: Mary Bateman - The Yorkshire Witch

    The conwoman, poisoner, and "witch" who convinced people a chicken could predict the Second Coming Dee heads to Yorkshire to uncover the astonishing story of Mary Bateman - a woman remembered as The Yorkshire Witch, despite never being convicted of witchcraft. Born into poverty in the eighteenth century, Mary discovered that fear, superstition and false hope could be far more profitable than honest work. She reinvented herself as a fortune teller, sold charms and curses, invented imaginary spiritual advisers, and even convinced hundreds of people that her pet hen was laying miraculous eggs bearing messages from God. But beneath the theatrical scams lay something far darker. When William and Rebecca Perigo sought Mary's help for Rebecca's illness, they believed they were buying protection from a curse. Instead, they were given poison. Rebecca would pay with her life. Dee explores one of Britain's most extraordinary true crime stories - a tale of fraud, manipulation, murder, public executions, miracle chickens, fake psychics, and one of the strangest post-mortem legacies in criminal history, when pieces of Mary's own skin were turned into souvenirs. 🎙 Follow Switchblade Sisters Social Club wherever you get your podcasts, and don't forget to leave us a rating and review—it makes a huge difference to independent podcasts. Sources Summers, Montague. The History of Witchcraft and Demonology Thackray Museum of Medicine Leeds Libraries Local History Collection Leeds Mercury archives British Newspaper Archive

    Dee-Brief: Mary Bateman - The Yorkshire Witch

  8. Aug 5

    Dee-Brief: The Assassination of President Garfield

    The President who may have been killed by his own doctors. In this episode of Dee-Brief, Dee explores one of the most extraordinary assassinations in American history, and one of history's greatest medical "what ifs." When President James A. Garfield was shot by disappointed office-seeker Charles Guiteau in July 1881, many believed his fate was sealed.But modern medical experts tell a very different story. The bullet itself may not have been fatal.Instead, Garfield endured eighty days of repeated examinations by doctors who repeatedly inserted unwashed fingers and unsterilised instruments into his wounds, unknowingly introducing life-threatening infection. Today, many historians believe it was sepsis - not the gunshot - that ultimately killed the twentieth President of the United States. 🎙 Follow Switchblade Sisters Social Club wherever you get your podcasts, and don't forget to leave us a rating and review, it genuinely helps independent podcasts grow. Sources Ackerman, Kenneth D. Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield Library of Congress U.S. Senate Historical Office White House Historical Association National Park Service – James A. Garfield National Historic Site Smithsonian Magazine

    Dee-Brief: The Assassination of President Garfield
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A true crime podcast where two friends exploit their worst fears for your entertainment. You're welcome! www.switchbladesisterssocialclub.com

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  • Creator
    The Switchblade Sisters
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    171
  • Rating
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