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The Franklin story is a rabbit hole for sure. As you research or read the books, The Franklin Cover-Up by John Decamp or The Franklin Scandal by Nick Bryant, its hard not to trail off onto a different path. Those paths include other trafficking rings, government programs, terror plots, satanism and various forms of corruption. It seems to never end.

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Part 2 of the Franklin trafficking ring covers the interview of Alisha Owens. Alisha, one of the several alleged victims, provided a taped interview to Gary Caradori. The interview lasted several hours and covered events beginning in 1983.

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This is part 1 of our series discussing what is often called the Franklin Scandal or the Franklin Cover-Up. Our discussion is partially based on two books, The Franklin Cover-Up by John DeCamp and The Franklin Scandal by Nicholas Bryant.

In 1988, the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union, located in Omaha, NE, was raided by federal banking officials. An estimated $34-$40,000,000 had been embezzled by its manager, Lawrence King. The investigation into King took a disgusting turn. Reports were turned over to the Nebraska Legislature implicating King in a child trafficking ring that would span coast to coast. Over the next few weeks, we will discuss and attempt to unravel the series of disturbing events that were alleged to have taken place.

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Where are all of our missing children?

September 5, 1982, Des Moines, Iowa, while beginning his newspaper route, 12 year old Johnny Gosch vanished and has not been seen since. Where is Johnny?

In this episode, we discuss the disappearance of Johnny Gosch, the determination of his mother to find him, law enforcement failures, and the beginning of the milk carton kids. It also leads us into the beginning of another far more sinister "theory".

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Twenty stab wounds, a locked apartment, and a Hulu documentary that convinced almost everyone it was murder. We took the harder road: slowing down, cross-checking the autopsy findings, scene photos, surveillance timestamps, and medical records to ask what the evidence really shows—and why it might point in a direction most people don’t want to consider.

We start with the timeline and the door. The swing-latch wasn’t magically intact; it was displaced in a way that makes mechanical sense when a door is rammed, allowing it to open without ripping the hardware free. The 911 call confusion? Add stress, a partially obscured knife handle, and a four-minute video timestamp variance, and the “gotchas” fade. Then we dig into the wounds: many superficial punctures, one fatal chest wound, and no defensive injuries. The blood is localized, with no true castoff you’d expect from a rapid, repeated stabbing in a struggle. A tipped butcher block sits inches from an undisturbed fruit bowl and coffee pot—hard to square with a chaotic assault in tight quarters.

The biggest twist comes from the medical and behavioral context. Ellen had newly started clonazepam and zolpidem, both associated with increased suicidality, dissociation, and rare parasomnias early in treatment. Co-workers described acute anxiety and obsessive rumination that day. Forensic literature documents self-stabbings with multiple shallow “test” wounds before a fatal thrust. The debated “spinal cord” injury? A later review suggests a round autopsy probe likely caused the minor dural puncture, consistent with the lack of hemorrhage at that site. When you stack these elements—mechanics, blood dynamics, wound profiles, psychological factors—the pattern aligns with suicide, not homicide.

We don’t dismiss the family’s grief or the frustration triggered by a thin initial investigation. Poor scene documentation invited speculation and internet certainty. But certainty should live or die on facts, not edits. Listen for a careful walk-through of what’s in the record and why our conclusion differs from the viral narrative. If this challenges your view, lean in with us. Then tell us what you think, where we’re wrong, and what evidence would change your mind.

If this deep dive resonates, follow the show, share with a friend who’s true-crime-savvy, and leave a review with your take—we’ll read the best ones on air.

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Lori Vallow-Daybell's case became headline news for reasons no one could have imagined: missing children, sudden deaths, and a belief system rooted in the apocalypse. In this episode, we discuss the haunting case of Lori, a mother whose descent into fringe beliefs and secretive relationships led to one of the most heartbreaking criminal investigations in recent years.

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Ed Gein inspired movies such as Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Ed was also featured on the series Monster. Who was Ed Gein?

In this episode we discuss the history of the Gein family and Ed Gein himself. Ed grew up in a small town, Plainfield, Wisconsin. He was quiet, timid, soft spoken, a hard worker, and a psychopath. He murdered two women, dug up bodies from their graves, mutilated, and made clothing from the skin of human bodies.

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Inaccurately dubbed the first female serial killer, Aileen Wuornos confessed do killing 7 men on the highways of Florida. Convicted of 6 murders, she was sentenced and ultimately put to death.

Aileen's life seemed doomed from the start. Her parents split before birth. Her father imprisoned for rape and kidnapping of a child and her mom abandoned her at the age of four. Left with her biological grandparents, her life continued to spiral. Prostitution, incest, pregnancy, alcoholism, homelessness, all before the age of 16.

In this episode, we discuss Aileen's life, crimes, and ultimately, her death by lethal injection.

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