Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén

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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Molly Watson had waited seven long years for her happily-ever-after wedding with her boyfriend, Jim. Then, less than 48 hours before they were supposed to walk down the aisle, Molly was murdered. And Jim either had the wildest, unluckiest story ever... or he'd fabricated a strange and demented series of lies.

Sources for this episode include:State of Missouri vs. James Addie (Respondent’s Brief)20/20, “I Now Pronounce You Dead” (ABC, 2022)Trial Testimony (Court TV, 2021)

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A charismatic leader convinces his devoted followers that salvation awaits aboard an alien spacecraft trailing a comet—leading the Heaven’s Gate cult to a tragic, otherworldly mass suicide that exposed the dangerous power of blind faith and cosmic delusion.Sources for this episode include:

Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults (HBO Max)Heaven’s Gate: America’s UFO Religion by Benjamin E. ZellerBounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults by Janja A. Lalich

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A brilliant con man turns his life into a high-stakes romantic heist, embezzling fortunes and pulling off mind-bending jailbreaks—all to keep the man he loves in the lifestyle he thinks he deserves.

Sources for this episode include:

I Love You Phillip Morris : A True Story of Life, Love and Prison Breaks by Steve McVicker

Reporting from Alex Hannaford in Esquire

The Guardian

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