Original music by Martin D. FowlerMarion Lozano and Dan Powell Engineered by Phoebe Wang When the reporter Dyan Neary attended a county commissioners’ meeting in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, she ...

Throughout Central Europe, 16th-century noblewoman Elizabeth Báthory is infamous for torture and murder. But was she really as evil as history tells it? Irretrievably mired in myth and speculation, ...

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In a new memoir, April Balascio details her unsettling upbringing, the grim discovery about her dad and how she hopes to link him to other unsolved cases Jonathan Easterling In 2018, April Balascio ...

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