Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes
Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes is a true crime and conspiracy theories podcast about the people who take belief too far and the deadly consequences that follow. Hosted by Vanessa Richardson, two weekly episodes unpack real stories of murderous cults, criminal cover-ups, mass manipulation, and twisted conspiracies. From Jonestown and Heaven’s Gate to CIA mind control experiments, presidential assassinations, and the Octopus Murders. This is true crime at the intersection of faith, fear an...
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Episodes (127)
CRIME: Who Killed JonBenét?
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CULT: Power in the Woods: Bohemian Grove
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CONSPIRACY THEORY: Did the CIA Invent Modern Art?
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CRIME: LSD & Mind Control: Operation Midnight Climax
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CULT: God's Drug Empire: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love
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CONSPIRACY THEORY: Brazil's UFO Cover-Up: The Varginha Incident feat. Laurah Nor...
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CRIME: Chico Mendes: Killed for the Trees
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CULT: The Ayahuasca Cult: Santo Daime
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CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Ark of the Covenant
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CRIME: The Mysterious Murder of Barry & Honey Sherman
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CULT: Secrets of Opus Dei
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CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Pizza Connection
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CRIME: $200,000 and a Parachute: D.B. Cooper
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CULT: Lords of Darkness: The Hellfire Club
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CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Princes in the Tower
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CRIME: Never Caught: Jack the Ripper
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CULT: Blood and Brotherhood: The Yakuza
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CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Vanishing Fortune: Lost Confederate Gold
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Deadly Destinations: Trip of a Lifetime
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CRIME: One Bullet, One Nation: The Lincoln Assassination
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CULT: Knights of the Golden Circle
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CONSPIRACY THEORY: Thomas Jefferson's Secret Family
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Deadly Destinations: Into the Wild
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CRIME: The Donner Party
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CULT: Free Love, Total Control: The Oneida Community
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CONSPIRACY THEORY: The MLK Assassination
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Deadly Destinations: Death on the High Seas
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CRIME: The FBI's War on Black America: COINTELPRO
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CULT: Warren Jeffs & the FLDS
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CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Happiest Place You Can't Leave: The Disney Machine
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Deadly Destinations: Paradise Lost
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CRIME: The Mysterious Death of Marilyn Monroe
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CULT: Skull & Bones
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CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
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CRIME: The Boston Massacre
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CULT: The Freemasons
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CONSPIRACY THEORY: Who Drew the Nazca Lines?
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CRIME: Captain Phillips & the Maersk Alabama
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CULT: Pacific Cargo Cults
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CONSPIRACY THEORY: China's Bigfoot featuring Maci and Nadoly from GHOSTEAS
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CRIME: Griselda Blanco the Cocaine Godmother
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CULTS: Colonia Dignidad
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CONSPIRACY THEORY: Lemuria the Lost Continent
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CRIME: Black Bart the Outlaw Poet
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CULT: The I AM Movement
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CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Bridgewater Triangle
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CRIME: The Great Maple Syrup Heist featuring Ashley & Ricky from Crime Salad
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CULT: The Breatharians
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CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Banana Wars
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