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The Morbid History Podcast · Wednesday · 48 min

Episode 18: Dead Reckoning

A dead man's satchel. Nine handwritten pages. Thirty-eight years of silence. In this episode: the people who bet everything on the grave keeping their secrets. A knighted BBC icon who groomed an entire nation while institutions looked away, protected by charity and fame until fourteen months after his funeral. A quiet librarian who confessed to murder the same night he committed it, then carried the proof in a bag for four decades. Plus six more killers, hoaxers, and fugitives who all made the same calculation: that death was far enough away from accountability. Some of them were right. Some weren't. The grave is deep. It's not always deep enough. Original music in this episode is provided by the talented: SHDWLRKR www.MorbidHistoryPod.com

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A dead man's satchel.

Nine handwritten pages.

Thirty-eight years of silence.

 

In this episode: the people who bet everything on the grave keeping their secrets. A knighted BBC icon who groomed an entire nation while institutions looked away, protected by charity and fame until fourteen months after his funeral. A quiet librarian who confessed to murder the same night he committed it, then carried the proof in a bag for four decades. Plus six more killers, hoaxers, and fugitives who all made the same calculation: that death was far enough away from accountability.

 

Some of them were right. Some weren't.

The grave is deep. It's not always deep enough.

 

Original music in this episode is provided by the talented:
SHDWLRKR

www.MorbidHistoryPod.com

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