205: Psychics and Crime

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205: Psychics and Crime

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Apr 15, 2019

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On the record, police rarely admit to using psychics to solve crimes. But a surprising number of detectives often consult with soothsayers to discover new leads.

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Apr 15, 2019

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Are killers born or are they made? Does everyone have the capacity to commit murder? Why is true crime so popular today? The Philosophy of Crime tackles the biggest questions about unsolved mysteries by looking to classical philosophy for answers.

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6: 106: Effect & Cause: We want so desperately to go back in time and stop a crime from happening. But we can't change the past. Or can we? by The Philosophy of Crime
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5: 105: Does Everyone Have the Capacity to Kill?: You're not a murderer, right? You wouldn't even hurt a fly, would you? Don't be so sure. by The Philosophy of Crime
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5: 205: Psychics and Crime: On the record, police rarely admit to using psychics to solve crimes. But a surprising number of detectives often consult with soothsayers to discover new leads. by The Philosophy of Crime
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2: 102: Are Killers Born Bad or Are They Made That Way?: Nature or nurture? What makes a man evil? Is it genetics or is it their environment? And is there even such a thing as free will? by The Philosophy of Crime
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6: 206: The Ethics of Familial DNA: The world has changed. A new tool has been created to solve the coldest cases. And if we're not careful, it'll be taken away from us in a heartbeat. by The Philosophy of Crime
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4: 104: How Should the Media Cover Crime?: A brief history of crime reporting and how we screwed it up in America. by The Philosophy of Crime
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1: 101: Why Is True Crime So Popular?: Where does our fascination with true crime come from? When did this obsession begin? Renner traces it all back to the "true crime singularity." by The Philosophy of Crime
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4: 204: Why Do We Still Have the Death Penalty?: In the United States, we still execute prisoners for a variety of crimes. We are one of the last civilized societies to do so. Why is capital punishment so popular, here? by The Philosophy of Crime
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301: Why Do Some Crimes Have a Statute of Limitations?: When a crime is committed, a clock begins to tick. If you're not charged before time runs out, you can never be prosecuted. But why? Topics Covered: Ted Conrad, Demosthenes, Statute of Limitations, Phormion, Bill Cosby, Andrea Constand, John Demjanjuk, Amnesty, Thirty Tyrants, Critias, Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, Charles Griswold, Amy Mihaljevic Further Reading: <a href="https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1107&context=facpubs">https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1107&context=facpubs</a> <a href="https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2008/01/theodore_john_conrad_the_fbi_h.html">https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2008/01/theodore_john_conrad_the_fbi_h.html</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlT5Ez_Hfao">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlT5Ez_Hfao</a> <a href="https://people.com/crime/who-is-andrea by The Philosophy of Crime
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306: What Really Happened at Kent State?: 50 years ago this week, 4 students were killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State. But nobody can agree on who fired first. And the only man who knows the truth is a car salesmen who lives on a mountain.  Covered Topics: Kent State, Terry Norman, National Guard, Kent State Shootings, My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, Pontius Pilate, Objective Truth, Friedrich Nietzsche, Eugene Wigner, Massimiliano Proietti, Perspectivism, Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, William Schroeder Further Reading: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y5cftds7-8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y5cftds7-8</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN7PUy8ZrQE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN7PUy8ZrQE</a> https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-how-repetition-creates-an-illusion-of-truth <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth/">https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth/</a> <a href="https://w by The Philosophy of Crime
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402: What Are Grand Juries and Why Do They Need To Go?: It's 2021 and we still have secret courts in the United States. What are Grand Juries anyway? How do they work? What are they for? And why are they the worst? Covered Topics: Breonna Taylor, Grand Juries, Sol Wachtler, Karl Popper, Plato, George Schwartz, Social Contract, George Soros, Tamir Rice Further Reading: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/breonna-taylor-grand-jury.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/breonna-taylor-grand-jury.html</a> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/29/us/breonna-taylor-grand-jurors/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/29/us/breonna-taylor-grand-jurors/index.html</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDaNU7yDnsc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDaNU7yDnsc</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7thxae0AFM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7thxae0AFM</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/us/breonna-taylor by The Philosophy of Crime
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404: Should We Defund the Police?: What do we mean when we say we want to defund the police? Also, who came up with the idea of police originally, and how are they supposed to act? Covered topics: George Floyd, Derek Chauvin, Robert Peel, Peelian Principles, Rover’s Morning Glory, Steven Kinas, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract, Mariame Kaba Further Reading: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnxlq5XQMkg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnxlq5XQMkg</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles</a> <a href="https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2014/04/23/anger-managed-the-copy-who-arrested-rover-has-a-history-of-violence-and-plenty-to-say-about-that-july-fourth-night">https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2014/04/23/anger-managed-the-copy-who-arrested- by The Philosophy of Crime
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501: How Can Lawyers Defend Guilty People?: How Can Lawyers Defend Guilty People? by The Philosophy of Crime
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Bonus: Little Liars Everywhere - Four murders, two false confessions, one meddling cop.: This is a special, bonus episode of The Philosophy of Crime. It's a piece of long-form journalism I wrote about a man named Donny Soke, who I met while researching the unsolved murder of Lisa Pruett. Donny is serving a 888-year prison sentence for murders he did not commit. Please listen to his story.  --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/philosophyofcrime/support" rel="payment">https://anchor.fm/philosophyofcrime/support</a> by The Philosophy of Crime
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406: Killer Art, Or How to Love Thriller While Still Hating Michael Jackson: What happens to the art when an artist becomes a criminal? Can we still enjoy a good song written by a maniac? Or does that make us enablers? Covered Topics: Michael Jackson, John Landis, Thriller, David Foster Wallace, Roland Barthes, Death of the Author, Hitler, John Wayne Gacy Further Reading: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/21/michael-jackson-thriller-changed-music-videos">https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/21/michael-jackson-thriller-changed-music-videos</a> <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/10/11/17933686/me-too-separating-artist-art-johnny-depp-woody-allen-michael-jackson-louis-ck">https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/10/11/17933686/me-too-separating-artist-art-johnny-depp-woody-allen-michael-jackson-louis-ck</a> <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/the-world-still-spins-around-male-genius/559925/">https: by The Philosophy of Crime
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502: Does Reward Money Ever Help Solve Cold Cases?: Does Reward Money Ever Help Solve Cold Cases? by The Philosophy of Crime
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302: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Or Is It?: Learn about the "Mean World Syndrome" and how the world is actually safer than you think. Topics: Mean World Syndrome, George Gerbner, Logical Fallacies, Aristotle, Serial Killer's Apprentice Further reading: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndrome">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndrome</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gerbner">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gerbner</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-0E4qHqZ5o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-0E4qHqZ5o</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy</a> <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/the-rise-of-mean-world-syndrome-in-social-media/article21481089/">https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/the-rise-of-mean-world-syndrome-in-social-media/article21481089/</a> <a by The Philosophy of Crime
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405: Renner's 2nd Law of True Crime Dynamics: For every tragedy, there exists an equal an opposite moment of grace. What is going on here? And what does it say about humanity? Covered Topics: Harvey Weinstein, Woody Allen, Ronan Farrow, Karma, Ka Like a Wheel, Amber Hagerman, Rae-Leigh Bradbury, Amber Alert, Karen Perez, Tim Miller, Texas EquuSearch, Adam Walsh, America’s Most Wanted, Otis Toole, Werhner von Braun, Martin Bryant, DJ Grandmaster Caz, Mr. Rogers Further Reading: <a href="https://www.insider.com/good-things-because-of-bad-things-2018-3#the-outcome-amber-alerts-were-born-14">https://www.insider.com/good-things-because-of-bad-things-2018-3#the-outcome-amber-alerts-were-born-14</a> <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/my-father-woody-allen-danger-892572">https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/my-father-woody-allen-danger-892572</a> <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/from-aggressive-overtures-to-sexual-assault-ha by The Philosophy of Crime
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4: 204: Why Do We Still Have the Death Penalty?: In the United States, we still execute prisoners for a variety of crimes. We are one of the last civilized societies to do so. Why is capital punishment so popular, here? by The Philosophy of Crime
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Lost in Midland: Where is Caitlin Denison?: In January 2018, 19-year-old Caitlin Denison boarded a plane from Reno, Nevada to Midland, Texas. The following day, she briefly spoke with her sister but hasn’t been heard from since. Though the man she traveled to Midland with was found and... by Gone Cold - Texas True Crime
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406: Killer Art, Or How to Love Thriller While Still Hating Michael Jackson: What happens to the art when an artist becomes a criminal? Can we still enjoy a good song written by a maniac? Or does that make us enablers? Covered Topics: Michael Jackson, John Landis, Thriller, David Foster Wallace, Roland Barthes, Death of the Author, Hitler, John Wayne Gacy Further Reading: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/21/michael-jackson-thriller-changed-music-videos">https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/21/michael-jackson-thriller-changed-music-videos</a> <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/10/11/17933686/me-too-separating-artist-art-johnny-depp-woody-allen-michael-jackson-louis-ck">https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/10/11/17933686/me-too-separating-artist-art-johnny-depp-woody-allen-michael-jackson-louis-ck</a> <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/the-world-still-spins-around-male-genius/559925/">https: by The Philosophy of Crime
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REOPENED: A Killer's Dream: For over 20 years, Kirsten was haunted by the unsolved murder of her mother when she was eight years old. And while Kirsten's nightmare drove her to keep working with Cold Case detectives and never stop believing her mother's... by Cold Case Files
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Disrupting online child sexual abuse material by CrimPod
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The Cufflink: A woman is found murdered in a Michigan park, bound with police-grade, plastic handcuffs. Investigator’s prime suspect is found with identical cuffs in his possession, but without any additional clues detectives must get creative to link... by Cold Case Files
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Sweet-Talking Percy [4] by The MLK Tapes
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New Victim of Doodler Serial Killer Identified? by Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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Incendiary by Forensic Files II
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26: The Sun Does Shine by Suspect Convictions
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27: She Saw What? by Suspect Convictions
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Dishonorable: On this episode of They Walk Among America… A sergeant is shot and killed outside his fathers home on New Year’s Eve, 2018. Trust is imperative when serving in the military. If you can not trust your fellow servicemen, who can you trust?… **... by They Walk Among America - US True Crime
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EPISODE 3: A Bloody Fingerprint, A Bent Fire Poker, and Mystery DNA: The knife used to kill John Sheridan is just the first of many clues casting doubt on law enforcement’s conclusion of murder suicide. A newspaper crime reporter, a veteran homicide detective out of Philly, and a whistleblower point to significant pieces of evidence that have been disregarded—even thrown into a dumpster. Although Mark has the state attorney general and the county prosecutor in his cell phone, he still gets stonewalled. The authorities assure the political insider that his parents had a dark secret, which will eventually come to light. Mark isn’t convinced. Instead, as he goes through his parent’s papers, he stumbles into a different fight. New voices interviewed in episode: • Barbara Boyer, reporter from the Philadelphia Inquirer • Eddie Rocks, veteran homicide detective, retired from the Philadelphia police. • Lawrence Kobilinski, professor emeritus, department of sciences at John Jay College of Crimi by Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery
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Aspiring Model Raped, Murdered, Body Discarded Behind Warehouse: Mary Jane Thompson, 21, wants to be a model. by Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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KILLING TIME: ST. PATTY'S: This week the girls and the goth throw on their green garb to celebrate St. Patty's day! They share some bizarre shit that has happened on the lucky day over the years, and debate Irish Car Bombs, outdoor seating, and pinching someone for not wearing green. Plus, does Billy own a merkin? Listen to find out! by The First Degree
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Season 2 - Episode 11: WARNING: THIS IS PART TWO OF A TWO-PART STORY. PLEASE LISTEN TO SEASON 2 - EPISODE 10 FOR MORE DETAILS ON THIS CASE.  Jennifer and June Gibbons were twins. They would shut themselves away in their bedroom, not coming down for meals, and even... by They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime
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