Sword and Scale
Episodes
Episode 35
18 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you run out of luck? You lose your job, your marriage, your home, your arms and legs, the respect of your parents, and your will to ...
Episode 34
11 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Probably the most horrific murder publicly accessible though a variety of social media, the death of Lin Jun was a public execution for all to see. Th...
Episode 33
04 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
One of the more bizarre stories of our lifetime, the story of Luka Magnotta is wrought with remorseful refrains and awkward pauses. This is a man, who...
Episode 32
08 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In this season finale of Sword and Scale, we bring back many of the guests we've spoken to over the last year and ask them a fundamental question that...
Episode 31
24 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
There are 2.2 million schizophrenics in the United States. You have a one in a hundred chance of encountering one on any given day. Most are non-viole...
Episode 30
09 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The story of Herman Webster Mudgett, otherwise known as H.H. Holmes, has been told numerous times: a brilliant man with so much potential but so inher...
Episode 29
20 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The term "bluebeard" conveys images of pirates sailing the high seas, but the actual meaning of this term is much darker and there are examples of it ...
Episode 28
29 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone thought Joshua Gouker was a dangerous criminal. It was easy to convict him of murdering his 14-year-old step son Trey Zwicker, especially aft...
Episode 27
22 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In this special two-parter, the brutal and inexplicable murder of a 14-year-old boy exposes a dysfunctional American family's secrets and lies. This i...
Episode 26
29 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This is one of the most under-reported murders in the history of the North American Continent. A mutilation that took hours and mind that was so distu...
Episode 25
15 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Every year more than 3 million reports of child abuse are made in the United States involving more than 6 million children. Being one of these childre...
Episode 24
02 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
With just 10,000 residents, the small town of Jennings, Louisiana has one of the highest crime rates per capita of any US town. Any vice you're lookin...
Episode 23
19 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
What could be more horrifying, terrible, and heart-breaking than a mother intentionally taking the life of her own child. The fact that there's even a...
Episode 22
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A family divided, a hungry media looking for answers, and an inept police department looking for answers to explain and more importantly prove the ine...
Episode 21
21 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Historical Crime Detective Jason Morrow joins us once again to tell the tale of a mysterious killer who took on the persona of a secret agent in the S...
Episode 20
12 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Ronald William Brown was a ventriloquist puppeteer on a television program called Joy Junction, a variety show on the Christian Television Network. La...
Episode 19
04 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Elliot Rodger's privileged background and his family's ties to Hollywood didn't help him get accepted by those around him. Instead his awkward behavio...
Episode 18
26 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
How much to you trust your friends? How much do you know your friends? What would they do for you? What would you do for them? In this episode of Swor...
Episode 17
19 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Sword and Scale we recap the last month's most bizarre stories in the genre of true crime. Quite a few people in trouble have gotte...
Episode 16
12 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren Giddings had just graduated law school and was getting ready for a new life when she suddenly disappeared from her apartment in Macon, Georgia....
Episode 15
04 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A deliberate murder that took 8 years of planning and plenty of hard work to accomplish. It involved a man, his truck, and an underground bunker in th...
Episode 14
23 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Usually we find the stories we want to talk about on Sword and Scale. This week the story found us, in the form of a cry for help from the surviving s...
Episode 13
16 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're joined by former ex-inmate Glenn Langohr, who spent 10 years behind bars at some of California's toughest level 4 prisons, before rein...
Episode 12
26 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
When 20-year-old Morgan Ingram tragically died in 2011, the family couldn't deal with their grief. What followed was a bizarre and prolonged Internet ...
Episode 11
19 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a family's grief slips into malice and madness, when a mother is so hell-bent on being portrayed as a victim that she begins victimi...
Episode 10
12 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Any untimely death is a tragedy, but when the victim is young, beautiful, and an all-around wonderful person, the whole thing seems to be much worse. ...
Episode 9
26 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
If you had to choose a method of execution for yourself, which would you choose? What if you learned that what is considered the most "humane" method ...
Episode 8
19 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This week the true-crime media has been abuzz reporting the verdict of the Michael Dunn "Loud Music Murder Trial." On Sword and Scale we do things a l...
Episode 7
12 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
"White House Boy" Roger Dean Kiser tells us the story of his personal hell. To him, this world which anyone would consider a living hell was just norm...
Episode 6
05 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This is the conclusion to a two part saga involving the organized abduction and abuse of children and ritualistic murders by satanic cults allegedly h...
Episode 5
29 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a criminal conspiracy and cover-up so so massive in scale, involving the highest levels of government and industry, that it threatens the very...
Episode 4
22 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On Friday, October 5th 2012, 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway disappeared on her way to school. This is the story of what happened to her and how the subu...
Episode 3
15 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
It's really true that Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. This week we examine the fascinating topic of female serial killers, including the tale ...
Episode 2
08 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Psychopaths are all around us. Who are they? What are they? What makes them feel no empathy for other human beings, seeing them only as objects to man...
Episode 1
01 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In this debut episode of Sword and Scale, author Janice Holly Booth tells the story of Bruce Blackman's slip into the dark depths of schizophrenia and...