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Sword and Scale

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Language: en Society & Culture True Crime History

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Episode publication activity over the past year

Last Checked: 2025-11-02 09:03:50.020115
Showing episodes 101 to 200 of 319 total

Episode 219

05 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A mother’s unconditional love is put to the test when Steven Kelsey returns from basic training to...

Episode 218

21 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When Wisconsinites Bart and Krista Halderson were reported missing over the Fourth of July weekend i...

Episode 217

08 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Anthony Templet lived his whole life in a cage. One morning he decided to take his life into his own...

Episode 216

25 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On March 6th, 2015, the body of 85-year-old Anthony Tomaselli was discovered two weeks after the dea...

Episode 215

11 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What would you do if you worked your whole life to achieve the American dream and then you perceived...

Episode 214

27 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The town of Groton, Mass had never witnessed such a tragedy. A tragedy that would test the love and ...

Episode 213

13 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Thanksgiving of 2012 started off very poorly for the Redwine Family. When one member of their clan, ...

Episode 212

30 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It wasn’t an easy life for Ashley Biggs, a young woman from Ohio. Raised by her single mother and ...

Episode 211

16 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Oshkosh, Wisconsin, the city known for making overalls, tension was mounting between two Marine v...

Episode 210

02 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 2010, Indiana sentenced the third minor in the state's history to life in prison without parole. ...

Episode 209

18 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When Patricia Velazquez left her 12-year-old daughter Yhoanna home alone for a few hours on August 1...

Episode 208

04 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Who killed Carla Walker? In February of 1974, 17-year-old Carla Walker was abducted after attending ...

Episode 207

21 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Weeks go by in the search for missing jogger Mollie Tibbetts. An interagency taskforce has searched ...

Episode 206

07 Mar 2022

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9-year-old Jessica Marie Lunsford was an especially shy and polite young girl that lived with her gr...

Episode 205

21 Feb 2022

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On January 8th, 2007, the home of Liz Collier-Sweet was set ablaze by an unknown firebug. Little did...

Episode 204

07 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When 19-year-old Colorado resident Lea Porter went missing from Westminster on June 3rd, 2014, her f...

Episode 203

29 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

An early morning car accident would send the Boise PD reeling for answers. With two dead on the scen...

Episode 202

15 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In late October of 2017, two deer hunters discovered a naked and rotting human corpse in the Bruneau...

Episode 201

31 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What do you get when you cross a sheltered and immature young adult with the trials and tribulations...

Episode 200

18 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Raised in Pittsburgh, home of the Steelers, Andrea Curry Demus should have had a great life in a cit...

Episode 199

11 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Deep in the hills of Ohio, where people keep to themselves - hunting, fishing, and partying around t...

Episode 198

04 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In October of 2014, 53-year-old Chris Regan was reported missing in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan....

Episode 197

20 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We all want what’s best for our kids, but sometimes we need to let our children make their own mis...

Episode 196

13 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

29-year-old Daryne Gailey lost his freedom when his 65-year old mother, Sylvia Majewska, was granted...

Episode 195

30 Aug 2021

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19-year-old Lizzi Marriott was especially kind-hearted, always beaming with positivity, and dreamed ...

Episode 194

16 Aug 2021

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Loving parents Jason and Julie live on the California coast with their three young children and have...

Episode 193

02 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Each family has its own unique strengths and weaknesses, but what happens when the family dynamic be...

Episode 192

19 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In February of 2017, 28-year-old Kayla Crocker was found bound, bloody, and unresponsive in the nurs...

Episode 191

05 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When personal assistant Jennifer Fulford mysteriously disappeared from her wealthy employer’s hous...

Episode 190

28 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What happened to Lee Paulino? He disappeared days before Thanksgiving and the police just considered...

Episode 189

14 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Residents of the Marpole neighborhood in Vancouver, British Columbia suddenly found themselves doubl...

Episode 188

31 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On New Year's Day 2008, 24-year-old Meredith Emerson went missing after setting out on a hike up Blo...

Episode 187

17 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

21-year-old Alisha Bromfield had it all. She had a supportive friend group, a family who loved her, ...

Episode 186

02 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In October of 2005, empty nesters Dennis and Norma Woodruff were found shot and stabbed to death in ...

Episode 185

18 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We’re back to bring you the conclusion of the mysterious staged death of Natasha Waalen. In order ...

Episode 184

11 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When 29-year-old Natasha Waalen was found dead next to her dirt bike, police assumed it had been a t...

Episode 183

05 Apr 2021

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On Sunday June 28th, 2015, Dr. Teresa Sievers returned home early from a family vacation only to fin...

Episode 182

22 Mar 2021

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In December of 2000, 31-year-old real estate appraiser Mike Williams went missing while duck hunting...

Episode 181

08 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Zachary Penna was having a horrible day. He left work early to pick up his car but the auto shop sai...

Episode 180

22 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

An unreal crime scene with a dead fortune teller, her dead daughter, and an otherworldly tone has po...

Episode 179

06 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Markeith Loyd was not there for his first two children, but Sade Dixon gave him another chance at be...

Episode 178

24 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Holly Colino’s descent into madness took a long time. A series of unfortunate life events painted ...

Episode 177

11 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spawned from a long line of vicious criminals, Nikko Jenkins struck terror into Nebraskans when he c...

Episode 176

20 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We’re all looking forward to retirement, when we can finally cash out all of our hard-earned savin...

Episode 175

05 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Clark Fredericks was born with a hole in his heart. 46 years later, he was arrested for repeatedly s...

Episode 174

23 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Trouble in the Amato household began brewing in the summer of 2018, when Grant Amato, the youngest s...

Episode 173

08 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We move people who commit crimes far away from our society so they don’t harm anyone else… but m...

Episode 172

26 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Child abuse can take many forms and most of the time isn’t obvious. In rare cases it is near impos...

Episode 171

12 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We all know by now that there are good cops, and there are very bad cops. On December 29th, 2009, Ke...

Episode 170

21 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The world had a conniption when news headlines announced “Kevin Bacon-Murdered!” just before the...

Episode 169

28 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We take a break from the standard Sword and Scale format to chat about the current state of law enfo...

Episode 168

16 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We often think of true-crime from the perspective of law enforcement trying valiantly to pursue the ...

Episode 167

02 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The lives of Kevin and Marina Krim were forever changed on October 25th, 2012. All of New York City ...

Episode 166

19 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

July of 2016 was a bad month in Bend, Oregon. Isabel Ponce Lara woke up one morning to her husband, ...

Episode 165

29 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Freedom of speech and religion are two foundational parts of what this nation has to offer. They’r...

Episode 164

15 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Orange County California has seen its fair share of bizarre crimes. When Sam Herr, a decorated comba...

Episode 163

01 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

8-year-old Isabella Cipriano woke up in the middle of the night in April of 2012 to find that her fa...

Episode 162

18 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan Lawrence appeared to be a caring and dutiful father, taking his 21-month-old daughter Maddox wi...

Episode 161

04 May 2020

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On May 6th, 2013, Sharlene Bosma watched as her husband Tim pulled away from their house on a test d...

Episode 160

23 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Never before have so many of us been forcibly cooped up in our houses for this length of time. COVID...

Episode 159

20 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The quiet seclusion of rural Maine gives many people a feeling of solace but sometimes the isolation...

Episode 158

26 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Citizens of Bakersfield California were in for a crazy day on December 10, 2016. The public events o...

Episode 157

02 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Who do we blame when an innocent 8-year-old boy is brutally murdered in a stranger’s kitchen? In t...

Episode 156

01 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The United States has experienced a slew of mass murders in recent years, but the two mass shootings...

Episode 155

15 Feb 2020

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We’re back with the riveting conclusion to the tale of Ezra McCandless and her claims of repeated ...

Episode 154

02 Feb 2020

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Ezra McCandless wove a web of complicated relationships for herself, getting involved romantically w...

Episode 153

19 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A neighbor dispute turns deadly after a brain damaged war vet with PTSD finally snaps on Labor Day 2...

Episode 152

08 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This is the exciting conclusion of the Sheila Davalloo Story. If you haven’t listened to part one ...

Episode 151

23 Nov 2019

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This is the riveting first part of a two-part story that will leave you wondering “how well do I k...

Episode 150

10 Nov 2019

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Around 1 A.M. on October 15th, 2018, Barron County Sheriff’s Department receives a 911 call. What ...

Episode 149

27 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In April 2018, Boca Raton Police Department were alerted of a missing person. James Scandirito II wa...

Episode 148

13 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We’re taking a deep dive into the world of YouTube rant channels in the early 2000s. Tony48219 lov...

Episode 147

28 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sexual child abuse is so widespread that the numbers are astounding. We seem to forget that the thre...

Episode 146

08 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Domestic violence happens every day. It happens so often that as a society we’re numb to it. When ...

Episode 145

01 Sep 2019

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The afternoon of January 13th, 2010, a Conyers Georgia police officer encounters an exasperated 16-y...

Episode 144

18 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

When ‘Megan Wants A Millionaire’ is suspended from airing after only three episodes, a former Re...

Episode 143

04 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Most of the time, accidents are simply just that. Accidents. Sometimes though, collisions are made w...

Episode 142

21 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On July 17th, 2016, former United State Marine Gavin Long went into Baton Rouge, Louisiana to wage a...

Episode 141

14 Jul 2019

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When 23 year old Bonnie Haim goes missing in January of 1993, abandoning her husband and 3 year old ...

Episode 140

04 Jul 2019

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During the early morning hours of May 5th, 2012, Mark Duenas was awoken by what sounded like a catfi...

Episode 139

09 Jun 2019

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Andrew Urdiales, a serial killer with military training, attacks and tortures women across three sta...

Episode 138

26 May 2019

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The process of vetting those we allow into our lives is a precarious one. When young, prospective co...

Episode 137

12 May 2019

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On October 10th, 2008, 38-year-old Johnny Altinger made his way to South Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ...

Episode 136

21 Apr 2019

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Serious psychological issues can develop, fester, and become toxic in the cover of darkness when not...

Episode 135

07 Apr 2019

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16-year-old Emma Walker broke up with her boyfriend, 18-year-old Riley Gaul because she realized it ...

Episode 134

23 Mar 2019

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Sticks and stones will break my bones... a child's nursery rhyme which contains a universal truth th...

Episode 133

09 Mar 2019

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Three vicious murders in rural Northeastern Maine stun the small city of Amity’s 238 residents. A ...

Episode 132

25 Feb 2019

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On July 17th, 2016, Cara Beckerle went up to the bedroom of her 19-year-old daughter, Aleah, to chec...

Episode 131

11 Feb 2019

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Chris Watts is arrested and charged with murder on August 15th, 2018 in the disappearance of his pre...

Episode 130

26 Jan 2019

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On August 13th, 2018, expectant mother Shanann Watts and her daughters Bella and Celeste were report...

Episode 129

16 Dec 2018

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All you need, is love. The lyrics etched on the consciousness of an entire generation. But what happ...

Episode 128

09 Dec 2018

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9-year old Omaree Varela’s lifeless, bruised, and tattered body was recovered at the base of toy b...

Episode 127

25 Nov 2018

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In 2008, Adam Baker and his daughter, Zahra, moved to the United States from Queensland, Australia w...

Episode 126

11 Nov 2018

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On Tuesday September 13th, 2016 a 911 call police responded to 363 Covert Court Ashland, Ohio, an ab...

Episode 125

28 Oct 2018

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Chris and Cameron Ervin felt neglected and under-loved. In a life of increasing pressures, they numb...

Episode 124

13 Oct 2018

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In 1997, Shannon McCrossan moved with her two daughters, 8-year-old Kirsten Hatfield and 3-year-old ...

Episode 123

30 Sep 2018

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In the early morning hours of February 5th, 2015, a man wearing a mask and black tactical gear burst...

Episode 122

16 Sep 2018

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51-year-old Ruth Pyne is found beaten and stabbed to death in the garage of her home in Highland Tow...

Episode 121

02 Sep 2018

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On July 21st, 2006, an entire family seemingly disappeared from their home in Hopkinton, Massachuset...

Episode 120

19 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Everyone loves the idea of having the perfect family and keeping everyone close together. Go to work...