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Best friends and next door neighbors, Lillian and Willow, spill the tea on murder, mysteries, and things that go bump in the night. Join us for tea as we talk...
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Best friends and next door neighbors, Lillian and Willow, spill the tea on murder, mysteries, and things that go bump in the night. Join us for tea as we talk about true crime, strange history, and the paranormal Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cruelteapod/support
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The Hidden Victims of Ariel Castro, Part One of the Ariel Castro Captivity Case Season 2 Episode 210
1 MAR 2023 · TW/CW: DV, CSA, SABefore Ariel Castro kidnapped and held captive three young women, he held his wife Grimilda and their children hostage in their own home. He subjected her to horrific abuse and bizarre behavior. The abuse was so extreme, it would later factor in with her death at age 48. Even after she managed to escape him, Castro continued to destroy her life and the life of the man who tried to save her and her children from his reign of terror. DO you need help? Are you in a domestic violence situation? Please feel free to reach out to Lillian at lillianasterios@icloud.com and she will help find resources for you! Need overall information? Check here: https://www.thehotline.org/get-help/Want to donate to a good cause to help end domestic violence? Go here: https://ncadv.org/donateWant to send us a lil tip for emotional labor on these cases? Support Willow and Lillian, survivors of DV on KOFI. Also, check out our discord, Patreon, and other things we do! linktr.ee/cruelteahttps://www.patreon.com/crueltea
27 FEB 2023 · I really think the title says it all.
Just kidding. Probably the strangest crytpid?? we've covered. On a stretch of road in Dartmoor in Devon County England, motorists might find themselves face to face with giant, hairy, disembodied hands. Is it aliens? Big foot throwin' hands? Or a ghost? Join us to find out!
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/discovering/legends/hairy_hands.shtml
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/weekend-hairy-hands-dartmoor-journeyed-6129967
https://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/discovering/legends/hairy_hands.shtml
https://obscurban-legend.fandom.com/wiki/Hairy_Hands#Account_%232
https://darktales.blog/2019/03/28/the-hairy-hands-of-dartmoor/
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8 FEB 2023 · We're all familiar with Martin Luther King and his "I have a dream' speech, but there are many details of his life that are simply amazing and aren't shared in history books in schools. Join us as we take an in depth look at the life and death of this historic civil rights activists.
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links: Hulu: MLK/FBI https://www.hulu.com/movie/mlkfbi-21ab2009-51e1-41cf-b754-1aee868835d2?entity_id=21ab2009-51e1-41cf-b754-1aee868835d2 Netflix: the 13th The MLK Tapes Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7GYQUKM92dWf8PIftpdFKe?si=11e4YpBfTvGsqcPMD_7TIAMLKJR Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr Michael-Martin https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/01/15/story-how-michael-king-jr-became-martin-luther-king-jr/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/01/17/what-martin-luther-king-jr-original-name-changed/6552919001/ chapter 5 of MLK Autobiography: Coretta https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/publications/autobiography-martin-luther-king-jr-contents/chapter-5-corettaMontgomery Bus Boycott. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boycott I’ve been to the Mountain Top Speech transcribed:https://www.afscme.org/about/history/mlk/mountaintop#:~:text=I%20read%20in%20the%20paper,you%20didn't%20sneeze.%22 March on Washington https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/1963-march-washingtonMahalia Jackson Singing to MLK https://www.vox.com/2016/1/18/10785882/martin-luther-king-dream-mahalia-jacksonhttps://youtu.be/odHqG1rA4M8Mahalia Jackson singing at the March on Washington https://youtu.be/-hQeGDSB6Ss bloody sunday https://www.history.com/news/selma-bloody-sunday-attack-civil-rights-movement nobel peace prize https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1964/king/facts/#:~:text=At%20the%20age%20of%20thirty,of%20the%20civil%20rights%20movement FBI Memo https://features.apmreports.org/arw/king/d4.html https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/federal-bureau-investigation-fbi FBI Letter to King “You Are Done” https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html?auth=login-google1tap&login=google1tap A.D. King https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/documentary-focuses-life-and-death-mlk-brother-king/2IcJ2FF2AFrZgrSRikDrBN/ https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/part-2a.html Historical photos:https://www.buzzfeed.com/gabrielsanchez/incredible-and-rare-color-pictures-from-the-life-of-mlkSpeeches:Beyond Vietnamhttps://youtu.be/AJhgXKGldUkI’ve been to the mountain tophttps://youtu.be/TmZvkHpX_Q4I have a dreamhttps://youtu.be/smEqnnklfYsRare footage from the Alabama Marchhttps://youtu.be/CBm48Scju9EALL.HERE.NOW. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MfhUHjfcA8 The Three Evils of Society https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8d-IYSM-08&t=1030sNBC News interview with MLK 11months before his assassination https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xsbt3a7K-8 Quotes:https://www.cityheightscdc.org/stories/mlk-quotes-too-radical-to-be-white-washedhttps://www.patreon.com/crueltea
31 JAN 2023 · On an October Sunday in Chicago in 1955, three teenage boys would vanish into thin air. Two days later, their mutilated bodies were found. The case had few leads and went cold. It remained cold for forty years, until police started investigating the mysterious disappearance of Brach Candy Heiress Helen Vorhees Brach who went missing in 1977. In a tale that is stranger than fiction, investigators linked her disappearance to fraudulent horse sales. How the case was solved is nothing short of amazing.
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10 JAN 2023 · A detective in Florida had a stack of cold cases. He suddenly had a brilliant idea, what if he put cold cases on playing cards like they did for the war on terror and other conflicts and distributed those around to prisons to generate leads? Thus, the idea was born and now 20 states have adopted this. We also discuss one of those cards: The cold case of Susan Schwarz dubbed the Queen of Hearts.
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the idea of the card decks: https://www.ranker.com/list/cold-case-playing-cards/jessika-gilbert list of links with additional information about Susan Schwarz https://mylifeofcrime.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/cold-case-solved-gregory-johnson-arrested-for-the-1979-murder-of-susan-schwarz/ID Investigation Discovery- Motives and Murder: Cracking the Case Queen of Hearts https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5yjy0aNatural Witness The New Detectives, Episode on Molly McClure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM4EizRGFN4
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9 JAN 2023 · During the Cold War the US was pouring tons of money into research for their Star Wars program, IE the Strategic Defense System which, ideally, would shoot ICBM nukes out of the sky, from space, before they could hit their targets on American soil. The US contracted some research through a company called Marconi Electronics in England. From 1982 to 1988 over 25 of the Marconi scientists and engineers would end up dead under very mysterious circumstances. Why?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiativehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEC-Marconi_scientist_deaths_conspiracy_theoryhttps://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-04-17-8803090394-story.htmlhttps://viralnova.com/science-death-conspiracy/https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread857714/pg1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTUuVDEexA4&t=637sShittiest song ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1b8AhIsSYQhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marconi_Wireless_Telegraph_Company_of_America
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5 JAN 2023 · On a cold day in February 1957, a young man was out trying to get an eyeful of some college girls from a secure vantage point in the woods. What he found instead was the badly beaten body of a little boy, discarded like trash in the woods, left in a cardboard box. The case would go cold for over sixty years until a big break in November of 2022. Now, at last, the boy in the box has a name: Joseph Zarelli.
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https://allthatsinteresting.com/boy-in-the-boxhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRTghh6NUfIhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Joseph_Augustus_Zarellihttps://people.com/crime/philadelphias-boy-in-the-box-identified-after-65-years/https://www.inquirer.com/news/joseph-zarelli-boy-in-the-box-internet-speculation-20221215.html
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3 JAN 2023 · First case in our Cold Case month! For this month we'll be featuring cases that went cold and were either solved or remain unsolved to this day. We'll have famous and obscure cases alike! For years, Joseph DeAngelo terrorized California breaking into homes, assaulting the occupants and leaving a trail of terror and death in his wake. He always seemed several steps ahead of law enforcement. It would take four decades, a true crime writer, and ancestry DNA tests to catch him. Cruel Tea is a part of the Pod Moth NetworkSources (will post soon)Check out our merch, discord, patreon, social media links, novels, soap and more! All the links right here --->https://linktr.ee/cruelteahttps://www.patreon.com/crueltea
2 JAN 2023 · Apologies for the late upload! Mercury Gatorade strikes again and we had some technical difficulty. Because of course.
Joseph of Cupertino came from modest beginnings, born in a stable to his debt ridden, widowed mother. He was reviled by kids his age and his mother and generally everyone who met him. He was odd. Weird. Had visions. But these visions were all about God and he endeavored to become a priest. Which he did! Then, much to the shock and amazement of all who witnessed it, Joseph found he could fly.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Cupertino
https://skepticalinquirer.org/2018/07/secrets-of-the-flying-friar-did-st-joseph-of-copertino-really-levitate/
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2020/10/the-bizarre-case-of-the-flying-priest/https://www.patreon.com/crueltea
19 DEC 2022 · Six years before the Roswell crash in 1947, a Baptist minister was called to a "plane" crash in a field to preform last rites, except when he arrived, the victims of said crash weren't human. Join us as we discuss this obscure story that sounds an awful lot like the Roswell crash of 1947Cruel Tea is a part of the Pod Moth NetworkMerch? Serial Novels? Discord? Find all the links here: https://linktr.ee/cruelteaSources: https://www.kait8.com/video/2021/05/26/story-alleged-ufo-crash-near-cape-girardeau/https://www.columbiatribune.com/story/opinion/editorials/2015/02/03/the-1941-cape-girardeau-ufo/985746007/https://www.southeastarrow.com/story/2455754.htmlhttps://www.patreon.com/crueltea
Best friends and next door neighbors, Lillian and Willow, spill the tea on murder, mysteries, and things that go bump in the night. Join us for tea as we talk...
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Best friends and next door neighbors, Lillian and Willow, spill the tea on murder, mysteries, and things that go bump in the night. Join us for tea as we talk about true crime, strange history, and the paranormal Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cruelteapod/support
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