The thing about the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist is that, on the surface, it might seem like a simple whodunnit, a true instance of the stars aligning for an almost perfect crime to have taken place.

But as Anthony Amore, the security director of the museum says, “The deeper and deeper you dig, the more questions are raised.”

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The art world is, undeniably, almost inextricably linked to crime — and history has shown how true that connection is.

And the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist is a crime truly like no other.

It’s a tale of millions — hundreds of millions of dollars, that is; a serendipitous middle of the night robbery on St. Patrick’s Day; and ties to the bloody gang wars that were fought in the streets of 1980s Boston.

But when you strip down the story of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist, what is at its heart is art and crime.

As well as one simple, but mystifying question:

How does all that art...simply vanish? 

Let's get ready to get Dark As Hell. 

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We’ve all heard the classic set up for an even more classic joke: a guy walks into a bar, and some sort of groan-worthy play of word and punninness occurs.

It’s a classic — if cringe-worthy — way to get a laugh out of people.

And when it comes to the case of Brian Shaffer, this is a story that, when the very basic elements are considered, it reads like a bad slapstick joke.

A guy walks into a bar...but never walks out.

Let's get ready to get Dark As Hell. 

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In locked room mystery novels, the reader finds themselves trying to piece together the clues to answer the question of how such a heinous crime could be committed, with the victim seeming to have fallen prey to a perpetrator that has more or less vanished into thin air. It’s enough to drive a person crazy, looking for rational explanations to a situation that seems more or less completely irrational.

Which is why Ellen Greenberg’s very real death in a locked room mystery circumstance has continued to baffle ever since she was found dead on her kitchen floor with dozens of stab wounds to the back of her head, her neck, and with the knife itself lodged into her chest — all while she was alone, and in her locked apartment.

Let's get ready to get Dark As Hell. 

This week, we’re continuing to dive deeper into the strangeness that has surrounded Shelly Miscavige since even before the last time she was seen in public. It’s difficult to truly nail down a term to describe what it is that happened to Shelly, the woman who once carried the title of First Lady of Scientology.

How has an entire organization simply...forgotten this former high priestess of its highest ranks, seemingly pretending as if she never existed?

What has Scientology done to — and done with — Shelly Miscavige?

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You might think this episode is asking what happened to Shelly Miscavige in terms of her disappearance, but you’d be wrong.

It’s not only about her disappearance.

Because this week, we’re asking: what exactly happened to Shelly Miscavige, the once high priestess of Scientology who seemingly fell from grace...and vanished into thin air on her way down.

Let's get ready to get Dark As Hell. 

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No one should ever have to question if their own space is safe.

Certainly, Jennifer Kesse didn’t think she would ever have to do that.

She did, as the saying goes, everything right. She followed the rules. She had her sharpened instincts, her watchful eye, and her wits about her.

She kept herself safe. Until the day she wasn’t. 

Let's get ready to get Dark As Hell. 

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"Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race....From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles of racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its Indigenous population.”

This week, I wanted to spend our time together focusing on a very timely issue — a very real, very active threat facing the indigenous women of this country, of North America as a whole, really.

I’m going to be telling you about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women epidemic, touching on the horrifying Highway of Tears, and telling you a story that is, at its core, all too real — realer, certainly, than the whitewashed history that we’ve all come to accept as fact.

Let’s get ready to get Dark As Hell.

I’m thrilled to partner with Sony on this new podcast of theirs, one that’s filled with #QUESTIONS about one of the most shadowy figures of the day — and the family she came from. I’m sharing with you today a special first taste of what you can expect from Power: The Maxwells.

From Somethin’ Else, makers of ‘The Immaculate Deception’ and ‘Faultline: Bush, Blair & Iraq’, hosted by Investigative journalist Tara Palmeri, ‘Power: The Maxwells’ is a seven part series on the incredible true story of a media mogul whose legacy is still being felt today.

This story of Laci and baby Conner holds more questions than not,

And seriously — we need to discuss husband Scott.

So, on questions, on strangeness,

On twists, and on mistresses,

This, my friends, is the conclusion of the story of Laci Peterson.

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