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Fireside chat with Cage

Fireside chat with Cage

di Bill Muise

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THE CORPORATION-LUCKY Luciano: The Man Who Became The CEO of Crime

April 15, 1931. Coney Island. Joe "The Boss" Masseria was eating lobster when 4 men walked in. By the time Lucky Luciano walked out of the bathroom, the Mafia had a new CEO. He didn't want to be king. He wanted a board of directors. This is Lucky Luciano. The man who turned street gangs into a corporation.

APRIL 2, 1993: The Day a Mother Snapped, the Ellie Nesler saga

APRIL 2, 1993. JAMESTOWN, CALIFORNIA. A preliminary hearing. A smirk. Five shots. Ellie Nesler was a single mom who waited 4 years for the system to protect her son. When it didn't, she decided to protect him herself. This is the Ellie Nesler saga.

This is Highway 16. They call it the Highway of Tears.

June 11, 1994. Smithers, BC. 16-year-old Ramona Wilson left to meet friends and never came home. Highway 16 stretches 719km through northern BC. No buses. No cell service. For decades, women traveling this road disappeared. This is the story of Ramona, Alberta, and the mothers who refused to let them become statistics.

Two Years vs 10 Years: The Plea Bargain That Destroyed a Teen

What would you do if the choice was: lose 10 years of your life to a jury... or lose 2 years by lying and saying you did it? A 19-year-old roofer from Toronto had to do that math. And the system bet on him folding

Better 10 Guilty Go Free: The Robert Baltovich Story

Better for ten guilty people to go free than for one innocent person to suffer." But what happens when the system forgets that? In 1992, Robert Baltovich went to prison for murder. The problem: he didn’t do it. And while he sat in a cell, a serial killer was still walking free.

He Rode To The Neighbor’s House And Never Came Home

Two bikes against a barn. One car with doors open in a gravel pit. Red clay on a farmhand’s boots. 1981. Two teenage boys in Caledon, Ontario disappeared. One father searched for 40 years. The other family packed the bedroom in a week. This is what happened on Horseshoe Hill Road.

They Asked For Paychecks. They Got Bullets.

The workers in Magdalena weren't asking for revolution. They wanted Sunday off and to be paid in money, not coupons. United Fruit said no. The Colombian government said no. Then General Cortés Vargas gave them 5 minutes to leave the plaza. When they didn't, the army fired. The bodies went on trains to the sea. For decades the official story was: "There were no dead." Until a politician held up a child's skull in congress, and a novelist made the world remember.

Lizzie Borden took an axe: Or did she?

In 1893, 29 axe blows killed Andrew and Abby Borden. A jury said Lizzie didn’t do it. But 5 days before her trial, another Fall River woman was hacked 20+ times. Was it a drifter, a ghost, or the Sunday school teacher? The case that made America ask: "or did she?" Lizzie Borden, Fall River murders, did Lizzie do it, serial killer theory, true crime podcast, Bertha Manchester, Man from the Train, 1893

The Wizard of School Street: The True Story of Charles Ponzi

In 1920, an Italian immigrant with $2.50 turned a postage stamp loophole into the biggest financial fraud in US history. This is how Charles Ponzi sold 50% profit in 45 days, built a line around City Hall, and lost it all. The real story behind the name "Ponzi Scheme."

He Forgot The Words and Couldn’t Pull The Trigger

July 13, 1990. Panhandle, Texas. Population 2,300. 19-year-old Kenneth Glenn Milner went on a ritual killing spree. One dead. Two shot. Then he drove to the police station, put a.357 to his chin, and couldn’t finish it. Why? He couldn’t remember the satanic incantation he thought he needed to “cross over.” This is the story of Frankie Garcia, Jimmy Britten, Principal Ken Williams, and a night that left yellow eyes burned into a town’s memory. Glenn got 3 life sentences. In late 2025 he was denied parole again. Chapters 00:00 The Hit List and Friday the 13th 03:10 The Haunted House 06:40 The Principal With Yellow Eyes 10:20 The Standoff at The Police Station 13:00 Parole Denied 2025

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