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They described Frary Inn akin to the Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.

They described Frary Inn akin to the Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.

The story is that the book version is that these trolls have a mirror that turns everything ugly and it shatters. And I think they got into the heart of her eyes.

Sorry, parents. I'm sure you've heard enough of that one to last a lifetime. The Snow Queen, first published in 1844 in Denmark and written by the same author who brought us The Ugly Duckling, The Princess and the Pea, and The Little Mermaid, among others, was eventually scooped up and adapted into another billion-dollar Disney franchise called Frozen.

She had a really serious obsession with Elsa, the Disney character.

As a 21-year-old, I don't think that's something that I would be obsessed with as to dye my hair, buy magazines.

Coloring books, make up of a Disney character. I just think that that was age appropriate at that point. It was an ongoing obsession.

Sorry, parents. I'm sure you've heard enough of that one to last a lifetime.

The Snow Queen, first published in 1844 in Denmark and written by the same author who brought us The Ugly Duckling, The Princess and the Pea, and The Little Mermaid, among others, was eventually scooped up and adapted into another billion-dollar Disney franchise called Frozen.

Like all Disney cartoons, it's made for children.

Bob Coker who wrote Lost Girls which was a book about the Gilgo case which we dependent on a lot and he's been a great supporter so

And he had an interview with Bob Coker, who wrote Lost Girls, which was a book about the Gilgote case, which we dependent on a lot.

He also penned a book on the story called The Barefoot Bandit, The True Tale of Colton Harris Moore, New American Outlaw.

He also penned a book on the story called The Barefoot Bandit, The True Tale of Colton Harris Moore, New American Outlaw.

Charles Graber's answer seems to address that question explicitly of course Graber is the author behind the fantastic book The Good Nurse a true story of medicine madness and murder in it he details how the privatized hospital system in this country may be broken and it appears he has a similar opinion of local criminal law enforcement let's listen.

Ironically this man's name who spent the last eight years of his life devoted to telling the story of Charles Cullen is also Charles last named Graber. He wrote a book called The Good Nurse about a story nobody else seemed to want to tell.

a writer with previous credits writing for gq wired national geographic bloomberg the new yorker and the new york times drop everything and spend seven years of his life researching and writing a book about a serial killer no one's ever heard of is the question why why did he do it

I mean you have to basically convince me sentence to sentence why should care about anything I don't want to see your baby pictures you know I don't want to hear about your people I don't know I'm not just naturally interested but you can make me interested and I knew that was true of the story

you might get the sense that Charlie Cullen had several accomplices to murder having been caught again and again and again doing things that at the very least put people's lives in danger and at the very worst was intentional homicide

you can hear him producing the copy of the newspaper and saying look that's me you know he always treated uh the interest of guys like me as people swiveling their heads at a car wreck and he's very disparaging which i admire in a way except for the fact that he's created the car wreck and they did it on purpose so it's not really his decision

If you want to read more about this bizarre case with all of its twists and turns, check out his book on Amazon. It's a pretty goddamn good read if you're in the mood for a crazy story.

so I know something about these stories I mean how full of shit can this guy get? but what it comes down to is this emperor comes to take this fortress and it's just this place in the mountains near Damascus I don't know I can show it to you I'm not bad with geography so what happens is he brings he amasses this large army to come take this place and the old man on the mountain has his Hashishins, his trained assassins they're Islamic people the stories of them were just ridiculous but what happens is he comes to siege the fortress and the night he comes to siege he sends his Hashishins out and they make it all the way to the emperor's tent they don't kill him with a dagger they leave him a note on his bedpost saying that if you don't get the fuck out of here and move your army we're gonna kill you and he was so impressed that they made it there without getting caught that the next day he packed up camp and I mean this is just part of the origins of the word where you get the word assassin and you're right I wanted to be a marine and no one taught me anything I know a couple moves but I prepared myself for years to be a soldier to serve my country

so I know something about these stories I mean how full of shit can this guy get? but what it comes down to is this emperor comes to take this fortress and it's just this place in the mountains near Damascus I don't know I can show it to you I'm not bad with geography

so I know something about these stories... John Ferry was an editor for the encyclopedia of Byzantine history so he edits the book of this history

We're joined once again by special guest Shana Hogan, an author of the book, The Stranger She Loved.

She describes how no one in Michelle's family other than Michelle ever liked Martin and for good reason Michelle's family thought he was very arrogant, very concentrating he clearly had no desire to impress Michelle's family.

It's a tale of a love story turned deadly by betrayal.

His name's Jason Lucky Morrow, author of the book Famous Crimes the World Forgot and proprietor of the fantastic website HistoricalCrimeDetective.com which features hundreds of cases from the past that you absolutely have never heard of.

If you enjoyed that story from the past, you'll probably love Jason's new book

Recently released my book, Famous Crimes the World Forgot

These are old cases that no one has probably heard of

Maybe some people have heard of them, but by and large these are cases that have been forgotten and ignored for decades

And they're pretty exciting cases

the book we spoke about was under the cover of night a true story of sex, greed and murder this was a story of a young attractive intelligent couple with all the means and money in the world but their story eventually turned dark and their separation eventually led to infidelity and murder

This is the story of Jocelyn and Wesley Ernest, a couple that had everything going for them, and somehow that just wasn't enough.

We're joined by true crime author and master storyteller, Diane Fanning, whose latest book, Under Cover of the Night, dives deep into this tragic story.

In her latest book, Under Cover of the Night, Diane explores a love story gone horribly wrong.

This is where the love story becomes Shakespearean in nature and where a lesson must be learned for the sake of all of us because this is where Jocelyn's story ends.

We'll link to Diane Fanning's book under cover of the night from the show notes of this episode at sordonscale.com

that was Dan Zupansky in the opener author of Trophy Kill the Shall we Dance Murder and host of the true crime podcast true murder

The book I'm describing is called Trophy Kill, the Shall We Dance murder?

It's one of the most unique true crime books I've ever read.

If you want to know more and see the disturbing hand-drawn images of the murder and mutilation penned by the killer himself, then you'll have to get the book.

I have a book about Sydney Tier Hughes and the story we just you just heard called Trophy Kill, but Shall We Dance murder, on a for hip-to-kin publishing, which you can get it on Amazon and everywhere else.

It's an ebook and mass paperback.

Natasha A. Frost Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Programs, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University and author of The Punishment Imperative The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America

her book The Punishment Imperative, The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America examines aspects of the prison system and why it can become a perpetual loop as it did for Glenn.

It's that whole phrase, you do the crime, you do the time. Yeah, getting tough on crime, you do the crime, you do the time, you know, lock them up and throw away the key, all those sort of, you know, the things that are catchphrases capture the sentiment behind what we call The Punishment Imperative.

I love Sherlock Holmes The Hardy Boy Mysteries

She'd read a book by Ann Rule called The Stranger Beside Me. It was about Rule's relationship with Ted Bundy.

Maybe give them a goodnight hug and kiss, tuck them in, read them a few lines of Harry Potter.

She came over and we watched The Adventures.

when I was a kid I always read detective novels I love Sherlock Holmes

Jonathan would have, we've read Proverbs, the book of Proverbs every day, where he'd want me to read it if he couldn't speak to me.

He'd want me to memorize scripture.

Jessica wrote a book that she self-published this year.

It's called I'm Not Broken, surviving a house of demons and you can pick up your own copy if you're interested at Amazon.

A link will appear in the show notes at swordenscale.com.