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Misfit History

Misfit History

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Episodes
  • Black Bart: The Gentleman Bandit

    Black Bart: The Gentleman Bandit
    May 6 2026

    Charles Boles, better known as Black Bart, was a stagecoach robber who operated on the West Coast in the 1870s and '80s. He pulled off 20+ robberies despite being scared of horses and never firing a shot. He wrote poems to taunt investigators and was pursued by two of the finest detectives in the Wild West, James Hume and Harry Morse.
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    40 mins
  • Robert Liston: The Deadliest Surgery in History

    Robert Liston: The Deadliest Surgery in History
    Apr 29 2026

    Robert Liston, the 'fastest knife in West End,' was an early surgical innovator who developed new techniques and equipment in surgery. He trained many surgeons and was the first surgeon to perform surgery on a patient who'd received modern anesthesia. Despite these accomplishments, he's remembered primarily for a likely apocryphal tale of a surgery he performed with a 300% mortality rate.
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    17 mins
  • Shinichiro Azuma: The Kobe Child Murderer

    Shinichiro Azuma: The Kobe Child Murderer
    Apr 22 2026

    When two children were brutally murdered in Kobe as part of a string of attacks, the media seized on letters the killer sent to police and newspapers. They didn't expect that the murderer was a child himself, who was inspired by the Zodiac killer and hoped to emulate him. The fourth and final part of our series, Crime and No Punishment.Content Warnings: Murder, Child Abuse, Animal Abuse, Mutilation, and More. Listener discretion is advised.
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    32 mins
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