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The Green River Killer was also an unassuming-looking man named Gary Ridgway. He made a bet that if he killed women society had already written off, nobody would come looking. For nearly 20 years, he won and got away with it.

After he was caught, Gary Ridgway refused to talk to reporters. Then crime journalist Maria DiLorenzo mailed him a letter, and three weeks later her phone rang. For two years he called her, hundreds of times. He lied constantly. He invented rivals for his own story. He tested what she would tolerate, and he started to see her as a potential victim. She stayed on the line for the women he never named.

Tonight Maria tells me what it's like to truly know a killer, what it cost her to replay every call while writing "Confessions of the Green River Killer", and the two women whose cases she's still fighting to get reopened.

Viewer discretion is advised. This episode includes discussion of murder, sexual violence, and manipulation.

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Betty Broderick is often remembered as the ultimate woman scorned, but that story leaves out the psychological damage, manipulation, and betrayal that pushed her to the edge. If you think you know this infamous case, this episode will change the way you see it.

Rae Review unpacks the rise and collapse of Betty and Dan Broderick’s marriage: from the years Betty supported Dan through medical school, law school, and four children, to the affair with 21-year-old legal secretary Linda Kolkina and the brutal unraveling that followed. The case is famous, but the deeper question is the one most retellings skip:

What happens when betrayal trauma, gaslighting, and a no-fault divorce system combine to strip someone of their reality, their children, and their future?

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Inside the ‘Vampire Cult’ Murder Case: Chet Hardin on Sydney Loofe, Aubrey Trail & Bailey Boswell.

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Rae interviews investigative journalist and author Chet Hardin about his book "The Vampire’s Cult: The Untold Story of Obsession, Control, and a Shocking Small Town Murder," exploring why the case reads like “horror crime.”

They recount how 24-year-old Sydney Loofe went on a Tinder date with Bailey Boswell. Hardin details Bailey’s troubled background, her meeting with lifelong felon Aubrey Trail, and how he used money, manipulation, and a vampire/witch “coven” con to recruit and control multiple young women with degrading rules and threats.

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I'm Rae Review, Aries Goddess and Keeper of Dark Stories. Today, I'm telling my version of the story of Medusa. The myth, the misogyny, and how the "monster” narrative was edited over time.

I'm 40,000 years old. I was there, and it's crazy how things get misinterpreted through time.

Athena, Poseidon, the male poets, the hair snakes. How did it all start?

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00:00 Come Closer Intro

01:16 How This Podcast Works

02:49 Medusa Before The Curse

03:18 Poseidon And Athena's Punishment06:06 Exiled As A Monster

07:53 Perseus Gets The Quest

09:29 The Unfair Assassination

10:01 Medusa's Head As Trophy

11:07 Older Myths And Ovid's Edit

15:07 Was Athena Protecting Her

17:18 Modern Meaning And Moral

20:46 Final Thoughts And Outro
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