Dark Side
Dark Side is a true crime podcast that focuses on crimes that changed laws, or law enforcement, or something positive was born of a tragedy. Also covered are first, last and landmark convictions. Why don't you join me for the ride? As always, it'll be a bumpy one!
Episodes
June 24, 2021 • 3 mins
Just an update on Season 2...and an introduction to a new member of the Dark Side family!
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May 12, 2021 • 86 mins
Today's episode is the conclusion of the Fred Korematsu story. After losing his Supreme Court case in 1944, Fred went into a life of obscurity...until a conversation with a young girl in 1967 started Fred back on the journey to right the wrongs bestowed against him, and Japanese American people...and to stop America from making the same mistakes again.
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May 5, 2021 • 25 mins
On this very first episode of Dark Shadows, Why FDR, WHY? We're taking a deep dive into what led Franklin Roosevelt to make the decision to intern an entire ethnic population of the USA, treated them like criminals, locked them up like animals, and removed their civil liberties. Yes, I’ll be tackling the internment of the Japanese Americans during world war two in the United States and just how and why a Government could turn ...
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May 4, 2021 • 67 mins
Fred Korematsu was a law abiding, loyal citizen of the United States. He held no criminal record and loved his homeland so much so, that he wanted to don a uniform to defend her. So, why then did his country turn on him and treat him like a criminal? Convicting him, incarcerating him, interring him, and leaving him with a criminal record? Fred would spend a lifetime trying to defend the injustice bestowed against him, and the ...
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April 20, 2021 • 31 mins
Today's story is something very different to the norm, and as of 24 hours ago, completely unplanned. The episode that should have aired today hit a curve ball at the 11th hour, and so, not wanting to disappoint, I have put today's episode together instead. Like I said, it's very different to my normal episodes, but I do hope that you enjoy it...
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April 6, 2021 • 65 mins
In June 2016, 20-year-old Michael Sandford from sleepy, rural Dorking, Surrey, UK had made an epic journey of over 5000 miles in total, on a mission. Michael was known for how polite, articulate, kind, compassionate, and sweet he was. So, how did this sweet young man go on to almost change the course of history with an attempted crime that aimed to murder one of the most influential people in the Western World?
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March 23, 2021 • 89 mins
Arek Hersh was a 10 year old boy when he was taken from his family and thrust into a terrifying world. He was beaten and starved, he ate grass and chewed on his shoes to abate hunger. He was worked almost to death, toiling for long hours in often sub-zero temperatures. He lived in this perpetual hell for years…until, one day, he was randomly chosen for an experimental project in another country. And this project would go onto ...
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March 9, 2021 • 76 mins
18 year-old Kelsey Smith was at her local Target store in Kansas buying a present for her boyfriend. She called her mother and told her she'd be home soon...but Kelsey never returned home. The Police, the FBI, and the whole community were soon searching for Kelsey. Everyone, in fact, was trying to help the Smith family find their daughter...everyone except the one company that had the ability to find her. Kelsey's disappearanc...
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February 22, 2021 • 70 mins
Shandra Woworuntu had an established career in Indonesia. However, the financial crisis in the late 1990's left Shandra destitute. One day, she received an opportunity for a job in the land of her dreams, America. Little did Shandra know that this opportunity would result in her never seeing her homeland again...but this would go on to saving the lives of so many, many more people.
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February 16, 2021 • 79 mins
Sherry Johnson was an 8-year-old girl in 1968, living in Tampa, FL with her family, whom were part of a very strict sect of the Apostolic Church. The church was the centre of their world. So, when the Bishop of the church gave Sherry a gift of a red bicycle, her mother was very proud...but Sherry knew the gift was meant to buy her silence. And it was this silence that would hold her captive in a legal loophole for years to com...
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February 9, 2021 • 48 mins
This week's story is the second part of the story about two friends, Ben and Andrei, who grew up in a small town in Poland in the 1930's. Despite a definite divide in their wealth and status, the two boys were good friends. And then in 1939, the Russian army marched into their town and started a chain of events that would pit neighbour against neighbour, religion against religion...and friend against friend. During the war, Be...
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February 2, 2021 • 43 mins
Despite there being a clear ethnic and religious division within the town of Domachevo, Poland, which was common in Eastern Europe, there was a true sense of community spirit within the town. Neighbour really did help neighbour. This community spirit was never more embodied than in the friendship between Ben and Andrei. From polar opposites of the town's wealth divide, this didn't stop the two friends playing together every da...
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January 26, 2021 • 71 mins
Nicole 'Coco' Fox-Fenton from Ireland was a bubbly, lively young lady. She'd made a new group of friends and started going clubbing with them. At first, they had fun. But soon, the girls turned on Coco and turned her life into a living hell, which would have devastating consequences, but ultimately go on to be the genesis for a campaign to try change a relic of a law in Ireland...
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January 19, 2021 • 50 mins
In last week's episode, we heard the tragic story of Martin Fletcher and what happened to 3 generations of his family on that fateful day in May 1985 at Bradford City Football Stadium. Martin often wondered why he survived when his family didn't, but a revelation from his mother some 9 years after the disaster, sent him on a 15-year-long hunt to find answers...and what he found was so explosive that he now knew why he'd been c...
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January 12, 2021 • 56 mins
Martin Fletcher, 12 and his brother Andrew, 11 were with their family to see their favourite football team, Bradford City play their final match before being moved up into the 2nd division of football. It was expected to be a momentous day, and it was...but for all the wrong reasons. What happened that day had devastating consequences for the Fletcher family and many, many other families. These consequences sent one of the Fle...
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December 22, 2020 • 58 mins
A girl is sitting at Boston Logan Airport waiting for a flight home for to surprise her family for Christmas. She's a nervous flyer and wasn't looking forward to the flight. But, the flight was delayed. Very delayed. The passengers were told the delay was due to heavy traffic because of the holidays. And this just added to her anxiety. However, when the flight finally arrived at its' destination she, along with all the other p...
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December 15, 2020 • 53 mins
Sweethearts, Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg from Saanich, BC, Canada go on a work trip to Seattle. It was supposed to be fun. It turned out to be anything but. Their families and the police spend years searching for resolution...but it took a highly questionable, almost laughable suggestion that would bring about answers...
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December 8, 2020 • 53 mins
Dawn Hamilton has gone missing in Rosedale, Maryland whilst playing with friends at a park. The only witnesses are two young boys. Their testimony and composite sketch led to the arrest and conviction of the suspect...but this also led one man into a fight for his life.
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December 1, 2020 • 42 mins
In a sleepy, suburban village in the middle of England, a young girl goes missing; Lynda Mann. She is found the next morning, dead. Her murder would go unsolved for many years....until a local Doctor made a mistake in an experiment he was conducting....
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November 24, 2020 • 54 mins
9-year-old Shawn Hornbeck went out for a ride on his bike one Sunday...and never came home. His family searched; the Police searched; the FBI searched, but he had vanished without a trace. Four years later, another boy was reported missing...a boy that happened to look an awful lot like Shawn Hornbeck...was there a connection? Hmmm.....you'll have to listen to find out!
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