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Sword and Scale
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Sword and Scale is a weekly true crime podcast covering the dark underworld of crime and the criminal justice system’s response to it. The first episode launched January 1st, 2014 and feature stories of murder, abduction, rape, and even more bizarre forms of crime. It’s the purest form of true-crime where the raw uncensored audio tells the story. Everything from 911 calls to court testimony, interviews with victims and sometimes with perpetrators give listeners a 360 degree look at the seedy underbelly of human nature and so-called civilized society. Sword and scale proves that the worst monsters are real.
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Episode 364
5d ago01:14:52Summary readyThe British Club was a close circle of English expats in Fleming Island, Florida. They were friends who looked out for one another like family. So when 65-year-old Sue Mauldin suddenly vanished, they knew something was wrong. What followed was a desperate race by the Clay County Sheriff’s Office to track down a man hiding in plain sight and uncover what really happened to Sue.Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com
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Episode 363
1w ago01:17:45Summary readyA quiet evening in Washington City, Utah, ended in gunfire inside the Bailey family home. Gail and Joseph Bailey were executed. Their son and daughter-in-law barely escaped through a window. What followed was a sprawling manhunt through the desert edge of St. George with drones, SWAT teams, and a suspect hiding in the weeds with a gun to her head.Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com
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Episode 362
2w ago01:11:15Summary readyIn Delray Beach, Florida, a routine traffic stop led police to a young man covered in blood. By the next morning, a body had been discovered. What followed was a tense interrogation — and a motive that felt disturbingly small compared to the violence it produced.Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com
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Episode 360
3w ago00:58:39Summary ready13-year-old Madeline Soto vanishes on what should have been an ordinary school morning in Kissimmee, Florida. She’s dropped off just a block away, and nothing about it feels unusual. She walks off, heading toward school… and disappears. By the afternoon, panic sets in. Calls to 911 reveal a family scrambling for answers: rechecking routes, calling friends, waiting for help that isn’t coming fast enough. She never made it to class. No one saw her arrive. Beneath the family’s lies, it’s a race against the clock to find Maddie.Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com
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Episode 358
3w ago01:10:40Summary readyWhen 25-year-old biomedical engineer Jonathan Amerault disappeared, it felt like another one of his hiking trips had gone horribly wrong. But the scene in the woods, and the female co-worker found beside his brutalized body, told a much more sinister story of love and blind rage.Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com
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Episode 357
Jul 1201:11:15Summary readyOn a cold April afternoon in Milwaukee, two men walking along the Lake Michigan shoreline make a gruesome discovery: a human leg tangled in the weeds below a bluff. Within days, more body parts start surfacing across the city, and even across state lines. The remains belong to 19-year-old college student Sade Robinson, a young woman with a promising future - cut short. Piece by piece, investigators put together the puzzle of Sade’s grisly demise and learn that not everyone is redeemable.Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com
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Episode 356
Jun 2801:10:25Summary readyIn 2008, University of Wisconsin–Madison student Brittany Zimmermann was murdered in her apartment in the middle of the day, and then the trail went cold. An unlikely informant leads the police to search for two mystery men, a theory that would steer the investigation for years. As time passed and leads fell apart, the case slowly faded from view. Twelve years later, detectives discovered the truth wasn’t buried; it had been right in front of them all along.Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com
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Episode 355
Jun 1700:58:14Summary readyWhen Virgil and Shirley Best were found dead in their home, investigators expected a familiar explanation. What followed instead was an investigation defined by uncertainty and a motive that challenged the idea that violence always comes from clear intent.Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com
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Episode 354
Jun 701:13:56Summary readyIn 2022, when 57-year-old Harold Allen was found dead in his Indiana home, the case was ruled natural. Nearly a year later, a brazen burglary and a string of buried messages bring detectives back to the same address and to Marsha Allen, the woman who said she loved him. What starts as a property crime becomes a chilling reexamination of Harold’s final days, as small-town routines, late-night deliveries, and a quiet house of secrets point to something far darker. No one is ready for where the evidence leads or what it costs.Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com
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Episode 352
May 1201:14:56Summary readyBeloved father and prominent attorney, Gary Farris, should have been safe on his own land. But in July 2018, he vanished from his family’s rural dream property, and a smoldering burn pile would unravel everything they thought they knew about their home, their marriage, and each other.Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com
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