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Sword and Scale is a 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. Told from an everyman's point of view, Sword and Scale goes beyond the news clips and the sensationalist headlines to hold up a mirror to the audience and ask, "Is it us versus them? Or are we just like 'them' too?" Sword and scale proves that the worst monsters are real.
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Episode 274

Episode 274

2024-10-0601:25:063

In the early morning hours of July 31st, 2022, many teens in Strongsville, Ohio were sleeping off the previous night’s rowdy graduation parties. 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla, 20-year-old Dominic Russo, and 19-year-old Davion Flanagan were trapped in a mangled car wreck. When daylight finally illuminated the carnage, everyone assumed the crash had been the result of teenage drunk-driving. The more the police investigated, the more questions arose. What started off as a tragic accident quietly evolved into a murder investigation.
Episode 273

Episode 273

2024-09-2201:07:514

In April of 2015, two young women in Indiana went missing. They lived nearly 200 miles away from each other and seemed to have no connection at all. The only similarity they shared was that one was expecting to have a baby and the other had recently given birth. Tragically, after family members frantically searched for both women, their respective stories ended with only one of them being found alive.
Episode 272

Episode 272

2024-09-0801:15:1411

Nancy Lewton evacuated her Florida home ahead of Hurricane Ian but a different storm was on her horizon. Not being able to contact her son Travis for days sent her all the way to Toledo, OH to check on him. When days passed and family members hadn’t heard from her or her son they called the police. What the police would find was one of the more bizarre cases they had ever investigated.
Episode 271

Episode 271

2024-08-2501:10:1417

When 25-year-old Whitney Hostler went missing and left her two-year-old daughter behind, everyone knew something was wrong. But they never expected that the person responsible would be one who claimed to care for her so deeply.
Episode 270

Episode 270

2024-08-1101:04:0511

Isabella Tagliarini was in bed with her new boyfriend, Nicholas Wilcox, when her former boyfriend, Eric Robinson, would get out of prison early and pay them a visit. What unfolded was an unspeakable crime and the entire case would hinge on Isabella’s fragile credibility.
Episode 269

Episode 269

2024-07-2801:17:4010

In April of 2009, 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel went to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for spring break. On the evening before she planned to return home, Brittanee went missing. Her disappearance remained unsolved for over a decade. Thirteen years would go by before Myrtle Beach Police and the FBI could determine that Brittanee had crossed paths with a monster.
Episode 268

Episode 268

2024-07-1401:02:0317

In April of 2017, Georgia teenagers Johnny Rider and Cassie Bjorge unexpectedly arrived at a friend's apartment. The young couple appeared distraught and injured. Later, a SWAT team came to collect them. Johnny Rider and Cassie Bjorge were arrested and charged with committing a brutal double homicide.
Episode 267

Episode 267

2024-06-3001:06:1615

Amber Smith and Trenton Mallory had a simple life together with two boys and a wedding in the works. Then Amber came home to find their house ransacked and Trenton dead. No one could have expected such a tragedy to hit a small snowy town and the killer only would be revealed as the ice started to melt.
Episode 266

Episode 266

2024-06-1601:19:0510

In early September of 2016, two young men from Gillette, Wyoming went missing. About a month later, the local police were alerted to a strange, black pickup truck that was parked on the side of a road. This truck reportedly smelled like rotting flesh. When police arrived to investigate, they found the missing men, but they didn’t find all of them. They only found a few chopped-up pieces.
Episode 265

Episode 265

2024-06-0301:05:459

Sunday, February 1, 2004 was Superbowl XXXVIII, a game between the Carolina Panthers and the New England Patriots. Sarasota Springs, a medium-sized community in Florida, was celebrating the game like most other American towns: with beer, food, and family. While the rest of Sarasota Springs indulged in the festivities with their loved ones, one family was desperately searching for one of theirs, an 11-year-old girl named Carlie Brucia.
Episode 264

Episode 264

2024-05-2001:10:1912

In 2002, high school senior Stacy DeGrandchamp died after getting into a physical fight with her schoolmate, Holly Boisvert. For many, the assumption was that Holly had murdered Stacy, but the police could never figure out how she did it, if she did it at all. The case eventually went cold, and nobody would get any real answers about Stacy’s death for almost twenty years.
Episode 263

Episode 263

2024-05-0601:23:3519

On August 21st, 2017, the lifeless body of Nada Huranieh, a beloved fitness instructor, was discovered on the pavement just outside her expansive residence in Farmington Hills. Rather than hastily attributing her demise to a mere accidental fall from a window, law enforcement authorities refrained from jumping to conclusions. Within the confines of the house, Nada's three children stood as the sole witnesses to the incident. Thankfully, the residence boasted an impressive network of 13 security cameras, which ultimately provided the vital lead necessary for the police to uncover the truth.
Episode 262

Episode 262

2024-04-2201:18:5713

Naomi Jones was an exceptional 12-year-old girl. She was caring, smart, ambitious, responsible, and mature for her age. On May 31st, 2017, Naomi went missing from her Pensacola apartment. In response, the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office launched a massive search effort, but for nearly a week, nobody could find the young girl. Finally, on the 5th day of the search, a local fisherman found something that he would likely never forget, and the tragic fate of Naomi Jones was finally revealed.
Episode 261

Episode 261

2024-04-0801:21:3219

65-year-old Marilyn Gandert worked for the U.S. Postal Service for over 30 years. She was a solitary woman who lived alone and was getting ready to sell her house and retire. Tragically, Marilyn was never able to enjoy her retirement. In January of 2018, her mangled and charred remains were found on a backroad in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Someone had brutally beaten and stabbed Marilyn to death, covered her in gasoline, and burned her body.
Episode 260

Episode 260

2024-03-2501:08:3919

A group of kids playing with a mysterious app called Randonautica follow its directions to Alki Beach in West Seattle. There they find a strange black suitcase on the rocks below the pier. Intrigued, they open the case to reveal a putrid smell. Responding officers would find other bags and reveal the suitcase was filled with the dismembered body parts of two people, Jessica Lewis and Austin Wenner. Seattle would be gripped in fear until their killer was caught.
Episode 259

Episode 259

2024-03-0401:29:0717

When Jessica Lynn Reale was 13-years-old, she was timid and untrusting. In early October of 1997, she mustered the courage to approach her 8th grade math teacher, a woman she’d only known for a number of weeks, to tell her a huge secret she had been keeping. Jessica told her teacher that she couldn’t go back home because someone had poured bleach all over her. This situation warranted a CPS report, but the involvement of the FBI or Sacramento County Law Enforcement was unexpected.
Episode 258

Episode 258

2024-02-1901:17:5815

Micheal Redlick was a high-powered sports executive in his mid-sixties living with his kids and much younger wife, Danielle. To onlookers, the Redlick family seemed to have it all, but inside their gorgeous multi-million dollar home, misery had been brewing for decades and it all imploded on January 11, 2018.
Episode 257

Episode 257

2024-02-0501:33:508

Sue Taynor was worried about her 21-year-old daughter, Jessica Sacco. She was bipolar, depressed, and vulnerable, having just gotten out of a bad relationship. When Jessica moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Urbana, Ohio, she began to open her home up to people who were a negative influence on her. Soon enough, there were six people living in the small unit. By the end of March, 2012, there would only be five.
Episode 256

Episode 256

2024-01-1559:338

Several elderly women appear to have died of natural causes, until March of 2018 when a 91-year-old woman survives a brutal attack. As the pieces come together, police are led to a man named Billy Chemirmir—but unfortunately, they may be too late.
Episode 255

Episode 255

2023-12-1801:26:5512

In August of 2014, a masked thief, dressed in black, walked away with nearly $20,000 from an American Eagle store in Fort Worth, Texas. Three months later, the assistant manager of that store was found brutally murdered inside her burning apartment. Were these completely separate crimes or were they somehow connected?
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Mike S

jesus

Oct 9th
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Shawna

this is one made me cringe 😬 ..difficult hearing the whole story just because it was so dark and twisted

Oct 9th
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Mona Peterson

Sword and Scale delivers some of the most gripping and chilling stories I've ever heard! The host's storytelling is captivating, keeping me on the edge of my seat every episode. A must-listen for true crime enthusiasts! https://ezlocal.com/ny/new-york/packaging-service/0917851201

Oct 8th
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Gordon Muldrow

Maaaaannn, Euphoria is FANTASTIC!! I mean, if you're a Duck Dynasty fan or you own the Ernest movies box set you probably wouldn't dig it, but it's solid. Too bad EVERYONE in the cast has gotten too famous to probably keep producing many more seasons.

Oct 7th
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Kris D

Then when he started to realize that she was going to take some kind of action, after she kept telling him over and over to unlock the door and he refused then finally had to become more assertive, so he then he starts gas lighting her, she says she was going to the breakfast , then he asks her over and over if she is going to the breakfast, as he still wont let her in, but like trying to shift her attention from the fact shes locked out so he keeps the upper hand.

Oct 7th
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Kris D

If they wouldn't let you inside, I mean what are you supposed to do just be ok with that, and what if you had nowhere else to go because you either live there or you don't, are you just supposed to figure out where to go all of a sudden or maybe sit out on the street until he decides if or when he will let you in, if it were me i would have been furious and i wouldn't have tolerated it

Oct 7th
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Kris D

If she lived there he actually didn't have a right to lock her out , I'm sure his parents owned the house so if they decided that they no longer wanted her to be there then they themselves would first need to start the eviction process , present her with a copy of an eviction notice and she would still have a certain amount of days before having to leave, he had no right to do that. I wonder how you or anybody else would react if someone just locked you out of the place you live

Oct 7th
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Lahela

As a mom of a preteen boy, this type of relationship is my worst nightmare. So glad my son so far has said he likes ‘nice’ girls. This girl and her useless parents would have landed me in prison.

Oct 6th
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꧁WupperElfe꧂

3 ads within the first 3 minutes - and all the same.

Oct 6th
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Shannon DeGaro

listening to the mother is giving me anxiety and high blood pressure. I can't even listen to this hyper lying chic anymore.

Oct 4th
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A Cleminson

Interesting story. Very popular. I prefer when S&S does less mainstream stories or stories before they become done by every Podcaster and docuseries producer. 🤷‍♀️ oh well, this episode was still done with the great S&S quality.

Sep 29th
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Jessika Rabbit

I love that her sister yelled at her for ten minutes, but never actually mentioned how she murdered a woman and stole her baby. She was more concerned with how she had been lied to, and how their family had been embarrassed.Sounds like they're all selfish pieces of shit

Sep 25th
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Justin Fowler

Love ya Mike

Sep 25th
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bluehaze73

awww you dirty cunt Poor you. F*** out of here.With your pity party

Sep 23rd
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bluehaze73

all that shit she talked over the phone to eat it 🤣😅

Sep 23rd
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Ack

I love the sister! lol

Sep 23rd
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꧁WupperElfe꧂

Bit lengthy, no?

Sep 22nd
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Jill Bertschinger-Kimmle

I love how unconcerned the dispatcher is...Geez. Trust a mother's intuition.

Sep 18th
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Holly Sher

dear Mike: you are so angry. you need a hug.

Sep 17th
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Brett Tuz

wish I had a mother like that been homeless since October gladly would a family that loves you 😞 someone's trash is another's treasure

Sep 11th
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