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Sword and Scale

Society & Culture

True Crime

History

Frequency: 1 episode/44d. Total Eps: 364

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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Apple Podcasts

🇨🇦 Canada - documentary
05/06/2026
#8
🇨🇦 Canada - societyAndCulture
05/06/2026
#45
🇬🇧 Great Britain - documentary
05/06/2026
#30
🇺🇸 USA - documentary
05/06/2026
#2
🇺🇸 USA - societyAndCulture
05/06/2026
#10
🇨🇦 Canada - documentary
04/06/2026
#9
🇨🇦 Canada - societyAndCulture
04/06/2026
#42
🇬🇧 Great Britain - documentary
04/06/2026
#31
🇺🇸 USA - documentary
04/06/2026
#2
🇺🇸 USA - societyAndCulture
04/06/2026
#13

Spotify

🇺🇸 USA - trending
27/05/2026
#198
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#195
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25/05/2026
#197
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20/05/2026
#185
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19/05/2026
#193
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#191
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🇺🇸 USA - trending
09/05/2026
#195
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🇺🇸 USA - trending
08/05/2026
#192
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🇺🇸 USA - top
30/03/2026
#93
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🇺🇸 USA - society & culture
30/03/2026
#14
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Score global : 84%

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Episode 271

Season 11 · Episode 271

dimanche 25 août 2024 • Duration 01:07:06

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.

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Episode 262

Season 11 · Episode 262

lundi 22 avril 2024 • Duration 01:13:33

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.

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Episode 261

Season 11 · Episode 261

lundi 8 avril 2024 • Duration 01:14:09

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.

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Episode 260

Season 11 · Episode 260

lundi 25 mars 2024 • Duration 01:03:25

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.

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Episode 259

Season 11 · Episode 259

lundi 4 mars 2024 • Duration 01:22:54

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.

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Episode 258

Season 11 · Episode 258

lundi 19 février 2024 • Duration 01:13:13

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.

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Episode 257

Season 11 · Episode 257

lundi 5 février 2024 • Duration 01:22:45

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.

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Episode 256

Season 11 · Episode 256

lundi 15 janvier 2024 • Duration 53:57

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.

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Episode 255

Season 10 · Episode 255

lundi 18 décembre 2023 • Duration 01:21:47

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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Episode 254

Season 10 · Episode 254

lundi 4 décembre 2023 • Duration 01:32:25

In February of 2017, 28-year-old aspiring cosmetologist Shannon Graves went missing. Five months later, a young married couple in Campbell, Ohio had plans to cook dinner at home. When they opened their freezer, they unexpectedly found something that horrified them. They found frozen pieces of Shannon.

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