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Intro Topics : oli London Katie Hopkins Check out : Luxeria - YouTube - her video on Oli London: We need to talk about Oli London. @Luxeria - YouTube On 18 April 1943, four local boys (Robert Hart, Thomas Willetts, Bob Farmer and Fred Payne) were poaching or bird-nesting in Hagley Wood, part of the Hagley estate belonging to Lord Cobham near Wychbury Hill when they came across a large wych elm. Thinking the location to be a particularly good place to hunt birds' nests, Farmer attempted to climb the tree to investigate. As he climbed, he glanced down into the hollow trunk and discovered a skull. At first he believed it to be that of an animal, but after seeing human hair and teeth, he realised that he had found a human skull. As they were on the land illegally, Farmer put the skull back and all four boys returned home without mentioning their discovery to anybody. However, on returning home, the youngest of the boys, Willetts, felt uneasy about what he had witnessed and decided to report the find to his parents. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

The Chicago Tylenol murders were a series of poisoning deaths resulting from drug tampering in the Chicago metropolitan Area in 1982. The victims had all taken Tylenol-branded acetaminophen capsules that had been laced with potassium cyanide. A total of seven people died in the original poisonings, with several more deaths in subsequent copycat crimes. No suspect was ever charged or convicted of the poisonings. New York City resident James William Lewis was convicted of extortion for sending a letter to Johnson & Johnson that took responsibility for the deaths and demanded $1 million to stop them, but evidence tying him to the actual poisoning never emerged. The incidents led to reforms in the packaging of over-the-counter substances and to federal anti-tampering laws. The actions of Johnson & Johnson to reduce deaths and warn the public of poisoning risks have been widely praised as an exemplary public relations response to such a crisis. Link to Article Chicago Tylenol murders - WikiVisually --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

Maria Orsitsch, also known as Maria Orsic, was a famous medium who later became the leader of the Vril Society. She was born on 31. October 1895 in Zagreb. Her father was a Croatian and her mother was a German from Vienna. Maria was more beautiful than any Hollywood star at that time. Maria Orsitsch was first mentioned and pictured in 1967 by Bergier and Pauwels in their book: “Aufbruch ins dritte Jahrtausend: von der Zukunft der phantastischen Vernunft.” Maria soon followed the German national movement which was active after the WWI, a movement whose objective was territorial and political accession to Germany. In 1919 she moved to Munich with her boyfriend and fiancé. It is not known whether they were married or not, since both disappeared in 1945. Link to Article Credit: Eva Knight Did María Orsic really obtain extraterrestrial technology for the Germans? | Mysteriesrunsolved Instagram: @s3podcast_ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

On February 19, 2013, a body was recovered in a water tank atop the Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. It was later identified as that of Elisa Lam, also known by her Cantonese name, Lam Ho Yi (藍可兒; April 30, 1991 ] – February 2013), a Canadian student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She had been staying at the hotel when she was reported missing at the beginning of the month. A maintenance worker discovered the body when investigating guest complaints of problems with the water supply and pressure. Her disappearance had been widely reported; interest had increased five days prior to the discovery of her body when the Los Angeles Police Department released a video of the last time she was known to have been seen, on the day of her disappearance, by an elevator security camera in the hotel. In the footage, Lam is seen exiting and re-entering the elevator, talking and gesturing in the hallway outside, and sometimes seeming to hide within the elevator. The video went viral, with many viewers reporting that they found it unsettling. Explanations ranged from claims of paranormal involvement to bipolar disorder, for which Lam took medication. It has also been argued that the video was altered prior to release. Death of Elisa Lam - Wikipedia New details in unsolved water tank death of Elisa Lam | Daily Mail Online --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

Pro golfer Gene Siller was shot and killed at a country club in suburban Atlanta on Saturday, and two other men were found dead inside the bed of a pickup truck on the golf course, the Cobb County Police Department said. Cobb County police responded to a report of a person shot around 2:20 p.m. and discovered Siller on the green of the 10th hole at the Pinetree Country Club in Kennesaw, Georgia, the police department said in a statement Sunday. Siller, an employee of the club, was found unresponsive with an apparent gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police also discovered a RAM 3500 pickup truck on the green that contained the bodies of two men. Officials identified one of the men as Paul Pierson, the registered owner of the truck. The third victim had not been identified as of Sunday night. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

On June 25 the Pentagon and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released their much hyped report on unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP. Space alien enthusiasts and skeptics alike awaited it with bated breath. And while the report did not rule out an extraterrestrial origin for much of the documented UAP, it was short on details or bombshells. But we already know our world is easily detectable by extrasolar observers. A paper published on June 23 in Nature shows that in the past 5,000 years, 1,715 stars have been in the right celestial position to view a populated Earth transiting the sun—with 319 more entering this sweet spot in the next 5,000 years. And seven of these far-off stars are known to have their own orbiting exoplanets that might support life. Link to article Aliens Might Already Be Watching Us - Scientific American --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

In February 1918 Alan L. Hart was a talented, up-and-coming 27-year-old intern at San Francisco Hospital. Hart, who stood at 5'4" and weighed about 120 pounds, mixed well with his colleagues at work and afterward—smoking, drinking, swearing and playing cards. His round glasses hemmed in his pensive eyes, a high white collar often flanked his dark tie, and his short hair was slicked neatly to the right. Though the young doctor's alabaster face was smooth, he could deftly go through the motions of shaving with a safety razor. A photograph of a woman, who he had told colleagues was his wife, hung on his boarding-room wall. Then, one day that February, Hart was gone. He left behind nothing but his razor, a stack of mail, a pile of men's clothing—and the photograph, still gazing down from the wall. A NEW HOLD ON LIFE Alberta Lucille Hart, known as Lucille, was born on October 4, 1890, in Halls Summit—a lonesome part of Kansas just west of the Missouri border. The child's father Albert, a hay, grain and hog merchant, died two years later, and his widow Edna moved with Lucille to make a new start in Oregon. They eventually settled there in the pretty town of Albany, where the Calapooia and Willamette rivers twist together like twine into a single sprawling flow. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

When Phylicia Rashad, a Howard University alum and the new dean of its college of fine arts, tweeted her resounding support for former co-star Bill Cosby's sudden release from prison Wednesday, it caused a ripple among Howard students and alumni. Moments after the news broke that Cosby, convicted in 2018 of three counts of aggravated indecent assault against Andrea Constand had his conviction overturned and was released from prison after nearly three years, Rashad tweeted, “FINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righted—a miscarriage of justice is corrected!” Sheryl Wesley, who graduated from Howard in 1996, said she was taken aback by Rashad's comments. “She now has a responsibility to a body of students and in particular women students,” Wesley said. “She should not feel comfortable to immediately release her personal relief of someone who she considers a friend, but who was convicted of crimes against women. Without concern she openly supported him without considering the institution she has graduated from, and now represents and women who have been victimized.” Coaching Website BillyByrneCoach - Coaching, Health Coach, Coach Website (billybcoach.com) Follow Our Podcast The S3 Podcast (@s3podcast_) • Instagram photos and videos --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

On the evening of December 6th, 1991 four teenage girls were murdered inside of a yogurt shop in Austin, Texas. Two of the girls were 17-year-old employees of the yogurt shop, Jennifer Harbison and Eliza Thomas, while the other two were Jennifer's 15-year-old sister and her 13-year-old best friend, Sarah Harbison and Amy Ayers. The bodies of all four were found after a patrolling police officer found smoke coming from the yogurt shop at around midnight. Within minutes, the location was crawling with more than a dozen firefighters, who had quickly killed the flame, but then found the bodies in the back area of the yogurt shop. Throughout a lengthy investigation, police would determine that the victims had been forced to undress, and were then bound in their own clothing, before being shot in the back of the head. All had been shot at least once, but the youngest victim - Amy Ayers, whose body was found separated from the other three by several feet - had been shot twice. It would later be revealed that at least one .38-caliber shell and slug would be recovered from the crime scene, in addition to four .22-caliber bullets, which were taken from the victims' bodies. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

Michaela Joy Garecht (January 24, 1979 — November 19, 1988) was nine years old when she was abducted and murdered in Hayward, California, in broad daylight at the corner of Mission Boulevard and Lafayette Avenue. Sketches of Garecht's abductor were distributed along with missing person flyers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area within 24 hours of her disappearance, but search efforts proved fruitless. Her case was featured in national media, including profiles on the documentary series Unsolved Mysteries. After the 2009 release of Jaycee Dugard, who had been kidnapped in Meyers, California, and held captive by Phillip and Nancy Garrido for nearly two decades, renewed interest was brought on Garecht's case, and Garrido was interviewed regarding Garecht's abduction. In 2012, Wesley Shermantine, a convicted serial killer who committed various murders with his accomplice, Loren Herzog—known collectively as the Speed Freak Killers—brought to the attention of law enforcement that the original sketches of Garecht's abductor bore a striking similarity to Herzog, who had committed suicide while in prison in January 2012. While bone fragments discovered in one of Herzog and Shermantine's disposal sites was thought to belong to Garecht, DNA profiling completed in late 2012 proved they were not hers. On December 21, 2020, thirty-two years after the abduction of Garecht, David Emery Misch was charged with her abduction and murder MICHAELA JOY GARECHT — FBI If you have any information ,whereabouts of Michaela then please Contact the FBI office in San Francisco: Phone: +1 (415) 553-7400 or call your local FBI office Follow Us Instagram: s3podcast_ Facebook S3Podcastofficial --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

Austin is a large city in central Texas: located about 80 miles northeast of San Antonio and about 200 miles south of Dallas, with a population that currently lingers at around one million. Even though Austin has been a large city for some time now, in the early 1990s, it certainly didn't feel like it. To many, Austin was almost like its own little bubble inside of Texas. A surprisingly liberal city in a traditionally-conservative state, Austin had a reputation for being home to the area's more progressive voices, which made sense to some; it is the state's capital, after all. But for many decades, Austin seemed to pale in comparison to the state's other large cities, which included the aforementioned San Antonio and Dallas, as well as Houston. For many Texans, Austin was a nice and quiet place where you could raise a family, and wouldn't have to worry about the downsides of large cities: namely violent crime, which was unheard of in large parts of Austin. To Read The Yoghurt Shop Murders The Austin Yogurt Shop Murders — Unresolved --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

Paula Welden was the eldest of four daughters of the well-known industrial engineer, architect and designer William Archibald Welden (1900–1970) and his wife Jean Douglas (born at Mount Kisco, New York, 1901; died at Venice, Florida, 1976), née Wilson, of Brookdale Road, Stamford, Connecticut. Employed by the Revere Copper and Brass Company, W. Archibald Welden was the designer of many familiar household utensils, as well as stylish cocktail shakers and other objects. Paula Welden was a 1945 graduate of Stamford High School. In 1946, Welden was a sophomore at Bennington College in North Bennington, Vermont. Her college dormitory was Dewey House, one of the older dormitories on the college grounds, and which remains standing to this day. One day, Welden resolved to find and walk a portion of the Long Trail, located a few miles from the campus. She knew of the famous trail but hadn't yet had an opportunity to hike it. She tried to get some other students to join her that day, but they were busy; she went by herself. Find us on instagram @s3podcast_ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/S3Podcastofficial --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

I am joined today with my friend Aiden Riley as we talk mental health, our struggles and our healing process . the healing process is whatever it is to you : going at your own pace . if you are struggling then please reach out to samaritans on 116 123 or Home - Tomorrow Project Home | Mind, the mental health charity - help for mental health problems --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

Brianna Alexandra Maitland (born October 8, 1986; disappeared March 19, 2004) is an American teenager who disappeared after leaving her job at the Black Lantern Inn in Montgomery, Vermont. She was 17 years old at the time. Maitland's car was discovered the following day, backed into the side of an abandoned house about a mile (1.6 km) away from her workplace. She has not been seen or heard from since. Due to a confluence of circumstances, several days passed before Maitland's friends and family reported her missing. In the days and weeks following her disappearance, numerous tips were investigated by state law enforcement, including a claim that Maitland was being held captive in a house occupied by local drug dealers of whom she was an acquaintance; however, none of the tips resulted in her discovery. An alleged 2006 sighting of Maitland at a casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, brought renewed interest to the case, but the woman seen was never properly identified. In 2012, law enforcement investigated a possible connection between Maitland's disappearance and serial killer Israel Keyes, who committed numerous rapes and murders in Vermont, New York, and throughout the Pacific Northwest, but he was ultimately ruled out as a suspect by the FBI. Maitland's case was profiled across various local media, on Dateline NBC, and the documentary series Disappeared. In 2017, the case was discussed in the documentary series on missing college student Maura Murray, who vanished a month prior to Maitland in Woodsville, New Hampshire. As of 2021, Maitland's disappearance remains unsolved. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

On 26 April 1986, one of the reactors at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded after unsanctioned experiments on the reactor by plant operators were done improperly. The resulting loss of control was due to design flaws of the RBMK reactor, which made it unstable when operated at low power, and prone to thermal runaway where increases in temperature increase reactor power output.[24][25] Chernobyl city was evacuated nine days after the disaster. The level of contamination with caesium-137 was around 555 kBq/m2 (surface ground deposition in 1986).[26][27] Later analyses concluded that, even with very conservative estimates, relocation of the city (or of any area below 1500 kBq/m2) could not be justified on the grounds of radiological health.[28][29][30] This however does not account for the uncertainty in the first few days of the accident about further depositions and weather patterns. Moreover, an earlier short-term evacuation could have averted more significant doses from short-lived isotope radiation (specifically iodine-131, which has a half-life of about eight days). Estimates of health effects are a subject of some controversy, see Effects of the Chernobyl disaster. Read About the Chernobyl Disaster Chernobyl - Wikipedia Follow Us @s3podcast_ on instagram --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931) is an American economist, political activist, and former United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, Ellsberg precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of the U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times, The Washington Post and other newspapers. On January 3, 1973, Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 along with other charges of theft and conspiracy, carrying a total maximum sentence of 115 years. Because of governmental misconduct and illegal evidence-gathering, and the defense by Leonard Boudin and Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson, Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. dismissed all charges against Ellsberg on May 11, 1973. Ellsberg was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2006. He is also known for having formulated an important example in decision theory, the Ellsberg paradox, his extensive studies on nuclear weapons and nuclear policy, and for having voiced support for WikiLeaks, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden. Ellsberg was awarded the 2018 Olof Palme Prize for his "profound humanism and exceptional moral courage Link To Article: Daniel Ellsberg - Wikipedia --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

On June 11, 2016, Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was hosting "Latin Night", a weekly Saturday night event drawing a primarily Latino crowd.  About 320 people were still inside the club, which was serving last call drinks at around 2:00 a.m. EDT on June 12.  At around the same time, Omar Mateen arrived at the club via rental van, parking it in the parking lot of a neighboring car shop. He got out and walked toward the building armed with a SIG Sauer MCX semi-automatic rifle and a 9mm Glock 17 semi-automatic pistol. He was wearing a green, blue, and white plaid dress shirt, a white T-shirt underneath and tan cargo pants. At 2:02 a.m., Mateen bypassed Officer Adam Gruler, a uniformed off-duty Orlando Police Department (OPD) officer working extra duty as a security guard, entered --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

The risk of death due to legal abortion has fallen considerably since legalization in 1973, due to increased physician skills, improved medical technology, and earlier termination of pregnancy. From 1940 through 1970, deaths of pregnant women during abortion fell from nearly 1,500 to a little over 100.] According to the Centers for Disease Control, the number of women who died in 1972 from illegal abortion was thirty-nine. The Roe effect is a hypothesis which suggests that since supporters of abortion rights cause the erosion of their own political base by having fewer children, the practice of abortion will eventually lead to the restriction or illegalization of abortion. The legalized abortion and crime effect is another controversial theory that posits legal abortion reduces crime, because unwanted children are more likely to become criminals. Since Roe v. Wade, there have been numerous attempts to reverse the decision. In the 2011 election season, Mississippi placed an amendment on the ballot that redefined how the state viewed abortion. The personhood amendment defined personhood as "every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the functional equivalent thereof". If passed, it would have been illegal to get an abortion in the state. On July 11, 2012, a Mississippi federal judge ordered an extension of his temporary order to allow the state's only abortion clinic to stay open. The order will stay in place until U.S. District Judge Daniel Porter Jordan III can review newly drafted rules on how the Mississippi Department of Health will administer a new abortion law. The law in question came into effect on July 1, 2012. According to a 2019 study, if Roe v. Wade is reversed and abortion bans are implemented in trigger law states and states considered highly likely to ban abortion, "increases in travel distance are estimated to prevent 93,546 to 143,561 women from accessing abortion care." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

When the United States first became independent, most states applied English common law to abortion. This meant it was not permitted after quickening, or the start of fetal movements, usually felt 15–20 weeks after conception. Abortion has existed in America since European colonization. The earliest settlers would often encourage abortions before the "quickening" stage in the pregnancy. There were many reasons given for this, including not having resources to bear children. By the late 1800s states began to make abortions illegal. One reason given for the legislation was that abortions had been performed with dangerous methods and were often surgical. Because of this, many states decided to forbid abortions. As technology advanced and abortion methods improved, abortions still remained illegal. Women would resort to illegal unsafe methods, also known as "back alley" abortions. Abortions became illegal by statute in Britain in 1803 with Lord Ellenborough's Act. Various anti-abortion statutes that codified or expanded common law began to appear in the United States in the 1820s. In 1821, a Connecticut law targeted apothecaries who sold "poisons" to women for purposes of inducing an abortion, and New York made post-quickening abortions a felony and pre-quickening abortions a misdemeanor in 1829. Other legal scholars have pointed out that some of the early laws punished not only the doctor or abortionist, but also the woman who hired them --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

A Milwaukee woman accused of killing a man who allegedly sexually assaulted her and other underage girls is entitled to an appeal using a certain type of defense strategy, a Wisconsin court ruled this week. Chrystul Kizer, who was 17 when prosecutors say she killed Randall Volar III and set fire to his home in 2018, may be able to employ a state law adopted in 2008 and known as "affirmative defense," which means what she is accused of doing was a "direct result" of being a human trafficking victim. Kizer was charged with five felonies, including first-degree intentional homicide. She was underage when she said Volar, 34, sexually assaulted her. Kizer, now 20, came forward publicly in a 2019 Washington Post interview from jail and said she acted in self-defense. "I didn't intentionally try to do this," she said. Kizer is awaiting trial following her release from the Kenosha County Jail last June after the case drew interest from community groups and celebrities, and supporters helped raise her $400,000 bail, which was lowered from $1 million. Her situation also drew comparisons to that of Cyntoia Brown, who was convicted as a teenager of murdering a man she said had hired her for sex and was released from prison in 2019 after then-Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam commuted her life sentence. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

Naomi Osaka said she was withdrawing from the French Open on Monday, one day after tennis officials threatened to suspend her and fined her $15,000 over her decision not to do media interviews during the tournament to prioritize her mental health. In a statement on Monday, Osaka also said that she "suffered long bouts of depression" since being catapulted into the national spotlight after a controversial victory over Serena Williams in the U.S. Open of 2018. "The best thing for the tournament, the other players and my well-being is that I withdraw so that everyone can get back to focusing on the tennis going on in Paris," she said in a statement. "I never wanted to be a distraction and accept that my timing was not ideal and my message could have been clearer." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

Hey Guys welcome back to another episode of S3 Podcast , my name is Billy Byrne, in todays episode i had the pleasure of having Olly Pegg on as a guest ( virtually, of course ) where we discussed his mental health and importantly his Sobriety with which he is currently 18 month's sober in too. we discuss how he came to realise he had n issue - how he reached out for help : he continues his recovery through exercise and has competed in marathons, currently he's training to compete in a weekend marathon where he'll be doing a total of Fifty miles . You can find Olly on Instagram and Facebook Olly Pegg (@olly_pegg) • Instagram photos and videos Olly Pegg- Becoming You - Home | Facebook Don't forget to follow us on instagram The S3 Podcast (@s3podcast_) • Instagram photos and videos --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

Republican legislators in several states have introduced at least 80 anti-protest bills restricting everything from “unreasonable noise” to wearing a mask during demonstrations in what some are calling a backlash to last year's summer of protests. The killing of George Floyd last May 25 sparked demonstrations across the country and amplified national attention to racism in police practices. Media outlets deemed it the “year of protests.” Now, there have been twice as many proposals to quell demonstrations in 2021's legislative sessions than in any other year, Elly Page, senior legal adviser at the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, which tracks anti-protest legislation, told The New York Times. “The reason so many protests exist in the first place, whether it's the civil rights era or Black Lives Matter, is that they are trying to change things about our society and our political system that are fundamentally broken,” said Matthew Delmont, a history professor at Dartmouth College. “It's important to understand that the anti-protest bills we're seeing right now are an attempt to maintain the status quo and prevent more significant change that would lead to more equitable systems.” --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

The mother of Ronald Greene, a barber who died after a violent confrontation with Louisiana State Police, said Saturday that the release of body camera video of her son's arrest has left her "hurting so bad." The Associated Press on Wednesday published edited body camera footage from Greene's arrest on May 10, 2019, following a pursuit that may have started with Greene driving erratically, including allegedly running a red light, according to audio from the video. Louisiana State Police Supt. Lamar A. Davis on Friday officially released nine body camera and dash camera videos of Greene's arrest outside Monroe, Louisiana. Mona Hardin, the mother of Greene, 49, said in an interview Saturday with NBC News that seeing the video was painful. Before this week's public release of video, she had viewed some body camera footage "in a very controlled environment," said her attorney, Lee Merritt. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

Hi everyone welcome back my name is Billy - me and my good friend Aiden Riley both sat down and in this episode we discuss the effects of depression from our perspective : expect a raw, deep conversation as we explain how depression feels and manifest. We hope you enjoy this conversation ❤ follow us on Instagram @s3podcast_ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

For Jessica Nuñez, the last six months have been a nightmare. Her teenage daughter, Alicia Navarro, disappeared from their home in Glendale, Arizona on September 15, 2019. Now, as the coronavirus spreads at a rapid pace across the world, Jessica said she is even more terrified for her daughter's safety. “We just need to find her. And I need to know that she is safe,” Jessica said tearfully. “My girl is out there alone, without me, and now this virus… it's horrible. I just need her back home.” Jessica said she is especially worried because her daughter is on the autism spectrum and is known to be shy or anxious in some social situations. She takes medicine and has a compromised immune system. Jessica is worried Alicia's anxiety will also overwhelm her with the current situation. If you have any information on Alicia's whereabouts, call Glendale Police at 623-930-3000 - If you have any information on Aaliyah's whereabouts, contact the Syracuse Police Department at 574-267-5667. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

The first gender affirmation surgeries took place in 1920s, at a facility which employed transgender technicians and nurses, and which was headed by a gay Jewish man. The forgotten history of the institute, and its fall to Nazis bent on the euthanasia of homosexuals and transgender people, offers us both hope—and a cautionary tale—in the face of oppressive anti-trans legislation in the United States. This story begins late one night in Berlin, on the cusp of the 20th century. Magnus Hirschfeld, a young doctor recently finished with his military service, found a German soldier on his doorstep. Distraught and agitated, the young man had come to confess himself an urning, a word used in Germany to refer to homosexual men. It explained the cover of darkness; to speak of such things was dangerous business. The infamous “Paragraph 175” in the German criminal code made homosexuality illegal; a man so accused could be stripped of his ranks and titles and imprisoned. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

This spring, the 17-year cicadas of Brood X will emerge from underground, climb tree trunks and molt, leaving their crunchy shells behind. Soon after, the males will join together in a droning chorus to the delight (or consternation) of their human neighbors.  Those with a keen ear might detect that there are several buzzy songs occurring at once. This is not because the cicadas have a large repertoire. Rather, there are few different cicada species, including the Magicicada septendecim and the Magicicada cassini, each with a different tune. In the early 19th century this was still a mystery, but the entomologist Margaretta Hare Morris had suspicions. Ever since she had been a teenager, she had carefully observed the emergence of cicadas. She had heard the different cicada songs in 1817 and again 1834. It was in 1846, though, when she was 49, that Morris felt confident enough to announce that she had discovered a new species. Follow us on Instagram @s3podcast_ & @s3s3productions --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

This week, mosquito eggs placed in the Florida Keys are expected to hatch tens of thousands of genetically modified mosquitoes, a result of the first U.S. release of such insects in the wild. A biotechnology firm called Oxitec delivered the eggs in late April as part of a federally approved experiment to study the use of genetic engineering—rather than insecticides—to control disease-carrying mosquito populations. The move targets an invasive species, called Aedes aegypti, that carries Zika, dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever and other potentially deadly diseases, some of which are on the rise in Florida. The experiment relies on a genetic alteration that will be lethal to a large number of future offspring. In this case, male mosquitoes have been modified to carry a gene that makes their female progeny dependent on the antibiotic tetracycline—and thus fated to die in the wild. As the mating cycle repeats over generations, female numbers are depleted, and the population is suppressed. The modified insects eventually die off, making this approach self-limiting Oxitec overcame significant regulatory hurdles before getting the go-ahead from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2016 and then the Environmental Protection Agency in 2020. If the current pilot effort is successful, the firm is set to release as many as 20 million more males in the prime of Florida's mosquito season later this year. The results of the experiment could ultimately help address concerns about releasing genetically modified organisms into the wild. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

Though she's just set an end date for her long-running daytime talk show, comedian Ellen DeGeneres considers it the most important thing she's ever done — but she nearly said goodbye to it years earlier. She first considered doing so after season 16, which began in 2018. "There was a different president, and it was a different time, and there was a lot of just, hatred and anger and stuff, that I was just like, 'This is it,'" DeGeneres said in an exclusive interview with "TODAY" show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie that aired Thursday Though she's just set an end date for her long-running daytime talk show, comedian Ellen DeGeneres considers it the most important thing she's ever done — but she nearly said goodbye to it years earlier. She first considered doing so after season 16, which began in 2018. "There was a different president, and it was a different time, and there was a lot of just, hatred and anger and stuff, that I was just like, 'This is it,'" DeGeneres said in an exclusive interview with "TODAY" show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie that aired Thursday. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

TEL AVIV — In the worst flare-up of violence in seven years, Israel launched airstrikes and Palestinian militants launched hundreds of missiles overnight into Wednesday, killing more than 50 people and injuring hundreds more amid rising fears the conflict could spiral into all-out war. What started as a week of tense clashes in Jerusalem has escalated into violent unrest on the streets of Arab Israeli towns, as well as a deadly aerial conflict — more than 1,000 rockets lit up the skies of Israeli cities, while at least two high-rise buildings were levelled in the Israeli bombardment of the blockaded and impoverished Gaza Strip, home to 2 million Palestinians. At least 53 people, including 14 children, were killed in the Israeli bombardment, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Bassem Issa, the commander for Gaza City, was also among the dead, Hamas' military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, confirmed. Staff Sgt. Omer Tabib of the Israel Defence Forces was also killed. Five Israelis were killed in the coastal cities of Ashkelon and Rishon Lesion, and in the city of Lod southeast of Tel Aviv, officials said. In total, more than 200 people have been wounded in Israel, while there have been more than 300 Palestinians injured, according to authorities on both sides. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

Furuta was born in Misato, Saitama Prefecture. She lived with her parents, her elder brother, and her younger brother.As a teenager, she attended Yashio-Minami High School and worked part-time at a plastic molding factory during after-school hours since October 1988. She did this to save up money for a graduation plan she had arranged. Furuta also accepted a job at an electronics retailer, where she planned on working after graduation. At high school, Furuta was well-liked by her classmates, with high grades and very infrequent absences. The perpetrators were four teenage boys: Hiroshi Miyano (宮野裕史, Miyano Hiroshi, 18 years old), Jō Ogura (小倉譲, Ogura Jō, 17), Shinji Minato (湊伸治, Minato Shinji, 16), and Yasushi Watanabe (渡邊恭史, Watanabe Yasushi, 17), who were respectively referred to as "A", "B", "C", and "D" in court documents. At the time of the crime, they used the second floor of Minato's house as a hangout, and had, as chimpira, previously engaged in crimes including purse snatching, extortion, and rape. On 25 November 1988, Miyano and Minato wandered around Misato with the intention of robbing and raping local women. At 8:30 p.m., they spotted Furuta riding her bike home after she had finished a shift at her job. Under Miyano's orders, Minato kicked Furuta off her bike and fled the scene. Miyano, under the pretence of witnessing the attack by coincidence, approached Furuta and offered to walk her home safely. Furuta, accepting this offer, was unaware that Miyano was leading her to a nearby warehouse, where he revealed his yakuza connections. He raped her in the warehouse and again in a nearby hotel, threatening to kill her. From the hotel, Miyano called Minato and his other friends, Jō Ogura and Yasushi Watanabe, and bragged to them about the rape. Ogura reportedly asked Miyano to keep her in captivity in order to allow numerous people to sexually assault her. The group had a history of gang rape and had recently kidnapped and raped another girl, whom they released afterward. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

On October 7, 1949, aspiring Hollywood actress Jean Spangler kissed her five-year-old daughter goodbye and told her sister-in-law she was going to meet her ex-husband to talk about his late child support payment. In a twist straight from a L.A. noir novel, she walked out the door and was never seen again. The last person to see her alive was a clerk in the local store near her home. She stood outside, he said, like she was waiting for someone to pick her up. When the actress never returned home, Spangler's sister-in-law, Sophie, filed a police report the very next day. The investigation immediately turned to Spangler's ex-husband, a man named Dexter Benner. The two had an acrimonious divorce and ruthless custody battle over their daughter, Christine. But Dexter, who by that time had remarried, claimed to have been at home that evening with his wife Lynn. He said he didn't know anything about a meeting and hadn't spoken to Spangler in nearly two years --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

On the afternoon of August 24, 1908, Caroline Mary Luard and her husband seventy-year-old Charles decided to go for a leisurely stroll with their dog Sergeant in the couple's home village of Ihtsham. Caroline was expecting the company of her friend Mrs Mary Stewart later that afternoon at around 4 pm so a mile from home she parted with her husband and made her return through the woodland. Charles had his own errand to attend to. The couple were due to be taking a holiday in the coming days and Charles wished to play some golf whilst away, so he headed to the Godden Street Golf Club to collect his clubs. When Charles arrived back home at around 4: 25 pm he was surprised to see Mary Stewart but no sign of his wife. Mary informed Charles that Caroline had yet to arrive for their planned tea but just assumed she had been held up somewhere. Charles had his reservations on the idea as he knew Caroline had set off home around two hours earlier but the pair sat and waited for another five minutes as they enjoyed a cup of English tea At this point Charles suggested that they head out to meet her or “rescue her” from a nearby chatterbox neighbour who they had now presumed had held up Caroline's return. The pair walked through Frank field Park together for around twenty minutes at which point Mary Stewart informed Charles she needed to be home by 6 pm as she herself had guest due. Mary told Charles to let Caroline know she would visit the next day and the two parted company --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

On December 1, 1948, in Adelaide, Australia, a young jockey, Neil Day, was riding his horse on Somerton beach. It was around 6:30 a.m. when he and his riding mate discovered the body of a clean-shaven man wearing a brown suit. Although the person was clearly dead, he was laying on his back against a wall and seemed to be staring at the sky. There was no identification on the body. Thus, officials never identified the man or the cause of death. Then four months later they found a clue. It was a piece of paper with the words “Tamam Shud ,” meaning the end. This is the case of the Somerton Man, also known as the Taman Shud case. On the night of November 30, 1948, at least two groups of passersby saw a man who looked like the dead man the jockeys found the following morning. He had also sat in the same place that the Somerton Man lay. The witnesses said that they did not get a very good look at him, but it was the same man from what they could tell. Passersby saw him around 7:00 p.m. By 7:30-8:00, there was no discernible movement. One witness said he had wondered if the man was alive, but assumed he was drunk. Evidence Found at the Scene The Somerton man wore a nice suit, which pointed to at least a marginal amount of prosperity. An expensive British cigarette, not from Australia, lay behind his ear. Another half-smoked cigarette of the same brand nestled between his cheek and collar. Interestingly, a pack of those cigarettes placed in the case of a cheaper brand was in his pocket. Additionally, investigators found a few more items in his pockets: a book of matches, a used bus ticket to Glenelg, and an unused train ticket to Henley Beach. Follow us @s3podcast_ Follow the host @s3s3production --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

It was on 15th December 1900 that the last entries were noted by the Keepers at Flannan Isle Lighthouse. Now over 100 years later, what happened on that day remains a mystery. A mystery that has captured the imagination of the public ever since. There have been many books written about the Flannans and in 2018, the film The Vanishing was released to a worldwide audience. Despite the intrigue and dramatised speculation of what may have happened, we have to remember three keepers lost their lives and the families of these three men, to this day, do not know their fate. The loss of the three Keepers from the Flannan Isles Lighthouse in 1900 is a significant and very sad part of our history. We pay tribute to these keepers, who served the Northern Lighthouse Board so well over the years, and can only report what was recorded at that time. The keepers were: James Ducat, Principal Thomas Marshall, 2nd Assistant Donald McArthur, Occasional Keeper – doing duty for William Ross, 1st Assistant, on sick leave. Their disappearance was only discovered as a result of the routine visit by Lighthouse Tender HESPERUS, on 26 December 1900. A vessel had passed the Flannan Islands at about midnight on 15 December and on arrival in port had reported that the light was not seen. However, this wasn't communicated to the Northern Lighthouse Board until the keepers disappearance had been discovered by HESPERUS Follow us on Instagram: S3 Podcast @s3podcast_ Follow Me : @s3s3production also subscribe to S3 Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Leave us a Review . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

With Sowers about to become the first woman to coach in a Super Bowl, there had already been plenty of 'history maker' headlines and interview requests. Now she could see evidence of the scale of the interest, with even star names from her San Francisco 49ers family less in demand from reporters. "I didn't realise how big it was until that media night," says Sowers, reflecting on her time in the spotlight. "I was wondering why everyone was swarming around me and not talking to some of these other guys! "But it was that idea of how important it is to be visible." Among those putting questions to her was two-time Super Bowl winner Deion Sanders. Back when he was playing cornerback for Dallas, Sowers was a football-mad girl growing up in small-town Kansas who would write fan letters to her Cowboys idol. "I'd always wear Deion's jersey when I was younger, in elementary school. So it was almost like these two worlds - the younger self and the dream of what I wanted - came together, when I got to meet him on that stage. It was really cool. That's going to be a memory that I remember forever." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

A star on the social media platform TikTok said that YouTube-star-turned-boxer Jake Paul forced her into a sex act without consent in the summer of 2019. consent in the summer of 2019. Justine Paradise said in a 20-minute video posted on YouTube last Friday that she didn't say anything about the alleged attack sooner because she signed a nondisclosure agreement and thought that it would have broken the contract. In a statement to ESPN, attorney Daniel E. Gardenswartz, who works for the law firm Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith LLP, said Paul "categorically denies the allegation" and will pursue "legal action against those responsible for the defamation of character." In the lengthy video, Paradise said she met Paul several times in June and July of 2019 at the Team 10 House, a Los Angeles mansion where several social media stars lived and worked. Paradise said that on July 20, 2019, she felt like she made it clear to Paul that she didn't want to go any further than just kissing, but Paul forced her to have oral sex. "He didn't ask for consent or anything," Paradise said in the video. "He knew I didn't want to do anything with him." Paradise made no mention about taking the information to law enforcement. Paul responded on Twitter on Tuesday, saying "this claim made against me is 100% false" and that he "never had a sexual relationship with this individual." "Sexual assault accusations aren't something that I, or anyone should ever take lightly, but to be crystal clear, this claim made against me is 100% false," Paul said as part of his post. "... I will fight this to the end to prove my innocence --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

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The LGBTQ+ “panic” defense strategy is a legal strategy that asks a jury to find that a victim's sexual orientation or gender identity/expression is to blame for a defendant's violent reaction, including murder. It is not a free-standing defense to criminal liability, but rather a legal tactic used to bolster other defenses. When a perpetrator uses an LGBTQ+ “panic” defense, they are claiming that a victim's sexual orientation or gender identity not only explains—but excuses—a loss of self-control and the subsequent assault. By fully or partially acquitting the perpetrators of crimes against LGBTQ+ victims, this defense implies that LGBTQ+ lives are worth less than others. One of the most recognized cases that employed the LGBTQ+ “panic” defense was that of Matthew Shepard. In 1998, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old college student, was beaten to death by two men. The men attempted to use the LGBTQ+ “panic” defense to excuse their actions. Despite widespread public protest, the defense is still being used today The LGBT Bar uses “LGBTQ+ panic” rather than “gay/trans panic” because the former is an inclusive phrasing which recognizes that the defense strategy impacts all folks in the LGBTQ+ community. To refer to it as “gay/trans panic” excludes violence against those who do not identify as gay or transgender. Traditionally, the LGBTQ+ “panic” defense has been used in three ways to mitigate a case of murder to manslaughter or justified homicide. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

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How could a veteran Minnesota police officer have mistaken her pistol for a Taser and fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright? That, at least, is the local police chief's theory for what happened in the incident. The answer to that question may have as much to do with what was going on in Brooklyn Center police Officer Kim Potter's mind as with which weapon she was holding in her hand, experts told NBC News on Tuesday. The Glock pistol that Potter was wielding when she fired the fatal shot at Wright on Sunday as he allegedly attempted to flee is black metal and almost a pound heavier than the neon-colored plastic Taser she may have believed she was brandishing as she was caught on a video yelling, “Taser! Taser! Taser!” “A Glock is a very lightweight handgun,” said Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith, spokeswoman for the National Police Association and a retired 29-year veteran of the Naperville Police Department in Illinois. “But a Taser is heavier than you think.” While the exact models Officer Kim Potter was carrying are not clear, the images show the general differences of these weapons, including the grips and the trigger safety that is only on a pistol. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

DMX, the gravel-voiced rapper and actor who topped the charts with tracks including "Party Up" and "X Gon' Give It to Ya," has died at age 50, his family said Friday in a statement. The rapper, whose real name was Earl Simmons, had a heart attack on April 2, according to his lawyer, Murray Richman. He was immediately hospitalized in grave condition. "Earl was a warrior who fought till the very end," his family said in the statement. "He loved his family with all of his heart and we cherish the times we spent with him." White Plains Hospital confirmed that DMX passed away "peacefully with family present after suffering a catastrophic cardiac arrest." DMX broke onto the rap scene in 1998 with his first studio album, "It's Dark and Hell Is Hot." The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, powered by hits such as "Ruff Ryders' Anthem," "Get At Me Dog" and "Stop Being Greedy." He achieved more success with the albums "...And Then There Was X," "Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood," "The Great Depression" and "Grand Champ" — all of which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart. DMX released seven albums and earned three Grammy nominations. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

Buckingham Palace said: "It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. "His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle." Boris Johnson said he "inspired the lives of countless young people". Speaking at Downing Street, the prime minister added: "He helped to steer the Royal Family and the monarchy so that it remains an institution indisputably vital to the balance and happiness of our national life." Mr Johnson said he received the news of the duke's death "with great sadness". "Prince Philip earned the affection of generations here in the United Kingdom, across the Commonwealth, and around the world," he said. Paying tribute to the duke's role as the longest serving consort in history, Mr Johnson also remembered Prince Philip as one of the last surviving people to have fought in World War II. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

Three Minneapolis police department officers took the stand Tuesday on the seventh day of testimony in Derek Chauvin's murder trial in the death of George Floyd. In addition to the officers, who are experts in use of force, crisis intervention training and emergency medical response, was Sgt. Jody Stiger of the Los Angeles Police Department. He testified as an outside expert on police training and use of force. Stiger will return to the witness stand Wednesday morning. The seventh day of witness testimony in Derek Chauvin's murder trial ended abruptly Tuesday following several law enforcement witnesses testifying about police use-of-force and medical assistance policies. Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill ended court abruptly Tuesday afternoon after privately speaking with both prosecution and defense attorneys. The interruption came as prosecutor Steve Schleicher was questioning Sgt. Jody Stiger of the Los Angeles Police Department, an expert on police training and use of force. Stiger will return to the stand Wednesday.  Several law enforcement officers with the Minneapolis Police Department also testified on police training, use-of-force tactics and de-escalation and providing medical assistance earlier Tuesday. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

Virginia has become the 12th state to ban the use of the “gay/trans panic” defense. Gov. Ralph Northam signed a bill Wednesday against the defense, which has allowed those accused of homicide to receive lesser sentences by saying they panicked after finding out the victim's sexual orientation or gender identity. The bill passed the state House and the Senate in February. The bill's author, Democratic Delegate Danica Roem said she first became aware of the defense after Matthew Shepard, a gay man, was murdered in 1998, and the men who killed him used the defense in court, according to the American Bar Association. Then, in 2004, one of the four men who were convicted of killing Gwen Araujo, a trans teenager, also used it. Roem was a college freshman and knew she was trans when she read about Araujo's death. It terrified her, she said. But what made her determined to introduce a bill to ban the defense in Virginia was a letter she has received from a 15-year-old LGBTQ constituent. “He's out, and he sent me an email asking me to pass this bill, and I came to realize that in 2021, my out teenage constituents are living with the same fear that I did in 1998, after Matthew was killed, and that I did in 2002 after Gwen Araujo was killed,” Roem said. “And you think of how many other people will stay closeted because they have a fear of being attacked, let alone all the other fears that a closeted person who wants to come out has.” --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

People who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 can travel freely in the U.S., as long as they remain masked on planes, buses and trains, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday. It is unclear how much impact the new guidance will have. People are already traveling and making decisions on their own. American Airlines reported Monday that the company's bookings have jumped to 90 percent of what they were before the pandemic. It is expected that the U.S. will surpass 100 million people who have received at least one dose of vaccine Friday. More than 56 million Americans are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC. A person is considered fully vaccinated two weeks after their last dose of Covid-19 vaccine. That gives the body enough time to build antibodies against the virus. This latest guidance offers another step toward resuming normal activity for those who have received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna shots or one shot of the single-dose vaccine from Johnson & Johnson. The CDC said Covid-19 tests are no longer required for fully vaccinated people before or after a trip within the U.S., and there is no need for them to self-quarantine. The guidance doesn't mention whether people need proof of vaccination to travel, though no U.S. airlines currently require such documentation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

Two former Texas sheriff's deputies are facing manslaughter charges in the death of a Black man following a car chase where authorities were accompanied by a reality television camera crew. Javier Ambler was followed by Williamson County deputies for over 20 minutes on March 28, 2019, ending in the city of Austin, where Ambler was restrained and tased at least three times, body camera footage previously released by Austin police and seen by NBC News showed. Deputies began chasing Ambler because he failed to dim his headlights for oncoming traffic, according to a police report. The A&E reality television show "Live PD" was filming sheriff's deputies when the pursuit began. A grand jury indicted deputies James Johnson and Zachary Camden on one count of second-degree manslaughter each in Ambler's death, Travis County District Attorney José Garza announced Tuesday. “With these indictments, we have taken another critical step towards justice for the Ambler family and for our community,” Garza said. “While we can never take away the pain of the Ambler family, the grand jury has sent a clear message that no one is above the law.” Bail for the deputies was set at $150,000 each, and it is unclear if they were in custody Tuesday. Inmate records were not immediately available for either Johnson or Camden --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

A Latina essential worker who lives in Montgomery County, Maryland, drove an hour and a half south to the nearest pharmacy where she could get her COVID vaccination. When she arrived, staff asked for identification, and she showed them her El Salvador passport. They then asked for a U.S. ID and social security number. She did not have either of them because she is undocumented, and she panicked (even though proof of legal residency was not required for getting a vaccine). The woman sought help from a local volunteer group called the Vaccine Hunters, or las Caza Vacunas, which contacted a Maryland state delegate. That delegate called the pharmacy, which initially hung up on them. But the Vaccine Hunters ultimately persuaded the facility to administer the woman's shot. Stories of such inordinate hurdles are fairly common and may help explain why Hispanic and Black people in many states are getting vaccinated at disproportionately lower rates than white or Asian people—despite having a higher burden of COVID-related death and disease.* The Kaiser Family Foundation collects data on COVID cases, deaths and vaccination rates among people who identify as Black, white, Asian or Hispanic. Scientific American visualized these data for five populous states with some of the worst COVID outbreaks: California, Texas, Florida, New York and Illinois. The graphic below shows that Hispanic people had some of the lowest vaccination rates proportional to their share of the population, especially in California and Texas. Black people in New York, Illinois and Florida are getting vaccinated at notably lower levels as well. Many factors may be behind these discrepancies [see additional graphics]: Age minimums for COVID vaccination could favor white Americans, who have a longer life expectancy than Black Americans. Poor Internet access may make securing vaccine appointments a challenge. And not owning a vehicle or living near public transit makes it harder to get to vaccination sites. For some immigrants, language barriers and onerous proof-of-eligibility requirements add more difficulties. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

In the past two years since authorities (and the public) learned about a decade-long college admissions bribery scheme, we've watched high-profile participants like Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman plead guilty, receive sentences, and serve time for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering. But one conspirator has stayed notably under the radar: William “Rick” Singer, the mastermind behind the scandal investigated in Netflix's Operation Varsity Blues Singer — portrayed in the documentary by Stranger Things' Matthew Modine, reenacting his wiretapped conversations with clients — made $25 million helping wealthy and powerful parents get their kids into elite colleges. In May 2019, Singer pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering, racketeering, tax evasion, and obstruction of justice, and admitted to working with over 750 families. In order to get students into schools like Yale University and the University of Southern California, Singer paid proctors to alter his clients' SAT scores, hired exam preparation experts to take the tests on his clients' behalf, and worked with several coaches to falsely identify clients as recruited athletes. To cover his tracks, he laundered money through a “nonprofit” called the Key Worldwide Foundation Eleven coaches and directors were charged with accepting bribes of up to $1.3 million to submit candidates' names as sports recruits. Over 20 parents have been sentenced for their involvement in the operation. Singer, however, hasn't yet been sentenced. It's unclear when he'll go to prison, but his lawyer told USA Today that it will likely be sometime this year or next. He currently faces a maximum sentence of 65 years, with three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $1.25 million. with three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $1.25 million. Today, Singer mostly avoids the public eye, although he's been spotted around Newport Beach, CA a couple times. Ironically, as he awaits sentencing, Singer has decided to focus on his own educational pursuits. According to his lawyer, Donald Heller, he enrolled in Arizona's Grand Canyon University in November 2019, in an attempt “to change his life for the future.” During his time as a student, he was granted permission to travel between his home in California and Arizona, where he took psychology courses. Bob Romantic, a spokesperson for the school, told USA Today that Singer was no longer a GCU student as of July 2020. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message

In June 2015, a white supremacist opened fire inside the historic African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine black congregants, including the minister. The massacre sparked a crescendo of anti-racist protest, including often successful demands for the removal of statues of Confederate Generals from public spaces throughout the South. Two years later, a coalition of white nationalists arrived in Charlottesville, Virginia, for a “Unite the Right” rally aimed at protesting and reversing the local City Council's decision to remove from the city's center of a hundred year-old statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Also gathered in Charlottesville were civil rights activists who sought to support the city's resolve in removing the statue, and to press for further reforms aimed at dismantling institutional white supremacy. The event turned violent after the white nationalists attacked the racial justice advocates with tiki torches, pepper spray and lighter fluid. Fights erupted, injuring at least 30 people. The weekend of protest ended when one of the white nationalists deliberately rammed his car into a crowd of antiracist counter-protesters, injuring 19 and killing one. Refusing to condemn either the goals or the actions of the white nationalists, President Trump commented that there were “very bad people … and very fine people on both sides.” Trump was correct about that. In this encounter between white nationalists and civil rights activists, there were undoubtedly good individuals and bad individuals on both sides. How, then, can we judge which movement was the “good” one and which the “bad?” The answer can be found in the sociological study of social movements. Over decades of focused research, the field has demonstrated that evaluating the moral compass of individual participants does little to advance our understanding of the morality or the actions of a large movement. Only by assessing the goals, tactics and outcomes of movements as collective phenomena can we begin to discern the distinction between “good” and “bad” movements. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thes3podcast/message