Baking A Murder

Yuni’s class arrived at the isolated mountainside dorm. From the moment they look up at the big, creepy, quiet building - Yuni has reservations. She gets this suffocating sense of Deja Vu - like she shouldn’t remember this place… but she does. 

When they get settled into their dorms for the night - they realize the teachers have all vanished, and their phones are all buzzing. A game. Mafia. 

Every night the students will fall asleep except Mafia. Mafia members (who are randomly chosen by the app) must kill a “civilian” student. When the sun rises, everyone will know who is dead, and they must vote on who they believe is the killer. It’s a fun game a lot of high schoolers are familiar with. But this time - if you get killed in the game - you get killed in real life. 

And in a high school where students have their own secrets, love triangles, drama, and hatred for one another - it’s hard to see who’s mafia and who’s killing the others because they just want them dead. 

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Rowena never had guests over. No matter how beautiful and grand her mansion in Italy was - nobody wanted to risk messing with the children. 

The local rumor was - over 100 children had died in that palazzo. Locked up by their caretakers and left to starve or feast off of one another. Rowena didn’t believe in the legend - until her daughter died. 

Rowena hired a physic to perform a seance to figure out what killed her daughter. In attendance - she had her daughter’s “evil” ex-fiance, a mystery novelist, a retired private investigator, a former cop, doctor, and those who were with the daughter the night she died. 

The seance would end with another 2 people dead - and 1 killer hiding amongst them.

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Their phones were down. Computers weren’t working. There was no way to call for help - but it’s not like they needed to. The Sanford’s had rented a nice vacation home for the weekend when the blackout hit - and maybe it would be a great way to just spend quality time together for once.

But the night of the blackout, while enjoying some wine, there was a knock at the door. A man and his daughter. They claimed they were the owners of the house and were hoping to stay with them till the blackout was over. There was something off about the strangers but the family let them stay the night.

Could they trust them? What if they were lying? Why is the blackout lasting so long? And are the people inside the house going to be scarier than what’s going on outside?

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Korean influencer, Ari, knew that there was nothing she could do about her stalker. Whoever it was - wanted her dead. They would stop at nothing to ruin Ari. They spread rumors about her, ruined careers, and even led to the deaths of loved ones in Ari’s life. 

Ari knew the only escape now was to give them what they wanted. It was to die. 

But Ari’s brother would not go down without a fight - he is seeking revenge. He sets into motion an elaborate series of events that expose the identity of Ari’s stalker. The stalker became the stalked. How would the cyberbully get away? What was the reason they hated Ari so much? One thing is for certain - nobody was ready for their real identity to be exposed. 

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He was no longer breathing. His heart had stopped, and the influencers had a choice. Either save the man and go to prison for drug usage OR hide the evidence and save their careers. 

That night, whether they liked it or not, they made a pact to keep it a secret. They cleaned up their mess and tried to erase the memories of what happened. 

But there was one thing that would come back to haunt them. A photo. A photo of them partying with the man that would soon die the night of the crime. When the pressure starts turning up - who will break first? Or will they all turn on each other? 

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The top Korean influencer, Ari, was ready to expose it all on her livestream. She was part of an ultra competitive, secretive, influencer group called “Gabin Society.” She wanted the world to know what these girls were really about. 

And sure, there is cattiness, backstabbing, lying, and lies… but there’s also coverups. Death and coverups. 

All the netizens are tuning in to watch Ari’s livestreams - this is the drama of the year… but there’s something that doesn’t sit right with them. Ari is dead. She drowned in a lake and was pronounced dead but here she is live-streaming and interacting with comments… 

Who is this? And who wanted Ari dead? What did she know about them? 

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She’s supposed to hate him but he’s one of the most attractive guys she had ever seen. He’s been her enemy since the get go - forcing her to spend time with him, making unfair deals, but she can’t help but feel soft for him. 

He is the world’s most hated man but she realizes that everything that he’s been doing has been to protect the ones that he loves most. And everything that he’s done to her, has been to help her - she just didn’t see it. 

But what will happen when her ex finds out the truth? That she’s now falling for the person that killed his parents?

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The guests at the wedding were scrambling from their chairs. He was here. The hated one - the feared one. Rhysand. 

The bride made a deal with him during a desperate time in her life. She would give him one week every single month. He wanted her to hold up her end of the bargain. Right now. 

He kidnapped straight off the aisle and whisked her back to his palace where she realized there was more to the bargain than he had let on. He knew something that she didn’t. That her soon to be husband was the one that was trapping her and holding her captive. 

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He woke up from another nightmare about his missing wife. Drenched in sweat, he shot awake only to have his hand graze another body. A stranger in his bed. He had no recollection of who this woman was. He pulled her awake and asked her to leave his hotel room when she responded -

"Honey, just let me sleep 15 more minutes..."

This woman was claiming to be his missing wife. He went through her passport, his phone photo album, even looked for the secret scar on her leg. It was all there. It was all her.

Was he losing his mind or was this woman the perfect imposter?

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Sani found out that her dad wasn’t actually dead. Well, he was now. But he just died. He didn’t die when she was 5 years old like her mom had said. For 20 years, Sani believed that her dad was dead, but he had been a very healthy folklore professor at a local college. 

That’s how Sani found herself at her father’s funeral grieving her loss for the second time in her life. She was meeting her grandma for the first time since she was 5 - and there was just something so odd about her. Sani couldn’t quite put her finger on it… maybe it was her inability or distaste to making eye contact?

Sani is told that her father left her something. A gift. She opens it up at the funeral and it’s an ancient historical hair pin. 

From that day forward - everyone that Sani hated mysteriously died. She started blacking out at odd times of the day and not realizing how she got to where she was. 

The most curious part? Her dad knew this was going to happen to her. Because the same thing happened to him before he died. 

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Mimo could never last the full school year before being expelled. The first time, she punched a friend in the face. The second time she stabbed a girl with a pencil. The third time she ran off… 

But was it really Mimo’s fault? She just wanted to lay low and get good grades - but somehow, the students always found out who her mom was and bullied her- The Mask Girl. Notorious serial killer that targeted men in her quest to become a pretty celebrity.

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Ever since she was a kid - Momi’s dream was to be a star. There was nothing like the sound of applause, people screaming your name, and cheering you on. She wanted the fame. 

But everyone said she was too ugly for it. 

Momi, a 27-year-old office worker, is “invisible” during the day. Nobody pays attention to her, and if they do, they treat her as beneath them because she’s not conventionally attractive. They don’t know that after work, she has a double life. She puts on a white mask and livestreams as one of the new hottest seductive live streamers on the platform - “Mask Girl.”

But everything falls apart when, one day, she gets a message from an anonymous sender stating that they know she is the Mask Girl. This threatens her entire career and way of life. This email throws her into a series of decisions that end with her being the “Mask Girl Serial Killer.” Will she finally get the fame she craves - but in a courthouse? 

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Her life started spiraling into darkness, and it all starts the night she dropped her phone on the bus. She left it behind. This would set off a series of events that would have Nabi’s life falling apart and eventually have her fighting for her life. 

A man picked up her phone from the bus. He had every intention of returning it to her but not before installing spyware. He could soon see, hear, and read everything that Nabi’s phone did. 

He wanted to play games. 

This is the ultimate game of cat and mouse. Will he ruin her life and kill her before she figures out who he is?

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It was hard not to be jealous of Hee-Soo. She was married to the son of a billionaire, her husband was next in line to be CEO of a billion dollar corporation, and he loved her very much. She had a stepson that she loved dearly (his biological mom passed away).

But in this world, everyone was jealous from afar. Nobody dared cross the line with Hee-Soo. 

Except Jacquelyn. 

Hee-Soo’s stepson’s new tutor. Jacquelyn isn’t afraid to play mind games with Hee-Soo. Even when Hee-Soo catches her sneaking into her closet and wearing her expensive gowns at night - Jacquelyn takes off the gown right in front of her face to reveal a skimpy night dress. 

It feels like Jacquelyn wants to replace Hee-Soo and isn’t even trying to hide the fact- but what on Earth is making her so ballsy? All signs point to her being the son’s biological mother - but I thought she was dead?

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She’s a flower fairy for the Fae Realms and he’s the High Lord of the Moon Realm. They are destined to hate each other.

Hundreds of years ago, he was the reason that many faeries died a painful death and has since been locked up for thousands of years. She accidentally helps him escape and he finds out that she can save him whenever she kisses him.

The only problem is - she hates him. It’s up to him to get her to fall in love with him or else the Moon Realm will go extinct. 

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The weekend was supposed to be wedding bliss. For the entire weekend the wedding guests were invited to stay in a renovated castle on the remote island.

But the perfect wedding guests are not what they seem - they all seem to have their own dark secrets waiting to spill out. By the end of the wedding weekend, one of them will be dead. 

Everyone has a reason and motive to want another guest dead. And now everyone is trapped on the island with a killer. 

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She knew what death smelled like - years ago, she was the one that discovered her dead’s sisters body. She would never forget that smell. After moving into the new mansion in South Korea - she could have sworn the smell was coming back to haunt her. 

Every time she walked near the back yard she got a whiff, and her traumatic memories would flash before her eyes. Was it her sister? No. There was no way… but then what was the smell?

She tried to get her husband and son to sniff around in the backyard, but they all treated her like she was crazy. Like she was just traumatized from her sister’s murder. But one day, a neighbor stops by and mutters the spine-chilling words “Oh my, what’s that smell.” She knew she wasn’t crazy, but why would her family lie to her then?

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In the future, every single memory you have will be recorded on a little chip implanted behind your ear. From there, you can rewatch any previous memory you had like a movie. The supposed benefits are great, you can rewatch your greatest life moments, dig into your memory to find out where you left your keys… 

But most people use it for other things. There is a new ring of criminals kidnapping women and ripping the implant from their bodies so all their life’s memories (intimate moments) can be sold to the highest bidder. 

Couples are breaking up when partners are caught watching old intimate memories with old partners…. And Liam is on a mission to delete his wife’s memory from her ex’s chip. 

But instead, he discovers a far darker secret. 

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It’s the crack era.The most violent time in New York City history. The NYPD is fighting a losing battle and instead of protecting the city from drug dealers, some police officers have become them. This is the never-before told, first-person documentary of the biggest police corruption scandal in NYPD history and the investigation that uncovered it all. From Audacy Originals and Zak Levitt, the Emmy, Peabody, and NY Press Club Investigative Journalism Award winning creator of Root of Evil, Gangster Capitalism, and Relative Unknown.

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Her husband died in her arms. They were supposed to spend the rest of their lives together - but now he was gone. 

After the funeral, Claire went onto her perfect husband’s laptop to retrieve some work files… but instead she found movies. Hundreds and hundreds of movies. 

In them, various women were chained to the wall, being tortured, and mutilated. Her whole world was spinning. Why would her husband ever watch these movies? Were they even real?

And why did one of the girls in the movies look so similar to the 16-year-old girl that had recently gone missing…? 

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The newlywed couple drove two hours on the icy roads to make it to this real estate showing. The house ticked off every one of their boxes - it was perfect. But when they arrive, their realtor is nowhere to be seen. 

With their car now stuck in the snow piled driveway, no warmth, no shelter, the couple have no choice but to break into the empty home to stay safe during the pounding snow storm. The time alone has them pondering the secrets they’ve been keeping from each other. 

But the house also has its own secrets. The house belonged to a famous psychiatrist/author who vanished a few years ago. It was assumed by social media that she had been murdered by her boyfriend - but was that true? Was she really dead?

What secrets was she hiding in the house? And why does it feel like she’s still in the house with them… 

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After transferring to a new high school to solve her brother's murder, she finds herself caught up in a dangerous love triangle. Initially, she believes that her two love interests might be able to provide the key to unraveling the mystery of her brother's death. However, as she delves deeper into the investigation, she begins to suspect that one of them knows more than they're letting on.

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Chris sought refuge in an empty chemistry class on his exclusive high school campus, deliberately skipping the pep rally. He wanted to call his secret twin sister in Busan.

As an adopted child of a wealthy family, Chris had kept this information hidden from everyone at school, as well as the fact that he still communicated with his twin sister at the orphanage on a daily basis.

However, while in the midst of a video call with his sister from the chemistry lab, someone pushed him from the high school window, resulting in his tragic death. The incident was officially deemed a suicide, but the truth remained elusive.

In an attempt to unravel the mystery surrounding her brother's untimely death, his twin sister resolved to infiltrate the same elite high school in Seoul, posing as a transfer student. But as she delves deeper, she begins to uncover startling revelations that suggest she may not have truly known her brother at all...

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There are companies to hire when you want someone dead. They’re independent contractors and they’re run like real businesses. They have an HR department, they have hired assassins, and a CEO. The industry has become so regulated that all the assassin companies all work closely with one another to establish rules in the industry. 

She belonged to the biggest name in the business - MK Conglomerate. She was known as one of their top killers. But her mission goes wrong and she ends up killing 5 different assassins of different companies… 

And now, they’re all after her. They want her dead. The only one that can save her - is her boss. Who is hopelessly in love with her. 

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It’s been 264 days that she’s been in the insane asylum. She was in there for killing a little boy. She didn’t mean to - all she did was touch him.

Since then doctors, scientists, government officials, they all tried to figure out what was wrong with her. Why everyone she touched died. 

They couldn’t come up with an answer so they locked her away. Then one day, she got a roommate. One that she would fall in love with and end up escaping out of prison with. But maybe what’s outside the prison walls were worse than inside. And how can she never touch the one she falls in love with? 

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The only way a kidnapping of this level was going to work is if they made zero mistakes. They had to trust each other with their lives. 

They would be forced to face their biggest fears. She would have to work for the evil Madame that had forcibly sold her body countless times. Another, would have to betray his own family and reveal all their secrets. 

They all had to make sacrifices in order for this to work. The only problem was one of them had other plans. But which one is it?

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She thought she was going to die there. She was forced to wear fake Suli silks and entertain evil businessmen, all to make Madame Heleen richer. She was tortured, beaten, and starved until he saved her. 

He paid off all her debt to the House and freed her from her inevitable death. But he’s not a hero in the story. 

He’s one of the deadliest men in all of Ketterdam. Why on Earth would he pay so much money to save her? What did he want with her? And when it came time to pay him back - what would she do?

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The young doctor had to read a letter every single day from the serial killer. It was always the same, addressed from the same maximum security prison, with the same content. What it felt to kill the doctor’s father. 

For years, he would grip each new letter and re-traumatize himself. He became a shell of a man. For years, the killer thought he was winning. Sure, he was behind bars but he was slowly killing the victim’s son mentally. That was all that mattered. 

But through a series of seemingly random events the serial killer was transferred to one of the toughest prisons in South Korea. The ultimate maximum penitentiary. He didn’t know what was going on… but he knew it was no coincidence when he came face to face with the prison doctor. The son. What does he have in store for the killer? How will he get revenge inside the prison walls?

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THE GLORY PART 2 - It’s been 18 long years since Diana’s plan has been set into motion. The only thing on her mind had been her 5 bullies and how she will take them all down. 

Eve, the main bully, the leader of it all, will have it the worst. Diana won’t stop till she’s buried or in prison for life. And Diana is going to start with ruining Eve’s family. 

She’s already gotten Eve’s husband interested in her by a chance meeting. And now, Diana has taken a position as Eve’s daughter’s elementary school teacher. Her 20-year plan is just getting started. 

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This is part two of the last episode (#54); please listen to that one first before this episode.

She had 7 powerful husbands. All 7 of them were dead now. She married some of the most elite producers and actors from Hollywood. At one point she even married her nemesis’s brother. 

We saw glimpses of their private lives in the headlines. Messy divorces, allegations of affairs, we saw what they let us see. But we were never allowed behind closed doors - till now. 

Which husband wanted her dead? Which one used her? Which one betrayed her the most? And which one actually loved her? 

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She had 7 powerful husbands. All 7 of them were dead now. She married some of the most elite producers and actors from Hollywood. At one point she even married her nemesis’s brother. 

We saw glimpses of their private lives in the headlines. Messy divorces, allegations of affairs, we saw what they let us see. But we were never allowed behind closed doors - till now. 

Which husband wanted her dead? Which one used her? Which one betrayed her the most? And which one actually loved her? 

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Eve had the perfect life. She came from a rich family, married an even wealthier husband, and had a job as a news anchor. Everyone who met her - was jealous of her. 

Everyone except Diana. Diana had bet her whole life that Eve’s life would end up being perfect. It would make it that much sweeter when Diana ripped apart her perfect life piece by piece. The revenge would destroy them both - but Diana had nothing to lose.

Diana’s whole body was covered in scars. Her high school bullies had dragged her into an empty gym, assaulted her, and burned her everywhere with a hot curling iron under Eve’s orders. Now it was Eve’s turn to feel the heat. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

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He had a yearly tradition of inviting all of his closest friends & business partners to his private island to partake in a weekend of fun. They were going to spend the time basking in the sun, catching up, and playing the ultimate Murder Mystery game. 

He was going to end up dead, and they had the entire weekend to “solve” his “murder.” But when someone actually ends up dead, all bets are off. 

Who has the motive? It seems every single “friend” has a reason to want each other dead. Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer has never felt so sinister. 

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She killed his friend. She knew she shouldn’t have but what was she supposed to do? After everything they had done to her and her family. Besides, she had every reason to think she would get away with it.

That is till he showed up at her door. He demanded payment, an eye for an eye. She would come and live with him, trapped in his house and live out the rest of her days there. It was a generous offer to not kill her right then and there.

But when she arrived at the beautiful estate she realized things were more than unsettling. She felt constantly watched, there were voices in the woods, strange bonfire parties that she wasn’t allowed to attend, and more urgently there was something intriguing and alarming about her captor.

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A new law has been placed across the globe to prevent overpopulation and the destruction of our planet. The One Child Allocation Act.

One person can only have one child. Any siblings will be taken by the government and put into a chamber where they will be “put to sleep” till the world can expand their population.

So 7 identical sisters are forced to share one identity for over 30 years. Each sister gets to go out on one day of the week. They have to know everything that happened the day before in order to trick their friends, coworkers, and bosses that they are the same person.

But then… one by one… day by day… the sisters started disappearing. What the hell was happening?

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Here’s what she knew. Two days ago she had been living in her car, studying to get into college, parentless, and feeling hopeless about her financial future.

And then a billionaire, Tobias Hawthorne, had left her everything. 46.2 billion dollars to be exact.

She had never met him. She was not related to him. She had never even heard of this man. Tobias Hawthorne had children and 4 grandsons who were more than capable of being heirs to his empire. Why her?

And why was it written in the will that she must live in the family home for at least a year for the will to be valid? Why did he want her to live with his family that had just lost everything? And why did it feel like one of them was going to kill her for it?

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Their lives are all perfect. They don’t just seem perfect. It is perfect. They’re in love, doing important work, and most importantly never leaving town.

That is rule #1 in Victory - none of the residents can ever leave the town.

And no, there are no monsters waiting around the city limits… the real reason is so much darker. The real reason will make you look around and wonder who really cares for you…

And what kind of secrets are they willing to live with?

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It was just a school project, or at least that’s how it started. But the more Pip dug into the disappearance of a girl from her school… the more nothing made sense. 

The whole thing didn’t make sense. She vanished and a few days later her boyfriend was found dead in the woods after sending a cryptic text. There were more questions than there were answers.

Pip was in too deep and wanted answers. But the more she dug, the more questions she asked, and the more someone in town was getting very nervous. Notes started appearing in her locker, in her cabin in the woods, and even in her own home. Warning her to stop digging. Could she find the answers before it’s too late? 

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He was a mentalist. Someone who tricks people out of their money. He makes them believe that he has the answers that they need in order to be successful. And for a while, it worked. A little too well. He helped some of the elite politicians in New York City get exactly what they want… But what if what they wanted now - was him dead?

He went to his therapist for help, peace, comfort, and, ultimately for love. But the minute he started falling in love with her was the minute his life was over. Because she knew who he really was. She saw him for him. And she wanted to take him down no matter what the cost.

The question today is - can you manipulate the manipulator?

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She thought it was the perfect job. A live-in nanny position in a remote mansion, a generous salary, and the picture perfect family. What was there to be scared of?

Well, maybe the fact that the past 4 nannies quit immediately saying that the house was haunted. 

But she knew that she couldn’t pass up the chance. It wasn’t about the money, or the job for her; she wanted to be part of this perfect family. She wanted to live with them. Use their kitchen. She wanted to get close to them. 

But her first week on the job, everything fall apart. One of the children ends up dead, she’s covered in her blood, being blackmailed by a family member, and framed for murder. It seems like everyone in the house has a dark secret - even the kids. 

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Welcome to Season Two of Gone South, the Edward R. Murrow Award - winning documentary podcast from C13Originals. 

Starting in the sixties, a loose-knit confederation of traveling criminals known as The Dixie Mafia terrorized every state from Georgia to Oklahoma. Its hundreds of members, unofficially headquartered in Biloxi, Mississippi, specialized in scams, heists and murder. Their alleged leader — the estranged son of a prominent Oklahoma politician — was a skilled and charismatic outlaw named Kirksey Nix. In 1972, when Nix was sentenced to life in prison at Angola for a murder he committed in New Orleans, The Dixie Mafia was thought to be extinct. But fifteen years later, a sitting criminal court judge named Vincent Sherry and his wife Margaret, a mayoral candidate for the city of Biloxi, were assassinated. As the case ran cold, authorities were forced to confront a disturbing reality: The Dixie Mafia was not done yet. 

Gone South is a creation and production of Peabody-nominated C13Originals, a Cadence13 studio, in association with Jed and Tom Lipinski.

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He was known as “The Grabber.” If you so much as whispered his name, he would hear it, and come snatch you away from your life. 

This wasn’t an urban legend in this tiny little town. It was the reality. Many boys had been snatched by The Grabber, and all of them had said his name. 

Finn knew better than anyone to not take the risk… all of his friends had been snatched and now it was just him left. And then one day, his sister whispered the one who shouldn’t be named and like clockwork Finn was taken. 

He woke up in a bunker with nothing but a mattress and a disconnected phone on the wall. The Grabber was setting up to play a sick, depraved game with him called “naughty boy.” The torture was just beginning. 

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She didn’t know how to read or write - she only knew how to survive. She knew what the townspeople called her. “Marsh Girl.” They made fun of her, made up tall tales about how her eyes glowed in the dark, and how she was “feral.” 

She did raise herself in the wilderness with nobody to depend on, and she was comfortable with it. This was how her life was going to be, forever. But when two of the most popular guys in town fall in love with her, her life got ripped apart. 

When one ends up murdered, she knew that everyone would suspect it was her. The one lesson she learned in the wild - sometimes predators need to die in order for prey to survive. 

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Everything was going to be perfect after their wedding. She could feel it - he was the one for her. I mean what kind of perfect husband buys you your dream house as a wedding gift? A multi-million dollar house at that. 

He was kind, intelligent, an attorney representing domestic violence victims; he was everything she had dreamed of in a man. But of course, everyone has their secrets - his was a locked secret room in the basement. 

The room was unsettling. The whole room was red. The walls, the floors, and even the ceiling was red, and it could only be opened from the outside. If only she knew what he planned to do with her in that room… she should have run the other way when she saw him. There is no such thing as a perfect man. 

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They were called the Final Girls. They had each survived a serial killer - they even had the scars to prove it. The whole world was fascinated by their stories.

They each had their own stories though. Lisa’s serial killer was raging terror in a sorority house. Samantha’s serial killer was releasing his anger onto innocent motel guests. Quincy’s serial killer killed all 5 of her closets friends in a cabin in the woods.

But what the world didn’t know is that all 3 girls had their secrets. Lisa was keeping files on everyone in her life. Samantha had vanished and when she came back she was acting strange. Quincy said she didn’t remember anything about the crime - but it might be a lie right?

And now that someone was out to get all 3 of them, and finish the job all their secrets were going to come to light.

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He was asked to investigate the case of an escaped prisoner from the mysterious mental asylum on Shutter Island.

The island itself housed some of the most dangerous criminals in the entire world, and they were all considered “criminally insane.” And the only way on and off the island was by boat that was controlled by the asylum. 

One of the prisoners had gotten loose and was somewhere on that very island, and it was pertinent that the detective finds her. But the minute he stepped foot on the island, something felt off. Like nobody wanted to find the escaped prisoner. The guards, the doctors, the nurses, they all seemed more interested in him. And they were making him feel crazy. They were treating him like he was losing his mind. Is insanity contagious, or was that part of the asylum’s plan? To never let him go?

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Do you know what it’s like to be married for years and still not recognize your wife’s face? That’s what face blindness is. But that’s not Adam’s only problem… this weekend is turning out to be a nightmare.

It was supposed to fix their marriage but instead, all it’s doing is slowly revealing all the dirty little secrets the couple tried to keep from each other all these years. 

How she resents him, how he still has nightmares about who killed his mom, and how they both slept with someone they shouldn’t have. They’re stuck in an abandoned chapel, completely snowed in, and someone starts messing with them. 

But how can Adam even tell which one is his wife and which one is the one out to get him? They’re starting to feel like the same person anyway. 

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Sye the photo guy… that’s what they all called him. He had been working at the local film developing booth for over a decade now. He had his regulars. The families that always came in with rolls of pictures every week. 

He sat there and saw the most intimate parts of everyone’s lives - love, marriage, kids, vacations, holidays, even the NSFW moments. 

But one day when his favorite customer walked into the store and as he developed her pictures… he noticed something. Someone in the background. Someone that shouldn’t be. Was she being followed? Stalked? What was going on?

Sye would stop at nothing to find out all the secrets of the complicated web of his favorite family. 

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Nats loved her job. She loved being in the sound proof all by herself, no distractions, just a mic dangling in front of her. Normally, she did commercial voice acting but this job was different.

Recently, a new “it girl” had taken the world by storm. She was every guy’s fantasy. Every straight man wanted this girl as their partner. She was the ultimate dream. But she was a doll.

And every doll needs a good voice in order to feel real. For the guys to fall in love with. Sure, Nat’s would have some not safe for work lines but what was the big worry? It’s not like anyone would know it was her… right?

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Sara’s boyfriend was easily bored. He loved new, exciting, sexy things and dying just wasn’t sexy. 

Sara was dying. She had a terminal illness, and she was worried about what her boyfriend would do when she was gone. So she cloned herself. 

But when her doctor tells her that she’s soon going to make a full recovery it’s too late. Sara 2.0 is now dating Sara’s boyfriend, hanging out with her mom, and is determined to take over her life. But there can’t be two Sara’s, now can there be? 

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It was all just an innocent little suspense story. I never imagined I would lose my wife and be sitting in prison.

I’m an author that specializes in thriller novels so of course I wanted to test out my new book idea on my wife. It all started after dinner, rain started to pour, the dishes were piling in the sink, but my wife and I were cuddling on the armchair. 

I asked her if she wanted to hear a quick story before bed. I could see her get absorbed into the story and cling onto every word… good… I could see the fear in her eyes when I was done talking. Her shoulders were shaking. She was scared of me. Maybe she had every reason to be. 

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Will knew he shouldn’t have been stalking his ex-gf’s Instagram but he couldn’t help it. He had just gotten out of the psych ward and there she was living an influencer life with her new perfect boyfriend. 

He just wanted to see if she ever thought about him like he did her… 

But as Will was analyzing all her photos he realized that they were all old pictures she had re-edited to look new. They were old photos. Why would she only post old photos? Photos that he had already seen, some he himself had taken. That didn’t make sense. 

The more Will investigated the more he realized nobody has actually seen his ex-gf alive for over a year and none of the pictures had been taken in the past year… so who the hell was posting the pictures? 

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It was her first time meeting her new boyfriend’s children. She was nervous, I mean this was her first serious relationship in years. After her daughter went missing… it just didn’t feel right to date.

But this guy was different. He had experienced pain, he understood torment, he just got her. But when she laid eyes on his youngest daughter, everything changed. Her blood ran ice cold. Shivers traveled down her spine.

His child looked exactly like her own daughter that went missing. She was almost a carbon copy. Even the way she smiled, the dimple, and how she crooked her head to the side to talk. It must be a coincidence, right? You know it’s not.

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Seth has a mundane job, the kind where you do the same thing every single day. He gets to work, gets his keys, and starts making the food. He has a lot of mouths to feed.

Cage by cage he will crouch down and slide in a cold steel bowl of food and he always sneaks a little extra for his favorite girl. Lexi. There’s just something about her that he loves.

But just because Seth is on the outside doesn’t mean he’s the free one. What if someone from inside the cage can control him? Welcome to the mind games. 

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When you turn 25 years old you stop genetically aging. This should be good news, right? Everyone gets to live forever in their young body - immortality at it’s finest. But in order to control overpopulation, everyone only gets just one free year after turning 25. 

So technically the clock starts at 25. You’re racing to buy more time or else you die at 26. How do you do that? In the future, there is no more money. Everything is time. Time is money. You work - you get paid in time. You sell something - you get paid in time. 

But what happens when you see a man with a hundred years walk by? Would you kill to steal his years? 

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