The Backstory with Patty Steele

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The Backstory: The mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe

Politics is a nasty business. But it always has been. And it may have played a role in the death of a literary genius. You know the Edgar Allan Poe story called The Tell-Tale Heart, about the heart of a murder victim that never stops beating? Maybe Poe is still trying to tell us something 175 years after his mysterious death. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  The Backstory: Politics meets The Purge

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  The Backstory: Searching for the killer called the Axeman

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