RedCircle VERIFY_TOKEN_34f8fbca-dd96-42bb-b291-6d5b091824bd -- Rendered At Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:35:08 +0000 Re:Examined https://redcircle.com/shows/re-examined en-US All rights reserved. Angelina Cowles Re:Examined is a true crime podcast about the cases that don't resolve cleanly. The ones where the closer you look, the less the easy explanation holds. Each episode takes a historical crime apart through a psychological and social lens, opening questions rather than closing them, and leaves you somewhere more uncomfortable than where you started. 34f8fbca-dd96-42bb-b291-6d5b091824bd Re:Examined is a true crime podcast about the cases that don't resolve cleanly. The ones where the closer you look, the less the easy explanation holds. Each episode takes a historical crime apart through a psychological and social lens, opening questions rather than closing them, and leaves you somewhere more uncomfortable than where you started.

]]> episodic no Angelina Cowles angelina.cowles@outlook.com false full The Vampire of Düsseldorf - The Wrong Man The Vampire of Düsseldorf - The Wrong Man Angelina Cowles In the spring of 1929, months before anyone knew the name Peter Kürten, the Düsseldorf police already had a confession. A man had told them he'd done it, and they believed him. This episode is about that confession, the year it cost, and the harder question underneath it: what is a confession actually worth? Before this season reaches the one it's built on, we start here.

"Southern Gothic" by Kevin Macleod.

]]> <p>In the spring of 1929, months before anyone knew the name Peter Kürten, the Düsseldorf police already had a confession. A man had told them he&#39;d done it, and they believed him. This episode is about that confession, the year it cost, and the harder question underneath it: what is a confession actually worth? Before this season reaches the one it&#39;s built on, we start here.</p><p>&#34;Southern Gothic&#34; by Kevin Macleod.</p> f740df50-e34e-4296-a1ab-e5ef7f34d54f https://redcircle.com/shows/34f8fbca-dd96-42bb-b291-6d5b091824bd/episodes/7327b591-7881-489e-897c-8e0f9c8b81ce Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:00:13 +0000 1035 false full The Vampire of Düsseldorf - The City The Vampire of Düsseldorf - The City Angelina Cowles Düsseldorf, 1929. A city comes apart. Over months, a killer moves through its streets, and the police can't hold him. The newspapers give the fear a shape and a name: the Vampire. This is the crime told straight, from the first body to the arrest, and the story of how a manhunt became a mirror for the city that lived through it. We know who he was. This season asks what the city made of him, and what it made of itself.

Music: "Southern Gothic" by Kevin Macleod.

]]> <p>Düsseldorf, 1929. A city comes apart. Over months, a killer moves through its streets, and the police can&#39;t hold him. The newspapers give the fear a shape and a name: the Vampire. This is the crime told straight, from the first body to the arrest, and the story of how a manhunt became a mirror for the city that lived through it. We know who he was. This season asks what the city made of him, and what it made of itself.</p><p>Music: &#34;Southern Gothic&#34; by Kevin Macleod.</p> eb6534e4-5b63-487a-b408-1c3b18c4d382 https://redcircle.com/shows/34f8fbca-dd96-42bb-b291-6d5b091824bd/episodes/1284eb4f-8d8a-4a67-967a-3eb8e9d00e04 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:00:35 +0000 1932 false full Season Two Trailer - The Vampire of Düsseldorf Season Two Trailer - The Vampire of Düsseldorf Angelina Cowles In the autumn of 1929, people in Düsseldorf were afraid to walk their own streets. Someone was killing children, women, and men across the city, with no pattern the police could work out and no face anyone could name. The newspapers called him a vampire.

Season 2 of Re:Examined takes that story apart. Over four episodes, we follow a frightened city, a survivor whose letter led police to the door of a killer, and a confession from the murderer himself.

Season 2 begins September 15th. Free discussion guides for every episode are available at reexaminedpodcast.com.

"Southern Gothic" by Kevin MacLeod

]]> <p>In the autumn of 1929, people in Düsseldorf were afraid to walk their own streets. Someone was killing children, women, and men across the city, with no pattern the police could work out and no face anyone could name. The newspapers called him a vampire.</p><p>Season 2 of Re:Examined takes that story apart. Over four episodes, we follow a frightened city, a survivor whose letter led police to the door of a killer, and a confession from the murderer himself.</p><p>Season 2 begins September 15th. Free discussion guides for every episode are available at <a href="http://reexaminedpodcast.com" rel="nofollow">reexaminedpodcast.com</a>.</p><p>&#34;Southern Gothic&#34; by Kevin MacLeod</p> cd259120-e9b6-4a55-b537-74e062a2397a https://redcircle.com/shows/34f8fbca-dd96-42bb-b291-6d5b091824bd/episodes/c748b0c1-5ad5-40a9-b5d1-01c377957bbf Tue, 08 Sep 2026 23:00:32 +0000 148 false full Leopold & Loeb - Bobby Franks Leopold & Loeb - Bobby Franks Angelina Cowles Bobby Franks was fourteen when he got in the car. This season spent four episodes inside the minds of the men who killed him. This one is for him.

Content note: this episode is about the murder of a child and what it took from his family.

Discussion guide at reexaminedpodcast.com.


]]> <p><strong>Bobby Franks was fourteen when he got in the car. This season spent four episodes inside the minds of the men who killed him. This one is for him.</strong></p><p>Content note: this episode is about the murder of a child and what it took from his family.</p><p>Discussion guide at reexaminedpodcast.com.</p><p><br></p> 8258e204-ec74-401a-a304-042234a94016 https://redcircle.com/shows/34f8fbca-dd96-42bb-b291-6d5b091824bd/episodes/934bd000-3c03-4893-9ac8-4ec5de10736e Tue, 01 Sep 2026 23:00:56 +0000 1254 false full Leopold & Loeb - The Performer Leopold & Loeb - The Performer Angelina Cowles Richard Loeb learned early that a constructed self was safer than the real one, and he never stopped building. This episode follows the boy behind the "master criminal" fantasy, the questions about who actually drove the murder, and the death that left even his last moments in someone else's hands. It asks what's left when the performance is all there is.

]]> <p>Richard Loeb learned early that a constructed self was safer than the real one, and he never stopped building. This episode follows the boy behind the &#34;master criminal&#34; fantasy, the questions about who actually drove the murder, and the death that left even his last moments in someone else&#39;s hands. It asks what&#39;s left when the performance is all there is.</p> 50da19be-5a3a-4580-bd4b-dac506c89a30 https://redcircle.com/shows/34f8fbca-dd96-42bb-b291-6d5b091824bd/episodes/556f8f26-3938-4442-a5e1-0d60767e3e3c Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:00:43 +0000 2947 false full Leopold & Loeb - The Collector Leopold & Loeb - The Collector Angelina Cowles He fell in love with birds at age six. What happened between then and Bobby Franks's murder is the question this episode won't resolve.

]]> <p>He fell in love with birds at age six. What happened between then and Bobby Franks&#39;s murder is the question this episode won&#39;t resolve.</p> 33f7339a-d395-4284-9a00-d03ad26b1444 https://redcircle.com/shows/34f8fbca-dd96-42bb-b291-6d5b091824bd/episodes/aedd9fa1-91ae-4293-a9df-742d90e3f6dc Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:00:23 +0000 2224 false full Leopold & Loeb - The Pact Leopold & Loeb - The Pact Angelina Cowles Two boys make an agreement. What they trade, and what they get in return, has been read by a century of writers as everything from friendship to something darker. The court records tell one story. Each boy told another. Neither could explain the other.

This episode traces the arrangement between Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb from what's documented, not what's assumed. We look at what was said, what was written down, and how much of it can be trusted.

The questions close the episode. The answers are yours.

]]> <p>Two boys make an agreement. What they trade, and what they get in return, has been read by a century of writers as everything from friendship to something darker. The court records tell one story. Each boy told another. Neither could explain the other.</p><p>This episode traces the arrangement between Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb from what&#39;s documented, not what&#39;s assumed. We look at what was said, what was written down, and how much of it can be trusted.</p><p>The questions close the episode. The answers are yours.</p> 06e12ca7-e18b-49ec-a95c-4b224614a1c0 https://redcircle.com/shows/34f8fbca-dd96-42bb-b291-6d5b091824bd/episodes/1633ea6f-5a0a-4f24-821a-19ee6b2e1e8a Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:00:35 +0000 1579 false full Leopold and Loeb - The Perfect Crime Leopold and Loeb - The Perfect Crime Angelina Cowles May 21, 1924. Two of Chicago's brightest young men commit what they believe will be a flawless murder. They've planned every detail. They've left nothing to chance. This is the story as it was first told: brilliant minds, a perfect crime, a city gripped by horror.

]]> <p>May 21, 1924. Two of Chicago&#39;s brightest young men commit what they believe will be a flawless murder. They&#39;ve planned every detail. They&#39;ve left nothing to chance. This is the story as it was first told: brilliant minds, a perfect crime, a city gripped by horror.</p> 35d7908a-8ac6-42ec-be11-859b2dede9d5 https://redcircle.com/shows/34f8fbca-dd96-42bb-b291-6d5b091824bd/episodes/59cf42f8-6e7d-4f0b-bf2f-1fd49c0d4af2 Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0000 1556 false trailer Re:Examined Season One Trailer Re:Examined Season One Trailer Angelina Cowles Every true crime show promises you'll know who did it, and why. Re:Examined takes that apart instead. One case, one episode at a time, dismantled layer by layer until the version you thought you knew falls away. Season One: Leopold and Loeb, Chicago 1924 — two brilliant young men, a murdered boy, and the crime they called the crime of the century. No verdicts. No tidy endings. No monster waiting at the bottom. Just the nerve to leave you with more than you can neatly put away.

Season One starts August 4th.

]]> <p>Every true crime show promises you&#39;ll know who did it, and why. <em>Re:Examined</em> takes that apart instead. One case, one episode at a time, dismantled layer by layer until the version you thought you knew falls away. Season One: Leopold and Loeb, Chicago 1924 — two brilliant young men, a murdered boy, and the crime they called the crime of the century. No verdicts. No tidy endings. No monster waiting at the bottom. Just the nerve to leave you with more than you can neatly put away.</p><p>Season One starts August 4th.</p> ba5b287f-fb5e-4b9e-bf9c-3133b1cffc5b https://redcircle.com/shows/34f8fbca-dd96-42bb-b291-6d5b091824bd/episodes/48a7f879-c408-414e-be45-d977399756d4 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:00:27 +0000 188 false