Sword and Scale True Crime
Incongruity
Sword and Scale True Crime
Incongruity
The Sword and Scale true-crime podcast is an immersive audio experience covering the dark side of humanity and human nature. Our stories delve into the worst of the worst and include murder, rape, dismemberment and cannibalism. No crime is too brutal and no victim is too pure. The worst monsters are real.
Monday 22 February 2021 : An unreal crime scene with a dead fortune teller, her dead daughter, and an otherworldly tone has police in Westminster, CA grasping at...
Tuesday 16 February 2021 : The Opportunist tells true stories of regular people who turn sinister simply by being opportunistic. How does an everyday person turn into...
Saturday 06 February 2021 : Markeith Loyd was not there for his first two children, but Sade Dixon gave him another chance at being a father. With God’s guidance,...
Sunday 24 January 2021 : Holly Colino’s descent into madness took a long time. A series of unfortunate life events painted her paranoid delusions in a shade of...
Monday 11 January 2021 : Spawned from a long line of vicious criminals, Nikko Jenkins struck terror into Nebraskans when he callously slayed four innocent citizens...
Sunday 20 December 2020 : We’re all looking forward to retirement, when we can finally cash out all of our hard-earned savings and live off of it until we die....
Saturday 05 December 2020 : Clark Fredericks was born with a hole in his heart. 46 years later, he was arrested for repeatedly stabbing and killing a retired police...
Monday 23 November 2020 : Trouble in the Amato household began brewing in the summer of 2018, when Grant Amato, the youngest son, developed an addiction to one...
Sunday 08 November 2020 : We move people who commit crimes far away from our society so they don’t harm anyone else… but many of those criminals will eventually...
Friday 30 October 2020 : This is the story of how Shasta Groene was abducted by pedophile Joseph Duncan in Idaho and held captive for 7 weeks along with her brother...
Monday 26 October 2020 : Child abuse can take many forms and most of the time isn’t obvious. In rare cases it is near impossible to detect. In the special case of...
Saturday 17 October 2020 : On August 2nd, 2016, 30-year-old speech pathologist Karina Vetrano left her home to go for a late-afternoon jog through Spring Creek Park in...
Monday 12 October 2020 : We all know by now that there are good cops, and there are very bad cops. On December 29th, 2009, Kevin Gregson and Eric Czapnik showed the...
Monday 21 September 2020 : The world had a conniption when news headlines announced “Kevin Bacon-Murdered!” just before the new year. As more details came out, it...
Friday 28 August 2020 : We take a break from the standard Sword and Scale format to chat about the current state of law enforcement with ex-police officer and judge...
Sunday 16 August 2020 : We often think of true-crime from the perspective of law enforcement trying valiantly to pursue the perpetrator and make them face the...
Sunday 02 August 2020 : The lives of Kevin and Marina Krim were forever changed on October 25th, 2012. All of New York City was suddenly rethinking their...
Sunday 19 July 2020 : July of 2016 was a bad month in Bend, Oregon. Isabel Ponce Lara woke up one morning to her husband, Edwin Lara, acting very strangely. The...
Monday 29 June 2020 : Freedom of speech and religion are two foundational parts of what this nation has to offer. They’re important to us and when we feel...
Monday 15 June 2020 : Orange County California has seen its fair share of bizarre crimes. When Sam Herr, a decorated combat veteran is nowhere to be found and his...
Monday 01 June 2020 : 8-year-old Isabella Cipriano woke up in the middle of the night in April of 2012 to find that her father, mother, and brother were being...
Monday 18 May 2020 : Ryan Lawrence appeared to be a caring and dutiful father, taking his 21-month-old daughter Maddox with him as he delivered pastries...
Monday 04 May 2020 : On May 6th, 2013, Sharlene Bosma watched as her husband Tim pulled away from their house on a test drive with two strange men, never to...
Thursday 23 April 2020 : Never before have so many of us been forcibly cooped up in our houses for this length of time. COVID-19 has shaken up our routines and our...
Monday 20 April 2020 : The quiet seclusion of rural Maine gives many people a feeling of solace but sometimes the isolation can fracture a person’s psyche. The...
Sword and Scale True Crime
Incongruity
S8 Episode 180
An unreal crime scene with a dead fortune teller, her dead daughter, and an otherworldly tone has police in Westminster, CA grasping at...
THE OPPORTUNIST IS AVAILABLE NOW
The Opportunist tells true stories of regular people who turn sinister simply by being opportunistic. How does an everyday person turn into...
S8 Episode 179
Markeith Loyd was not there for his first two children, but Sade Dixon gave him another chance at being a father. With God’s guidance,...
S8 Episode 178
Holly Colino’s descent into madness took a long time. A series of unfortunate life events painted her paranoid delusions in a shade of...
S8 Episode 177
Spawned from a long line of vicious criminals, Nikko Jenkins struck terror into Nebraskans when he callously slayed four innocent citizens...
S7 Episode 176
We’re all looking forward to retirement, when we can finally cash out all of our hard-earned savings and live off of it until we die....
S7 Episode 175
Clark Fredericks was born with a hole in his heart. 46 years later, he was arrested for repeatedly stabbing and killing a retired police...
S7 Episode 174
Trouble in the Amato household began brewing in the summer of 2018, when Grant Amato, the youngest son, developed an addiction to one...
S7 Episode 173
We move people who commit crimes far away from our society so they don’t harm anyone else… but many of those criminals will eventually...
S7 +PLUS 79 - FREE PREVIEW!!!
This is the story of how Shasta Groene was abducted by pedophile Joseph Duncan in Idaho and held captive for 7 weeks along with her brother...
S7 Episode 172
Child abuse can take many forms and most of the time isn’t obvious. In rare cases it is near impossible to detect. In the special case of...
S7 +PLUS 78 - FREE PREVIEW!!!
On August 2nd, 2016, 30-year-old speech pathologist Karina Vetrano left her home to go for a late-afternoon jog through Spring Creek Park in...
S7 Episode 171
We all know by now that there are good cops, and there are very bad cops. On December 29th, 2009, Kevin Gregson and Eric Czapnik showed the...
S7 Episode 170
The world had a conniption when news headlines announced “Kevin Bacon-Murdered!” just before the new year. As more details came out, it...
S7 Episode 169
We take a break from the standard Sword and Scale format to chat about the current state of law enforcement with ex-police officer and judge...
S7 Episode 168
We often think of true-crime from the perspective of law enforcement trying valiantly to pursue the perpetrator and make them face the...
S7 Episode 167
The lives of Kevin and Marina Krim were forever changed on October 25th, 2012. All of New York City was suddenly rethinking their...
S7 Episode 166
July of 2016 was a bad month in Bend, Oregon. Isabel Ponce Lara woke up one morning to her husband, Edwin Lara, acting very strangely. The...
S7 Episode 165
Freedom of speech and religion are two foundational parts of what this nation has to offer. They’re important to us and when we feel...
S7 Episode 164
Orange County California has seen its fair share of bizarre crimes. When Sam Herr, a decorated combat veteran is nowhere to be found and his...
S7 Episode 163
8-year-old Isabella Cipriano woke up in the middle of the night in April of 2012 to find that her father, mother, and brother were being...
S7 Episode 162
Ryan Lawrence appeared to be a caring and dutiful father, taking his 21-month-old daughter Maddox with him as he delivered pastries...
S7 Episode 161
On May 6th, 2013, Sharlene Bosma watched as her husband Tim pulled away from their house on a test drive with two strange men, never to...
S7 Episode 160
Never before have so many of us been forcibly cooped up in our houses for this length of time. COVID-19 has shaken up our routines and our...
S7 Episode 159
The quiet seclusion of rural Maine gives many people a feeling of solace but sometimes the isolation can fracture a person’s psyche. The...
