Just Killing Time
If you've ever felt like the official story just doesn't add up, you're in the right place. Just Killing Time with Elizabeth Stanton unravels true crime cases and the conspiracies lurking beneath them — one uncomfortable truth at a time.
Episodes
27 episodes
I TOLD YOU I WOULD KILL HIM - The Lobster Boy Murders - Episode 2
A jury convicted him of murder. Then a judge asked the state where to put him, and the state said it couldn't take him.Pittsburgh. September 27, 1978. A fifteen-year-old named Donna Stiles buys her wedding dress at the Allegheny Center M...
SHOWTOWN, U.S.A. - The Lobster Boy Murders - Episode 1
He was billed as "Lobster Boy." He was convicted of murder. He never spent a single day in prison.Grady Stiles Jr. was born in Pittsburgh in 1937 with ectrodactyly — a rare condition that fused his fingers and toes into claw-like extremi...
THE BODIES NOBODY BURIED - The American Cases: Douglas, Tri-State, Return to Nature & Harvard
We told ourselves it was a British problem. It isn't. This happened here — four times.In Part 1, a hospital electrician exploited a mortuary nobody was watching. In this episode, I bring the story home to America — and four cases that pr...
THE MAN WITH THE MASTER KEY - The Bedsit Murders & The Kent Mortuary Scandal
🔑 A hospital electrician held the keys to the mortuary — and for 15 years, no one was watching the room.In 1987, two young women — Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20 — were murdered five months apart in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Engla...
THE POET OF WICHITA - The Woman Who Haunted Herself
🕰️ For four years, a stalker who called himself The Poet terrorized Wichita, Kansas — rhyming threats, a stabbing in a mall parking lot, a wreath set on fire on the front door — all during the height of the BTK murders. The city s...
NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS - The Disappearance & Murder of Suzanne Morphew
She hid a spy pen to catch her husband cheating. It recorded her own secret affair instead.On Mother's Day weekend 2020, Suzanne Morphew went for a bike ride in the Colorado mountains and never came home. Three years later, her remains ...
WHAT LIES BENEATH - The True & Terrible History of Lake Lanier, Georgia
🌊 It's one of the most beautiful lakes in America. It's also one of the deadliest. More than 700 people have died at Lake Lanier — and the reason why is hiding at the bottom.💀 In this deep dive, I tell the documented, fully-sourced stor...
THE WORLD OF TOMORROW - General Motors, Monsanto, & the 1939 New York World's Fair
🌼 In 1942, twenty million American families grew their own food, and let the dandelions grow because everyone's grandmother knew they were medicine. By 1955, the dandelion was a weed — a thing you paid a chemical company to kill. In thirteen ye...
THE GREAT LIE - 1915 San Francisco World's Fair & The Panama Canal
🔥 At 5:12 in the morning on April 18, 1906, the San Andreas Fault tore open and San Francisco came down in under a minute. Then the fires came. And before the smoke had even cleared, the most powerful men in the city had quietly agreed on a sto...
THE IMPERIAL SPECTACLE - 1904 St Louis World's Fair, 1st American Olympics, & the Largest Human Zoo
In 1904, the St. Louis World's Fair displayed over 1,200 human beings as living specimens in what became the largest "human zoo" in American history. Nineteen million visitors paid to see people from around the world exhibited as examples of "p...
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD - Nikola Tesla & the FBI Raid That May Have Stolen Free Energy From the World
Nikola Tesla demonstrated wireless power to 27 million people at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Then J.P. Morgan pulled his funding, Tesla died broke, and the FBI seized his papers within hours of his death.In this episode of Just Killin...
THE BABIES IN THE SIDESHOW - A President Dies While Babies Live & The Movement That Wanted Them Dead
👶 THE BABIES IN THE SIDESHOW: When Power Failed & Love Worked 💔🏛️ Buffalo, September 6, 1901. President McKinley shot at 4:07 PM. 300 yards away: Martin Couney saving premature babies in glass incubators. The president dies. T...
THE MURDER CASTLE - America's First Serial Killer & The Building That Became a Legend
🏰 THE MURDER CASTLE: H.H. Holmes - Myth vs. Reality 💀🎪 Three miles from the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Herman Mudgett built a hotel. The newspapers called it the Murder Castle. The legend says 200 victims. The truth: 9 confirmed d...
THE WHITE CITY - 1893 World's Fair, Nikola Tesla, & Papst Blue Ribbon Beer
⚡ TESLA: The World's Fair Genius & FBI's Most Secret File ⚡🏛️ In 1893, Tesla showed 27 million people wireless power at the Chicago World's Fair. Tonight: his complete story from Croatian village to FBI seizure.🔬 DIS...
KILLDOZER - The True Story of Marvin Heemeyer & the Town of Granby, Colorado
🚜🏔️ EPISODE 13 — "THE LAST GREAT AMERICAN MUFFLER SHOP" — The True Story of Marvin Heemeyer, the Killdozer, and the Town of Granby, Colorado 🏔️🚜🏪 1992. A man named Marvin Heemeyer buys two acres in a small Colorado mountain town ...
SKY KINGS - Stolen Planes, Broken Minds, & the Man Named Beebo
✈️🌲 EPISODE 12 — "SKY KINGS: STOLEN PLANES, BROKEN MINDS, AND THE MAN NAMED BEEBO" 🌲✈️This episode is dedicated to my father, Fred Harvey — the best father a daughter could ever have. 💙🛩️ On November 12, 1982, my dad went t...
PINK PALACE & BLACK HOUSE -The Life, Death, & Enduring Mysteries of Jayne Mansfield
💋🌹 EPISODE 11 — "THE PINK PALACE AND THE BLACK HOUSE" — The Life, Death, and Enduring Mysteries of Jayne Mansfield 🌹💋🚗 At 2:25 a.m. on June 29, 1967, a 1966 Buick Electra slid underneath a tractor-trailer on US Highway 90. The most photo...
WE CHOOSE TO GO - The Questions About Space Exploration We Were Never Allowed to Ask
🚀 EPISODE 10 — "We Choose to Go" — THE SPACE SERIES FINALE 🚀In 1962, the U.S. military fired nuclear weapons at the sky. They called the operation Fishbowl. Several tests failed mid-flight. After 1962, we never tried again. One year late...
BABALON WORKING - The Occultist, The Scientologist, & The Rocket Scientist Who Founded NASA's JPL
🚀🔥 EPISODE 9 — "Babalon Working" — PART 3 OF THE SPACE SERIES 🔥🚀🎃 Halloween night, 1936. A canyon outside Pasadena, California. A 22-year-old self-taught chemist named Jack Parsons leads a group of Caltech graduate students into a riverb...
MOON ROCKETS & MICKEY MOUSE - Walt Disney, The Nazis, & How America Was Sold the Stars
In March 1955, Walt Disney put a former SS officer on prime-time TV — and 42 million Americans believed every word.His name was Wernher von Braun. His war crimes file had been falsified by the U.S. government under Operation Paperclip. A...
WE HIRED THE NAZIS - Operation Paperclip: How America Recruited the Third Reich to Win the Space Race
In 1945 we hanged the Nazis we caught. Then — quietly, with forged paperwork — we hired the rest.Operation Paperclip brought more than 1,600 German scientists to America after World War II. One of them — Wernher von Braun — wore an SS unifo...
THE SECRET UNDER THE BALLROOM - Project Greek Island: The Congressional Nuclear Bunker Hidden Beneath an American Resort
For 30 years, the United States government maintained a fully operational secret nuclear bunker beneath the most famous luxury resort in America — and the entire town of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia agreed to pretend it wasn’t there.
BORN IN A CABBAGE PATCH - How America Turned its Darkest History Into its Most Beloved Toy
In 1971, a shy folk artist in Louisville, Kentucky began making soft-sculpture dolls she called Doll Babies. She gave them birth certificates. Adoption papers. A personalized letter from the doll itself. She called herself Momma Martha. Her nam...
MUSEUM OF THE UNWANTED - The Asylums. The Stolen Mothers. The Children Left Behind.
Novel reading. Hard study. Laziness. Desertion by husband. Menstrual derangement. Grief.Those are the official, government-recorded reasons human beings were committed to the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane between 1864 and 1889. N...
THE ORPHAN TRAINS - 200,000 Children. New Names. New Families. No Choice.
Between 1854 and 1929, an estimated 200,000 children were loaded onto trains in New York City and shipped west. They were told they were going to new families. What they weren't told was that strangers would be waiting on platforms to look them...