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
38 episodes
ETHICALLY IMPOSSIBLE - The Guatemala Experiments
Before there was Tuskegee's whistleblower, there was Guatemala — and almost nobody knew about it for 60 years. 🩺Between 1946 and 1948, the U.S. Public Health Service — under Dr. John C. Cutler — deliberately infected more than 1,300 Guat...
TUSKEGEE - The Bad Blood Study & The Government That Gave People Syphilis
🩸 They called it "bad blood." It was syphilis — and the U.S. government let it run untreated in 600 Black men for 40 years, on purpose.Episode 37 of Just Killing Time takes you inside the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the U.S. Public Health S...
THE GERM OF LAZINESS - The Rockefeller Hookworm Crusade
🪱 "The Germ of Laziness" — the hidden history of hookworm, the Rockefeller cover-up, and the disease America pretended it cured.For three centuries, poor Southerners were dismissed as lazy, backward, and shiftless. The truth was a parasi...
CONTAIN & ELIMINATE - The AMA vs Chiropractic
🩺⚖️ "Contain and eliminate" — two words buried in a federal court record that expose one of the most stunning hidden-history stories in American medicine. In this deep-dive episode of Just Killing Time, Elizabeth Stanton uncovers the true, docu...
BULLETIN NUMBER 4 - How Rockefeller Money Rewrote Medicine
🩺 How did a man who never went to medical school end up deciding the fate of American medicine? Welcome to "Bulletin Number Four" — the true story of the 1910 Flexner Report, the Rockefeller and Carnegie money behind it, and the century of plan...
THEY CALLED IT MERCY- Kansas's Forced Sterilization Program
🩸 She went in for what she thought was an appendix surgery. She was 19. Kansas sterilized her — and 2,850+ other people — without full consent, under a law that stayed on the books for 52 years.In this episode of Just Killing Time, Eliza...
SLAVEMASTER - The First Internet Serial Killer
🪣 The first serial killer to hunt his victims on the internet sealed 8 women in barrels — and used forged emails to keep them "alive" for years. In June 2026, Kansas decided if he lives or dies. This is the John Edward Robinson "Slavemaster" st...
NINE LIVES ON 1-35 - The Verna & Roger Stafford Murders
This episode is dedicated to my best friend who I call sister, Dena Tackett. We have driven up and down I-35 for each other for decades.Right now, while this episode is live, a decision is sitting on Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt's desk ...
THE BLOODY BENDERS OF KS - The True Story of America's First Serial Killer Family
🔨 The Bloody Benders of Kansas: America's First Serial Killer Family | Just Killing TimeThe Bloody Benders were a German-speaking family of four — Pa, Ma, John Jr., and Kate Bender — who ran a roadside inn on the Osage Trail in Labette C...
AFTER THE SHOT - Amy, Mary Jo, & the Man the Media Made a Hero
On May 19, 1992, seventeen-year-old Amy Fisher shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco on the front porch of her Massapequa, New York home. Amy Fisher was having a relationship with Mary Jo's husband, Joey Buttafuoco, that began when Fisher was sixteen and But...
FROM YOUR LOVING WIFE - The Lobster Boy Murders - Episode 3
She paid fifteen hundred dollars to have her husband killed. Then she sent flowers to his funeral. The banner on them read: "From your loving wife."Gibsonton, Florida. November 29, 1992. A fifty-five-year-old man sits on his couch in his...
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...