Sword and Scale
Sword and Scale
Sword and Scale is a weekly true crime podcast covering the dark underworld of crime and t
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- 1. Episode 357 · 12 Jul 2026
- 2. Episode 358 · 17 Jul 2026
- 3. Episode 360 · 21 Jul 2026
Episode 364
9 Aug 2026 · 1h 14m
The British Club was a close circle of English expats in Fleming Island, Florida. They were friends who looked out for one another like family. So when 65-year-old Sue Mauldin suddenly vanished, they knew something was wrong. What followed was a desperate race
Episode 363
6 Aug 2026 · 1h 17m
A quiet evening in Washington City, Utah, ended in gunfire inside the Bailey family home. Gail and Joseph Bailey were executed. Their son and daughter-in-law barely escaped through a window. What followed was a sprawling manhunt through the desert edge of St.
Episode 362
2 Aug 2026 · 1h 11m
In Delray Beach, Florida, a routine traffic stop led police to a young man covered in blood. By the next morning, a body had been discovered. What followed was a tense interrogation — and a motive that felt disturbingly small compared to the violence it produc
Episode 360
21 Jul 2026 · 58 min
13-year-old Madeline Soto vanishes on what should have been an ordinary school morning in Kissimmee, Florida. She’s dropped off just a block away, and nothing about it feels unusual. She walks off, heading toward school… and disappears. By the afternoon, panic
Episode 358
17 Jul 2026 · 1h 10m
When 25-year-old biomedical engineer Jonathan Amerault disappeared, it felt like another one of his hiking trips had gone horribly wrong. But the scene in the woods, and the female co-worker found beside his brutalized body, told a much more sinister story of
Episode 357
12 Jul 2026 · 1h 11m
On a cold April afternoon in Milwaukee, two men walking along the Lake Michigan shoreline make a gruesome discovery: a human leg tangled in the weeds below a bluff. Within days, more body parts start surfacing across the city, and even across state lines. The
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