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Sword and Scale

Sword and Scale

Sword and Scale is a weekly true crime podcast covering the dark underworld of crime and t

375 EpisodesFortnightly12+Since 2026

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  1. 1. Episode 357 · 12 Jul 2026
  2. 2. Episode 358 · 17 Jul 2026
  3. 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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