Just Killing Time Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:20:39 -0500 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2608712 en-us ยฉ 2026 Just Killing Time yes 386620c7-86cb-5864-a413-78c553149de6 justkillingtimepodcast@gmail.com Elizabeth Stanton episodic true  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 โ€” one uncomfortable truth at a time. 

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Elizabeth Stanton justkillingtimepodcast@gmail.com https://storage.buzzsprout.com/9brm6tekjobn05yecfhwl1n6qof0?.jpg Just Killing Time THE WORLD OF TOMORROW - General Motors, Monsanto, & the 1939 New York World's Fair THE WORLD OF TOMORROW - General Motors, Monsanto, & the 1939 New York World's Fair ๐ŸŒผ 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 โ€” a thing you paid a chemical company to kill. In thirteen years, self-sufficiency went from patriotic duty to a sign of a bad neighborhood.

What happened in between? It started at the 1939 New York World's Fair, where forty-five million people walked through a gorgeous, hopeful blueprint for the future โ€” and never realized they were looking at a plan to turn free Americans into permanent customers.

๐Ÿ›๏ธ In the finale of the White City Series, Elizabeth Stanton follows the documents, names the names, and traces the most successful theft in American history: your great-grandparents' ability to feed and heal themselves, sold back to you one lawn treatment, one car payment, and one prescription at a time.

๐Ÿงต IN THIS EPISODE:

๐Ÿš— GM's Futurama โ€” the most expensive exhibit at the fair โ€” and the secret plan to tear out America's streetcars

๐ŸšŽ National City Lines: how GM, Standard Oil, and Firestone dismantled the electric rail of 45 cities

๐Ÿงช DuPont's "loony gas" โ€” the tetraethyl lead plant that drove workers insane โ€” and "Better Living Through Chemistry"

โ˜ ๏ธ Monsanto's 2,4-D: a herbicide built as a weapon to starve enemy nations, then sold to kill your dandelions

๐Ÿช– Operation Pink Rose, Agent Orange, and the dioxin Monsanto knew about

๐Ÿฅ• How the same government that begged you to plant Victory Gardens then outlawed them from the front yard

๐Ÿก FHA Section 4.17: grow food in your front yard, lose your federally-backed mortgage

๐ŸŒฑ The dandelion: a thousand-year medicine (Taraxacum officinale โ€” "official medicine") rebranded as a noxious weed

๐Ÿ’Š JAMA, Dr. Morris Fishbein, and the campaign to scrub plant medicine from American medical schools

๐Ÿ›ฃ๏ธ Robert Moses, the 1956 Highway Act, and the deliberate engineering of car dependency

๐Ÿง  Edward Bernays again โ€” the 400 campaigns, and the three clients at the center of it all: GM, DuPont, Monsanto

๐Ÿ’ธ The $180-to-kill-it, $120-to-replace-it household budget that exposes the entire scheme

They told us the future would set us free from the past. Instead it locked us into their marketplace. This is how. โ€” Elizabeth

โฑ๏ธ CHAPTERS

00:00 ๐ŸŽฌ Cold Open โ€” From Victory Gardens to chemical lawns

00:00 ๐Ÿš— The blueprint: Futurama and the war on the streetcar

00:00 ๐Ÿงช The poison partnership: DuPont, Monsanto, chemistry as a weapon

00:00 ๐Ÿฅ• The government betrayal: Victory Gardens to mandatory grass

00:00 ๐ŸŒฑ The dandelion conspiracy: turning medicine into a weed

00:00 ๐Ÿง  The playbook: a word about Edward Bernays

00:00 ๐Ÿ˜๏ธ The suburban prison: engineering car dependency

00:00 ๐Ÿงพ The perfect crime โ€” and the bill we're still paying

00:00 ๐Ÿ“ฌ Time Killer Files

๐Ÿ“ฉ Got a Victory Garden memory or a fight with your HOA over a front-yard garden? Send your Time Killer File to JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com

๐Ÿ”” This is the finale of the White City Series. Subscribe and start from Episode 1 if you're new.

๐Ÿ“š Sources include: United States v. National City Lines (1949) โ€ข DuPont Company Archives (Hagley Museum) โ€ข Monsanto / Agent Orange litigation records โ€ข USDA Victory Garden publications โ€ข FHA Property Standards manuals โ€ข JAMA archives โ€ข Federal Highway Act of 1956 records โ€ข Robert Bogdan and contemporary reporting

#truecrime #conspiracy #history #1939worldsfair #monsanto #dandelion #victorygarden #suburbs #carculture #bigpharma #podcast #JustKillingTime

]]> ๐ŸŒผ 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 โ€” a thing you paid a chemical company to kill. In thirteen years, self-sufficiency went from patriotic duty to a sign of a bad neighborhood.

What happened in between? It started at the 1939 New York World's Fair, where forty-five million people walked through a gorgeous, hopeful blueprint for the future โ€” and never realized they were looking at a plan to turn free Americans into permanent customers.

๐Ÿ›๏ธ In the finale of the White City Series, Elizabeth Stanton follows the documents, names the names, and traces the most successful theft in American history: your great-grandparents' ability to feed and heal themselves, sold back to you one lawn treatment, one car payment, and one prescription at a time.

๐Ÿงต IN THIS EPISODE:

๐Ÿš— GM's Futurama โ€” the most expensive exhibit at the fair โ€” and the secret plan to tear out America's streetcars

๐ŸšŽ National City Lines: how GM, Standard Oil, and Firestone dismantled the electric rail of 45 cities

๐Ÿงช DuPont's "loony gas" โ€” the tetraethyl lead plant that drove workers insane โ€” and "Better Living Through Chemistry"

โ˜ ๏ธ Monsanto's 2,4-D: a herbicide built as a weapon to starve enemy nations, then sold to kill your dandelions

๐Ÿช– Operation Pink Rose, Agent Orange, and the dioxin Monsanto knew about

๐Ÿฅ• How the same government that begged you to plant Victory Gardens then outlawed them from the front yard

๐Ÿก FHA Section 4.17: grow food in your front yard, lose your federally-backed mortgage

๐ŸŒฑ The dandelion: a thousand-year medicine (Taraxacum officinale โ€” "official medicine") rebranded as a noxious weed

๐Ÿ’Š JAMA, Dr. Morris Fishbein, and the campaign to scrub plant medicine from American medical schools

๐Ÿ›ฃ๏ธ Robert Moses, the 1956 Highway Act, and the deliberate engineering of car dependency

๐Ÿง  Edward Bernays again โ€” the 400 campaigns, and the three clients at the center of it all: GM, DuPont, Monsanto

๐Ÿ’ธ The $180-to-kill-it, $120-to-replace-it household budget that exposes the entire scheme

They told us the future would set us free from the past. Instead it locked us into their marketplace. This is how. โ€” Elizabeth

โฑ๏ธ CHAPTERS

00:00 ๐ŸŽฌ Cold Open โ€” From Victory Gardens to chemical lawns

00:00 ๐Ÿš— The blueprint: Futurama and the war on the streetcar

00:00 ๐Ÿงช The poison partnership: DuPont, Monsanto, chemistry as a weapon

00:00 ๐Ÿฅ• The government betrayal: Victory Gardens to mandatory grass

00:00 ๐ŸŒฑ The dandelion conspiracy: turning medicine into a weed

00:00 ๐Ÿง  The playbook: a word about Edward Bernays

00:00 ๐Ÿ˜๏ธ The suburban prison: engineering car dependency

00:00 ๐Ÿงพ The perfect crime โ€” and the bill we're still paying

00:00 ๐Ÿ“ฌ Time Killer Files

๐Ÿ“ฉ Got a Victory Garden memory or a fight with your HOA over a front-yard garden? Send your Time Killer File to JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com

๐Ÿ”” This is the finale of the White City Series. Subscribe and start from Episode 1 if you're new.

๐Ÿ“š Sources include: United States v. National City Lines (1949) โ€ข DuPont Company Archives (Hagley Museum) โ€ข Monsanto / Agent Orange litigation records โ€ข USDA Victory Garden publications โ€ข FHA Property Standards manuals โ€ข JAMA archives โ€ข Federal Highway Act of 1956 records โ€ข Robert Bogdan and contemporary reporting

#truecrime #conspiracy #history #1939worldsfair #monsanto #dandelion #victorygarden #suburbs #carculture #bigpharma #podcast #JustKillingTime

]]> Elizabeth Stanton Buzzsprout-19330737 Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:00:00 -0500 2212 20 full true THE GREAT LIE - 1915 San Francisco World's Fair & The Panama Canal THE GREAT LIE - 1915 San Francisco World's Fair & The Panama Canal ๐Ÿ”ฅ 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 story โ€” that it was the fire that did it. Not the earthquake. The fire. Because fire was insured. Earthquakes were not.

That was the first lie. Nine years later, the city threw the biggest party on Earth to celebrate two great American triumphs โ€” rising from the ashes, and finishing the Panama Canal. Both were sitting on top of bodies and lies that powerful people spent a fortune making sure you would never count.

๐Ÿ›๏ธ This is the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition โ€” a world's fair built on two enormous lies. In this episode of Just Killing Time, Elizabeth Stanton follows the documents, names the names, and introduces the man who took these grubby cover-ups and turned them into a science you are still living inside today: Edward Bernays.

๐Ÿงต IN THIS EPISODE:

๐Ÿ”ฅ The 80% the USGS later confirmed โ€” how much of the destruction the earthquake actually caused, and why the city buried it

๐Ÿ“จ The telegram sent just six hours after the quake that set the "fire" narrative in motion

๐ŸŽฉ Mayor Eugene Schmitz, political boss Abe Ruef, and the railroad's hired photographer

๐Ÿ“„ The earthquake exclusion clause โ€” and how Hartford paid investigators bonuses to reclassify claims as "earthquake" so they could deny them

๐Ÿ•ต๏ธ The Pacific Coast Adjustment Bureau: a written cartel agreement to pay the powerful and deny the poor

โš–๏ธ Margaret Sullivan, the widow who beat Hartford in the California Supreme Court โ€” and still died in poverty

๐Ÿ’ฐ Bailey Willis, the geologist paid $25,000 (over $750k today) to say the ground was safe

โœ๏ธ The building-inspection reports physically rewritten in different ink to erase the earthquake

โš’๏ธ "Gold roll" vs "silver roll": how the Panama Canal hid more than 19,000 deaths

๐Ÿงจ The Culebra Cut explosion that killed 23 men โ€” and was officially recorded as 6

๐Ÿšฌ Edward Bernays, Freud's nephew: "Torches of Freedom," the United Fruit coup in Guatemala, and the birth of manufactured consent

๐ŸŒ‰ How the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake collected the bill โ€” in the exact neighborhood they built on the lie.

They rewrote a disaster while a quarter of a million witnesses were still alive. This is the story of how they pulled it off โ€” and who paid for it. โ€” Elizabeth

ย ๐Ÿ“ฌ Time Killer Files

โš ๏ธ A note: this episode discusses mass death and the deliberate erasure of thousands of Caribbean canal workers. Told with care, but please listen accordingly.

๐Ÿ“ฉ Got a family story or a modern cover-up that fits? Send your Time Killer File to JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com

๐Ÿ”” Subscribe for the full White City Series and new true-crime-and-conspiracy episodes every week.

๐Ÿ“š Sources include: USGS Professional Paper 1515 โ€ข National Archives (Pacific Coast Adjustment Bureau; Panama Canal Zone records) โ€ข Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley โ€ข Stanford University Archives โ€ข Charles Evans Hughes, Report on Insurance Practices (1907) โ€ข Edward Bernays, "Propaganda" (1928) โ€ข Mary Comerio, "Disaster Hits Home" (1998)

#truecrime #conspiracy #history #1906earthquake #panamacanal #edwardbernays #worldsfair #sanfrancisco #propaganda #podcast #JustKillingTime

]]> ๐Ÿ”ฅ 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 story โ€” that it was the fire that did it. Not the earthquake. The fire. Because fire was insured. Earthquakes were not.

That was the first lie. Nine years later, the city threw the biggest party on Earth to celebrate two great American triumphs โ€” rising from the ashes, and finishing the Panama Canal. Both were sitting on top of bodies and lies that powerful people spent a fortune making sure you would never count.

๐Ÿ›๏ธ This is the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition โ€” a world's fair built on two enormous lies. In this episode of Just Killing Time, Elizabeth Stanton follows the documents, names the names, and introduces the man who took these grubby cover-ups and turned them into a science you are still living inside today: Edward Bernays.

๐Ÿงต IN THIS EPISODE:

๐Ÿ”ฅ The 80% the USGS later confirmed โ€” how much of the destruction the earthquake actually caused, and why the city buried it

๐Ÿ“จ The telegram sent just six hours after the quake that set the "fire" narrative in motion

๐ŸŽฉ Mayor Eugene Schmitz, political boss Abe Ruef, and the railroad's hired photographer

๐Ÿ“„ The earthquake exclusion clause โ€” and how Hartford paid investigators bonuses to reclassify claims as "earthquake" so they could deny them

๐Ÿ•ต๏ธ The Pacific Coast Adjustment Bureau: a written cartel agreement to pay the powerful and deny the poor

โš–๏ธ Margaret Sullivan, the widow who beat Hartford in the California Supreme Court โ€” and still died in poverty

๐Ÿ’ฐ Bailey Willis, the geologist paid $25,000 (over $750k today) to say the ground was safe

โœ๏ธ The building-inspection reports physically rewritten in different ink to erase the earthquake

โš’๏ธ "Gold roll" vs "silver roll": how the Panama Canal hid more than 19,000 deaths

๐Ÿงจ The Culebra Cut explosion that killed 23 men โ€” and was officially recorded as 6

๐Ÿšฌ Edward Bernays, Freud's nephew: "Torches of Freedom," the United Fruit coup in Guatemala, and the birth of manufactured consent

๐ŸŒ‰ How the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake collected the bill โ€” in the exact neighborhood they built on the lie.

They rewrote a disaster while a quarter of a million witnesses were still alive. This is the story of how they pulled it off โ€” and who paid for it. โ€” Elizabeth

ย ๐Ÿ“ฌ Time Killer Files

โš ๏ธ A note: this episode discusses mass death and the deliberate erasure of thousands of Caribbean canal workers. Told with care, but please listen accordingly.

๐Ÿ“ฉ Got a family story or a modern cover-up that fits? Send your Time Killer File to JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com

๐Ÿ”” Subscribe for the full White City Series and new true-crime-and-conspiracy episodes every week.

๐Ÿ“š Sources include: USGS Professional Paper 1515 โ€ข National Archives (Pacific Coast Adjustment Bureau; Panama Canal Zone records) โ€ข Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley โ€ข Stanford University Archives โ€ข Charles Evans Hughes, Report on Insurance Practices (1907) โ€ข Edward Bernays, "Propaganda" (1928) โ€ข Mary Comerio, "Disaster Hits Home" (1998)

#truecrime #conspiracy #history #1906earthquake #panamacanal #edwardbernays #worldsfair #sanfrancisco #propaganda #podcast #JustKillingTime

]]> Elizabeth Stanton Buzzsprout-19326913 Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0500 2657 19 full true THE IMPERIAL SPECTACLE - 1904 St Louis World's Fair, 1st American Olympics, & the Largest Human Zoo 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 "primitive" human development.

In this episode of Just Killing Time, Elizabeth Stanton exposes the systematic dehumanization that occurred at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. This wasn't fringe entertainmentโ€”it was mainstream American science, supported by the Smithsonian Institution, major universities, and the U.S. government.

THE ANTHROPOLOGY DAYS: On August 12-13, 1904, the fair held athletic competitions between ethnic groups being displayed as specimens. These "Special Olympics" were designed to prove scientifically that white Americans were physically superior to what organizers called "primitive peoples." The same stadium hosted both the official Olympics and these racist competitions.

OTA BENGA'S TRAGIC STORY: One of the most heartbreaking cases involves Ota Benga, a Pygmy brought from the Congo. After the fair, he was literally displayed in the monkey house at the Bronx Zoo. When African-American ministers protested, it took weeks to secure his release. He eventually died by suicide in Virginia in 1916, age 32.

GERONIMO'S FINAL IMPRISONMENT: At 75 years old, Geronimo was still a prisoner of war, displayed in the Apache village selling photographs for 25 cents. This was his fourth World's Fair exhibition. He died in 1909 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, never having seen his Arizona homeland again.

THE GOVERNMENT'S ROLE: The Bureau of Insular Affairs transported over 600 Filipinos to be displayed. The Bureau of Indian Affairs facilitated Native American participation. At least 11 Filipino workers died during the fair from diseases and inadequate living conditionsโ€”deaths that were recorded but not publicized.

SCIENTIFIC LEGITIMACY: The fair's Department of Anthropology, led by W.J. McGee from the U.S. Geological Survey, conducted extensive physical measurements and intelligence tests on the village residents. These "scientific" results were published in academic journals and cited in Congressional debates about immigration and colonial policy for decades.

LASTING IMPACT: The methodologies developed at the 1904 fair became standard practice in American anthropology and influenced everything from immigration restrictions to forced sterilization laws. The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History opened in 1910 with exhibits based directly on the racial classification system developed at this fair.

SERIES CONNECTION: This episode builds on Elizabeth's previous coverage of the eugenics movement and shows how the same "scientific" approaches used to rank ethnic groups at World's Fairs were later applied to American families through Better Babies contests and forced sterilization programs.

Content Warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of scientific racism, human exhibitions, and historical trauma. The subject matter addresses systematic dehumanization and its lasting impact on communities and families.

WHAT MAKES THIS EPISODE ESSENTIAL: Elizabeth clearly distinguishes between documented historical facts and her analysis throughout. She honors the memory of the individuals who were exploited while exposing the systems that enabled their dehumanization. This isn't just historyโ€”it's a crucial examination of how "scientific education" can mask systematic oppression.

The 1904 St. Louis World's Fair was the largest and most influential international exposition in American history to that point. Understanding what happened there helps explain how American racial ideology was exported globally and how "science" was weaponized to justify empire and oppression.

Just Killing Time with Elizabeth Stanton explores true crime, conspiracy, and the stories that keep us up at nightโ€”with rigorous attention to documented evidence and the human impact of historical events.

end your Time Killer Files to: JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com

]]> 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 "primitive" human development.

In this episode of Just Killing Time, Elizabeth Stanton exposes the systematic dehumanization that occurred at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. This wasn't fringe entertainmentโ€”it was mainstream American science, supported by the Smithsonian Institution, major universities, and the U.S. government.

THE ANTHROPOLOGY DAYS: On August 12-13, 1904, the fair held athletic competitions between ethnic groups being displayed as specimens. These "Special Olympics" were designed to prove scientifically that white Americans were physically superior to what organizers called "primitive peoples." The same stadium hosted both the official Olympics and these racist competitions.

OTA BENGA'S TRAGIC STORY: One of the most heartbreaking cases involves Ota Benga, a Pygmy brought from the Congo. After the fair, he was literally displayed in the monkey house at the Bronx Zoo. When African-American ministers protested, it took weeks to secure his release. He eventually died by suicide in Virginia in 1916, age 32.

GERONIMO'S FINAL IMPRISONMENT: At 75 years old, Geronimo was still a prisoner of war, displayed in the Apache village selling photographs for 25 cents. This was his fourth World's Fair exhibition. He died in 1909 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, never having seen his Arizona homeland again.

THE GOVERNMENT'S ROLE: The Bureau of Insular Affairs transported over 600 Filipinos to be displayed. The Bureau of Indian Affairs facilitated Native American participation. At least 11 Filipino workers died during the fair from diseases and inadequate living conditionsโ€”deaths that were recorded but not publicized.

SCIENTIFIC LEGITIMACY: The fair's Department of Anthropology, led by W.J. McGee from the U.S. Geological Survey, conducted extensive physical measurements and intelligence tests on the village residents. These "scientific" results were published in academic journals and cited in Congressional debates about immigration and colonial policy for decades.

LASTING IMPACT: The methodologies developed at the 1904 fair became standard practice in American anthropology and influenced everything from immigration restrictions to forced sterilization laws. The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History opened in 1910 with exhibits based directly on the racial classification system developed at this fair.

SERIES CONNECTION: This episode builds on Elizabeth's previous coverage of the eugenics movement and shows how the same "scientific" approaches used to rank ethnic groups at World's Fairs were later applied to American families through Better Babies contests and forced sterilization programs.

Content Warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of scientific racism, human exhibitions, and historical trauma. The subject matter addresses systematic dehumanization and its lasting impact on communities and families.

WHAT MAKES THIS EPISODE ESSENTIAL: Elizabeth clearly distinguishes between documented historical facts and her analysis throughout. She honors the memory of the individuals who were exploited while exposing the systems that enabled their dehumanization. This isn't just historyโ€”it's a crucial examination of how "scientific education" can mask systematic oppression.

The 1904 St. Louis World's Fair was the largest and most influential international exposition in American history to that point. Understanding what happened there helps explain how American racial ideology was exported globally and how "science" was weaponized to justify empire and oppression.

Just Killing Time with Elizabeth Stanton explores true crime, conspiracy, and the stories that keep us up at nightโ€”with rigorous attention to documented evidence and the human impact of historical events.

end your Time Killer Files to: JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com

]]> Elizabeth Stanton Buzzsprout-19293992 Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0500 1317 18 full true THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD - Nikola Tesla & the FBI Raid That May Have Stolen Free Energy From the World 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 Killing Time, Elizabeth Stanton separates documented history from conspiracy theory in the Tesla story. What really happened at Wardenclyffe? Why was Tesla's work classified as "Most Secret"? And how does a Kansas farmhouse connect to the greatest suppressed technology in electrical history?

This isn't about free energy conspiracy theoriesโ€”it's about documented suppression, the War of Currents that shaped our electrical grid, and the FBI raid that happened before Tesla was even buried. Elizabeth digs into declassified documents, patent records, and newspaper archives to tell the real story of what we lost when Tesla's wireless power system was abandoned.

THE KANSAS CONNECTION: Growing up in Derby, Kansas, Elizabeth explores how rural electrification timelines connect to Tesla's vision of wireless power distributionโ€”and why the documented history is more compelling than any conspiracy theory.

KEY TOPICS:

โ€ข Tesla's 1893 World's Fair wireless power demonstration

โ€ข The documented War of Currents: Tesla vs. Edison

โ€ข Wardenclyffe Tower and J.P. Morgan's funding decision

โ€ข FBI seizure of Tesla's papers and the "Most Secret" classification

โ€ข Rural Kansas electrification and the "farmhouse question"

โ€ข Patent suppression and the electrical utility industry

โ€ข What Tesla's "World System" would actually have accomplished

This episode is part of The White City Series, exploring the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the systematic suppression of technologies, ideas, and people that could have changed the trajectory of the 20th century.

HISTORICAL ACCURACY: Elizabeth clearly distinguishes between documented facts and speculation throughout, because the real story of Tesla's suppression is remarkable enough without embellishment.

Content Note: This episode discusses historical suppression of technology and includes discussion of FBI surveillance and patent control by industrial interests.

Just Killing Time with Elizabeth Stanton explores true crime, conspiracy, and the stories that keep us up at nightโ€”with a focus on documented evidence and Kansas connections to national mysteries.

Send your Time Killer Files to: JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com

]]> 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 Killing Time, Elizabeth Stanton separates documented history from conspiracy theory in the Tesla story. What really happened at Wardenclyffe? Why was Tesla's work classified as "Most Secret"? And how does a Kansas farmhouse connect to the greatest suppressed technology in electrical history?

This isn't about free energy conspiracy theoriesโ€”it's about documented suppression, the War of Currents that shaped our electrical grid, and the FBI raid that happened before Tesla was even buried. Elizabeth digs into declassified documents, patent records, and newspaper archives to tell the real story of what we lost when Tesla's wireless power system was abandoned.

THE KANSAS CONNECTION: Growing up in Derby, Kansas, Elizabeth explores how rural electrification timelines connect to Tesla's vision of wireless power distributionโ€”and why the documented history is more compelling than any conspiracy theory.

KEY TOPICS:

โ€ข Tesla's 1893 World's Fair wireless power demonstration

โ€ข The documented War of Currents: Tesla vs. Edison

โ€ข Wardenclyffe Tower and J.P. Morgan's funding decision

โ€ข FBI seizure of Tesla's papers and the "Most Secret" classification

โ€ข Rural Kansas electrification and the "farmhouse question"

โ€ข Patent suppression and the electrical utility industry

โ€ข What Tesla's "World System" would actually have accomplished

This episode is part of The White City Series, exploring the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the systematic suppression of technologies, ideas, and people that could have changed the trajectory of the 20th century.

HISTORICAL ACCURACY: Elizabeth clearly distinguishes between documented facts and speculation throughout, because the real story of Tesla's suppression is remarkable enough without embellishment.

Content Note: This episode discusses historical suppression of technology and includes discussion of FBI surveillance and patent control by industrial interests.

Just Killing Time with Elizabeth Stanton explores true crime, conspiracy, and the stories that keep us up at nightโ€”with a focus on documented evidence and Kansas connections to national mysteries.

Send your Time Killer Files to: JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com

]]> Elizabeth Stanton Buzzsprout-19277420 Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500 3497 17 full true THE BABIES IN THE SIDESHOW - A President Dies While Babies Live & The Movement That Wanted Them Dead THE BABIES IN THE SIDESHOW - A President Dies While Babies Live & The Movement That Wanted Them Dead ๐Ÿ‘ถ THE BABIES IN THE SIDESHOW: When Power Failed & Love Worked ๐Ÿ’”

๐Ÿ›๏ธ 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. The babies live.

๐Ÿ” TONIGHT: ๐Ÿ‘ถ Martin Couney: saved 6,500 babies over 40 years (may not have been a real doctor) ๐Ÿ”ซ McKinley assassination complete story + the X-ray machine nobody used ๐Ÿงฌ Eugenics movement at the SAME fairs arguing "weakling" babies should die ๐Ÿ† First Fitter Families contest: Topeka, Kansas, 1920 (judging humans like livestock) โš–๏ธ Buck v. Bell: Supreme Court legalized forced sterilization (never overturned) ๐Ÿ’• Lucille Horn: 2 pounds at birth, lived to 96, five children

Part of White City Series exploring World's Fair dark secrets.

๐Ÿ  Kansas connection: First eugenics contest held at Kansas State Fair. Bronze medals for "genetic worth."

From presidential assassination to babies fighting for lifeโ€”this is about who gets to live and who decides.

Perfect for fans of: True crime, medical history, presidential assassinations, hidden American history, disability rights

#JustKillingTime #MartinCouney #McKinleyAssassination #Eugenics #KansasHistory #IncubatorBabies #Buffalo1901 #ElizabethStanton

๐Ÿ‘ถ Same fairground. Same day. Power failed. Love worked. ๐Ÿ’”

๐ŸŽง Time Killer Files: JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com

]]> ๐Ÿ‘ถ THE BABIES IN THE SIDESHOW: When Power Failed & Love Worked ๐Ÿ’”

๐Ÿ›๏ธ 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. The babies live.

๐Ÿ” TONIGHT: ๐Ÿ‘ถ Martin Couney: saved 6,500 babies over 40 years (may not have been a real doctor) ๐Ÿ”ซ McKinley assassination complete story + the X-ray machine nobody used ๐Ÿงฌ Eugenics movement at the SAME fairs arguing "weakling" babies should die ๐Ÿ† First Fitter Families contest: Topeka, Kansas, 1920 (judging humans like livestock) โš–๏ธ Buck v. Bell: Supreme Court legalized forced sterilization (never overturned) ๐Ÿ’• Lucille Horn: 2 pounds at birth, lived to 96, five children

Part of White City Series exploring World's Fair dark secrets.

๐Ÿ  Kansas connection: First eugenics contest held at Kansas State Fair. Bronze medals for "genetic worth."

From presidential assassination to babies fighting for lifeโ€”this is about who gets to live and who decides.

Perfect for fans of: True crime, medical history, presidential assassinations, hidden American history, disability rights

#JustKillingTime #MartinCouney #McKinleyAssassination #Eugenics #KansasHistory #IncubatorBabies #Buffalo1901 #ElizabethStanton

๐Ÿ‘ถ Same fairground. Same day. Power failed. Love worked. ๐Ÿ’”

๐ŸŽง Time Killer Files: JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com

]]> Elizabeth Stanton Buzzsprout-19206193 Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500 2557 16 full true THE MURDER CASTLE - America's First Serial Killer & The Building That Became a Legend THE MURDER CASTLE - America's First Serial Killer & The Building That Became a Legend ๐Ÿฐ THE MURDER CASTLE: H.H. Holmes - Myth vs. Reality ๐Ÿ’€

๐ŸŽช 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 deaths.

๐Ÿ” TONIGHT WE COVER: ๐Ÿ’€ Holmes' real background vs. the mythology ๐Ÿจ What he actually built (acid vats were real, "100 rooms" weren't) ๐Ÿ‘ฅ The 9 confirmed victims by nameโ€”including the Pitezel children ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธ Detective Frank Geyer's 3-month hunt across North America โš–๏ธ Holmes' $7,500 confession to Hearst papers & gallows recantation ๐Ÿข The post office that stands there now (employees won't go to basement)

Part of the White City Series exploring the dark side of the 1893 World's Fair.

๐Ÿ  Kansas connection: The Bloody Benders family killed travelers on the Kansas prairie 20 years before Holmesโ€”they were never caught.

From medical school body-snatcher to America's first documented serial killerโ€”this is Holmes' real story, told with respect for his actual victims.

Perfect for fans of: True crime, serial killer documentaries, Chicago history, The Devil in the White City, detective stories

#JustKillingTime #HHHolmes #MurderCastle #TrueCrime #SerialKiller #Chicago1893 #WorldsFair #ElizabethStanton #DetectiveFrankGeyer

๐Ÿ’€ Alice. Nellie. Howard. Pearl. Julia. Emeline. Minnie. Nannie. Remember their names. ๐Ÿ’€

๐ŸŽง Send Time Killer Files: JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com

]]> ๐Ÿฐ THE MURDER CASTLE: H.H. Holmes - Myth vs. Reality ๐Ÿ’€

๐ŸŽช 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 deaths.

๐Ÿ” TONIGHT WE COVER: ๐Ÿ’€ Holmes' real background vs. the mythology ๐Ÿจ What he actually built (acid vats were real, "100 rooms" weren't) ๐Ÿ‘ฅ The 9 confirmed victims by nameโ€”including the Pitezel children ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธ Detective Frank Geyer's 3-month hunt across North America โš–๏ธ Holmes' $7,500 confession to Hearst papers & gallows recantation ๐Ÿข The post office that stands there now (employees won't go to basement)

Part of the White City Series exploring the dark side of the 1893 World's Fair.

๐Ÿ  Kansas connection: The Bloody Benders family killed travelers on the Kansas prairie 20 years before Holmesโ€”they were never caught.

From medical school body-snatcher to America's first documented serial killerโ€”this is Holmes' real story, told with respect for his actual victims.

Perfect for fans of: True crime, serial killer documentaries, Chicago history, The Devil in the White City, detective stories

#JustKillingTime #HHHolmes #MurderCastle #TrueCrime #SerialKiller #Chicago1893 #WorldsFair #ElizabethStanton #DetectiveFrankGeyer

๐Ÿ’€ Alice. Nellie. Howard. Pearl. Julia. Emeline. Minnie. Nannie. Remember their names. ๐Ÿ’€

๐ŸŽง Send Time Killer Files: JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com

]]> Elizabeth Stanton Buzzsprout-19206150 Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500 2489 15 full true THE WHITE CITY - 1893 World's Fair, Nikola Tesla, & Papst Blue Ribbon Beer THE WHITE CITY - 1893 World's Fair, Nikola Tesla, & Papst Blue Ribbon Beer โšก TESLA: The World's Fair Genius & FBI's Most Secret File โšก

๐Ÿ›๏ธ 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.

๐Ÿ”ฌ DISCOVER: โšก How Tesla's AC system beat Edison & still powers your home ๐Ÿฅš The mysterious spinning egg that defied physics
๐Ÿ’ฐ Why he tore up a billion-dollar contract ๐ŸŒฉ๏ธ Colorado Springs: 135-foot lightning bolts ๐Ÿ—ผ Wardenclyffe Tower & free worldwide electricity plan ๐Ÿ’ฃ Why the government dynamited his tower (1917) ๐Ÿ“ FBI seized 80 trunks when he diedโ€”20 never arrived

Part of the White City Series exploring World's Fair conspiracies.

๐Ÿ  Kansas angle: How Tesla's suppressed wireless power could have transformed rural America decades before power lines reached isolated farmsteads.

From lighting the World's Fair to dying alone while FBI agents seized his papersโ€”this is Tesla's real story, not the mythology.

Perfect for fans of: True crime, conspiracy theories, Tesla documentaries, history mysteries, science podcasts

#JustKillingTime #Tesla #TrueCrime #Conspiracy #WorldsFair #Chicago1893 #FBIFiles #WirelessPower #ElizabethStanton

โšก He designed the electrical system that powers everything you own. He died alone. The FBI took his papers. โšก

๐ŸŽง Send Time Killer Files: JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com

]]> โšก TESLA: The World's Fair Genius & FBI's Most Secret File โšก

๐Ÿ›๏ธ 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.

๐Ÿ”ฌ DISCOVER: โšก How Tesla's AC system beat Edison & still powers your home ๐Ÿฅš The mysterious spinning egg that defied physics
๐Ÿ’ฐ Why he tore up a billion-dollar contract ๐ŸŒฉ๏ธ Colorado Springs: 135-foot lightning bolts ๐Ÿ—ผ Wardenclyffe Tower & free worldwide electricity plan ๐Ÿ’ฃ Why the government dynamited his tower (1917) ๐Ÿ“ FBI seized 80 trunks when he diedโ€”20 never arrived

Part of the White City Series exploring World's Fair conspiracies.

๐Ÿ  Kansas angle: How Tesla's suppressed wireless power could have transformed rural America decades before power lines reached isolated farmsteads.

From lighting the World's Fair to dying alone while FBI agents seized his papersโ€”this is Tesla's real story, not the mythology.

Perfect for fans of: True crime, conspiracy theories, Tesla documentaries, history mysteries, science podcasts

#JustKillingTime #Tesla #TrueCrime #Conspiracy #WorldsFair #Chicago1893 #FBIFiles #WirelessPower #ElizabethStanton

โšก He designed the electrical system that powers everything you own. He died alone. The FBI took his papers. โšก

๐ŸŽง Send Time Killer Files: JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com

]]> Elizabeth Stanton Buzzsprout-19206010 Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500 2716 14 full true KILLDOZER - The True Story of Marvin Heemeyer & the Town of Granby, Colorado KILLDOZER - The True Story of Marvin Heemeyer & the Town of Granby, Colorado ๐Ÿšœ๐Ÿ”๏ธ EPISODE 13 โ€” "THE LAST GREAT AMERICAN MUFFLER SHOP" โ€” The True Story of Marvin Heemeyer, the Killdozer, and the Town of Granby, Colorado ๐Ÿ”๏ธ๐Ÿšœ

๐Ÿช 1992. A man named Marvin Heemeyer buys two acres in a small Colorado mountain town for $42,000 and opens a muffler shop. He is, by every account, the best welder in the area. For a few years, things are good. ๐Ÿ”ง

Then a concrete plant goes up next door. The access road is cut off. The dust blows in. The city fines him $2,500 for not connecting to a sewer line he can only reach by crossing land owned by the family that operates the concrete plant โ€” the same family he is actively suing. He pays the fine. He writes one word in the memo line of the check.


That word is: COWARDS. ๐Ÿšจ


โš™๏ธ For the next 18 months, alone, in a rented shed, Marvin Heemeyer builds something extraordinary. A Komatsu D355A bulldozer covered in two layers of half-inch tool steel with a foot of 5,000-PSI concrete poured between them. Bulletproof Lexan over the cameras. Three gun ports. A Barrett .50 caliber anti-materiel rifle. Air conditioning. Food and water. And no door โ€” he seals himself inside with a remote-controlled crane lowering the final armor plate into place. There is no way out. โšก


๐Ÿ›๏ธ June 4, 2004. 3:00 PM. The engine turns over. The Killdozer drives through 13 buildings in 2 hours and 7 minutes. The town hall, the bank, the newspaper office, the former mayor's home, the propane tanks, the homes of people who served on the zoning board. Police fire 200 rounds. They use grenades. The governor of Colorado considers calling in an Apache attack helicopter. NOTHING WORKS. The armor holds. The bullets bounce off. โšฐ๏ธ


The only person who died was Marvin Heemeyer.


Tonight: ๐Ÿ‘‡
๐Ÿ”ง The dispute that lit the fuse โ€” the negotiations, the zoning, the sewer
๐Ÿ’ฐ The Docheff family's account โ€” what the folk hero version leaves out
๐ŸŽ™๏ธ The seven tapes Heemeyer mailed to his brother before he climbed in
๐Ÿšœ 18 months building a war machine in a small town where nobody noticed
๐Ÿ›๏ธ The rampage โ€” chronologically, methodically, with the planning that made law enforcement's skin crawl
๐Ÿ“บ How Ronald Reagan's death the next day washed the story off the front page
๐Ÿ”ฅ The town's decision to cut the Killdozer into pieces and scatter them
โš–๏ธ The folk hero question that the internet has been fighting about for 20 years
โš–๏ธ This is not a story about a hero. It is also not a story about a monster. It is the story of a real grievance that grew past every boundary โ€” and a man who was right about some things and catastrophically wrong about what to do about them.

โš ๏ธ A note on care: this episode discusses mental health crisis, paranoia, and suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling, please reach out to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988. You are not alone. โค๏ธ

I'm Elizabeth Stanton. Thanks for killing time with me. โ˜•
๐Ÿ“ง JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com
๐Ÿ“ Recorded in Derby, Kansas
๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Listen everywhere podcasts are found

]]> ๐Ÿšœ๐Ÿ”๏ธ EPISODE 13 โ€” "THE LAST GREAT AMERICAN MUFFLER SHOP" โ€” The True Story of Marvin Heemeyer, the Killdozer, and the Town of Granby, Colorado ๐Ÿ”๏ธ๐Ÿšœ

๐Ÿช 1992. A man named Marvin Heemeyer buys two acres in a small Colorado mountain town for $42,000 and opens a muffler shop. He is, by every account, the best welder in the area. For a few years, things are good. ๐Ÿ”ง

Then a concrete plant goes up next door. The access road is cut off. The dust blows in. The city fines him $2,500 for not connecting to a sewer line he can only reach by crossing land owned by the family that operates the concrete plant โ€” the same family he is actively suing. He pays the fine. He writes one word in the memo line of the check.


That word is: COWARDS. ๐Ÿšจ


โš™๏ธ For the next 18 months, alone, in a rented shed, Marvin Heemeyer builds something extraordinary. A Komatsu D355A bulldozer covered in two layers of half-inch tool steel with a foot of 5,000-PSI concrete poured between them. Bulletproof Lexan over the cameras. Three gun ports. A Barrett .50 caliber anti-materiel rifle. Air conditioning. Food and water. And no door โ€” he seals himself inside with a remote-controlled crane lowering the final armor plate into place. There is no way out. โšก


๐Ÿ›๏ธ June 4, 2004. 3:00 PM. The engine turns over. The Killdozer drives through 13 buildings in 2 hours and 7 minutes. The town hall, the bank, the newspaper office, the former mayor's home, the propane tanks, the homes of people who served on the zoning board. Police fire 200 rounds. They use grenades. The governor of Colorado considers calling in an Apache attack helicopter. NOTHING WORKS. The armor holds. The bullets bounce off. โšฐ๏ธ


The only person who died was Marvin Heemeyer.


Tonight: ๐Ÿ‘‡
๐Ÿ”ง The dispute that lit the fuse โ€” the negotiations, the zoning, the sewer
๐Ÿ’ฐ The Docheff family's account โ€” what the folk hero version leaves out
๐ŸŽ™๏ธ The seven tapes Heemeyer mailed to his brother before he climbed in
๐Ÿšœ 18 months building a war machine in a small town where nobody noticed
๐Ÿ›๏ธ The rampage โ€” chronologically, methodically, with the planning that made law enforcement's skin crawl
๐Ÿ“บ How Ronald Reagan's death the next day washed the story off the front page
๐Ÿ”ฅ The town's decision to cut the Killdozer into pieces and scatter them
โš–๏ธ The folk hero question that the internet has been fighting about for 20 years
โš–๏ธ This is not a story about a hero. It is also not a story about a monster. It is the story of a real grievance that grew past every boundary โ€” and a man who was right about some things and catastrophically wrong about what to do about them.

โš ๏ธ A note on care: this episode discusses mental health crisis, paranoia, and suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling, please reach out to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988. You are not alone. โค๏ธ

I'm Elizabeth Stanton. Thanks for killing time with me. โ˜•
๐Ÿ“ง JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com
๐Ÿ“ Recorded in Derby, Kansas
๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Listen everywhere podcasts are found

]]> Elizabeth Stanton Buzzsprout-19144117 Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500 2974 13 full true SKY KINGS - Stolen Planes, Broken Minds, & the Man Named Beebo SKY KINGS - Stolen Planes, Broken Minds, & the Man Named Beebo โœˆ๏ธ๐ŸŒฒ EPISODE 12 โ€” "SKY KINGS: STOLEN PLANES, BROKEN MINDS, AND THE MAN NAMED BEEBO" ๐ŸŒฒโœˆ๏ธ

This episode is dedicated to my father, Fred Harvey โ€” the best father a daughter could ever have. ๐Ÿ’™

๐Ÿ›ฉ๏ธ On November 12, 1982, my dad went to work at the Cessna Aircraft Company facility in Wichita, Kansas โ€” and one of his coworkers stole a brand new Citation I jet. The mechanic had no flight training. He flew a proper traffic pattern. He touched down 557 feet short of the runway and walked away. There is no Wikipedia page. No documentary. The story basically vanished โ€” until I called my dad and asked him to tell me what really happened. ๐Ÿ”ง

๐Ÿ“… Thirty-six years later, on August 10, 2018, it happened again.

A 29-year-old ground crew employee at Sea-Tac Airport named Richard Russell โ€” friends called him kind, funny, thoughtful โ€” used his authorized access to climb into a 70-seat Bombardier Q400 turboprop. He had never flown a plane in his life. He took off without clearance. He spent 75 minutes in the air over Puget Sound, talking to one extraordinary air traffic controller who tried to talk him home. โœˆ๏ธ

The internet called him Beebo. ๐Ÿ’•

Tonight: ๐Ÿ‘‡ ๐Ÿ›ฉ๏ธ The 1982 Wichita Cessna theft โ€” a story that vanished from history ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ผ Who Richard Russell actually was โ€” kind, married, struggling ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ The 75-minute ATC conversation that still haunts people ๐Ÿ”„ The impossible question both stories ask ๐Ÿ“‹ The NTSB investigation and what it found ๐Ÿ”“ The security failure that wasn't malicious โ€” it was a blind spot

โš–๏ธ This is not a story about a folk hero. It is also not a story about a villain. It is a story about what happens when a person crosses an invisible line that nobody saw coming until it was already gone. The system failed Richard Russell โ€” and the same system failed a Cessna mechanic in Wichita 36 years earlier. The question of why is bigger than either case.

โš ๏ธ A note on care: this episode discusses mental health crisis and suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling, please reach out to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988. You are not alone. โค๏ธ

I'm Elizabeth Stanton. Thanks for killing time with me. โ˜•

๐Ÿ“ง JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com ๐Ÿ“ Recorded in Derby, Kansas ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Listen everywhere podcasts are found

]]> โœˆ๏ธ๐ŸŒฒ EPISODE 12 โ€” "SKY KINGS: STOLEN PLANES, BROKEN MINDS, AND THE MAN NAMED BEEBO" ๐ŸŒฒโœˆ๏ธ

This episode is dedicated to my father, Fred Harvey โ€” the best father a daughter could ever have. ๐Ÿ’™

๐Ÿ›ฉ๏ธ On November 12, 1982, my dad went to work at the Cessna Aircraft Company facility in Wichita, Kansas โ€” and one of his coworkers stole a brand new Citation I jet. The mechanic had no flight training. He flew a proper traffic pattern. He touched down 557 feet short of the runway and walked away. There is no Wikipedia page. No documentary. The story basically vanished โ€” until I called my dad and asked him to tell me what really happened. ๐Ÿ”ง

๐Ÿ“… Thirty-six years later, on August 10, 2018, it happened again.

A 29-year-old ground crew employee at Sea-Tac Airport named Richard Russell โ€” friends called him kind, funny, thoughtful โ€” used his authorized access to climb into a 70-seat Bombardier Q400 turboprop. He had never flown a plane in his life. He took off without clearance. He spent 75 minutes in the air over Puget Sound, talking to one extraordinary air traffic controller who tried to talk him home. โœˆ๏ธ

The internet called him Beebo. ๐Ÿ’•

Tonight: ๐Ÿ‘‡ ๐Ÿ›ฉ๏ธ The 1982 Wichita Cessna theft โ€” a story that vanished from history ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ผ Who Richard Russell actually was โ€” kind, married, struggling ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ The 75-minute ATC conversation that still haunts people ๐Ÿ”„ The impossible question both stories ask ๐Ÿ“‹ The NTSB investigation and what it found ๐Ÿ”“ The security failure that wasn't malicious โ€” it was a blind spot

โš–๏ธ This is not a story about a folk hero. It is also not a story about a villain. It is a story about what happens when a person crosses an invisible line that nobody saw coming until it was already gone. The system failed Richard Russell โ€” and the same system failed a Cessna mechanic in Wichita 36 years earlier. The question of why is bigger than either case.

โš ๏ธ A note on care: this episode discusses mental health crisis and suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling, please reach out to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988. You are not alone. โค๏ธ

I'm Elizabeth Stanton. Thanks for killing time with me. โ˜•

๐Ÿ“ง JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com ๐Ÿ“ Recorded in Derby, Kansas ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Listen everywhere podcasts are found

]]> Elizabeth Stanton Buzzsprout-19144042 Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500 1661 12 full true PINK PALACE & BLACK HOUSE -The Life, Death, & Enduring Mysteries of Jayne Mansfield PINK PALACE & BLACK HOUSE -The Life, Death, & Enduring Mysteries of Jayne Mansfield ๐Ÿ’‹๐ŸŒน EPISODE 11 โ€” "THE PINK PALACE AND THE BLACK HOUSE" โ€” The Life, Death, and Enduring Mysteries of Jayne Mansfield ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ’‹

๐Ÿš— At 2:25 a.m. on June 29, 1967, a 1966 Buick Electra slid underneath a tractor-trailer on US Highway 90. The most photographed woman in America died in the front seat. Her boyfriend โ€” who had been publicly cursed by Anton LaVey to die in a car accident within a year โ€” died beside her. Her three-year-old daughter, asleep in the back seat, somehow survived. ๐ŸŒŸ

You know that daughter as Captain Olivia Benson on Law & Order: SVU. โš–๏ธ

Tonight: ๐Ÿ‘‡ ๐Ÿง  The genius behind the bombshell โ€” IQ of 163, five languages, concert violinist ๐Ÿฐ The Pink Palace and 2,500 newspaper photographs in nine months ๐Ÿ’ช Mickey Hargitay, the great love of her life ๐Ÿฆ The lion attack and the mountaintop ritual that saved her son ๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ Anton LaVey, the Black House, and the High Priestess title โšก The curse โ€” and the seven car accidents that followed ๐Ÿš› The crash, the decapitation myth that wasn't true, and the steel bar that bears her name ๐Ÿ‘ฎโ€โ™€๏ธ Mariska Hargitay, the May 2025 revelation, and the documentary that changed everything

โš–๏ธ Jayne Mansfield was not a dumb blonde. She was not a Satanist. She was not a cautionary tale. She was a smart, driven, complicated woman who never got the credit she deserved while she was alive โ€” and who is finally getting it now.

Every truck on every American highway today carries a steel bar named for her. The Mansfield Bar. Saving lives, quietly, every single day. ๐Ÿ›ž

I'm Elizabeth Stanton. Thanks for killing time with me. โ˜•

๐Ÿ“ง JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com ๐Ÿ“ Recorded in Derby, Kansas ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Listen everywhere podcasts are found

]]> ๐Ÿ’‹๐ŸŒน EPISODE 11 โ€” "THE PINK PALACE AND THE BLACK HOUSE" โ€” The Life, Death, and Enduring Mysteries of Jayne Mansfield ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ’‹

๐Ÿš— At 2:25 a.m. on June 29, 1967, a 1966 Buick Electra slid underneath a tractor-trailer on US Highway 90. The most photographed woman in America died in the front seat. Her boyfriend โ€” who had been publicly cursed by Anton LaVey to die in a car accident within a year โ€” died beside her. Her three-year-old daughter, asleep in the back seat, somehow survived. ๐ŸŒŸ

You know that daughter as Captain Olivia Benson on Law & Order: SVU. โš–๏ธ

Tonight: ๐Ÿ‘‡ ๐Ÿง  The genius behind the bombshell โ€” IQ of 163, five languages, concert violinist ๐Ÿฐ The Pink Palace and 2,500 newspaper photographs in nine months ๐Ÿ’ช Mickey Hargitay, the great love of her life ๐Ÿฆ The lion attack and the mountaintop ritual that saved her son ๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ Anton LaVey, the Black House, and the High Priestess title โšก The curse โ€” and the seven car accidents that followed ๐Ÿš› The crash, the decapitation myth that wasn't true, and the steel bar that bears her name ๐Ÿ‘ฎโ€โ™€๏ธ Mariska Hargitay, the May 2025 revelation, and the documentary that changed everything

โš–๏ธ Jayne Mansfield was not a dumb blonde. She was not a Satanist. She was not a cautionary tale. She was a smart, driven, complicated woman who never got the credit she deserved while she was alive โ€” and who is finally getting it now.

Every truck on every American highway today carries a steel bar named for her. The Mansfield Bar. Saving lives, quietly, every single day. ๐Ÿ›ž

I'm Elizabeth Stanton. Thanks for killing time with me. โ˜•

๐Ÿ“ง JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com ๐Ÿ“ Recorded in Derby, Kansas ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Listen everywhere podcasts are found

]]> Elizabeth Stanton Buzzsprout-19144012 Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500 3098 11 full true WE CHOOSE TO GO - The Questions About Space Exploration We Were Never Allowed to Ask WE CHOOSE TO GO - The Questions About Space Exploration We Were Never Allowed to Ask ๐Ÿš€ EPISODE 10 โ€” "We Choose to Go" โ€” THE SPACE SERIES FINALE ๐Ÿš€

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 later, Kennedy promised the moon.

Tonight, the biggest question this series has been building toward: Did we really go to the moon?

Across 140 minutes, I lay out the case โ€” Apollo 1, the Van Allen radiation belts, the astronauts who don't act like heroes, the deliberately erased original tapes, the technology a current NASA astronaut says "we destroyed," the 6.2 million gallon pool in Houston where they practice "spacewalks," the Hollywood Artemis 2 rollout, the T-minus mystery (NASA = SATAN minus T), and a single Bible verse on Wernher von Braun's gravestone that should stop you cold.

I'm not telling you what to believe. I'm laying out what's documented and asking where YOU stand.

This is the end of the Space Series. Episodes 7 through 10. Operation Paperclip. Walt Disney. Jack Parsons. And now Apollo.

I'm Elizabeth Stanton. Thanks for killing time with me.

๐Ÿ“ง JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com ๐Ÿ“ Recorded in Derby, Kansas ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Listen everywhere podcasts are found

]]> ๐Ÿš€ EPISODE 10 โ€” "We Choose to Go" โ€” THE SPACE SERIES FINALE ๐Ÿš€

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 later, Kennedy promised the moon.

Tonight, the biggest question this series has been building toward: Did we really go to the moon?

Across 140 minutes, I lay out the case โ€” Apollo 1, the Van Allen radiation belts, the astronauts who don't act like heroes, the deliberately erased original tapes, the technology a current NASA astronaut says "we destroyed," the 6.2 million gallon pool in Houston where they practice "spacewalks," the Hollywood Artemis 2 rollout, the T-minus mystery (NASA = SATAN minus T), and a single Bible verse on Wernher von Braun's gravestone that should stop you cold.

I'm not telling you what to believe. I'm laying out what's documented and asking where YOU stand.

This is the end of the Space Series. Episodes 7 through 10. Operation Paperclip. Walt Disney. Jack Parsons. And now Apollo.

I'm Elizabeth Stanton. Thanks for killing time with me.

๐Ÿ“ง JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com ๐Ÿ“ Recorded in Derby, Kansas ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Listen everywhere podcasts are found

]]> Elizabeth Stanton Buzzsprout-19141497 Thu, 07 May 2026 11:00:00 -0500 5739 10 full true BABALON WORKING - The Occultist, The Scientologist, & The Rocket Scientist Who Founded NASA's JPL BABALON WORKING - The Occultist, The Scientologist, & The Rocket Scientist Who Founded NASA's JPL ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ”ฅ EPISODE 9 โ€” "Babalon Working" โ€” PART 3 OF THE SPACE SERIES ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿš€

๐ŸŽƒ 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 riverbed to test a primitive rocket engine. He calls his team the Suicide Squad. He chose that exact location because he genuinely believed it was a portal to Hell. ๐Ÿ”ฅ

The test works. โœ…

That moment is the founding of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA's largest robotic space exploration center. And the man who started it โ€” Jack Parsons โ€” would spend the rest of his short life building the rockets that took America to the moon, while running an occult lodge out of a Pasadena mansion, performing sex magic rituals in the California desert with a former Navy officer named L. Ron Hubbard. ๐Ÿ“ฟ

Yes โ€” the same L. Ron Hubbard who would later steal Parsons' girlfriend, his life savings, and start the Church of Scientology. โš“

Tonight: ๐Ÿ‘‡

๐ŸŽญ The wickedest man in the world โ€” Aleister Crowley and the religion of Thelema.

๐Ÿ›๏ธ The Parsonage โ€” naked rituals on Millionaire's Row.

๐Ÿ“ฟ The Babalon Working โ€” what really happened in the desert.

๐Ÿ€ The con Crowley spotted from across the Atlantic.

๐Ÿšจ The FBI files. The revoked security clearance. The Israeli rocket job.

โšฐ๏ธ The 1952 explosion in Parsons' home laboratory. Last words: "But I'm not finished yet."

๐ŸŒ‘ A crater on the dark side of the moon, named after a man whose name JPL tour guides reportedly are told not to bring up.

โš–๏ธ Every fact in this episode is documented. Three serious biographies, declassified FBI files, peer-reviewed religious studies scholarship, NASA's own archives. The government didn't hide Jack Parsons. They just stopped talking about him.

This is Part 3 of the Space Series. Episodes 7 through 10. Operation Paperclip, Walt Disney, Jack Parsons, and Apollo. ๐Ÿš€

I'm Elizabeth Stanton. Thanks for killing time with me. โ˜•

๐Ÿ“ง JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com

๐Ÿ“ Recorded in Derby, Kansas

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Listen everywhere podcasts are found

]]> ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ”ฅ EPISODE 9 โ€” "Babalon Working" โ€” PART 3 OF THE SPACE SERIES ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿš€

๐ŸŽƒ 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 riverbed to test a primitive rocket engine. He calls his team the Suicide Squad. He chose that exact location because he genuinely believed it was a portal to Hell. ๐Ÿ”ฅ

The test works. โœ…

That moment is the founding of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA's largest robotic space exploration center. And the man who started it โ€” Jack Parsons โ€” would spend the rest of his short life building the rockets that took America to the moon, while running an occult lodge out of a Pasadena mansion, performing sex magic rituals in the California desert with a former Navy officer named L. Ron Hubbard. ๐Ÿ“ฟ

Yes โ€” the same L. Ron Hubbard who would later steal Parsons' girlfriend, his life savings, and start the Church of Scientology. โš“

Tonight: ๐Ÿ‘‡

๐ŸŽญ The wickedest man in the world โ€” Aleister Crowley and the religion of Thelema.

๐Ÿ›๏ธ The Parsonage โ€” naked rituals on Millionaire's Row.

๐Ÿ“ฟ The Babalon Working โ€” what really happened in the desert.

๐Ÿ€ The con Crowley spotted from across the Atlantic.

๐Ÿšจ The FBI files. The revoked security clearance. The Israeli rocket job.

โšฐ๏ธ The 1952 explosion in Parsons' home laboratory. Last words: "But I'm not finished yet."

๐ŸŒ‘ A crater on the dark side of the moon, named after a man whose name JPL tour guides reportedly are told not to bring up.

โš–๏ธ Every fact in this episode is documented. Three serious biographies, declassified FBI files, peer-reviewed religious studies scholarship, NASA's own archives. The government didn't hide Jack Parsons. They just stopped talking about him.

This is Part 3 of the Space Series. Episodes 7 through 10. Operation Paperclip, Walt Disney, Jack Parsons, and Apollo. ๐Ÿš€

I'm Elizabeth Stanton. Thanks for killing time with me. โ˜•

๐Ÿ“ง JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com

๐Ÿ“ Recorded in Derby, Kansas

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Listen everywhere podcasts are found

]]> Elizabeth Stanton Buzzsprout-19132422 Tue, 05 May 2026 20:00:00 -0500 3861 9 full true MOON ROCKETS & MICKEY MOUSE - Walt Disney, The Nazis, & How America Was Sold the Stars 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 โ€” 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. And the man holding the microphone โ€” Walt Disney โ€” had been an FBI informant since 1940, a fact only confirmed when his 570-page FBI file was declassified under FOIA.

This is Episode 8 of Just Killing Time with Elizabeth Stanton โ€” Part 2 of the Space Series โ€” and it's the story of the most successful propaganda operation in American television history. Three Disney space specials. President Eisenhower screening them at the Pentagon. Operation Mockingbird quietly running in the background. And one Tuesday night in 1955 that quietly rewired what an entire generation of Americans believed about space.

Then we go to July 1969 โ€” and we look honestly at the Stanley Kubrick / Apollo 11 moon landing theory, the documented NASA-Kubrick connections, and the 2002 French mockumentary "Opรฉration Lune" that fooled millions of viewers worldwide.

We end where every Just Killing Time episode ends โ€” in Kansas. At the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, one hour from Derby, standing in front of a lunar rover replica with wheels woven from zinc-coated piano wire. Go look at it. Ask the question. In this episode:

  • Walt Disney's declassified FBI file (1940โ€“1966)
  • Wernher von Braun, Operation Paperclip, and the Disney specials
  • "Man in Space" (1955), "Man and the Moon" (1955), "Mars and Beyond" (1957)
  • Operation Mockingbird and the Church Committee
  • Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the moon landing theory
  • "Opรฉration Lune" โ€” the mockumentary that blurred the line
  • The Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle, up close, in Hutchinson, Kansas
  • Eisenhower, the Pentagon, and the propaganda loop that worked

New episodes weekly. True crime, Cold War conspiracy, declassified history, and the Kansas stories you were never told.ย 
Join the Time Killers. Send your Time Killer Files to JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com.ย 
Hosted from Derby, Kansas, by Elizabeth Stanton. We don't claim the moon landing was faked. We document who built the story you were told โ€” and let you decide.

]]> In March 1955, Walt Disney put a former SS officer on prime-time TV โ€” 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. And the man holding the microphone โ€” Walt Disney โ€” had been an FBI informant since 1940, a fact only confirmed when his 570-page FBI file was declassified under FOIA.

This is Episode 8 of Just Killing Time with Elizabeth Stanton โ€” Part 2 of the Space Series โ€” and it's the story of the most successful propaganda operation in American television history. Three Disney space specials. President Eisenhower screening them at the Pentagon. Operation Mockingbird quietly running in the background. And one Tuesday night in 1955 that quietly rewired what an entire generation of Americans believed about space.

Then we go to July 1969 โ€” and we look honestly at the Stanley Kubrick / Apollo 11 moon landing theory, the documented NASA-Kubrick connections, and the 2002 French mockumentary "Opรฉration Lune" that fooled millions of viewers worldwide.

We end where every Just Killing Time episode ends โ€” in Kansas. At the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, one hour from Derby, standing in front of a lunar rover replica with wheels woven from zinc-coated piano wire. Go look at it. Ask the question. In this episode:

  • Walt Disney's declassified FBI file (1940โ€“1966)
  • Wernher von Braun, Operation Paperclip, and the Disney specials
  • "Man in Space" (1955), "Man and the Moon" (1955), "Mars and Beyond" (1957)
  • Operation Mockingbird and the Church Committee
  • Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the moon landing theory
  • "Opรฉration Lune" โ€” the mockumentary that blurred the line
  • The Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle, up close, in Hutchinson, Kansas
  • Eisenhower, the Pentagon, and the propaganda loop that worked

New episodes weekly. True crime, Cold War conspiracy, declassified history, and the Kansas stories you were never told.ย 
Join the Time Killers. Send your Time Killer Files to JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com.ย 
Hosted from Derby, Kansas, by Elizabeth Stanton. We don't claim the moon landing was faked. We document who built the story you were told โ€” and let you decide.

]]> Elizabeth Stanton Buzzsprout-19117768 Sun, 03 May 2026 17:00:00 -0500 3124 8 full true WE HIRED THE NAZIS - Operation Paperclip: How America Recruited the Third Reich to Win the Space Race 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 โ€” quietly, with forged paperwork โ€” we hired the rest.
Operation Paperclip brought more than 1,600 German scientists to America after World War II. One of them โ€” Wernher von Braun โ€” wore an SS uniform while 20,000 concentration camp prisoners died building his rockets in a tunnel in Germany. Thirteen years later he was running NASAโ€™s Marshall Space Flight Center. One of his slide rules now sits in a glass case at the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas โ€” an hour from Derby.
This is Part 1 of the Space Series. I walk you from Peenemรผnde to the Mittelwerk tunnels, through the falsified war-crime dossiers that got Nazi scientists onto American soil in direct defiance of President Trumanโ€™s orders, to a Kansas thread that runs through Goddard, Abilene, Hutchinson, and Lenexa. More people died building the V-2 than were killed by it. I want that number in your head before we talk about the moon.
Content warning: concentration camps, forced labor, and Holocaust atrocities.
If the official story has always felt thin to you โ€” good. Letโ€™s go into the tunnel together.

โ€” Elizabeth Stanton, your host
Coming next: Episode 8 โ€” โ€œThe Man Who Built the Moon Rocket Loved Mickey Mouse.โ€


]]> In 1945 we hanged the Nazis we caught. Then โ€” quietly, with forged paperwork โ€” we hired the rest.
Operation Paperclip brought more than 1,600 German scientists to America after World War II. One of them โ€” Wernher von Braun โ€” wore an SS uniform while 20,000 concentration camp prisoners died building his rockets in a tunnel in Germany. Thirteen years later he was running NASAโ€™s Marshall Space Flight Center. One of his slide rules now sits in a glass case at the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas โ€” an hour from Derby.
This is Part 1 of the Space Series. I walk you from Peenemรผnde to the Mittelwerk tunnels, through the falsified war-crime dossiers that got Nazi scientists onto American soil in direct defiance of President Trumanโ€™s orders, to a Kansas thread that runs through Goddard, Abilene, Hutchinson, and Lenexa. More people died building the V-2 than were killed by it. I want that number in your head before we talk about the moon.
Content warning: concentration camps, forced labor, and Holocaust atrocities.
If the official story has always felt thin to you โ€” good. Letโ€™s go into the tunnel together.

โ€” Elizabeth Stanton, your host
Coming next: Episode 8 โ€” โ€œThe Man Who Built the Moon Rocket Loved Mickey Mouse.โ€


]]> Elizabeth Stanton Buzzsprout-19056376 Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500 2577 7 full true THE SECRET UNDER THE BALLROOM - Project Greek Island: The Congressional Nuclear Bunker Hidden Beneath an American Resort 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 โ€” and the entire town of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia agreed to pretend it wasnโ€™t there.
In Episode 6 of Just Killing Time, we go 720 feet underground into Project Greek Island โ€” a 112,544 square foot Cold War relocation facility built to house every single member of Congress while the rest of the country burned. Behind a door marked โ€œDanger: High Voltage Keep Out,โ€ a 28-ton blast door. Beyond that: 1,100 assigned beds, 18 dormitories, a 400-seat cafeteria with fake windows, a decontamination shower, a TV studio with a seasonal Capitol backdrop, and a โ€œpathological waste incineratorโ€ that was in fact a crematorium.
We trace the story from a Kansas boy stuck in Nebraska quicksand in 1919 โ€” a young Dwight Eisenhower on the Transcontinental Motor Convoy โ€” through the Interstate Highway System (whose first completed section was, of course, in Kansas) and into the hillside behind The Greenbrier. We meet Forsythe Associates, the fake TV repair company staffed by Pentagon-cleared intelligence operatives who maintained the bunker for three decades. We sit with the moment the bunker was completed โ€” six days before the Cuban Missile Crisis โ€” and was deemed too dangerous to use. And we follow reporter Ted Gupโ€™s tape recorder onto the hotel managerโ€™s desk in 1992, and Katharine Grahamโ€™s response when the White House asked her not to publish: โ€œDonโ€™t worry. Weโ€™ll do what we believe is right.โ€
Somewhere in America right now, there is almost certainly another one. A normal member of Congress, as the Washington Postโ€™s Bill Arkin put it, โ€œknows nothing.โ€
This is a standalone episode. A boy from Abilene. A grid of Kansas roads running to the horizon. And a bunker under a ballroom that was built for a war that never came.
Sources include: The Nuclear Museum, Civil Defense Museum, The Washington Post, National Archives, Eisenhower Presidential Library, Federal Highway Administration, and Kansas Geological Survey. Full citations on YouTube.
Runtime: approximately 65 minutes ย  โ€ขย  ย Category: True Crime / History / Conspiracy ย  โ€ขย  ย Explicit: Clean
If youโ€™ve ever felt like the official story just doesnโ€™t add up, youโ€™re in the right place. Just Killing Time with Elizabeth Stanton unravels true crime cases and the conspiracies lurking beneath them โ€” one uncomfortable truth at a time.

]]> For 30 years, the United States government maintained a fully operational secret nuclear bunker beneath the most famous luxury resort in America โ€” and the entire town of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia agreed to pretend it wasnโ€™t there.
In Episode 6 of Just Killing Time, we go 720 feet underground into Project Greek Island โ€” a 112,544 square foot Cold War relocation facility built to house every single member of Congress while the rest of the country burned. Behind a door marked โ€œDanger: High Voltage Keep Out,โ€ a 28-ton blast door. Beyond that: 1,100 assigned beds, 18 dormitories, a 400-seat cafeteria with fake windows, a decontamination shower, a TV studio with a seasonal Capitol backdrop, and a โ€œpathological waste incineratorโ€ that was in fact a crematorium.
We trace the story from a Kansas boy stuck in Nebraska quicksand in 1919 โ€” a young Dwight Eisenhower on the Transcontinental Motor Convoy โ€” through the Interstate Highway System (whose first completed section was, of course, in Kansas) and into the hillside behind The Greenbrier. We meet Forsythe Associates, the fake TV repair company staffed by Pentagon-cleared intelligence operatives who maintained the bunker for three decades. We sit with the moment the bunker was completed โ€” six days before the Cuban Missile Crisis โ€” and was deemed too dangerous to use. And we follow reporter Ted Gupโ€™s tape recorder onto the hotel managerโ€™s desk in 1992, and Katharine Grahamโ€™s response when the White House asked her not to publish: โ€œDonโ€™t worry. Weโ€™ll do what we believe is right.โ€
Somewhere in America right now, there is almost certainly another one. A normal member of Congress, as the Washington Postโ€™s Bill Arkin put it, โ€œknows nothing.โ€
This is a standalone episode. A boy from Abilene. A grid of Kansas roads running to the horizon. And a bunker under a ballroom that was built for a war that never came.
Sources include: The Nuclear Museum, Civil Defense Museum, The Washington Post, National Archives, Eisenhower Presidential Library, Federal Highway Administration, and Kansas Geological Survey. Full citations on YouTube.
Runtime: approximately 65 minutes ย  โ€ขย  ย Category: True Crime / History / Conspiracy ย  โ€ขย  ย Explicit: Clean
If youโ€™ve ever felt like the official story just doesnโ€™t add up, youโ€™re in the right place. Just Killing Time with Elizabeth Stanton unravels true crime cases and the conspiracies lurking beneath them โ€” one uncomfortable truth at a time.

]]> Buzzsprout-19054247 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500 3507 6 full true BORN IN A CABBAGE PATCH - How America Turned its Darkest History Into its Most Beloved Toy 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 name was Martha Nelson Thomas โ€” and you have almost certainly never heard it.

Five years later, a 21-year-old art student from Georgia named Xavier Roberts walked into her craft fair booth. What happened next built a two-billion-dollar empire, sparked the most violent toy riot in American history, and stamped one man's signature on the backside of every Cabbage Patch Kid ever made.

This is the finale of Angel Makers. A four-part investigation into the hidden system that processed America's most vulnerable children across a hundred years โ€” and somehow ended up in a mass-produced doll with a Georgia birth certificate.

In this episode:

โ€ข The real inventor of the Cabbage Patch Kid โ€” and the funeral where her dolls filled the front pew

โ€ข Babyland General Hospital โ€” the "Imagicillin" birth ritual, the preemie ward, and the signature branded on every baby's body

โ€ข The 1983 Cabbage Patch Riots โ€” the Wilkes-Barre baseball bat, the pregnant woman trampled in New Jersey, and the adults ripping dolls from children's hands

โ€ข The names on the birth certificates โ€” real children, real 1938 Georgia birth records, assigned to dolls

โ€ข The full reveal โ€” baby farms, orphan trains, asylums, Cabbage Patch Kids. Same bones. Different clothes.

โ€ข A final tribute to Nancy Shoemaker, the nine-year-old girl who started this show

The language of institutional child transfer had been woven into American culture for a hundred years before a young artist in the Appalachian foothills built a hospital out of an old medical clinic and told children they were adopting a nameless baby. He wasn't thinking about Amelia Dyer. He wasn't thinking about the orphan trains. He wasn't thinking about Elizabeth Packard. But the ritual he created came from somewhere โ€” and a generation of children recognized it in their bones.

Receive the nameless baby. Give it a name. Promise to love it. Mean it.

This is Angel Makers, Part 4. The series finale. Born in a Cabbage Patch.

If you've ever felt like the official story just doesn't add up, you're in the right place.

For Nancy. For Martha. For the nameless ones.

ย 

Subscribe to Just Killing Time with Elizabeth Stanton wherever you listen โ€” Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, iHeart, Amazon Music, and Pandora. Follow on TikTok and Instagram @justkillingtimepodcast. Send your Time Killer Files โ€” your Cabbage Patch Kid's name, your orphan train ancestry, your family's asylum stories โ€” and Elizabeth may read yours on the show.

Explicit content. Listener discretion advised.



]]> 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 name was Martha Nelson Thomas โ€” and you have almost certainly never heard it.

Five years later, a 21-year-old art student from Georgia named Xavier Roberts walked into her craft fair booth. What happened next built a two-billion-dollar empire, sparked the most violent toy riot in American history, and stamped one man's signature on the backside of every Cabbage Patch Kid ever made.

This is the finale of Angel Makers. A four-part investigation into the hidden system that processed America's most vulnerable children across a hundred years โ€” and somehow ended up in a mass-produced doll with a Georgia birth certificate.

In this episode:

โ€ข The real inventor of the Cabbage Patch Kid โ€” and the funeral where her dolls filled the front pew

โ€ข Babyland General Hospital โ€” the "Imagicillin" birth ritual, the preemie ward, and the signature branded on every baby's body

โ€ข The 1983 Cabbage Patch Riots โ€” the Wilkes-Barre baseball bat, the pregnant woman trampled in New Jersey, and the adults ripping dolls from children's hands

โ€ข The names on the birth certificates โ€” real children, real 1938 Georgia birth records, assigned to dolls

โ€ข The full reveal โ€” baby farms, orphan trains, asylums, Cabbage Patch Kids. Same bones. Different clothes.

โ€ข A final tribute to Nancy Shoemaker, the nine-year-old girl who started this show

The language of institutional child transfer had been woven into American culture for a hundred years before a young artist in the Appalachian foothills built a hospital out of an old medical clinic and told children they were adopting a nameless baby. He wasn't thinking about Amelia Dyer. He wasn't thinking about the orphan trains. He wasn't thinking about Elizabeth Packard. But the ritual he created came from somewhere โ€” and a generation of children recognized it in their bones.

Receive the nameless baby. Give it a name. Promise to love it. Mean it.

This is Angel Makers, Part 4. The series finale. Born in a Cabbage Patch.

If you've ever felt like the official story just doesn't add up, you're in the right place.

For Nancy. For Martha. For the nameless ones.

ย 

Subscribe to Just Killing Time with Elizabeth Stanton wherever you listen โ€” Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, iHeart, Amazon Music, and Pandora. Follow on TikTok and Instagram @justkillingtimepodcast. Send your Time Killer Files โ€” your Cabbage Patch Kid's name, your orphan train ancestry, your family's asylum stories โ€” and Elizabeth may read yours on the show.

Explicit content. Listener discretion advised.



]]> Elizabeth Stanton Buzzsprout-19048252 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500 2254 5 full true MUSEUM OF THE UNWANTED - The Asylums. The Stolen Mothers. The Children Left Behind. 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. Not symptoms. Not diagnoses. Reasons.

This is the episode where the Angel Makers machine comes into full view. Baby farms needed a supply of infants. Orphan trains needed a supply of children. And to get that supply โ€” somebody had to remove the mothers first. The asylum was how they did it.

In Part 3, we cover the real archived admission log from the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane, the Illinois law that allowed a husband to commit his wife with his signature alone and zero evidence of insanity, Elizabeth Packard โ€” locked away for disagreeing with her husband's theology and who changed commitment laws in four states, Nellie Bly โ€” who faked insanity to get herself committed to Blackwell's Island and came out weeping that she couldn't bring everyone with her, and Rosemary Kennedy โ€” lobotomized without her consent at 23, hidden from her own family for twenty years, and whose stolen voice became the foundation of the Special Olympics.

One historian called the Victorian asylum "a museum for the collection of the unwanted." By the end of this episode, you'll understand exactly who was being collected โ€” and what happened to the children they left behind.

Next time: Angel Makers Part 4 โ€” Born in a Cabbage Patch. The finale. The full reveal. Every thread pulled to the end.

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 โ€” one uncomfortable truth at a time.

โš ๏ธ This episode contains discussion of forced institutionalization, lobotomy, child separation, and historical abuse. Listener discretion advised.

]]> 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. Not symptoms. Not diagnoses. Reasons.

This is the episode where the Angel Makers machine comes into full view. Baby farms needed a supply of infants. Orphan trains needed a supply of children. And to get that supply โ€” somebody had to remove the mothers first. The asylum was how they did it.

In Part 3, we cover the real archived admission log from the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane, the Illinois law that allowed a husband to commit his wife with his signature alone and zero evidence of insanity, Elizabeth Packard โ€” locked away for disagreeing with her husband's theology and who changed commitment laws in four states, Nellie Bly โ€” who faked insanity to get herself committed to Blackwell's Island and came out weeping that she couldn't bring everyone with her, and Rosemary Kennedy โ€” lobotomized without her consent at 23, hidden from her own family for twenty years, and whose stolen voice became the foundation of the Special Olympics.

One historian called the Victorian asylum "a museum for the collection of the unwanted." By the end of this episode, you'll understand exactly who was being collected โ€” and what happened to the children they left behind.

Next time: Angel Makers Part 4 โ€” Born in a Cabbage Patch. The finale. The full reveal. Every thread pulled to the end.

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 โ€” one uncomfortable truth at a time.

โš ๏ธ This episode contains discussion of forced institutionalization, lobotomy, child separation, and historical abuse. Listener discretion advised.

]]> Elizabeth Stanton Buzzsprout-19022739 Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500 2736 4 full true THE ORPHAN TRAINS - 200,000 Children. New Names. New Families. No Choice. 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 over โ€” and choose which ones they wanted to take home.

They called it charity. They called it saving children. The word "orphan" was a lie they told to make the whole thing easier to swallow.

This is Angel Makers, Part 2: The Orphan Trains. Part of a multi-episode series tracing the machinery America built to process unwanted children โ€” from the baby farmers of Victorian England to the streets of 1850s New York, all the way to a small medical clinic in Cleveland, Georgia in 1978. You'll have to keep watching to see where that thread ends.

In this episode: โ€” The world that built the trains: 30,000 homeless children on New York City streets, the immigrant families who couldn't outrun poverty, and the prisons the city used instead of solutions โ€” Charles Loring Brace: the Yale minister who genuinely wanted to help โ€” and also believed Catholic immigrant children were genetically inferior and potentially dangerous โ€” What actually happened on those platforms: children in their best clothes, lined up for inspection, selected or left behind like livestock at auction โ€” The ones who were never chosen: disabled children, older children, children who weren't white enough for Protestant Midwestern farm families โ€” The Catholic Church's counter-system: the Baby Trains, where families could specify gender, hair color, and eye color when requesting a child โ€” The darkest parallel: while the orphan trains ran west, the U.S. government was running its own version for Native American children โ€” with a stated policy of "Kill the Indian, Save the Man" โ€” Why the trains stopped in 1929 โ€” and it wasn't because anyone decided the system was wrong โ€” The direct line from the orphan trains to the modern American foster care system, and why the same failures keep appearing under a different name โ€” Concordia, Kansas: the end of the line, the children nobody picked, and why 50+ bronze statues of those children now stand permanently in the streets of a small Kansas town

๐Ÿ”Ž If you think you might be a descendant of an orphan train rider โ€” start here: orphantraindepot.org. The National Orphan Train Complex in Concordia, Kansas holds over 8,000 rider records and handles 250 research requests every year.

๐Ÿ“ฌ TIME KILLER FILES: Are you a descendant of an orphan train rider? Do you have a family story that got hushed up โ€” a great-grandmother who arrived in Kansas on a train and nobody talked about it? A name change in the family tree nobody could explain? Send me your story: [YOUR EMAIL / SUBMISSION LINK]

โญ๏ธ MISSED PART 1? Watch Angel Makers, Part 1: For a Small Fee โ€” Victorian baby farming, Amelia Dyer, and the Butterbox Babies: [LINK]

โญ๏ธ NEXT TIME: Angel Makers, Part 3 โ€” The asylums. The stolen mothers. The women declared insane for reading novels and disagreeing with their husbands. And the children left behind when the locked door closed.

โ€”

Just Killing Time with Elizabeth Stanton is a true crime and conspiracy podcast covering the cases, the systems, and the uncomfortable truths the official story leaves out. New episodes on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and iHeartRadio.

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Hosted and produced by Elizabeth Stanton ๐Ÿ“ Based in Derby, Kansas

JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com

Subscribe so you don't miss Part 3.

]]> 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 over โ€” and choose which ones they wanted to take home.

They called it charity. They called it saving children. The word "orphan" was a lie they told to make the whole thing easier to swallow.

This is Angel Makers, Part 2: The Orphan Trains. Part of a multi-episode series tracing the machinery America built to process unwanted children โ€” from the baby farmers of Victorian England to the streets of 1850s New York, all the way to a small medical clinic in Cleveland, Georgia in 1978. You'll have to keep watching to see where that thread ends.

In this episode: โ€” The world that built the trains: 30,000 homeless children on New York City streets, the immigrant families who couldn't outrun poverty, and the prisons the city used instead of solutions โ€” Charles Loring Brace: the Yale minister who genuinely wanted to help โ€” and also believed Catholic immigrant children were genetically inferior and potentially dangerous โ€” What actually happened on those platforms: children in their best clothes, lined up for inspection, selected or left behind like livestock at auction โ€” The ones who were never chosen: disabled children, older children, children who weren't white enough for Protestant Midwestern farm families โ€” The Catholic Church's counter-system: the Baby Trains, where families could specify gender, hair color, and eye color when requesting a child โ€” The darkest parallel: while the orphan trains ran west, the U.S. government was running its own version for Native American children โ€” with a stated policy of "Kill the Indian, Save the Man" โ€” Why the trains stopped in 1929 โ€” and it wasn't because anyone decided the system was wrong โ€” The direct line from the orphan trains to the modern American foster care system, and why the same failures keep appearing under a different name โ€” Concordia, Kansas: the end of the line, the children nobody picked, and why 50+ bronze statues of those children now stand permanently in the streets of a small Kansas town

๐Ÿ”Ž If you think you might be a descendant of an orphan train rider โ€” start here: orphantraindepot.org. The National Orphan Train Complex in Concordia, Kansas holds over 8,000 rider records and handles 250 research requests every year.

๐Ÿ“ฌ TIME KILLER FILES: Are you a descendant of an orphan train rider? Do you have a family story that got hushed up โ€” a great-grandmother who arrived in Kansas on a train and nobody talked about it? A name change in the family tree nobody could explain? Send me your story: [YOUR EMAIL / SUBMISSION LINK]

โญ๏ธ MISSED PART 1? Watch Angel Makers, Part 1: For a Small Fee โ€” Victorian baby farming, Amelia Dyer, and the Butterbox Babies: [LINK]

โญ๏ธ NEXT TIME: Angel Makers, Part 3 โ€” The asylums. The stolen mothers. The women declared insane for reading novels and disagreeing with their husbands. And the children left behind when the locked door closed.

โ€”

Just Killing Time with Elizabeth Stanton is a true crime and conspiracy podcast covering the cases, the systems, and the uncomfortable truths the official story leaves out. New episodes on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and iHeartRadio.

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Hosted and produced by Elizabeth Stanton ๐Ÿ“ Based in Derby, Kansas

JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com

Subscribe so you don't miss Part 3.

]]> Elizabeth Stanton Buzzsprout-19011938 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500 2506 3 full true FOR A SMALL FEE - The Baby Farmers, the Angel Makers, & the Industry of Infant Murder FOR A SMALL FEE - The Baby Farmers, the Angel Makers, & the Industry of Infant Murder Before the Cabbage Patch Kids, there was Amelia Dyer. And she didn't give babies certificates. She gave them white tape โ€” around their necks โ€” and threw them in the Thames.

In Part 1 of the Angel Makers series, we go back to where it all started: Victorian England, where baby farming was legal, advertised in major newspapers, and almost entirely ignored by the government for decades. We're talking about the women who took in infants for a "small fee" โ€” and what happened to those babies when nobody was watching.

This episode covers:

๐Ÿชก The system that made baby farming possible โ€” the 1834 Poor Law, the workhouses, and the laws that stripped single mothers of every option except desperation

๐Ÿชก Margaret Waters โ€” the Brixton Baby Farmer, the first to hang, and the woman whose execution changed almost nothing

๐Ÿชก Amelia Dyer โ€” trained nurse, serial killer, and quite possibly the most prolific murderer in recorded history. Up to 400 babies. Thirty years. Three names recovered. The rest: unknown.

๐Ÿชก The Butterbox Babies โ€” Nova Scotia, Canada, 1928โ€“1947. A minister, a midwife, and a maternity home that sold healthy white babies to wealthy couples from New York โ€” and starved the rest in butter boxes.

๐Ÿชก The thread โ€” baby farming, orphan trains, asylums, and Cabbage Patch Kids. Same bones. Different clothes. We're just getting started.

Plus โ€” your first Time Killer Files prompt: Tell me about your Cabbage Patch Kid. And does it feel different now?

Content note: This episode contains detailed discussion of infant death, child neglect, and systemic exploitation of vulnerable women. Listener discretion advised.

Just Killing Time is a true crime and conspiracy podcast hosted by Elizabeth Stanton, a Derby, Kansas native with a personal connection to the stories she tells and a deep belief that the forgotten deserve to be remembered.

New episodes drop every Tuesday & Thursday. Find us on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Submit your Time Killer Files at JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com.

]]> Before the Cabbage Patch Kids, there was Amelia Dyer. And she didn't give babies certificates. She gave them white tape โ€” around their necks โ€” and threw them in the Thames.

In Part 1 of the Angel Makers series, we go back to where it all started: Victorian England, where baby farming was legal, advertised in major newspapers, and almost entirely ignored by the government for decades. We're talking about the women who took in infants for a "small fee" โ€” and what happened to those babies when nobody was watching.

This episode covers:

๐Ÿชก The system that made baby farming possible โ€” the 1834 Poor Law, the workhouses, and the laws that stripped single mothers of every option except desperation

๐Ÿชก Margaret Waters โ€” the Brixton Baby Farmer, the first to hang, and the woman whose execution changed almost nothing

๐Ÿชก Amelia Dyer โ€” trained nurse, serial killer, and quite possibly the most prolific murderer in recorded history. Up to 400 babies. Thirty years. Three names recovered. The rest: unknown.

๐Ÿชก The Butterbox Babies โ€” Nova Scotia, Canada, 1928โ€“1947. A minister, a midwife, and a maternity home that sold healthy white babies to wealthy couples from New York โ€” and starved the rest in butter boxes.

๐Ÿชก The thread โ€” baby farming, orphan trains, asylums, and Cabbage Patch Kids. Same bones. Different clothes. We're just getting started.

Plus โ€” your first Time Killer Files prompt: Tell me about your Cabbage Patch Kid. And does it feel different now?

Content note: This episode contains detailed discussion of infant death, child neglect, and systemic exploitation of vulnerable women. Listener discretion advised.

Just Killing Time is a true crime and conspiracy podcast hosted by Elizabeth Stanton, a Derby, Kansas native with a personal connection to the stories she tells and a deep belief that the forgotten deserve to be remembered.

New episodes drop every Tuesday & Thursday. Find us on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Submit your Time Killer Files at JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com.

]]> Elizabeth Stanton Buzzsprout-18989603 Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0500 2373 2 full true SHE DESERVES TO BE REMEMBERED" The Kidnapping and Murder of Nancy Shoemaker SHE DESERVES TO BE REMEMBERED" The Kidnapping and Murder of Nancy Shoemaker On July 30, 1990, nine-year-old Nancy Shoemaker walked a block and a half from her home in south Wichita, Kansas to get her sick baby brother a 7-Up. She never came home. In the premiere episode of Just Killing Time with Elizabeth Stanton, host Elizabeth Stanton โ€” a Derby, Kansas native who grew up 12 miles from this case โ€” tells the full story of Nancy's kidnapping and murder: the two killers (Doil Lane and Donald Wacker), the court records, the decades-long fight by Nancy's father Bo Shoemaker to keep her killers behind bars, the 22,000-signature petition, and the haunting willow tree at Beech Elementary that connects Nancy to another lost Wichita child 28 years later. This is Episode 1. This is for Nancy. Submit your Time Killer File: JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com. Content warning: kidnapping, rape, and murder of a child.

]]> On July 30, 1990, nine-year-old Nancy Shoemaker walked a block and a half from her home in south Wichita, Kansas to get her sick baby brother a 7-Up. She never came home. In the premiere episode of Just Killing Time with Elizabeth Stanton, host Elizabeth Stanton โ€” a Derby, Kansas native who grew up 12 miles from this case โ€” tells the full story of Nancy's kidnapping and murder: the two killers (Doil Lane and Donald Wacker), the court records, the decades-long fight by Nancy's father Bo Shoemaker to keep her killers behind bars, the 22,000-signature petition, and the haunting willow tree at Beech Elementary that connects Nancy to another lost Wichita child 28 years later. This is Episode 1. This is for Nancy. Submit your Time Killer File: JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com. Content warning: kidnapping, rape, and murder of a child.

]]> Elizabeth Stanton Buzzsprout-18984371 Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:00:00 -0500 1679 1 full true