Where is the Line?

May 19 2023 44 ep. 53 mins 1k

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A forensic autopsy tech, a mouthy librarian, and a gay goth Swiftie discuss without restraint some of the most vile people and events in history. As one reviewer put it, ”It’s like watching abscesses get popped, but for your ears”.

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Massacre and Rape in Nanjing Part 2: The Rape of Nanking

May 19 2023 41 mins

In part 2 of Massacre and Rape in Nanjing, we will explore the graphic rape, creative torture, and eventual murder of thousands upon thousands of Chinese non-combatants in Nanking. We will cover the cover-up, and talk about the affect that research on this topic had on one very talented young author. Much of what you are about to hear may sound made-up or unlikely. However, fantast

Massacre and Rape in Nanjing Part 1: A Brutal Invasion

Apr 07 2023 51 mins

The Rape of Nanking (Nanjing is the modern spelling) is an incident with no historic parallels and one that might represent the most horrific fortnight ever suffered by a human population. Over the course of this at least 2-part episode, we’ll hear stories of unborn children being cut from the wombs of expectant mothers… Of men buried to their waists before being eaten alive by

The Audacity of Shawn Parcells

Jan 13 2023 53 mins

In 2009 a Kansas man named Shawn Parcells proudly began a forensic autopsy group that would eventually come to be known as National Autopsy Services. Since then, Parcells has performed thousands of autopsies on bodies for which the cause of death was called into question. In doing so, he’s provided countless heartbroken families with whatever peace can be found in finally discove

Genital Modification in Prison or: Penal Penile Implant Practitioners and Their Patients

Apr 04 2022 36 mins

In the absence of resources, ingenuity tends to thrive. There are few places where a person might find themselves more poorly resourced than in prison. In a previous episode, the one with writer and former inmate Ryan Martin, we learned of homemade masturbatory devices that prisoners make from latex gloves and tobacco canisters. This bold sort of indigent inventiveness will play a

Meet Holly, Forensic Autopsy Technician and WITL’s Newest Cohost

Jan 23 2022 37 mins

Have you ever ripped apart a deceased infant with your own two hands? Have you ever stored a human brain next to the frozen broccoli in your refrigerator? Can you differentiate between the smell of common road kill and the pungent and unique odor of a decomposing human body? Have you ever removed maggots from human remains, covered them in acrylic paint, and then allowed those univ

The Corpse Wranglers of West Alabama

Jun 11 2021 53 mins

Everyone who listens to this episode of Where is the Line? will die. Your final demise will probably not happen anytime soon and will most certainly have nothing to do with having listened to this episode. Still, you are all going die. The fortunate among you may slide into the ether as you sleep, leaving behind a corpse that your friends and family will describe as looking “peac

A Very Disgusting Lady

Mar 31 2021 19 mins

This is the story of a woman with a disfigured body and an irreparably corrupted mind. It is also a story about our own vanity and how it is reflected back at us every time we encounter someone who looks vastly different from what we consider acceptable. This episode's subject was a physical monstrosity from birth. Was her mind equally malformed from the outset? Or, was her degener

Redeeming Robert Liston or: The One with Rachel from Hollywood Crime Scene

Mar 12 2021 59 mins

As a consumer of macabre and grotesque media, you the listener may believe yourself to be already acquainted with the story of Robert Liston. Thousands of websites, podcasts, and even peer reviewed academic journals and publications have recounted the fantastic story of an operation performed by Robert Liston which resulted in the deaths of not only his patient, but also of his sur

Subutai Vs. The Khwarazmian Shah

Feb 26 2021 59 mins

Everyone makes mistakes. For most of us though, the consequences of our actions fall to ourselves and sometimes to those with whom we associate, but seldom extends beyond. The residue of our missteps tend to erode away with time, until they are eventually forgotten. Scars can remain, but over time, we tend to forget how we got them. Occasionally though a mistake can change the cour

Subutai

Jan 29 2021 53 mins

Late in the 12th century a young nomadic tribeswoman goes into labor under on the Mongolian Steppe. Some claim that this woman’s child came into our world gripping in his fist a ball of coagulated blood, foreshadowing the millions of deaths that would soon follow. Upon his birth, the child was given the name, Timujin. If that name seems unfamiliar to you, it is probably because t