True Crime, Dark History & Incredible Stories | The Compendium Podcast

MKUltra was the CIA’s secret Cold War programme built around drugs, hypnosis, interrogation, and the dream of controlling the human mind. This episode follows Frank Olson, LSD testing, Operation Midnight Climax, Donald Ewen Cameron, destroyed files, and the questions still buried under national security.

The Lucy Letby case begins inside a neonatal unit where the most vulnerable babies in the hospital were supposed to be receiving round-the-clock care. When deaths and sudden collapses rose sharply, consultants at the Countess of Chester Hospital began to notice a pattern: Lucy Letby seemed to be present again and again.

Long before the moonwalk and the stadiums, Michael Jackson was one of ten children crammed into a small house on Jackson Street in Gary, Indiana. His father, Joe, a steelworker with stalled musical ambitions of his own, recognised something extraordinary in his sons and set about shaping them into a group, drilling them through relentless rehearsals enforced, by several accounts, with belts, mockery, and fear.