Come Closer

Rae is joined by defense attorney Edward Cohn as they discuss the story of Nikki Addimando.

A woman told police, very calmly, that she'd just shot the father of her children. She was telling the truth and had been for years. Nobody listened. This was a complicated case about self-defense, violence, and toxic relationship dynamics.

Listen as Edward Cohn provides his insights about his experience in the legal system, his opinion on this story and how you can protect yourself.

⚠️ Discretion advised: domestic violence and s**ual abuse.

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Christopher Duntsch, "Dr. Death", maimed 33 patients and killed two, and every one of them walked into his Dallas operating room voluntarily and said thank you.

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This isn't a story about a bad surgeon. It's about how much benefit of the doubt a confident man gets for free, and who pays for it.

A true crime and dark history episode on medical malpractice, institutional cover-up, and the Texas Medical Board's two-year shrug — with a verdict, and a ring of hell for everyone who earned one.

Severe discretion advised: surgical injury and death.

I tell the truth. You decide what to believe. Come closer.

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Everyone knows what Lorena Bobbitt did with a kitchen knife in 1993. Instead of asking WHY it happened, most people laughed instead.

The world turned a domestic-violence and marital-r*pe case into the decade's biggest punchline.

In the very first episode of Come Closer, Rae: Aries Goddess and Keeper of Dark Stories, tells it the way it actually happened: Years of documented violence, a law that barely counted her as a victim, two trials, and a culture that laughed instead of looking.

And underneath all of it, THE REAL CRIME. Because marriage was never a love story. It's a 4,000-year-old scam, and Lorena Bobbitt is the proof.

Come closer. It's darker than you think.

⚠️ Content warning: this episode discusses domestic violence, sexual assault, and abuse. Please take care.

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Chapters:

0:00 The 10 seconds everyone remembers

· 1:40 Meet Rae

· 4:40 The love story

· 7:00 The marriage turns

·12:30 The night it happened

· 15:00 The media circus

· 17:00 Two trials

· 25:00 Marriage: the real crime

· 30:30 The Verdict
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I'm back, and I know what you're thinking... yes, I've had a haircut.

Come closer. It's darker than you think.

July 22nd 2026.

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Velma Barfield: The “Grandmother” Serial Killer, Arsenic Poisonings, and America’s First Female Lethal Injection

Rae profiles Velma Barfield, a little-known serial killer who killed at least four people and became the first woman executed in the U.S. in 22 years and the first ever by lethal injection.

The episode examines competing explanations: sociopathy, addiction-driven fraud, and dissociative identity disorder. Before detailing her death row conversion, and attempted clemency by Governor Jim Hunt, and execution on November 2, 1984.

00:00 Serial Killer You Never Suspected
00:59 Velma Barfield Overview
01:58 Content Warning And Support
02:58 Abuse And Invisibility
04:24 Marriage And Medical Spiral
07:07 Bodies Begin To Pile Up
10:32 Caretaker Deaths And Fraud
11:37 Arsenic Autopsy Breakthrough
12:42 Why Did She Kill
18:51 Death Row And Execution
21:42 Monster Or System Failure
23:10 Wrap Up And Next Steps
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