Listen Now: Audible True Crime
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Listen Now: Audible True Crime

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 24, 20266 min
  • Documentary
  • Crime & justice

Introducing Audible True Crime, a dedicated podcast feed where we bring you the best podcasts in true crime, with episodes dropping every single week. Find your next bingeable series about unsolved murders, cold cases, scams and mysteries. This is the cream of the crop of Audible podcasts, featuring award-winning series and soon-to-be favorites. Stop pestering your friends or searching “best true crime podcast” on Google. Up first, Guru: The Dark Side of Enlightenment: A search for spiritual guidance leads a group of strangers to seek direction from a self-help guru. And not just any guru. James Arthur Ray is...

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It was March 2009 and in a big chain hotel in New Jersey a crowd milled around waiting Once the doors opened, everyone headed for the same place. It was a large auditorium with a big stage in front. The event was called the Harmonic Wealth Weekend,

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a rigorous two-day seminar that promised to get participants on the fast track to personal and professional success. It wasn't the kind of thing Ginny Brown was normally into, but her daughter, Kirby, had insisted that they go together. As they walked in, she had to admit the atmosphere was exciting.

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And we had to walk through a gauntlet, I will say, of cheerleaders who were jumping up and down and revving up the energy in the room. And I remember saying to one woman, I said,

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