{"podcast":{"title":"Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories","slug":"weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827","podcast_index_feed_id":475827,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/3655291/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://weirddarkness.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a1570d70b941e8f0e16b68380622d72f.jpg","author":"Darren Marlar","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Award-winning podcast of true stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, true crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained -- seven days a week! Hosted by professional voice actor Darren Marlar, named one of the “Best Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-28T14:17:16.106491+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827"},"episode":{"title":"The Devil Made Me Do It, and Why That Plea Never Holds | #COTU","slug":"the-devil-made-me-do-it-and-why-that-plea-never-holds-cotu","published_at":"2026-06-08T00:52:51+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827/the-devil-made-me-do-it-and-why-that-plea-never-holds-cotu","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827","url":"https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-devilmademedoit/","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72409293/cotu20260607_devilmademedoit.mp3","summary":"An Alabama prosecutor called the murder of a mother and her two children one of the most demonic crimes he had ever seen, and for fifty years other killers have gone a step further and told police a demon made them do it. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-devilmademedoit/ READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckk9bhj LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: June 07, 2026","meta_description":"An Alabama prosecutor called the murder of a mother and her two children one of the most demonic crimes he had ever seen, and for fifty years other killer…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1581,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827/episodes/the-devil-made-me-do-it-and-why-that-plea-never-holds-cotu/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827/the-devil-made-me-do-it-and-why-that-plea-never-holds-cotu.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}