Wondery

A new six-episode podcast from Wondery examines allegations that Liberty Godparent Home, a maternity facility on Liberty University's campus in Virginia, pressured teenage residents to surrender their babies for adoption. The investigation, hosted by T.J. Raphael and released in August 2025, features interviews with former residents and staff.

In 2024, a young man named Max was lured from the Philippines to a remote scam camp in Myanmar with promises of a high-paying casino job. Instead, he found himself trapped in a modern slavery operation run by international criminal syndicates. The Scam Factory podcast, hosted by Denise Chan, documents his ordeal and his sister Charlie's desperate efforts to secure his release.

Between 1926 and 1950, Georgia Tann ran the Memphis branch of the Tennessee Children's Home Society, an unlicensed adoption agency that trafficked an estimated 5,000 children to wealthy out-of-state families. Her black market operation involved kidnapping, coercion, forgery, and systematic abuse—generating over $1 million in illegal profits before state investigators closed her operation.

Wondery's podcast series Young Charlie traces Charles Manson's transformation from his troubled childhood to his role orchestrating the savage murders of actress Sharon Tate and four others in August 1969. Hosted by Tracy Pattin and narrated by Stephen Lang, the show examines the formative events and psychological unraveling that created one of America's most infamous cult leaders.

Award-winning investigative reporter Laura Beil's 2019 podcast series 'Bad Batch' uncovers how Liveyon, a South Texas stem cell company, distributed contaminated products with no therapeutic benefit—revealing the darker side of a multibillion-dollar industry operating largely without oversight.

Paolo Macchiarini, a Swiss-born Italian thoracic surgeon, deceived the medical world and media with claims of groundbreaking synthetic trachea transplants that left patients dead. Now, the Wondery podcast Dr. Death: Miracle Man reveals how he manipulated everyone around him—including the NBC News producer investigating his work.

Since September 2018, the podcast American Scandal has investigated America's most consequential scandals—from political downfalls to corporate malfeasance—revealing how lies, ambition, and corruption have repeatedly shaken the foundations of American institutions.