The Sunshine Place

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The Sunshine Place

A weekly Society, Culture and True Crime podcast featuring Sari Crawford

 4 people rated this podcast
The Sunshine Place

Audacy Studios | Team Downey Audacy

The Sunshine Place

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The Sunshine Place

Audacy Studios | Team Downey Audacy

The Sunshine Place

A weekly Society, Culture and True Crime podcast featuring Sari Crawford
 4 people rated this podcast
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Chuck Dederich's story reaches its conclusion. Whether or not Synanon does is up for debate. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policyLearn more about your ad choices. Vi
Chuck is consumed by paranoia and Synanon erupts in violence.To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/a
After Chuck's wife Betty passes away, he quickly finds a new partner, and he instructs his followers to find new ones too, whether they want to or not. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.
Chuck declares that there will be no more children born in Synanon, and he goes to great lengths to make sure of it.To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policyLearn more ab
Chuck breaks one of his two rules for Synanon, no violence, beginning with his youngest followers.To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policyLearn more about your ad choice
Legend, ritual, religion, LSD. Chuck experiments with all of it on his followers in Synanon.To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policyLearn more about your ad choices. Vis
Welcome to Synanon. If you're wondering what Synanon is, then you're asking the same question as Celena and Mike, whose lives change forever the moment they arrive. It's the 1970s, and Synanon is a community, a utopia, a cautionary tale, and a
Chuck Dederich hits rock bottom as an alcoholic in the beachside slums of Los Angeles. It's 1958, and he's got nothing but an idea, but it's one that would save countless lives. He calls it Synanon. Others call it the Miracle on the Beach. Thro
Once called “the miracle on the beach,” Synanon began in the 1960s as an experimental rehab facility in Santa Monica, California with a radical claim: It could cure heroin addiction. Before long, it would make an even bolder claim: It could cur
On September 3, 2018, a rancher in Laredo, Texas, discovered a woman’s body shot execution-style on the side of the road. When investigators identified her as a local sex worker, their search for the killer took them into the darkest corners of
In the world of feelings, there are winners and losers, and somebody has to be the judge. World-renowned, self-proclaimed couples therapist Dr? Sheila invites you to sit in on her private sessions with clients. (For legal reasons, Dr? must be s
No question too big, no question too small. On Search Engine, host PJ Vogt answers the kinds of questions you might ask the internet when you can't sleep. If you find the world bewildering, but also sometimes enjoy being bewildered by it, Searc
It’s the crack era.The most violent time in New York City history. The NYPD is fighting a losing battle and instead of protecting the city from drug dealers, some police officers have become them. This is the never-before told, first-person doc
After The New York Times reports that self-help group NXIVM has branded female members on their pelvic regions, NXIVM ran damage control by giving Vanessa exclusive access to the group’s top members, including Seagram’s heir Clare Bronfman, Sma
Welcome to Season Two of Gone South, the Edward R. Murrow Award-winning documentary podcast from C13Originals. Starting in the sixties, a loose-knit confederation of traveling criminals known as The Dixie Mafia terrorized every state from Geor
On the surface, there was nothing remarkable about Larry Lavin. He lived in a quiet neighborhood with his wife and family, drove a Volvo, and practiced dentistry in Philadelphia. But, from 1978 to 1984, Dr. Lavin moonlighted as one of the large
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