Host D.J. Swales recounts his experience of being outed as gay by a UK crime show investigating a serial killer. He shares his life story, from fleeing the Northern Ireland conflict to traveling across 120 countries, blending memoir with true crime and dark humor.
Episodes
EP 6 | 13 Japanese Tales Spooky Season Countdown | The Reconciliation: The Samurai and the Wife Who Waited | 15Minutes2Kill
Spooky Season greetings from Times Square, New York – the crossroads of the world, where the neon never sleeps, and neither, it seems, do the dead. Just a short stroll away from my desk, the New Amsterdam Theatre is said to be haunted by Ziegfeld showgirl Olive Thomas, while in the 1970s, when 42nd Street had decayed into the infamous Deuce, the Times Square Killer hunted these very streets. 120 c
EP 5 | 13 Japanese Tales Spooky Season Countdown | The Goblin of Adachigahara: Never Look in the Back Room | 15Minutes2Kill
Spooky Season greetings from a real-life haunted house in a woodland just a crow’s swoop from Sleepy Hollow, in New York’s Hudson Valley – a place of incredible autumnal beauty, where the damp soil is soaked with the blood of tortured histories. 120 countries and counting . . . welcome, fellow traveller, fellow drifter across this Dark Earth.Tonight: a weary Buddhist pilgrim, lost at nightfall on
EP 4 | 13 Japanese Tales Spooky Season Countdown | The Corpse Rider: A Night Astride the Vengeful Dead | 15Minutes2Kill
Spooky Season greetings from a real-life haunted house in the woods near Sleepy Hollow, in New York’s Hudson Valley, where tonight’s chill demanded the season’s first fire. 120 countries and counting . . . welcome, fellow traveller, fellow drifter across this Dark Earth.Tonight: a woman dies of grief and rage, and her body remains uncorrupted. She lies waiting for the husband who divorced her. A m
EP 3 | 13 Japanese Tales Spooky Season Countdown | Ubazakura: The Nurse Who Gave Too Much | 15Minutes2Kill
Spooky Season greetings from a starlit night in Joshua Tree, among the coyotes of California’s high desert. 120 countries and counting . . . welcome, fellow traveller, fellow drifter across this Dark Earth.Tonight: a devoted nurse strikes a bargain with a temple deity, offering her own life in exchange for another – and a cherry tree keeps her secret in blossom for 254 years.‘Ubazakura’ is the fir
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Whether you have fifteen minutes to kill, or longer, you've found your new favourite podcast for digestible distractions that delve deep into the Dark Earth.Welcome to 15Minutes2Kill: Dark Travel Journals, True Crime, and Creatures of Shadow. From Berlin to Beverly Hills, 120 countries, forty-five US states, and counting . . . an industry CEO told me I was too old and ugly for podcasting, but here
EP 2 | 15Minutes2Kill | Tokyo Underworld: Airi Sato and the Murder Behind the Livestream | Pt 2 of 2
Before the murder, there was the world that spawned it. Where parasocial obsessions met the grind of content creation.Airi Sato was a social media influencer and live streamer murdered on the streets of Tokyo by a former fan. Discover the details of the crime after a short introduction to Japan's largest red light districts. Places where your host, D.J. Swales, has often wandered after dark, to wr
EP 1 | 15Minutes2Kill | Tokyo Underworld: Airi Sato and the Murder Behind the Livestream | Pt 1 of 2
Before the murder, there was the world that spawned it. Where parasocial obsessions met the grind of content creation.Airi Sato was a social media influencer and live streamer murdered on the streets of Tokyo by a former fan. This prelude and Dark Journal takes the listener from the host bars of Shinjuku to the front row of Paris Fashion Week — where your host D.J. Swales worked alongside K-Pop me
