A man checks into a Kansas City hotel under a fake name.
Two days later, he’s found tortured and dying — inside a room locked from the outside.
No weapon. No suspect. No answers.

This is the case of Room 1046 — one of the strangest unsolved murders in U.S. history.
Fake names. Mysterious phone calls. Letters sent after the victim was already dead.
And nearly 90 years later, no one knows who killed him. Or why.

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You’re broke. Rent’s due. Your DMs light up with someone offering to flip your $500 into $5,000. All they need is access to your bank account.

It doesn’t feel like a scam. It looks normal — even popular. People post about it on TikTok and Instagram like it’s just another side hustle. But the check bounces. The scammer vanishes. And now your account is frozen, flagged, or gone.

This episode looks at “card cracking” — a fast-growing form of fraud that spreads on social media and disproportionately affects people with the least to lose. We break down how the scam works, who really runs it, and why the people getting punished are often just the broke, the young, or the confused.

Banks cut them off. Fraud systems mark them for life. And there’s almost no way back in.

This isn’t about clever criminals. It’s about how financial desperation gets used — and who ends up paying for it.

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A string of drownings. A theory about a hidden serial killer. And a Reddit thread that went too far.

In this episode of Humans Being Awful, we dive into the truth behind the Smiley Face Killer — the urban legend that just won’t die. From retired detectives and smiley face graffiti to Reddit sleuths suspecting strangers of murder, this is what happens when content, tragedy, and conspiracy collide.

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