Episode 70

Sword and Scale

Incongruity

History, Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.0 • 63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Sword and Scale isn't just a podcast. We also have a website (swordandscale.com) where we post daily stories of dark deeds done by the most evil and devious amongst us. To highlight this point, we've chosen two stories that we've previously covered in articles on our website. The first is extremely fascinating, the second is extremely violent. Harvey's Wagon Wheel Casino was a popular destination for tourists in the Lake Tahoe area, until it was blown to bits by one of the most complex bombs ever built. We're joined by Adam Higginbotham, author of 1,000 Pounds of Dynamite to tell this amazing story. Our second story is that of a girl from Japan named Junko Furuta, who endured 44 days of torture, before her death, at the hands of countless others who could have stopped what was happening at any time, but chose not to.

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0:00.0	Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence.
0:03.1	It is not intended for all audiences.
0:05.2	Listener discretion is advised.
0:10.5	The part of the reason that people are fascinated with the case is that 30, 40 years later, people
0:15.8	had completely forgotten about it.
0:26.6	Hello and welcome to Season 3, episode 70 of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real. You know, one thing I definitely don't do enough of is talk about our blog at sordonscale.com.
0:46.2	We have a small team of freelance writers led by the very talented Heather Sutfin,
0:50.8	and these writers submit all sorts of amazing stories of crime and murder and all sorts
0:55.6	of different types of cases with twists and turns. There's a lot of fascinating stuff up there,
1:00.5	way more stories than you'll hear on this podcast. And to prove it, this week I've decided to select
1:05.7	two stories from swordenscale.com that I've personally found fascinating and retell them right here.
1:11.3	These are two very different types of stories.
1:14.2	The first is fascinating.
1:15.6	The second is extraordinarily violent.
1:18.3	As always, use your own discretion to decide just how much you want to hear.
1:40.8	Thank you. To help tell this bizarre story from the past, we're joined by Adam Higginbotham, author of the book A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite.
1:42.6	By the summer of 1980, Tahoe was actually pretty well developed.
1:47.0	There was Harvey's Casino.
1:50.2	Directly across the street was Harrah's, which was run by Bill Harrow,
1:54.9	who was Harvey Gross's principal rival of the casino business.
1:59.9	But there was also a Caesars down the road. You know,
2:02.9	and these were the corporate gaming had really moved into Tahoe by 1980. But wasn't Harvey's
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