Medieval Torture Methods

Crime Countdown

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True Crime, History

4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Everyone wants to see a criminal confess. But today's top ten may have wanted it a little too much. Ash and Alaina examine the gnarliest torture methods, the people who used them, and those who suffered before giving up information — or were killed in the process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In preschool, they say if you want to make a friend, be a friend.
0:09.4	In therapy, they say if you want to have a good life, do good things.
0:12.8	And in the middle ages, they said, if you want to solve a crime, commit a crime.
0:17.4	In those days, it was the crime of torture.
0:20.4	Today we're counting down the top 10 medieval torture methods from the creative to the
0:24.8	sadistic, to the downright brutal.
0:27.1	And we know many of you listening can handle disturbing content, but we still advise a little
0:31.9	discretion with this episode.
0:34.0	So let's get into history's worst detectives.
0:37.5	Hey, all you weirdos.
0:53.8	Welcome to Crime Countdown, a Spotify original from Parkast.
0:56.9	I'm Ash.
0:57.9	And I'm Elena.
0:58.9	Every week we'll highlight ten fascinating stories of history's most engaging and unsettling
1:03.9	crimes.
1:04.9	And I'm going to take full blame for this episode.
1:16.2	Yeah, you are.
1:17.2	I'm going to do it.
1:18.7	We covered this topic on morbid at my behest, like at my suggestion.
1:23.3	And it was fascinating and truly stomach churning, which is my favorite combo.
1:28.5	Cute.
1:29.5	And I just knew the parkast research gods would have a field day with it just like I did.
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