The True Crime Podcast, Sacred Scandal, returns for a second season to investigate a led sexual abuse at Mexico's La Luz del Mundo Mega Church.

Journalist Robert Garza explores survivor stories of pure evil experiences at the hands of a self-proclaimed apostle who is now behind bars.

I remember as a little girl being groomed to be his concubine, that's how I was raised. It is not wrong if you take your clothes off for the apostle.

Listen to Sacred Scandal on the IHR Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

On Queen Charlotte, the official podcast, we're stepping behind the scenes and the drawing boards of this team to experience the life breathed into the Bridgerton prequel.

Listen to the Leap's executive producer and series director Tom Barraka took to capture the feeling that puts that lump in your throat.

And you've got to catch creator Shonda Rhymes. She's dropping gems, diamonds, and mics.

You can listen to Queen Charlotte, the official podcast every Thursday on the IHR Radio app Apple Podcasts or anywhere you listen to your favorite shows.

What do a flirtatious gambling double agent in World War II? An opera singer who burned down an honorary to kidnap her lover. And a pirate queen who walked free with all of her spoils, haven't comment.

They're all real women who were left out of your history books.

You can hear these stories and more on the Womanica podcast. Check it out on the IHR Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

One day the state was there and the next it wasn't. The cops and soldiers, those who were left, all pulled out in the night.

Even now, months later, you aren't really sure why they left. The rumor mill called it a strategic retreat, brought on by heavy losses from insurgent attacks in the hills and the fighting in the capital.

For whatever reason, the government considered your city dispensable.

You heard their trucks that night, armored vehicles and tanks rolling out towards the highway. Most of the police evacuated with their families, scared of reprisals.

You assume they'll be re-homed somewhere in regime controlled territory.

The first morning after the government left was weird and kind of scary. You and your surviving neighbors all gathered together on the roof of your building to see if anything was burning down.

You expected looting, massive violence, some form of chaos, but that first day was quiet, and so was the second day, and the third.

It wasn't until the fourth day that representatives from the separatist side of town made it to your neighborhood. Some of them looked like the private military contractors that the government had hired before.

They were barely bearded dudes with huge black rifles and tattooed arms. But most of them just looked like regular civilians.

They brought food with them. The first fresh produce you'd seen in months. Someone told you they'd converted a couple of the old bank buildings downtown into urban farms.

You also heard they'd struck a deal with some of the separatists out in the country, sending them manufactured drone parts in exchange for eggs and potatoes.

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