This is an IHeart podcast.

From IHeart podcast, before social media, before cable news, there was Alan Berg.

He was the first and the original shock.

That scratchy, irreverent kind of way talking to people and telling them that you're an idiot

and I'm going to hang up on you.

This is Live Wire, the loud life and shocking murder of Allen Berg.

And he pointed to the Denver phone book and said, well, there are probably two million suspects.

Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Maybe you've heard that Stonewall was a riot where queer people fought back against

police or that it's the reason pride is celebrated this time of year. It was one of the most

liberating things that I have ever done. Legend says Marsha P. Johnson threw the very first brick.

Start banging on the door of the Stonewall like one, boom. This week on Afterlives, we'll separate the truth from the myth in the life of Marcia P. Johnson.

Listen to Afterlives on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

How could a beautiful young first grade teacher be stabbed 20 times, including in the bat, allegedly die of suicide?

Yes, that was the medical examiner's official ruling.

After a closed-door meeting, he first named it a homicide.

Why?

What happened to Ellen Greenberg? A huge American miscarriage of justice.

For an in-depth look at the facts. See what happened to Ellen on Amazon. All proceeds to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Did it occur to you that he'd charmed you in any way?

Yes, it did, but he was a charming man.

It looks like the ingredients of a really grand spy story.

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