Dark Matters: Twisted But True

1. E1. Lindbergh, Suicide Song, Living Organ Donor

   Jul 14, 2012 · 43m

   Charles Lindburgh plans to conquer death, but only for the select few. A song is blamed for 18 suicides. Some donate their dead bodies to science, but science wants one man's body while he was still alive.

2. E2. Resurrection Row, Operation Brainwash, Rabid Roulette

   Jul 21, 2012 · 43m

   Robert Cornish's method for cheating death means a murderer could walk free.The CIA pays Ewen Cameron to invent brainwashing at an awful price for his patients. Louis Pasteur creates a rabies vaccine by gambling with the life of a child.

3. E3. Dr. Lobotomy, Voodoo Rx, Killed by Kindness

   Jul 28, 2012 · 43m

   Egas Moniz chops up living brains to cure mental illness and gets shot for it. Can words kill? A doctor uses the power of mind to save his patient. George Price proves human kindness is an illusion and it drives him to suicide.

4. E4. Amnesiac, Party Poopers, Risky Radiation

   Aug 4, 2012 · 43m

   Brain surgery creates a perfect amnesiac who can't remember his own life from day to day. A scientist goes to extremes to prove his theory and save lives. A tiny slip while testing the core of an A-bomb releases a blast of radiation.

5. E5. Positively Poisonous, Medusa's Heroin, Beauty and Brains

   Aug 11, 2012 · 43m

   Fritz Haber feeds the world and murders it with the same technology. Contaminated heroin freezes addicts like statues and the cure uses fetal brain cells. An actress forsees cell-phones and wi-fi but is too beautiful to be taken seriously.

6. E6. Creative Evil, Curiosity Killed Dr. Katskee, Bat-Bomb

   Aug 18, 2012 · 43m

   The Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most notorious in the history of science. A doctor takes a lethal dose of cocaine as a medical experiment. A dentist tries to bomb Japan with tiny bombs carried by millions of bats.

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