15Minutes2Kill
by D.J. Swales
"In the hunt for a serial killer nicknamed the Gay Slayer, the U.K.’s top crime show outed me to the entire country. Then doubled-down, comparing me to a gay teenage street prostitute." Those are the words of your host, D. J. Swales, night walker of the Dark Earth and possibly reformed prostitute. Author, podcaster, and human tumbleweed, D. J. fled the bloody Northern Ireland conflict as a child, then kept on going. Since that wet night on a ferry to Liverpool, D. J. drifted across 120 countries and 45 US states. But he'll always see the world through the lens of what he calls Belfast Gothic. D. J. kept travel journals all his writing life. Most of them burned with his home in Seoul, South Korea. A dozen more disappeared in the red dust of West Texas. But their curious, kamikaze, and bookish spirit lives on in 15minutes2kill. If the 15minutes2kill podcast was a happy hour cocktail in a Times Square dive joint, and author D.J. Swa
Episodes
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EP 4| 13 Japanese Tales Spooky Season Countdown | The Corpse Rider: A Night Astride the Vengeful Dead | 15Minutes2Kill
Spooky Season greetings from a real-life haunted house in the woods near Sleepy Hollow, in New York’s Hudson Valley, where tonight’s chill demanded the season’s first fire. 120 countries and counting . . . welcome, fellow traveller, fellow drifter across this Dark Earth. Tonight: a woman dies of...
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EP 3| 13 Japanese Tales Spooky Season Countdown | Ubazakura: The Nurse Who Traded Her Life | 15Minutes2Kill
Spooky Season greetings from a starlit night in Joshua Tree, among the coyotes of California’s high desert. 120 countries and counting . . . welcome, fellow traveller, fellow drifter across this Dark Earth. Tonight: a devoted nurse strikes a bargain with a temple deity, offering her own life in...
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TRAILER | 15Minutes2Kill | Find Out More
Whether you have fifteen minutes to kill, or longer, you've found your new favourite podcast for digestible distractions that delve deep into the Dark Earth. Welcome to 15Minutes2Kill: Dark Travel Journals, True Crime, and Creatures of Shadow. From Berlin to Beverly Hills, 120 countries…
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EP 2 | 15Minutes2Kill | Tokyo Underworld: Airi Sato and the Murder Behind the Livestream | Pt 2 of 2
Before the murder, there was the world that spawned it. Where parasocial obsessions met the grind of content creation. Airi Sato was a social media influencer and live streamer murdered on the streets of Tokyo by a former fan. Discover the details of the crime after a short introduction to…
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EP 1 | 15Minutes2Kill | Tokyo Underworld: Airi Sato and the Murder Behind the Livestream | Pt 1 of 2
Before the murder, there was the world that spawned it. Where parasocial obsessions met the grind of content creation. Airi Sato was a social media influencer and live streamer murdered on the streets of Tokyo by a former fan. This prelude and Dark Journal takes the listener from the host bars of...
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EP 3 | 15Minutes2Kill | Southern Gothic, Unexpected Guests, and the Denver Spider Man
Welcome, Drifters! This episode finds us in the Southern Gothic beauty and dark history of the marshy South Carolina Lowlands, where vampires seem to lurk like in the pages of an Anne Rice novel. An opulent hotel room conjured thoughts of Versailles. A cliffhanger is closed from EP2, but draws us...
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EP 2 | 15Minutes2Kill | Bitch-Pudding, Craigslist, and Transatlantic Crawl Spaces
Welcome, Drifters! This episode of the occult and macabre serves a bowl of bitch-pudding as we lurch between Los Angeles and London, with side quests in Yosemite and West Texas. KEY WORDS: Bitch-Pudding, Haunted, Craigslist Sofa, Crawl Space, Beverly Hills, Black Mould, George Michael, Hampstead,...
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EP 1 | 15Minutes2Kill | An Invitation to the Night | Dark Travel Journals, True Crime, and Creatures of Shadow
Welcome, Drifters! "In the hunt for a serial killer nicknamed the Gay Slayer, the U.K.’s top crime show outed me to the entire country. They then doubled-down, comparing me to a gay teenage street prostitute. Everyone has their own path to the world of true crime. That was mine. . ." Author D. J....
About this show
"In the hunt for a serial killer nicknamed the Gay Slayer, the U.K.’s top crime show outed me to the entire country. Then doubled-down, comparing me to a gay teenage street prostitute."
Those are the words of your host, D. J. Swales, night walker of the Dark Earth and possibly reformed prostitute. Author, podcaster, and human tumbleweed, D. J. fled the bloody Northern Ireland conflict as a child, then kept on going. Since that wet night on a ferry to Liverpool, D. J. drifted across 120 countries and 45 US states. But he'll always see the world through the lens of what he calls Belfast Gothic. D. J. kept travel journals all his writing life. Most of them burned with his home in Seoul, South Korea. A dozen more disappeared in the red dust of West Texas. But their curious, kamikaze, and bookish spirit lives on in 15minutes2kill.
If the 15minutes2kill podcast was a happy hour cocktail in a Times Square dive joint, and author D.J. Swa
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