The Man Who Calculated Death

Suzanne sits down with friend and Executive Producer, Lisa Joyner, to discuss the beating heart of the Man Who Calculated Death: the women integral to the story. See Privacy Policy at and California Privacy Notice at

Suzanne sits down with Executive Producer Jon Cryer to discuss the origin of the podcast, how the experience of producing the series has changed their view of World War II, and what's to come in Season 2. See Privacy...

Suzanne investigates the three-month stretch in 1944 when Germany launched the most V1 flying bombs at England. How did the British defend themselves, and what was it like for people on the ground? See Privacy Policy at...

Suzanne and Stephanie view footage and documents from a 1944 press conference in London hosted by the English War Minister, explaining the design and engineering needed for V1 bombs to fly; including Robert Lusser's...

Suzanne visits Tante Heide, who is now seriously ill, and Tante Traute, to tell them of this unexpected turn in the family story. Using former top-secret documents, Suzanne begins an investigation that will turn...

Suzanne and Stephanie walk the halls of a children’s home where their mom described her mother’s ghost haunting her every night. The sisters begin to wonder: can they ever truly finish the memoir without knowing who was...

In the wake of investigating their grandmother’s death, the sister revisit the day their own mother died and we hear Gabriele’s last words. Focus turns to the aftermath of the bombing and Tante Heide tells of how a...

Suzanne and Stephanie stumble around a small cemetery in Bavaria, searching for their grandmother’s grave. The next day, the owner of the farmhouse where she died tells the sisters about the devastation that rained down...

Suzanne and Stephanie visit Tante Heide in Sacramento, California, where the sisters’ beloved aunt has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Realizing that time is running out to get the family story straight, the...

In the aftermath of the fire bombing, Robert Lusser’s family finds shelter in an abandoned mansion while he heads to a remote island in the Baltic Sea. This is where he must perfect his "wonder weapon" - a never before...

From a terror bombing to a war crimes trial to a dank basement below a burning city, this episode takes us straight into wartime Germany.

Suzanne and Stephanie begin at their mother’s childhood home in Augsburg, where they’re faced with a difficult question: as granddaughters of a man who created a weapon of mass destruction for the Nazis, what...

Suzanne and Stephanie Rico dig through their deceased mother's office searching for clues to their dark legacy--a flying bomb built in World War II by a brilliant Nazi grandfather they've never met. We learn more about...

In 2013, journalist Suzanne Rico gets the call. Her mother, Gabriele, is dying. As time ticks down, Gabriele reveals an unfinished memoir about her World War II childhood–and makes a daunting last request: “Finish what...