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Behind the Bastards
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.
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True90% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026Tompkins County District Attorney Matt Van Houten stated that Jane Doe's original police statement described her drug use and sexual activity as voluntary and consensual.Said by 10BMultiple tier1 sources, including the Tompkins County DA's own primary statement, confirm Van Houten said Jane Doe's sworn November 2024 statement described her drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual. The extraction's 'at least some of' wording is consistent with the passage, and the 'Tomkins' spelling is a trivial misspelling of the county name.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True93% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026Jane Doe reported the alleged assault to the Cornell University Police on November 8, 2024.Said by 10BMultiple sources, including the BBC and Snopes, state that Jane Doe reported the alleged assault to Cornell University Police on November 8, 2024, and the claim matches the post's own wording. The claim departs from the passage only in describing the report as the 'alleged assault', which is faithful to how the sources frame it.True70% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026Jane Doe filed a formal Title IX complaint with Cornell University in January 2025.The claim faithfully matches the passage, and multiple sources place Jane Doe's formal complaint to Cornell's Title IX coordinator on January 14, 2025, with no source contradicting it. Most of the timeline details trace back to Doe's lawsuit, which caps confidence.True90% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026Matt Van Houten stated that Jane Doe gave police a comprehensive statement and made more than 20 handwritten corrections to that statement before signing it.Said by 10BVan Houten's own remarks are documented: AP quotes him describing Doe's 'very detailed, very comprehensive statement', and People quotes him saying she 'made 20-plus handwritten corrections' to it. The claim is about what he stated, so it holds; the dispute from Doe's attorney concerns the statement's content, not whether he said these things.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True85% confidence6 sourcesOct 3, 2026Under New York State law, voluntary intoxication does not by itself legally establish that a person was incapable of consenting to sex.Said by 10BMultiple tier-1 outlets (Reuters, AP, BBC) report that under New York law a person who voluntarily becomes intoxicated is not automatically considered incapable of consenting to sex, and only those drugged without consent are treated as mentally incapacitated. The claim matches the passage's wording, and the NYSACDL dispute concerns whether this is a 'loophole', not whether the legal rule exists.True60% confidence2 sourcesOct 3, 2026Cornell University temporarily suspended the Kai Fi fraternity and imposed temporary suspensions or restrictions on students accused in connection with the incident.Cornell's own statements say temporary suspensions and other restrictive measures were issued against students when the conduct was reported, which supports the core of the claim. The sources name the fraternity as Chi Phi, not 'Kai Fi' (likely a transcription error in the post), and they do not specifically describe a temporary suspension of the chapter itself, only its 2024 closure and ban from campus.True90% confidence6 sourcesOct 3, 2026Cornell University has barred the Ki-fi fraternity chapter from campus.Cornell has barred the Chi Phi fraternity chapter from campus, as stated in Cornell's own statements and wire coverage dated before the 2026-10-03 post. The claim's name, "Ki-fi," is a phonetic rendering of Chi Phi from the passage, and the sources identify the same chapter, so the core assertion holds.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True90% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026Jane Doe's attorney stated that two of the seven students named in the lawsuit were expelled from Cornell University.Doe's attorney Thomas Giuffra is reported by BBC and CNN as saying two of the seven accused were expelled, so the claim about the attorney's statement is supported. The sources do not say which two men were expelled, and Cornell declined to disclose individual outcomes, but the claim does not assert that.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True92% confidence6 sourcesOct 3, 2026The Cornell Daily Sun published the names of the men named as defendants in the Jane Doe lawsuit on September 21, 2026.The Cornell Daily Sun's editorial board published the names of the seven men named as defendants in the Jane Doe lawsuit in a Sept. 21, 2026 editorial, 'Cornell Won't, We Will'. The editorial itself lists the names and is corroborated by several other outlets, and the claim matches the passage's wording and date.True95% confidence8 sourcesOct 3, 2026Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten announced the reopening of a criminal investigation into the Cornell University sexual assault allegations on September 28, 2026.The claim is supported: Tompkins County DA Matthew Van Houten announced on September 28, 2026 that his office would reopen the criminal investigation into the alleged 2024 Cornell University assault, as reported by Reuters, AP, and the DA's own press release reproduced by the New York Times. The claim matches the passage's content and date, and the 'do nothing DA' remark in the post is opinion that the claim does not repeat.True90% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026New York Governor Kathy Hochul called for an independent review of how Cornell University handled the Jane Doe situation.Multiple independent tier1 and tier2 sources (CBS News, Straits Times, Spectrum, DW, CNN/AP coverage) report Gov. Kathy Hochul calling for an outside counsel to conduct a transparent, independent review of Cornell's handling of the Jane Doe case, and Cornell's president confirms the review. The claim is a faithful paraphrase of the post, which said 'outside council' (a typo for counsel), and the core assertion is directly supported.True90% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026Louisiana State University found a football player responsible for sexual assault and forcible rape through its Title IX process.Multiple reports from September and October 2026 say LSU's Title IX office found a football player responsible for sexual assault and forcible rape through its administrative process, based on internal documents. The claim is faithful to the post, and no source contradicts it; the player's punishment was later reduced on appeal, which does not affect the finding.