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Behind the Bastards
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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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True88% confidence4 sourcesOct 3, 2026A US military boat strike occurred on September 15, 2025, killing three men, including Alejandro Caranza Medina.Said by AMultiple reliable outlets confirm that Alejandro Carranza (Carranza Medina) was killed in a U.S. military strike on a boat on September 15, 2025, and ABC News reports that U.S. officials said three people in total were killed in that strike. Sources differ on whether the strike was off Colombia's Caribbean or Pacific coast, and say 'people' rather than 'men', but these details do not affect the core claim.True80% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026Luis Chemaria Martinez was jailed in Venezuela in 2020 after a boat he was operating capsized, killing about two dozen people.Said by AMultiple sources confirm that Luis Martínez, a local crime boss who was operating a boat that capsized in Venezuela in December 2020, was detained and jailed by Venezuelan authorities on human-trafficking charges. The AP's account, which the claim tracks, puts the death toll at about two dozen, though Reuters reports at least 20 and El País reports 32 burials, and the name and age details vary slightly across sources.True90% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026A US military boat strike on October 14, 2025, killed six people, including Chad Charpo, Joseph, and Richie Samaru.Said by AMultiple reliable sources confirm that a U.S. military strike on October 14, 2025 killed six people, including two Trinidadian men, Chad Joseph (called 'Charpo' in some reporting) and Rishi Samaroo. The claim's spelling 'Richie Samaru' differs from the sources' 'Rishi Samaroo', but it refers to the same man, so the variant does not change the claim.True93% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026Families of Joseph and Samaru filed a lawsuit against the US government in the District of Massachusetts regarding the October 14, 2025, boat strike.Said by AFamilies of Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo (the post's 'Samaru') sued the US government in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts over the October 14, 2025 boat strike, with the suit filed January 27, 2026. The post's spelling 'Samaru' is a variant of Samaroo, and the filing date is not in the claim, so both are peripheral.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True93% confidence6 sourcesOct 3, 2026Families of Joseph and Samaru filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government in the District of Massachusetts regarding the deaths of the two men.Said by AMultiple independent sources confirm that relatives of Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo (spelled 'Samaru' in the post) sued the U.S. government in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts over their deaths in the October 14, 2025 strike. The sources do not match the post's spelling exactly, which is a minor, non-material difference.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True70% confidence8 sourcesOct 3, 2026An official admitted that only one victim of the first U.S. boat strike was considered a member of a designated terrorist organization.Said by AThe Intercept reports that a Pentagon official's later briefing treated only one person aboard the September 2 boat as a member of a designated terrorist organization, with the other 10 categorized as affiliates. WOLA's analysis independently describes the same official admission, so the claim is supported, though both rest largely on the same reporting and the Intercept's account relies on anonymous officials.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True65% confidence8 sourcesOct 3, 2026Dushak Mirovich was a former cadet at the Venezuelan National Guard Academy.Said by AMultiple AP-sourced reports say a 24-year-old named Dushak Milovcic, killed in a US boat strike, had dropped out of the country's National Guard Academy, which supports the claim's core assertion. The sources spell the surname 'Milovcic' rather than 'Mirovich' as in the claim and post, but the matching age, cadet history, and strike context point to the same man, so the spelling difference is treated as a minor discrepancy.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True70% confidence4 sourcesOct 3, 2026Dushak Mirovich was killed during a U.S. boat strike.Said by AMultiple sources, including AP-derived reporting and Airwars, state that Dushak Milovcic, a 24-year-old former National Guard Academy cadet from Guiria, was killed in a U.S. boat strike, and Airwars places him in the October 29, 2025 strike that killed four men. The claim spells the name 'Mirovich', as the post does, while the sources spell it 'Milovcic'; this appears to be a transliteration variant for the same person, so it does not change the referent.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True85% confidence4 sourcesOct 3, 2026Senator Mark Warner stated that the U.S. does not know the identities of all individuals on many of the boats targeted in strikes.Said by AThe claim is a faithful paraphrase of Warner's on-air remark that 'they don't know all of the individuals on many of the other boats,' which appears verbatim in the ABC 'This Week' transcript of December 14, 2025. The NYT report and Rep. Jacobs's account of Pentagon concessions support the substance, though the 'U.S.' wording is a loose rendering of 'they' referring to the administration.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True80% confidence6 sourcesOct 3, 2026Andres Fernando Tufino Chila and Jonathan Abando were rescued from a sinking semi-submersible vessel on October 16, 2025.Said by ASources confirm that two men survived the U.S. strike on a semi-submersible on October 16, 2025, and were evacuated by helicopter to a Navy ship: Andrés Fernando Tufiño Chila of Ecuador and Jeison (also reported as Jonathan) Obando Pérez of Colombia. The claim's spelling "Abando" is a minor variant of Obando, and "rescued" is a fair description of the recovery, so the core assertion holds.True70% confidence6 sourcesOct 3, 2026Andres Fernando Tufino Chila and Jonathan Abando were released without being formally charged by the U.S. or their home countries.Said by ASources support both parts of the claim: Ecuador released Andrés Fernando Tufiño Chila after prosecutors found no evidence of a crime, and Colombian prosecutors found no evidence to pursue Obando, who was released without formal charges. The US repatriated both men rather than charging them. The post names the Colombian survivor 'Jonathan Abando', but the sources call him Jeison Obando Pérez, so the identity match is probable but not confirmed by name.True85% confidence4 sourcesOct 3, 2026The U.S. Coast Guard took 45 hours to begin searching the attack zone for survivors after a December 30 strike sank three vessels.Said by AThe Intercept reports, based on a Coast Guard-provided timeline and Airwars flight-tracking analysis, that roughly 45 hours passed before a Coast Guard flight reached the search area after the December 30 strikes. The claim's "almost 45 hours" is dropped to "45 hours", a faithful paraphrase, and the extraction matches the post's attribution to The Intercept.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.