Tapes from the Darkside | Crime & Psychology

On the floor of a New Haven holding cell, paralyzed, while the officer standing over him laughed and asked why he kept winking, Randy Cox said: "I need somebody to take me seriously."

It's on page 17 of a 70-page internal affairs report, no news outlet ever printed it, and it's the reason this episode exists.

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Gambling ads have been appearing this season. I don't like that. Here's the situation.

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Nine apps. Ten days. Hundreds of bets.

I'll walk you through what a gambling spiral looks like firsthand. We'll take a look at the $314 million machine that put these apps in front of me. And the illusion of control that almost turned a ten day experiment into something that much much worse.

Karl Jacobson wasn't so lucky.

His childhood; filled wi...

Everyone remembers their first win. I remember mine.

The chief of police of New Haven, Connecticut surely remembered his. And in the twelve months that followed, he wagered $4.4 million on sports betting apps from the phone in his pocket.

This is the story of Karl Jacobson's fall, told alongside my own 10-day descent into the same apps. Come and see what ...

This is the final episode in the Toolbox Killers series. Thanks for your patience.

A new series is coming soon.

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