Welcome back to TRUE ASSASSINS, the podcast that explores the dark side of history and the killers who haunt it! Buckle up, crime fans, because today's story is a twisted tale of faith, poison, and murder in the house of God!
Get ready for a chilling tale ripped from the Vatican's secret vaults! We're talking about Pope Benedict, a man of God with blood on his hands. He was on a mission to cleanse the Church, taking out corrupt cardinals one by one, making their deaths look like acts of God. But the guilt was eating him alive.
Desperate for forgiveness, Benedict went to confession, spilling his darkest secrets to a priest in a shadowy basilica. Little did he know, he was walking into a trap! The priest wasn't a man of the cloth but an enemy ready to expose the Pope's murderous sins to the world.
Locked in the confessional, Benedict faced a choice: public humiliation and a trial that would shake the foundations of the Church, or... a final, desperate act. He chose defiance. He took his own life with the very poison he used on his victims. Talk about a confession with a killer twist!
Was this divine justice or a cold-blooded power play? We examine the evidence, explore the dark underbelly of the Vatican, and ask the question: How far would YOU go to cleanse the sins of others?
