In the 90s, New York Detective Louis Scarcella locked up the worst criminals.

Putting bad guys away.

There's no feeling like it.

Then jailhouse lawyers took game led by Derek Hamilton.

Scracella took me to the precinct and alive.

20 men eventually walked free.

Now, in the Burden Podcast, after a decade of silence,

Louis Scarsella finally tells his his story and so does Derek Hamilton.

Listen to the burden on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

Stranger Rival's is a production of I-Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Mankey.

For the best experience, listen with headphones. The second floor of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence contains three sets of apartments appointed with frescoes, tapestries, and artwork

dating back as far as the Renaissance. Among the group of apartments known as the Apartments of the Elements is the Hercules Room.

And in the Hercules Room is a circular portrait of the Madonna and Child and the Infant

Saint John, whose creation has been attributed to a number of artists, including

Filipino Lippi. It's about what you'd expect from a Renaissance painting with that title.

Mary prays above the infant Jesus who reaches out to her

while being held by the infant Saint John. Strangely though, an object appears to

hover in the air in the background above Mary's shoulder.

A closer look reveals a football-shaped entity, light gray on top, darker on the bottom,

with yellow spikes emerging like beams of light. In the background a

robed man with a dog looks up at the object. What is going on here?

I was finishing a book on the the Catholic doctrine of purgatory in which it was a huge project. I went to

...