True Crime Historian
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True Crime Historian
Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told through vintage newspaper accounts from the golden age of yellow journalismBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.
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February 21, 1431
Rouen, France
February 21, 1431
At eight o'clock on a frozen Wednesday morning, a nineteen-year-old peasant girl in leg irons shuffled in...
The Haunted Hangman
There were ghosts at the San Quentin gallows. That's what the hangman saw. San Quentin
Executioner Amos Lunt
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Black Bart, The PO8 Highwayman
True Tales From The Old West
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Episode 63 tells the story of the scoundrel Charley Bowl...
February 18, 1916
Sing Sing Prison
February 18, 1916
On September 5th, 1913, two boys fishing off a dock in Weehawken, New Jersey, hauled up a bundle wrapp...
February 17, 1600
Rome, Italy
February 17, 1600
Rome, the day after Ash Wednesday. A naked man rides a mule through the streets toward the Campo de'...
Operation Pastorius
Nazis Invade America
Episode 464
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In the summer of 1942, the war was supposed...
February 15, 1933
Miami,
FloridaFebruary 15, 1933
A warm Wednesday evening in Bayfront Park. President-elect Franklin Roosevelt has just finished a...
February 14, 1349
Strasbourg, Alsace
February 14, 1349
Six hundred years before Al Capone made Valentine's Day synonymous with bloodshed in Chicago, the cit...
Killer Cat Woman
The Crimes of Winona Green Freeman
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Episode 52 is a feature report from the St. Louis P...
February 12, 1950
Dark History Today
The Murder of Clayton Dale Elkins
Lawton, Oklahoma
February 12, 1950
Two old friends f...
Sins Of The Seventh Angel
King Ben and the Curse of the House of David
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In Episode 53 we explore portions of a f...
February 10, 1886
Prescott, Arizona Territory
February 10, 1886
In 1881, the Arizona Territory was rocked by the chilling crimes of Dennis Dilda, a m...
The House of Weird Death
The Chicago Wynekoop Scandal
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In November 1933, Chicago undertaker Thomas Ahern was summon...
February 8, 1537
Fotheringhay Castle. Northamptonshire, England.
February 8, 1587.
The Great Hall has been transformed into a theater of death. A sc...
The Prophet Vs. The Schoolmaster
The Murder Of Joseph Smith
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Episode 466 is the story of John C. Elliott, the Ohio wood...
The Deathbed Declaration
Madge Oberholtzer Kills The Klan
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Episode 461 takes us to 1925, when Indiana Ku Klux K...
The Black Widow Of Durham
The Condemnation Of Mary Ann Cotton
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Episode 462 is the tale of the wicked Mary Ann Co...
Machine Guns And Mules
The Barrow Gang’s Bloody Rampage
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Episode 460 tells the brutal story of two young love...
Something Horrible Has Happened In Hawaii
Kahahawai Shot In The Heart
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Episode 93 takes you to the island paradise of Hawaii,...
The Blond Butcher Trunk Murder
The Escapes and Escapades of Winnie Ruth Judd
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Episode 90 begins in the fall of 1931 w...
The Purcell Nicotine Poison Puzzle
Or, Death of a Composer
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Episode 86 involves the body of a songwriter and real estate...
George Harsh's Great Escape
From Thrill Slayer To War Hero
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Episode 459 unlocks the bizarre, true tale of George H...
Poison In The Pepper Box
The Trial Of Louise Vermilya
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Episode 80. Although Louise Vermilya of Chicago was neve...
Bald Knobbers
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For this remastered edition, I’ve dug deep into the vault and combined Episodes 7 and 77, both reg...
Trail Of The Red Ax
The Villisca Ax Murders Mystery
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Episode 69 starts with a brutal ax murder that scand...
Inside The Dalton Gang Part Three
The End Begins At Coffeyville
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Episode 458 concludes our three part exploration of the...
Torture At The Chicken Ranch
The Awful Crimes of the Northcott Family
A missing boy returns from a cross country walkabout, but the mother says it's not him.
Massacre At The Love Bungalow
Seven Dead at Taliesin
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In Episode 46, we relive a somewhat famous crime involving the...
The Bloody Benders
Roadhouse Of No Return
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Episode 40 takes a look at the legend of a Kansas family that...
Inside The Dalton Gang Part Two
Train Robberies Bring Troubles
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Episode 457 continues a three-episode exploration of the infamous...
Quintuple Executions
The Early Days Of The Electric Chair
This is a combination of two early episodes with a common theme.
The Shocking Death Of...
The Ten-Spot Murder Plot
The Fall from Grace and Tragic Murder of the Rev. Gaylord V. Saunders
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Episode 38 tell...
Naughty Nellie Bailey: Frontier Temptress
The Bothamley Murder Mystery
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Episode 37 is the story of an 1883 murder that appeared...
Inside The Dalton Gang Part One
From Law To Outlaw
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With Deep-Dive Research and Episode Transcripts For Rent-Paying Scoundrels
Strangled In A Strange City
The Curious Murder of Mary Ekhart
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Episode 35 goes deep on a case mentioned in my boo...
The Chinatown Trunk Murder
The Awful Death Of Elsie Sigel
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Episode 33 is the sad tale of Elsie Sigel, a pretty yo...
The Man With The Twisted Foot
The Strange Death Of Edith May Thompson
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Episode 23 revolves around a friendship between a sociali...
The Poisoner Laughs
Tea With Aunt Carrie
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Episode 455 takes place down under when the friends and relative...
The Blonde Who Pulled The Trigger
The True Crime of Irene Schroeder
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Episode 32 takes place during the early days of the Gr...
Guilty Or Not, They Hung Him Twice
The Botched Execution of George H. Painter
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Episode 27 starts shortly after midnigh...