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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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The Ogress Of Reading
The Trial and Execution of Amelia Dyer
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Episode 43 comes at the request of a listener...
American Scoundrel: George Cassiday
For ten years, George Cassiday, known on Capitol Hill as the Man in the Green Hat, ran liquor to the United States Congress while four out of five of...
STARKWEATHER
The Nebraska Spree Killer
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Episode 475 takes us on a wild ride across Nebraska with Ch...
The Merry Widow Of Bicester
"The Merry Widow of Bicester" takes us to battle-torn England during World War II, when as if there wasn't already enough death and suffering, a jealo...
Cassie Chadwick
Born Elizabeth Bigley in a Ontario railway camp, she died Cassie Chadwick in an Ohio prison cell — and in between, she convinced the banks of northern...
A Family Of Outlaws
The Reckless Reno Gang
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Episode 92 takes place after the Civil War, when the Reno Brot...
American Scoundrel John Eaton
Andrew Jackson's Secretary of War spent a decade courting a married woman, arranged her husband's convenient posting to the Mediterranean, and married...
Lizzie Gillespie Killed By Twin Brother
Family Tragedy in Rising Sun
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Episode 89. In a lot of these stories from the old newsp...
American Scoundrel Clyde Tolson
Clyde Tolson ran personnel and discipline at the FBI for 44 years — the man who hired, promoted, and silenced the agents who carried out J. Edgar Hoov...
At The Bottom Of A Brookfield Well
The Case Of Bathsheba Spooner
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Episode 474 takes place in 1788 when the secrets of a p...
Femme Fatale Wu Zetian
Wu Zetian entered the Tang court as a teenage concubine in 638. By 690, she'd murdered her way to the Dragon Throne — the only woman in Chinese histor...
Magazine #4
Episode 130
Murder By Fire, by Brandon White
The Abominable Mr. Yelverton, by Edmund Pearson
The American Excha...
American Scoundrel Wiliam N. Roach
William N. Roach embezzled sixty thousand dollars from a Washington bank, fled to Dakota Territory, and returned the money just fast enough to dodge p...
Girl Did Not Kill Herself
The Mysterious Death of Louise Monteabaro In
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Episode 20, Police Chief Henry Blake’s s...
Their Secret Died In The Chair
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Episode 22 is an exciting story that has many of the elements of classic noir: A deadly robbery, a...
American Scoundrel Boss Tweed
Gilded Age New York. William Magear Tweed rode Tammany Hall to the top and looted the city treasury through padded bills, phantom invoices, and kickba...
Murder In The Marble Halls
The Assassination of Huey P. Long
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Episode 473 takes us to Baton Rouge on the night of...
The Showgirl & The Conman
The Complicated Romance of Fannie Brice and Notorious Nicky Arnstein
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American Scoundrel Daniel Butterfield
In 1869, Medal of Honor recipient Daniel Butterfield took a ten-thousand-dollar bribe from Jay Gould to leak Treasury gold sales, helping trigger the...
Magazine #1
Turned Into A Tigress By Her Borgia Blood.How A Criminal Acrobat Makes A Living Out Of His Genuine Broken Neck.How A Little Dog Avenged The Murder Of...
American Scoundrel Joseph R Burton
In 1902, Kansas Senator Joseph R. Burton walked a mail fraud operator into the Post Office inspector's office and made a federal investigation disappe...
The Handyman's Morning
The Murder Of Captain Joseph White
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Episode 472 takes us back to Salem, Massachusetts in 1...
The Third Passenger
What’s In The Package Mr. Wainwright?
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Episode 49 is adapted from our favorite true cr...
Violent Cremation
The Cincinnati Tanyard Murder
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Episode 17 is a report from Lafcadio Hearn, on of my fa...
Face-To-Face With Pretty Boy Floyd
The Oklahoma Phantom Terror
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Episode 471 finds us in 1932, a hill country reporter nam...
A Deadly Family Feud
The Execution of J.G. Rawlings and His Accomplice
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Episode 45 takes us back to the turn o...
March 28, 1944
San Francisco, California
March 28, 1944
A pyromaniac works the skid row district south of Market Street, lighting fires in flophou...
Preacher’s Baby Girl/Gangster’s Wife
The Trial & Travails Of Norma Brighton Millen
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Episode 43 is the story of a young girl...
March 26, 1942
Poprad, Slovakia
March 25, 1942
Nine hundred and ninety-nine young Jewish women boarded a train believing they were headed to facto...
The Disappearance Of Doctor Parkman
From True Crime Pioneer Edmund Pearson
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Episode 25 takes place in 1849, a week before...
March 24, 1882
Cincinnati, Ohio
March 24, 1862
Abolition's golden trumpet, Wendell Phillips, takes the stage at Pike's Opera House to tell a river...
The Dead Is Alive
The Wrongful Execution of William Jackson Marion
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Episode 470 begins in 1887, when Neb...
Anarchist Kills Them All
The 1896 Klaettke Family Massacre
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Episode 42 is the sad tale of a family of seven sh...
March 21, 1556
Oxford, England
March 21, 1556
The Archbishop of Canterbury signed five recantations to save his life. Queen Mary scheduled his bur...
The Long Island Torso Murder
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Episode 14. One summer day in 1896, three young boys discover a mysterious package floating near t...
March 19, 1687
East Texas
March 19, 1687
The man who claimed half a continent for France walked into a stand of river cane looking for his missin...
The White Slavery Suicide Pact
Murder in the Marberry Resort
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In Episode 57, we get an unusual glimpse into the world...
March 17, 1794
Dorcester, England
March 17, 1794
A fifteen-year-old girl who claimed she had never learned the difference between good and evil ki...
One Less Woman
The Bawdy House Murder
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Episode 469 unearths the 1919 murder of Lucina Broadwell — a c...
The Philadelphia Trunk Murder
The True Crimes of Edward F. Keller
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Episode 110 follows the criminal career of one Ed...