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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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...
March 14, 1891
New Orleans, Louisiana
March 14, 1891
A jury acquits nine Italians of murdering the police chief. By noon the next day, a mob of t...
The Mystery of My Husband's Body in My Trunk
Madame Bessarabo's Explanation
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Episode 111
When the body of a missing in...
March 12, 1888
New York City
March 12, 1888
New Yorkers woke to the worst blizzard in American history. Fifteen thousand passengers stranded on el...
British Dude Stuffed In Trunk
The 1885 Preller-Maxwell Murder Of St. Louis
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Episode 101 spans three years and three continents...
March 10, 1865
March 10, 1865
Darlington, South Carolina
Thirty days before the end of the Civil War, Confederate soldiers hanged seventeen-year-o...
The Bat Man In The Attic
Dolly Oesterreich’s Hidden Lover
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Episode 468 is what Agatha Christie would call a "lo...
March 8, 1782
Gnadenhutten, Ohio Country
March 8, 1782
The name meant "Huts of Grace." It was a Moravian missionary village where Lenape and Mohi...
March 7, 1850
Washington, District of Columbia
March 7, 1850
Daniel Webster — the most celebrated orator in American history — rose in a packed S...
The Mad Pastor Of Rattle Run
Bloody Murder Among the Pews
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Episode 112 begins inside the Rattle Run Michigan Method...
March 5, 1825
Boca del Infierno, Puerto Rico
March 5, 1825
Three nations set a trap at the Mouth of Hell, and the Caribbean's most wanted pirate...
A Ladder At The Window
The Lindbergh Tragedy
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Episode 113 came about because of a listener request. Indeed, s...
March 3, 1913
Washington, D.C.
March 3, 1913.
The day before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration, a twenty-six-year-old lawyer named Inez Milholland c...
Chicago Boy In Money, Mississippi
Emmett Till
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Episode 467 takes us back to the Mississippi Delta in August 1955, where a fo...
March 1, 1910
Wellington, Washington
March 1, 1910
Two Great Northern Railway trains sit snowbound at a tiny depot in the Cascade Mountains, tra...
February 28, 1844
Alexandria, Virginia
February 28, 1844
A pleasure cruise on the Potomac River turned into the deadliest single-day loss of senio...
Murder In Conestoga Creek
The Crocodile Tears of Calvin Dellinger
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Episode 99 begins early one brisk fall morning in 1888, w...
February 26, 1931
Los Angeles, California
February 26, 1931
The Great Depression had America on its knees, and men in power needed someone to blame...
Lucy's Lethal Love
The Crescent City Quadrangle Scandal
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Episode 98 involves a rare love quadrangle that...
February 24, 1920
Munich, Germany
February 24, 1920
A failed painter and Army intelligence operative named Adolf Hitler stood before a packed house a...
Queen Of The Darkened Room
The Redpath Mansion Myster
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Episode 465, a classic locked-room mystery, takes place in...
What Happened In The Guttenberg Woods
What Happened In The Guttenberg Woods
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Episode 97 is another story of a honeymoon tri...
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...