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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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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In Episo...
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...
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...