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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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...
Fingers Convict Him
On September 19, 1910, a prowler broke into the home of Clarence Hiller in the Chicago neighborhood Morgan Park. When he awoke Hiller’s 13-year-old d...
The Last Bad Man Of The West
The Scoundrel Tom Horn
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Episode 454 takes us back to the end of the Old West era, wher...
Was It Mother? Or Murder?
Pittsburgh’s Feely Murder Mystery
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You’ll need your thinking cap for Episode 129, about as...
A French Maid's Dirty Laundry
The Ordeal Of Hattie LeBlanc
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Episode 413 is the sordid little tale of a French Canadi...
Killer Caught By A Thread
The Mulholland Drive Sack Murder
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Episode 411 details the events following the discover...
A Fatal Clang Of The Trolley
The President’s Close Call
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Episode 452 explores the aftermath of a presidential misha...
Fall River Nurse Found In Tiverton Ditch
The Interstate Strangulation Of Verna Russell
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Episode 409 is the story of a spoiled y...
The Girod Street Assassination Ambuscade
The City Of New Orleans Vs. The Mafia
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Episode 408 explores the lead-in and aftermath of o...
Meat Juice Mischief
The Accusations Against Florence Elizabeth Maybrick
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Episode 407 is dedicated to my ne...
A Corpse In The Morris Canal
The Work Of The Mormon Butcher
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Episode 451 begins in the summer of 1902, when a woman...
The Perth Ballroom Tragedy
Audrey Jacob Stands Trial
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Episode 406 comes from a special request from one of my man...
A Mother-In-Law's Revenge
The Horrible Horner-Simpson Affair
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Episode 404 is jam-packed with crazy when a fun-loving...
Austin Family Found In Cistern
Eugene Burt Flees From Justice
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Episode 403 explores the story of a man who leaves his fam...
Missouri Mob Justice
The Lynching Of Lloyd Warner
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Plus transcripts and deep-dive research for Safe House resident...
Baby Amy & The Broadway Gigolo
A Fake Hold-Up Murder Plot
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Episode 402 tells the story of a discontented wife and her you...
Petroleum, Politics, Passion
Clara Smith Hamon Takes The Stand
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Episode 401 tells the salacious story of a leading...
Interred In An Irrigation Ditch
Josie Kensler’s Delicate Condition
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Episode 400 employs a trope we’ve seen before: the cra...