Episodes

  • The Black Widow Of Durham

    The Black Widow Of Durham
    Dec 17 2025
    The Condemnation Of Mary Ann Cotton

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    Episode 462 is the tale of the wicked Mary Ann Cotton, one of Victorian Britain's most prolific serial killers, exploiting the era's poverty and the new industrial life insurance market for financial gain. Using arsenic, her crimes were camouflaged by high mortality rates, as symptoms mimicked "gastric fever."

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Machine Guns And Mules

    Machine Guns And Mules
    Dec 10 2025
    The Barrow Gang’s Bloody Rampage

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    Episode 460 tells the brutal story of two young lovers and their gang as they escalate from small-time robbery to a bloody, two-year crime spree across the Southwest. With an arsenal of machine guns and other deadly weapons, they left a trail of dead lawmen and merchants in a desperate flight that ended in a deadly ambush.

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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Something Horrible Has Happened In Hawaii

    Something Horrible Has Happened In Hawaii
    Dec 9 2025
    Kahahawai Shot In The Heart

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    Episode 93 takes you to the island paradise of Hawaii, not yet a state in 1932 when the wife of a naval officer stationed there is allegedly raped and beaten by four natives. A few months later, her mother, her husband and two of his enlisted men face a jury under the counsel of the famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow in a case that both sides claim puts the territory of Hawaii itself on trial.

    Hear More Stories About MURDER CONSPIRACIES!!!

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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • The Blond Butcher Trunk Murder

    The Blond Butcher Trunk Murder
    Dec 7 2025
    The Escapes and Escapades of Winnie Ruth Judd

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    Episode 90 begins in the fall of 1931 when a Phoenix resident shows up in a Los Angeles train depot trying to claim three trunks that she had shipped there. The clerks wouldn’t let her take the trunks because of the foul odor emanating from them. Winnie Ruth Judd said she’d go get the key so they could see there was nothing nefarious in her luggage and made her first escape.

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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • The Purcell Nicotine Poison Puzzle

    The Purcell Nicotine Poison Puzzle
    Dec 5 2025
    Or, Death of a Composer

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    Episode 86 involves the body of a songwriter and real estate speculator found tied to a chair with an expression of surprise frozen on his dead face and suspicions of suicide. - Wait. What? - Suicide tied to a chair? - The evidence is so jumbled, police are at a loss to explain, but the backstory to the incident and a foray into the worlds of traveling musicians and actors, hints at motives deeply hidden, and possibly scandalous. - This is one that will keep you guessing.

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • George Harsh's Great Escape

    George Harsh's Great Escape
    Dec 3 2025
    From Thrill Slayer To War Hero

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    Episode 459 unlocks the bizarre, true tale of George Harsh, the Oglethorpe "Thrill Slayer," and his partner Richard Gallogly. Bored rich kids trade philosophy for a Colt .45 and a rash of robberies that turn fatal. Harsh's journey spirals from university to death row, then from chain-gang surgeon to hero of the Great Escape. Yeah, Paul Newman’s Great Escape was based on that one...

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    55 mins
  • Poison In The Pepper Box

    Poison In The Pepper Box
    Dec 2 2025
    The Trial Of Louise Vermilya

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    Episode 80. Although Louise Vermilya of Chicago was never convicted of a crime, history lays around 10 deaths at her door, mostly family members and suitors. She did go to trial once, and we’ll take a pretty close look at the drama, including a suicide attempt, that led up to her acquittal as we look at the wake of mysterious deaths throughout her life. This story features our dear friend the late Emily Simer Braun to read the quotes attributed to Louise Vermilya in the Chicago newspapers.

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Bald Knobbers

    Bald Knobbers
    Nov 30 2025
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    For this remastered edition, I’ve dug deep into the vault and combined Episodes 7 and 77, both regarding post-Civil War vigilante action in the Ozark Mountains.
    • The Giant Vigilante Captain Nat Kinney
    Episode 7. Captain Nat Kinney was a large man, both in stature and reputation, and both seemed to grow to mythic proportions among the citizens of Taney County, Missouri, deep in the Ozark Mountains. Kinney was the king of the Bald Knobbers, a group of Christian citizens who organized to police themselves against the ruffians and hooligans who would interrupt their church services and raid their homesteads. The presence of the Bald Knobbers deeply divided the region between those who would let the law take its course and those who would take the law into its own hands. Music by Carter Bancroft and Alan Patterson.
    • The Botched Execution of Chief Bull Creek Dave
    Episode 77 is a sequel to the tale of The Giant Vigilante Captain Nat Kinney, about one of the Bald Knobber masked vigilante groups that sprang up in the Ozark region after the civil war. This story concerns the Bald Knobbers in the adjacent county to Nat Kinney, where once again, and another instance where vigilante justice backfires. It’s a good story and has a lot of action, including an exciting jailbreak. But my favorite part is the heart-breaking report of the artist who ventures into the hills to get sketches of the families of the condemned men just days before their scheduled execution.

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    1 hr and 38 mins