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This series features true crime stories from the records and newspapers of every land, from every time. Your host each week is Mr. Thomas Hyland - a connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders. This collection contains episodes of Crime Classics that aired between 1953 and 1954. Each episode has been digitally remastered and restored for ease of listening.

Joan Robinson Hill was a world-class equestrian, a glamorous member of Houston high society, and the wife of Dr. John Hill, a handsome and successful plastic surgeon. Her father, Ash Robinson, was a charismatic oil tycoon obsessed with making his daughter's every dream come true. Rich, attractive, and reckless, Joan was one of the most celebrated women in a town infatuated with money, power, and fame. Then one morning in 1969, she fell mysteriously ill. The sordid events that followed comprise "what may be the most compelling and complex case in crime annals" (Ann Rule, best-selling author of The Stranger Beside Me).

The first show of the series, a summer replacement for Suspense. The story of the first woman tried and executed in the United States. The script was used as an audition for the series, recorded December 3, 1952. Thomas Hyland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders, tells another true story of crime. Here is Thomas Hyland’s report to you on Crime of Bathsheba Spooner, the first woman to be tried for murder in the United States.

A surprisingly good story of a truly amazing rogue of old England. Maria has just come home from a party dressed to kill. She’s come home to discover a robber, the famous John Shepherd, who removes Maria’s earrings slowly and also her rings. She was face to face with John Shepherd and for the rest of her life, she’d have something to talk about....

In 1865 France, a mere youth devises a way to fame and fortune through murder and mayhem. Thomas Hyland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders tells another true story of crime set in France during the reign of Louis Napoleon. It concerns a missing family and several freshly opened graves.

A story set in Rutland, Vermont, 1817. A man dances in the moonlight with the Little People.

Brother vs. brother in old Bombay. A tiger, you know! An announcement is made that TV-Radio Life magazine has named the program, the finest radio crime series of 1953. Thomas Hyland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders, tells another true story of crime. Set in 1856 in India, it is listed in Thomas Hyland’s files as How Supan Got the Hook Outside Bombay.

Ten men were involved in the robbery and the gruesome murder of a gold merchant and his two employees. Stolen from them were 120 bars of pure gold. Nine of the men were subsequently found guilty. Seven were hung. Two narrowly escaped the gallows because of their youth. The tenth man, however, escaped death. A fast-paced account that captures the sinister excitement and drama of the plotting, and merciless and savage execution of the victims, by a twisted bunch of felons. Just who betrayed whom?

On March 16, 1992, Elizabeth DeCaro, a 28 year-old mother of four, was found dead in her own home, murdered execution-style with two bullets to the head. Her husband, Rick, was immediately a suspect, having previously struck her "accidentally" with the family van after taking out a $100,000 life insurance policy on her. A Killer Among Us presents the true shocking story of Elizabeth's family and their search for justice against the man who continued to play father to the children whose mother he had killed.

Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the North Dallas suburbs known as Silicon Prairie. But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires. On a hot summer day in 1980, the secret passions and jealousies that linked Candy and Betty exploded into murderous rage.

A true-crime collection culled from the crime files of the New York Times best-selling series, Notorious USA.

Evil doers and thieves beware! The Pinkerton Detective Agency is on your tail. From the archives of the world's most successful agency come tales of daring heists and stories of the brave men who tracked down the bad guys. Train robbers, safe crackers, grifters, and murderers—all brought to justice by Pinkerton Detectives.