The historical true-crime podcast that uncovers old blood with each new episode. Join us as a historian investigates history's most fascinating cases of true crime.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe historical true-crime podcast that uncovers old blood with each new episode. Join us as a historian investigates history's most fascinating cases of true crime.
Recent episodes include "Blood Atonement: The Salt Lake City Murder of Thomas Coleman" (26 October 2026, 62 minutes), "'Till Death: Poison and Badmashes in 1911 Agra" (12 October 2026, 57 minutes), and "The Gotham Gobbler: Mrs. Sherlock and the Murder of Ruth Cruger" (21 September 2026, 52 minutes).
Old Blood publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 66 minutes across 53 episodes.
Booking probability for Old Blood is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Old Blood requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Old Blood's contact route on record: verified email.
Old Blood is a history podcast with 53 episodes published.
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Episode #89
The mutilated body of Thomas Coleman was discovered in 1866 on a hill that would one day be the Utah State Capitol. A sign hung around his neck suggested he was killed for socializing with white women, but evidence...
Episode #88
Show Notes for 'Til Death: Poison and Badmashes in 1911 Agra This episode follows Augusta Fullam and Dr. Henry Clark, whose affair leads to a murder plot in colonial India. As their plans unfold, poisoned meals, hired...
Episode #86
When Ruth Cruger went missing in 1917 and the New York Police Department failed to search for her adequately, the girl's family hired Grace Humiston, AKA “Mrs. Sherlock Holmes,” to find her. Mrs. Sherlock not only found...
Episode #85
In 1923, five-year-old Arthur Martinez’s body was discovered in an abandoned Pasadena factory. As detectives dig deeper, two teenage boys become central to a story that is tragic, disturbing, and impossible to ignore...
Episode #84
After poet Nora May French committed suicide in the artist’s colony of Carmel-by-the-Sea, a “cavalcade of death” followed. But how responsible was Nora for the bizarre deaths of her Bohemian friends, and was her death...
Episode #82
The Ku Klux Klan controlled the state of Indiana in 1924. They believed themselves invincible and were moving to expand their organization when they encountered resistance from Irish Catholic Notre Dame students. Notre...
Episode #81
Historian Alyse takes the Borden murders very seriously. Join her as she investigates primary sources from 1892 and concludes the Lizzie Borden mystery once and for all. Shoutout to the bird who decided to be a...
<p>In 1906, the mutilated body of young sales clerk James Logan was discovered on Southern California’s grandest resort hotel, The Raymond. When an African American tailor was accused of the crime, the city’s...
<p>A sexy death mystery unfolded in 1931 New York City, when a socialite washed up on the shores of Long Island. Was her death an accident, a suicide, or foul play at the hands of the many prominent men she...
Episode #78
<p>The first ‘Murder by Mail’ was sent to Mrs. Josephine Barnaby in 1891 in the form of an arsenic-laced whiskey bottle. When she and a friend drank the whiskey, both fell violently ill. The resulting murder trial would...
Episode #77
<p>A fatal 1869 shooting at the New York Tribune led to a contentious debate about love, divorce, and women’s rights in America. </p><p><b>Sources</b>:</p><p>Cazauran, A. R. The Trial of Daniel McFarland for the...
<p>Texas authorities arrested George Hassell on Christmas Day of 1926 after his wife and her eight children went missing. George cried, “I did it,” then confessed to the murder of another family ten years prior in...
<p>A deadly shooting at London’s extravagant Savoy Hotel in 1923 prompted a murder trial that pitted East against West. Was the tragedy the result of a pharaoh’s curse or merely the consequence of a lover’s...
<p>Six nurses threatened to storm out of the Swope mansion in Missouri at the height of a 1909 typhoid epidemic, claiming that “people are being murdered in this house.” Was the Swope family dying of typhoid, or was it...
<p>Chicago crime reporters descended upon Ruth and Carl Wanderer’s Chicago home after the war hero’s wife was shot dead in a holdup at their front door. Who was the Ragged Stranger who assaulted them? And why did he...
<p>A boy’s shortcut through a Kentucky fruit farm in 1896 uncovered the headless body of a woman, later identified as Pearl Bryan. How did she get there? Who killed her? And where is her head...
Episode #71
<p>The 1906 assault of a white woman in Chattanooga led to a murder and the U.S. Supreme Court’s first and only intervention in a state criminal trial.</p><p><b>Sources</b>:</p><p>Curriden, Mark and Phillips, Leroy Jr...
<p>In Part II of the murder that sparked a revolution, the Chamber of Peers investigates Duke Praslin for his wife’s brutal slaying.</p><p><br/></p><p><b>Sources</b>:</p><p>“ASSASSINAT DE MADAME LA DUCHESSE DE PRASLIN.”...
<p>In 1847, servants of Paris’s Hotel Sebastiani rushed to help Duchess Praslin after hearing her screams. This is part one of the murder that sparked a revolution. </p><p><br/></p><p><b>Sources</b>:</p><p>“ASSASSINAT...
<p>In 1929, a Kansas City housewife shot and killed her husband after a game of bridge. Twelve male jurors would decide her fate as newspapers across the country printed “post-mortems” of the fatal hand that led to his...
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