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Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told through vintage newspaper accounts from the golden age of yellow journalism Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support .
Richard O Jones hosts True Crime Historian, a society show with 431 episodes published.
The Killing Of Senator Arthur Brown Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 489 takes us to the Hotel Raleigh, Washington, December 8, 1906, when a Salt Lake mother of four walks into the senator's sitting room wi
The Murder of Anna Marie Keenan Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 488 takes us to a top-floor flat on West Fifty-Seventh Street, the Ides of March, nineteen twenty-three. A chorus girl named Dot King lies de
The Execution Of Joe Hill Jump To The AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 487 takes us to Salt Lake City, 1914, where a grocer and his seventeen-year-old son die on a pine floor, and a Swedish songwriter named Joe Hill ri
The Snyder-Gray Affair Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 486 takes us to a Dutch Colonial on 222nd Street in Queens Village, where a housewife, a Methodist corset salesman, and a crooked Prudential agent put
The Girl Who Named Him Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 485 takes us to Kidbrooke Lane, Eltham, before dawn on the twenty-sixth of April, eighteen seventy-one, where a beat constable named Donald Gunn stumb
Assassin Unknown Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 484 takes us to a frost-covered parlor outside Yankton, South Dakota, on the last Sunday of 1934. A retired featherweight sits under a lamp reading a magazi
No Mercy At Mountain Meadows Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 482 takes us to Mountain Meadows, Utah Territory, 1857, where Arkansas emigrants accept safe passage under a white flag. The flag is a lie. A hu
The Klan Claims A Scallywag Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 477 tells the story of Judge George W. Ashburn — Union colonel, scalawag, author of the state's civil rights provisions — who is gunned down by t
New York, 1888. Ann O'Delia Diss Debar — self-styled Spirit Princess, alleged daughter of Lola Montez — convinced a grieving Madison Avenue lawyer that Raphael and Rembrandt were painting for him in his own parlor. The p
B. Gratz Brown — ex-senator, sitting governor, Vice-Presidential nominee of two parties at once — was handed the stage built to topple Grant's corruption and showed up drunk. He fainted at a New York rally, forgot his ow
Gilded Age Washington, 1876. Senator Stephen W. Dorsey and the Second Assistant Postmaster General ran a bid-rigging racket that bled the Post Office of millions — fake mail routes, real money. Two trials, two acquittals
The Smuttynose Island Murders of 1873 Jump To The AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 476 explores a case would become one of the most sensational crimes of the American Gilded Age. It would produce a manhunt, a near-lync
"The Tiny Error of the Wily Widow" (57:52) transports us to the plains of the Dakotas and another plot, this one to get rid of a wealthy husband for a younger man. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker
Gilded Age New York crowned her the Queen of Crime. Sophie Lyons — pickpocket, shoplifter, blackmailer — spent fifty years selling men's shame back to them at Parker House prices. She retired to Detroit a millionaire phi
Crimes of the Scoundrel Clarence V.T. Richeson Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 74 explores the tawdry case of Clarence Virgil Thompson Richeson, who was apparently an eloquent preacher and a rising star in
Father George Rapp ran the Harmony Society at Economy, Pennsylvania, by two commandments: celibacy for men whose wives he had evicted, and poverty for workers whose gold he hoarded. By 1846 the prophet was burning ledger
The Trial and Execution of Amelia Dyer Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 43 comes at the request of a listener across the great pond in the United Kingdom. We will be exploring the testimony from the trial o
For ten years, George Cassiday, known on Capitol Hill as the Man in the Green Hat, ran liquor to the United States Congress while four out of five of his customers voted dry. When Prohibition agents finally caught him in
The Nebraska Spree Killer Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 475 takes us on a wild ride across Nebraska with Charles Starkweather, a 19-year-old with a stolen shotgun, a 14-year-old companion who may or may
"The Merry Widow of Bicester" takes us to battle-torn England during World War II, when as if there wasn't already enough death and suffering, a jealous mistress plots to take out her man's wife. Become a supporter of th
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