True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
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The Dumbbell Murder
The Snyder-Gray AffairJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 486 takes us to a Dutch Colonial on 222nd Street in Queens Village, where a housewife, a Methodist corset salesman, and a crooked…
The Eltham Murder
The Girl Who Named HimJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 485 takes us to Kidbrooke Lane, Eltham, before dawn on the twenty-sixth of April, eighteen seventy-one, where a beat constable…
The Luger In The Dark
Assassin UnknownJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 484 takes us to a frost-covered parlor outside Yankton, South Dakota, on the last Sunday of 1934. A retired featherweight sits under a…
The White Flag Massacre
No Mercy At Mountain MeadowsJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 482 takes us to Mountain Meadows, Utah Territory, 1857, where Arkansas emigrants accept safe passage under a white flag. The…
The Fourteenth Fiasco
The Klan Claims A ScallywagJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 477 tells the story of Judge George W. Ashburn — Union colonel, scalawag, author of the state's civil rights provisions — who…
Femme Fatale Ann O'Delia Diss Debar
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…
American Scoudrel B. Gratz Brown
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…
American Scoundrel Stephen Wallace Dorsey
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…
The Moonlight Row
The Smuttynose Island Murders of 1873Jump To The AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 476 explores a case would become one of the most sensational crimes of the American Gilded Age. It would produce a…
The Tiny Error of the Wily Widow
"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:…
Femme Fatale Sophie Lyons
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…
The Poison Pastor
Crimes of the Scoundrel Clarence V.T. RichesonJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 74 explores the tawdry case of Clarence Virgil Thompson Richeson, who was apparently an eloquent preacher…
American Scoundrel Johann Georg Rapp
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…
The Ogress Of Reading
The Trial and Execution of Amelia Dyer Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 43 comes at the request of a listener across the great pond in the United Kingdom. We will be exploring the…
American Scoundrel: George Cassiday
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…
STARKWEATHER
The Nebraska Spree KillerJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 475 takes us on a wild ride across Nebraska with Charles Starkweather, a 19-year-old with a stolen shotgun, a 14-year-old…
The Merry Widow Of Bicester
"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…
Cassie Chadwick
Born Elizabeth Bigley in a Ontario railway camp, she died Cassie Chadwick in an Ohio prison cell — and in between, she convinced the banks of northern Ohio that Andrew Carnegie was her shamefaced…
A Family Of Outlaws
The Reckless Reno GangJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 92 takes place after the Civil War, when the Reno Brothers explored a new way to rob trains that inspired the James and Younger…
American Scoundrel John Eaton
Andrew Jackson's Secretary of War spent a decade courting a married woman, arranged her husband's convenient posting to the Mediterranean, and married her six weeks before the 1829 inauguration. The…
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