A True Crime History Podcast
Ted Bundy grew up in Tacoma in the shadow of one of the most toxic smelters in the United States, and he wasn’t the only one. Between the 1970s and
Continue readingDid a Tacoma Smelter Help Create a Generation of Serial Killers? w/ Caroline Fraser
My guest this week is Phillip Barlag, author of Evil Roman Emperors: The Shocking History of Ancient Rome’s Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero and More. He shares stories
Joaquin Murrieta has been remembered as a Robin Hood of the California Gold Rush — a wronged miner turned avenging outlaw, the supposed inspiration for Zorro. The truth is far
Continue readingBandit Chief Joaquin Murrieta: Myth Vs. Fact w/ John Boessenecker
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Ted Bundy grew up in Tacoma in the shadow of one of the most toxic smelters in the United States, and he wasn’t the only one. Between the 1970s and
Continue readingDid a Tacoma Smelter Help Create a Generation of Serial Killers? w/ Caroline Fraser
My guest this week is Phillip Barlag, author of Evil Roman Emperors: The Shocking History of Ancient Rome’s Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero and More. He shares stories
Joaquin Murrieta has been remembered as a Robin Hood of the California Gold Rush — a wronged miner turned avenging outlaw, the supposed inspiration for Zorro. The truth is far
Continue readingBandit Chief Joaquin Murrieta: Myth Vs. Fact w/ John Boessenecker
On July 17, 1941, in Lynn, Massachusetts, attractive nineteen-year-old Frances Cochran stepped off a commuter bus and into a mysterious black automobile. Three days later, police discovered her mutilated body
Continue readingThe Murder of Frances Cochran w/ Robert Fitzgibbon
On October 7, 1964, Debra Miller’s life turns upside down when her mother is arrested for the murder of her father. At only fourteen years old, Debra becomes a ward
Continue readingA Memoir of Murder in the Golden State w/ Debra Miller
In the first decades of the twentieth century, saloon proprietor Erastus Wallace Scott of Des Moines―with his cousins in the infamous Carter Gang―operated a campaign of murder, fraud, corruption, and prostitution
Continue readingIowa’s Notorious Carter Gang w/ David & Rose Donovan
The night before Easter 1905, Miranda Bricker left her sister’s house and made her way through the darkness. Her destination was her living quarters and place of employment, the Maplehurst
Continue readingThe Maplehurst Murder w/ Mark Sebastian Jordan
My guest this week is Merry Gordon, author of Arizona’s Murdered Madams: Death in the Red-Light Districts. She shares the stories of two of Territorial Arizona’s most infamous madams, former
In May of 1832, an American whaleship called the Mentor went down on a remote reef in the western Pacific. Of the crew, eleven men made it out alive, but
My guest is New York Times bestselling author Phyllis Karas. She shares the deeply personal story of two shocking tragedies in her family history: a 1935 car accident that killed
Continue readingThe Curse of the Blumenthals w/ Phyllis Karas
