A True Crime History Podcast
Edward Buckley was a violent East End tough whose life unfolded in the same streets and shadows as the Whitechapel murders. Born into a rough, crime-entangled family, he grew up
Continue readingJack the Ripper: Edward Buckley w/ Jonathan Tye
My guest this week is forensic psychologist Dr. Jeffrey Smalldon. He shares stories from decades of correspondence, prison visits, and interviews with some of America’s most notorious killers, including Charles
Continue readingConversations With Serial Killers w/ Jeffrey Smalldon
My guest is award-winning author Saladin Ambar, who examines a wave of racially motivated killings along the Mississippi River in the 1830s – events that left a deep impression on
Continue readingThe Murders That Inspired Lincoln’s Lyceum Address w/ Saladin Ambar
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Edward Buckley was a violent East End tough whose life unfolded in the same streets and shadows as the Whitechapel murders. Born into a rough, crime-entangled family, he grew up
Continue readingJack the Ripper: Edward Buckley w/ Jonathan Tye
My guest this week is forensic psychologist Dr. Jeffrey Smalldon. He shares stories from decades of correspondence, prison visits, and interviews with some of America’s most notorious killers, including Charles
Continue readingConversations With Serial Killers w/ Jeffrey Smalldon
My guest is award-winning author Saladin Ambar, who examines a wave of racially motivated killings along the Mississippi River in the 1830s – events that left a deep impression on
Continue readingThe Murders That Inspired Lincoln’s Lyceum Address w/ Saladin Ambar
One chill January night in 1867, a Virginia City prostitute was strangled to death in her bed. The murderer was caught and hanged in front of a crowd of thousands,
Continue readingJulia Bulette: Murdered by a Serial Killer? w/ Robin Flinchum
On a chilly night in March of 1976, a father searching for his missing son made a horrifying discovery inside a Chicago apartment – in at what first appeared to
Continue readingChicago’s Apartment 131 Murders w/ Gregg Owen
On a crisp September evening in 1899, a seventeen-year-old petty thief named Edwin Ray Snow shot and killed a bakery deliveryman named Jimmy Whittemore outside Yarmouth, Massachusetts. The gunshots rang
Continue readingThe Cape Cod Murder of 1899 w/ Theresa Mitchell Webster
My guest this week is Suzanne Huntington, co editor of Ripperologist Magazine and author of the recently published book “The Thames Torso Murders: Fact or Fiction?” She not only talks
Continue readingThe Thames Torso Murders Revisited w/ Suzanne Huntington
New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin returns to the podcast to discuss his books The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang and Bandit Heaven: The
Continue readingThe Last Outlaws of the Old West w/ Tom Clavin
In 1708, during the War of the Spanish Succession, the Spanish galleon San José sailed from South America carrying a vast cargo of gold and silver bound for Spain. Off
Continue readingThe Shipwreck of the San José & the Quest to Find Its Treasure w/ Julian Sancton
n 1949, a quiet neighborhood in St. Louis became the center of one of the most controversial religious cases in American history. A 13-year-old boy began exhibiting disturbing symptoms including
Continue readingThe 1949 Exorcism That Inspired “The Exorcist” w/ Troy Taylor
