Episodes By Category

Jack the Ripper: Jack the Ripper 101 – Was Montague Druitt Jack the Ripper?Jack the Ripper Suspect Francis TumbletyWas Charles Lechmere Jack the Ripper?Jack the Ripper: New Clues & TheoriesJack the Ripper: Robert MannJack the Ripper: Aaron KosminskiJack the Ripper: James HardimanJack the Ripper: Hyam HyamsA Modern-Day Police Perspective on the Jack the Ripper MurdersThe History of Scotland Yard

Serial & Spree Killers: Jane ToppanMary Ann CottonElliot Ness Vs. The Mad Butcher (Cleveland Torso Murders)David Meirhofer“Red” HallGerard SchaeferThe Forest City KillerThe Co-Ed Killer –  The Pied Piper of TucsonThe Wineville Chicken Ranch Murders Carl PanzramThe Bloody BendersThe S-Bahn KillerThe New Orleans Axeman Belle GunnessThe Man From the TrainThe Midnight AssassinThe Harpe BrothersJesse PomeroyThomas Neill CreamThe Hamilton StranglerThe Acid Bath MurdererThe Cleveland Torso Murders (Mad Butcher) Scotland’s Burke & HareH.H. HolmesJohn Reginald ChristieWWI-Era French Serial Killer Henri LandruWartime Melbourne’s “Brownout Strangler” Serial KillerThe Texarkana Phantom Serial KillerThe Atlanta RipperSpree Killer Charles StarkweatherWas Gille de Rais Really One of History’s Worst Serial Killers?Martha Needle: “The Richmond Poisoner”The Birmingham Axe Murders

Gilded Age Crime: The Hamilton ScandalLizzie Borden RevisitedThe Murder of Pearl BryanThe Catskill Ripper: Lizzie HallidayThe Murder of Dr. Patrick Henry CroninRogues’ Gallery: Crooks, Cops and Crime in New York City’s Gilded AgeThe East River Ripper Murder of Old ShakespeareThe Murder of Ed Burdick The “Potato Masher Murder” of Cecilia LudwigThe Murder of Jennie BosscheiterThe Murder of Stanford WhiteThe Murder of Kitty GingChicago’s Sausage Vat MurderH.H. HolmesNYC Crimefighter & Police Commissioner Theodore RooseveltThe Murder of Walter BrooksThe Murder of Helen PottsThe Murder of Sarah GrahamThe Murder of Hazel DrewThe Murder of Maggie SheffieldThe Star Route ScandalJosie Mansfield & the Murder of Jim FiskThe Murder of Nell CropseyThe Persecution of Lillian Hawkins & the Murder of Ruby ReedThe “Bulldog Detective” William J. FlynnThe Witch of Mansfield: Phebe WiseNew York City Crime Boss Marm MandelbaumThe Mysterious Death of Sarah MumfordOntario’s Lazier MurderRevenge, Murder & Madness in 1903 Indiana

1920s and 30s Gangsters: Elliot Ness Vs. Al Capone Richard “Two Gun” Hart“Tiger Girl” & “The Candy Kid”Abe “Kid Twist” Reles & Murder, Inc. Francis “Two Gun” CrowleyThe Santa Claus Bank RobberyDetroit’s Purple Gang“Bootleg King” George Remus Alvin “Creepy” KarpisThe 1931 Leavenworth Prison BreakPretty Boy FloydLucky Luciano’s Prostitution TrialCapt. Matt Leach Vs. John Dillinger“Mad Dog” Coll vs. Dutch SchultzGangsters in 1930s MinnesotaMickey CohenMachine Gun KellyUncle Al CaponeBoston’s Millen-Faber GangDillinger Gang Gun-MollsFrank Hamer Vs. Bonnie & ClydeAl Capone, the Secret Six, & the 1933 Chicago World’s FairCowboys Vs. GangstersThe Murder of Journalist Don MellettConfidence Men, Corruption & the Klan in 1920s DenverMachine Gun Kelly & the Woolverton KidnappingThe Car Barn MurdersEleanor “the Blonde Tigress” JarmanIrish Mobster Eddie McGrathThe Dillinger Gang in Tucson Squizzy Taylor & the Fitzroy VendettaThe Murder of Vivian GordonThe IncorruptiblesThe Strange Death of Ira Gurley

Hollywood Murder: The Death of Thelma Todd – Murder & Scandal in Beverly Hills The Black Dahlia Revisited (Suspect: Leslie Dillon) The Black Dahlia (Suspect: George Hodel) The Murder of Hogan’s Heroes Star Bob CraneThe Mysterious Death of Fritzie MannThe Murder of Jake HamonThe Murder of Cecil WellsThe Murder of William Desmond TaylorThe Murders of Stringbean and Estelle Akeman The Life & Controversial Death of Bill Cassara The Persecution of Lillian Hawkins & the Murder of Ruby ReedLana Turner & the Killing of Johnny StompanatoJim Tully: Father of Hard-Boiled Fiction & “The Most Hated Man in Hollywood” w/ Paul Bauer & Mark Dawidziak

Dastardly Spouses & Lovers: The Murder of Florence SmallThe Ceely Rose MurdersThe Shooting of Chicago Cubs Shortstop Billy JurgesThe Murder of Cecil WellsThe Murder of Pearl BryanHarper Lee & Murderer Willie MaxwellThe Murder of Frank RichardsonThe “Cafe Society Murder” of Patricia BurtonThe Murder of Carol ThompsonThe Murder of Philip Barton Key IIThe Murder of Percy Thompson & Execution of Edith ThompsonThe “Potato Masher Murder” of Cecilia LudwigThe Murder of Stanford WhiteThe Peck Family PoisoningsMarjorie Congdon & the Glensheen Murders The Murder of John HossackChicago’s Accused Murderess Sabella NittiAlice and Gerald: A Homicidal Love StoryThe Last DuelThe Murder of Helen PottsThe Murder of Sarah GrahamThe Murder of Dr. W.D. BroadhurstThe Murder of Bobby Franks (Leopold & Loeb Revisited) w/ Penny Wilson & Greg KingThe Angel Makers of NagyrévThe Murder of Barbara FinchJosie Mansfield & the Murder of Jim FiskThe Bermondsey HorrorThe Casper Bennett Murder CaseThe Massie AffairMurder and Madness in Bologna The Manhattan Well Murder

Assassinations: Did Lee Harvey Oswald Murder JFK Alone?“The Irishman”: Mob Hitman Frank Sheeran, the Kennedys and Jimmy Hoffa The Murder of President James GarfieldThe Race to Save the RomanovsThe Mysterious Death of Dorothy Kilgallen The Assassin Who Died Defending Robert E. LeeThe Murder of Louis I The Rise of Terrorism in the 19th Century Mafia Spies

The Old West: “Bandit Queen” Pearl HartTexas Ranger Company F Vs. The Conner FamilyTombstone, the Earp Brothers and the Gunfight at the O.K. CorralNotorious Gamblers of the Old WestGunfighter-For-Hire Tom Horn’s Murder TrialBilly the Kid & Pat GarrettAmerican Outlaw Butch CassidyTexas Gunfighters Ben Thompson & King FisherThe Northfield Bank Raid by the James-Younger GangThe Wounded Knee MassacreCannibal & Murderer Alfred PackerLynchings, Vigilantism and Murder in 1850s Frontier Los AngelesAlaska’s Soapy SmithLiver-Eating Johnson Frank Hamer: Texas Ranger and GunfighterThe Apache WarsCowboys Vs. GangstersCalamity Jane1870s DeadwoodWyatt Earp, Bat Masterson and Dodge City George HearstSitting Bull, Crazy Horse & the Battle of the Little Bighorn Charlie SiringoBass ReevesThe Life & Crimes of Charley Flynn Andrew Jackson & The Creek WarThe Murder of Oscar ChitwoodThe Notorious Reno GangThe Donner Party Tragedy

International True Crime: The Acid Bath MurdererReturn To UluruThe Red Widow: Marguerite “Meg” Steinheil Mary Ann Cotton: Britain’s First Female Serial Killer?Dostoevsky & the Murderer Who Inspired Crime & PunishmentThe Murder of William CantilupeEscape From YozgadCanada’s Famous “Mad Trapper” ManhuntOntario’s Forest City Serial KillerThe Peaky Blinders: Fact Vs. FictionThe Race to Save the RomanovsThe Real RasputinMurder in PekingMatricide in 1895 LondonThe Murder of Jane ClousonThe Kinck Family MurdersParis’s Rue Montaigne MurdersScotland’s Burke & HareSerial Killer John Reginald ChristieWhat Happened to Louie Le Prince?Wartime Melbourne’s “Brownout Strangler” Serial KillerThe Last DuelArthur Conan Doyle Investigates the Murder of Marion GilchristThe Ghost and the Bounty HunterMurder & Manhunt in WW2The 1629 Batavia Mutiny & MassacreThe Murder of Sarah FeinsteinThe Murder of Louis IWas Kit Marlowe Murdered?The Angel Makers of NagyrévWhat Happened to the Princes in the Tower? A New SuspectAnastasia: Mystery & MythThe Ill-Fated Voyage of HMS WagerArt Thief & IRA Militant Rose DugdaleDick TurpinThe Nazi Titanic The Rise of Terrorism in the 19th CenturySquizzy Taylor & the Fitzroy VendettaThe Bermondsey HorrorThe Birth of the MafiaMartha Needle: “The Richmond Poisoner”Murder and Madness in Bologna The History of Scotland YardAbsinthe: The World’s Most Dangerous SpiritOntario’s Lazier Murder

Organized Crime: Pennsylvania Mob Boss Russell Shorto – “The Irishman”: Mob Hitman Frank Sheeran, the Kennedys and Jimmy HoffaLucky Luciano’s NYC Prostitution TrialFrank Oldfield vs. the Black HandThe Peaky Blinders: Fact Vs. FictionPoker King Benny BinionNYC’s Chinatown Tong WarsMobster Frank CostelloConfidence Men, Corruption & the Klan in 1920s DenverThe Star Route ScandalIrish Mobster Eddie McGrathThe Birth of the MafiaThe “Bulldog Detective” William J. Flynn The Killing of Boxer Tyrone EverettMafia SpiesThe IncorruptiblesNew York City Crime Boss Marm Mandelbaum

Disasters and Tragedies: Chicago’s Iroquois Theater Fire – The 1916 Shark Attacks The Wreck of the Ocean MonarchBath MassacreThe Wreck of the Christmas Tree ShipThe Great Chicago Fire of 1871The Shipwreck of the Ill-Fated William & MaryIllinois’ Cherry Mine Disaster The Belgica’s Ill-Fated Expedition to the South PoleThe Hindenburg DisasterChicago’s SS Eastland DisasterMilwaukee’s Newhall House FireThe Wounded Knee MassacreThe Haymarket RiotAmerica’s Most Notorious HurricanesThe Mysterious Disappearance of Bobby DunbarThe Ill-Fated Voyage of HMS WagerThe Nazi Titanic The General Slocum DisasterThe Death of James Dean & the “Curse of the Little Bastard” The Ill-Fated Voyage of the NaninaThe Cocoanut Grove Nightclub FireThe Donner Party Tragedy

Murderous Mysteries: The Hall-Mills MurdersThe Murder of Helen ClevengerLizzie Borden RevisitedThe Murder of Nancy MorganThe Murder of Mary Phagan & the Lynching of Leo FrankThe East River Ripper Murder of Old ShakespeareCalifornia’s Lamson Murder CaseThe Arkansas Murder of Ella BarhamThe Murder of Ed BurdickThe Disappearance of Alice ParsonsThe Murder of Hogan’s Heroes Star Bob CraneThe Black Dahlia Revisited (Suspect: Leslie Dillon)The Black Dahlia (Suspect: George Hodel) The New Orleans Axeman Serial KillerTom Dooley & the Murder of Laura FosterThe Mysterious Death of “Furnace Girl” Elfrieda KnaakThe Portland Torso MurderMurder in PekingThe John Hossack MurderThe Murder of Sister JaninaCalifornia’s McGlincy MurdersThe Sodder Family TragedyThe Murder of Cecil WellsThe Mysterious Death of Dorothy KilgallenThe Natchez Goat Castle MurderThe Witch of DelrayThe Murder of Buddy SchumacherChicago’s Accused Murderess Sabella NittiThe Mysterious Disappearance of Joan RischWhat Happened to Louie Le Prince?The Murder of Nora SheaThe Robison Family Murders Florida’s “Headless Miser” MurderThe England Family MassacreThe Murder of Brenda Joyce HollandThe Murder of Sarah FeinsteinThe Murders of John & Florence SprouseThe Murder of Betsy AardsmaThe Murder of Louis IThe Murder of Hazel DrewWas Kit Marlowe Murdered? The Murder of William Desmond TaylorWhat Happened to the Princes in the Tower? A New SuspectThe Atlanta RipperThe Car Barn MurdersThe Murder of Nell CropseyThe Crater Lake MurdersThe Murder of Frances LaceyThe Murder of the Grimes SistersThe Persecution of Lillian Hawkins & the Murder of Ruby ReedThe Killing of Boxer Tyrone EverettThe Mysterious Death of Zachary Smith ReynoldsThe Casper Bennett Murder CaseMafia SpiesThe Ward-Peters Murder CaseThe Murder of Ruth MunsonThe Manhattan Well MurderThe Mysterious Death of Sarah MumfordThe Murders of Virginia Brooks, Louise Teuber & Hazel BradshawA Double Murder in 1948 Illinois

Massacres and Mass Murder: America’s First Recorded Mass ShootingThe Whitman Massacre The Villisca Axe MurdersMurder on the BerwindBath MassacreOklahoma’s Osage MurdersKentucky’s Ashland MurdersThe Batavia Mutiny & MassacreMassacre of the Conestogas The “In Cold Blood” Clutter Family MurdersThe Race to Save the RomanovsThe Lawson Family Christmas MurdersThe Wounded Knee MassacreThe Wolf Family MassacreThe Kinck Family MurdersCalifornia’s McGlincy MurdersThe Revenge of Hannah DustonThe Robison Family MurdersThe Kelayres MassacreThe Tulsa Race MassacreThe England Family MassacreThe 1629 Batavia Mutiny & MassacreThe Boston MassacreThe Gitchie-Manitou MurdersThe Nazi Titanic The Rise of Terrorism in the 19th Century

Sports Themed Crimes: The Shooting of Chicago Cubs Shortstop Billy JurgesThe Chicago Black Sox ScandalThe Murder of Boxer Sonny ListonThe Death of James Dean & the “Curse of the Little Bastard” The Killing of Boxer Tyrone Everett

Axe Murders: The Villisca Axe MurdersLizzie Borden RevisitedThe New Orleans Axman Serial KillerThe Smuttynose Ax MurdersThe “Man From the Train” Serial Killer – The Murder of John HossackThe Birmingham Axe Murders

Deadly Abductions: The Murder of Thora Chamberlain – The 1950 Murder of JoAnn Dewey – A Shocking New Look at the Lindbergh Kidnapping & MurderLeopold & LoebThe “Babes of Inglewood” MurdersArthur Koehler & the Lindbergh Baby KidnappingThe Kidnap & Murder of Bobby GreenleaseThe Kidnap & Murder of Marion ParkerThe Murder of Buddy SchumacherThe Mysterious Disappearance of Joan RischThe Wineville Chicken Ranch MurdersThe Murder of Bobby Franks (Leopold & Loeb Revisited)The Crater Lake MurdersThe Mysterious Disappearance of Kenneth BeasleyThe Murder of the Grimes SistersThe Massie Affair

Notorious Figures & Events: Axis SallyDB Cooper & the Hijacking of Northwest Flight 305Notorious Gamblers of the Old West Mary Shelley’s FrankensteinEscape From YozgadCatch Me If You Can’s Frank Abagnale – Perpetrator of the Ultimate Hoax? The Peaky Blinders: Fact Vs. FictionTammany Hall’s Boss TweedArnold RothsteinThe Real RasputinNazis in 1930s AmericaFemale Spies in the Civil WarThe Duluth LynchingsThe PR Team That Reinvented & Swindled the Ku Klux Klan The Murder of Kitty GenoveseThe War of the Worlds Radio BroadcastThe Sleepy Lagoon Murder/Zoot Suit RiotsAltamont, The Rolling Stones, the Hell’s Angels & the Killing of Meredith HunterThe Sacco and Vanzetti Murder CaseThe Norco ShootoutThe Salem Witch HuntThe Tulsa Race MassacreThe Boston MassacreThe Radium GirlsThe Homestead StrikeThe Star Route ScandalMurder & Lynching in Early 1900s TennesseeDick TurpinThe Rise of Terrorism in the 19th CenturyMafia Spies

Infamous Prisons: Eastern State PenitentiaryNew York’s Notorious Blackwell’s IslandThe 1931 Leavenworth Prison BreakEscape From YozgadThe Libby Prison EscapeThe Nazi Titanic Albert “Crooked Snake” BotelerThe Folsom Prison Bloody 13 Escape

Con-Artists: “Queen of the Con” Cassie ChadwickCatch Me If You Can’s Frank Abagnale: Perpetrator of the Ultimate Hoax? Sophie “Queen of the Burglars” LyonsJames Jesse Strang: Con Man, Mormon Prophet and the “King of Heaven & Earth”Los Angeles’ Bizarre Blackburn Cult“Count” Victor LustigThe Santa Claus Con ArtistAlaska’s Soapy SmithAnastasia: Mystery & MythConfidence Men, Corruption & the Klan in 1920s DenverGentleman Jewel Thief Arthur BarryAbsinthe: The World’s Most Dangerous Spirit

Early American Crime: The Murder of Salem Slave Trader Joseph WhiteThe Stabbing of Henry Ballard by Amelia NormanThe Washington D.C. Murder of Philip Barton Key IINew York City’s “Gangster Pirate” Albert Hicks – The Harpe BrothersCrime & Punishment in Puritan New EnglandThe Revenge of Hannah DustonThe Murder of Dr. George ParkmanThe Murder of William Morgan & Other Tales of the Erie CanalThe Assassin Who Died Defending Robert E. LeeThe Salem Witch HuntThe Boston MassacreThe Murder of Sally CochranThe Life & Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan PoeThe Manhattan Well Murder

High Seas & Deep Lakes: Murder on the BerwindThe Shipwreck of the Ill-Fated William & MaryThe Wreck of the Christmas Tree ShipThe Wreck of the Ocean MonarchChicago’s SS Eastland DisasterNew York City’s “Gangster Pirate” Albert Hicks  – Captain KiddBlackbeard & the Golden Age of PiracyThe Belgica’s Ill-Fated 1897 Expedition to the South PoleThe 1629 Batavia Mutiny & MassacreThe Last Voyage of the KarlukThe Ill-Fated Voyage of HMS WagerAmerican PrivateersThe Nazi Titanic The General Slocum DisasterThe Ill-Fated Voyage of the Nanina

Literary & Cinematic Connections: Dostoevsky & the Murderer Who Inspired Crime & PunishmentHarper Lee & Murderer Willie MaxwellThe “In Cold Blood” Clutter Family Murders The War of the Worlds Radio BroadcastChicago’s Accused Murderess Sabella Nitti (the musical Chicago)Mary Shelley’s FrankensteinWhat Happened to Louie Le Prince?Was Kit Marlowe Murdered?The Murder of William Desmond TaylorThe Life & Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan PoeThe Murder of Salem Slave Trader Joseph WhiteThe Ill-Fated Voyage of HMS WagerCharlie SiringoThe Bermondsey HorrorThe “Bulldog Detective” William J. FlynnThe Witch of Mansfield: Phebe WiseThe Death of James Dean & the “Curse of the Little Bastard” The Mysterious Death of Zachary Smith ReynoldsJim Tully: Father of Hard-Boiled Fiction & “The Most Hated Man in Hollywood” w/ Paul Bauer & Mark Dawidziak

Stories With a Supernatural Twist: Chicago’s Iroquois Theater Fire Top Ten Most Notorious Historical Ghosts1860s “Spirit” Photographer William MumlerThe Real Dracula: Vlad the ImpalerMary Shelley’s FrankensteinThe Murder of Nelson RehymeyerWas Gille de Rais Really One of History’s Worst Serial Killers?

Wild Escapes: The Ghost & the Bounty HunterEscape From YogzadReturn to UluruThe 1931 Leavenworth Prison BreakDB Cooper & the Hijacking of Northwest Flight 305Murder & Manhunt in WW2The Nazi Titanic The Libby Prison Break Albert “Crooked Snake” BotelerEleanor “the Blonde Tigress” JarmanThe Folsom Prison Bloody 13 Escape

Duels & Feuds: The Deadly Colson-Scott Feud