The Massie Affair w/ Mike Farris
In September of 1931, Thalia Massie, a young naval lieutenant’s wife, claims to have been raped by five Hawaiian men in Honolulu. Following a hung jury in the rape trial,
The Folsom Prison Bloody 13 Escape w/ Josh Morgan
On July 27th, 1903, thirteen convicts at California’s Folsom Prison, led by Richard “Red” Gordon, attacked prison guards, took hostages, emptied the armory and made a dash for freedom. Some
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The Casper Bennett Murder Case w/ David Miraldi
On December 20th, 1963, the city of Lorain, Ohio was rocked by the tragic (and odd) death of Florence Bennett. Her husband Casper had found her dead in their bathtub,
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Jim Tully: Father of Hard-Boiled Fiction & “The Most Hated Man in Hollywood” w/ Paul Bauer & Mark Dawidziak
Many saw the dark side of the American dream, but none wrote about it like Jim Tully. Having spent six years of his childhood in a Cincinnati orphanage, Tully returned
The Ill-Fated Voyage of the Nanina w/ Eric Jay Dolin
Eric Jay Dolin, returns to the show to share details from his new book, “Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World”. It’s the true
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The Mysterious Death of Zachary Smith Reynolds w/ Phil Archer
Just after midnight on July 6, 1932, twenty-year-old Zachary Smith Reynolds, a renowned aviator and an heir to the R.J. Reynolds tobacco fortune, was shot in the family’s summer home
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The Murder of Oscar Chitwood w/ Christopher Thrasher
On a warm August day in 1910, Sheriff Jake Houpt and his deputies attempted to arrest brothers George and Oscar Chitwood outside the Garland County Courthouse in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
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The Killing of Boxer Tyrone Everett w/ Sean Nam
Six months after losing a world title fight that remains infamous as one of the last mob fixes in boxing, Tyrone “The Butterfly” Everett—a flashy, handsome lightweight southpaw on the
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The Death of James Dean & the “Curse of the Little Bastard” w/ Lee Raskin
On September 30, 1955, 24-year-old James Dean became immortal. While his young life ended in a car crash, James Dean passed into the realm of American folklore, where his memory
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The General Slocum Disaster w/ Edward T. O’Donnell
There were few experienced swimmers among over 1,300 Lower East Side residents who boarded the General Slocum on June 15, 1904. It shouldn’t have mattered, since the steamship was chartered
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