Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1906. When a young white woman is assaulted in a dark cemetery, the town erupts. Despite questionable evidence and a flawed trial, a black man named Ed Johnson

Continue readingMurder & Lynching in Early 1900s Tennessee w/ Kimberly Tilley

(There are different opinions about which of these black women were killed by a single serial killer – ie the Atlanta Ripper – and which were isolated or copycat murders.).

Continue readingFemale Murder Victims in Atlanta and surrounding areas  from 1909 to 1920)

My guest this week is award-winning writer David Grann, whose new book, “The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder”, is currently number one on the New York Times

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In the 1870s and 80s the nation was embroiled in a sensational scandal. Corrupt politicians, post office officials and others conspired to defraud the United States Post Office out of

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Philip Van Cise faced a double threat when he became Denver’s district attorney in 1921. He quickly discovered that a massive bunco ring was operating unimpeded in downtown Denver, fleecing

Continue readingConfidence Men, Corruption & the Klan in 1920s Denver w/ Alan Prendergast

For decades following the horrific 1918 execution of the Romanov family, many hoped against hope that one or more of the children had escaped the bullets and bayonets of the

Continue readingAnastasia: Mystery & Myth w/ Greg King & Penny Wilson

On June 25, 1876, in the valley of the Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, and the warriors who were inspired to follow them, fought the last stand

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In the summer of 1483 Edward and Richard, sons of the deceased King Edward IV, disappeared from the Tower of London, where they were being held by the recently crowned

Continue readingWhat Happened to the Princes in the Tower? A New Suspect w/ M.J. Trow

From World War I through the 1920s a midwife known as Auntie Suzy readily supplied arsenic to women in a small Hungarian village. The women, who would become known as

Continue readingThe Angel Makers of Nagyrév w/ Patti McCracken

In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar went missing in the Louisiana swamps. After an eight-month search that electrified the country and destroyed Bobby’s parents, the boy was found, filthy and hardly

Continue readingThe Mysterious Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar w/ Tal McThenia