A True Crime History Podcast
Mafia historian and Pulitzer-prize winning reporter Anthony M. DeStefano is my guest this episode. He offers insight into gangster Frank Costello, underboss to Lucky Luciano, whose role and influence in
Continue readingMobster Frank Costello w/ Anthony M. DeStefano
In November of 1407, Louis I, The Duke of Orleans and brother of France’s “Mad” King Charles VI, is murdered on a street near his home in Medieval Paris. A
Continue readingThe Murder of Louis I in Medieval France w/ Eric Jager
On March 25, 1935, little George Weyerhaueser, heir to one of the biggest fortunes in America, was kidnapped on his way home from school in Tacoma, Washington. His abductors would
Continue readingThe George Weyerhaueser Kidnapping w/ Bryan Johnston
The city of Boston was put to the test when occupying British soldiers opened fire into a crowd of rioters on March 5th, 1770. Known forever as the Boston Massacre,
On Nov. 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma, a 22-year-old Penn State graduate student, was stabbed to death in the stacks of Pattee Library. The case remains officially unsolved, but my guest
In October of 1946, a chiropractor and rancher named Willis “W.D.” Broadhurst was beaten with a wrench and finished off with a shotgun on a lonely eastern Oregon road. Investigators
Continue readingThe Murder of Dr. W.D. Broadhurst w/ Patrick Gallagher
In the autumn of 1920, two couples pulled into a campsite in Central Park, Montana, but only one left alive. Seth and Iva Danner would eventually turn on each other
Continue readingThe Murders of John & Florence Sprouse w/ Kelly Suzanne Hartman
Journalist Wayne Hoffman had been long intrigued by a family story, vague on details, about the murder of his great-grandmother Sarah Feinstein at the hands of a sniper in Winnipeg,
Continue readingThe Murder of Sarah Feinstein w/ Wayne Hoffman
For those of us who’ve watched and enjoyed HBO’s Deadwood, the town and its characters are absolutely larger than life. But was the show historically accurate? What is fact and
In January 1953, a New York City musician named Christopher “ Manny” Balestrero was wrongly arrested for armed robbery, misidentified by eye witnesses. What followed was a nightmarish ordeal that
Continue readingThe True Crime Case That Inspired Hitchcock’s “The Wrong Man” w/ Jason Isralowitz