A True Crime History Podcast
1952 post-war London was a city in the throes of tragedy. Thousands were sickened and killed from a great filthy smog that choked the city. In the meantime a serial
Continue readingSerial Killer John Reginald Christie & the Great London Smog w/ Kate Winkler Dawson
Perhaps the most notorious killer in 19th century America was H.H. Holmes, a man who committed fraud and murder with cold abandon across the United States. His infamous Chicago “murder
My guest, Jay Atkinson, author of “Massacre on the Merrimack”, tells the notorious and controversial story of Hannah Duston. After members of the Abenaki tribe captured her and her newborn
Continue readingThe Revenge of Hannah Duston w/ Jay Atkinson
In the spring of 1897, Chicago sausage tycoon Adolph Leutgert’s wife Louisa went missing. Police soon suspected her body had been dissolved in a vat in Adolph’s factory. My guest,
Continue readingChicago’s Sausage Vat Murder w/ Robert Loerzel
In 1828 two friends named William Burke and William Hare killed sixteen people in Edinburgh, Scotland and sold their bodies to an anatomist named Dr. Robert Knox. Dr. Lisa Rosner,
Continue readingScotland’s Serial Killing Duo Burke & Hare w/ Lisa Rosner
Oklahoma oilman and multi-millionaire Jake Hamon had just helped elect Warren Harding President of the United States and had a fast track to become Secretary of the Interior – but
Continue readingThe Murder of Oilman Jake Hamon w/ David R. Stokes
My guest is historian Michael Greenburg, the author of “The Mad Bomber of New York, The Extraordinary True Story of the Manhunt that Paralyzed a City”. He tells the story
On September 28th, 1953, Bobby Greenlease, six-year-old son of millionaire Robert Greenlease, was kidnapped and then murdered by two grifters named Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Brown Heady. John Heidenry,
Continue readingThe Kidnap and Murder of Bobby Greenlease w/ John Heidenry
My guest is Juliet Mofford, author of “The Devil Made Me Do It! Crime and Punishment in Early New England”. She discusses a variety of topics, including scarlet letters, witches,
Continue readingCrime & Punishment in Puritan New England w/ Juliet Mofford
My guest today, Catherine Spude, author of “That Fiend in Hell: Soapy Smith in Legend”, tells the story of the renowned con-man, crime boss and murderer Soapy Smith, known in