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

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In a rough part of Cleveland Ohio called Kingsbury Run, twelve decapitated bodies, some mutilated and dismembered, were discovered from 1934-1938. My guest, Dr. James Badal, author of “In the

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(Part 1) In this first part of my two part interview with Ellen Poulsen, author of “Don’t Call Us Molls”, we discuss the many women involved with notorious 1930s Public

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In March of 1887 a high-class prostitute and two others, including a child, were found stabbed to death in a luxury apartment on the upscale Avenue Montaigne. Police settle on

Continue readingParis’s Rue Montaigne Murders w/ Aaron Freundschuh

Richard Zacks, bestselling author of “Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd” is my guest, and he tells some stories (and breaks some myths) about a man considered one

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The 1930s were filled with news of midwest bank-robbers like John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd and Bonnie & Clyde, but few know that Boston had its own

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Two events in early 1940s L.A. grabbed newspaper headlines almost back to back- The murder of Jose Diaz and following trial of 22 boys, and the race riots between American

Continue readingWartime Los Angeles’s Sleepy Lagoon Murder & Zoot Suit Riots w/ Eduardo Pagán

Few of us think of 19th century Los Angeles in the same breath as Tombstone, Dodge City, or Deadwood, but in the 1850s it was filled with rampant racism and

Continue readingLynchings, Vigilantism and Murder in 1850s Frontier Los Angeles w/ John Mack Faragher

In 1913 a PR man named John Gluck successfully petitioned the US Post Office for control of New York City’s Santa Claus letters. From that point forward, he not only

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Cory Frye, author of “Murder in Linn County, Oregon: The True Story of the Legendary Plainview Killings” is my guest. He tells two stories. On June 21, 1922, Linn County

Continue readingThe 1920s Murders of Two Oregon Sheriffs w/ Cory Frye