A True Crime History Podcast
Molly Zelko was the crusading editor and publisher of the Spectator, a newspaper devoted to battling local gangsters operating slot machines and other rackets in Joliet, Illinois. In the late
Continue readingThe Mysterious Disappearance of Molly Zelko w/ Rod Kackley
On September 13, 1868, the bodies of Jacob and Nancy Young were discovered brutally murdered along the bank of the White River in Cold Spring, Indiana. Police would eventually set
Continue readingThe Notorious Nancy Clem & the Cold Spring Murders w/ Wendy Gamber
Close to midnight on May 17, 1951, four north Alabama lawmen drove to a bootlegger’s home to serve an arrest warrant. Before the clock struck twelve, the bootlegger lay dead
Continue readingAlabama’s Kilpatrick Shooting w/ Lesa Carnes Shaul
From The Blog
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
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
Continue readingThe Ill-Fated Voyage of the Nanina w/ Eric Jay Dolin
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
Continue readingThe Mysterious Death of Zachary Smith Reynolds w/ Phil Archer
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.
Continue readingThe Murder of Oscar Chitwood w/ Christopher Thrasher
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
Continue readingThe Killing of Boxer Tyrone Everett w/ Sean Nam
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
Continue readingThe Death of James Dean & the “Curse of the Little Bastard” w/ Lee Raskin
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
Continue readingThe General Slocum Disaster w/ Edward T. O’Donnell
Phebe Wise was believed to be a witch by many locals in late 19th and early 20th century Mansfield, Ohio. Bucking societal norms, she lived alone on a large piece of
Continue readingThe Witch of Mansfield: Phebe Wise w/ Mark S. Jordan
William J. Flynn, nicknamed “The Bulldog Detective”, had a fascinating and accomplished career in law enforcement. While in the Secret Service he not only battled the Mafia in New York
Continue reading“The Bulldog Detective” William J. Flynn w/ Jeff D. Simon
My guest is prolific author Larry Millett. His knowledge of Twin Cities architecture and history is unequalled in Minnesota, and he has used his knowledge to write some of the
