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True Crime Historian

Richard O Jones

Stories of the famous and forgotten scandals, scoundrels and scourges of the past, told from historic newspapers accounts in the golden age of yellow journalism.

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Listen to True Crime Historian, a Society & Culture podcast by Richard O Jones. Stream 428 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Femme Fatale Ann O'Delia Diss Debar

New York, 1888. Ann O'Delia Diss Debar — self-styled Spirit Princess, alleged daughter of Lola Montez — convinced a grieving Madison Avenue...

9:52May 8, 2026

American Scoudrel B. Gratz Brown

B. Gratz Brown — ex-senator, sitting governor, Vice-Presidential nominee of two parties at once — was handed the stage built to topple Grant...

9:48May 7, 2026

American Scoundrel Stephen Wallace Dorsey

Gilded Age Washington, 1876. Senator Stephen W. Dorsey and the Second Assistant Postmaster General ran a bid-rigging racket that bled the Po...

9:05May 5, 2026

The Moonlight Row

The Smuttynose Island Murders of 1873 Jump To The AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 476 explores a case would become one of the most sensat...

54:00May 4, 2026

The Tiny Error of the Wily Widow

"The Tiny Error of the Wily Widow" (57:52) transports us to the plains of the Dakotas and another plot, this one to get rid of a wealthy hus...

14:36May 3, 2026

Femme Fatale Sophie Lyons

Gilded Age New York crowned her the Queen of Crime. Sophie Lyons — pickpocket, shoplifter, blackmailer — spent fifty years selling men's sha...

9:36May 2, 2026

The Poison Pastor

Crimes of the Scoundrel Clarence V.T. Richeson Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 74 explores the tawdry case of Clarence Virgil...

43:23May 1, 2026

American Scoundrel Johann Georg Rapp

Father George Rapp ran the Harmony Society at Economy, Pennsylvania, by two commandments: celibacy for men whose wives he had evicted, and p...

9:29Apr 30, 2026

The Ogress Of Reading

The Trial and Execution of Amelia Dyer Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 43 comes at the request of a listener across the great...

52:32Apr 29, 2026

American Scoundrel: George Cassiday

For ten years, George Cassiday, known on Capitol Hill as the Man in the Green Hat, ran liquor to the United States Congress while four out o...

8:50Apr 28, 2026

STARKWEATHER

The Nebraska Spree Killer Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 475 takes us on a wild ride across Nebraska with Charles Starkweath...

55:07Apr 27, 2026

The Merry Widow Of Bicester

"The Merry Widow of Bicester" takes us to battle-torn England during World War II, when as if there wasn't already enough death and sufferin...

12:48Apr 26, 2026

Cassie Chadwick

Born Elizabeth Bigley in a Ontario railway camp, she died Cassie Chadwick in an Ohio prison cell — and in between, she convinced the banks o...

11:33Apr 25, 2026

A Family Of Outlaws

The Reckless Reno Gang Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 92 takes place after the Civil War, when the Reno Brothers explored a...

25:10Apr 24, 2026

American Scoundrel John Eaton

Andrew Jackson's Secretary of War spent a decade courting a married woman, arranged her husband's convenient posting to the Mediterranean, a...

10:11Apr 23, 2026

Lizzie Gillespie Killed By Twin Brother

Family Tragedy in Rising Sun Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 89. In a lot of these stories from the old newspapers, the press...

51:11Apr 22, 2026

American Scoundrel Clyde Tolson

Clyde Tolson ran personnel and discipline at the FBI for 44 years — the man who hired, promoted, and silenced the agents who carried out J....

10:50Apr 21, 2026

At The Bottom Of A Brookfield Well

The Case Of Bathsheba Spooner Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 474 takes place in 1788 when the secrets of a prosperous Massac...

53:19Apr 20, 2026

Femme Fatale Wu Zetian

Wu Zetian entered the Tang court as a teenage concubine in 638. By 690, she'd murdered her way to the Dragon Throne — the only woman in Chin...

9:54Apr 19, 2026

Magazine #4

Episode 130 Murder By Fire, by Brandon White The Abominable Mr. Yelverton, by Edmund Pearson The American Exchange Bank Robbery, By Clevelan...

122:16Apr 18, 2026

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