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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.

True Crime Historian Podcast Guide

Listen to True Crime Historian, a Society & Culture podcast by Richard O Jones. Stream 434 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Don't Mourn! Organize!

The Execution Of Joe Hill Jump To The AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 487 takes us to Salt Lake City, 1914, where a grocer and his sevent...

58:11Jun 15, 2026

The Dumbbell Murder

The Snyder-Gray Affair Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 486 takes us to a Dutch Colonial on 222nd Street in Queens Village, wh...

54:34Jun 8, 2026

The Eltham Murder

The Girl Who Named Him Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 485 takes us to Kidbrooke Lane, Eltham, before dawn on the twenty-sixt...

53:39Jun 1, 2026

The Luger In The Dark

Assassin Unknown Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 484 takes us to a frost-covered parlor outside Yankton, South Dakota, on the...

52:40May 25, 2026

The White Flag Massacre

No Mercy At Mountain Meadows Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 482 takes us to Mountain Meadows, Utah Territory, 1857, where Ar...

45:55May 18, 2026

The Fourteenth Fiasco

The Klan Claims A Scallywag Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 477 tells the story of Judge George W. Ashburn — Union colonel, s...

55:12May 11, 2026

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