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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.
New York, 1888. Ann O'Delia Diss Debar — self-styled Spirit Princess, alleged daughter of Lola Montez — convinced a grieving Madison Avenue...
B. Gratz Brown — ex-senator, sitting governor, Vice-Presidential nominee of two parties at once — was handed the stage built to topple Grant...
Gilded Age Washington, 1876. Senator Stephen W. Dorsey and the Second Assistant Postmaster General ran a bid-rigging racket that bled the Po...
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...
"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...
Gilded Age New York crowned her the Queen of Crime. Sophie Lyons — pickpocket, shoplifter, blackmailer — spent fifty years selling men's sha...
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...
Father George Rapp ran the Harmony Society at Economy, Pennsylvania, by two commandments: celibacy for men whose wives he had evicted, and p...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
Andrew Jackson's Secretary of War spent a decade courting a married woman, arranged her husband's convenient posting to the Mediterranean, a...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Episode 130 Murder By Fire, by Brandon White The Abominable Mr. Yelverton, by Edmund Pearson The American Exchange Bank Robbery, By Clevelan...
William N. Roach embezzled sixty thousand dollars from a Washington bank, fled to Dakota Territory, and returned the money just fast enough...
The Mysterious Death of Louise Monteabaro In Jump To The AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 20, Police Chief Henry Blake’s story stays consi...
Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 22 is an exciting story that has many of the elements of classic noir: A deadly robbery, an e...
Gilded Age New York. William Magear Tweed rode Tammany Hall to the top and looted the city treasury through padded bills, phantom invoices,...
The Assassination of Huey P. Long Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 473 takes us to Baton Rouge on the night of September 8, 19...
The Complicated Romance of Fannie Brice and Notorious Nicky Arnstein Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition In Episode 60, we take a little...
In 1869, Medal of Honor recipient Daniel Butterfield took a ten-thousand-dollar bribe from Jay Gould to leak Treasury gold sales, helping tr...
Turned Into A Tigress By Her Borgia Blood. How A Criminal Acrobat Makes A Living Out Of His Genuine Broken Neck. How A Little Dog Avenged Th...
In 1902, Kansas Senator Joseph R. Burton walked a mail fraud operator into the Post Office inspector's office and made a federal investigati...
The Murder Of Captain Joseph White Jump to AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 472 takes us back to Salem, Massachusetts in 1830 when an old...
What’s In The Package Mr. Wainwright? Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 49 is adapted from our favorite true crime pioneer, Edm...
The Cincinnati Tanyard Murder Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 17 is a report from Lafcadio Hearn, on of my favorite Pioneers...
The Oklahoma Phantom Terror Jump to the Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 471 finds us in 1932, a hill country reporter named Vivian Brown...
The Execution of J.G. Rawlings and His Accomplice Jump to AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 45 takes us back to the turn of the last centur...
San Francisco, California March 28, 1944 A pyromaniac works the skid row district south of Market Street, lighting fires in flophouses all e...
The Trial & Travails Of Norma Brighton Millen Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 43 is the story of a young girl, the daughter o...
Poprad, Slovakia March 25, 1942 Nine hundred and ninety-nine young Jewish women boarded a train believing they were headed to factory work....
From True Crime Pioneer Edmund Pearson Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 25 takes place in 1849, a week before Thanksgiving, in...
Cincinnati, Ohio March 24, 1862 Abolition's golden trumpet, Wendell Phillips, takes the stage at Pike's Opera House to tell a river city wha...
The Wrongful Execution of William Jackson Marion Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 470 begins in 1887, when Nebraska hanged Jac...
The 1896 Klaettke Family Massacre Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 42 is the sad tale of a family of seven shot and killed by...
Oxford, England March 21, 1556 The Archbishop of Canterbury signed five recantations to save his life. Queen Mary scheduled his burning anyw...
Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 14. One summer day in 1896, three young boys discover a mysterious package floating near the...
East Texas March 19, 1687 The man who claimed half a continent for France walked into a stand of river cane looking for his missing nephew....
Murder in the Marberry Resort Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition In Episode 57, we get an unusual glimpse into the world inside a bordel...
Dorcester, England March 17, 1794 A fifteen-year-old girl who claimed she had never learned the difference between good and evil killed her...
The Bawdy House Murder Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 469 unearths the 1919 murder of Lucina Broadwell — a carpenter's wife...
The True Crimes of Edward F. Keller Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 110 follows the criminal career of one Edward F. Keller,...
New Orleans, Louisiana March 14, 1891 A jury acquits nine Italians of murdering the police chief. By noon the next day, a mob of thousands,...
Madame Bessarabo's Explanation Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 111 When the body of a missing international businessman is fo...