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Episode 36 - Wicked Creature: Murder on Cherry Hill
A daughter of the New York elite is accused of orchestrating her husband’s murder after he was shot through a second-story window at the...
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- Jan 23
Episode 35 - Bravo: Poison at the Priory
The 30-year-old barrister Charles Bravo died after an excruciating three-day battle with poison. The case was doused in clues, a fact...
- Jan 2
Episode 34 - What Hast Thou Done?: The Ala Moana Five
The 1931 Massie Affair ended in a lynching that shocked the world and a murder trial that threatened the Hawaiian Islands. This is Part...
- Dec 12, 2022
Episode 33- What Hast Thou Done?: The Massie Affair
In 1931, a prominent Navy wife stationed near Pearl Harbor accused five locals of assaulting her after leaving a Waikiki nightclub. This...
- Nov 21, 2022
Episode 32 - Sordid: The Life & Death of Mary Scott
Reports of an American woman slain in Italy's scenic Lake Como circulated across the globe in the summer of 1910. The murdered woman was...
- Oct 31, 2022
Episode 31 - A Deadly Thrust: The Hatpin Panic
When women discovered newfound freedom on the streets of turn-of-the-century America, they also observed new dangers. When society failed...
- Oct 10, 2022
Monstrous Strange II: Lydia Broadnax, Michael Brown & George Wythe
Show Notes for Episode 30- Monstrous Strange II: Lydia Broadnax, Michael Brown & George Wythe This is Part II of Monstrous Strange. For...
- Sep 19, 2022
Episode 29 - Monstrous Strange: Lydia Broadnax, Michael Brown & George Wythe
In 1806, a founding father of the newly created United States was murdered. This episode is the story of a botched murder investigation,...
- Aug 9, 2022
Episode 27 - More Than Murder: Oscar Slater & the Murder of Marion Gilchrist
After an elderly woman was brutally murdered in her upscale Glasgow apartment, police charged a 38 year-old Jewish-German immigrant with...
- Jul 18, 2022
Episode 26 - Battle for Babylon: The LA Times Bombing (Part II)
When the LA Times exploded in 1910, a labor war erupted in Los Angeles. At stake was nothing less than the future of their city. This is...
- Jul 4, 2022
Episode 25 - Battle for Babylon: The LA Times Bombing (I)
In 1910, the city of Los Angeles was an inferno of unrest. A handful of men used coercion, corruption, and outright theft to build their...
- May 31, 2022
Episode 24 - Blood Ink: Greek Murder Trials
How did ancient Greeks obtain justice during a century known for bloodshed and turbulence? And how did the Athenians reconcile such...
- May 16, 2022
Episode 23 - Slum Angel: Elsie Sigel & The Chinatown Trunk Murder
In 1909, New York City Police discovered the corpse of a white woman stuffed into a trunk. Because cops found the corpse in a Chinese...
- Apr 27, 2022
Episode 22- Tea or Homicide: The Caillaux Affair
While World War I erupted throughout Europe, the Caillaux scandal plunged France into a chaotic murder trial that overshadowed the coming...
- Apr 11, 2022
Episode 21: We Not Whipped Yet - The Stono Rebellion
In the very early hours of September 9, 1739, a group of slaves digging a drainage ditch for the Stono River near Charleston, South...
- Feb 28, 2022
Episode 20 - Virago
The 2010 discovery of a skull in broadcaster David Attenborough's backyard finally closed a 130-year-old case that enraged Victorian...
- Feb 14, 2022
Episode 19 - Violent Tyrant
Count Francesco Cenci, a 16th-century Roman nobleman, had a long record of cruel and violent behavior. In September of 1598, villagers...
- Jan 31, 2022
Episode 18 - Sleeping Jackal
In 1864, a small city in southern Brazil witnessed what many have called “the greatest crime on earth.” The legend of what occurred in a...
- Jan 17, 2022
Episode 17 - Goodbye, Billy
New York's Adirondack Mountains have long been praised for their tranquility and restorative powers on the body and soul. But in 1906, a...
- Dec 20, 2021
Episode 16: He Done Her Wrong
In 1899, Allen Britt did Frankie Baker wrong. The consequence of his betrayal was murder and a ragtime song from St. Louis that became a...
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