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The Raymond Ripper: The Brutal 1906 Murder of James Logan
In 1906, the mutilated body of young sales clerk James Logan was discovered on Southern California’s grandest resort hotel, The Raymond....
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Episode 78-Whiskey & Arsenic: The First Murder By Mail
The first ‘Murder by Mail’ was sent to Mrs. Josephine Barnaby in 1891 in the form of an arsenic-laced whiskey bottle. When she and a...
Sep 1


Episode 77 - Murder Pure & Simple: Love and Violence in 1869 New York
A fatal 1869 shooting at the New York Tribune led to a contentious debate about love, divorce, and women’s rights in America. Sources :...
Aug 11


Episode 76- Death House: The Life & Crimes of George Hassell
Texas authorities arrested George Hassell on Christmas Day of 1926 after his wife and her eight children went missing. George cried, “I...
Jul 21


Episode 75 - The Beautiful & The Bestial: A Courtesan, a Prince, and a Murder at the Savoy
A deadly shooting at London’s extravagant Savoy Hotel in 1923 prompted a murder trial that pitted East against West. Was the tragedy the...
Jun 30


Episode 74 - If Murder There Was: Typhoid & Tragedy in 1909 Missouri
Six nurses threatened to storm out of the Swope mansion in Missouri at the height of a 1909 typhoid epidemic, claiming that “people are...
Jun 9


Episode 73- Bullets for Ruth: The Wanderers & The Ragged Stranger
Chicago crime reporters descended upon Ruth and Carl Wanderer’s Chicago home after the war hero’s wife was shot dead in a holdup at their...
May 19


Episode 72- Broken Pearl: The 1896 Beheading of Pearl Bryan
A boy’s shortcut through a Kentucky fruit farm in 1896 uncovered the headless body of a woman, later identified as Pearl Bryan. How did...
Apr 28


Episode 71 - Fear No Evil: Ed Johnson & 1906 Tennessee
The 1906 assault of a white woman in Chattanooga led to a murder and the U.S. Supreme Court’s first and only intervention in a state...
Apr 7
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