SHOW NOTES | Old Blood Podcast

May 1, 2023

Episode 38 - Death Dealing: Ned Doheny, Hugh Plunkett & LA Noire

In 1929, the son of oil magnate Edward Doheny was found dead beside his secretary in an apparent murder-suicide. The news exploded onto...

Apr 17, 2023

Episode 37- Bloodstone: The Corpse in the Cylinder

The Blitz in Liverpool, England, unearthed a long-buried cylinder. When a child discovered a corpse inside, it ignited a century-old...

Mar 27, 2023

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...

Jan 23, 2023

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, 2023

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...