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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...
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- 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...
- Dec 6, 2021
Episode 15 - A Terrible Tango
In 1917, a dance craze swept through the streets of New York City, prompting reformers to launch a campaign against tango bars and the...
- Nov 23, 2021
Episode 14: Let Him Kill Me
Episode 14 - Let Him Kill Me In a real game of thrones, the Julio-Claudian family jostled for power throughout their century-long...
- Nov 8, 2021
Episode 13: The Real Rappe (Part II)
If you recognize the name Fatty Arbuckle at all, it is likely in conjunction with Hollywood's greatest scandal. He's known as the man who...
- Oct 25, 2021
Episode 12: The Real Rappe (Part I)
Episode 12 - The Real Rappe (Part I) If you recognize the name Fatty Arbuckle at all, it is likely in conjunction with Hollywood's...
- Oct 11, 2021
Episode 11: The Dreadful Place
The Bastendorffs’ home was considered one of the few respectable boarding homes in Victorian London...until the discovery of a corpse...
- Sep 27, 2021
Episode 10 - Liver Eaters & Liars
John "Liver-Eating" Johnston was one of the "mountain men" who explored the American Northwest in the mid to late 1800s. Like the other...
- Sep 20, 2021
Episode 9- The Terror: July
By 1793, radical revolutionaries had unleashed a wave of bloodshed that threatened to swallow France whole. Charlotte Corday travels to...
- Sep 7, 2021
Episode 8- The Terror: September
Jean-Paul Marat terrorized France with his newspaper long before the most famous period of the French Revolution known as the Terror. By...
- Sep 6, 2021
Episode 7: Aqua Tofana
Episode 6 - Aqua Tofana Newly widowed women began to fill the streets of 17th century Rome. This prompted an investigation into their...
- Aug 30, 2021
Episode 6 - Crippen
Show Notes Episode 6 - Crippen In 1910, London police discovered human remains underneath the home of a homeopathic doctor. The discovery...
- Aug 23, 2021
Episode 5: The Women of Alexandria
Show Notes Episode 5 - The Women of Alexandria Raya and Sakina have become legends in Egypt, infamous for being the sisters who murdered...
- Aug 16, 2021
Episode 4 - Francis Blandy
When Mary Blandy fell in love with a Scottish nobleman in 1747, she had no idea that in just a few years, her father would be murdered...
- Aug 9, 2021
Episode 3: Ruby McCollum
It is 1952 in Florida, the heart of Jim Crow. A black woman walks into a white doctor's office and shoots the doctor dead. But why? And...
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