Episodios

  • Ready For Rope

    Ready For Rope
    Jul 4 2025
    The Murder Of Sheriff Rogers At Glencoe

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    Episode 353 takes place in late 19th century Minnesota, but plays out like a classic Western tale. You know the one, where a pair of strangers come into town, shoot the sheriff, and incite the citizenry to take the law into their own hands.

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    1 h y 16 m
  • Gin! Jazz! Guns!

    Gin! Jazz! Guns!
    Dec 16 2023
    The Real ‘Chicago’ Murders

    Episode 352 explores the two murders that inspired the hit musical “Chicago,” which was based on a play by Maurine Watkins, who did some reporting on both cases as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. I’ll be joined by my colleague Susan Ferman, whose own podcast Catastrophic Calamities, will premiere next week on the Pulpular Media network. Susan will read about the case of Beulah Annan, who became Roxy Hart on stage. I will read the case of Belva Gaertner, who became Velma Kelly.Culled from the historic pages of the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, and other newspapers of the era.This episode includes a reference to a fellow murderess Sabela Nitti, whose story you can hear about in True Crime Historian 230, The Ugly Duckling Murderess.

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    1 h y 37 m
  • The Bad Butcher Boy Of Hollywood

    The Bad Butcher Boy Of Hollywood
    Jun 30 2025
    The Murder Of Myrtle Mellus

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    Episode 350 relates the tale of a love triangle ending in tragedy when a Hollywood socialite is found murdered after one of her regular trysts with her young lover. There’s a lot of drinking and debauchery involved in this, and we never really get all the details of this sordid liaison, but just enough to spark the imagination.

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    1 h y 41 m
  • Blood On The Bridge

    Blood On The Bridge
    Jun 27 2025
    The Murder Of Bessie Little

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    Episode 348 takes place in Dayton, Ohio, just up the Great Miami River from my hometown. I'm trying to come up with a name for this particular narrative trope, the murder of a woman by a man whose child she is carrying -- consequently also the murder of an unborn child. There is some question in this case if Bessie Little was actually pregnant. But the point is, somebody thought she was.

    The word I came up with: Pregnicide.

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    1 h y 22 m
  • The Secret Love Shack Suicide Pact

    The Secret Love Shack Suicide Pact
    Jan 10 2024
    Kid McCoy Down For The Count

    Episode 427 documents a dramatic fall from grace when a beloved American prizefighter and silent film star falls for a married woman, who seemed destined to be his ninth or tenth wife. His marital history is as complicated and murky as her business dealings, and their affair takes a tragic turn late one hot august night.

    Culled from the historic pages of the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers of the era.

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    1 h y 38 m
  • Secrets Of A Meddling Mother-In-Law

    Secrets Of A Meddling Mother-In-Law
    Jun 26 2025
    The Trunk In Minnie Lee Griffin’s Basement

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    Episode 347 is a cautionary tale about what can go wrong if you get too involved in the lives of your grown children. When the widow Minnie Lee Griffin thought that her son-in-law was being pursued by a beautiful neighbor, she resorted to subterfuge to save her daughters marriage, and eventually to murder.

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    1 h y 21 m
  • The Fiend Of Nebraska

    The Fiend Of Nebraska
    Jan 8 2024
    Life And Confession of Stephen Dee Richards

    Episode 223 takes us to the prairies of Nebraska to explore the state's first serial killer, Stephen Dee Richards. His confession and the reporting of his murder come from a sensational trial pamphlet published shortly after his death, the 19th century version of a true crime podcast.

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    1 h y 10 m