A True Crime History Podcast
On August 25, 1938, twenty-five-year-old Ben Dickson and his fifteen-year-old wife Stella Mae robbed the Corn Exchange Bank in Elkton, South Dakota, making off with $2,187.64. Two months later they
Continue readingOutlaw Public Enemies Ben & Stella Mae Dickson w/ Matt Cecil
Eli Frankel, author of Sisters in Death: The Black Dahlia, The Prairie Heiress, & Their Hunter, returns to share his thoughts on the recent explosion of interest in Marvin Margolis
Continue readingBlack Dahlia Case Expert Eli Frankel Returns
On August 23, 1969, the badly decomposed body of twelve-year-old Tina Marie Andrews was found under a discarded sofa in the woods outside McComb, Mississippi. Days earlier, she and a
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On August 25, 1938, twenty-five-year-old Ben Dickson and his fifteen-year-old wife Stella Mae robbed the Corn Exchange Bank in Elkton, South Dakota, making off with $2,187.64. Two months later they
Continue readingOutlaw Public Enemies Ben & Stella Mae Dickson w/ Matt Cecil
Eli Frankel, author of Sisters in Death: The Black Dahlia, The Prairie Heiress, & Their Hunter, returns to share his thoughts on the recent explosion of interest in Marvin Margolis
Continue readingBlack Dahlia Case Expert Eli Frankel Returns
On August 23, 1969, the badly decomposed body of twelve-year-old Tina Marie Andrews was found under a discarded sofa in the woods outside McComb, Mississippi. Days earlier, she and a
Just months after the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders, the body of a 19-year-old woman was discovered off a secluded stretch of Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles on November 16th, 1969. She
Continue readingJane Doe #59: The Murder of Reet Jurvetson w/ Catherine Fogarty
On this latest episode of Minnesota’s Most Notorious: Where Blood Runs Cold, I speak with Matt Cecil about one of the most infamous murder cases in Minnesota history. In 1859,
Continue readingThe Ann Bilanksy Murder Case w/ Matthew Cecil
My conversation with Derek Sherwood, author of Nittany Nightmare: The Sex Murders of 1938–1940 and the Panic at Penn State, continues. He shares a story about trying to find the
Continue readingThe Nittany Nightmare Murders Part 2 w/ Derek Sherwood
Between November 1938 and May 1940, Margaret Martin, Rachel Taylor and Faye Gates were abducted and sexually assaulted, their bodies dumped within 50 miles of Penn State College. My guest
Continue readingThe Nittany Nightmare Murders Part 1 w/ Derek Sherwood
On October 7, 1896, the citizens of Sherburn, a small town in southwestern Minnesota, were horrified when two brothers from Iowa held up the local bank and murdered two men
Continue readingThe Deadly 1896 Sherburn Bank Robbery w/ Jeffrey Sauve
The Harp(e) brothers have been called America’s first serial killers, once notorious enough to be the stuff of folklore and legend before fading into obscurity. In the chaos of the
Continue readingThe Murderous Harp Brothers Revisited w/ Katherine Grandjean
William Morgan was last seen in Batavia, New York, in September 1826, shortly after threatening to publish purported Masonic secrets. He was arrested that same month in Canandaigua, transported to
Continue readingThe Mysterious Disappearance of William Morgan w/ Ann Webster Bunch
