A True Crime History Podcast
On December 5, 1876, a packed house at the Brooklyn Theatre was watching the hit melodrama “The Two Orphans” when star Kate Claxton spotted a small flame above the stage.
Continue readingThe Fire Witch & the 1876 Brooklyn Theater Inferno w/ Melanie Gall
Throughout nineteenth-century Edinburgh, the surgeon Joseph Bell was known for his extraordinary talent for detection and diagnosis. To the amazement of onlookers at the Royal Infirmary, he could read a
Continue readingDr. Joseph Bell: The Real Sherlock Holmes w/ Lindsey Fitzharris
In March 1957, Master Sergeant Robert Reynolds, a U.S. military adviser living with his family outside Taipei, Taiwan, shot and killed a man named Liu Ziran, who Reynolds claimed had
Continue readingTaiwan’s 1957 Liu Ziran Incident & Reynolds Riot w/ Stephen G. Craft
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On December 5, 1876, a packed house at the Brooklyn Theatre was watching the hit melodrama “The Two Orphans” when star Kate Claxton spotted a small flame above the stage.
Continue readingThe Fire Witch & the 1876 Brooklyn Theater Inferno w/ Melanie Gall
Throughout nineteenth-century Edinburgh, the surgeon Joseph Bell was known for his extraordinary talent for detection and diagnosis. To the amazement of onlookers at the Royal Infirmary, he could read a
Continue readingDr. Joseph Bell: The Real Sherlock Holmes w/ Lindsey Fitzharris
In March 1957, Master Sergeant Robert Reynolds, a U.S. military adviser living with his family outside Taipei, Taiwan, shot and killed a man named Liu Ziran, who Reynolds claimed had
Continue readingTaiwan’s 1957 Liu Ziran Incident & Reynolds Riot w/ Stephen G. Craft
In the winter of 1472, the city of Dijon, France, became the stage for a remarkable legal drama. On the mayor’s orders, an investigator named Jaques Borestel went door-to-door questioning
Continue readingThe Tale of a Medieval Survivor w/ Sara McDougall
There has been lots of buzz recently about Netflix’s gory new series Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, and Cara Robertson, author of “The Trial of Lizzie Borden”, joins me once
Continue readingLizzie Borden Case Expert Cara Robertson Returns
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 Bilansky Murder Case w/ Matthew Cecil
