A True Crime History Podcast
On May 30, 1899, history was made when Pearl Hart, disguised as a man, held up a stagecoach in Arizona and robbed the passengers at gunpoint. A manhunt ensued as
Continue readingThe Old West’s “Bandit Queen” Pearl Hart w/ John Boessenecker
In 1934 South Australian policeman Bill McKinnon is sent to investigate a murder and make arrests in the so-called “dead heart” of the country. After some of his Aboriginal prisoners
In 1931 a young woman named Helen Spence, part of a houseboat community along Arkansas’ White River, shocked everyone when she stood up in a local courtroom and shot to
Continue readingVengeance, Tragedy & Murder on the Arkansas Delta w/ Denise White Parkinson
In the winter of 1974 Athalia Ponsell Lindsley was in the midst of a bitter feud with her neighbor, Alan Stanford. The feud ended in brutal fashion on January 23rd
Continue readingThe Murder of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley w/ Elizabeth Randall
In November of 1958 a pregnant nurse named Olga Duncan disappeared from her suburban California apartment. Police quickly suspected Olga’s mother in-law Elizabeth Duncan, a domineering and manipulative woman who
Continue readingThe Murder of Olga Duncan w/ Deborah Holt Larkin
A. Brad Schwartz, who entertained us with Eliot Ness stories in back-to-back episodes earlier this year, returns to talk about the notorious October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of War of
Continue readingThe 1938 War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast w/ A. Brad Schwartz
In 1944 a battalion of African-American soldiers were tasked with the horrific job of building a road through the heart of the Indo-Burmese jungle during World War II. One of
On September 16, 1922, the bodies of Reverend Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills were found beneath a crabapple tree on an abandoned farm outside of New Brunswick, New Jersey. The
Paris, 1889: Margeurite Steinheil is a woman with ambition. But having been born into a middle-class family and trapped in a marriage to a failed artist twenty years her senior,
Continue readingThe Red Widow: Marguerite “Meg” Steinheil w/ Sarah Horowitz
Robert Ray Hamilton, great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton, was a successful man in the late 1880s. Powered by family money and fame, he spent his time developing real estate and serving