Oklahoma’s Osage Murders w/ David Grann
David Grann, author of the New York Times Bestselling “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI”, is my guest on this week’s episode
Jack the Ripper 101 w/ Donald Rumbelow
(Original air date: 6/4/2017) The number of theories surrounding the Jack the Ripper murders in 1880s London are too staggering to mention. At least 200 suspects have been considered over
Axis Sally w/ Richard Lucas
Mildred Gillars, known to American GIs as “Axis Sally”, was one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious radio propagandists. Hired by German State Radio because of her American accent and seductive
The Murder of Frank Richardson w/ Kimberly Tilley
On Christmas Eve, 1900, 44-year-old dry goods store owner Frank Richardson was shot to death in his Savannah, Missouri home. Suspects included his wife Addie, his teenage lover Goldie Whitehead,
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The Murder of Jennie Bosschieter w/ Kimberly Tilley
In October of 1900, four men accompanied a young woman named Jennie Bosschieter to a New Jersey saloon, where one of them slipped a large amount of chloral hydrate into
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Eliot Ness Vs. The Mad Butcher w/ A. Brad Schwartz
My conversation about the life of Eliot Ness continues with A. Brad Schwartz. After years battling The Outfit in Chicago, Ness was hired as Director of Public Safety in Cleveland,
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Eliot Ness Vs. Al Capone w/ A. Brad Schwartz
Throughout the 1920s Chicago was a cesspool of corruption and violence, due in large part to the obscene amounts of money being made through the illegal manufacture, transportation and sale
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The Murder of Nancy Morgan w/ Mark I. Pinsky
n June of 1970, the body of 24-year-old Nancy Morgan was found inside a government-owned car in Madison County, North Carolina. It had been four days since anyone had heard
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Serial Killer David Meirhofer & the Birth of FBI Profiling w/ Ron Franscell
On June 25th, 1973, Suzie Jaeger was abducted from her tent while camping with her family in Montana. The FBI was baffled by the mystery, until two agents begin using
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The Murder of Mary Phagan & the Lynching of Leo Frank w/ Steve Oney
In 1913, thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan was found brutally murdered in the basement of the Atlanta pencil factory where she worked. The factory manager, a college-educated Jew named Leo Frank, was
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