On July 24, 1964, twenty-four-year-old Matthew Kerry Smith disguised himself with a mask and a Beatle wig, hoisted a semi-automatic rifle, then held up a bank in North York, Ontario.

Continue readingThe Beatle Bandit w/ Nate Hendley

The American government was faced with an unprecedented challenge: where to house the nearly 400,000 German prisoners of war plucked from the battlefield and shipped across the Atlantic. On orders

Continue readingAmerica’s Nazi POW Murders w/ William Geroux

Shortly before dusk on November 3, 1870, just as the ferryboat El Capitan was pulling away from its slip into San Francisco Bay, a woman clad in black emerged from

Continue readingThe 1870 Murder of A.P. Crittenden w/ Gary Krist

On a nearly moonless night in October 1943, a single gunshot rang out in Littlefield, Texas. A prominent Texas doctor and his wife were found bound, shot, beaten, and murdered.

Continue readingThe 1943 Murders of Dr. Roy & Mae Hunt w/ Christena Stephens

Molly Zelko was the crusading editor and publisher of the Spectator, a newspaper devoted to battling local gangsters operating slot machines and other rackets in Joliet, Illinois. In the late

Continue readingThe Mysterious Disappearance of Molly Zelko w/ Rod Kackley

On September 13, 1868, the bodies of Jacob and Nancy Young were discovered brutally murdered along the bank of the White River in Cold Spring, Indiana. Police would eventually set

Continue readingThe Notorious Nancy Clem & the Cold Spring Murders w/ Wendy Gamber

Close to midnight on May 17, 1951, four north Alabama lawmen drove to a bootlegger’s home to serve an arrest warrant. Before the clock struck twelve, the bootlegger lay dead

Continue readingAlabama’s Kilpatrick Shooting w/ Lesa Carnes Shaul

My guest today is Dr. Amy Helen Bell, author of “Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Blackout London”. She shares accounts of murder, terror and tragedy experienced by Londoners during

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My guest this week is award-winning journalist Ken Fortenberry, author of “Flight 7 Is Missing: The Search for My Father’s Killer”. He walks us through the ill-fated flight of Pan

Continue readingThe Pan Am Flight 7 Seven Crash w/ Ken Fortenberry

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Jenny Maxwell was one of Hollywood’s “it girls”, appearing in countless television shows and films. Arguably her most memorable role was that of

Continue readingThe Murder of “Elvis Girl” Jenny Maxwell w/ Buddy Moorehouse