My guest is award-winning author Saladin Ambar, who examines a wave of racially motivated killings along the Mississippi River in the 1830s – events that left a deep impression on

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One chill January night in 1867, a Virginia City prostitute was strangled to death in her bed. The murderer was caught and hanged in front of a crowd of thousands,

Continue readingJulia Bulette: Murdered by a Serial Killer? w/ Robin Flinchum

On a chilly night in March of 1976, a father searching for his missing son made a horrifying discovery inside a Chicago apartment – in at what first appeared to

Continue readingChicago’s Apartment 131 Murders w/ Gregg Owen

On a crisp September evening in 1899, a seventeen-year-old petty thief named Edwin Ray Snow shot and killed a bakery deliveryman named Jimmy Whittemore outside Yarmouth, Massachusetts. The gunshots rang

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My guest this week is Suzanne Huntington, co editor of Ripperologist Magazine and author of the recently published book “The Thames Torso Murders: Fact or Fiction?” She not only talks

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New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin returns to the podcast to discuss his books The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang and Bandit Heaven: The

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In 1708, during the War of the Spanish Succession, the Spanish galleon San José sailed from South America carrying a vast cargo of gold and silver bound for Spain. Off

Continue readingThe Shipwreck of the San José & the Quest to Find Its Treasure w/ Julian Sancton

n 1949, a quiet neighborhood in St. Louis became the center of one of the most controversial religious cases in American history. A 13-year-old boy began exhibiting disturbing symptoms including

Continue readingThe 1949 Exorcism That Inspired “The Exorcist” w/ Troy Taylor

Told and retold in many languages, the legend of the Blood Countess has consumed cultural imaginations around the world. But despite claims that Elizabeth Báthory tortured and killed as many

Continue readingElizabeth Báthory: The World’s Worst Female Serial Killer? w/ Shelley Puhak

On a beautiful fall day in September 1916, 68-year-old Hannah Spielman went on a picnic with her new husband, 71-year-old James Allen, in the woods outside Grand Rapids, Michigan. She

Continue readingHenry Scott Mausell: Michigan’s First Serial Killer? w/ Allie Seibert