A True Crime History Podcast
Original Air Date: 7/20/2016 From the 1870s to the 1930s, New York City’s fabled Chinatown was the site of a series of vicious wars between two rival tongs, the On
Continue readingNew York City’s Chinatown Tong Wars w/ Scott D. Seligman
Alfred Knapp, known as the “Hamilton Strangler”, left a trail of dead young women through Southern Ohio in the 1890s and early 1900s. My guest, Richard O Jones, the host
Continue readingOhio’s Celebrity Serial Killer Alfred Knapp w/ Richard O Jones
Dale W. Laackman, author of “For the Kingdom and the Power: The Big Money Swindle That Spread Hate Across America”, tells the story of con artists Edward Young Clarke and
Continue readingThe 1920s PR Team That Reinvented & Swindled the Ku Klux Klan w/ Dale W. Laackman
Original Air Date: 6/29/2016 In the small town of Isadore Michigan in 1907, a young nun named Janina disappeared. Ten years later, her body is discovered by a priest intent
Al Capone is the most infamous gangster in American history, forever associated with Chicago, and known around the world for his connection to the bloody St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. But did
In February of 1874, a group of six men set off through the high mountains of Colorado. Weeks later, only a man named Alfred Packer came out. Packer would later
Continue readingCannibal and Murderer Alfred Packer w/ Harold Schechter
Original Air Date: 5/24/16 My guest on this episode is Jeff Maysh, author of the Kindle single “Handsome Devil”, a book that documents the life and death of one of
Dr. Thomas Neill Cream was a 19th century contemporary of Jack the Ripper, and many claim that they were one and the same. The UK’s A.J. Griffiths-Jones, author of “Prisoner
Continue readingSerial Killer Dr. Thomas Neill Cream w/ A.J. Griffiths-Jones
Original Air Date: 4/4/16 When authorities have difficulties linking physical evidence to Bruno Hauptmann in the Charles Lindbergh Jr. abduction and murder, Arthur Koehler, an expert on wood, helps them
Continue readingArthur Koehler & the 1932 Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping-Murder w/ Adam Schrager
On May 4th, 1886 in Chicago’s Haymarket, a labor rally is interrupted first by a column of police officers, and then by a bomb from the crowd thrown into their