A True Crime History Podcast
Cults are certainly not a new phenomenon – in fact one of the strangest ones existed in Los Angeles in the 1920s. The “Blackburn Cult”, also known as the “Divine
Continue readingLos Angeles’ Bizarre “Blackburn Cult” w/ Samuel Fort
In October 1922, a sensational murder gripped the city of London. While on a walk home after a show, Percy Thompson was stabbed by Freddy Bywaters, the lover of his
Continue readingThe Murder of Percy Thompson & Execution of Edith Thompson w/ Laura Thompson
Most of us are probably familiar with the Kingston Trio song, “Tom Dooley”, but fewer may realize that it was based on the true life murder of Laura Foster in
Continue readingTom Dooley & the Murder of Laura Foster w/ Charlotte Corbin Barnes
Original Air Date: 4/3/2019 On January 10th, 1883, the famed Newhall House hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, caught fire. Made worse by a series of blunders by hotel staff and a
Continue readingMilwaukee’s Newhall House Fire w/ Matthew J. Prigge
Original Air Date: 8/22/2018 In the early 1900s police were stymied by a series of murders of Italian grocers and fruit vendors in midwest America. Witnesses refused to cooperate, which
Continue readingFrank Oldfield vs. the Black Hand w/ William Oldfield and Victoria Bruce
Original Air Date: 2/20/20 On March 6th, 1873, a brutal double ax murder took the lives of two Norwegian women living on the isolated Smuttynose Island, one of the Isles
Continue readingThe Smuttynose Ax Murders w/ J. Dennis Robinson
In 1919, eight players on the Chicago White Sox baseball team, including “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, were implicated in what would go down in infamy as the Black Sox scandal. In
Continue readingThe 1919 Chicago Black Sox Scandal w/ Charles Fountain
Original Air Date: 9/6/18 Stacy Horn, author of Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad and Criminal in 19th-Century New York, joins me to chat about the infamous New York City island,
Continue readingNew York’s Notorious Blackwell’s Island w/ Stacy Horn
Original Air Date: 12/27/2018 Vincent “Mad Dog” Coll grew up quickly, from Irish tenements to enforcer for Bronx bootlegger and gangster Dutch Schultz while still in his teens. Soon the
Continue reading“Mad Dog” Coll vs. Dutch Schultz w/ Rich Gold
Original Air Date: 10/14/2019 Ellen Poulsen is back, this time to discuss her new book (co-written with Lori Hyde), “Chasing Dillinger: Police Captain Matt Leach, J. Edgar Hoover and the