A True Crime History Podcast
Harold Schecter is one of America’s most prolific true crime writers. Back in 2001, he wrote about one of the most chilling serial killing sprees in history, a true life
Continue readingChild Serial Killer Jesse Pomeroy w/ Harold Schechter
Original Air Date: 11/16/2015 (Note: A newer interview about Lizzie Borden with author Cara Robertson can be found here. ) The murders of Andrew and Abby Borden in 1892, and
Original Air Date: 12/1/15 In 1799 Micajah “Big” Harpe and Wiley “Little” Harpe cut a bloody path down the Wilderness Trail in Kentucky and Tennessee, murdering everyone in their path.
From December of 1884 to December of 1885 a serial killer terrorized the city of Austin Texas. He had multiple nicknames: the Midnight Assassin, the Intangible Nemesis and the Servant
Continue readingAustin’s “Midnight Assassin” Serial Killer w/ Skip Hollandsworth
There are many myths surrounding Grigori Rasputin, known in popular history as the “Mad Monk” and the “Holy Devil”. His influence on Tsar Nicholas II and his family in turn-of-the-twentieth-century
Original Air Date: 6/12/2019 Long before Dutch Schultz, “Lucky” Luciano or even Monk Eastman ran rackets in New York City, a man named Albert Hicks terrorized lower Manhattan. He’d made
Continue readingNew York City’s “Gangster Pirate” Albert Hicks w/ Rich Cohen
Original Air Date: 2/7/2020 In the summer of 1937, in an idyllic neighborhood of Los Angeles called Inglewood, the unspeakable happened. Three little girls were lured from a park, assaulted and
Continue readingThe “Babes of Inglewood” Murders w/ Pamela Everett
Original Air Date: 11/23/2015 Mickey Cohen went from selling newspapers on the streets of L.A. to heading one of the largest crime rackets in the United States. He worked under
Continue readingLos Angeles Gangster Mickey Cohen w/ Tere Tereba
In June of 1906, famed architect Stanford White was murdered by an obsessive millionaire’s son named Harry Thaw at the roof garden theater of Madison Square Garden. His attorneys would
Original Air Date: 11/9/2015 Guest Simon Baatz, author of For the Thrill of It: Leopold and Loeb and the Murder That Shocked Chicago talks about the infamous and horrific Bobby