A True Crime History Podcast
Just in time for some Halloween, Diane Student, co-producer and host of the History Goes Bump podcast, joins me to share her list of the top ten most notorious ghosts
Continue readingTop 10 Most Notorious Historical Ghosts w/ Diane Student
In Stewartstown, Pennsylvania, on a November evening in 1928, Nelson Rehymeyer, a local “powwow” practitioner of Christian folk magic, is murdered in his home. John Blymire soon confesses, telling police
Continue readingThe Murder of Nelson Rehymeyer w/ Shane Free
In December 1888, in Bradford, England, a little boy named Johnny Gill disappears and is eventually found murdered, his body mutilated almost beyond recognition. Kathryn McMaster, author of “Who Killed
Continue readingThe Murder of Johnny Gill w/ Kathryn McMaster
In 1871, on the outskirts of London, a police constable discovers a young woman, bloodied and battered beyond recognition. She dies, and the police officially have a murder on their
Continue readingThe Murder of Jane Clouson w/ Paul Thomas Murphy
Bestselling UK author Kate Summerscale joins me to talk about her book, “The Wicked Boy”. Two young boys, Robert and Nattie Coombs, conspire to murder their mother in Victorian-era London.
Continue readingMatricide in 1895 London w/ Kate Summerscale
In April of 1920, neighbors discover the bodies of most of the Wolf Family, killed by shotgun and hatchet, on their North Dakota farm, just outside Turtle Lake. Only the
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