A True Crime History Podcast
In the winter of 1974 Athalia Ponsell Lindsley was in the midst of a bitter feud with her neighbor, Alan Stanford. The feud ended in brutal fashion on January 23rd
Continue readingThe Murder of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley w/ Elizabeth Randall
In November of 1958 a pregnant nurse named Olga Duncan disappeared from her suburban California apartment. Police quickly suspected Olga’s mother in-law Elizabeth Duncan, a domineering and manipulative woman who
Continue readingThe Murder of Olga Duncan w/ Deborah Holt Larkin
A. Brad Schwartz, who entertained us with Eliot Ness stories in back-to-back episodes earlier this year, returns to talk about the notorious October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of War of
Continue readingThe 1938 War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast w/ A. Brad Schwartz
In 1944 a battalion of African-American soldiers were tasked with the horrific job of building a road through the heart of the Indo-Burmese jungle during World War II. One of
On September 16, 1922, the bodies of Reverend Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills were found beneath a crabapple tree on an abandoned farm outside of New Brunswick, New Jersey. The
Paris, 1889: Margeurite Steinheil is a woman with ambition. But having been born into a middle-class family and trapped in a marriage to a failed artist twenty years her senior,
Continue readingThe Red Widow: Marguerite “Meg” Steinheil w/ Sarah Horowitz
Robert Ray Hamilton, great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton, was a successful man in the late 1880s. Powered by family money and fame, he spent his time developing real estate and serving
On the morning of September 6th, 1949, a twenty-eight-year-old WWII veteran and loner named Howard Unruh stepped out of his East Camden, New Jersey apartment and shot and killed thirteen
Continue readingAmerica’s First Recorded Mass Shooting w/ Ellen J. Green
On the morning of July 16, 1936, the crumpled body of nineteen-year-old college student Helen Clevenger was found by her uncle in her room at Asheville, North Carolina’s Battery Park
Continue readingThe Murder of Helen Clevenger w/ Anne Chesky Smith
The Texas Rangers in the late 1880s were a tough and colorful lot, especially the members of Company F. And while they made their livings hunting down outlaws, none proved
Continue readingTexas Ranger Company F Vs. The Conner Family w/ Joe Pappalardo