Episodios

  • Tracking Harry Tracy
    Jul 29 2024
    The Last Desperado Of The Wild West

    Episode 180 takes us to the final days of the Old West and the search for the notorious outlaw Harry Tracy, who made a daring, deadly escape from the Oregon Penitentiary and embarked on a deadlier two-month flight from justice.


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    1 h y 59 m
  • The Cry From The Grave
    Jul 26 2024
    From The Files of Ellis H. Parker







    Episode 267 is adapted from a first-person article in True Detective Mysteries, December 1928, written from the perspective of Detective Ellis H. Parker of Mount Holly, New Jersey, who during his career was known as “America's Sherlock Holmes.” He solved 288 of the 300 major crimes he worked on during his career, obtaining signed confessions in more than half of them. His most high-profile case was the Lindbergh kidnapping. Stories of his cases were collected in a book by Fletcher Pratt titled “The Cunning Mulatto” in 1935.

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    55 m
  • In The Devil's Beef Tub
    Jul 24 2024
    Buck Ruxton’s Double Jigsaw Puzzle Murder

    Episode 159 takes us once again to the British Isles, our first excursion into Scotland with the story of a physician (some accounts call him a gynecologist) accused of dismembering his wife and the nanny of their children, scattering their parts in a deep bowl-like valley near the town of Moffat, so named as it was known as a good spot for hiding stolen cattle.

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    1 h y 8 m
  • Only Death Can Cure Him
    Jul 22 2024
    The Brickbat Moron Serial Murders

    Episode 210 is a dark journey through five murders in two widely-separated states, all perpetrated by a single, simple-minded man using bricks as weapons. Each case has enough drama to be an episode of its own, but taken together it's five times ugly. So hold on.

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    1 h y 15 m
  • A Savage Attack In A Blackberry Patch
    Jul 19 2024
    The True Crime Of Charles Wilson Against Mamie Walsh

    Episode 266 details a random, impulsive act in the wilds of frontier Oregon. When a pretty little 14 year old girl turns up brutally murdered and possibly raped, the town of Milwaukie and nearby villages teeter on the brink of mob violence for several weeks until... well, no spoilers here.


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    1 h y 27 m
  • The Sicilian Trunk Job
    Jul 17 2024
    he Murder of Philippo Caruso

    Episode 161 takes us on a trip across the Midwest from the Italian slums of Chicago, where a produce salesman meets a terrible fate at the hands of a countryman aboard a train to Pittsburgh where his body was found several days later. In this story, the police and the press work together to break down the brotherhood of silence and crack this horrible crime.

    Culled from the historic pages of the Chicago Tribune, the Inter-Ocean, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette and other newspapers of the era.

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    1 h y 6 m
  • Life, Confession And Atrocious Crimes Of Antoine Probst
    Jul 15 2024
    The Cruel Murder Of The Deering Family

    Episode 177 has been adapted from an 1866 trial pamphlet published in Philadelphia. One of the earliest expressions of true crime in print, trial pamphlets were often embelleshed from newspaper accounts of a case, and like this one--a bloody mass murder on a farmer's family just after the civil war--were released within days of the final disposition.


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    1 h y 7 m
  • The Secret Love Shack Suicide Pact
    Jan 10 2024
    Kid McCoy Down For The Count

    Episode 427 documents a dramatic fall from grace when a beloved American prizefighter and silent film star falls for a married woman, who seemed destined to be his ninth or tenth wife. His marital history is as complicated and murky as her business dealings, and their affair takes a tragic turn late one hot august night.

    Culled from the historic pages of the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers of the era.

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    1 h y 38 m