• The Tulsa Murder of Charles Reuter, Never Underestimate a Stenographer!
    Jul 25 2024

    S1E15: At just an hour past midnight, on a cool pleasant evening in an opulent neighborhood that edged along the Osage Country of Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1912 - the sound of shots and a woman's screams were heard. A talented young lawyer had been killed, a woman locked in her bedroom and screaming for help from the porch roof. BURGLAR! MURDER! But was everything really as it appeared? Hear about the life and death of Charles Reuter on Twisted Roots: A Genealogist's True Crime Podcast!

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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • Jack the Ripper Files: Mary Ann Nichols
    Jul 18 2024

    S1E14: This episode marks the beginning of our Jack the Ripper Files. Periodic future episodes will be dedicated to each of the victims and suspects of the infamous Jack the Ripper murders that took place in Whitechapel, London in 1888. In this first episode in the collection we will focus on the first of the "Canonical Five", Mary Ann Nichols. She was a wife, mother, and daughter that had been completely estranged from her family for three years. At the time of her death it was noted how similar her murder was to other recent brutal killings in the area, but general consensus of Ripper-ologists has put her as the first. Was she? Join us into this deep dive into the life and death of Mary Ann Nichols.

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • The "Mother" Who Out-Barnumed Barnum
    Jul 11 2024

    S1E13: In this episode we explore a new story and reveal information that has not been discovered in well over a century. The earliest and most successful of the extreme stage mothers, a predecessor of the ladies in the wings who exploited Shirley Temple, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Judy Garland. Learn the story of "Miss Jennie Kimball" and her daughter, "Little Corinne". For the first time, we reveal their true identities.

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    1 hr and 41 mins
  • The Muffin Man: A Serial Killer?
    Jul 4 2024

    S1E12: In this episode of Twisted Roots, Dale and CT explore the truth behind the famous nursery rhyme "The Muffin Man". Originating from the Gullet Shut in Shrewsbury, England we go on a journey through time to Bath, London, and even the Netherlands. Was the Muffin Man a serial killer? This question is now definitively answered!

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    1 hr
  • To Hear the Angels Sing
    Jun 27 2024

    S1E11: After decades of unfair treatment, hardship, and imprisonment - a grandfather must face the tragic death of his beloved granddaughter at the hands of her jealous boyfriend. In this episode we share clips of our interview with witness Deanna, granddaughter of Angelo Vinch and sister of Jeanette Gilbault, as we discuss Angelo's life and other family events leading up to the tragic loss of Jeanette in Ogdensburg, New York in 1952. This is the third of our Ogdensburg stories.

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Oscar Wilde: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name
    Jun 20 2024

    S1E10: In 1895 the literary genius Oscar Wilde was confronted and publicly antagonized by the brutish John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry - the father of Oscar's lover Alfred Bruce "Bosie" Douglas. When Oscar filed a case of libel against the Marquess, it would start a domino effect that lead to his downfall and eventual death. In this special two hour episode for Pride Month, learn how these and other related events affected their lives, their art, their families, and even took down the Prime Minister.

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    2 hrs and 1 min
  • The Murder of David Dinberg
    Jun 13 2024

    S1E9: On a snowy evening in 1926, in the North Country of New York State on the Canadian border - the city of Ogdensburg, the only US city on the St Lawrence River: an older gentlemen sits alone in his kitchen smoking a pipe and writing Hebrew poetry among piles of scrap metal, papers, boxes, and other random items waiting for him to sort for his work as a junk dealer. Then, the unimaginable happens. Hear the story and learn the details of the murder of David Dinberg.

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    58 mins
  • The Basement Murder of Kate Conroy
    Jun 6 2024

    S1E8: On a Spring morning in 1896, while her young daughters were at school, Kate Conroy was confronted by her estranged and jealous husband in her basement tenement apartment in northern New York. After a brief review of an earlier murder in Ogdensburg, learn about Kate's brutal murder and the events leading up to it. These are the 1st and 2nd in our new Ogdensburg Stories series.

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    1 hr and 15 mins