True Crime Historian
Stories of America's scandals, scoundrels and scourges from historic newspapers in the golden era of yellow journalism.
- Website
- https://audioboom.com/channel/true-crime-historian
- Description
- Stories of America's scandals, scoundrels and scourges from historic newspapers in the golden era of yellow journalism.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-05-01 14:41
- last episode published
- 2024-05-01 04:05
- publication frequency
- 6.5 days
- Contributors
- audioBoom
- Owner
- True Crime Historian
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 516
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture Literature History Arts
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Episodes
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| 2024-05-01 | The Scoundrel John Arthur PenderIn episode 259, a woman and her toddler son are brutally murdered in their remote Oregon cabin. Suspicion falls on a neighbor who had been given their mail, found unopened at the crime scene. With intense courtroom testi... |
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| 2024-04-29 | First Lady Of The Electric ChairEpisode 212 tells the story of the first walk of a woman to the electric chair. One cold winter night, a Brooklyn woman apparantly attacks her husband with an axe as he walks through the door, leaving him for dead in the... |
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| 2024-04-26 | The Trial of Susan B. Anthony FeaturingFeaturing Emily Simer Braun as Susan B. Anthony Episode 173 explores the prosecution of one of the most hideous crimes in American history, trying to sway an election by voting. By a woman! Just kidding. The real ... |
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| 2024-04-24 | Betty Martin And Mildred Bolton Take AimEpisode 178 takes us to Chicago in the 1930s when two women stand trial for very similar crimes, murdering their husbands, the second one inspired by the first. Both women are a little crazy, maybe a lot crazy, ... |
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| 2024-04-22 | Elderly Carpenter Murdered With HammerEpisode 199 tells what happens when a grandmother with a grumpy but somewhat older husband befriends a younger man when he's released from prison and begins paying him $250 a month for his, um, affections. Yeah, th... |
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| 2024-04-19 | The Philadelphia Arsenic RingEpisode 181 takes us down a dark road of spiritualism and witchcraft, of an elaborate web that led to an estimated 200 deaths by various means, including arsenic poisoning. And two executions. And twelve lifesentences.Ad-Fr... |
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| 2024-04-17 | The Murder Of Mary PhaganEpisode 183 tells of one of the most infamous cases of an innocent man wrongly accused. When a teenage factory girl is found dead in the basement of an Atlanta pencil manufacturer, blame falls on the mild-mannered Jewish superi... |
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| 2024-04-15 | The Rosier Affair, Part TwoEpisodie 190 finishes up the melodramatic tale of Catherine Rosier as she goes on trial for her life. Get out the smelling salts and tissues, folks, there's a lot of swooning and fainting about to take place, not to mention t... |
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| 2024-04-12 | The Willow Love Triangle Murder PlotEpisode 184 takes us into Pennsylvania Dutch territory, where two local farmers are found murdered in the woods a month apart. Although not related, the second murder sparks intense local interest, especially when th... |
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| 2024-04-10 | The Inept Executioner of Wise CountyEpisode 254 has a different format than usual. I was perusing an old True Detective Magazine and found a story written from the point of view of the hangman of Wise County, Virginia, telling the stories of the five m... |
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