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
- 2025-02-21 22:27
- last episode published
- 2025-02-21 20:05
- publication frequency
- 5.88 days
- Contributors
- audioBoom
- Owner
- True Crime Historian
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 621
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture Literature History Arts
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Episodes
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| 2025-02-21 | Crime Club Founder Found DeadAd-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 134 takes place five months and one city block from Episode 133, Tears Of The Weeping Willow. They are otherwise unrelated, except that both incidents begin with sexual assaults that end in... |
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| 2025-02-19 | Who Killed The Widow Short? Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 137 is the quirky story of the death of a beloved widow in Topeka, Kansas. She was old and in ill health, and no one suspected any foul play until her caretaker--allegedly her late husband’s... |
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| 2025-02-17 | The Complicated Death Of Starr FaithfullAd-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 138 is the story that inspired the John O’Hara novel and the Elizabeth Taylor film “BUtterfield 8,” the sad, sordid tale of a beautiful girl with an evocative name and a traumati... |
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| 2025-02-14 | The Murder Of William Desmond TaylorAd-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 295 recaps one of Hollywood’s first and most sensational murder cases. After his death, the mysterious past life and personal entanglements of William Desmond Taylor lead in a dozen ... |
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| 2025-02-12 | Episode 294Ad-Free Safe House Edition Pulp Nonfiction“I’d die before I’d let a man do anything to me,” she said. And she did.Adapted from “Joanna And The Hillbilly Lover Boy,” by George Vedder Jones, True Detective, Vol.73 No.1, May 1960Become a suppor... |
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| 2025-02-10 | A Rampage In RichmondAd-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 293 may start out like your ordinary love triangle gone awry, but the city of Richmond, Virginia is scandalized by the revelations that come out about the young people of their city during the shoc... |
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| 2025-02-07 | Historic Lady KillersAd-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 292, in which we pay our respects to a quartet of murdered wives:Sarah Yargus, murdered by her husband John Yargus, July 13, 1849;Pauline Schmitt, murdered by her husband Germain Schmitt, January 2... |
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| 2025-02-05 | Six Dead At Erland’s PointAd-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 139 is the gruesome story of a home invasion, circa 1934, a case that seemed so random that it took over a year to crack one of the most brutal mass murders witnessed by the Pacific Northwest.... |
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| 2025-02-03 | Episode 165:Ad-Free Safe House Edition"Murder By Dynamite," by Stewart Whitehouse. An explosion in the mens room of a department store sets off a wave of copycats, including one plot to murder a young lawyer by booby-trapping his car with dynamite. Mor... |
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| 2025-01-31 | AKA The Lipstick Killer And His Imaginary AccompliceEpisode 291Ad-Free EditionHang onto your seats, folks, this one is another wild ride down psychopath lane. Folks in a nice Chicago neighborhood are scandalized when a string of murders go from fearsom... |
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