Crime Classics | Old Time Radio
Old Time Retro Radio
Crime Classics | Old Time Radio brings infamous crimes, notorious criminals, and remarkable true-crime cases from history to life through the distinctive storytelling of classic radio. Each episode combines dark humor, suspense, historical detail, and dramatic recreations of crimes that once captured public attention. Each episode is an Old Time Retro Radio production, presenting the original broadcast with gently cleaned and mastered audio, a newly produced introduction and closing, and custom episode artwork. Created by Elliott Lewis, Crime Classics became one of radio’s most distinctive true-crime anthology series, dramatizing unusual murders and criminal cases from centuries of history. Rediscover classic old time radio true crime, historical crime, murder mysteries, suspense, crime drama, and vintage radio.
- 22 episodes
- weekly
- Avg 30 min
- English
Counted on this page — what you have heard stays on this device, so it is not something the list can be paged by.
October 18 · 28 minCrime Classics - "Jean Baptiste Troppmann Killer of Many" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
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October 11 · 31 minCrime Classics - "The Boorn Brothers and the Hangman a Study in Nip and Tuck" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
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September 27 · 30 minCrime Classics - "Incredible History of John Shepard" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
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September 20 · 30 minCrime Classics - "Twenty Three Knives Against Caesar" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
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September 13 · 30 minCrime Classics - "John Hayes His Head and How They Were Parted" (Old Time Radio, 1953)
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September 6 · 30 minCrime Classics - "Death of a Baltimore Birdie and Friend" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
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September 6 · 30 minCrime Classics - "Axe and Droot Family How They Fared" (Old Time Radio, 1953)
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August 30 · 30 minCrime Classics - "Blackbeards 14th Wife Why She Was No Good for Him" (Old Time Radio, 1953)
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August 30 · 29 minCrime Classics - "The Checkered Life and Sudden Death of James Fisk Junior" (Old Time Radio, 1953)
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August 23 · 30 minCrime Classics - "Good Evening My Name Is Jack the Ripper" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
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August 23 · 30 minCrime Classics - "Cesare Borgia His Most Difficult Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
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August 19 · 30 minCrime Classics - "Madeline Smith Maid or Murderess Which" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
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August 17 · 29 minCrime Classics - "The Crime of Bathsheba Spooner Audition" (Old Time Radio, 1952)
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- August 10 · 29 min
Roger Nems, How He, Though Dead, Won the Game (AFRTS) [episode 35], Broadcast 3/3/1954
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- August 3 · 29 min
The Good Ship Jane, Why She Became Flotsam [episode 34], Broadcast 2/24/1954
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