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True Crime Historian

Richard O Jones

Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told through vintage newspaper accounts from the golden age of yellow journalism

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#499
September 6 · 54 min
The House On Second Street
The Borden Murders https://www.patreon.com/TrueCrimeHistorian/posts/164998384 Episode 499 revisits the most famous event in American crime history, a sweltering August day in 1892, when Andrew and Abby Borden were hacked to death with a hatchet in...
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#498
August 31 · 59 min
The Devil on 63rd Street
H.H. Holmes and the Murder Castle https://www.patreon.com/TrueCrimeHistorian/posts/devil-on-63rd-164824622/ Episode 498. Chicago, 1893. Twenty-seven million people come for the World's Fair. A pleasant, well-dressed doctor named Holmes places an ad...
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#497
August 24 · 56 min
The Axeman Of New Orleans
A Spirit and a Demon from the Hottest Hell https://www.patreon.com/TrueCrimeHistorian/posts/axeman-of-new-164805638/ Episode 497 takes place in New Orleans, 1918. A killer is working the back streets of the Italian immigrant neighborhoods —...
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#496
August 16 · 55 min
The Walk Of Death
A Diary Of Retribution https://www.patreon.com/TrueCrimeHistorian/posts/walk-of-death-164200861 Episode 496. September 6, 1949. A World War II veteran put on his best suit, loaded a German Luger, and walked out of his Camden apartment. Thirteen...
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#495
August 10 · 47 min
The Footprints That Led In
The HinterKaifeck Murders https://www.patreon.com/posts/footprints-that-159416051/ Episode 495 takes place in the weeks before Easter 1922, when footprints appear in the snow outside a remote Bavarian farm. They lead in from the forest. None lead...
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#494
August 3 · 57 min
I Merely Shot Him
The Eighty Days Of President Garfield https://www.patreon.com/posts/i-merely-shot-159401270 Episode 494. July 1881. Charles Guiteau waits in a Washington railroad station with a revolver picked for its ivory grip — he wants it to look good in a...
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#245
July 27 · 1 hr 8 min
Transatlantic Trunk Murders
Episode 246. Pulp Nonfiction: Remembering the Pioneers of True Crime https://www.patreon.com/posts/91236412 "The Lake Como Honeymoon Trunk Murder" by R.O. Scallan. When an American newlywed bride's body turns up in a trunk in an Italian lake,...
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#493
July 19 · 57 min
The Chair He Took
The Killing of Wild Bill Hickok and the Two Trials of Jack McCall https://www.patreon.com/posts/159394858/ Episode 493 begins in Deadwood, August 1876, six weeks after Custer dies at Little Bighorn. A small Kentuckian named Jack McCall walks into...
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July 13 · 55 min
She Died Singing It
https://www.patreon.com/posts/she-died-singing-159311815 Episode 492 concerns the morning of April twenty-fourth, eighteen ninety-one, when a sixty-year-old Englishwoman named Carrie Brown is found butchered in a fifteen-cent hotel room on Water...
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#493
July 6 · 58 min
A Witness Denied
The Poisoning of George Wythe https://www.patreon.com/posts/witness-denied-158973422 Episode 490 takes place in Richmond, Virginia, 1806. George Wythe signs the Declaration of Independence, teaches Jefferson how to think, and frees his slaves. His...
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#488
June 29 · 57 min
The Woman By The Window
The Killing Of Senator Arthur Brown https://www.patreon.com/posts/woman-by-window-158887046 Episode 489 takes us to the Hotel Raleigh, Washington, December 8, 1906, when a Salt Lake mother of four walks into the senator's sitting room with the...
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June 22 · 55 min
The Broken Butterfly
The Murder of Anna Marie Keenan https://www.patreon.com/posts/158804095 Episode 488 takes us to a top-floor flat on West Fifty-Seventh Street, the Ides of March, nineteen twenty-three. A chorus girl named Dot King lies dead across a blue silk bed. A...
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#486
June 15 · 58 min
Don't Mourn! Organize!
The Execution Of Joe Hill https://www.patreon.com/posts/158717269/ Episode 487 takes us to Salt Lake City, 1914, where a grocer and his seventeen-year-old son die on a pine floor, and a Swedish songwriter named Joe Hill rings a doctor's bell with a...
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#486
June 8 · 54 min
The Dumbbell Murder
The Snyder-Gray Affair https://www.patreon.com/posts/158283386 Episode 486 takes us to a Dutch Colonial on 222nd Street in Queens Village, where a housewife, a Methodist corset salesman, and a crooked Prudential agent put together the most famous...
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#485
June 1 · 53 min
The Eltham Murder
The Girl Who Named Him https://www.patreon.com/posts/158270926 Episode 485 takes us to Kidbrooke Lane, Eltham, before dawn on the twenty-sixth of April, eighteen seventy-one, where a beat constable named Donald Gunn stumbles across a...
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May 25 · 52 min
The Luger In The Dark
Assassin Unknown https://www.patreon.com/posts/luger-in-dark-158190635?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Episode 484 takes us to a frost-covered parlor outside Yankton,...
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#482
May 18 · 45 min
The White Flag Massacre
No Mercy At Mountain Meadows https://www.patreon.com/posts/156032638 Episode 482 takes us to Mountain Meadows, Utah Territory, 1857, where Arkansas emigrants accept safe passage under a white flag. The flag is a lie. A hundred and twenty dead,...
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#477
May 11 · 55 min
The Fourteenth Fiasco
The Klan Claims A Scallywag https://www.patreon.com/posts/155289666 Episode 477 tells the story of Judge George W. Ashburn — Union colonel, scalawag, author of the state's civil rights provisions — who is gunned down by the Ku Klux Klan in their...
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#10509
May 8 · 9 min
Femme Fatale Ann O'Delia Diss Debar
New York, 1888. Ann O'Delia Diss Debar — self-styled Spirit Princess, alleged daughter of Lola Montez — convinced a grieving Madison Avenue lawyer that Raphael and Rembrandt were painting for him in his own parlor. The paintings were chemical tricks....
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#10506
May 7 · 9 min
American Scoudrel B. Gratz Brown
B. Gratz Brown — ex-senator, sitting governor, Vice-Presidential nominee of two parties at once — was handed the stage built to topple Grant's corruption and showed up drunk. He fainted at a New York rally, forgot his own policies, and buttered a...
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