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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 journalismBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

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55:59

The Walk Of Death

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2026/08/16

A Diary Of RetributionJump to the Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 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 people dead in twelve minutes. He never stood trial. He kept a grievance diary with nearly two hundred names in it. His neighbors were just slow to find out they were in it.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.You can pay

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47:19

The Footprints That Led In

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2026/08/10

The HinterKaifeck MurdersJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 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 back out. The family notices. The neighbors are told. No one calls the police. What happens next has never been solved.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.You can pay more if you want to, but rent at the

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57:15

I Merely Shot Him

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2026/08/03

The Eighty Days Of President GarfieldJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 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 museum someday. He fires twice at the President. James Garfield will take eleven weeks to die. Guiteau will spend those weeks insisting he is not the killer. He will turn out to be right.Become a supporter of this podcast:

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57:32

The Chair He Took

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2026/07/19

The Killing of Wild Bill Hickok and the Two Trials of Jack McCallJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 493 begins in Deadwood, August 1876, six weeks after Custer dies at Little Bighorn. A small Kentuckian named Jack McCall walks into Saloon No. 10 with a Colt revolver and a brother who never existed. Wild Bill Hickok sits with his back to the door because his friend will not switch chairs. The miners acquit. The federal government has other plans.Become a supporter of this podcast:

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55:16

She Died Singing It

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2026/07/13

The Slashing Of Old ShakespeareJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 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 Street. The scene resembled the work of a certain infamous English slasher. A police department that promised it could catch Jack the Ripper in thirty-six hours is about to find out whether it meant it.Become a supporter of this podcast:

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58:37

A Witness Denied

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2026/07/06

The Poisoning of George WytheJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 490 takes place in Richmond, Virginia, 1806. George Wythe signs the Declaration of Independence, teaches Jefferson how to think, and frees his slaves. His grandnephew thanks him with arsenic in the coffeepot. The cook sees everything. The law says her eyes don't count. A Founding Father's murder, and the legal code he built becomes the instrument of his killer's escape.Become a supporter of this podcast:

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57:07

The Woman By The Window

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2026/06/29

The Killing Of Senator Arthur BrownJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 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 nickel-plated revolver he bought her himself. Seven years of promises, one folded pair of hands, two shots fired. The gun was for her protection.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.You can pay more if you

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55:49

The Broken Butterfly

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2026/06/22

The Murder of Anna Marie KeenanJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 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 scraped chloroform bottle. A Philadelphia millionaire under a fake name. A mother in Harlem naming the killer nobody arrests. The Broadway Butterfly case breaks open, and nobody closes it.Become a supporter of this podcast:

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53:39

The Eltham Murder

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2026/06/01

The Girl Who Named HimJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 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 sixteen-year-old maidservant crawling in the mud with a plasterer's hammer in the ditch beside her. Jane Clouson names her killer. The English courtroom declines to listen.Become a supporter of this podcast:

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52:40

The Luger In The Dark

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2026/05/25

Assassin UnknownJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 484 takes us to a frost-covered parlor outside Yankton, South Dakota, on the last Sunday of 1934. A retired featherweight sits under a lamp reading a magazine. His wife is nearby. The radio is playing. Outside, in the frozen dark, a German Luger is waiting. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.You can pay more if you want to, but rent at the Safe House is still just a

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9:05

American Scoundrel Stephen Wallace Dorsey

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2026/05/05

Gilded Age Washington, 1876. Senator Stephen W. Dorsey and the Second Assistant Postmaster General ran a bid-rigging racket that bled the Post Office of millions — fake mail routes, real money. Two trials, two acquittals, one stolen castle on the New Mexico prairie. The jury said not guilty. The record disagrees.Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.You can pay more if you want to, but rent at

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54:00

The Moonlight Row

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2026/05/04

The Smuttynose Island Murders of 1873Jump To The AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 476 explores a case would become one of the most sensational crimes of the American Gilded Age. It would produce a manhunt, a near-lynching, a jail break, and a hanging, among other tropes. It would haunt the New England coast for a century and a half, and it haunts it still. But before it was any of those things, it was a story about people who crossed an ocean looking for a better life, and for a few short years,

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14:36

The Tiny Error of the Wily Widow

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2026/05/03

"The Tiny Error of the Wily Widow" (57:52) transports us to the plains of the Dakotas and another plot, this one to get rid of a wealthy husband for a younger man.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.You can pay more if you want to, but rent at the Safe House is still just a buck a week, and you can get access to over 400 ad-free episodes from the dusty vault, Safe House Exclusives, direct access to the Boss, and whatever personal

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9:36

Femme Fatale Sophie Lyons

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2026/05/02

Gilded Age New York crowned her the Queen of Crime. Sophie Lyons — pickpocket, shoplifter, blackmailer — spent fifty years selling men's shame back to them at Parker House prices. She retired to Detroit a millionaire philanthropist. Three of the men she tried to reform killed her for the rest of it.Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.You can pay more if you want to, but rent at the Safe House

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43:23

The Poison Pastor

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2026/05/01

Crimes of the Scoundrel Clarence V.T. RichesonJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 74 explores the tawdry case of Clarence Virgil Thompson Richeson, who was apparently an eloquent preacher and a rising star in the Baptist community, as well as a notorious scoundrel. The tangled web of deceit he wove between three women finally ended in the mysterious death of the unmarried mother of his expected child. Richeson would later confess that he gave her poison, telling her that it was medicine to

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9:29

American Scoundrel Johann Georg Rapp

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2026/04/30

Father George Rapp ran the Harmony Society at Economy, Pennsylvania, by two commandments: celibacy for men whose wives he had evicted, and poverty for workers whose gold he hoarded. By 1846 the prophet was burning ledgers and stashing half a million in coin beneath his floor. He had it coming.Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.You can pay more if you want to, but rent at the Safe House is

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52:32

The Ogress Of Reading

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2026/04/29

The Trial and Execution of Amelia Dyer Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 43 comes at the request of a listener across the great pond in the United Kingdom. We will be exploring the testimony from the trial of Amelia Dyer, who would take in infants and toddlers for adoption for a fee, and then murder the poor children for the profit. She is said to have once referred to herself as an angel maker. I’ve seen estimates of her carnage at as many as 400 young souls, but she was convicted on

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8:50

American Scoundrel: George Cassiday

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2026/04/28

For ten years, George Cassiday, known on Capitol Hill as the Man in the Green Hat, ran liquor to the United States Congress while four out of five of his customers voted dry. When Prohibition agents finally caught him in February of 1930, he took the hypocrites down with him.Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.You can pay more if you want to, but rent at the Safe House is still just a buck a

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55:07

STARKWEATHER

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2026/04/27

The Nebraska Spree KillerJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 475 takes us on a wild ride across Nebraska with Charles Starkweather, a 19-year-old with a stolen shotgun, a 14-year-old companion who may or may not be kidnapped, and a string of dead bodies across the American plains that shocked a nation.Hear more stories about SERIAL & SPREE KILLERS.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.You can pay more if you want to,

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25:10

A Family Of Outlaws

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2026/04/24

The Reckless Reno GangJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 92 takes place after the Civil War, when the Reno Brothers explored a new way to rob trains that inspired the James and Younger gangs. But even the wild and wily Reno brothers were no match for Allen Pinkerton and his detectives. Although it takes place in Indiana, this story has the trappings of a tale of the Old West: Daring robberies, fugitives from justice, clever arrests, and a final showdown in the New Albany jail. Adapted

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