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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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145:21

The Bigamist And Her Murderous Husband

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2024/12/18

Episode 140.Ad-Free Safe House Edition“The Bigamist And Her Murderous Husband: The Sweetwater Double Homicide” is the sordid tale of a love octangle (or something like that) when the suspiciously widowed husband of a girl married five times without a divorce gets fed up from the legal harassment from his wife’s elderly suitor. Culled from the historic pages of the Abilene Reporter and other newspapers of the era.More Love Triangles Gone AwryBonus Stories:“The Storybook Taxi Bandit” begins with a

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66:48

Two Sordid Ladies

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2024/12/16

Episode 193 exposes two tales, one of lust and passion, one of lust for power.Ad-Free Safe House Edition"She Shot To Kill" is composed of two stories from the 1893 Omaha Daily Bee that tells of a deadly love triangle. There's a great contrast between the first day's coverage and the second."The Woman In The Wall" comes from the vintage pages of True Detective Magazine (vol. 56, no. 4), the story of a woman so consumed by ambition that she turns on the people who helped her on her journey. But you

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27:19

Bacon On The Table

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2024/12/11

The Brutal Murder Of Mayme ShermanA True Crime Short Story by Richard O JonesAd-Free Safe House EditionOne of the factors behind my interest in historical true crime is that my hometown of Hamilton, Ohio, seems to have a particularly rich history of crime--murder in particular, but not just murder. I’ve done several local programs about the safecrackers, bandits, and other notorious characters. This short story, “Bacon On The Table,” concerns the third of three “bluebeard” killers in the first

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91:27

Three British Bluebeards

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2024/12/09

Episode 195 shows Jolly Old England is not always so jolly as we take a look at three different cases with a body count of at least four wives and one mistress."Nineteen Dandelions" by Edmund Pearson tells the story of a distinguished poisoner."The Ugly Romeo" by Frank Cipriani tells of a serial bathtub murderer."The Bungalow Murder" is the story of a married man who loved his girlfriend to pieces.Ad-Free Safe House More stories from Edmund PearsonBecome a supporter of this podcast:

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59:39

Murder In The Alps

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2024/12/06

The Drummond AffairAd-Free Safe House EditionBook a bunk at The Safe House and have access to the largest repository of True Crime Historian episodes available on the WWWs.Episode 283 is adapted from the classic pages of True Detective (Vol. 4; No. 6, UK edition) with an international tale of mystery. When the bodies of a titled British couple and their young daughter turn up dead in a camping site on the farmlands in the shadow of the French Alps, a determined investigator is determined to find

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60:00

Wedding Day Dead

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2024/12/04

The Murder Of The GroomAd-Free Safe House EditionJoin the Safe House for complete access to over 400 classic episodes of True Crime Historian, the largest collection available on the WWWs.Episode 142 tells the story of a St. Louis family with a tendency to resort to gun violence to solve their financial woes, imaginary or otherwise. The first crime was over a loan of $2,000 that probably never happened. Then, two years later, the woman who survived the incident turns her eye toward her brother’s

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79:33

Slain In The Sammamish Slough

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2024/11/29

Who Killed Lettie Whitehall?Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 282 is dedicated to True Crime Historian patron Vivia Boe, who requested an episode from her hometown, Bothell, Washington. In scouring the archives, I found this tragic story that takes place in the vicinity. It’s usually hard to get a full episode from an unsolved case as there’s usually no resolution and a good story needs an ending. This one has a lot of middle, to be sure, as law enforcement thrashes around and blames every man in

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78:16

Fatty's Fatal Pajama Party

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2024/11/27

Hollywood’s First Sex ScandalAd-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 143 digs back into the early days of the motion picture industry, before Hollywood became synonymous with greed and lust and power. It only took a murder charge to bring down one of the biggest stars of the day, and even though it seems like poor Fatty got a bum rap on the deal, it’s probably the only reason Arbuckle’s work is not held in as high regard as Keaton and Chaplin today. More Falls From GraceBecome a supporter of this podcast:

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82:53

Gussie Humann's Little Secret

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2024/11/25

The Murder Of Harry Dewey GarbeAd-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 145 takes us into the life story of 18-year-old bad girl Gussie Humann and an ill-conceived plan to get back at an old flame, which results in her becoming the youngest person to be indicted for first degree murder in Queens County, New York. It's a winding, twisty road that begins with a death bed accusation and includes a number of varying confessions, and some thing's not being told.More Femmes FataleBecome a supporter of this

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104:42

A Nightclub Girl In A Curfew Town

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2024/11/23

The Escapades Of Velma West Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 144 takes us into the scandalous world of a restless young flapper and her secret life. Before it’s over, we’ll have a brutal murder, a scandalous revelation, a sensational confession, a daring prison break, and drama galore. Hang on, everybody... This one’s a roller coaster.More Femmes FataleBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

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64:02

Ambush At The Lazy Day Ranch

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2024/11/21

The Deadly Trout Creek Land SquabbleAd-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 281 is dedicated to listener and patron Kimberlee Anderson, who shares a hometown with the defendants in this case. Although first reports said that Mrs. Alice Harris was a widow, it turns out she was a divorcee whose ex-husband was of THE Harris family of Harrisville, Utah. This story seems like it could’ve been a classic John Ford western, a land dispute in the Utah desert that turns deadly. I think maybe Maureen O’Hara as Alice

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70:39

Three International Manhunts

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2024/11/19

Episode 218 journeys across three continents as we hear the stories of wiley police officers outwitting some very clever criminals.Ad-Free Safe House Edition"Strange Murder Of An Aged Romeo" by Peter Levins heads down Argentina way as a family feud gets settled in a grisly way. "A Black Cat Doomed" by Fred Menagh, travel to England and France as Scotland Yard attempts to track down gangsters that seem to have been taking lessons from their American colleagues."Saskatchewan Ki ller" by Maurice Mills,

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88:55

Four Freaky Tales

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2024/11/15

Episode 147Ad-Free Safe House EditionSpider Attic Ghost Killer: The truly bizarre tale of a man who stalked an elderly couple by living in their attic, sneaking down to forage meals from their fridge.The Texas Candybar Murder: The justice of the peace called it suicide, but others question how the young mother-to-be came to shoot herself in the back of the head.The Nurse and Her Nagging Auntie: A botched suicide in which the suicide is not the person who ends up dead.The Dissection of Antoine

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81:20

A Parasite's Progress

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2024/11/13

Episode 280 is a reading of "The Black Negligee Murder" By Frederic HolmesAdapted from True Detective, v.43 no.1Ad-Free Safe House EditionThere’s a lot going on in this story. The seams show in the author’s reporting as he occasionally allows glimpses into his process, but at the same time, he makes it seem like he’s telling story from the point of view of the bad guy for most of the first two thirds of the narrative. The really cool nerdy part for me as a writer and a fan of pulp, is that you can

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60:41

When Justice Fails

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2024/11/11

Episode 252 tells two stories of when the wheels of justice had a blow-out and people were convicted of crimes they didn't commit.Ad-Free Safe House Edition"Uncle Amos Dreams a Dream," by Edmund Pearson, the story of two brothers accused of murder after the discovery of two clipped toenails."Twenty-Three Years Skidoo: What Was Justice In This Case," by Peter Levins, about how a deathbed confession made liars out of a whole bunch of witnesses and law enforcement officials.More stories from Edmund

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71:22

Storming The Santa Clara County Jail

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2024/11/09

The Kidnapping Of Brooke L. Hart Ad Free Safe House EditionMob rule threatens the city of San Jose, California in Episode 279 when the scion of a beloved wealthy family, the owners of the town’s biggest department store, is kidnapped by a pair of opportunistic thugs. When the young man’s body is recovered from the waters of the San Francisco Bay, the crowd gathers around the Santa Clara County jail, and the governor of California lets popular justice take its course.More stories of Mobs &

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110:38

The Decapitated Captain

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2024/11/07

The Tri-State Head and Hands Murder PlotThe cast of characters in Episode 147 includes a previously convicted murderer who works as a driver and a “sort of secretary” for an eccentric former opera singer, three thugs that he met in prison, and a fire captain who often bragged of his success in the stock market after his retirement, amassing a fortune of more than $2 million (in today’s money). The inept plot to murder for his papers covers three states and a nationwide manhunt.Ad-Free EditionMore

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67:21

The Case Of The Smoking Corpse

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2024/11/05

Episode 233."The Case Of The Smoking Corpse" By Peter Levins. When a young man stumbles upon a pair of corpses in a park, police not only solve a murder, but break up a caper to rid all of the banks in Indianapolis of their cash. And it all starts with a clue from a horseshoe."A Clue At The Kitchen Window: A Strangulation in Apartment 16" By Quincy Carlton. A young man discovers a young girl he just picked up dead in her apartment. He has an alibi and there are many leads to follow, but the young

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80:57

Many Marriages, Many Murders

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2024/11/02

The Approximately 55 Wives of Johann HochEpisode 148 tells the unlikely story of a German immigrant who managed to wed dozens of women, mostly widows that he met through personal ads in German newspapers in several American cities. Soon as he could get his hands on their money, he’d run. Sometimes, his cons wouldn’t work, and he’d resort to murder.Theme Music by Dave Sams “In the Hall of the Mountain King” from the Peer Gynt Suite by The Musopen Orchestra Ad Free EditionMore Bluebeard StoriesBecome

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36:19

The Flaming Haystack Murder

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2024/10/31

Episode 278Celibate Farmer Ruins The RomanceSo what happens when a bachelor farmer is determined that his 52-year-old sister stay a spinster and she falls in love with the farm hand? Nothing good, you can bet on that, especially when the bachelor farmer discovers the suitor slinking around his house. I found this story interesting not only for the unusual disposal of the body, but also for the colorful people with names that sound like they came from a Saturday Night Live sketch or a Coen Brothers

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