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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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87:55

For The Love Of Hattie Schreck

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2024/08/19

The Islip Murder Of Cynthiana Clock HawkinsEpisde 207 tells the tragic story of a young man so beguiled by love and consumed by greed that he commits a most heinous crime when his mother refuses to give her blessing. His careless circumstantial trail quickly trumps his vain effort to pin the crime on the proverbial drifter.Ad-Free EditionMore Capital CrimesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

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100:27

The Fainting Jazz Baby Murder Ordeal

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2024/08/17

Dorothy Ellingson Shoots Her Mother Episode 155 sends us back into the jazz age with another tale of a bad girl gone worse. It seems like a cut and dry case, and it is, but there’s a great deal of drama between her arrest and the somewhat anti-climactic trial. By the way, the sheiks referred to in the story are not from the Middle East, but because of the popularity of popularity of the Rudolph Valentino film, “sheik” became jazz slang for good-looking playboy types.Ad Free EditionMore Femmes

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47:18

Murder In A Reno Robbery Gone Awry

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2024/08/14

Episode 271It seemed pretty obvious that the murder of Beate Marie Voss was the unfortunate result of a botched burglary, similar to a string of others of late in Reno, but tracking down the itinerant killer would take some clever and dogged police work. Told from the perspective of Reno Chief of Police Harry Fletcher by Bob Arentz, Episode 271 is adapted from True Detective, V. 43; No. 2, June 1945 and historic newspaper accounts from the archives of the Reno Gazette Journal.Ad Free EditionBecome a

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117:49

Mrs. Buzzi Faces The Chair

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2024/08/12

The Botched Fake Suicide Of A Millionaire ContractorEpisode 206 is not just your typical love triangle gone awry, but the story of a woman about to be scorned retaliating in advance. There's also some intriguing family drama, a conspiracy among sisters, and a retrial that proves to be more sensational than the first.Ad Free EditionMore Love Triangles Gone AwryMore Femmes FataleBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

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74:45

A Trial Without Music

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2024/08/09

The Scarsdale Apple Orchard Torch Murder ScandalEpisode 156 is the scandalous tale that begins with the charred body of a young woman, identified only by a mole on an unburned leg. Turns out she was married. And had a boyfriend. Police solve the case quickly, but the decision of the jury is to be whether it was a crime of passion, manslaughter, or premeditated first degree murder. Here are the facts. You decide.AD-FREE EDITIONMore Love Triangles Gone AwryMore Torch MurdersBecome a supporter of this

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59:35

A Good Girl’s Journey Brutally Interrupted

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2024/08/07

It Happened In A Fargo HotelEpisode 270 examines a case that baffled police then, and still today, there is some doubt cast on the verdict. But at the time, when the body of an innocent young farm girl turns up brutally raped and murdered in a Fargo, North Dakota, hotel room, fingers turn toward the night clerk, admittedly the town Lothario.AD-FREE EDITIONBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

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76:07

Two Acquitted Women

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2024/08/05

Episode 209 is a deadly double-header: Two stories about women murdering their philandering men and getting away with it.The Broadway Playboy Picks A Fight: A housewife complains to her husband that he should spend more time with his children and less time drinking with his friends Then he cracks her over the head with a pool cue. Yeah Big mistake.To Save Others From A Heartache: A nurse leaves her job and moves to another state to follow the man she loves on the promise of marriage, but when she

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72:13

The Ghastly Stockton Trunk Episode

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2024/08/01

The Life, Loves, And Crimes Of Emma LeDouxEpisode 157 tells the scandalous tale of a California woman who loved not wisely but too often. It’s hard to say from the newspaper reports and court records how the corpse in the trunk actually met its demise, but Emma Le Doux would never escape the consequences.AD-FREE EditionBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

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63:29

The Tri-State Gang & The Moll Who Knew Too Much

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2024/07/31

Executed For A Worthless HaulEpisode 268 takes us back to the years just after Prohibition when gangsters no longer had illegal alcohol to excite their purpose. This gang terrorized three states until their number came up, as it always does, and their story not only contains some daring and ill-conceived heists, but internal strife and a flight from justice.Culled from the historic pages of the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Baltimore Sun, the Newport News Daily News, and other newspapers of the

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118:41

Tracking Harry Tracy

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2024/07/29

The Last Desperado Of The Wild WestEpisode 180 takes us to the final days of the Old West and the search for the notorious outlaw Harry Tracy, who made a daring, deadly escape from the Oregon Penitentiary and embarked on a deadlier two-month flight from justice.AD-FREE EDITIONMore ManuhntsMore WesternsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

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54:48

The Cry From The Grave

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2024/07/26

From The Files of Ellis H. ParkerEpisode 267 is adapted from a first-person article in True Detective Mysteries, December 1928, written from the perspective of Detective Ellis H. Parker of Mount Holly, New Jersey, who during his career was known as “America's Sherlock Holmes.” He solved 288 of the 300 major crimes he worked on during his career, obtaining signed confessions in more than half of them. His most high-profile case was the Lindbergh kidnapping. Stories of his cases were collected in a

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68:00

In The Devil's Beef Tub

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2024/07/24

Buck Ruxton’s Double Jigsaw Puzzle MurderEpisode 159 takes us once again to the British Isles, our first excursion into Scotland with the story of a physician (some accounts call him a gynecologist) accused of dismembering his wife and the nanny of their children, scattering their parts in a deep bowl-like valley near the town of Moffat, so named as it was known as a good spot for hiding stolen cattle.AD-FREE EDITIONMore TORSO MURDERSBecome a supporter of this podcast:

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74:54

Only Death Can Cure Him

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2024/07/22

The Brickbat Moron Serial MurdersEpisode 210 is a dark journey through five murders in two widely-separated states, all perpetrated by a single, simple-minded man using bricks as weapons. Each case has enough drama to be an episode of its own, but taken together it's five times ugly. So hold on.AD-FREE EDITIONBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

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65:41

The Sicilian Trunk Job

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2024/07/17

he Murder of Philippo CarusoEpisode 161 takes us on a trip across the Midwest from the Italian slums of Chicago, where a produce salesman meets a terrible fate at the hands of a countryman aboard a train to Pittsburgh where his body was found several days later. In this story, the police and the press work together to break down the brotherhood of silence and crack this horrible crime.Culled from the historic pages of the Chicago Tribune, the Inter-Ocean, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette and other

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67:04

Life, Confession And Atrocious Crimes Of Antoine Probst

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2024/07/15

The Cruel Murder Of The Deering FamilyEpisode 177 has been adapted from an 1866 trial pamphlet published in Philadelphia. One of the earliest expressions of true crime in print, trial pamphlets were often embelleshed from newspaper accounts of a case, and like this one--a bloody mass murder on a farmer's family just after the civil war--were released within days of the final disposition.AD-FREE EDITIONBecome a supporter of this podcast:

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122:22

The Case Of The Kidnapped Incubator Baby

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2024/07/12

Fiasco at the World’s FairThere’s a lot of crazy in episode 167, and it’s a little confusing at first because there’s so much of it going around, but even once the source of the crazy is obvious, the story is just picking up. I never thought I’d be doing a crime story about a child custody case, but I never heard of a child custody case like this one. Hold one, everybody. This one is a wild ride.AD-FREE EditionBecome a supporter of this podcast:

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81:55

In The Poor Dutch Girl's Shanty

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2024/07/10

The Betrayal Of Gerretje HaastAlthough there is a verdict and a lot of drama in Episode 265, many details of this case remain oblique. Only two people know what happened in that shack on the windswept Colorado prairie, and they aren’t talking, but there are many subtle clues to pique your imagination. AD-FREE EDITIONBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

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89:43

Inferno In Ipsilanti

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2024/07/08

The Michigan Petting Party MurdersEpisode 176 tells of a most horrible--and most quickly-resolved--murder. When four teenagers are found dead on a country road, public indignation runs high, and under the pressure of a gathering mob, justice moves swiftly. The bodies are found on a Tuesday, and by Friday the case is resolved.AD-FREE EDITIONBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

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62:37

The Skeleton Of Islip Woods

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2024/07/05

Confession Of The Bigamist Otto MuellerEpisode 169 concerns the search for the killer of a young woman whose body is found in a remote Long Island development a year after her death. The one clue takes the investigation to Europe with sudden and surprising results.AD-FREE EDITIONBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

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61:49

The Omaha Sniper

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2024/07/03

Frank Carter, ManiacEpisode 263 explores the psyche of a purely evil man, but also a witty, highly entertaining individual, a textbook sociopath.AD-FREE EDITIONCulled from the historic pages of the Omaha World Herald and other newspapers of the era. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

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