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History is Criminal

Crime is as old as human history. After 30 years of teaching history, I brought my story telling to the internet. In season 2 I"m joined by my history hating wife as she is forced to listen to my stories of historic crime. She adds her thoughts, questions and sarcastic comments as the stories unravel. If you like history or crime, or just a wife harassing her husband, join us. New stories drop every Wednesday.

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All Episodes

00:18:45

High Finance Whoopsies, Story of Adele Spitzeder

History is Criminal ·

2025/06/18

In a new format, my co-host and I look at one on the biggest con artist in history. Long before Charles Ponzi made it famous, Adele Spitzeder was swindling a massive fortune from the folks in Munich Bravia. Even in the world of crime, a woman just can't get the credit they deserve.

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00:27:45

The Assassination of Garfield - Not the cat

History is Criminal ·

2025/06/11

When a man's self-aggrandizing become so extreme that he believes he alone controlled the outcome of a Presidential election tragedy follows. Charles Guiteau decided that President James Garfield had to die. The story of how he came to that conclusion is the tale we tell in this episode.

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00:23:43

Tragedy of Charles Hall or Ice, Ice, no baby

History is Criminal ·

2025/06/04

Artic explorer Charles Hall just wants to plant the Stars and Stripes at the North Pole. But it seems the ice and his crew have another idea. It murder in the frozen North and a 150 year old whodunit. Someone decided that they didn't want to spend years wandering the Artic Circle, and killed Captain Hall to make sure they didn't have to.

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00:20:59

The Gentler tortures: Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot

History is Criminal ·

2025/05/28

When religion and government mix bad things can happen. When religious zealots decide that government need to change by any means necessary really bad things can happen. Remember, Remember the 5th of November ... In this episode we take on Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot, to blow up the whole of the English government.

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00:26:33

Lizzie Borden took an axe ...

History is Criminal ·

2025/05/21

The crime shocked a nation. How could the "Protestant Nun" the refined and gentle, Lizzie Borden have committed such a violent murder. The town of Fall River and nation would divide along socioeconomic lines over the idea of her guilt. Did Lizzie really take a hatchet to the head of her stepmother and then the face of her father? Or might the police have been guilty of confirmation bias and missed the real killer.

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00:00:43

Introduction

History is Criminal ·

2025/05/15

What are we all about? True historic crime both the famous and not so famous. If you are a history buff, or a true crime nerd, or both, like me, then give us a try. If you like what you hear tell a friend, and if you don't like it tell and enemy, never suffer alone.

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00:21:21

Never take free lard from a stranger or The Skull in...

History is Criminal ·

2025/05/14

Famed naturalist Sir David Attenborough found a skull in the garden of an ancient pub he purchased. The skull, found in 2010, renewed interest in a murder from London's Victorian age. The murder of Julia Thomas, by her maid Kate Webster, sent shock waves cross the whole of the British Isles. Get ready for the tale of the Barnes Murderess.

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00:28:59

The Big Con: I've got a bridge to sell ya!

History is Criminal ·

2025/05/07

They will sell you a bridge, a magic box to print money, world famous landmarks, even a whole country. When it comes to conmen George C Parker, Victor Lustig, and Gregor MacGregor might have been the best of the worst. Just how did they manage to get people to hand over money at such insane rates? Take a listen to this week's History is Criminal.

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00:32:33

Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin

History is Criminal ·

2025/04/30

Trigger Warning: sexual assault: While the war launched, and the Holocaust started a psycho used the S-Bahn trains of Berlin as his hunting grounds. Using the cover of air raid warnings, and police hampered by Nazi officials, his reign of terror would last almost two years, and his victims would number in the dozens.

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00:19:54

Pirate Queens of the Caribbean

History is Criminal ·

2025/04/23

PIRATES... Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read for a short time were three of the most infamous names in the Caribbean. Just how did two women become notorious swashbucklers, at a time when women weren't supposed to be on board a ship. We take a look at the lives and adventures of two of the pirate queens of the Caribbean. You also have a chance to hear me sing (poorly) in the intro.

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00:25:31

Outlaw or Hero: Ned Kelly Bushranger of Australia

History is Criminal ·

2025/04/16

Ned Kelly became a folk hero to the people of Australia. His life was short and violent, but he was a tough and complicated man just like the land of his birth. It would all come down to final showdown in a sight that could easily have inspired Ironman. Childhood hero, rebel, horse thief, and a man that became the inspiration for movies and songs by some of the biggest artist of their time. Buckle up for the life of Australia's Robin Hood, Ned Kelly.

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00:25:49

Assassination or Suicide: The Mysterious Death of...

History is Criminal ·

2025/04/09

He was a national hero. His partner William Clark, and he had traveled across an unknown continent and returned to admiration of a nation. But Meriweather Lewis was a man plagued by personal demons. It is also possible that he had uncovered treasonous acts, by a man in a position of high power in the US government. When he died, by an apparent suicide in 1809, no formal investigation took place. As more information came out over the decades, many began to ask, might the legendary hero have been

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00:25:11

Death of a Starlet: the Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle Trials

History is Criminal ·

2025/04/02

In the golden age of silent movies one of the biggest stars, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, is caught up in a scandal revolves around the death of young beautiful up-and-coming starlet, Virginia Rappe. But what really happened in that hotel room 104 years ago. Who should we believe, Arbuckle or a convicted fraudster and madam.

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00:22:30

Killing Kings, French Style

History is Criminal ·

2025/03/19

In our 25th episode, The French Wars of Religion act as the backdrop for a horrible accident and some grisly murders. In true French fashion they will go over the top as they play hide the knife in the monarch. It will see the end of the Valois dynasty and the start of the Bourbon era.

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00:24:26

Who killed Edgar Allan Poe?

History is Criminal ·

2025/03/05

Known as the mast of the macabre and the father of the detective story, Edgar Allan Poe would himself become a whodunit that have remained unanswered for 180 years. His life was filled with tragedy. It is also odd that the number 24 is attached to some much of this tragedy. But who or what killed the famous author, what led to his being found semi-conscious in a Baltimore tavern?

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00:19:18

Baby Farmers: AKA the absolute scum of the Earth

History is Criminal ·

2025/02/19

Some crimes are just more horrible than others. The baby farmers or the Victorian Age are truly the worst of the worst preying on the most innocent and the most vulnerable they prove evil people will do anything to make a buck.

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00:26:56

Transatlantic Murder: Story of Dr Thomas Neill Cream

History is Criminal ·

2025/02/05

Sandwiched between HH Holmes and Jack the Ripper is the Lambeth Poisoner, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream. His body count crosses two continents and one ocean. Even a life sentence couldn't stop him.

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00:20:51

The Many Murders Surrounding Mary Queen of Scots

History is Criminal ·

2025/01/22

A beautiful 18 year old takes the throne of Scotland, what could go wrong. Well if it is the 1600s, the answer is, just about everything. Royal rivalries, bad choices in men, and religious and political plotting will cause the bodies to drop like a beat at the club. If you ever wanted to be a medieval member of the nobility, you after hearing about the many murders surrounding Mary Queen of Scots.

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00:33:43

Pearls before Swine? The Great Pearl Robbery

History is Criminal ·

2025/01/08

A gang of thieves almost pulls off the crime of the century, just as the century is starting. A necklace with a value greater than the Hope Diamond goes missing. Insurance investigators and Scotland Yard's greatest detective will have to outsmart England's greatest thief in order to get the pearls back into the hands of their rightful owner.

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00:16:24

the Puritan War on Christmas AKA Cromwell the Grinch

History is Criminal ·

2024/12/24

Merry Christmas or if the Puritans had their way, GET BACK TO WORK. A King is deposed and most holidays and fun in general is banned by the Puritans in the culture wars of the 1640s. In this Xmas episode we take a look at how and why the holiday was banned, and how the people reacted. With intro and outro music from Halloween Horror Creepy Piano | Horror by Alex-Productions | https://onsound.eu/Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/Creative Commons CC BY

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