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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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57:17

Hard Cider And Insults

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2025/08/04

Struck By An Axe And KilledJump To AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITIONEpisode 367 is a holiday tale more bone-chilling than heart-warming. It takes place the weekend after Thanksgiving, when family and friends get together for games and good times. The cautionary part of the tale here is, be aware of what topics are best to be avoided. This tJumpime, the touchy subject is not politics, but eyewear.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

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89:03

An Acid Bath For The Suffragist

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2025/08/01

The Lillian Scheib Mystery Jump To Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 366 tells the sad story of a woman found dead in a bathtub, so decomposed that police first assume it is her husband, as she is sick and convalescing somewhere. When the truth is revealed and the husband found alive, he soon becomes a suspect as officials assume murder. Is the chauffeur a murderer, or a victim of police harassment. Explore More BATHTUB MURDERS!!!Become a supporter of this podcast:

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85:43

Attacked In The Courtroom

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2025/07/30

The Buffalo Thanksgiving MurderJump To Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 365“I’ll get you a Thanksgiving dinner if I have to kill someone to get it!” the young thug promised his girlfriend. Dinner, however, was not forthcoming.Listen To More Episodes Of COURTROOM SHENANIGANSBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

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64:29

The Lake Bluff Furnace Girl

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2025/07/28

The Burning Love Of Elfrieda KnaakJump To Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 364 tells an unusual story of a broken-hearted young woman found naked and fatally burnt in the basement of a police station. Her family, the police, and the general public find it hard to believe that she could have torched herself in such a horrific manner, so the hunt is on for proof of a murder.Hear About More TORCH MURDERSBecome a supporter of this podcast:

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80:46

The Boy Said 'Papa Shot'

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2025/07/25

The Cuba Triple MurderJump To The Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 363 takes place in rural Ohio, when a woman, her daughter, and her daughter’s suitor are gunned down in front of three young children. The daughter’s ex-husband says he arrived at the scene just after the shots were fired, but in her dying breath his ex-mother-in-law claims he was the culprit. The kids can’t get their story straight, so it’s up to you to put it all together.More BLUEBEARDSBecome a supporter of this podcast:

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88:38

Evil Plan Drunkenly Botched

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2025/07/23

The Greenlease Kidnapping TragedyJump To Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 362 takes on one of the most evil crimes imaginable as told from the point of view of the perpetrator. By the time police caught up with Carl Austin Hall, he had made so many mistakes in the kidnapping and murder of a six-year-old boy that he knew the game was up, so he told the story in a coldly matter-of-fact 36-page confession, here adapted for the first two acts. The third act, we’ll call “the comeuppance”.Become a

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83:59

Duchess Spinelli's Crime School

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2025/07/21

The Halfwit Gang Of Golden Gate AvenueJump To Ad-Free Safe House EditionAlthough there’s nothing funny about real-life murder, if Episode 361 were fictional, you could shelve it right next to Elmore Leonard or Carl Hiaasen and the wacky characters they create who walk in the realm of dark comedy. The downfall of this gang that couldn’t shoot straight begins when one of its members decides to surrender and deliver state’s evidence when it begins to look like his days are numbered. And, it turns out,

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62:26

The Largest Sheriff In Oregon

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2025/07/16

The Terror Of All Toughs Killed By Horse ThiefJump To Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 358 is dedicated to the Safe House Scoundrel Marlene Resch who required a story from her home town of Eugene, Oregon, and we are happy to oblige. The victim in this story was the law enforcement officer in Episode 336, Murder On The McKenzie Trail, and together they sum up the history of capital punishment in Lane County Oregon, the only two executions there.More WILD WESTERNSBecome a supporter of this podcast:

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96:22

The Mysterious Postmistress Of West Palm Beach

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2025/07/14

The Trial Of Lena ClarkeJump To The AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITIONEpisode 357 is a crazy blend of murder, embezzlement, and a ghost story. When a former post office clerk is found murdered in the hotel room of a woman who had been a co-worker, there are hints of either a connection the spirit world or madness, but still, a Florida courtroom is stunned the depths of the suspect’s mysticism as revealed in her trial.Explore More Episodes With COURTROOM SHENANIGANSBecome a supporter of this podcast:

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70:04

The Dandy Sheriff Of Dona Ana

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2025/07/09

Killing Billy The KidJump To The AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITIONEpisode 355 takes us back to the Old West with a profile of one of the classic rivalries of the era: The lanky Sheriff Pat Garrett v. the notorious William Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, including a narrative of their fateful last encounter as told by the sheriff himself.Explore More Episodes of WILD WESTERN True CrimeBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

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82:21

The Duquesne Door-To-Door Killer

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2025/07/07

HA Debaucher Of Children Gets His RevengeJump To The AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITIONEpisode 354 is a real trip to the dark side as it recounts the rampage of a local beat patrolmen the result of having his ugly perverted secrets revealed. Although he was responsible for a lot of lives lost and hurt forever, there’s some satisfaction in watching him get some of what he deserves, public humiliation as well as the state’s own vengeance.Explore More Episodes About FALLS FROM GRACEBecome a supporter of this

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76:13

Ready For Rope

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2025/07/04

The Murder Of Sheriff Rogers At GlencoeJump To The Ad-Free SAFE HOUSE EDITIONEpisode 353 takes place in late 19th century Minnesota, but plays out like a classic Western tale. You know the one, where a pair of strangers come into town, shoot the sheriff, and incite the citizenry to take the law into their own hands.Click Here To Access More WILD WESTERN EpisodesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

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75:12

Tragedy At The Trysting Place

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2025/07/02

The Ladies’ Man Lawyer & The Mysterious BlondeJump To Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 151 recalls a fatal shooting on a dark country road when a pair of unemployed thugs set out to rape and plunder unsuspecting couples looking for a quiet place to canoodle. They get more than they bargained for when their mark turns out to be a well-armed attorney. Explore More ROBBERIES GONE AWRYBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

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82:13

Blood On The Bridge

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2025/06/27

The Murder Of Bessie LittleJump To The Ad-Free SAFE HOUSE editionEpisode 348 takes place in Dayton, Ohio, just up the Great Miami River from my hometown. I'm trying to come up with a name for this particular narrative trope, the murder of a woman by a man whose child she is carrying -- consequently also the murder of an unborn child. There is some question in this case if Bessie Little was actually pregnant. But the point is, somebody thought she was.The word I came up with: Pregnicide.Explore More

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80:32

Secrets Of A Meddling Mother-In-Law

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2025/06/26

The Trunk In Minnie Lee Griffin’s BasementJump To Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 347 is a cautionary tale about what can go wrong if you get too involved in the lives of your grown children. When the widow Minnie Lee Griffin thought that her son-in-law was being pursued by a beautiful neighbor, she resorted to subterfuge to save her daughters marriage, and eventually to murder.Explore More Trunk Murders!!Become a supporter of this podcast:

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77:49

Assassination Of The Gambler

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2025/06/20

The Corruption Of Lieutenant Charles Becker.Jump to Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 116 is a story about police corruption in New York’s Tenderloin District at the turn of the last century. The Tenderloin District around Broadway was so named by the police because there was a lot of graft to be made and they were able to stop eating chuck steak and started eating tenderloin. Maybe that helped dull the foul taste of corruption in their mouths. The trouble starts when gambling house operator Herman

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77:57

Under The Haunted Oak

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2025/06/19

The Brutal Murder of Gussie PfeifferJump To The Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 115 is a baffling case indeed. The body of a young factory girl who had been missing for three days is found “brutalized,” as the euphemism goes, before being murdered and her body dumped near a historic tree in the Bronx. How long had she been there? How long had she been dead? With few clues to go on, police head to the mountains upstate, and to the sea, and who knows where else to find the elusive man the press

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77:43

Mother Chose Murder (Part 2)

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2025/06/19

The Cleveland Kaber ConspiracyBy Marjorie WilsonJump to Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 114Back in the golden ages of newspapers, it was common for them to publish serialized novels of romance, adventure,and intrigue, but true crime serials were not quite so common. But here is a novella-length story published in nineteen chapters in five parts by newspapers in 1921 when Eva Kaber was standing trial for leading a plot to murder her invalid husband. It’s a crazy, crazy story of Italian assassins,

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70:38

Mother Chose Murder (Part One)

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2025/06/19

The Cleveland Kaber ConspiracyBy Marjorie WilsonJump to Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 114Back in the golden ages of newspapers, it was common for them to publish serialized novels of romance, adventure,and intrigue, but true crime serials were not quite so common. But here is a novella-length story published in nineteen chapters in five parts by newspapers in 1921 when Eva Kaber was standing trial for leading a plot to murder her invalid husband. It’s a crazy, crazy story of Italian assassins,

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46:47

Rampage On Seventh Street

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2025/06/11

The Scoundrel Herman KabanskyJump To Ad-Free Safe House EditionThere’s a lot of action packed into Episode 343. In addition to a drunken shooting spree and a heroic policeman, the story packs in an escape from jail, an attempted suicide, and a whole lot of courtroom and jailhouse dramatics.Find More Stories About Jail BreaksBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

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