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Mysteries and Histories

Join Georgia as each week she talks you through important pieces of history that more people should know about or true crime cases that require more public attention - awareness and education are key!

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148: The Crimes of Henry Lee Lucas | The Confession...

Mysteries and Histories ·

2024/04/05

In 1983 a transient man called Henry Lee Lucas was arrested for the murder of an elderly woman called Kate Rich and as he stood in court for his crimes he asks 'what about the rest of the people I killed?' Beginning a frenzy throughout law enforcement across the country. He would go on to confess to over 600 murders, but how many people did Henry Lee Lucas REALLY kill?

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56:56

145: The Disappearance of Misty Copsey

Mysteries and Histories ·

2024/03/31

FROM THE VAULT: In 1992, 14 year old Misty Copsey went missing from Puyallup, Washington after visiting a fair with her best friend. Despite many clues pointing in multiple directions, there's never been any trace of her found.

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17:13

147: Who was One Eyed Jack?

Mysteries and Histories ·

2024/03/29

In August 1979, a resident of Tok, Alaska found a decomposed body at the side of a quiet country road. Investigators were soon able to pin down his killer, but One Eyed Jack, as he would come to be known, has never been identified.

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41:53

144: The Salem Witch Trials

Mysteries and Histories ·

2024/03/24

FROM THE VAULT - For centuries we've seen multiple different iterations of women being accused of witchcraft, of having too much power, men screaming how they must be stopped; the most famous of which is the Salem witch trials. But do you know the full story?

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41:29

146: The disappearance of Lars Mittank

Mysteries and Histories ·

2024/03/22

In 2014, Lars Mittank travelled to Bulgaria for a week away with friends. An unfortunate encounter means he gets a burst eardrum and is unable to fly back home to Germany, being left alone in a foreign country... what happens next has never been explained.

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37:03

144: The Radium Girls

Mysteries and Histories ·

2024/03/18

FROM THE VAULT - in 1917, the Radium Luminous Material Corporation started producing luminous paints called Undark, with companies quickly realising how helpful luminescent watch faces would be for the military. Hordes of women were employed in factories, tasked with the painstaking job of painting the watches... only as we all know, radium and humans do not mix.

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41:22

145: The Horrors of Willowbrook State School

Mysteries and Histories ·

2024/03/15

In the 1930s, plans were made to build an institution for intellectually disabled children, sold to parents as a haven, with around the clock care and training programmes. Of course, none of the promises came to fruition and it's soon-to-be 6000 residents would be found living in squalor, ignored by the outside world.

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29:20

143: The Unsolved Case of Rachel Louise Cooke

Mysteries and Histories ·

2024/03/08

In January 2002, Rachel Cooke was home in Georgetown, Texas for the winter break when she decided to go for a run, as she did every morning. Only on this day, she never arrived home and it's widely believed she was the victim of foul play. What happened to Rachel?

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37:29

142: The Solved Murder of Joanna Yeates

Mysteries and Histories ·

2024/03/05

In 2002, Joanna Yeates had just moved in with her boyfriend in Bristol, England. She was just starting her adult life, having graduated university and beginning her first job, before it was cruelly ripped away from her when she was home alone for a weekend. Here is her infuriating story.

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45:07

141: The QUEER MONARCHS you didn't learn about in school

Mysteries and Histories ·

2024/02/27

We all know historians often refuse to acknowledge queerness meaning there's a whole beautiful rainbow out there in history that has been missed. There have been 40+ monarchs in British history, so statistics tells us that at least ONE must've been gay right? Let's find out.

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29:44

140: The disappearance of Paula Jean Welden | The...

Mysteries and Histories ·

2024/02/23

In 1946, 18 year old Paula Jean Welden decided to go on a Sunday afternoon hike in the Glastonbury mountain in Vermont. And then she just vanished into thin air, no sign of her has been since. But the strangest thing is, she wasn't the only person in the 1940s to disappear under those circumstances...

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45:37

139: The unsolved case of Mark Haines

Mysteries and Histories ·

2024/02/16

In 1988, 17 year old Mark Haines went for a night out with his friends, ending with his body being found on the train tracks the next morning. Police quickly brushed it off as suicide, then misadventure, leaving Mark's family to investigate on their own. Finally in 2024, it looks like justice may be around the corner.

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30:31

138: four WILD cases of MASS HYSTERIA

Mysteries and Histories ·

2024/02/14

Today we've got a four-in-one episode, with a number of cases of mass hysteria throughout history: the meowing nuns, the june bug epidemic, the shrinking penis epidemic and the jell-o factory hysteria.

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18:36

137: The Benton County Box Lady | Jane Doe

Mysteries and Histories ·

2024/02/09

In 1976, a corn farmer in Benton County, Indiana came across a heavy box in his field - and soon found a human body inside. Despite immediate investigation, police still have no answers as to her identity or killer 47 years later. Who was the box lady of Benton County?

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38:05

136: The Man Who Faked His Own Death | John Darwin

Mysteries and Histories ·

2024/02/05

In 2002, John Darwin got in his kayak and went off for a paddle in the North Sea... and then never returned, assumed dead. 5 years later, he turns up at a London police station claiming amnesia. But of course, that's not what happened.

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26:56

136: The Hiking Trip That Killed Five Boys | The...

Mysteries and Histories ·

2024/02/01

In 1936, a teacher decides to take 20 schoolboys on a trip to Germany on his own... what could go wrong? Everything it turns out, after deciding to take them on a hike to the highest peak in the Black Forest.

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12:32

135: Sahara Sue IDENTIFIED but killer still on the loose

Mysteries and Histories ·

2024/01/26

It's been over 40 years since the body of an woman was found on the strip in Las Vegas and finally in 2023 she was identified as Gwenn Marie Story, but her identification sadly hasn't shed any light on who was responsible for her death - who killed Gwenn?

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24:44

134: The feet turning up on the shores of Canada |...

Mysteries and Histories ·

2024/01/19

Since 2007, 23 feet have been found on the shores of the Salish Sea in Canada and the United States, most found inside trainers/sneakers and hiking boots. What's going on?

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30:46

132: The Tragic Tale of the British Home Children

Mysteries and Histories ·

2024/01/15

This is a huge part of British and Canadian history which is rarely spoken about now, but a piece of history which has undeniably had a massive butterfy effect on both nations today. Thousands of children were taken off the streets of London and sent to homes in Canada for labour... and as you can imagine, there wasn't much love.

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43:12

133: The Solved Case of Julie Hogg

Mysteries and Histories ·

2024/01/12

Julie Hogg disappeared in 1989 after a pizza delivery shift, her mother calling to wake her up the next morning for a court date to find there was no answer. Despite her family's insistence that Julie would not have run away, police fail to investigate properly... and three months later, mother Ann finds her daughter's remains behind the bath panel. From that moment on, she embarks on a mission to see her daughter's killer behind bars, but it's not going to be an easy journey.

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