Episodes

  • Grandma Nusbaum And Her Somewhat Youthful Lover

    Grandma Nusbaum And Her Somewhat Youthful Lover
    Apr 22 2024
    Elderly Carpenter Murdered With Hammer

    Episode 199 tells what happens when a grandmother with a grumpy but somewhat older husband befriends a younger man when he's released from prison and begins paying him $250 a month for his, um, affections. Yeah, that's not going to end well. That's a grand, sordid conspriracy. Just like we like 'em.


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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Mystic Murder For Money

    Mystic Murder For Money
    Apr 19 2024
    The Philadelphia Arsenic Ring

    Episode 181 takes us down a dark road of spiritualism and witchcraft, of an elaborate web that led to an estimated 200 deaths by various means, including arsenic poisoning. And two executions. And twelve lifesentences.

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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • Mob Justice For Leo Frank

    Mob Justice For Leo Frank
    Apr 17 2024
    The Murder Of Mary Phagan

    Episode 183 tells of one of the most infamous cases of an innocent man wrongly accused. When a teenage factory girl is found dead in the basement of an Atlanta pencil manufacturer, blame falls on the mild-mannered Jewish superintendent of the plant, and the jury takes the word of a drunken janitor. It’ll take 70 years for the truth to come out.

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    2 hrs and 7 mins
  • Jealous Wife, Double Murder: The Trial

    Jealous Wife, Double Murder: The Trial
    Apr 15 2024
    The Rosier Affair, Part Two

    Episodie 190 finishes up the melodramatic tale of Catherine Rosier as she goes on trial for her life. Get out the smelling salts and tissues, folks, there's a lot of swooning and fainting about to take place, not to mention the flying accusations and indelicate revelations.


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    1 hr and 38 mins
  • The Farmer, His Wife, And The Gangling Hand

    The Farmer, His Wife, And The Gangling Hand
    Apr 12 2024
    The Willow Love Triangle Murder Plot

    Episode 184 takes us into Pennsylvania Dutch territory, where two local farmers are found murdered in the woods a month apart. Although not related, the second murder sparks intense local interest, especially when the farmer’s wife is discovered in a salacious love affair.

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Hangman's Day

    Hangman's Day
    Apr 10 2024
    The Inept Executioner of Wise County

    Episode 254 has a different format than usual. I was perusing an old True Detective Magazine and found a story written from the point of view of the hangman of Wise County, Virginia, telling the stories of the five men whose heads he put in nooses. It was an interesting story, but something wasn’t quite right about it. So I did some research on the individual cases, and have woven some news stories of the day in with the executioner’s tale, an exercise in point of view as it were. It’s interesting to note that the ghostwriter of the True Detective story was James Taylor Adams, the beloved folklorist of Wise County.

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Jealous Wife, Double Murder: The Crime

    Jealous Wife, Double Murder: The Crime
    Apr 8 2024
    The Rosier Affair, Part One

    Episode 189 is the first part of a story so twisted, snarled, and sensational that we broke it down into two episodes because one show couldn't hold all the drama. It starts out looking like another love triangle gone awry, but.... Well, hang on. It's a bumpy one.

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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • A Sip Of Abortionist Ale

    A Sip Of Abortionist Ale
    Apr 5 2024
    The Mysterious Murder Of Dr. William H. Wilson

    Episode 216 comes not only with a mysterious poisoning, but a side dish of “illegal operations.” Either it’s a devilishly clever plot, or perhaps the police didn’t really give it their all, considering the scandalous nature of Dr. Wilson’s practice.


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    1 hr and 40 mins