Episodes

  • Brutal Murder In Apple Valley

    Brutal Murder In Apple Valley
    May 1 2024
    The Scoundrel John Arthur Pender

    In episode 259, a woman and her toddler son are brutally murdered in their remote Oregon cabin. Suspicion falls on a neighbor who had been given their mail, found unopened at the crime scene. With intense courtroom testimony and a handful of plot twists, this one will keep you guessing. Did he, or didn’t he?

    Culled from the historic pages of the Oregon Daily Journal, the Oregonian, and other newspapers of the era.

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • The Jealous Rage Of Martha Place

    The Jealous Rage Of Martha Place
    Apr 29 2024
    First Lady Of The Electric Chair

    Episode 212 tells the story of the first walk of a woman to the electric chair. One cold winter night, a Brooklyn woman apparantly attacks her husband with an axe as he walks through the door, leaving him for dead in the entry way. Besides this gruesome sight, neighbors are about to discover a whole house full of horrors.

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Charged With The Heinous Crime Of Voting While Female

    Charged With The Heinous Crime Of Voting While Female
    Apr 26 2024
    The Trial of Susan B. Anthony Featuring

    Featuring Emily Simer Braun as Susan B. Anthony

    Episode 173 explores the prosecution of one of the most hideous crimes in American history, trying to sway an election by voting. By a woman! Just kidding. The real crime here is the way the judge handed down the decision. Listen, and tell me if you agree.

    Theme Music by Dave Sams and Rachel Schott, engineered by David Hisch at Third Street Music. “Sound Off” by John Philip Sousa, performed by the United States Marine Corps Band


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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Husbands Full Of Lead

    Husbands Full Of Lead
    Apr 24 2024
    Betty Martin And Mildred Bolton Take Aim

    Episode 178 takes us to Chicago in the 1930s when two women stand trial for very similar crimes, murdering their husbands, the second one inspired by the first. Both women are a little crazy, maybe a lot crazy, but their demeanor during their trials and the very different outcomes makes an interesting study to compare and contrast. One of them is pretty, the other pudgy. Which one do you think gets acquitted?

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • 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