A Bloody Scream In The Night
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Episode 450 begins with a scream in the night as the beautiful Miss Alice Mallett, her body brutally defiled, found in a bloody pool. The town of Jackson, Michigan, reels, a mob thirsting for vengeance. The twisted trail of an axe points to the fiendish George Straub, an ex-con with a dark past. But wait! Did he act alone? Or did another shadowy figure lurk in the night? With tear gas exploding and fingers pointing, justice hangs by a thread as a city demands blood!
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| 0:00.0 | True Crime Historian Presents |
| 0:01.8 | Yesterday's News |
| 0:03.8 | Stories of the scandals, scoundrels, and scourges of the past |
| 0:07.9 | told through vintage newspaper accounts in the golden age of yellow journalism. |
| 0:13.1 | Episode 450 begins with a scream in the night as the beautiful Miss Alice Mallet, |
| 0:18.7 | her body brutally defiled, found in a bloody pool. |
| 0:22.8 | The town of Jackson, Michigan, reels, a mob thirsting for vengeance. |
| 0:27.5 | The twisted trail of an axe points to the fiendish George Straub, an ex-con with a dark past. |
| 0:33.7 | But wait, did he act alone? |
| 0:36.1 | Or did another shadowy figure lurk in the night? |
| 0:38.9 | With tear gas exploding and fingers pointing, |
| 0:41.7 | Justice hangs by a thread as a city demands blood. |
| 0:45.0 | This is true crime historian, |
| 0:47.0 | and for your horror and indignation, I give you. |
| 0:50.2 | A bloody scream in the night, |
| 0:51.7 | the axe murder of Alice Mallet. |
| 0:56.0 | Jackson, Michigan, June 8, 1922. |
| 0:59.5 | Alarm clocks rang out earlier than usual this morning, and the reason for the early rising |
| 1:04.6 | was the arrival of the John Robinson Circus on its 99th annual tour of the country. |
| 1:11.0 | Hundreds of early birds saw the circus specials arrive and unload. |
| 1:15.7 | Hundreds more arrived on the showgrounds in time to see the erection of the big top and |
| 1:20.4 | the different department tents. |
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