A Bloody Scream In The Night

True Crime Historian

Richard O Jones

True Crime, Performing Arts, Documentary, Arts, Society & Culture

4.5 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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The Axe Murder Of Alice Mallett

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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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