Olive Jones's Gruesome Christmas Vigil
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Episode 429 is our very special holiday episode, in which a disenchanted housewife pulls the trigger on her lover and claims self-defense. Let’s see how that works out for her.Culled from the historic pages of the Louisville Courier-Journal and other newspapers of the era.
Ad-Free version
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.
You can pay more if you want to, but rent at the Safe House is still just a buck a week, and you can get access to over 400 ad-free episodes from the dusty vault, Safe House Exclusives, direct access to the Boss, and whatever personal services you require.
We invite you to our other PULPULAR MEDIA podcasts:
If disaster is more your jam, check out CATASTROPHIC CALAMITIES, telling the stories of famous and forgotten tragedies of the 19th and 20th centuries. What could go wrong? Everything!
For brand-new tales in the old clothes from the golden era of popular literature, give your ears a treat with PULP MAGAZINES with two new stories every week.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This podcast has been made possible in part by scoundrels like Amelia McKinnon, |
| 0:09.1 | who knows the trick for making the safe house gin taste like really lousy bourbon. |
| 0:14.6 | You too can lay low and join the party at www. patreon.. slash true crime historian |
| 0:21.1 | and get access to early ad-free editions of all new episodes, |
| 0:25.4 | treasures from the true crime historian vault, |
| 0:27.7 | not available anywhere else, |
| 0:29.5 | and whatever personal services you require. |
| 0:41.1 | Paul Puehler. Popular Dot com |
| 0:42.7 | Louisville, Kentucky |
| 0:48.4 | December 26th, 1922 |
| 0:52.8 | 18 hours after Oscar Black 26th, 1922. |
| 1:02.5 | 18 hours after Oscar Black was killed, the news of his death was broken to his mother, |
| 1:10.4 | Mrs. Maddie Black, and his twin sisters, Mrs. H. L. Hall, and Miss Maddie Black, by a reporter of the Courier Journal at 2.10 o'clock yesterday afternoon. |
| 1:17.6 | As the house was approached, a curtain was pushed back. They were expecting someone. |
| 1:24.6 | No, mother, it's not Oscar, a voice was heard to say. The family was seated in the |
| 1:31.4 | parlor, gathered around a Christmas tree. Gifts were on the table. Several of the gifts, |
| 1:39.3 | tied and wrapped, bore cards on which was written to Oscar. Little Oscar Hall, about three years old, was busy |
| 1:49.9 | fingering a toy, apparently satisfied with the result of Santa's visit. His Christmas celebration |
| 1:57.5 | began early, but it was evident that the celebration of the child's mother and father |
| 2:03.3 | and grandmother and aunt were to have gotten underway fully upon the arrival of Mr. Black. |
| 2:10.9 | Mr. Black's mother and unmarried sister had come here Saturday from their home in Addison, Kentucky to spend Christmas with him. |
| 2:19.6 | He was expected early yesterday morning. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Richard O Jones, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Richard O Jones and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.