True Crime Shorts
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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"Murder For Two Dollars And Forty-Five Cents" tells the story of how a newsboy finds the clue solving a professional (well, sorta) murder.
"The War Hero's Love Letters Sentenced Him To Die" (14:26) ties in the murder of a theater tycoon with a bit of romantic intrigue.
"Love And The Counterfeiters" (28:07) is the exciting tale of, well, counterfeiters and double-crossers in the old-school Italian mob.
"When The Ouiji Board Spelled DADDY MUST DIE" (49:41) is the tragic story of a teen-age girl falling into her mother's web of betrayal and murder.
"Phantom In The Window" (1:04:37) is another heart-breaking tale of a teenager caught in a murder plot.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | True Crime Historian presents Sunday Magazine, a collection of true crime |
| 0:16.8 | historian presents Sunday magazine, a collection of true crime short stories. As I do my |
| 0:25.0 | research in the dark dusty archives trying to find exciting stories of the |
| 0:29.6 | scandals, scoundals, and scourges of the past, I often come upon feature stories about |
| 0:35.0 | interesting crimes and criminal personalities in Sunday magazine |
| 0:39.2 | sections. They're not enough for an entire episode by themselves, so I've strung a few of them |
| 0:44.9 | together for you. The first two are of a piece. Murder for $2.45 tells the story of how a newsboy |
| 0:53.1 | finds the clue to solving a professional, well, sort |
| 0:57.0 | of, murder, while the war hero's love letters sentenced him to die ties in the murder of a |
| 1:04.0 | theater tycoon with a bit of romantic intrigue. |
| 1:08.0 | Following that, love and the counterfeiters is an exciting tale of, well, counterfeiters, |
| 1:14.7 | and double-crossers and the old school Italian mob. The next article is titled, |
| 1:20.1 | When the Ouija board spelled Daddy Must Die, the tragic story of a teenage girl falling into |
| 1:26.3 | her mother's web of betrayal and murder. |
| 1:29.6 | Another heartbreaking tale of a teenager caught in a murder plot finishes off the set. |
| 1:35.5 | From the classic pages of Master Detective magazine comes Phantom in the Window, |
| 1:41.1 | the murder of Mary Louise Stammer. |
| 1:44.0 | I'm true crime historian Richard O. |
| 1:46.6 | Jones and I give you Sunday magazine number three a collection of true crime shorts. |
| 1:54.0 | Murder for $2.45 cents. |
| 2:03.6 | A newsboy finds a gun and thereby hangs the tale of how one of the Southwest's most cruel crimes was solved, |
| 2:12.6 | a crime in which the Trigger Man netted $1, and accomplished same amount and a third pal the sum of 45 cents. |
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