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True Crime Historian

True Crime Historian

Richard O Jones

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

4.5 • 720 Ratings

Overview

Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told through vintage newspaper accounts from the golden age of yellow journalism

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343 Episodes

Machine Guns And Mules

The Barrow Gang’s Bloody Rampage Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 460 tells the brutal story of two young lovers and their gang as they escalate from small-time robbery to a bloody, two-year crime spree across the Southwest. With an arsenal of machine guns and other deadly weapons, they left a trail of dead lawmen and merchants in a desperate flight that ended in a deadly ambush. Hear More Stories About PRISON BREAKS 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. This episode includes AI-generated content.

Transcribed - Published: 10 December 2025

Something Horrible Has Happened In Hawaii

Kahahawai Shot In The Heart  Jump to the Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 93 takes you to the island paradise of Hawaii, not yet a state in 1932 when the wife of a naval officer stationed there is allegedly raped and beaten by four natives. A few months later, her mother, her husband and two of his enlisted men face a jury under the counsel of the famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow in a case that both sides claim puts the territory of Hawaii itself on trial.  Hear More Stories About MURDER CONSPIRACIES!!! 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.

Transcribed - Published: 9 December 2025

The Blond Butcher Trunk Murder

The Escapes and Escapades of Winnie Ruth Judd Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 90 begins in the fall of 1931 when a Phoenix resident shows up in a Los Angeles train depot trying to claim three trunks that she had shipped there. The clerks wouldn’t let her take the trunks because of the foul odor emanating from them.  Winnie Ruth Judd said she’d go get the key so they could see there was nothing nefarious in her luggage and made her first escape. Hear more stories about TRUNK MURDERS!!! 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.

Transcribed - Published: 7 December 2025

The Purcell Nicotine Poison Puzzle

Or, Death of a Composer Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 86 involves the body of a songwriter and real estate speculator found tied to a chair with an expression of surprise frozen on his dead face and suspicions of suicide. - Wait. What? - Suicide tied to a chair? - The evidence is so jumbled, police are at a loss to explain, but the backstory to the incident and a foray into the worlds of traveling musicians and actors, hints at motives deeply hidden, and possibly scandalous. - This is one that will keep you guessing. Hear more stories about murder by POISON!!! 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.

Transcribed - Published: 5 December 2025

George Harsh's Great Escape

From Thrill Slayer To War Hero Jump To The AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 459 unlocks the bizarre, true tale of George Harsh, the Oglethorpe "Thrill Slayer," and his partner Richard Gallogly. Bored rich kids trade philosophy for a Colt .45 and a rash of robberies that turn fatal. Harsh's journey spirals from university to death row, then from chain-gang surgeon to hero of the Great Escape. Yeah, Paul Newman’s Great Escape was based on that one... Listen to more stories about ROBBERIES GONE AWRY 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. 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. This episode includes AI-generated content.

Transcribed - Published: 3 December 2025

Poison In The Pepper Box

The Trial Of Louise Vermilya Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 80. Although Louise Vermilya of Chicago was never convicted of a crime, history lays around 10 deaths at her door, mostly family members and suitors. She did go to trial once, and we’ll take a pretty close look at the drama, including a suicide attempt, that led up to her acquittal as we look at the wake of mysterious deaths throughout her life. This story features our dear friend the late Emily Simer Braun to read the quotes attributed to Louise Vermilya in the Chicago newspapers. Listen To More Stories About Murders By POISON 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. 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.

Transcribed - Published: 2 December 2025

Bald Knobbers

Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition For this remastered edition, I’ve dug deep into the vault and combined Episodes 7 and 77, both regarding post-Civil War vigilante action in the Ozark Mountains.The Giant Vigilante Captain Nat KinneyEpisode 7. Captain Nat Kinney was a large man, both in stature and reputation, and both seemed to grow to mythic proportions among the citizens of Taney County, Missouri, deep in the Ozark Mountains. Kinney was the king of the Bald Knobbers, a group of Christian citizens who organized to police themselves against the ruffians and hooligans who would interrupt their church services and raid their homesteads. The presence of the Bald Knobbers deeply divided the region between those who would let the law take its course and those who would take the law into its own hands. Music by Carter Bancroft and Alan Patterson.The Botched Execution of Chief Bull Creek DaveEpisode 77 is a sequel to the tale of The Giant Vigilante Captain Nat Kinney, about one of the Bald Knobber masked vigilante groups that sprang up in the Ozark region after the civil war. This story concerns the Bald Knobbers in the adjacent county to Nat Kinney, where once again, and another instance where vigilante justice backfires. It’s a good story and has a lot of action, including an exciting jailbreak. But my favorite part is the heart-breaking report of the artist who ventures into the hills to get sketches of the families of the condemned men just days before their scheduled execution. Hear More Stories About Botched Executions 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. 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.

Transcribed - Published: 30 November 2025

Trail Of The Red Ax

The Villisca Ax Murders Mystery  Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 69 starts with a brutal ax murder that scandalized the quiet town of Villisca, Iowa, about 2,000 souls in the summer of 1912, when a family of six and two young visitors were killed in their beds by an assailant wielding a long-handled ax, the family’s own tool, which was left at the scene. Clues were scant, and it took years for the twists and subplots to emerge, including a string of similar murders, implications that it was a job for hire by a business rival, and a bizarre confession by an itinerant minister five years later.  Hear More Stories about AX MURDERS 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. 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.

Transcribed - Published: 28 November 2025

Inside The Dalton Gang Part Three

The End Begins At Coffeyville Jump To The AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION Episode 458 concludes our three part exploration of the infamous Dalton Gang. With the law breathing down their necks and increasing the guards on trains, the gang needs to find a new way to raise money to finance an exile to South America. In desperation they attempt a double bank robbery in a town where they are well known. Well, the title says it all. Listen To More WILD WESTERNS 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. This episode includes AI-generated content.

Transcribed - Published: 26 November 2025

Torture At The Chicken Ranch

The Awful Crimes of the Northcott Family A missing boy returns from a cross country walkabout, but the mother says it's not him. Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition You can pay more if you want to, but rent at the Safe House is just a buck a week, and you can get access to over 400 episodes from the dusty vault, plus content not available anywhere else on the Internet, direct access to the Boss, and whatever personal services you require. In episode 47, we follow the unusual narrative of the Northcott family. They came from Canada--and who knows what atrocities they committed there--but when they came to California to practice their evil habits, they were caught, though not soon enough. As many as eight young men may have been tortured and murdered on their Wineville farm, but none of them seemed to be able to tell the truth, even when their lives depended on it. One would go to prison, and one would pay the ultimate price for their crimes, but that hardly seems enough.This is the crime that inspired the 2008 Clint Eastwood film “The Changeling”  Hear More Stories About TORCH MURDERERS!!! 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.

Transcribed - Published: 25 November 2025

Massacre At The Love Bungalow

Seven Dead at Taliesin Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition In Episode 46, we relive a somewhat famous crime involving the noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the night that his apparently crazed butler -- yes, the butler did it! -- slaughtered seven people at Wright’s Wisconsin rural home he named Taliesen after the ancient Welsh poet, and built as a hide-away for himself and the love of his life, Mamah Borthwick, who was among the dead. Hear More Stories About MASS MURDERERS. 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.

Transcribed - Published: 23 November 2025

The Bloody Benders

Roadhouse Of No Return Jump To The AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 40 takes a look at the legend of a Kansas family that killed at least 11 visitors to their roadhouse in the early 1870s. They aroused suspicion by choosing as a victim a well-known physician, whose family soon pulled out all stops in a search until they uncovered his body, along with 10 missing travelers, on the Bender property. The Bender Family was nowhere to be found, and never were. Sightings and even arrests were regular for many years, even into the next century, but the second act of this episode purports to tell the true story of what happened to the mass murdering hostelers. Hear more stories about SERIAL KILLERS 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.

Transcribed - Published: 21 November 2025

Inside The Dalton Gang Part Two

Train Robberies Bring Troubles Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 457 continues a three-episode exploration of the infamous Dalton Gang, who terrorize the Plains states near the end of the nineteenth century. In this episode, the gang strikes it rich with a big haul, and some want to retire, but getting out of the country isn't the piece of cake they thought it would be. Hear more WILD WESTERNS! 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. This episode includes AI-generated content.

Transcribed - Published: 19 November 2025

Quintuple Executions

The Early Days Of The Electric Chair This is a combination of two early episodes with a common theme. The Shocking Death Of William Kemmler: The First Electric Execution Jump to AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 19. Following the brutal murder of his common law wife Tillie Ziegler in Buffalo, New York, March, 1889, the rough character William Kemmler said he was glad he did it was was happy to hang for the crime. He did not quite get his wish, as a newly passed law in the state of New York allowed Kemmler to become the first man to die in the electric chair. His executioners knew that the execution would be an experiment of sorts, and it was not exactly the rousing success they had hoped for, but it did usher in a new era in America’s criminal justice system. Quadruple Electrocutions: Four Murders, Four Executions Jump to AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 39 is a follow-up to Episode 19, "The Shocking Death of William Kemmler," which I had published about two months prior. If you remember, that execution went so badly that many thought it was a failed experiment. Indeed, it took the state of New York nearly a year to perform a second electric chair execution, but it did so with a bang, putting four men to death on the same day, July 7, 1891. - Will it work out any better? Listen and find out… Listen to more episodes about CAPITAL CRIMES 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.

Transcribed - Published: 18 November 2025

The Ten-Spot Murder Plot

The Fall from Grace and Tragic Murder of the Rev. Gaylord V. Saunders Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 38 tells the sordid tale of a Methodist minister suffering from a midlife crisis and in losing his faith falls into the path of sin and degradation. It gets so bad, that his beleaguered wife offers a young man a $10 bill to find someone to kill her husband before he kills her. This was in 1934, so adujsted for inflation, that comes to $177.71 in 2016 dollars. Hear more stories about FALLS FROM GRACE 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.

Transcribed - Published: 16 November 2025

Naughty Nellie Bailey: Frontier Temptress

The Bothamley Murder Mystery Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 37 is the story of an 1883 murder that appeared in newspapers across the country in 1905 as "The Bothamley Murder Mystery" under the byline of Captain Patrick D. Tyrrell, who at that time had retired from a career as a detective in the United States Secret Service. His job was mainly to hunt down counterfeiters, but he achieved some fame when he foiled a plot to steal the body of Abraham Lincoln, a case I hope to take up in a future episode. He wrote this and other stories in a syndicated newspaper feature titled “Stories of the Secret Service”. Hear more stories about FEMMES FATALE 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.

Transcribed - Published: 14 November 2025

Inside The Dalton Gang Part One

From Law To Outlaw JUMP TO AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION With Deep-Dive Research and Episode Transcripts For Rent-Paying Scoundrels Episode 456 begins a three-episode exploration of the infamous Dalton Gang, who terrorize the Plains states near the end of the nineteenth century. Part One, From Law To Outlaw, tells how Bob Dalton and his brother Gratton made the great fall from grace, from U.S. Marshals to bandits on the run from a posse. Culled from the book “Beyond The Law” by Emmett Dalton, the youngest member of the gang. Listen to more WILD WESTERNS! 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. This episode includes AI-generated content.

Transcribed - Published: 12 November 2025

Strangled In A Strange City

The Curious Murder of Mary Ekhart  Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 35 goes deep on a case mentioned in my book “The First Celebrity Serial Killer,” as one of the murders Alfred Knapp confessed to.  Mary Ekhart, a young woman from Dayton, Ohio, separated from her husband and went to live in Cincinnati, where she had a lead on a job in a candy factory. A few days later, her body was found dead in a rooming house, and police tracked down every lead trying to find the mysterious stranger seen lurking in front of the house on the morning of the day of her murder. Listen to more episodes about UNSOLVED cases!!! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big 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.

Transcribed - Published: 11 November 2025

The Chinatown Trunk Murder

The Awful Death Of Elsie Sigel Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 33 is the sad tale of Elsie Sigel, a pretty young girl from a prominent New York family, went to work as a missionary in Manhattan’s Chinatown. In the summer of 1909, police found Elsie’s body packed in a trunk in an apartment above a chop suey joint. Hear more stories about TRUNK MURDERS!!! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big 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.

Transcribed - Published: 9 November 2025

The Man With The Twisted Foot

The Strange Death Of Edith May Thompson Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 23 revolves around a friendship between a socialite and an erudite, seemingly scholarly man who came to live in her hometown on the eastern shore of Maryland. The residents of Talbot County were shocked beyond belief when a pair of crab trappers pull the body of the newly-married young woman from the Chesapeake Bay and the newcomer disappears. Adapted from the April 1930 of True Detective Mysteries by Sheriff A.E. Walsh as told to K.S. Daiger. Listen to more episodes about TRUNK MURDERS! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big 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.

Transcribed - Published: 7 November 2025

The Poisoner Laughs

Tea With Aunt Carrie Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 455 takes place down under when the friends and relatives of Caroline Grill of New South Wales begin falling dead from rat poisoning. I can’t quite figure out if Auntie Carrie is stupid or crazy like a fox. You tell me. Hear FIFTEEN More Tales of POISON Murderers Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 5 November 2025

The Blonde Who Pulled The Trigger

The True Crime of Irene Schroeder  Jump To AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 32 takes place during the early days of the Great Depression, when one patrolman is killed and another seriously wounded while trying to prevent a trio of bandits who had robbed a department store in Western Pennsylvania from making a getaway. The surviving officer said it was not one of the two men who killed his partner, but the woman of the group, a young blonde, who was using her four-year-old son as a shield in the getaway. The child, recovered a few days later at his grandfather’s house, confirmed the story, and a nationwide manhunt ends in the desert mountains near Phoenix, Arizona, where the blond and her companions shoot it out with police for six hours, until they run out of ammunition. Hear more episodes about FEMMES FATALE Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 4 November 2025

Guilty Or Not, They Hung Him Twice

The Botched Execution of George H. Painter Jump To AD FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION Episode 27 starts shortly after midnight, the night of  May 17, 1891, when George H. Painter awoke the people living in his Chicago house shortly after midnight, shouting that his common law wife Alice Martin had been murdered. Painter himself went to fetch the police, who promptly arrested him for the murder. The trial made it a cut and dry case, and Painter was sentenced to hang, although he insisted his innocence up to the very end. His lawyers continued to investigate while Painter sat on death row, presented affidavit after affidavit to shadow the case with doubt, but not enough to convince a resolute governor. Here are more stories about BOTCHED EXECUTIONS Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 2 November 2025

Fingers Convict Him

On September 19, 1910, a prowler broke into the home of Clarence Hiller in the Chicago neighborhood Morgan Park. When he awoke Hiller’s 13-year-old daughter, pandemonium erupted and before it was over, Hiller lay dead at the bottom of the stairs. In breaking into the house, Thomas Jennings left his left palm print in a freshly-painted porch rail. Those prints would be the first ever admitted into evidence. The case changed police standard practices across the nation and around the world.   Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 31 October 2025

The Last Bad Man Of The West

The Scoundrel Tom Horn Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 454 takes us back to the end of the Old West era, where a cattleman’s agent is arrested for the murder of a sheep farmer’s son. Yes, that was a real conflict back then. Tom Horn, the hired gun, had a long history of adventure, deeds good and foul, but the murder of a fourteen-year-old boy was a bullet too far for the colorful Tom Horn, who wrote a book about his life and exploits that you can download at the Safe House.Culled from the historic pages of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, the Salt Lake Herald, and other newspapers of the era. Listen To Other WILD WESTERN Stories Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 29 October 2025

Was It Mother? Or Murder?

Pittsburgh’s Feely Murder Mystery Jump To AD-FREE Safe House Edition You’ll need your thinking cap for Episode 129, about as cold a case as you can get. It’s about eighty years old, but even police officials at the time could not agree on what happened in the back room of that tiny home, whether it was a murder or a murder/suicide. I’m not going to say we can solve it from a few newspaper clippings, but there does seem to be something amiss. Hear more stories about murders of the INNOCENTS. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 28 October 2025

A French Maid's Dirty Laundry

The Ordeal Of Hattie LeBlanc Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 413 is the sordid little tale of a French Canadian girl who gets wrapped up in an ugly situation involving her employers, a womanizing laundry owner and his suffering wife. It only gets uglier when the husband ends up dead, the maid arrested, but it seems to be the wife who stands trial. Hear More Episodes About FEMMES FATALE Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 26 October 2025

Killer Caught By A Thread

The Mulholland Drive Sack Murder Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edtion Episode 411 details the events following the discovery alongside the famed Mulholland Drive of a body sewn up in a makeshift canvas bag fashioned from an old awning. All fingers point to her friend, a physician with a shady past, whose defense is simply the old standby: “What? Who? Me?” Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 24 October 2025

A Fatal Clang Of The Trolley

The President’s Close Call Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 452 explores the aftermath of a presidential mishap when Teddy Roosevelt's carriage collides with an electric trolley racing to make up for lost time. A Secret Service guard dies immediately and the trolley driver is charged with his murder. Was this a simple accident? A case of incompetence? Or was the motorman made a scapegoat for a nation’s grief and outrage? Hear More Stories About LINE OF DUTY TRAGEDIES Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 22 October 2025

Fall River Nurse Found In Tiverton Ditch

The Interstate Strangulation Of Verna Russell Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 409 is the story of a spoiled young man who wouldn’t take no for an answer and let his rage get the better of him. The best evidence against him will come from the very source he turned to in order to hide his deed. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 21 October 2025

The Girod Street Assassination Ambuscade

The City Of New Orleans Vs. The Mafia Jump to AD FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION Episode 408 explores the lead-in and aftermath of one of the most deadly vigilante actions in American history. When the commissioner of police is assassinated on his way home, a committee of 50 citizens call an indignation meeting, and you know how those are likely to go. Just a couple of notes: One, the descriptions of the action in Act III are quite graphic, so use your discretion. And two, there are several instances of a derogatory term used in this episode, but I follow the same policy I do for racial slurs, that I will soften the narrative language but will not change anything that is printed in direct quotes. History is not always pretty, folks, so don’t come here if you want it white-washed. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 20 October 2025

Meat Juice Mischief

The Accusations Against Florence Elizabeth Maybrick Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 407 is dedicated to my new friend from the United Kingdom, Joan Smith, who asked me to dig up more stories from across the great pond. This one involves an American woman who marries a Brit old enough to be her father, and is then charged with his poisoning. The bulk of this episode is adapted from a three-part newspaper series by Stewart Robinson, published after Florence Maybrick’s death in 1941, and part of it from her own account of her ordeal, a book titled, “My Fifteen Lost Years.” Listen to more stories about murders with POISON Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 17 October 2025

A Corpse In The Morris Canal

The Work Of The Mormon Butcher Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 451 begins in the summer of 1902, when a woman’s mutilated body is pulled from the Morris Canal, and the trail leads to a blood-soaked missionary’s flat in Manhattan. The suspect: William Hooper Young, grandson of Mormon patriarch Brigham Young, whose notebook bore the chilling phrase “Blood Atonement.” This is a rich episode about the strange descent of a scholar turned tramp, and the murder that made headlines thunder with scandal, scripture, and slaughter. Hear More Stories About TRUNK MURDERS Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 15 October 2025

The Perth Ballroom Tragedy

Audrey Jacob Stands Trial Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 406 comes from a special request from one of my many listeners Down Under, this one the tragic story of a spurned young woman who settles the score on the dance floor. And we’re not talking about a tango competition, but her trial is a dramatic one and the resolution is indeed surprising. Hear More Stories From DOWN UNDER. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 14 October 2025

A Mother-In-Law's Revenge

The Horrible Horner-Simpson Affair Jump To AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 404 is jam-packed with crazy when a fun-loving dentist is charged with the double-barrel shotgun murder of his father-in-law. The family dynamic seems to go off the rails in the lead-in to the trial, and there are a couple of interesting subplots to keep things going, including a long-lost relative and the sad story of the only eye-witness to the affair. Hear More Stories About FEMMES FATALE Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 12 October 2025

Austin Family Found In Cistern

Eugene Burt Flees From Justice Jump To AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 403 explores the story of a man who leaves his family battered and murdered in a cistern under their Austin home, and heads out of town on the midnight train. He thinks he can disappear in a big city, but Chicago has another story. Hear More Stories About The Death Of INNOCENTS Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 10 October 2025

Missouri Mob Justice

The Lynching Of Lloyd Warner Jump To The AD-FREE Safe House Edition Plus transcripts and deep-dive research for Safe House residents Episode 449 tells the story of civil unrest sparked by reports of a young white woman being sexually assaulted by a young black male, a story all too common in American history, and like many of the others, it appears likely that the unruly mob lynched and incinerated the wrong man. Hear more stories about MOBS & RIOTS Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 8 October 2025

Baby Amy & The Broadway Gigolo

A Fake Hold-Up Murder Plot Jump To AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 402 tells the story of a discontented wife and her young paramour, who set in motion a plan to stage a robbery to get money for a quick Reno divorce. The victim, her husband. Yeah, that didn’t work out so well. There are some intense personalities in this story and a lot of theatrics, including a murder victim testifying from beyond the grave. Hear More Stories About ROBBERIES GONE AWRY Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 7 October 2025

Petroleum, Politics, Passion

Clara Smith Hamon Takes The Stand Jump To The AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 401 tells the salacious story of a leading politician who shows up at a private hospital with a gunshot wound. He tells the doctor it was self-inflicted, but that turns out to be a cover story. Why the big lie? You guessed it: There’s a woman in the case, and what she has to say will blow your mind. Hear More Stories About FALLS FROM GRACE Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 5 October 2025

Interred In An Irrigation Ditch

Josie Kensler’s Delicate Condition Jump To Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 400 employs a trope we’ve seen before: the cranky old farmer whose wife takes up with the farm hand and well, it just doesn’t end well for anybody. But this one, taking place near the turn to the twentieth century in rural Idaho, has its own particular set of twists, turns, and complications, and conflicting testimony between the two accused. Hear more stories about LOVE TRIANGLES GONE AWRY Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 3 October 2025

A Bloody Scream In The Night

The Axe Murder Of Alice Mallett Ad-Free Safe House Edition 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! NOW! Free to all Safe House Scoundrels: Read along with True Crime Historian by viewing or downloading a PDF file of a transcript of this episode. Or, you can take a deep dive in the case by reading up on the entire case file that we assembled during our research. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 1 October 2025

The Elm City Tragedy

The Life And Death Of Jennie E. Cramer Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 397 tells the story of a young girl in late 1800’s New England who falls in with a fast crowd with fatal results. Three people were tried for her murder, but it’s up to you to decide whether she was the victim of her own shame, or if the victim of an unjust patriarchal society. Hear About More UNSOLVED Cases Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 30 September 2025

Pirates On The Penguin

The Astounding Disappearance Of Benjamin Collings On Long Island Sound Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 396 relates the puzzling story of a family apparently attacked on their cabin cruiser on an inky summer night. The husband is missing and the wife and five-year-old daughter have an amazing tale to tell. But can her story hold water as well as the 26-foot cruiser? Hear More UNSOLVED Cases Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 28 September 2025

What Happened To Alma Kellner

The Fiendish Slaughter Of An Innocent Child Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 394 relates the tragic tale of an eight-year old girl who fell into the clutches of a degenerate murderer. The hero of this story is a Louisville, Kentucky, detective who not only pieces together the crime, but embarks on a cross-country chase for the alleged murderer, who proves to be slippery even behind bars. Hear More Murders of THE INNOCENTS Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 26 September 2025

Farmer's Wife Left For Dead

Brothers Face Gas Chamber Together Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 392 explores the case of two brothers charged with the murder of a Colorado farmer and his “chore boy.” The chief witness against them is the farmer’s wife, who made a miraculous getaway and recovery. Hear More Stories About CAPITAL CRIMES Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 24 September 2025

A Cowardly Blow In The Dark

The Barber And The Gambler’s Wife Stand Trial Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 393 takes us back to the Gilded Age and the salacious story of a professional gambler who is fatally attacked as he leaves his house to go to the hotel where he operates. Blame falls on his barber, who confesses to the crime and implicates the gambler’s wife, accusing her of not only having an interracial affair with him, but also with a younger man who just moved to town. All three are arrested, but who is really the culprit? Hear more stories of LOVE TRIANGLES GONE AWRY. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 22 September 2025

The Blue-Eyed Six

The Indiantown Creek Insurance Murder Plot Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edition! Episode 390 explores what was reported to be the first murder case in the English-speaking world where six men receive a guilty verdict on one indictment, the result of a plot to murder a man in order to receive the benefits of a bunch of insurance policies. It doesn’t really end well for anyone. Hear More Stories About CAPERS & CONSPIRACIES Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 20 September 2025

The Dim-Witted Milkman And The Gambler's Wife

Murder In The Attic With Pipe, Gun, and Knife Jump To Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 389 details one of the clumsiest murder plots we’ve yet to encounter, and is jam-packed with some of our favorite tropes: A love triangle gone awry and a trunk murder, to name a couple, with a large dose of crowded courtroom hijinx, including a highly inappropriate kiss between defendants. Hear More Stories About LOVE TRIANGLES GONE AWRY Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. CLICK HERE to reserve your bunk at The Safe House, where the past is present and the rent is just a buck a week but gives you access to ad-free editions of over 400 episodes in the dusty vault, early access to all new episodes, exclusive content, access to the big boss, and whatever personal services you require.

Transcribed - Published: 18 September 2025

The Servant Girl's Trunk Of Horrors

Domestic Scandal In Sioux Falls Jump To AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 388 is not a classic trunk murder, per se, but one of the most dramatic scenes in the narrative comes when the prosecutor opens up a dead girl’s trunk in front of witnesses to speculate on the abuses its contents portend. Two families are ripped apart in this gripping drama where evidence is thin but accusations are as abundant and brutal as the wounds on the poor girl’s dead body. Hear More Episodes About TRUNK MURDERS Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. Join us at The Safe House, where every resident gets the key and safe combination to the dusty old vault where they listen to the largest collection of True Crime Historian episodes available in the entire universe, all ad-free.

Transcribed - Published: 16 September 2025

Sweet Singer Strangled In A Stable

The Repudiated Confessions Of Richard Ivens Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 398 explores the tragic murder of a Chicago housewife and the subsequent confession of the simple minded young man who found the body in a refuse pile. Listen To More BAD CONFESSIONS Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support. Join us at The Safe House, where every resident gets the key and safe combination to the dusty old vault where they listen to the largest collection of True Crime Historian episodes available in the entire universe, all ad-free.

Transcribed - Published: 16 September 2025

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