True Crime Historian

The Terror Of All Toughs Killed By Horse Thief Jump To Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 358 is dedicated to the Safe House Scoundrel Marlene Resch who required a story from her home town of Eugene, Oregon, and we are happy to oblige. The victim in this story was the law enforcement officer in Episode 336, Murder On The McKenzie Trail, and together they sum up the history of capital punishment in Lane County Oregon, the only two executions there. More WILD WESTERNS Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 16 July 2025

The Trial Of Lena Clarke Jump To The AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION Episode 357 is a crazy blend of murder, embezzlement, and a ghost story. When a former post office clerk is found murdered in the hotel room of a woman who had been a co-worker, there are hints of either a connection the spirit world or madness, but still, a Florida courtroom is stunned the depths of the suspect’s mysticism as revealed in her trial. Explore More Episodes With COURTROOM SHENANIGANS Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 14 July 2025

The Senator, The Embezzler, And The Girl They Loved Jump To AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION Episode 356 takes a look at a scandalous murder and failed suicide attempt that leaves the perpetrator blind and a state senator defending not only his own honor, but that of the young lady who got the worst of the whole affair. Explore More Episodes About LOVE TRIANGLES GONE AWRY Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 11 July 2025

Killing Billy The Kid Jump To The AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION Episode 355 takes us back to the Old West with a profile of one of the classic rivalries of the era: The lanky Sheriff Pat Garrett v. the notorious William Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, including a narrative of their fateful last encounter as told by the sheriff himself. Explore More Episodes of WILD WESTERN True Crime Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 9 July 2025

HA Debaucher Of Children Gets His Revenge Jump To The AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION Episode 354 is a real trip to the dark side as it recounts the rampage of a local beat patrolmen the result of having his ugly perverted secrets revealed. Although he was responsible for a lot of lives lost and hurt forever, there’s some satisfaction in watching him get some of what he deserves, public humiliation as well as the state’s own vengeance. Explore More Episodes About FALLS FROM GRACE Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 7 July 2025

The Murder Of Sheriff Rogers At Glencoe Jump To The Ad-Free SAFE HOUSE EDITION Episode 353 takes place in late 19th century Minnesota, but plays out like a classic Western tale. You know the one, where a pair of strangers come into town, shoot the sheriff, and incite the citizenry to take the law into their own hands. Click Here To Access More WILD WESTERN Episodes Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 4 July 2025

The Ladies’ Man Lawyer & The Mysterious Blonde Jump To Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 151 recalls a fatal shooting on a dark country road when a pair of unemployed thugs set out to rape and plunder unsuspecting couples looking for a quiet place to canoodle. They get more than they bargained for when their mark turns out to be a well-armed attorney.  Explore More ROBBERIES GONE AWRY Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 2 July 2025

The Murder Of Myrtle Mellus Jump To Ad Free Safe House Edition Episode 350 relates the tale of a love triangle ending in tragedy when a Hollywood socialite is found murdered after one of her regular trysts with her young lover. There’s a lot of drinking and debauchery involved in this, and we never really get all the details of this sordid liaison, but just enough to spark the imagination. Hear About More FALLS FROM GRACE Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 30 June 2025

The Murder Of Bessie Little Jump To The Ad-Free SAFE HOUSE edition Episode 348 takes place in Dayton, Ohio, just up the Great Miami River from my hometown. I'm trying to come up with a name for this particular narrative trope, the murder of a woman by a man whose child she is carrying -- consequently also the murder of an unborn child. There is some question in this case if Bessie Little was actually pregnant. But the point is, somebody thought she was. The word I came up with: Pregnicide. Explore More Stories Of Pregnicide Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 27 June 2025

The Trunk In Minnie Lee Griffin’s Basement Jump To Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 347 is a cautionary tale about what can go wrong if you get too involved in the lives of your grown children. When the widow Minnie Lee Griffin thought that her son-in-law was being pursued by a beautiful neighbor, she resorted to subterfuge to save her daughters marriage, and eventually to murder. Explore More Trunk Murders!! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 26 June 2025

Demise Of The Whittemore Gang Jump to the Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 345 follows the end of the career of the leader of  a notorious East Coast gang that terrorized Baltimore and several New York Cities in their bloody quest for money and diamonds. The exciting narrative includes descriptions of several of the gang’s violent heists. Find More Stories About Jail Breaks Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 23 June 2025

The Corruption Of Lieutenant Charles Becker. Jump to Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 116 is a story about police corruption in New York’s Tenderloin District at the turn of the last century. The Tenderloin District around Broadway was so named by the police because there was a lot of graft to be made and they were able to stop eating chuck steak and started eating tenderloin. Maybe that helped dull the foul taste of corruption in their mouths. The trouble starts when gambling house operator Herman Rosenthal gets double crossed by his business partner, Charles Becker, who happens to also be a police lieutenant. Rosenthal is so upset, he decides to name names in front of a grand jury. Yeah. That’s not going to end well. More Falls From Grace Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 20 June 2025

The Brutal Murder of Gussie Pfeiffer Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 115 is a baffling case indeed. The body of a young factory girl who had been missing for three days is found “brutalized,” as the euphemism goes, before being murdered and her body dumped near a historic tree in the Bronx. How long had she been there? How long had she been dead? With few clues to go on, police head to the mountains upstate, and to the sea, and who knows where else to find the elusive man the press called “a human gorilla”. Explore More Manhunts Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 19 June 2025

The Cleveland Kaber Conspiracy By Marjorie Wilson Jump to Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 114 Back in the golden ages of newspapers, it was common for them to publish serialized novels of romance, adventure,and intrigue, but true crime serials were not quite so common. But here is a novella-length  story published in nineteen chapters in five parts by newspapers in 1921 when Eva Kaber was standing trial for leading a plot to murder her invalid husband. It’s a crazy, crazy story of Italian assassins, fortune tellers, and Pinkerton detectives conspiring with amateur spies to bring an elaborate murder plot to light. More Stories With Pinkertons Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 19 June 2025

The Cleveland Kaber Conspiracy By Marjorie Wilson Jump to Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 114 Back in the golden ages of newspapers, it was common for them to publish serialized novels of romance, adventure,and intrigue, but true crime serials were not quite so common. But here is a novella-length  story published in nineteen chapters in five parts by newspapers in 1921 when Eva Kaber was standing trial for leading a plot to murder her invalid husband. It’s a crazy, crazy story of Italian assassins, fortune tellers, and Pinkerton detectives conspiring with amateur spies to bring an elaborate murder plot to light. More Stories With Pinkertons Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 19 June 2025

The Scoundrel Albert Brownlee Jump To Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 344 takes place in the Pacific Northwest and follows the career of a World War I veteran who returns to a life of crime. This fellow’s a peck of trouble, and since the Huns didn’t get him, the state of Oregon will. Find More Stories About CAPITAL CRIMES Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 13 June 2025

The Scoundrel Herman Kabansky Jump To Ad-Free Safe House Edition There’s a lot of action packed into Episode 343. In addition to a drunken shooting spree and a heroic policeman, the story packs in an escape from jail, an attempted suicide, and a whole lot of courtroom and jailhouse dramatics. Find More Stories About Jail Breaks Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 11 June 2025

A Bloody Riot In Birmingham Jump To The AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION Episode 342 is dedicated to listeners Paula Wellman and Marcie Braden, who along with the Historic Birmingham Facebook group suggested this case and provided me with tons of research. It is a double tragedy, a brutal family murder followed by a massacre in the city streets as a diligent sheriff flexes the strong arm of the law. Find More Stories About CAPITAL CRIMES Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 9 June 2025

The Degradation Of Sassy Springer Jump To Commercial-Free SAFE HOUSE Edition Episode 340 tells of a double murder--one intentional, one accidental--arising out of an unusual love triangle, a married wealthy Denver socialite and two men, both of whom were her lovers, neither of them her husband. Does that make it a love quadrangle? MORE LOVE TRIANGLES GONE AWRY Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 6 June 2025

Scandal At Reynolda Jump to the AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION Episode 338 weaves the tale of mystery surrounding the shocking death of the youngest son of the tobacco king R.J. Reynolds when he is found dead in the family’s palatial North Carolina home. Although the coroner immediately ruled it a suicide, other officials felt differently, and suspicion fell on the young man’s new bride and his best friend. More LOVE TRIANGLES GONE AWRY Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 4 June 2025

The Australian Aviatrix And Her Suitors Jump To The AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION Episode 341 tells the scandalous story of one of Miami, Florida’s most sensational murders when a young writer is found dead in a sleeping porch, a bullet in his head and two suicide notes on the table. Public interest is high because the other two sides of the fatal triangle are two world-famous, record-holding aviators. MORE LOVE TRIANGLES GONE AWRY Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 2 June 2025

The Murder Of The Butcher Pops Wagner  Jump To The AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION Episode 117 tells the story of sweet 16-year-old Lena Theresa Neinstedt, known as Terry, a pretty eighth-grade dropout with a habit of stealing government checks out of neighborhood mailboxes. A wild child of the streets of New York, young Terry also had a habit of carrying a knife -- to keep the wolves from pawing her, she said. When she lost the knife, she discovered a small hatchet around the house that fit nicely in her patent leather handbag. Yeah, that’s not gonna end well.  More FEMMES FATALE Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 30 May 2025

Episode 118 Jump To The AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION "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. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 28 May 2025

A Double Dose Of Arsenic Jump to the AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION Episode 119 tells the sordid tale of Edith Carew, an English society woman living as an expatriate in Japan, who goes to trial for poisoning her husband. The the press couldn’t help but compare it to the case of Florence Maybrick, which took place a few years earlier in Liverpool. More Cases Of POISON Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 26 May 2025

The Brutal Crimes and Punishment of Jesse Pomeroy  Jump to the AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION Episode 121 concerns one of the most heinous crimes ever committed by a teenager. Jesse Pomeroy was but 14 years old when he was arrested for abducting and torturing young boys and sent to the state reformatory. He was released after a little more than a year, due either to the pleading of his mother or some kind of bribery, you be the judge. But anyway, you know it’s not gonna end well. At 15 years old, Jesse Pomeroy was at the time  the youngest person to be convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to die.  More Botched Executions Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 23 May 2025

The Brutal Murder Of Alberta Meadows Jump to the AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION Once upon a time, 1922 to be precise, Clara Phillips, a former Hollywood bathing beauty and chorus girl, decided she wanted to have a chat with a young lady she suspected of canoodling with her husband. She stopped at the dime store and bought a brand new hammer on the way. Yeah. That's not going to end well. This episode is filled with a lot of poignant stories of the incident from a variety of points of view, including from the alleged murderer herself, and a daring escape from justice.    More Murders With AXES & HAMMERS Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 21 May 2025

The Kentucky Conspiracy Jump to the Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 122 The Commonwealth of Kentucky was thrown into political turmoil over the election of its governor in 1899, and the winner's murder. The republican candidate, William S. Taylor, first appeared to win the election by a narrow margin, but the votes were challenged by his opponent, William Justice Goebel,  who eventually won the seat by the act of the legislature. Tensions ran high in the days before his inauguration as these Kentuckians took their politics seriously. Deadly seriously. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 19 May 2025

The Diabolical Meeks Family Massacre Ad-Free Safe House Edition Scoundrels abound in Episode 337, when an ex-convict is assassinated in cold blood by the men he’s about to turn state’s evidence on. That would be bad enough, but what makes it intolerable is the fact that the turncoat’s wife and daughters are with him when the attack takes place, and his assailants don’t care. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 16 May 2025

The Campfire Cremation Of John Linn Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 336 is dedicated to True Crime Historian patron Marlene Resch, who wanted to hear a historic case from her hometown of Eugene, Oregon. So I dug around a bit and found this cowboy story which turns out to have been the first execution in Lane County. More WILD WESTERNS Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 14 May 2025

The Lumberjack And The Boatman’s Wife Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 335 tells of another scandalous eternal triangle that ends in murder. The victim this time is the husband, and both his comely wife and the illiterate man who cuckolded him go on trial for his murder. More LOVE TRIANGLES GONE AWRY  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 12 May 2025

The Crimes Of The Citrus King Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 332 tells the story of a prominent businessman and his relationship with a young woman that gets him in all kinds of hot water. But the remarkable thing about this story is how history repeats itself, and twenty years later, he finds himself in another fine mess. More FALLS FROM GRACE Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 9 May 2025

Emil Sanger’s Rage  Ad-Free Safe House Edition Like all episodes of True Crime Historian, Episode 333 is a cautionary tale, this time about rage, when a normal businessman gets so  heated about a squabble mixing family and business that he lays out his own ruin. I wouldn’t go so far as to say anyone was asking to be murdered, but... I’ll let you be the judge. More FALLS FROM GRACE Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 7 May 2025

The Trial Of Arthur Sargent Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 334 is a simple tale: Three men go fishing on a boat, one man comes back the next day saying the other two were drowned in an accident on the pond. But was it an accident? We’d let the jury decide but for a rare motion with unusual timing by the prosecuting attorney that makes the outcome a certainty.  More COURTROOM SHENANIGANS Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 5 May 2025

The Saga Of Ida & Paul V. Hadley Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 125 concerns Ida Hadley, who was so passionate for her husband Paul that they called her a nymphomaniac in open court. Their trouble started much earlier, in Beaumont, Texas, when a man made eyes at Ida, and Paul shot him. This steamy story spans five years and includes three trials, attempted and successful jail breaks, multiple flights from justice across five states, an important invention, and two murders--one from a moving train! What more could you ask for? More Femmes Fatale Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 2 May 2025

Death of a Teenage Stenographer Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 123 is the story of fifteen year old Ruth Wheeler, recent graduate of a secretarial school, who excitedly picked up a referral from her alma mater and headed to her first job interview in a building on East 75th Street in New York City. She was not seen alive again. Two days later, a man living in the same building discovered that someone had dumped a gunny sack full of trash on his fire escape. But there was something not quite right about that bundle of garbage.  More TORCH MURDERS Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 30 April 2025

The Minot Redemption Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 124 is classic potboiler adapted from the pages of True Detective Mysteries Magazine, concerning a party of sailors landing in a private speakeasy in the San Pedro Harbor during prohibition. Told from the perspective of a detective on the case, this is a tale of sin and redemption, of an escape from justice and ill-fated love, and the efforts of an amateur sleuth in discovering the fugitive. More PRISON BREAKS Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 28 April 2025

The $2.35 Murder Ad Free Safe House Edition Episode 331 is dedicated to listener Kalie Jansen who recommended this strange story of a  Syracuse, New York woman who came up missing during a brutal snowstorm, and the surprising way in which the mystery unfolded. Culled from the historic pages of the Syracuse Herald and other newspapers of the era. More CAPITAL CRIMES Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 25 April 2025

The Jailer's Wife's Betrayal Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 330 is the exciting story of the Biddle Brothers of Pittsburgh, whose ransack of a humble home turns to homicide and leads to the line-of-duty death of one of the city's beloved officers. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 23 April 2025

The Tragic Typhoid Conspiracy Commercial Free Safe House Edition Episode 329 tells of an unusual modus operandi, the use of typhoid germs as a method of poisoning when an Illinois attorney goes on trial for the murder of a young man he raised after the death of his mother, who happened to leave her son a million dollar estate. A big welcome back to our friend Susan Ferman, who will read passages written during the trial by the Chicago Tribune’s ace female reporter Genevieve Forbes Herrick about some of the women involved in the case. Culled from the historic pages of the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers of the era. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 21 April 2025

Rampage in Valdosta Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 126 concerned this podcast’s first non-human perpetrator, a great big crazy brilliant elephant first known as Empress when imported into the United States in 1871. She killed so many handlers that she was sentenced to death many times, but doing so was so difficult that she was just passed from show to show. Along the way someone changed her name to Gypsy, and she spent the last decade of her tragic life with the Harris Nickel Plate Circus. She claimed at least seven victims, but she was crazy for a reason, and if you’re an animal lover, I’ve got to warn you that you’re about to get a big dose of outrage and indignation.  More Serial Killers Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 18 April 2025

The Botched Execution of Tom Ketchum Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 127 takes us back to the days of the Old West with the tale of “the Black Jack Gang,” terrors of the Southwest, from about 1896 to 1891 when its leader, Tom Ketchum, was finally captured trying to pull off a train robbery solo. He didn’t know the conductor had been robbed once before and carried a sawed-off shotgun. Yeah, that’s not gonna end well. More BOTCHED EXECUTIONS More WILD WESTERNS Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 15 April 2025

What The Dog Saw At Beekman Place Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 128 is one of the creepiest and sleaziest yet, when the mad Bohemian debauchery that made Greenwich Village famous spills over into the posh East Midtown. The colorful cast of real-life characters includes a woman who ran a prohibition speakeasy, her beautiful model daughter and her artistic friends, and an estranged husband who is disgusted by the whole thing, but addicted to pornography. And wait til you hear the eerie confession! You’re gonna love it. More Mass Murders Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 13 April 2025

The LaBoeuf Triangle Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 328 revisits one of our favorite tropes: The Love Triangle Gone Awry. The people involved here weren't rich and famous, but just ordinary people, tragically caught up in their passion. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 11 April 2025

The Exploits Of The Outlaw James Gang Ad Free Safe House Edition Episode 326 finishes off Wild West Month with the epic tale of one of the most notorious bands of outlaws to plague the American frontier. It’s a wild ride, so hang on. More WILD WESTERNS Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 9 April 2025

The Thorny Rose Of The Wild Bunch Ad Free Safe House Edition Episode 324 tells the tale of a young woman who would do anything for the man she loves, even go to prison for him. The couple were associated with the gang known as the Wild Bunch, featuring such notorious characters as Black Jack Ketchum, Butch Cassidy, and Harry Longbaugh, also known as the Sundance Kid. More WILD WESTERNS Culled from the historic pages of the St. Louis Times-Dispatch, the St. Louis Republican, and other newspapers of the era.Epilogue.  Ben Kilpatrick did not get out of federal prison until 1911. By that time, Laura Bullion had been involved with several other men and was living in Memphis. They never reconnected. Kilpatrick was killed in an attempted train robbery in 1912. Laura Bullion worked as a seamstress and interior designer in Memphis until she died of heart disease at age 85 in 1961, the last surviving member of the Wild Bunch. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 7 April 2025

The Grand Mogul Of The Texas Desperados Commercial Free Safe House Edition Episode 322 relates the downfall of one of the most desperate desperados of the Old West, John Wesley Hardin, the man so mean that it is alleged he shot a fellow just for snoring. Culled from the historic pages of the Galveston Daily News, The El Paso Times, and other newspapers of the era. More WILD WESTERNS Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 4 April 2025

The Capture Of Hong Di  Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 321 continues our exploration of stories from the Old West, this one from a ranch near Colusa when a Chinese cook, a mere boy of 17, opens fire with a rifle during the family meal. After a flight from justice, an unlikely hero captures the fugitive, who is put on trial while a vengeful crowd gathers outside demanding the extreme penalty of the law. Culled from the historic pages of the the San Francisco Examiner and other newspapers of the era. More WILD WESTERNS Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 3 April 2025

The Earp Brothers Take A Stand Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 319 takes us on a journey to one of the most famous gunfights in Old West history, the shoot-out at the OK corral. The first two thirds relates the story from the newspaper accounts of the day, while the third act gives a first-person account from Wyatt Earp himself. Culled from the historic pages of the Tombstone Epitaph, the Arizona Daily Star, the San Francisco Examiner, and other newspapers of the era. More WILD WESTERNS Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 31 March 2025

She Conversed With The Devil Ad-Free Safe House Edition Recently widowed, eager to date, her family hated of her choice of a mate. So she put poison in their water. What a mean & devilish daughter! YESTERDAY’S NEWS --Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told from historic newspapers in the golden age of yellow journalism... Episode 317 explores the bizarre tale of Martha Wise who becomes so tired of the scorn of her family and their objection to her dating life after the death of her husband, that she starts putting arsenic in their drinking water. Not everyone dies, so the intense family drama carries over into her sensational trial and damning testimony from a cousin made invalid from the poison and the suicide of a sister-in-law.Culled from the historic pages of the Akron Beacon Journal and other newspapers of the era. More Femmes Fatale Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 28 March 2025

The Mysterious Case Of Alma Tirtschke Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 315 is the sad tale of a 12 year old Aussie girl who disappeared while running errands for her family. Her body was found naked and outraged the following morning. Based on the testimony of some spurious witnesses, as you shall hear, the crown executed the owner of a wine shop near the alley. But did they get the right man? More Stories From True Crime Pioneer Peter Levins Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

Transcribed - Published: 26 March 2025