Episodios

  • The Showgirl & The Conman

    The Showgirl & The Conman
    Apr 12 2026
    The Complicated Romance of Fannie Brice and Notorious Nicky Arnstein

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    In Episode 60, we take a little break from murderous mayhem for a love story with a different kind of mayhem. The world of Broadway was quite aghast when Fannie Brice, a star of the Ziegfield Follies, took up with New York gambler Julius Wilford Arnstein, better known as Nicky, whose story was adapted into the musical “Funny Girl.” The first act is a Sunday magazine article that was published while Nicky was serving time in the Leavenworth prison, and act two is a telling of the conclusion of the romance by Brooklyn Daily Eagle’s star reporter Alice Cogan.

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    27 m
  • American Scoundrel Daniel Butterfield

    American Scoundrel Daniel Butterfield
    Apr 11 2026
    In 1869, Medal of Honor recipient Daniel Butterfield took a ten-thousand-dollar bribe from Jay Gould to leak Treasury gold sales, helping trigger the Black Friday panic that bankrupted brokers and ruined farmers across the Midwest. The man who composed Taps sold out his country and never spent a day in prison.

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    10 m
  • Magazine #1

    Magazine #1
    Apr 10 2026
    1. Turned Into A Tigress By Her Borgia Blood.
    2. How A Criminal Acrobat Makes A Living Out Of His Genuine Broken Neck.
    3. How A Little Dog Avenged The Murder Of His Master.
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    37 m
  • American Scoundrel Joseph R Burton

    American Scoundrel Joseph R Burton
    Apr 9 2026
    In 1902, Kansas Senator Joseph R. Burton walked a mail fraud operator into the Post Office inspector's office and made a federal investigation disappear. The price: twenty-five hundred dollars, paid in monthly installments. The first sitting senator convicted of a felony sold his office for the price of a used carriage.



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    9 m
  • The Handyman's Morning

    The Handyman's Morning
    Apr 6 2026
    The Murder Of Captain Joseph White

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    Episode 472 takes us back to Salem, Massachusetts in 1830 when an old man dead in his bed from thirteen stab wounds. The clues: an unlocked window and a fortune that was never what anyone thought it was. The plot implicates four young men from two of Salem's best families and involves one famous and very expensive lawyer. This is the murder that taught Edgar Allan Poe everything he needed to know about guilt.

    More CAPERS & CONSPIRACIES

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    54 m
  • The Third Passenger

    The Third Passenger
    Apr 2 2026
    What’s In The Package Mr. Wainwright?

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    Episode 49 is adapted from our favorite true crime pioneer, Edmund Pearson, who worked in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. He was a librarian by training and profession, but first made his mark on the true crime canon with his unique take on the Lizzie Borden crime. He wrote several books and many magazine articles, a regular contributor to the New Yorker for a time as well as a syndicated newspaper columnist. In this episode, he tells the story of an 1875 murder in old London towne.

    More stories from EDMUND PEARSON

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    26 m
  • Violent Cremation

    Violent Cremation
    Mar 31 2026
    The Cincinnati Tanyard Murder

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    Episode 17 is a report from Lafcadio Hearn, on of my favorite Pioneers of True Crime. Although he became better known late in his career for his books on travel and on Japanese legends and ghost stories, Lafcadio Hearn began his professional writing career as a staff correspondent for the Cincinnati Enquirer. He was such a devotee of Edgar Allen Poe that he carried the nickname The Raven, given to him by an early mentor, throughout his life. The devotion shows in much of his writing, including this account of what’s commonly known to local history as “the tanyard murder” in 1874. His account of the crime helped, I’m sure, make it one of the most well-known of Cincinnati’s historical murders. Hearn is also well-known for his essays about the poorest parts of Cincinnati.Even though the author was visually impaired (he carried with him both a magnifying glass and a telescope), Hearn's account of this ghastly crime contains graphic details of the discovery of the body and the autopsy.The tanyard was situated next to a soap factory that had caught fire the previous night and attracted a crowd of 50,000, the newspapers said, to watch the massive flames. Such was the mood of the city that Hearn begins his report with a quote from William Shakespeare's tragic Hamlet.True crime history is not just about reviving the stories of America's scandals, scoundrels, and scourges, but also about exploring the history of true crime as a genre.

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    37 m
  • Face-To-Face With Pretty Boy Floyd

    Face-To-Face With Pretty Boy Floyd
    Mar 30 2026
    The Oklahoma Phantom Terror

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    Episode 471 finds us in 1932, a hill country reporter named Vivian Brown did what no one else ever managed — she sat down with Pretty Boy Floyd and got him talking. Two years later, a teletype changed everything. The only interview the phantom bandit ever gave. Tonight, we hear the story from her point of view.

    Hear more stories about MANHUNTS!!!

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    49 m