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True Crime HistorianThe Lake Bluff Furnace GirlThe Burning Love Of Elfrieda KnaakJump To Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 364 tells an unusual story of a broken-hearted young woman found naked and fatally burnt in the basement of a police station. Her family, the police, and the general public find it hard to believe that she could have torched herself in such a horrific manner, so the hunt is on for proof of a murder.Hear About More TORCH MURDERSBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2025-07-281h 04
True Crime HistorianThe Boy Said 'Papa Shot'The Cuba Triple MurderJump To The Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 363 takes place in rural Ohio, when a woman, her daughter, and her daughter’s suitor are gunned down in front of three young children. The daughter’s ex-husband says he arrived at the scene just after the shots were fired, but in her dying breath his ex-mother-in-law claims he was the culprit. The kids can’t get their story straight, so it’s up to you to put it all together.More BLUEBEARDSBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spre...2025-07-251h 20
True Crime HistorianEvil Plan Drunkenly BotchedThe Greenlease Kidnapping TragedyJump To Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 362 takes on one of the most evil crimes imaginable as told from the point of view of the perpetrator. By the time police caught up with Carl Austin Hall, he had made so many mistakes in the kidnapping and murder of a six-year-old boy that he knew the game was up, so he told the story in a coldly matter-of-fact 36-page confession, here adapted for the first two acts. The third act, we’ll call “the comeuppance”.Become a supporter of this podcast: https...2025-07-231h 28
True Crime HistorianDuchess Spinelli's Crime SchoolThe Halfwit Gang Of Golden Gate AvenueJump To Ad-Free Safe House EditionAlthough there’s nothing funny about real-life murder, if Episode 361 were fictional, you could shelve it right next to Elmore Leonard or Carl Hiaasen and the wacky characters they create who walk in the realm of dark comedy. The downfall of this gang that couldn’t shoot straight begins when one of its members decides to surrender and deliver state’s evidence when it begins to look like his days are numbered. And, it turns out, he was right.More FEMMES FATALE...2025-07-211h 23
True Crime HistorianAllegations Of Arsenic Ice CreamThe Father Stood TrialJump To Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 359 details one of the most chaotic cases I’ve yet to come across. The investigation left a lot of unanswered questions and the prosecution seems motivated by political pressure and retaliation rather than evidence. Was the youngster murdered by his father or one of his playmates? Let me know what you think.Explore More Cases of Murder By POISONBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2025-07-181h 28
True Crime HistorianThe Largest Sheriff In OregonThe Terror Of All Toughs Killed By Horse ThiefJump To Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 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 WESTERNSBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast...2025-07-161h 02
True Crime HistorianThe Mysterious Postmistress Of West Palm BeachThe Trial Of Lena ClarkeJump To The AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITIONEpisode 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 SHENANIGANSBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/po...2025-07-141h 36
True Crime HistorianBlinded By MurderThe Senator, The Embezzler, And The Girl They LovedJump To AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITIONEpisode 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 AWRYBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2025-07-111h 05
True Crime HistorianThe Dandy Sheriff Of Dona AnaKilling Billy The KidJump To The AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITIONEpisode 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 CrimeBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2025-07-091h 10
True Crime HistorianThe Duquesne Door-To-Door KillerHA Debaucher Of Children Gets His RevengeJump To The AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITIONEpisode 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 GRACEBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www...2025-07-071h 22
True Crime HistorianReady For RopeThe Murder Of Sheriff Rogers At GlencoeJump To The Ad-Free SAFE HOUSE EDITIONEpisode 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 EpisodesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2025-07-041h 16
True Crime HistorianTragedy At The Trysting PlaceThe Ladies’ Man Lawyer & The Mysterious BlondeJump To Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 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 AWRYBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2025-07-021h 15
True Crime HistorianGin! Jazz! Guns!The Real ‘Chicago’ MurdersEpisode 352 explores the two murders that inspired the hit musical “Chicago,” which was based on a play by Maurine Watkins, who did some reporting on both cases as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. I’ll be joined by my colleague Susan Ferman, whose own podcast Catastrophic Calamities, will premiere next week on the Pulpular Media network. Susan will read about the case of Beulah Annan, who became Roxy Hart on stage. I will read the case of Belva Gaertner, who became Velma Kelly.Culled from the historic pages of the Chicago Tribune, t...2025-07-011h 36
True Crime HistorianThe Bad Butcher Boy Of HollywoodThe Murder Of Myrtle MellusJump To Ad Free Safe House EditionEpisode 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 GRACEBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2025-06-301h 40
True Crime HistorianBlood On The BridgeThe Murder Of Bessie LittleJump To The Ad-Free SAFE HOUSE editionEpisode 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...2025-06-271h 22
True Crime HistorianSecrets Of A Meddling Mother-In-LawThe Trunk In Minnie Lee Griffin’s BasementJump To Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 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.2025-06-261h 20
True Crime HistorianThe Candy Kid EscapesDemise Of The Whittemore GangJump to the Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 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 BreaksBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2025-06-231h 19
True Crime HistorianAssassination Of The GamblerThe Corruption Of Lieutenant Charles Becker.Jump to Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 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, wh...2025-06-201h 17
True Crime HistorianUnder The Haunted OakThe Brutal Murder of Gussie PfeifferJump To The Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 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...2025-06-191h 17
True Crime HistorianMother Chose Murder (Part 2)The Cleveland Kaber ConspiracyBy Marjorie WilsonJump to Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 114Back 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...2025-06-191h 17True Crime HistorianMother Chose Murder (Part One)The Cleveland Kaber ConspiracyBy Marjorie WilsonJump to Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 114Back 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...2025-06-191h 10
True Crime HistorianShoot-Out At Wolf CreekThe Scoundrel Albert BrownleeJump To Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 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 CRIMESBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2025-06-131h 02
True Crime HistorianRampage On Seventh StreetThe Scoundrel Herman KabanskyJump To Ad-Free Safe House EditionThere’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 BreaksBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2025-06-1146 min
True Crime HistorianThe Hawes Family HorrorA Bloody Riot In BirminghamJump To The AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITIONEpisode 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 CRIMESBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2025-06-092h 08
True Crime HistorianJealous Murder At The Brown Palace BarThe Degradation Of Sassy SpringerJump To Commercial-Free SAFE HOUSE EditionEpisode 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 AWRYBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2025-06-062h 02
True Crime HistorianThe Torch Singer & The Tobacco HeirScandal At ReynoldaJump to the AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITIONEpisode 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 AWRYBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2025-06-041h 55
True Crime HistorianDeath Of A Ghost WriterThe Australian Aviatrix And Her SuitorsJump To The AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITIONEpisode 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 AWRYBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2025-06-0258 min
True Crime HistorianA Hatchet In Her HandbagThe Murder Of The Butcher Pops Wagner Jump To The AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITIONEpisode 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 gon...2025-05-3052 min
True Crime HistorianTrue Crime ShortsEpisode 118Jump 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...2025-05-281h 39
True Crime HistorianA Tale Of Two WivesA Double Dose Of ArsenicJump to the AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITIONEpisode 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 POISONBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2025-05-261h 21
True Crime HistorianThe Boy With One White EyeThe Brutal Crimes and Punishment of Jesse Pomeroy Jump to the AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITIONEpisode 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...2025-05-231h 39
True Crime HistorianThe Bathing Beauty's New HammerThe Brutal Murder Of Alberta MeadowsJump to the AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITIONOnce 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...2025-05-211h 36
True Crime HistorianAssassination At The State HouseThe Kentucky ConspiracyJump to the Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 122The 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 p...2025-05-191h 27
True Crime HistorianA Murder Half-AvengedThe Diabolical Meeks Family MassacreAd-Free Safe House EditionScoundrels 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.2025-05-161h 19
True Crime HistorianMurder On The McKenzie TrailThe Campfire Cremation Of John LinnAd-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 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 WESTERNSBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2025-05-141h 13
True Crime HistorianThe Sugar Hollow Memorial Day MurderThe Lumberjack And The Boatman’s WifeAd-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 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.2025-05-121h 44
True Crime HistorianDouble Double MurderThe Crimes Of The Citrus KingAd-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 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 GRACEBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2025-05-091h 16
True Crime HistorianDrunk Enough For A FightEmil Sanger’s Rage Ad-Free Safe House EditionLike 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 GRACEBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2025-05-071h 11
True Crime HistorianBattered Bodies In Stetson PondThe Trial Of Arthur SargentAd-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 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 SHENANIGANSBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2025-05-0555 min
True Crime HistorianEyes Of The Murderous NymphThe Saga Of Ida & Paul V. HadleyAd-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 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...2025-05-022h 05
True Crime HistorianThe Potato Sack Torch MurderDeath of a Teenage StenographerAd-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 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. 2025-04-301h 09
True Crime HistorianFlight Of The Red Rose MurdererThe Minot RedemptionAd-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 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 BREAKSBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2025-04-281h 31
True Crime HistorianA Corpse In The Attic Next DoorThe $2.35 MurderAd Free Safe House EditionEpisode 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 CRIMESBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2025-04-251h 06
True Crime HistorianThe Biddle Brothers Bandit GangThe Jailer's Wife's BetrayalAd-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 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.2025-04-231h 39
True Crime HistorianThe Millionaire OrphanThe Tragic Typhoid ConspiracyCommercial Free Safe House EditionEpisode 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 ca...2025-04-211h 28
True Crime HistorianBacon On The TableThe Brutal Murder Of Mayme ShermanA True Crime Short Story by Richard O JonesAd-Free Safe House EditionOne of the factors behind my interest in historical true crime is that my hometown of Hamilton, Ohio, seems to have a particularly rich history of crime--murder in particular, but not just murder. I’ve done several local programs about the safecrackers, bandits, and other notorious characters. This short story, “Bacon On The Table,” concerns the third of three “bluebeard” killers in the first decade of the 20th century. The first was the murder of Hannah Kna...2024-12-1127 min
True Crime HistorianMystery at the American SaloonThe Saga of the Scoundrel Thomas McGehanA true crime short story by Richard O JonesAd-Free Safe House Edition-Episode 28 takes place on Christmas Eve 1870, when three men attack a local politician with boulders and slungshots, and at least a dozen men scramble for the door while five shots pepper the faro room at the American Saloon in Hamilton, Ohio, the hometown of True Crime Historian Richard O Jones. One of the bullets kills the politician, Thomas Myers, but in their haste none of the gamblers see who fired the shot. The...2024-12-0249 min
True Crime HistorianWhat Happened To GraceThe Atrocities Of Albert FishI'D TURN BACK IF I WERE YOU!!!Episode 191 is without a doubt the vilest case you'll ever hear on this program because I don't think I could find a worse one if I tried. There's a lot of evil discussed here: torture, cannibalism, and more. Consider this your trigger warning: I'd turn back if I were you! Or at least put the kids to bed and plug in your ear buds. Keep this between us.Ad-Free EditionBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com...2024-05-271h 36
True Crime HistorianMob Justice For Leo FrankThe Murder Of Mary PhaganEpisode 183 tells of one of the most infamous cases of an innocent man wrongly accused. When a teenage factory girl is found dead in the basement of an Atlanta pencil manufacturer, blame falls on the mild-mannered Jewish superintendent of the plant, and the jury takes the word of a drunken janitor. It’ll take 70 years for the truth to come out.Ad-Free EditionBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2024-04-172h 06
True Crime HistorianA Body Between The RailsThe Reily Mattock MurderEpisode 198 is centered on one of my favorite murder tropes, the so-called “eternal triangle,” between the cranky old farmer, his fading wife, and the handsome young farmhand. Yeah, that’s not going to end well, but they might have gotten away with it if they had just put the body across the tracks. It’s all in the details.Culled from the historic pages of the Hamilton Journal-News and other newspapers of the era.Ad-Free EditionBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2024-01-051h 59
True Crime HistorianSnakes On The Witness StandThe Trial Of Rattlesnake James, The Red-Headed BluebeardEpisode 192 gets a bit epic, but it’s the story that keeps on giving, with two botched murders and moral charges to boot, and things go from crazy to crazier when they bring a pair of rattlers named Lethal and Lightning into the courtroom.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2023-12-032h 26
True Crime HistorianThe Confession of H.H. HolmesA Litany of HorrorEpisode 12 is a reading of the chilling confession of Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as H.H. Holmes, one of the most remarkable serial killers in American History. The whole nation was shocked and outraged in the waning years of the nineteenth century by the gruesome deeds of one Herman Mudgett, the arch fiend who took on the pseudonym H.H. Holmes as he prepared his famous "Castle of Death" in downtown Chicago. He was arrested for an insurance fraud in November 1894, but his string of murders, perhaps 200 in all, were soon...2023-11-1242 min
True Crime HistorianThe King of the Osage HillsA Terrible Reign of MurderAbout the murders that inspired Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon"Episode 214 digs deep into the files of the FBI and one of its early successful investigations during the tenure of J.Edgar Hoover, when the Bureau of Investigations looked into the murder of as many as 60 to 70 Osage Indians. The file includes a report by Agent Frank Smith as well as statements by informants who helped break the conspiracy. True Crime Historian welcomes guest reader Susan Ferman as Katherine Cole, one of these informants.Become...2023-01-151h 25
True Crime HistorianAssassination At Kokomo JunctionYESTERDAY’S NEWS -- Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told through vintage newspaper accounts from the golden age of yellow journalism...The Gillooly/Lannon AffrayEpisode 443 tells the story of the first officer to be killed in the line of duty in Kokomo, Indiana. But was the violent action against him provoked, or spurred on by a notorious local gang? The question divided the growing Indiana town.Culled from the historic pages of the Kokomo Saturday Tribune, the 1882 History of Howard County, and Jackson Morrow’s 1909 History of Howard County.We offer a special than...2021-05-211h 07
True Crime HistorianEscape From The AsylumYESTERDAY’S NEWS -- Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told through vintage newspaper accounts from the golden age of yellow journalism...Remastered From The True Crime Historian VaultThe Pearce Insanity PlotEpisode 289 is a scandalous story that shook two Midwestern cities in the late 1930s when a woman came forward with a bizarre tale of abduction, adultery, assault, addiction and absconsion. That’s why I’m putting this story on my A-list. ***A creation Of Pulpular MediaAlso from Pulpular Media:Portals to Possibility, an improvised mock-talk show that proves you do...2021-03-121h 05
True Crime HistorianThe Soiled Sicilian BrideYESTERDAY’S NEWS -- Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told through vintage newspaper accounts from the golden age of yellow journalism...Josephine Terranova’s RevengeEpisode 297 is a sad story about a young immigrant woman so abused by her relatives that when the truth is revealed to her newlywed husband, he breaks off the union. The teenage bride believes she has but one recourse: To do what God commands.Culled from the historic pages of the New York World and other newspapers of the era.***A creation Of Pulpular MediaAlso from Pulp...2021-03-051h 31
True Crime HistorianMassacre At The Love BungalowEncore EditionRemastered from the True Crime Historian VaultSeven Dead at TaliesinIn 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.This episode comes with a vocabulary word. Wright and Mamah referred to their flight from their fo...2021-02-1953 min
True Crime HistorianThe Pow-Wow Hex MurdersEncore EditionYESTERDAY’S NEWS -- Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told through vintage newspaper accounts from the golden age of yellow journalism...Spooky Doings In Pennsylvania Dutch CountryEpisode 91 of True Crime Historian gives us a little lesson in the Pennsylvania Dutch Powwow mysticism traditions. Although it sounds like the Native American word for an inter-tribal gathering of dancing and feasting, the origins of the term in this context are obscure but refer to more European form of healing and the casting of spells — and hexes. In this story, a simple minded fellow name...2021-02-0551 min
True Crime HistorianNaomi's Infernal New Year's SurpriseYESTERDAY’S NEWS -- Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told through vintage newspaper accounts from the golden age of yellow journalism...A Deadly Package At Seat PleasantEpisode 430 tells of another holiday celebration ending in tragedy, when a mysterious package makes its way to the home of a young recently secretly married expectant mother. Suspicion falls at once to the family of her secret husband, and the husband himself.***A creation Of Pulpular MediaAlso from Pulpular Media:Portals to Possibility, an improvised mock-talk show that proves you don’t have to be h...2021-01-011h 27
True Crime HistorianOlive Jones’s Gruesome Christmas VigilYESTERDAY’S NEWS -- Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told through vintage newspaper accounts from the golden age of yellow journalism...The End Of The Skinny And Stumpy Affair Episode 429 is our very special holiday episode, in which a disenchanted housewife pulls the trigger on her lover and claims self-defense. Let’s see how that works out for her.Culled from the historic pages of the Louisville Courier-Journal and other newspapers of the era.***A creation Of Pulpular MediaAlso from Pulpular Media:Portals to Possibility, an improvised mock-talk show that prov...2020-12-251h 13
True Crime HistorianMystery At The Laconey MillYESTERDAY’S NEWS -- Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told through vintage newspaper accounts from the golden age of yellow journalism...Case File For The Scoundrel LingoEpisode 428 describes two violent murders in the rural areas around Merchantville, New Jersey, in the 1890s. A rough farm-hand is the first suspect in the first case, but suspicion suddenly turns to the victim’s uncle/husband and attention to a trial full of courtroom theatrics. Then a nearly identical murder a year later adds a new wrinkle to the case. But that’s still not all.Culled from t...2020-12-182h 00
Portals to PossibilityThe Mongolian Death WormThis episode's guest: The Mongolian Death Worm2020-09-0324 minPortals to PossibilityThe Beast Of Bray RoadThe crew welcomes as its special guest Stuart Applebaum, aka "The Beast of Bray Road."2020-08-1926 minPortals to PossibilityHoney Island Swamp MonsterThis episode's guest: The Honey Island Swamp Monster2020-08-0529 minPortals to PossibilityThunderbirdToday's guest: Kelvin the Thunderbird.2020-07-1524 minPortals to PossibilityCadborosaurusGuest is Caddy the Cadborosaurus from British Columbia.2020-07-0128 min
True Crime HistorianGin! Jazz! Guns!Gin! Jazz! Guns!YESTERDAY’S NEWS -- Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told from historic newspapers in the golden age of yellow journalism...The Real ‘Chicago’ MurdersEpisode 252 explores the two murders that inspired the hit musical “Chicago,” which was based on a play by Maurine Watkins, who did some reporting on both cases as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. I’ll be joined by my colleague Susan Ferman, whose own podcast Catastrophic Calamities, will premiere next week on the Pulpular Media network. Susan will read about the case of Beulah Annan, who became Roxy Hart on...2019-09-091h 36
Portals to PossibilityThe Fouke MonsterLearn what it's like to be both the scourge of the swamp and a Hollywood A-Lister in this scintillating interview with Ray Ray, the Fouke Monster.2019-04-2434 minPortals to PossibilityMothmanLearn all about the Mothman and his secret life... in Brooklyn. Brought to you by Rocky's Road Kill Cafe.2019-04-0832 minPortals to PossibilityThe Melon HeadLincoln, Clark, and Stacy interview Justine, one of the legendary melon heads, in a sensitive and conscientious way.2019-03-2532 minPortals to PossibilityThe DemonologistThe crew learns all about the horrors of demons and poltergeists from ghost expert Maureen Lawrence.2019-03-2528 minPortals to PossibilityThe ExOur intrepid truth seekers greet Cryptobotanist Charlotte Octavian Morrow. She also just happens to be the ex-wife of F. Lincoln. Join us as we explore the concept of mythical and long lost plants and marital drama.2019-03-2535 minPortals to PossibilityThe West Virginia WoodboogerWhat is the West Virginia Woodbooger? Find out in this weeks episode of Portals to Possibility where our trio of cryptozoologists have the pleasure of interviewing WB a relative of the illusive Big Foot.2019-03-2535 minPortals to PossibilityTombstone ArizonaJoin our intrepid trio of truthseekers as they travel to Tombstone Arizona to interview one of the famous ghosts of the Birdcage Theater and Saloon. Is there life after death? Find out in this weeks installment of Portals to Possibility.2019-03-2529 minPortals to PossibilityThe Loveland FrogWelcome to Portals to Possibility where our group of cryptozoologists will take a topic of myth, lore or superstition and find the truth behind the legend. This week - The Frogman of Loveland Ohio. Is he a threat or was he just looking for love in all the wrong places? Find out in this weeks episode!2019-03-2528 minPortals to PossibilityThe Mystery SpotOur group of cryptozoologist interview Lee Roth owner of The Northwest Montana Mystery Spot and Gravity Vortex. Lee Roth played by Sean Dillon of OTRimprov.2019-03-2530 minPortals to PossibilityPilotPortals to Possibility is an improvised comedy podcast. An homage to Art Bell and Coast to Coast AM, Portals is a radio program hosted by cryptozoologists who investigate and report on all things strange and otherworldly. Each week our hosts interview a different monster, crypid or urban legend to find the truth behind the myth. In this the pilot episode you'll learn all about our intrepid crew.2019-03-2523 min
True Crime HistorianHarvest Time On The Murder FarmThe Mysteries Of Belle GunnessEpisode 308 examines the strange story of Belle Gunness, which came to light only after her house burned down with her body presumably inside and a dozen or so bodies buried in the yard. There’s a lot of conjecture and debate about this case still going on today.Culled from the historic pages of the Chicago Tribune, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and other newspapers of the era. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2019-01-221h 33
True Crime HistorianOlivia Stone And Her Spirit LawyerYESTERDAY’S NEWS --Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told from historic newspapers in the golden age of yellow journalism...The First Mrs. KinkeadEpisode 258 tells the sad story of a nurse who fell in love with her patient. If you can believe her story, she may have been led on a bit, maybe outright deceived by his promises of marriage. But then, he marries another and the nurse turns stalker.For your delight and indignation***Opening theme by Nico Vitesse.Incidental music by Nico Vitesse.Closing theme by Da...2018-06-261h 18
True Crime HistorianRobbed Of A GraveThe Avondale HorrorEpisode 231 is a dark, dark tale of what happens when the population doesn’t die fast enough to keep the medical schools supplied with cadavers for dissecting: The resurrectionists start hitting people over the head to hasten the process and get their points. The reporting also includes some interesting stories about the craft of the grave robber.Culled from the historic pages of the Cincinnati Enquirer and other newspapers of the era.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2018-03-181h 25
True Crime HistorianThe Mystery Of Pearl Bryan's HeadA Foul Deed In Ft. ThomasIn celebration of our 200th episode, I’m going to share one of my favorite local stories. The murder itself took place a state over, but one of the convicted murderers lived for a time in my hometown, and the sad story of Pearl Bryan is well-known in the three states involved, with many dubious legends and rumors abounding, and it’s said that her spirit haunts a Northern Kentucky nightclub. But what I really like about this story is that it has one of the most remarkable descriptions of an exec...2017-12-042h 24
True Crime HistorianThe Black DahliaUNSOLVEDA special edition of Yesterday’s News exploring one of history’s most baffling murder mysteries.The Murder Of Elizabeth ShortBy listener request, Episode 196 follows the first month of the investigation of one of Hollywood’s most celebrated murder mysteries that begins when of a 22-year-old party girl turns up tortured, murdered, and mutilated by the side of a busy boulevard. She was such a runabout that when her body was identified by fingerprints, no one had realized she hadn’t been seen in five days. But the body was fresh.***Hosted by Wondery...2017-11-171h 07
True Crime HistorianChasing the Fox of GangsterdomCrane Neck Nugent, Prohibition TriggerThe Gangster ChroniclesBook Two, Chapter Six__Crane Neck gets arrested in a Florida speakeasy, then is quickly in the wind again. Meanwhile, the hunt for his former partner and archenemy Bob Zwick continues. When Zwick’s reign of terror finally ends, details of their worst exploits are revealed in court.__Music by Dave Samswww.truecrimehistorian.com/1925nugentBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2016-10-311h 08
True Crime HistorianThe Hit at Symmes CornerCrane Neck Nugent, Prohibition AssassinThe Gangster Chronicles 2.5Crane Neck returns to Cincinnati to do a favor for his old boss, Fat Wrassman: Even the score for the hit on George Murphy. But it means going after his partner, Bob “The Fox” Zwick. You don’t want to miss the showdown in the streets of Cincinnati between Fat Wrassman and Detective Dutch Schafer.- Music by Dave Sams-www.truecrimehistorian.com/1925nugentBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2016-10-2437 min
True Crime HistorianThe St. Valentine's Day MassacreCrane Neck Nugent, Prohibition TriggerThe Gangster Chronicles 2.4-Crane Neck Nugent’s career included work with the gang of Fred “Killer” Burke of St. Louis, whom he got to know when they served together as machine gunners in World War I. While no one was ever charged with the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, it is generally agreed that Al Capone hired the Burke gang, whom he called his “American Boys,” to take down his rival Bugs Moran. In this episode, we’ll also hear about Burke’s murder of a policeman in Michigan a few months after the massacre, h...2016-10-1648 minTrue Crime HistorianThe Assassination of Robert AndresCrane Neck Nugent: Prohibition Trigger -The Gangster Chronicles 2.3 -With the heat turned up high in Ohio, Crane Neck retreats to Kansas City to join the gang of his Army mentor Fred “Killer” Burke, the leader of his own gang there. A Toledo job goes south on the Burke gang, and a patrolman ends up dead from machine gun fire. Meanwhile Jack Parker, Todd Messner, Breck Lutes, Rodney Ford, and Bob Zwick hold up a craps game at the Pelican Club in North College Hill, killing the town marshal who stopped in to chew the fat. Later, Jack Parker is f...2016-10-101h 04
True Crime HistorianThe Gangster Called "Fat"The Gangster Chronicles 2.2.2-George "Fat" Wrassman figures heavily (so to speak) in the saga of Crane Neck Nugent. While this case doesn't bear directly on Nugent's story, it tells you the kind of man that Fat was, and will help inform some of the action in a later episode, so I offer this as a bonus to The Gangster Chronicles Book Two at no extra charge.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2016-10-0335 minTrue Crime HistorianCincinnati Gangster War (Crane Neck's Early Hits)Crane Neck Nugent: Prohibition Trigger-The Gangster Chronicles 2.2.1-YESTERDAY'S NEWS-The murders of Gus Fitch, Bob Sollick, Glenn Hiatt, Martin Dailey and Buddy Ryan. Crane Neck Nugent was involved in four of these, and will soon avenge a fifth.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2016-10-0348 min
True Crime HistorianWhat the Cab Driver ForgotCrane Neck Nugent, Prohibition Trigger -The Gangster Chronicles 2.1-YESTERDAY'S NEWS-A reading from historic newspapers in the golden age of yellow journalismThe second volume of The Gangster Chronicles explores one of the many side effects of the Great Experiment, America's Prohibition on alcohol.I’ve often contended that Prohibition made criminals out of a lot of ordinary people who just wanted to drink and serve drinks. But it also gave some truly bad men an opportunity to misbehave.Although he had one of the worst nicknames names ever, Ra...2016-09-2644 min
True Crime HistorianThe Pig Woman's TaleMurder Under the Crab Apple Tree By Damon RunyonWhen a friend of mine started pitching Hall-Mills murder to me as a potential episode, I was immediately enthralled by the tale of an Episcopalian rector and his tragic affair with the choir singer, but when he told me the case hinged on the eyewitness testimony of “the pig woman,” I knew this was a story for True Crime Historian. But it gets even better. I started looking into it and discovered that the famed sportswriter Damon Runyon covered the trial with the same breezy prose he used in the s...2016-09-124h 04
True Crime HistorianThe Calumet Christmas CatastrophePanic at the Italian HallThis episode comes from the request of a listener in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan who wanted to know more about the panic disaster that took place at the Calumet Italian Hall in 1913. We just took nice camping trip to the Keneewah Peninsula, Michigan's upper Upper Peninsula. You'd be hard pressed to find a more beautiful place in the world. The weather was sublime and Lake Superior is one of my favorite bodies of water--crystal clear, unsalted and shark-free. My girlfriend wants to move up there, at least for the summers, and I'm n...2016-08-2645 min
True Crime HistorianThe Death Cell Confession of Anna Marie HahnAN EYE FOR AN EYE-A special edition of Yesterday’s News exploring the criminal justice system at its most extreme: Inflicting the Death Penalty.-This episode comes at the request of a faithful listener in Cincinnati who wanted to hear more about Anna Marie Hahn, the first woman to be executed in Ohio's electric chair.-Although ‘Arsenic Annie’ had stoically proclaimed her innocence right up until her dying day, Anna Marie Hahn left a handwritten 20-page confession in her death row cell on December 7, 1938, when they led her to Ohio’s electric chair, l...2016-08-1947 min
True Crime HistorianDillinger at the BiographTHE GANGSTER CHRONICLES A special edition of Yesterday’s News focusing on the notorious scoundrels of the Prohibition and Depression eras.The Final Chapter of the Dillinger Saga-The first volume of this this series has been devoted to the exploration of newspaper accounts of the trail of terror blazed by one of America’s most famous, dare I say most beloved, gangsters, John Dillinger.-From the time he was paroled from the Michigan City prison in May, 1933, to the time he was gunned down by police on a Chicago sidewalk 14 months later, John...2016-06-061h 05
True Crime HistorianHanged Three Times and LivedYESTERDAY'S NEWSA reading from America's historic newspapers in the golden age of yellow journalism.Luke Brannon Thwarts a Lynching-The Classic Village of Oxford, Ohio, got so riled up over a shooting in a local saloon, that they bust open the jails and drag the culprits to the local hanging tree. The tree had been used once before, and if you go to my archives, you can hear about that tale in the episode two, "An Outrageous Murder in Oxford," in which the town got so outraged over the apparent murder of one of the town m...2016-05-2731 min
True Crime HistorianDillinger at Little BohemiaTHE GANGSTER CHRONICLES 1.5A special edition of Yesterday's News focusing on the notorious scoundrels of the Prohibition and Depression eras.-We're beginning this series with newspaper accounts of the trail of terror blazed by one of America's most famous, dare I say most beloved, gangsters, John Dillinger.-From the time he was paroled from the Michigan City prison in May, 1933, to the time he was gunned down by police on a Chicago sidewalk 14 months later, John Herbert Dillinger was one of America's most notorious scoundrels.-In previous chapters, we read the...2016-05-0238 min
True Crime HistorianThe Strangler's WifeTRUE CRIME STORY TIMEThe Sad Tale of Anna May Gamble Knapp-Around the jails and the Indiana and Ohio neighborhoods where he lived, Alfred Knapp carried the nickname “Looney” Knapp for his bizarre, often childish behavior. He spent half of his adult life in prison for petty larcenies and attacks upon young women. When he was released from the Michigan City Penitentiary in the summer of 1902, he joined his third wife, Hannah, in her hometown of Hamilton, Ohio. Three days before Christmas that year, Knapp strangled his wife in the early morning hours and put her body in a...2016-04-2226 min
True Crime HistorianDillinger in the WindTHE GANGSTER CHRONICLES 1.4-The Gangster Chronicles is a special edition of Yesterday's News focusing on the notorious scoundrels of the Prohibition and Depression eras.-We're beginning this series with newspaper accounts of the trail of terror blazed by one of America's most famous, dare I say most beloved, gangsters, John Dillinger.-From the time he was paroled from the Michigan City prison in May, 1933, to the time he was gunned down by police on a Chicago sidewalk 14 months later, John Herbert Dillinger was one of America's most notorious scoundrels.-...2016-04-0446 minTrue Crime HistorianDillinger's Showdown in TucsonTHE GANGSTER CHRONICLES 1.3Yesterday's NewsA reading from America's historic newspapers-From the time he was paroled from the Michigan City prison in May, 1933, to the time he was gunned down by police on a Chicago sidewalk 14 months later, John Herbert Dillinger was one of America's most notorious scoundrels.-In chapter one, we looked at the escape of ten convicts from the Indiana penitentiary at Michigan City and the subsequent delivery of Dillinger from the Lima, Ohio, jail that led to the death of Sheriff Jesse Sarber. In Chapter Two, Dillinger and his...2016-03-0744 min
True Crime HistorianDillinger’s Indiana OutlawsTHE GANGSTER CHRONICLES 1.2A reading from America’s historic newspapers from the golden age of yellow journalism-Law enforcement officials and fellow bandits alike lose their lives in the hunt for the desperate criminals who escaped from the Michigan City prison and murdered a sheriff in getting John Dillinger out of jail. In the meantime, Dillinger and his companions continue their spree of mayhem across the Mid [...]Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.2016-02-0840 minTrue Crime HistorianDillinger’s Bloody EscapeTHE GANGSTER CHRONICLES 1.1Yesterday's NewsA Reading from America’s Historic Newspapers-In this first volume of "The Gangster Chronicles," we will follow the trail of terror blazed by one of America's most famous, perhaps most beloved, gangsters, John Dillinger. From the time he was paroled from the Michigan City prison in May, 1933, to the time he was gunned down by police on a Chicago sidewalk in front of the Biograph Theater 14 months later, John Herbert Dillinger was one of America's most notorious scoundrels. Chapter One will detail some of Dillinger's earliest known robberies and his mu...2016-01-1129 min