Serial killers. Gangsters. Gunslingers. Victorian-era murderers. And that's just the tip of the iceb
In the first few months of 1931, Francis "Two Gun" Crowley, an illiterate, psychopathic nineteen-yea
In February of 1903, wealthy businessman Ed Burdick was beaten to death in the den of his Buffalo, N
My guest, historian and author Tui Snider shares the wild story of the ill-fated Helms-Ratliff gang,
In March of 1950, a young woman named JoAnn Dewey, trying to get home, was beaten and kidnapped on a
1840s America produced some colorful characters, and none more so than James Jesse Strang. After dec
On the morning of June 10, 1937, New York heiress Alice Parsons disappeared off the face of the eart
On February 10, 1918, the Power family, holed up in their cabin in Arizona's isolated Galiuro Mounta
My guest on this episode has a very personal connection to the subject of his many decades of resear
Bruno Richard Hauptmann was tried, convicted and executed for the kidnapping and murder of Charlie L
In October of 1943, socialite and heiress Patricia Burton Lonergan was brutally beaten with a candel
In the late 1960s, a serial killer terrorized the city of Ypsilanti, Michigan. Once John Norman Coll
Arguably the most corrupt politician in American history, William "Boss" Tweed bilked New York City
In the southeastern corner of 1901 Wyoming, cattle ranchers were furious that sheep were destroying
Through most of the 1920s the Bernstein Brothers, known more colorfully as the Purple Gang, ran Detr
"Oh the humanity!" were the famous words spoken by news reporter Herb Morrison when on May 6, 1937,
No historical true crime case is more hotly debated around the world than the one involving the near
My guest, Gary Sosniecki, shares the story of the horrific murder of his great-grandmother, Cecilia,
By June of 1978, the once massively popular television star Bob Crane (of Hogan's Heroes fame) was r
Hurricane season is now upon us, and with it potential dangers to the coastal populations of the Uni
In 1763 Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the last surviving members of the Conestoga Indian nation, numberin
