Podcast Episodes

The Lattimer Mine Massacre

Season 3 Episode 30

On September 10, 1897, roughly 300 to 400 unarmed strikers marched peacefully to a coal mine to support a newly formed United Mine Workers union. The…

2 years, 2 months ago

Juana Barraza: Mexico's Little Old Lady Killer

Season 3 Episode 29

Born December 27, 1957 in Epazoyucan, Hidalgo, Juana Dayanara Barraza Samperioa was a 48-year-old single mother with a troubled past. After years of …

2 years, 2 months ago

Terror in the Big Top: The Hartford Circus Fire

Season 3 Episode 28

On July 6, 1944, in Hartford, Connecticut, thousands of patrons were excited to escape the heat and attend the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Baile…

2 years, 3 months ago

Danny Rolling: The Gainesville Ripper

When five college students in Florida were brutally slain in a four-day span in 1990, it sent shockwaves across the nation as newscasters made compar…

2 years, 3 months ago

Elizabeth Báthory: The So-Called Blood Countess

Season 3 Episode 26

Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory is known as the most prolific female serial killer of all time, accused of slaughtering over 600 young women in …

2 years, 3 months ago

The Eva Hamilton Scandal

Season 3 Episode 25

At a brothel in New York in 1885, the great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton, Robert Ray Hamilton, met con artist Evangeline Steele. Steele was looking…

2 years, 4 months ago

Inside Dr. Brinkley’s Operating Room: A Deadly Pursuit of Virility

Season 3 Episode 24

In 1918 in Milford, Kansas, John R. Brinkley, a fake doctor with no properly accredited medical education, opened a 16-room clinic where he promoted …

2 years, 4 months ago

The Sultana Tragedy

Season 3 Episode 23

On April 27th, 1865, the Sultana, a 260 foot-long wooden steamboat, exploded into flames and sank on the Mississippi River. While the ship was only d…

2 years, 4 months ago

Looking Back on Matthew Shepard: His Story and His Legacy

Season 3 Episode 22

Matthew Shepard, born December 1, 1976, was a gay 21-year-old student attending the University of Wyoming. On October 6,  1998 near Laramie, Wyoming,…

2 years, 4 months ago

The Fall of the Everleigh Club

Season 3 Episode 21

On November 22, 1905 at 5:30 p.m, Marshall Field, Jr. was discovered at his residence with a gunshot wound through his left side. While some thought …

2 years, 5 months ago