Podcast Episodes

Linda Hazzard, the Doctor Who Starved Her Patients to Death

Season 2 Episode 37

Dr. Linda Hazzard was an extremely unorthodox physician, a so-called "fasting specialist" who believed food to be the cause of disease. After as many…

3 years, 2 months ago

The Tragedy of Selena: Fandom Gone Too Far

Season 2 Episode 36

Selena Quintanilla was on the cusp of becoming a worldwide sensation. The Mexican American had already dominated Tejano music charts for years, but a…

3 years, 3 months ago

Hilma Marie Witte: Fatal Manipulation

Season 2 Episode 35

The 1981 shooting death of Paul Witte, a father of two in Indiana, seemed to be an accident: Paul's 15-year-old son Eric said he'd tripped while hold…

3 years, 3 months ago

Ramon Novarro: The Life and Death of a Screen Idol

Season 2 Episode 34

As Hollywood found its footing at the turn of the 20th century, so did a handsome young artist who'd soon be known around the world as Ramon Novarro.…

3 years, 3 months ago

Murder Aboard the Ohio Belle

Season 2 Episode 33

In March of 1856, when a visibly intoxicated man of means boarded the Ohio Belle steamboat, the crew immediately worried that they were in for a bad …

3 years, 4 months ago

Trapping a Killer: Could a Psychic Help Catch a Serial Killer?

Season 2 Episode 32

Between 1967 and 1969, terror gripped two college towns in Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor, Michigan, as investigators discovered the mutilated corpses of se…

3 years, 4 months ago

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Hey, everyone - for Labor Day, we're re-releasing this episode all about a workplace tragedy that helped spark new regulations in the US to protect w…

3 years, 4 months ago

Chasing a Ghost: Hunting the Killer of Chief Greg Adams

Season 2 Episode 31

The heartbreaking murder of a small-town Pennsylvania police chief seemed like an open-and-shut case in December of 1980. After all, whoever shot Gre…

3 years, 4 months ago

Scandal in Arkansas: The Murder of Fern Rodgers

Season 2 Episode 30

Porter Rodgers and his family was as close as royalty as one could get in the small town of Searcy, Arkansas. He was a successful doctor working at a…

3 years, 4 months ago

Alfred Packer: The Colorado Cannibal

Season 2 Episode 29

When a haggard Alfred Packer stumbled from the Colorado wilderness in 1874, he at first said he'd been abandoned by five traveling companions who'd l…

3 years, 5 months ago