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Back to SearchBuck v. Bell: When the Courts Decided Who Could Have Kids
Season 2 Episode 11
A young woman named Carrie Buck was not only deemed too unfit to raise her daughter in 1927, but the U.S. Supreme Court declared she was too stupid t…
3 years, 9 months ago
Terror at the Tewksbury Almshouse
Season 2 Episode 10
Almshouses in the 19th and early 20th centuries were meant to help society's most vulnerable, but in the 1880s, one in Tewksbury, Massachusetts was a…
3 years, 10 months ago
Ken McElroy: Murder in the Town Square
Season 2 Episode 9
Ken McElroy was killed outside, in broad daylight, with some 60 witnesses watching -- and yet no one copped to having seen a thing. McElroy, who'd lo…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Mobster and the Movie Star: The Murder of Johnny Stompanato
Season 2 Episode 8
The Roberts murder discussed in last week's episode wasn't the only murder tied to "Peyton Place," the fictional town depicted in Grace Metallious' 1…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Peyton Place Murder
Season 2 Episode 7
When the groundbreaking book "Peyton Place" hit bookshelves in 1956, the murder tale at its center was so scandalous that many stores banned it outri…
3 years, 10 months ago
Carl Panzram: Forgotten Monster
Season 2 Episode 6
Carl Panzram had a rough life growing up, so he decided to make life hell for everyone around him -- especially innocent young boys. When Panzram fin…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Bludgeoning of Edwin Burdick
Season 2 Episode 5
The most popular motives for murder are money and sex. That's as true today as it was in 1903 when Edwin Burdick was found brutally bludgeoned in the…
3 years, 11 months ago
Too Scandalous for the Papers: The Hix-Snook Case
Season 2 Episode 4
Theora Hix was an enigma to those who knew her. She was witty, intelligent, and ambitious, but fiercely secretive. So when she turned up dead in the …
3 years, 11 months ago
Murder at Road Hill House
Season 2 Episode 3
When a beloved 3-year-old boy went missing, only to be discovered soon after in an outhouse with his throat slit, suspicion at first settled on the c…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Galvanizing Murder of Emmett Till
Season 2 Episode 2
A fun-loving Chicago teenager convinced his mom to let him visit relatives in Mississippi over the summer of 1955. Three days after his arrival, 14-y…
4 years ago