Podcast Episodes

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, 10 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, 10 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 months ago

The Harrowing Murders of Amelia Dyer

Season 2 Episode 28

To countless women, Amelia Dyer offered salvation: She was a supposedly married but barren woman who offered to adopt babies whose parents (usually u…

4 years ago

Billy Milligan and His Multiple Personalities

Season 2 Episode 27

Around the same time the first Hillside Stranglers victims were found near Los Angeles, a young man was arrested in Ohio in an unrelated string of ro…

4 years ago

The Hillside Stranglings Part 2

Season 2 Episode 26

After Kenneth Bianchi was arrested in early 1979 on suspicion he was responsible for the so-called Hillside Stranglings near Los Angeles, he made an …

4 years ago