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Eulogy For Big Jim Colosimo
Season 10 Episode 4
John Torrio was ready when the new Prohibition law went into effect, but he seemed to be the only one. He was waiting impatiently for everyone else t…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 15: "The King of America"
The strange and sometimes sinister world of America’s homegrown religions, faith movements, and cults is filled with bizarre characters. There are ma…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
American Dread: The Girl Who Never Reached the Door
She was only a few feet from safety.
On a freezing December night in 1975, Carol Ann Rofstad never made it inside her sorority house. Instead, she was…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 14: "The Holy Rollers' Sex Cult"
The date when a shaft of divine light came down from the heavens and transformed Franz Edmund Creffield from an obscure, backwater evangelist into Pr…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Torrio
Season 10 Episode 3
John Torrio was 31 years old when he first came to Chicago to free his uncle by marriage – Big Jim Colosimo – from threats by Black Hand gangsters. B…
6 months ago
Episode 13: "The Demon in the Belfry"
On Easter Sunday, April 13, 1895, parishioners at the Emmanuel Baptist Church in San Francisco were shocked when a closet was opened that contained t…
6 months, 1 week ago
American Dread: The Hatchet House
How well do you really know your neighbor?
In Decatur, Illinois, 1964, evil didn’t break in—it lived inside the house. On a cold February night, a fam…
6 months, 1 week ago
James "Big Jim" Colosimo
Season 10 Episode 2
James “Big Jim” Colosimo ruled the Chicago underworld longer than any man in the city's history. The money he raked in from the many enterprises that…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 12: "Signs, Wonders, and the Satanic Century"
In 1908, a Pentecostal minister announced to his followers that the Devil was alive and well and interfered with every aspect of human life. And he w…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
No Safe Hour: Between Daylight and Darkness
In the early 1980s, Springfield, Illinois learned there was no safe hour.
On this episode of American Dread, we examine two unconnected crimes that un…
6 months, 3 weeks ago