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269: Return to Uluru w/ Mark McKenna - A True Crime History Podcast
In 1934 South Australian policeman Bill McKinnon is sent to investigate a murder and make arrests in the so-called "dead heart" of the country. After some of his Aboriginal prisoners escape, he track…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
268: Vengeance, Tragedy & Murder on the Arkansas Delta w/ Denise White Parkinson
In 1931 a young woman named Helen Spence, part of a houseboat community along Arkansas' White River, shocked everyone when she stood up in a local courtroom and shot to death the man on trial for mur…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
267: The Murder of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley w/ Elizabeth Randall
In the winter of 1974 Athalia Ponsell Lindsley was in the midst of a bitter feud with her neighbor, Alan Stanford. The feud ended in brutal fashion on January 23rd when she was murdered in broad dayl…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
266: The Murder of Betsy Aardsma w/ David DeKok - A True Crime History Podcast
On Nov. 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma, a 22-year-old Penn State graduate student, was stabbed to death in the stacks of Pattee Library. The case remains officially unsolved, but my guest David DeKok thinks…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
265: The Murder of Olga Duncan w/ Deborah Holt Larkin - A True Crime History Podcast
In November of 1958 a pregnant nurse named Olga Duncan disappeared from her suburban California apartment. Police quickly suspected Olga's mother in-law Elizabeth Duncan, a domineering and manipulati…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
264: The 1938 War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast w/ A. Brad Schwartz
A. Brad Schwartz, who entertained us with Eliot Ness stories in back-to-back episodes earlier this year, returns to talk about the notorious October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds, dir…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
263: Murder & Manhunt in WW2 w/ Brendan Koerner - A True Crime History Podcast
In 1944 a battalion of African-American soldiers were tasked with the horrific job of building a road through the heart of the Indo-Burmese jungle during World War II. One of the men, a private named…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
262: The Hall-Mills Murders w/ Joe Pompeo - A True Crime History Podcast
On September 16, 1922, the bodies of Reverend Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills were found beneath a crabapple tree on an abandoned farm outside of New Brunswick, New Jersey. The killer had arranged the …
Published on 3 years, 3 months ago
261: The Red Widow: Marguerite “Meg” Steinheil w/ Sarah Horowitz - A True Crime History Podcast
Paris, 1889: Margeurite Steinheil is a woman with ambition. But having been born into a middle-class family and trapped in a marriage to a failed artist twenty years her senior, she knows her options…
Published on 3 years, 3 months ago
260: The 1889 Hamilton Scandal w/ Bill Shaffer - A True Crime History Podcast
Robert Ray Hamilton, great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton, was a successful man in the late 1880s. Powered by family money and fame, he spent his time developing real estate and serving in the New Yo…
Published on 3 years, 3 months ago