Podcast Episodes
Back to Search450: The Murderous Harp Brothers Revisited w/ Katherine Grandjean
The Harp(e) brothers have been called America's first serial killers, once notorious enough to be the stuff of folklore and legend before fading into…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
American Criminal: Boss Tweed
This is the first episode of American Criminal's latest season - all about Boss Tweed, the Tammany Hall politician who has become synonymous with civ…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
449: The Mysterious Disappearance of William Morgan w/ Ann Webster Bunch
William Morgan was last seen in Batavia, New York, in September 1826, shortly after threatening to publish purported Masonic secrets. He was arrested…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
448: Did a Tacoma Smelter Help Create a Generation of Serial Killers? w/ Caroline Fraser
Ted Bundy grew up in Tacoma in the shadow of one of the most toxic smelters in the United States, and he wasn't the only one. Between the 1970s and '…
2 months ago
447: Rome's Most Evil Rulers w/ Phillip Barlag - A True Crime History Podcast
My guest this week is Phillip Barlag, author of "Evil Roman Emperors: The Shocking History of Ancient Rome's Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero…
2 months, 1 week ago
446: Bandit Chief Joaquin Murrieta: Myth Vs. Fact w/ John Boessenecker
Joaquin Murrieta has been remembered as a Robin Hood of the California Gold Rush — a wronged miner turned avenging outlaw, the supposed inspiration f…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
MoNo Encore: The Mysterious Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar w/ Tal McThenia
(Orig pub date: 3/28/23) In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar went missing in the Louisiana swamps. After an eight-month search that electrified the…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
445: The Murder of Frances Cochran w/ Robert Fitzgibbon
On July 17, 1941, in Lynn, Massachusetts, attractive nineteen-year-old Frances Cochran stepped off a commuter bus and into a mysterious black automob…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
444: A Memoir of Murder in the Golden State w/ Debra Miller
On October 7, 1964, Debra Miller’s life turns upside down when her mother is arrested for the murder of her father. At only fourteen years old, Debra…
3 months ago
443: Iowa's Notorious Carter Gang w/ David & Rose Donovan
In the first decades of the twentieth century, saloon proprietor Erastus Wallace Scott of Des Moines―with his cousins in the infamous Carter Gang―ope…
3 months ago