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60: The Real Rasputin w/ Douglas Smith - A True Crime History Podcast
There are many myths surrounding Grigori Rasputin, known in popular history as the "Mad Monk" and the "Holy Devil". His influence on Tsar Nicholas II and his family in turn-of-the-twentieth-century R…
Published on 8 years, 8 months ago
59: Dillinger Gang Gun-Molls Part Two w/ Ellen Poulsen - A True Crime History Podcast
Dillinger historian Ellen Poulsen, author of "Don't Call Us Molls", completes her interview with me about the role of women in Depression-era gangs of the Midwest. Included in this episode, girlfrien…
Published on 8 years, 9 months ago
58: Dillinger Gang Gun-Molls Part One w/ Ellen Poulsen - A True Crime History Podcast
In this first part of my two part interview with Ellen Poulsen, author of "Don't Call Us Molls", we discuss the many women involved with notorious 1930s Public Enemy #1 John Dillinger, including Evel…
Published on 8 years, 9 months ago
57: Paris's Rue Montaigne Murders w/ Aaron Freundschuh - A True Crime History Podcast
In March of 1887 a high-class prostitute and two others, including a child, were found stabbed to death in a luxury apartment on the upscale Avenue Montaigne. Police settle on a mysterious immigrant …
Published on 8 years, 9 months ago
56: Captain Kidd w/ Richard Zacks - A True Crime History Podcast
Richard Zacks, bestselling author of "Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd" is my guest, and he tells some stories (and breaks some myths) about a man considered one of the most infamous pir…
Published on 8 years, 10 months ago
55: Boston's Millen-Faber Gang w/ Nathan Gorenstein - A True Crime History Podcast
The 1930s were filled with news of midwest bank-robbers like John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd and Bonnie & Clyde, but few know that Boston had its own gang of thieves and killers du…
Published on 8 years, 10 months ago
54: Wartime Los Angeles's Sleepy Lagoon Murder & Zoot Suit Riots w/ Eduardo Pagán
Two events in early 1940s L.A. grabbed newspaper headlines almost back to back- The murder of José Díaz and following trial of 22 boys, and the race riots between American sailors and zoot-suit weari…
Published on 8 years, 10 months ago
53: Self-Confessed Serial Killer Carl Panzram w/ John Borowski - A True Crime History Podcast
Carl Panzram was a self-confessed serial killer and rapist, who admitted in his autobiography to over 20 murders just before his execution in 1930. My guest, John Borowski, director of the documentar…
Published on 8 years, 11 months ago
52: Lynchings, Vigilantism and Murder in 1850s Frontier Los Angeles w/ John Mack Faragher
Few of us think of 19th century Los Angeles in the same breath as Tombstone, Dodge City, or Deadwood, but in the 1850s it was filled with rampant racism and violent conflict. Vigilantes roamed the st…
Published on 8 years, 11 months ago
51: The Santa Claus Con Artist w/ Alex Palmer - A True Crime History Podcast
In 1913 a PR man named John Gluck successfully petitioned the US Post Office for control of New York City's Santa Claus letters. From that point forward, he not only built the Santa Claus Association…
Published on 8 years, 11 months ago