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41: The Murder of Johnny Gill w/ Kathryn McMaster - A True Crime History Podcast
In December 1888, in Bradford, England, a little boy named Johnny Gill disappears and is eventually found murdered, his body mutilated almost beyond recognition. Kathryn McMaster, author of "Who Kill…
Published on 9 years, 2 months ago
40: The Murder of Jane Clouson w/ Paul Thomas Murphy - A True Crime History Podcast
In 1871, on the outskirts of London, a police constable discovers a young woman, bloodied and battered beyond recognition. She dies, and the police officially have a murder on their hands. They event…
Published on 9 years, 3 months ago
39: Matricide in 1895 London w/ Kate Summerscale - A True Crime History Podcast
Bestselling UK author Kate Summerscale joins me to talk about her book, "The Wicked Boy". Two young boys, Robert and Nattie Coombs, conspire to murder their mother in Victorian-era London. While the …
Published on 9 years, 3 months ago
38: The 1876 Northfield Bank Raid by the James-Younger Gang Part 2 w/ Mark Lee Gardner - A True Crime History Podcast
My conversation with author Mark Lee Gardner continues, about his book "Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape". In the second part of the story, we t…
Published on 9 years, 4 months ago
37: The 1876 Northfield Bank Raid by the James-Younger Gang Part 1 w/ Mark Lee Gardner
Much has been written about Jesse James, including his gang's ill-fated trip to Northfield, Minnesota, a botched bank raid met with death and tragedy, but never told like this. Mark Lee Gardner, auth…
Published on 9 years, 4 months ago
36: The Wolf Family Massacre w/ Vernon Keel - A True Crime History Podcast
In April of 1920, neighbors discover the bodies of most of the Wolf Family, killed by shotgun and hatchet, on their North Dakota farm, just outside Turtle Lake. Only the Wolfs' eight month old daught…
Published on 9 years, 4 months ago
35: New York City's Chinatown Tong Wars w/ Scott D. Seligman - A True Crime History Podcast
From the 1870s to the 1930s, New York City's fabled Chinatown was the site of a series of vicious wars between two rival tongs, the On Leongs and the Hip Sings. Scott D. Seligman, author of "Tong War…
Published on 9 years, 4 months ago
34: Ohio's Celebrity Serial Killer Alfred Knapp w/ Richard O Jones - A True Crime History Podcast
Alfred Knapp, known as the "Hamilton Strangler", left a trail of dead young women through Southern Ohio in the 1890s and early 1900s. My guest, Richard O Jones, the host of the "True Crime Historian"…
Published on 9 years, 5 months ago
33: The 1920s PR Team That Reinvented & Swindled the Ku Klux Klan w/ Dale W. Laackman
Dale W. Laackman, author of "For the Kingdom and the Power: The Big Money Swindle That Spread Hate Across America", tells the story of con artists Edward Young Clarke and Bessie Tyler, who through a …
Published on 9 years, 5 months ago
32: The Murder of Sister Janina w/ Mardi Link - A True Crime History Podcast
In the small town of Isadore Michigan in 1907, a young nun named Janina disappeared. Ten years later, her body is discovered by a priest intent on building a new church on the foundation of the old o…
Published on 9 years, 5 months ago