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Back to SearchThe Hartford Circus Fire
Episode 587
On July 6, 1944, an estimated 7,000 people, mostly women and children, gathered at the Barbour Street fairgrounds in Hartford, Connecticut to see the…
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The Murder of Bessie Darling
Episode 586
On the morning of October 31, 1933, a gunman burst through the door of Bessie Darling’s home in Foxville, Maryland and shot the woman to death. Polic…
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Listener Tales 88
Episode 585
Weirdos! It's Listener Tales, and you know what THAT means! it's brought to you BY you, For you, FROM you, and ALLLLL about you! Today, it's Ash's pi…
1 year, 9 months ago
Peter Manuel: The Beast of Birkenshaw (Part 2)
Episode 584
When Peter Smart failed to show up for work on the morning of January 6, 1958, officers in Lanarkshire, Scotland were dispatched to Smart’s home to c…
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Peter Manuel: The Beast of Birkenshaw (Part 1)
Episode 583
With a violent criminal history going back to his early teen years, Peter Manuel turned out to be one of Scotland’s worst serial killers. His tumult…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Murder of Julia Martha Thomas
Episode 582
In early March 1879, fifty-five-year-old widow Julia Martha Thomas disappeared from her home in southwest London. Julia often travelled by herself on…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Murder of Patricia Lonergan
Episode 581
On the morning of October 25, 1943, the body of twenty-two-year-old Lion Brewery heiress, Patricia Lonergan, was discovered in a locked room in the N…
1 year, 9 months ago
Charles Whitman: The Texas Tower Sniper
Episode 580
On the morning of August 1, 1966, twenty-five-year-old Charles Whitman arrived at the University of Texas Austin campus a little before noon, carryin…
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The Society Gang Killing
Episode 579
On Thanksgiving Day 1934, police in Tulsa, Oklahoma found the dead body of John Gorrell Jr., a Kansas City dental student, slumped behind the wheel o…
1 year, 10 months ago
Clementine Barnabet & The Church of the Sacrifice & The Louisiana Axe Murders
Episode 578
From about 1910 to 1912, an alarming number of axe murders were occurring across the American South and Southwest. Though many would speculate as to …
1 year, 10 months ago