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Richard O Jones retells old crimes using newspaper coverage from the time, so you hear how reporters in the 1890s actually wrote about the Borden case and others.

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The House On Second Street

September 6, 2026 · 54 min

The Borden Murders Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 499 revisits the most famous event in American crime history, a sweltering August day in 1892, when Andrew and Abby Borden were hacked to death with a hatchet in their…
The Devil on 63rd Street

August 31, 2026 · 60 min

H.H. Holmes and the Murder Castle Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 498. Chicago, 1893. Twenty-seven million people come for the World's Fair. A pleasant, well-dressed doctor named Holmes places an ad for his hotel and…
The Axeman Of New Orleans

August 24, 2026 · 57 min

A Spirit and a Demon from the Hottest Hell Jump to AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 497 takes place in New Orleans, 1918. A killer is working the back streets of the Italian immigrant neighborhoods — chiseling through back doors in the…
The Walk Of Death

August 16, 2026 · 56 min

A Diary Of Retribution Jump to the Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 496. September 6, 1949. A World War II veteran put on his best suit, loaded a German Luger, and walked out of his Camden apartment. Thirteen people dead in twelve…
The Footprints That Led In

August 10, 2026 · 47 min

The HinterKaifeck Murders Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 495 takes place in the weeks before Easter 1922, when footprints appear in the snow outside a remote Bavarian farm. They lead in from the forest. None lead back…

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I Merely Shot Him

August 3, 2026 · 57 min

The Eighty Days Of President Garfield Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 494. July 1881. Charles Guiteau waits in a Washington railroad station with a revolver picked for its ivory grip — he wants it to look good in a museum…
Transatlantic Trunk Murders

July 27, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

Episode 246. Pulp Nonfiction: Remembering the Pioneers of True Crime Jump to AD-FREE Safe House Edition "The Lake Como Honeymoon Trunk Murder" by R.O. Scallan. When an American newlywed bride's body turns up in a trunk in an Italian…
The Chair He Took

July 19, 2026 · 58 min

The Killing of Wild Bill Hickok and the Two Trials of Jack McCall Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 493 begins in Deadwood, August 1876, six weeks after Custer dies at Little Bighorn. A small Kentuckian named Jack McCall…
She Died Singing It

July 13, 2026 · 55 min

The Slashing Of Old Shakespeare Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 492 concerns the morning of April twenty-fourth, eighteen ninety-one, when a sixty-year-old Englishwoman named Carrie Brown is found butchered in a…
A Witness Denied

July 6, 2026 · 59 min

The Poisoning of George Wythe Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 490 takes place in Richmond, Virginia, 1806. George Wythe signs the Declaration of Independence, teaches Jefferson how to think, and frees his slaves. His…
The Woman By The Window

June 29, 2026 · 57 min

The Killing Of Senator Arthur Brown Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 489 takes us to the Hotel Raleigh, Washington, December 8, 1906, when a Salt Lake mother of four walks into the senator's sitting room with the…
The Broken Butterfly

June 22, 2026 · 56 min

The Murder of Anna Marie Keenan Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 488 takes us to a top-floor flat on West Fifty-Seventh Street, the Ides of March, nineteen twenty-three. A chorus girl named Dot King lies dead across a blue…

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Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told through vintage newspaper accounts from the golden age of yellow journalism Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.