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by Richard O Jones
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About the show

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.
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.

Latest episodes

  • 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…

  • 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…