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True Crime Historian

True Crime Historian

By: Richard O Jones
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Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told through vintage newspaper accounts from the golden age of yellow journalism

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Episodes
  • The Woman By The Window

    The Woman By The Window
    Jun 29 2026
    The Killing Of Senator Arthur Brown

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    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 nickel-plated revolver he bought her himself. Seven years of promises, one folded pair of hands, two shots fired. The gun was for her protection.

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    57 mins
  • The Broken Butterfly

    The Broken Butterfly
    Jun 22 2026
    The Murder of Anna Marie Keenan

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    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 silk bed. A scraped chloroform bottle. A Philadelphia millionaire under a fake name. A mother in Harlem naming the killer nobody arrests. The Broadway Butterfly case breaks open, and nobody closes it.

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    If disaster is more your jam, check out CATASTROPHIC CALAMITIES, telling the stories of famous and forgotten tragedies of the 19th and 20th centuries. What could go wrong? Everything!

    For brand-new tales in the old clothes from the golden era of popular literature, give your ears a treat with PULP MAGAZINES with two new stories every week.
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    56 mins
  • Don't Mourn! Organize!

    Don't Mourn! Organize!
    Jun 15 2026
    The Execution Of Joe Hill

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    Episode 487 takes us to Salt Lake City, 1914, where a grocer and his seventeen-year-old son die on a pine floor, and a Swedish songwriter named Joe Hill rings a doctor's bell with a bullet in his lung and a name he will not say. He dies for the silence.

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    58 mins
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I love the approach this podcast uses of reading the newspapers coverage from the time! I would love to see this approach for other countries historical crime! one of my favourite podcasts 👌

fascinating and novel

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