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Murders Of The Buncombe County Mankiller Sep 06, 2025

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An Incident In The Blacksmith’s Shop
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Episode 380 tells the story of a violent rampage and its aftermath, when a jealous man shoots a rival down in cold blood and then bashes his head with a hammer. There are enough witnesses that there’s no question his guilt, and the third act details the extremes he will take to avoid a date in the electric chair.
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Florence Buzzell's Love Diary Sep 04, 2025

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The Implication Of Fred Wheeler
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Episode 379 tells the scandalous and tragic story of a young business school student who enters into an unfortunate relationship with her sponsor, a wealthy cattle dealer 30 years her senior. He’s on the scene when she turns up dead with a mysterious gunshot wound in her head, and the resulting trial is a textbook example of a judicial circus with surprise witnesses, courtroom theatrics, and a crowd of overly exuberant spectators. Pay particular attention to the subplot involving the dead girl’s mother.
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The Oklahoma Phantom Sep 03, 2025

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Face-To-Face With Pretty Boy Floyd
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The centerpiece of Episode 378 is a quest for an interview with the infamous bank robber and murderer Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd by Oklahoma reporter Vivian Brown. Although her reporting verges on glorifying Floyd’s celebrity, something we try to avoid, her six-part series published in the days between Floyd’s death in Ohio and his home-town burial, she also provides a deep insight into the way citizens viewed Depression-era bandits as anti-establishment folk heroes. But let’s not forget that Floyd murdered at least seven people, even if we don’t count the Kansas City Massacre.
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You'll Never Hang Me! Aug 28, 2025

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The Insanity (Or Not) Of Douglas Van Vlack
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Episode 377 takes a deep plunge into the story of a troubled young couple in a flight from justice that ends in great double tragedies. The second act details a sensational and contentious trial as Douglas Van Vlack’s defense team try to keep him from the gallows by telling the story of his traumatic life. The third act tells how the scoundrel tries to take matters into his own hands when the insanity plea fails. Culled from the historic pages of the Idaho Evening Times and other newspapers of the era.
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The Escapes Of The Plymouth County Desperadoes Aug 20, 2025

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Bullets For Sheriff Maxwell And Family
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Episode 376 is an action-packed thriller with a jailbreak, a prison break, a couple of car chases, a bank robbery, and then some. At the center of it all is the law-enforcing family of Sheriff Hugh Maxwell of Plymouth County, Iowa, who make the ultimate sacrifice in their pursuit of justice.
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A Bloody Family Bed Aug 18, 2025

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The Triple Confessions Of Willie Lee
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Episode 374 tells the story of an awful family murder in Boonville, Indiana, when a lazy young man takes an axe to his parents and brother on the eve of his wedding day. What offenses the family committed to deserve such a fate seems to be all in the mind of the accused, and it takes him a few tries to get his story straight.
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Mystery Tour In A Buick 8 Aug 15, 2025

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The Vanishing Of Clyde Armour
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Episode 373 tells the story of two young men who go on a road trip together, but only one of them makes it as far as Santa Fe, and he pretends to be the other. In the meanwhile, an Iowa family goes on a desperate hunt for their missing brother.
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Atrocity At St. Peter Street Aug 13, 2025

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La Chataine Juliette And The Perverted Professor Of Magnetic Physiology
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Episode 372 delves into the history of one of the most hideous villains to ever stalk American streets, a predator so vile that he ranks up there with Albert Fish in his depravity. Even if you don’t believe in capital punishment, I think you’ll agree that Etienne Deschamps deserved his punishment, and then some.
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The Main/Swayne Affair Aug 11, 2025

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The Napavine Hatchet Murder
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Episode 371 seems to start out as a salacious story of a seedy sexual situation gone awry, but the sleaze paves the way to a more interesting subplot of a district attorney forced to bring a half-baked case to trial in order to avoid the appearance of his own complicity in a rumored conspiracy.
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The Plymouth Sex Murder Aug 08, 2025

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A Band-Aid Solution To The Mystery
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Episode 370 tells the story of a World War II era veteran whose mental issues earned him an honorable discharge from service, but he slips through the system, wreaking havoc among the women in the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania. What does it take to get creeps like this off the street? Murder, apparently.
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