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The Cross Country Candy Caper Nov 22, 2023

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The Case of the Deadly Bonbons
Just about every sensational murder case is hailed as "too strage for fiction" or "the most remarkable in history", but Episode 235 really is unique: A murder inflicted on two persons unknown to the assailant from a distance of nearly 3,000 miles. Figure that out!. Add to the mix the usual sleazy scandals of inappropriate behavior and this one is ripe for your horror and indignation.
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The Bloody Burdell Bond Street Murder Nov 15, 2023

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Two Twists on a Classic Tale
Episode 242 explores two versions of the same case by two true crime pioneers, the first by distinguished journalist Alfred Henry Lewis and the second by True Crime Historian favorite Edmund Pearson. It's interesting how they approach the case from entirely different perspectives with completely different details. The episode ends with an obituary of the interesting life of the defendant after she leaves Bond Street.
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The Confession of H.H. Holmes Nov 12, 2023

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A Litany of Horror
Episode 12 is a reading of the chilling confession of Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as H.H. Holmes, one of the most remarkable serial killers in American History. The whole nation was shocked and outraged in the waning years of the nineteenth century by the gruesome deeds of one Herman Mudgett, the arch fiend who took on the pseudonym H.H. Holmes as he prepared his famous "Castle of Death" in downtown Chicago. He was arrested for an insurance fraud in November 1894, but his string of murders, perhaps 200 in all, were soon revealed. He was convicted of one capital crime in Philadelphia, and while he awaited execution, he penned a confession detailing 27 murders that was published in newspapers across the country. He would recant this confession before he hanged, but really, you can't make this stuff up.
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The Baby In The Beer Bar Nov 08, 2023

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The Tragedy of Joyce Joan Shouse
Episode 236 is a down and dirty story of a negligent mother, a sexually frustrated hunchback, and one terrible night in a hotel cafe. There's a lot of blame to go around on this one.
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Young Love, Serious Crime Nov 05, 2023

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Teller And His Teenage Moll
Episode 215 is dedicated to True Crime Historian listener Virgil Kay, who sent me the case file on this story of a pair of bandits on the run, a 27-year-old exhibitionist and his 17-year-old moll, a tough girl who was said to be the brains behind the operation, such as it was.
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The Mystery of My Husband's Body in My Trunk Nov 01, 2023

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Madame Bessarabo's Explanation
Episode 111. When the body of a missing international businessman is found in an unclaimed trunk in the train station at Nancy, France, his wife (the French dramatist and poet known as Hera Mirtel) and his stepdaughter were immediately suspected, but it took two years to end their legal ordeal. Mysteries still remain (such as how two petit women managed to truss up the body and carry it around in a trunk). Episode 111 focuses on an epistle she wrote from her jail cell as she continues to proclaim her innocence, even denying that it was her husband's body in her trunk. Featuring Emily Simer Braun reading Mme. Bessarabo's epistle from the Paris jail.
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The Portland Green Trunk Murder Mystery Oct 25, 2023

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The Money Was the Motive
Episode 241 is a variation on one of our favorite tropes: The Trunk Murder. Culled from the historic pages of True Detective Magazine and the Oregon Daily Journal, this story takes place in the Pacific Northwest, when a couple of shady transients try to pull a long con on a wealthy, recently widowed rancher. Getting rid of the body is always the tricky part.
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Slain For Her Own Salvation Oct 18, 2023

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The Boy Preacher and His Teenage Wife
Episode 245 tells the scandalous tale of a young preacher with a David complex. who in order to save his wife's soul, takes her life--and the life of her mother, just so he could get away.
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Fatal Family Fire Oct 11, 2023

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The El Dorado Oberst Massacre
Episode 174 begins with a family of seven found incinerated in their farm house. The only suriviving member of the family was the 17-year-old son, who was at the movies with a friend when the fire began. But his story changes so dramatically and so frequently that justice has a hard time keeping up.
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DOUBLE EPISODE: The Glickstein Tragedies & The Battered Bride Bathtub Murder Sep 20, 2023

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For Episode 135 we’ve put together a double-header expanding on the theme of the past two episodes. Both of these cases were mentioned in “The Good Friday Beekman Place Bathtub Murder” and "Tears of the Weeping Willow.”
The Glickstein Tragedies: The Examination Room Murder
First is the story of how an unfortunate relationship brought tragedy upon tragedy to a physician’s family, and then we’ll explore the case of a housewife caught unaware by a burglar carrying a deadly weapon.
The Battered Bride Bathtub Murder: Major Green Collared by the Collar
(1:19:23)
How the case was cracked by trailing the suspect's clothing.
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