The White Flag Massacre
No Mercy At Mountain MeadowsJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 482 takes us to Mountain Meadows, Utah Territory, 1857, where Arkansas emigrants accept safe passage under a white flag. The f...
18 Touko 45min
The Fourteenth Fiasco
The Klan Claims A ScallywagJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 477 tells the story of Judge George W. Ashburn — Union colonel, scalawag, author of the state's civil rights provisions — who i...
11 Touko 55min
Femme Fatale Ann O'Delia Diss Debar
New York, 1888. Ann O'Delia Diss Debar — self-styled Spirit Princess, alleged daughter of Lola Montez — convinced a grieving Madison Avenue lawyer that Raphael and Rembrandt were painting for him in h...
8 Touko 9min
American Scoudrel B. Gratz Brown
B. Gratz Brown — ex-senator, sitting governor, Vice-Presidential nominee of two parties at once — was handed the stage built to topple Grant's corruption and showed up drunk. He fainted at a New York ...
7 Touko 9min
American Scoundrel Stephen Wallace Dorsey
Gilded Age Washington, 1876. Senator Stephen W. Dorsey and the Second Assistant Postmaster General ran a bid-rigging racket that bled the Post Office of millions — fake mail routes, real money. Two tr...
5 Touko 9min
The Moonlight Row
The Smuttynose Island Murders of 1873Jump To The AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 476 explores a case would become one of the most sensational crimes of the American Gilded Age. It would produce a ma...
4 Touko 54min
The Tiny Error of the Wily Widow
"The Tiny Error of the Wily Widow" (57:52) transports us to the plains of the Dakotas and another plot, this one to get rid of a wealthy husband for a younger man.Become a supporter of this podcast: h...
3 Touko 14min
Femme Fatale Sophie Lyons
Gilded Age New York crowned her the Queen of Crime. Sophie Lyons — pickpocket, shoplifter, blackmailer — spent fifty years selling men's shame back to them at Parker House prices. She retired to Detro...
2 Touko 9min
