March 24, 1882
Cincinnati, OhioMarch 24, 1862Abolition's golden trumpet, Wendell Phillips, takes the stage at Pike's Opera House to tell a river city what it doesn't want to hear. The eggs come first. Then the rocks...
24 Maalis 9min
The Dead Is Alive
The Wrongful Execution of William Jackson MarionJump To The Ad-Free Safe House EditionEpisode 470 begins in 1887, when Nebraska hanged Jack Marion for murdering his friend John Cameron. Four years lat...
23 Maalis 57min
Anarchist Kills Them All
The 1896 Klaettke Family Massacre Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 42 is the sad tale of a family of seven shot and killed by the crazed father, who then turned the gun on himself. It’s r...
22 Maalis 36min
March 21, 1556
Oxford, EnglandMarch 21, 1556The Archbishop of Canterbury signed five recantations to save his life. Queen Mary scheduled his burning anyway. On the morning of his execution, Cranmer was ordered to re...
21 Maalis 9min
The Long Island Torso Murder
Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 14. One summer day in 1896, three young boys discover a mysterious package floating near the docks of the East River. Hoping for some kind of treasure, wh...
20 Maalis 38min
March 19, 1687
East Texas March 19, 1687The man who claimed half a continent for France walked into a stand of river cane looking for his missing nephew. Waiting in the grass were the men he'd led into the wildernes...
19 Maalis 9min
The White Slavery Suicide Pact
Murder in the Marberry ResortJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionIn Episode 57, we get an unusual glimpse into the world inside a bordello at the turn of the previous century, when a young prostitut...
18 Maalis 54min
March 17, 1794
Dorcester, EnglandMarch 17, 1794A fifteen-year-old girl who claimed she had never learned the difference between good and evil killed her grandfather in his sleep. The Murder Act demanded swift justic...
17 Maalis 9min
