True Crime Historian

The Awful Fate of Mary Ann Rheinhardt ___This episode explores the heinous crime of the scoundrel Edward Reinhardt of Manhattan and Staten Island who got tangled up with two women, got them both in tr...

30 Jan 202457min

The Trials Of Otis Clark, Etc.Episode 136 comes by the way of a request from Herrin, Illinois, where TCH listener Chris Banes wants to know more about some hometown dark history, about the time a loca...

29 Jan 20241h 32min

Trial Of The Big Beef SextetEpisode 424 is not your typical heartwarming holiday story, but takes place on Thanksgiving day, 1927, when a pack of Folsom prisoners enact a long-laid plan to make a big ...

26 Jan 20242h 8min

Bosson’s Bitter Whiskey And BananasEpisode 436 comes from a request by True Crime Historian patron Marlene Resch, who wanted to hear a story from her home Lane County, Oregon. So I dug up this sordid ...

24 Jan 20241h 36min

The Murders Of Phoebe Hogg And Phoebe HoggEpisode 244 tells of a murder in Victorian London so vicious and violent and ghastly that some people believe to this day that the perpetrator was the infamou...

22 Jan 20241h 23min

The Montgomery Grocer Murder MysteryEpisode 433 follows the investigation of a robbery gone south down South, and while the family battles over the will, police arrest many different suspects, but it ...

19 Jan 20241h 16min

The Tragic Leggit OrdealEpisode 425 tells of the end of the road for Walter Ligget, who made his fame as a journalist who supported unions, exposed the criminal element, crusaded against graft and cor...

17 Jan 20241h 37min

The Tribulation Of Meda Dudgeon HodellEpisode 229 is a rich tale from the swamp lands of Michigan, an ever-changing story that includes a fake suicide, a pair of murders, confessions out the wazoo, as...

15 Jan 20241h 10min