American Scoundrel John Eaton
Andrew Jackson's Secretary of War spent a decade courting a married woman, arranged her husband's convenient posting to the Mediterranean, and married her six weeks before the 1829 inauguration. The C...
23 Apr 10min
Lizzie Gillespie Killed By Twin Brother
Family Tragedy in Rising SunJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 89. In a lot of these stories from the old newspapers, the press coverage and the locale itself often take on the attributes o...
22 Apr 51min
American Scoundrel Clyde Tolson
Clyde Tolson ran personnel and discipline at the FBI for 44 years — the man who hired, promoted, and silenced the agents who carried out J. Edgar Hoover's illegal surveillance campaigns. He built the ...
21 Apr 10min
At The Bottom Of A Brookfield Well
The Case Of Bathsheba SpoonerJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 474 takes place in 1788 when the secrets of a prosperous Massachusetts family are revealed, beginning with a dead body in the...
20 Apr 53min
Femme Fatale Wu Zetian
Wu Zetian entered the Tang court as a teenage concubine in 638. By 690, she'd murdered her way to the Dragon Throne — the only woman in Chinese history to rule as Emperor. She stuffed rivals into wine...
19 Apr 9min
Magazine #4
Episode 130Murder By Fire, by Brandon WhiteThe Abominable Mr. Yelverton, by Edmund PearsonThe American Exchange Bank Robbery, By Cleveland MoffatJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionBecome a supporte...
18 Apr 2h 2min
American Scoundrel Wiliam N. Roach
William N. Roach embezzled sixty thousand dollars from a Washington bank, fled to Dakota Territory, and returned the money just fast enough to dodge prison. Fourteen years later, a Republican civil wa...
17 Apr 9min
Girl Did Not Kill Herself
The Mysterious Death of Louise Monteabaro InJump To The AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 20, Police Chief Henry Blake’s story stays consistent throughout, from the time he reported the incident to th...
16 Apr 27min
