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  • Violent Cremation

    Violent Cremation
    2026/03/31
    The Cincinnati Tanyard Murder

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    Episode 17 is a report from Lafcadio Hearn, on of my favorite Pioneers of True Crime. Although he became better known late in his career for his books on travel and on Japanese legends and ghost stories, Lafcadio Hearn began his professional writing career as a staff correspondent for the Cincinnati Enquirer. He was such a devotee of Edgar Allen Poe that he carried the nickname The Raven, given to him by an early mentor, throughout his life. The devotion shows in much of his writing, including this account of what’s commonly known to local history as “the tanyard murder” in 1874. His account of the crime helped, I’m sure, make it one of the most well-known of Cincinnati’s historical murders. Hearn is also well-known for his essays about the poorest parts of Cincinnati.Even though the author was visually impaired (he carried with him both a magnifying glass and a telescope), Hearn's account of this ghastly crime contains graphic details of the discovery of the body and the autopsy.The tanyard was situated next to a soap factory that had caught fire the previous night and attracted a crowd of 50,000, the newspapers said, to watch the massive flames. Such was the mood of the city that Hearn begins his report with a quote from William Shakespeare's tragic Hamlet.True crime history is not just about reviving the stories of America's scandals, scoundrels, and scourges, but also about exploring the history of true crime as a genre.

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    37 分
  • Face-To-Face With Pretty Boy Floyd

    Face-To-Face With Pretty Boy Floyd
    2026/03/30
    The Oklahoma Phantom Terror

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    Episode 471 finds us in 1932, a hill country reporter named Vivian Brown did what no one else ever managed — she sat down with Pretty Boy Floyd and got him talking. Two years later, a teletype changed everything. The only interview the phantom bandit ever gave. Tonight, we hear the story from her point of view.

    Hear more stories about MANHUNTS!!!

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    49 分
  • A Deadly Family Feud

    A Deadly Family Feud
    2026/03/29
    The Execution of J.G. Rawlings and His Accomplice

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    Episode 45 takes us back to the turn of the last century, rural Georgia circa 1905, when an argument over a field border incites a family feud that results in four deaths, including the murder of two innocents and a double hanging.

    Hear more stories about CAPITAL CRIMES!!!!

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    45 分
  • March 28, 1944

    March 28, 1944
    2026/03/28
    San Francisco, California
    March 28, 1944

    A pyromaniac works the skid row district south of Market Street, lighting fires in flophouses all evening long. The sixth one catches. Twenty-two people die inside the New Amsterdam Hotel. The man they convict says God knows he's innocent. The dead say nothing.

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    10 分
  • Preacher’s Baby Girl/Gangster’s Wife

    Preacher’s Baby Girl/Gangster’s Wife
    2026/03/27
    The Trial & Travails Of Norma Brighton Millen

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    Episode 43 is the story of a young girl, the daughter of a prominent minister and graduate of a fine finishing school, who fell into the wrong crowd and married a man who would be executed for the crime of the gang he was trying to build. The papers never said, but I can’t help but think the Millen-Faber Gang fancied themselves to be the Dillingers of the East Coast. The story grabbed my attention because of the way Norma Brighton Millen presented herself after her capture. Is she the innocent dupe as she proclaimed? Or was she using her pretty face and sophisticated air to disguise her inner bad girl and get off easy?

    Hear about more FEMMES FATALE!!!

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    43 分
  • March 26, 1942

    March 26, 1942
    2026/03/26
    Poprad, Slovakia
    March 25, 1942

    Nine hundred and ninety-nine young Jewish women boarded a train believing they were headed to factory work. They sang folk songs as the Tatra Mountains slid past the windows. The train crossed the Polish border before dawn. What waited on the other side would change the world.

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    10 分
  • The Disappearance Of Doctor Parkman

    The Disappearance Of Doctor Parkman
    2026/03/25
    From True Crime Pioneer Edmund Pearson

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    Episode 25 takes place in 1849, a week before Thanksgiving, in a laboratory at the Harvard Medical College while the famed physician and author Oliver Wendell Holmes was lecturing in the room directly above. The victim was one of Boston's wealthy elite on a mission to collect a bet from a geology professor. The Parker-Webster case, as it came to be known, was notable because it was one of the first murder cases where circumstantial forensic evidence was used in a trial. In this case it was the false teeth of the victim.

    More stories from EDMUND PEARSON

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    34 分
  • March 24, 1882

    March 24, 1882
    2026/03/24
    Cincinnati, Ohio
    March 24, 1862

    Abolition'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. Then the mob outside, waiting with a rope. The mayor watches and does nothing.

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    10 分