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Forgotten True Crime

Join proud Host, Trevor Shelby, as he digs into the most interesting stories that show the darker side of True Crime. Every episode we will feature a true crime story that has been forgotten through time.

Podcast · By Trevor Shelby · American English · Official site

Indexed episodes, last 90 days
16
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Sep 7, 2026
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Jul 18, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 7, 2026

    The Murder of Frances Nesbitt (opens the original)

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    Six-thirty on a Friday morning, February 19, 1926, in Troy, Ohio. Jacob Nesbitt gets up, fixes the furnace, sweeps the snow off the front walk, and drives to Dayton to sell kitchen machines at a food show — the machines at which his own wife had just been handed the better territory. His wife is in the bathtub. She has been there since 6:30. Frances Drake Nesbitt was twenty-six — three-time tennis champion at Ohio State, the best saleswoman in the district, and the reason her husband had just be

  2. Episode · Sep 3, 2026

    The Pepper on the Trail: The Murder of Arley Keck (opens the original)

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    Five past eight on a Saturday morning, the eighteenth of March, 1944, in Weleetka, Oklahoma. The man delivering the milk sets his bottles down inside a corner grocery and looks over at the chair by the front door — the chair where the owner sits every morning of his life, with the radio going. The chair is empty. Arley Keck was sixty years old, though his own town would have told you sixty-five. He'd run that store for ten years and slept in the back of it, so the filling station out front could

  3. Episode · Aug 31, 2026

    Who Killed Bugsy Siegel — The Case Beverly Hills Never Closed (opens the original)

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    This August I asked the Beverly Hills Police Department for the file on crime case number 46176. It is a homicide from 1947. They wrote back twenty-four days later. The records exist. They are in the department's possession. And they are exempt from disclosure, and will not be released. Then they told me the rest of it. The case is presently assigned to the Crimes Against Persons unit of the Detective Bureau. The file is on permanent retention — kept indefinitely, not subject to any planned dest

  4. Episode · Aug 27, 2026

    The Twelve Days — Three Bodies to a Guilty Plea in Oklahoma, 1944 (opens the original)

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    On the night of Friday, the seventh of April, 1944, a posse of farmers and twenty-five sailors from the naval firing station at Shawnee, Oklahoma, put about a hundred and fifty shots into a patch of brush. Twelve days after they pulled a man out of it, he had pleaded guilty to three murders and been sentenced to die. Twelve days. From three bodies to a death sentence. There was no trial. The defense called no witnesses. It called nobody at all. Four days before the shooting in the brush, a forty

  5. Episode · Aug 24, 2026

    Foul Play Is Not Suspected — Daniel Robinson, Missing Since 2021 (opens the original)

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    On June 23, 2021, a 24-year-old field geologist named Daniel Robinson drove away from a water well site outside Buckeye, Arizona, in the rain. Twenty-six days later a rancher found his Jeep in a ravine three and a half miles out — rolled, every airbag fired, still in drive, his phone and keys and wallet inside it.His clothes were scattered up the hillside above it. Jeans inside out. Socks inside out.Daniel has not been seen since. He turned 29 this January.IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING: 844-602-0660. Cal

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