HeyJaredTrue Crime Historian
Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told through vintage newspaper accounts from the golden age of yellow journalismBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.
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The House On Second Street (opens the original)
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The Borden Murders Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 499 revisits the most famous event in American crime history, a sweltering August day in 1892, when Andrew and Abby Borden were hacked to death with a hatchet in their locked Fall River home. Thirty brutal blows, yet not a drop of blood was found on Andrew's respectable daughter, Lizzie. She was acquitted, but the famous double murder remains officially unsolved. The house on Second Street still holds its secret. Hear our other ep
The Devil on 63rd Street (opens the original)
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H.H. Holmes and the Murder Castle Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 498. Chicago, 1893. Twenty-seven million people come for the World's Fair. A pleasant, well-dressed doctor named Holmes places an ad for his hotel and waits. The women who answer are not foolish — they're careful. That's the whole trick. He built something that looked exactly like an opportunity. And by the time you know the difference, the door is already locked. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spre
The Axeman Of New Orleans (opens the original)
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A Spirit and a Demon from the Hottest Hell Jump to AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 497 takes place in New Orleans, 1918. A killer is working the back streets of the Italian immigrant neighborhoods — chiseling through back doors in the dead of night, using his victims' own axes, leaving the money on the table and the bodies on the floor. He will strike a dozen times. He will taunt the city from Hell. He will order New Orleans to play jazz or die — and the city will obey. This is the Axeman. Be
The Walk Of Death (opens the original)
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A Diary Of Retribution Jump to the Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 496. September 6, 1949. A World War II veteran put on his best suit, loaded a German Luger, and walked out of his Camden apartment. Thirteen people dead in twelve minutes. He never stood trial. He kept a grievance diary with nearly two hundred names in it. His neighbors were just slow to find out they were in it. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support . You ca
The Footprints That Led In (opens the original)
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The HinterKaifeck Murders Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 495 takes place in the weeks before Easter 1922, when footprints appear in the snow outside a remote Bavarian farm. They lead in from the forest. None lead back out. The family notices. The neighbors are told. No one calls the police. What happens next has never been solved. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support . You can pay more if you want to, but rent
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