Episodes

  • Florence Buzzell's Love Diary

    Florence Buzzell's Love Diary
    Sep 4 2025
    The Implication Of Fred Wheeler

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    Episode 379 tells the scandalous and tragic story of a young business school student who enters into an unfortunate relationship with her sponsor, a wealthy cattle dealer 30 years her senior. He’s on the scene when she turns up dead with a mysterious gunshot wound in her head, and the resulting trial is a textbook example of a judicial circus with surprise witnesses, courtroom theatrics, and a crowd of overly exuberant spectators. Pay particular attention to the subplot involving the dead girl’s mother.

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    1 hr and 49 mins
  • The Oklahoma Phantom

    The Oklahoma Phantom
    Sep 3 2025
    Face-To-Face With Pretty Boy Floyd

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    The centerpiece of Episode 378 is a quest for an interview with the infamous bank robber and murderer Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd by Oklahoma reporter Vivian Brown. Although her reporting verges on glorifying Floyd’s celebrity, something we try to avoid, her six-part series published in the days between Floyd’s death in Ohio and his home-town burial, she also provides a deep insight into the way citizens viewed Depression-era bandits as anti-establishment folk heroes. But let’s not forget that Floyd murdered at least seven people, even if we don’t count the Kansas City Massacre.

    Hear More Stories Where ROBBERIES GO AWRY

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    1 hr and 44 mins
  • You'll Never Hang Me!

    You'll Never Hang Me!
    Aug 28 2025
    The Insanity (Or Not) Of Douglas Van Vlack


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    Episode 377 takes a deep plunge into the story of a troubled young couple in a flight from justice that ends in great double tragedies. The second act details a sensational and contentious trial as Douglas Van Vlack’s defense team try to keep him from the gallows by telling the story of his traumatic life. The third act tells how the scoundrel tries to take matters into his own hands when the insanity plea fails. Culled from the historic pages of the Idaho Evening Times and other newspapers of the era.

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    2 hrs and 5 mins
  • The Escapes Of The Plymouth County Desperadoes

    The Escapes Of The Plymouth County Desperadoes
    Aug 20 2025
    Bullets For Sheriff Maxwell And Family

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    Episode 376 is an action-packed thriller with a jailbreak, a prison break, a couple of car chases, a bank robbery, and then some. At the center of it all is the law-enforcing family of Sheriff Hugh Maxwell of Plymouth County, Iowa, who make the ultimate sacrifice in their pursuit of justice.

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • A Bloody Family Bed

    A Bloody Family Bed
    Aug 18 2025
    The Triple Confessions Of Willie Lee

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    Episode 374 tells the story of an awful family murder in Boonville, Indiana, when a lazy young man takes an axe to his parents and brother on the eve of his wedding day. What offenses the family committed to deserve such a fate seems to be all in the mind of the accused, and it takes him a few tries to get his story straight.

    Hear more about murders with AXES AND HAMMERS

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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • Mystery Tour In A Buick 8

    Mystery Tour In A Buick 8
    Aug 15 2025
    The Vanishing Of Clyde Armour

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    Episode 373 tells the story of two young men who go on a road trip together, but only one of them makes it as far as Santa Fe, and he pretends to be the other. In the meanwhile, an Iowa family goes on a desperate hunt for their missing brother.

    Join In On More MANHUNTS

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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Atrocity At St. Peter Street

    Atrocity At St. Peter Street
    Aug 13 2025
    La Chataine Juliette And The Perverted Professor Of Magnetic Physiology

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    Episode 372 delves into the history of one of the most hideous villains to ever stalk American streets, a predator so vile that he ranks up there with Albert Fish in his depravity. Even if you don’t believe in capital punishment, I think you’ll agree that Etienne Deschamps deserved his punishment, and then some.

    Hear More Stories From True Crime Pioneer PETER LEVINS

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    1 hr and 30 mins
  • The Main/Swayne Affair

    The Main/Swayne Affair
    Aug 11 2025
    The Napavine Hatchet Murder

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    Episode 371 seems to start out as a salacious story of a seedy sexual situation gone awry, but the sleaze paves the way to a more interesting subplot of a district attorney forced to bring a half-baked case to trial in order to avoid the appearance of his own complicity in a rumored conspiracy.

    Explore More Murders By HATCHETS & HAMMERS

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    1 hr and 25 mins