In this episode we get into the “vintage” era of the 1970s and 1980s and Bellingham’s dive-y waterfront scene with a discussion of our legendary “Serial Killer Bar” as well as an unsolved mystery concerning a body found in the boiler plant at the former Georgia Pacific mill complex.

The last of our re-released episodes from the 2020 season of “Bad Town” on the City of Subdued Podcast, hosted by Annika Fleming, Maria Dalla Gasparina, and guest hosted by Kolby and Wren and Good Time Girls founder Marissa McGrath.

CONTENT WARNING - DISCUSSIONS OF VIOLENCE AND MURDER AND OTHER GRUESOME TOPICS, SOME OF WHICH ARE OF MORE RECENT MEMORY.

This episode features the story of the Maple Falls Murder Farm! We discuss the creepy murderer who local papers blamed for the death of Frederick Dames (see previous episode: Bad Butchered Town) … and while this creepy murderer was perhaps Whatcom County’s first serial killer… did he really butcher the butcher? You be the judge!

This episode is a re-release from the 2020 season of “Bad Town” on the City of Subdued Podcast, hosted by Annika Fleming, Maria Dalla Gasparina and yours truly along with Good Time Girls founder Marissa McGrath. BUT with updates!

Content warning: murder, death, true crime.

Show notes and more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast

In this week’s episode, we revisit one of our favorite Bellingham true-crime stories, the murder of a local butcher, Frederick Dames, in 1905. Though declared “solved” a few years later, doubts remain as to whether the supposed perpetrator was actually responsible for this particular crime. (More on him in next week’s episode!)

This episode is a re-release from the 2020 season of “Bad Town” on the City of Subdued Podcast, hosted by Annika Fleming, Maria Dalla Gasperina and yours truly along with Good Time Girls founder Marissa McGrath.

Content warning for gruesome descriptions of this particularly heinous murder. Listen with care.

In this episode we discuss the history of the Ku Klux Klan, aka the KKK, here in Bellingham, Whatcom County and the PNW.

Show notes and more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast

In this episode we get into prohibition era Bad-Town, complete with rum running, bootlegging and speak-easies (aka Blind Pigs). AND a story straight from the LaBree family vaults.

This episode is a re-release from the 2020 season of “Bad Town” on the City of Subdued Podcast, hosted by Annika Fleming, Maria Dalla Gasparina and yours truly along with Good Time Girls founder Marissa McGrath.

Show notes and more at ⁠⁠⁠https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast

In this week’s episode we discuss the case of Lorena Upper, a so-called "lady barber" accused of violating the “red light statute” here in Bellingham, Washington in 1922 and what it meant to work as a woman in a traditionally male occupation at the time.

This episode is a re-release from the 2020 season of “Bad Town” on the City of Subdued Podcast, hosted by Annika Fleming, Maria Dalla Gasparina and yours truly along with Good Time Girls founder Marissa McGrath.

We have updates on this episode at the end!

Show notes and more at ⁠⁠https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast

This episode features stories of women who ran afoul of the law,  as well as the women charged with policing them!  There are murder plots, madams, police matrons and the “high priestess of anarchy.” Plus bonus content questions an updates.

Content warning on this one for topics of domestic violence and other disturbing situations.

This episode is a re-release from the 2020 season of “Bad Town” on the City of Subdued Podcast, hosted by Annika Fleming, Maria Dalla Gasparina and yours truly along with Good Time Girls founder Marissa McGrath.

Show notes and more at ⁠https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast

Bad Trial Town, aka “For the Love of Moses” is about a sensational murder that occurred on Forest Street, near the Majestic Hall in Bellingham, Washington. It’s about a man who shot his wife and his son-in-law, who was also his wife’s lover. It’s about fancy-talking lawyers with pink toupees. It’s about an acquittal based on patriarchal biblical law. And lastly, it’s about the flaws in our justice system then and NOW.

Content warning on this one for topics of domestic violence and other disturbing situations.

This episode is a re-release from the 2020 season of “Bad Town” on the City of Subdued Podcast, hosted by Annika Fleming, Maria Dalla Gasparina and yours truly along with Good Time Girls founder Marissa McGrath.

Show notes and more at https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast

Kolby and Marissa take a deeper dive into the life of Frank “Spider” Biles, arrested for a string of arsons in the summer of 1892. “Spider Biles, The Fire Bug” is memorialized on a cement marker in the cobblestone alley next to Skylark’s Café in Fairhaven, now a quaint historic shopping district in Bellingham, Washington. This episode is a re-release from the 2020 season of “Bad Town” on the City of Subdued Podcast, hosted by Annika Fleming, Maria Dalla Gasparina and yours truly along with Good Time Girls founder Marissa McGrath.

This week’s story is about notorious Bad Bud Cox, an original Bad Town Bad Boy. We take a deeper look into the life of “Bud Cox” who gained local infamy after robbing a saloon in Fairhaven in the early 1900s, and who spent his life addicted and incarcerated.

This episode is a re-release from the 2020 season of “Bad Town” on the City of Subdued Podcast, hosted by Annika Fleming, Maria Dalla Gasparina and US along with Good Time Girls founder Marissa McGrath.

Read our show-notes and more at bellinghistory.com/the-podcast