History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

On September 25, 1966 Jerry,his wife Linda and their four year old daughter Debbie Bricca were all brutally murdered in their west side Cincinnati home. Police interviewed more than 400 people, but no one was ever charged. Now, nearly 50 years later, the case remains open.

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The Sydney Mutilator terrorized Australia between 1961 and 1963. William MacDonald would brutally murder and castrate vargarant men.  

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In April 1865, Henry Rathbone was a wealthy Lawyer and accomplished Military Officer.  He was engaged to be marry to the woman of his dreams. Then events of one awful night changed his life and the life of a nation. 

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Bullied as a child, Donald "Pee Wee" Gaskins sought revenge by raping and killing more than 80 people. Gaskins became known as "The Meanest Man in America" 

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In life, Elmer J. McCurdy was a bungling, inept bandit. In death, he became a legend.

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When Toni Jo's husband was sentenced to 50 years in prison she vowed to do anthing to get him out...this included murder.

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On February 29, 2000, Katherine Mary Knight stabbed her lover 37 times. She then proceeded to carefully skin him before hanging his hide on a meat hook in their living room. Kathy then cut off his head and boiled it in a pot with baked slices of his buttocks to serve with gravy to his children for dinner.

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In the 1930s, Bar owner, Joseph D. Ball, would entertain his customers by tossing live kittens and puppies into his alligator pit. Soon afterwards, his waitresses started disappearing...

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On August 27, 1931, lurid headlines shocked the town of Clarksburg W. WA. and quickly took the nation by storm as a grisly story unfolded from the nearby community of Quiet Dell. Each extra of the local newspapers revealed more sordid, vivid details about Harry Powers. The nation soon knew him as the “Bluebeard of Quiet Dell.”

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Join Tim as he teaches Brandy and The Colonel the true meaning of Christmas!

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