Artic explorer Charles Hall just wants to plant the Stars and Stripes at the North Pole. But it seems the ice and his crew have another idea.

It murder in the frozen North and a 150 year old whodunit. Someone decided that they didn't want to spend years wandering the Artic Circle, and killed Captain Hall to make sure they didn't have to.

When religion and government mix bad things can happen. When religious zealots decide that government need to change by any means necessary really bad things can happen. Remember, Remember the 5th of November ... In this episode we take on Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot, to blow up the whole of the English government.

The crime shocked a nation. How could the "Protestant Nun" the refined and gentle, Lizzie Borden have committed such a violent murder. The town of Fall River and nation would divide along socioeconomic lines over the idea of her guilt.

Did Lizzie really take a hatchet to the head of her stepmother and then the face of her father? Or might the police have been guilty of confirmation bias and missed the real killer.

What are we all about? True historic crime both the famous and not so famous. If you are a history buff, or a true crime nerd, or both, like me, then give us a try.

If you like what you hear tell a friend, and if you don't like it tell and enemy, never suffer alone.

Famed naturalist Sir David Attenborough found a skull in the garden of an ancient pub he purchased. The skull, found in 2010, renewed interest in a murder from London's Victorian age. The murder of Julia Thomas, by her maid Kate Webster, sent shock waves cross the whole of the British Isles. Get ready for the tale of the Barnes Murderess.

They will sell you a bridge, a magic box to print money, world famous landmarks, even a whole country. When it comes to conmen George C Parker, Victor Lustig, and Gregor MacGregor might have been the best of the worst. Just how did they manage to get people to hand over money at such insane rates? Take a listen to this week's History is Criminal.

Trigger Warning: sexual assault: While the war launched, and the Holocaust started a psycho used the S-Bahn trains of Berlin as his hunting grounds. Using the cover of air raid warnings, and police hampered by Nazi officials, his reign of terror would last almost two years, and his victims would number in the dozens.

PIRATES... Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read for a short time were three of the most infamous names in the Caribbean. Just how did two women become notorious swashbucklers, at a time when women weren't supposed to be on board a ship. We take a look at the lives and adventures of two of the pirate queens of the Caribbean.

You also have a chance to hear me sing (poorly) in the intro.

Ned Kelly became a folk hero to the people of Australia. His life was short and violent, but he was a tough and complicated man just like the land of his birth. It would all come down to final showdown in a sight that could easily have inspired Ironman. Childhood hero, rebel, horse thief, and a man that became the inspiration for movies and songs by some of the biggest artist of their time. Buckle up for the life of Australia's Robin Hood, Ned Kelly.

He was a national hero. His partner William Clark, and he had traveled across an unknown continent and returned to admiration of a nation. But Meriweather Lewis was a man plagued by personal demons. It is also possible that he had uncovered treasonous acts, by a man in a position of high power in the US government. When he died, by an apparent suicide in 1809, no formal investigation took place. As more information came out over the decades, many began to ask, might the legendary hero have been assassinated.