Kimberly and I take a look at the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand. If it were a Holly wood story it would have too many plot holes and coincidences for anyone to want to produce it. How did a 19 year old Serbian military reject manage to kill the heir to the Austrian throne sparking the First World War?

In a new format, my co-host and I look at one on the biggest con artist in history. Long before Charles Ponzi made it famous, Adele Spitzeder was swindling a massive fortune from the folks in Munich Bravia. Even in the world of crime, a woman just can't get the credit they deserve.

When a man's self-aggrandizing become so extreme that he believes he alone controlled the outcome of a Presidential election tragedy follows. Charles Guiteau decided that President James Garfield had to die. The story of how he came to that conclusion is the tale we tell in this episode.

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.