Horrible History

For Black History Month, episode 12 kicks off our first episode in a series of episodes dedicated to telling the lesser-known stories of crimes against Black Americans -- the stories that we rarely learned about in our history books. Today, Emily heads to Ellaville, Georgia to tell the story of Rosa Lee Ingram, a widowed sharecropper with 12 children, who was sentenced to death after defending herself from a white man. Then Rachel goes back to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to talk about Mumia Abu-Jamal, an American journalist and political activist sentenced to death and then to life in prison for a crime many are not convinced he committed. Hopefully, you’re horrified!

Content/Trigger Warnings: Sexual Assault, Racism

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Sources:

• Black Past
• History Collection
• Illinois University Library
• Britannica 
• Black Past https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/mumia-abu-mal-1954/

Intro Music: “Creeper” - Oliver Lyu

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Today’s episode features stories from Nebraska and Nashville, TN. So many *stupid criminals* to make fun of! Plus, Rachel covers some very strange laws in Nebraska and one man who is extremely passionate about chicken wings. 

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Sources:  

• Huff Post AK 47
• HuffPost
• HuffPost

Intro Music: “Creeper” - Oliver Lyu

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Welcome back, Morbid Curious! Today, Rachel heads to Nebraska to cover spree-killer Charles Starkweather and his accomplice/hostage(?) Caril Ann Fugate. Then Emily takes a trip to Nashville to cover the deadliest train crash in American History. Hopefully, you’re horrified!

Content/Trigger Warnings: Sexual Assault

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Sources:

• Unremembered History
• Nashville Library
• Tennessean
• Biography
• Wikipedia.
• History
• Wyo History
• JournalStar
• Find a Grave Robert Colvert
• Find a Grave Velda Bartlett
• Journal Star Victim's Friend speaks
•  Find a Grave Marion Bartlett
• Find a Grave August Meyer
• Journal Star Ward Family
• Journal Star Merle Collison

Intro Music: “Creeper” - Oliver Lyu

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This week on Terrible Today, we make a brief departure from reading stories about stupid criminals and instead focus on one incredible stupid criminal from Philadelphia, PA -- the Swiss. Cheese. Pervert. 

Listen in to learn more about the infamous SCP, Chris Pagano, and hear about how he was chubby and couldn't get a girlfriend as a kid and that's why he fondles cheese while exposing himself. It's a real joy ride.

Trigger Warning: if you don't want to hear the phrase "held the cheese against his penis" about 100 times, don't listen.

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Sources:  

• Philly Voice 
• Daily Mail

Intro Music: “Creeper” - Oliver Lyu

Welcome back, Morbid Curious! Today, Rachel goes international to discuss the first criminal case ever solved by DNA fingerprinting, the murders of Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth. Then Emily takes a trip to Philly to disgust us with medical experimentations performed on prisoners at Holmesburg Prison by Dr. Albert Kligman. Hopefully, you’re horrified!

Content/Trigger Warnings: Sexual assault, graphic descriptions of medical mistreatment

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Sources:

• Visit England
• Forensic Files on YouTube
• Medium
• The Guardian
• New York Times
• Philadelphia Inquirer
• Baltimore Sun 
• World Health Organization

Intro Music: “Creeper” - Oliver Lyu

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Today’s episode features stories of stupid criminals from Chicago and two survivor accounts of being affected by the Bennington Triangle in Vermont. 

A supplement to our longer Horrible History episodes, this weekly tiny episode will focus on ridiculous, lighter crime stories from the years 1987-present. Each week we’ll share Terrible Today stories featuring news articles from the places we visited in the previous week’s main episode. 

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Intro Music: “Creeper” - Oliver Lyu

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Welcome back, Morbid Curious! Today, Emily teaches us all about Chicago in the 1920s, including the mob scene with her horrible story of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Then Rachel takes us to an actual Ghost Town to discuss the spooky unsolved mysteries surrounding the Bennington Triangle. Hopefully, you’re horrified!

Content/Trigger Warnings: violence

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Sources:

• Wikipedia
• Vermonter
• All That's Interesting
• Bennington Banner
• FBI
• History
• Mob Museum
• Chicago Tribune
• Brittanica 

Intro Music: “Creeper” - Oliver Lyu

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Today’s episode features stories from Los Angeles, CA and North Platte, NE. So many *stupid criminals* to make fun of. 

A supplement to our longer Horrible History episodes, this weekly tiny episode will focus on ridiculous, lighter crime stories from the years 1987-present. Each week we’ll share Terrible Today stories featuring news articles from the places we visited in the previous week’s main episode. 

Contact Us:
Instagram: @horriblehistorypod
Twitter: @thehorriblepod
Email: [email protected] 

Support the Show:
Let us know you like Horrible History.

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Patrons get early access and exclusive content!

Sources:  

•  Journal Star
• Journal Star
• NY Daily News

Intro Music: “Creeper” - Oliver Lyu

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Welcome to the first full episode of 2021. Today, Rachel kicks things off by sharing the horrible story of the LA Batman. Then Emily talks about the bootlegging, brothel running, murdering Annie Cook. Happy New Year, and hopefully you’re horrified!

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Sources:

• Murderpedia
• All That's Interesting
• My Haunted Salem
• Cowgirl Magazine

Intro Music: “Creeper” - Oliver Lyu

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Today’s episode features stories from London and Edinburgh. So many *stupid criminals* to make fun of. 

A supplement to our longer Horrible History episodes, this weekly tiny episode will focus on ridiculous, lighter crime stories from the years 1987-present. Each week we’ll share Terrible Today stories featuring news articles from the places we visited in the previous week’s main episode. 

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Let us know you like Horrible History.

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Sources:  

• Mirror
• Newser
• Time

Intro Music: “Creeper” - Oliver Lyu

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