Mystery Murders

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://stevetheamateurhistorian.wordpress.com/2021/04/08/lovers-and-murders/

This is one of the most intriguing unsolved murder in the history of Portland as far as I am concerned. It happened 130 years ago so the odds of solving it are slim to none. But it's not just the mystery of the murder case that intrigues me but the situation leading up to it. John Curtis lived on the east side of the Willamette River (in the vicinity of where the Oregon Convention Center stands today) and he had two women in his life, one of which may have been responsible for his murder.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://stevetheamateurhistorian.wordpress.com/2021/04/08/the-mystery-murder-of-a-mystery-man/

In this piece I discuss a man so mysterious that the local newspapers couldn't even get a grip on what his full name might have been. As a mystery man, a guy I can only definitively identify as "G. Marty" died in a manner that is equally as mysterious as he was beaten down on Portland's streets back in 1913

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://stevetheamateurhistorian.wordpress.com/2021/04/08/they-acted-as-if-nothing-had-happened/

This is one of multiple pieces I have written about past murder cases in the history of Portland, Oregon. And hey! I can convert them to podcasts right here (and not destroy my own throat in the process). So hopefully y'all enjoy this little addition to my works. In this first posting I discuss the case of a man defending the sanctity of his home from a man moving in on his wife. In 1907 Charles Reynolds gunned down George Hibbins in the bedroom of his home, sending him out into the street to bleed out and generally freak out anyone nearby. It was a kinda bizarre story involving a bizarre marriage.