After a bomb was found on a ledge of the Con Ed Building in New York City in November 1940 a sixteen year man hunt would ensue for the Mad Bomber. After World War Two had ended Bombs started being placed around New York City. At first the bombs did not...

On July 4th 1914 an explosion randomly went off at an unassuming apartment building on Lexington Avenue. 4 men were discovered dead and dozens more were injured. T he explosion would trigger an investigation into the attempted assassination of one of...

Elsie Siegel was the daughter of a prominent family in New York City. She would teach in Missionaries in lower Manhattan for Chinese people. One day her father received a telegram that she was in Washington D.C A Chinese man worried about his cousin who...

On Easter Sunday of 1937 a mentally deranged man named Robert Irwin would go to the home of the Gedeon family. He would go there seeking one of the daughters Ethel Gedeon, whom he was in love with. After not having the feelings reciprocated and finding...

Benjamin Nathan was a wealthy Jewish Businessman who was a prominent member of the New York Stock Exchange. He owned a home in the city on 23rd street. He also owned a summer home in Morristown, New Jersey. On won fateful night on July 28th 1870...

Political and Religious assassinations can create chaos among entire countries and groups of people of different beliefs and ideology. One such assassination was that of Armenian Archbishop Leon Tourian. In this episode we discuss the murder of the...

In May of 2004 a young Julliard Student named Sara Fox would go for a run and never return. She was reported missing and for days the NYPD and volunteers searched the parks and asked everyone in her Inwood neighborhood if they had seen Sara.Days later...

30 years ago in March of 1990 a fire broke out in the Happy Land Night Club in the Bronx. The fire was started by Julio Gonzalez a Cuban immigrant who had a fight with his girlfriend of eight years. During the argument a bouncer kicked out...

In the 1910s emerging Italian gangs were planning to take over the rackets of New York City. You had the Morrello Family Mafia in East Harlem and the Camorra Gangs in Brooklyn. Ironically the two factions would starts as allies in ridding the New York...

Nancy Spungen was a troubled girl from the Philadelphia suburbs who dropped out of college and moved to New York City. Upon her arrival she became a well known groupie in the city's emerging punk rock scene. She became a known prostitute and junkie...