Old Timey Crimey

By oldtimeycrimey

True crime from 1950 and before with Amber & Kristy. Because crime is better in black & white.... more

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October 15, 2021 Old Timey Crimey #135: International Hauntings - “Raining Henrys”
Amber and Kristy take the ghost chat overseas, talking about haunted places in France and Norway. Locales include: Chateau de Commarque, Abbaye de Mortemer, Jardin des Tuileries, Akershus Fortress, Nidaros Cathedral, Hotel Union Oye, Frikesten Fortress, and Dalen the Fairytale Hotel.
Apologies for the echoes on the zoom call. We tried to fix it where we could.
You can find Chris at his other podcasts:
Short Story, Short Podcast
Dial-a-Crime
Zodiac Speaking
Or go read one of his fabulous zines: The Drink Tank, The Claims Department, Journey Planet.
Or just go find him on twitter or instagram!
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Sources:
The Travel by Elena Alston
Werewoofs
I love Bergen
Pinterest
Norwegian American
Minimalist Sometimes
Insider
Smithsonian
The Nordic Escape
Seeks Ghosts Blog
Wikipedia
Travel Versed
Paul McQueen on Culture Trip.
Commarque.
Abbaye de Mortemer.
The World’s Creepiest Places By Bob Curran, Ian Daniels
The Fairy Mythology by Thomas Keightley
Geri Walton on Geri Walton.com
Wiki: Tuileries Garden
Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Volume 43, 1889
Hauntings: The Shadowlands and Non-UFO Related Paranormal Material
Less Than Zero
Music:
Plucky Daisy by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4226-plucky-daisy
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Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-plan
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Breaktime by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3457-breaktime
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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1h 27min
October 08, 2021 Old Timey Crimey #134: The Hammersmith Ghost - “Perfectly Dead”
Spookyween continues with an examination of the Hammersmith Ghost, which terrorized people in a London village until someone paid the ultimate price. Plus, Kristy tells Amber the creepy, ridiculous details of an old superstition, the Dead Man's Hand.
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Sources:
Jane Alexander in Londonist
Claire Feikert-Ahalt on LOC Blog
Apparitions: or, the mystery of ghosts, hobgoblins, and haunted houses, by Joseph Taylor
Sara Luehmann on Hammersmith & Fulham
BBC.
Newgate Calendar
Wiki: Hammersmith
Ross Macfarlane at the Wellcome Library.
British and Irish Legal Information Institute.
Old Bailey Online.
George Dillard on History of Yesterday.
The Murder of the Hammersmith Ghost — 1804 | by Jed Graham | Genius in a Bottle
Frank Baker MD in The American Anthropologist Journal
Newspapers.com: The Times

Music:
Headless Horseman by Alexander Nakarada
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6740-headless-horseman
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-plan
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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1h 32min
October 01, 2021 Old Timey Crimey #133: Haunted Dolls - ”Disembodied Voices”
Spookyween commences with an examination of dolls that just so happen to be surrounded by weird activity. It's a total coincidence, clearly. Also a coincidence: that the podcast host wouldn't allow us to upload episode art.
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Sources:
The Robert The Doll Website.
Wiki: Richard Steiff, Teddy Bear, The Living Doll
Historic Houston
Haunted Rooms
Ella Morton. Slate.
Scott Eyman on Sun Sentinel.
Melissa Bastek on Horror Obsessive
Demonic Dolls: True Tales of Terrible Toys by John Harker
Old City Ghosts
LOC: Key West Citizen
Megan Grant on Bustle.
Brie Schwartz on Redbook.
Claire Reid on Ladbible.
Annabel Fenwick Elliott on the Daily Mail.
Xavier Piedra on The Lineup.
Bri Stokes on Buzzfeed.
Aaron Sagers on Den of Geek.
Harold the Haunted Doll.
Melissa Mason on Pedestrian.
Amy's Crypt.

Music:
Headless Horseman by Alexander Nakarada
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6740-headless-horseman
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-plan
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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1h 46min
September 24, 2021 Old Timey Crimey #132: Clementine Barnabet - ”Gray Linings”
A series of brutal murders terrorized a whole region of the U.S. in the 1910s. Were they really committed by one teenage girl?

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Sources:
The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery by Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James
Vance MacMcLaughlin, Homicide Research Working Groups Annual Symposium Proceedings
Findagrave
Wiki: St Martinsville, Lafayette
Charles Swenson on Camptown Cemetery
Stephanie Weber on Mental Floss.
Nina M. Hoffpauir on Acadiana Historical
Karen Corday on Grunge
Newspapers via LOC
New Iberia Enterprise and Independent Observer
Newspapers via Newspapers.com
Times-Democrat, Galveston Daily News, Weekly Advocate, Crowley Signal, Monroe News Star, Town Talk
Music:
Headless Horseman by Alexander Nakarada
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6740-headless-horseman
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-plan
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Breaktime by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3457-breaktime
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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1h 50min
September 17, 2021 Old Timey Crimey #131: Victor Licata - ”Dope Evil”
One night of horrifying violence that would have a reverberating effect on American attitudes toward marijuana for decades. Plus a rant, some snark, and reminiscing about the DARE program.
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Sources:
Paul Guzzo in the Tampa Bay Times, and also here, Inside Detective Magazine via Reefer Madness Museum, JAMA Psychiatry, Earl Perkins in Thursday Review, Laura Smith on Timeline, Assassin of Youth via Herb Museum, Crimedoor, Mara Bovsun on NY Daily news
Wiki: Ybor City. Assassin of Youth. Decriminalization of Marijuana.
Newspapers.com:
The Brainard Clipper, Knoxville Journal, Anniston Star, El Paso Times.
Chronicling America:
Times-News
Music:
Breaktime by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3457-breaktime
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Headless Horseman by Alexander Nakarada
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6740-headless-horseman
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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1h 39min
September 10, 2021 Old Timey Crimey #130: Mary Bateman - ”Else It Will Not Do”
The tale of Mary Bateman, aka the Yorkshire witch: a woman who was chronically incapable of going to the store. She also never met a scam she did like or a sheet she couldn't steal.
Sources:
Catherine Curzon on Mental Floss.
Extraordinary Life and Character of Mary Bateman, the Yorkshire Witch From the Earliest Thefts of her Infancy, Through a Most Awful Course of Crimes and Murders, Till Her Execution at the New Drop, Near the Castle of York, On Monday the 20th of March 1809 (12th Edition)
Vision of Britain Through Time
Ellen Castelow on Historic UK
Kelly Buchanan on LOC.
Wikipedia. Digoxin.
National Library of Scotland.
Hull Packet via Gale Primary Sources
Murderpedia
The Lineup
On Yorkshire Magazine
Newspapers.com:
Lancaster Gazette/Leeds Mercury
Morning Chronicle

Music:
Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-plan
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Tavern Loop One by Alexander Nakarada
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1h 29min
September 03, 2021 Old Timey Crimey #129: Linda Burfield Hazzard - ”Everyone‘s Worst Enema”
The harrowing, hungry-making tale of Linda Burfield Hazzard and her sanitarium, Starvation Heights.
Kristy reading "Pure Agony" by William Saroyan.
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Starvation Heights: A Ture Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest by Gregg Olsen
Fasting for the Cure of Disease by Linda Burfield Hazzard
Kathrine Beck on History Link.
Bess Lovejoy on Smithsonian Mag.
Findagrave.
Washington State Digital Archives
Trove:
Sydney Stock and Station Journal
Newspapers.com:
Oregon Daily Journal
Tacoma Daily Ledger
LOC:
Minneapolis Journal
St. Paul Globe

Music:
Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-plan
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Breaktime by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3457-breaktime
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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2h 15min
August 27, 2021 Old Timey Crimey #128: Butch Cassidy - "Beaver Weaver"
A man who knew how to plan, and also knew the value of a good thank you note. He left behind a legacy of mystery, unanswered questions, and love of pie.
Special thanks to Barb the Librarian for filling in for Amber! Follow her on twitter or insta.
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Sources:
Kathy Weiser on Legends of America. Wild West. Homestead Act. Wild Bunch.
Utah.com
Britannica
Most Notorious Podcast – Guest Charles Leerhsen
Wyoming State Archives
Wikipedia: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Newspapers.com
San Fran Call
Colorado Historic Newspapers:
Routt County Courier.
Steamboat Pilot.
The Craig Courier.
Cal Dig Newspaper Collection:
Sacramento Daily Union
San Diego Union.
Music:
Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-plan
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
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1h 38min
August 20, 2021 Old Timey Crimey #127: Brooke Hart - "Beep Beep"
A young man is kidnapped, and an entire town loses its mind.
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Sources:
Swift Justice: Murder and Vengeance in a California Town by Harry Farrell
Findagrave.
Nor Call Media Museum.
Newspapers.com:
Santa Rosa Press Democrat.
San Francisco Examiner
Brooklyn Times Union
Oakland Tribune
California Digital Newspaper Collection:
San Jose Mercury News
Amanda Sedlak-Hevener on Ranker
Bob Calhoun on SF Weekly.
Scott Herhold on Mercury News.
Carl Nolte on SF Gate.
Timothy Hughes on Rare and Early Newspapers.
Jack Major on Major Smolinski
Wikipedia.
Music:

Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-plan
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Breaktime by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3457-breaktime
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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2h 20min
August 13, 2021 Old Timey Crimey #126: Jessie Costello - "Jawdropper"
The woman who captivated America--and more importantly, twelve American men with a taste for barbershop quartets.
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Sources:
Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Rachel Monroe.
New England Historical Society.
Peabody. Wiki.
Findagrave.
Jack Major. Major Smolinski.
Undine. Strange Company.
Stephanie Almazan. The Lineup.
CDC 1C, CDC 2
Ontario Beekeepers’ Association.
Salem News.
Newspapers.com:
Rutland Daily Herald (RDH) 1. RDH 2. RDH 3. RDH 4. RDH 5. RDH 6. RDH 7. RDH 8, RDH 9, RDH 10, RDH 11
North Adams Transcript
LOC:
Waterbury Democrat

Music:
Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-plan
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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1h 47min

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