True Crime Historian

The Brownell-Bennett Dismemberments

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Episode 300 recounts a grisly pair of murders that are uncovered when New York City residents begin finding stray body parts around Brooklyn. The reporting isn’t terribly graphic, but there are a few ghastly descriptions. There’s your trigger warning.Culled from the historic pages of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the New York Daily News, and other newspapers of the era.

More Torso Murders

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Berthe Claiche’s Revenge 

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Episode 298 relates the sad story of Berthe Claiche, whom we met briefly in episode 297 when she gave a necklace to her cellmate, Josephine Terranova. I normally like to mix things up a bit, but these two tales have a lot in common, interesting back stories about immigrants struggling to adapt to American ways, courtroom theatrics, and sympathetic abused female defendants. Not that murder is ever a good idea, but if I were in their shoes... What do you think?

Culled from the historic pages of the New York Evening World, the New York Sun, and other newspapers of the era.

More Courtroom Shenanigans

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Josephine Terranova’s Revenge

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Episode 297 is a sad story about a young immigrant woman so abused by her relatives that when the truth is revealed to her newlywed husband, he breaks off the union. The teenage bride believes she has but one recourse: To do what God commands.Culled from the historic pages of the New York World and other newspapers of the era.

More Femmes Fatale

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Crime Club Founder Found Dead

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Episode 134 takes place five months and one city block from Episode 133, Tears Of The Weeping Willow. They are otherwise unrelated, except that both incidents begin with sexual assaults that end in murder. In this one, an up-and-coming author and recent bride makes the grave mistake of opening the door of her upscale Manhattan East Side apartment to a young man who wanted to talk about her love seat. Without many clues to go on, police pin their hopes on a stray piece of twine left at the scene of the crime. 

More Bathtub Murders

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Who Killed The Widow Short? 

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Episode 137 is the quirky story of the death of a beloved widow in Topeka, Kansas. She was old and in ill health, and no one suspected any foul play until her caretaker--allegedly her late husband’s nephew--suddenly confessed to the crime, but then the autopsy told another story entirely. Was Fred Fanning covering for someone? Or did someone have undue influence over his mind, if he had one? 

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The Complicated Death Of Starr Faithfull

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Episode 138 is the story that inspired the John O’Hara novel and the Elizabeth Taylor film “BUtterfield 8,” the sad, sordid tale of a beautiful girl with an evocative name and a traumatic past that put her on the road to ruin. The finding of her body on a Long Island beach led to probe deep into the social fabric of three cities on two continents. The telling of the story isn’t particularly graphic, but it does go into dark, dark places. Just so you know.

More Unsolved Cases

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The Murder Of William Desmond Taylor

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Episode 295 recaps one of Hollywood’s first and most sensational murder cases. After his death, the mysterious past life and personal entanglements of William Desmond Taylor lead in a dozen different directions, but none apparently toward a solution to the case. But there’s a reason the case aroused so much sensation.

The victim's mysterious past and a tangled web of relationships made the shocking murder impossible to solve.

Culled from the historic pages of the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers of the era.

More Falls From Grace

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Episode 294

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 Pulp Nonfiction

“I’d die before I’d let a man do anything to me,” she said. And she did.

Adapted from “Joanna And The Hillbilly Lover Boy,” by George Vedder Jones, True Detective, Vol.73 No.1, May 1960

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A Rampage In Richmond

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Episode 293 may start out like your ordinary love triangle gone awry, but the city of Richmond, Virginia is scandalized by the revelations that come out about the young people of their city during the shocking trial. When the flapper told the dapper young man that it was over between them, she set off a massacre.

More Love Triangles Gone Awry

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Historic Lady Killers

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Episode 292, in which we pay our respects to a quartet of murdered wives:

Sarah Yargus, murdered by her husband John Yargus, July 13, 1849;
Pauline Schmitt, murdered by her husband Germain Schmitt, January 21, 1919;
Ida Jech, murdered by her husband Frederic Jech, July 22, 1930;
Anna McDowell Gentry, murdered by her husband Sam Gentry, February 1, 1935.

Recorded live at Miami University Hamilton Downtown, October 29, 2018.



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