Episode 237

The Heroic Widow And The Bloodthirsty Bandits: A frail Mexican woman rides a burro through hours of anguish to save her kidnapped American benefactor.

Murder In The Palm Of His Hand: When a Kentucky divorcee shows up with four bullet holes in her back, police turn to the old paraffin test to eliminate suspects and see through alibis.

The Ingenious Bluebeard of Kensal Rise: The silver-tongued George Albert Crossman sure had a way with the ladies. He had three of them living in one house, each oblivious to the real nature of his relationship with the others. You know that’s not gonna end well.

The Corpse In The Oversize Trunk: Across the channel in France, police try to track down the mysterious body and the distinctive trunk that it was hidden in.

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AN EYE FOR AN EYE --

A special edition of Yesterday’s News exploring the criminal justice system at its most extreme: Inflicting the Death Penalty...

The Tragedy Of Joyce Joan Shouse

Episode 236 is a down and dirty story of a negligent mother, a sexually frustrated hunchback, and one terrible night in a hotel cafe. There’s a lot of blame to go around on this one.

Culled from the historical pages of the Louisville Courier Journal and other newspapers of the era.

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YESTERDAY’S NEWS --

Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told from historic newspapers in the golden age of yellow journalism...

The Case Of The Deadly Bon-Bons

Just about every sensational murder case is hailed as too strange for fiction or the most remarkable in history, but episode 235 really is unique, a murder inflicted on two persons unknown to the assailant from a distance of nearly 3,000 miles. Add into that the usual sleazy scandals, and this one is ripe for your horror and indignation.

Culled from the historical pages of the San Francisco Call, San Francisco Chronicle, The Wilmington Delaware Morning News and other newspapers of the era.

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UNSOLVED:

A special edition of Yesterday’s News exploring one of history’s most baffling murder mysteries.

The Search For The Sheba Bandit

Episode 234 is not only a murder mystery, but it also explores the history of attitudes regarding alternative lifestyles. Now that we’re living in an age where gender is a fluid thing, it’s interesting to hear how the police and the press respond when the main suspect doesn’t quite fit into the sexual norms of nearly a century past.

Culled from the historic pages of the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers of the era.

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Case of the Smoking Corpse: When a young man stumbles upon an smoking corpse, police not only solve a murder but break up a caper to rid the banks of all the cash in Indianapolis, starting with a clue from a horseshoe.

A Clue At The Kitchen Window (The Strangulation in Apartment 16): From the classic pages of True Detective Magazine, a young man discovers a girl he just picked up dead in her apartment. He has an alibi and there are many leads to follow, but the young man’s story doesn’t sit right with some of the detectives on the case. True Detective Magazine, November 1948 (vol. 50; no. 2).

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YESTERDAY’S NEWS --

Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told from historic newspapers in the golden age of yellow journalism...

Jealous Husband Murders Rival, Wounds Wife

Episode 232 is really just your average love triangle gone awry, but there are mysteries to be solved here, and the real reason I like this story is that the bad girl in this case is not the instigator, but a survivor, the victim of a jealous husband, a strong Southern woman with flair and flaws of her own.

Culled from the historic pages of the Pittsburgh Post, the Pittsburgh Daily Press and other newspapers of the era.

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The Avondale Horror

Episode 231 is a dark, dark tale of what happens when the population doesn’t die fast enough to keep the medical schools supplied with cadavers for dissecting: The resurrectionists start hitting people over the head to hasten the process and get their points. The reporting also includes some interesting stories about the craft of the grave robber.

Culled from the historic pages of the Cincinnati Enquirer and other newspapers of the era.



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PULP NONFICTION --

A celebration of the pioneers of true crime...

Sabella Nitti Gets Almost Pretty

Episode 230 turned out to be the exception to the rule in the 1920s, when a woman not only gets convicted of murder, but also faces execution for her alleged crime. Public indignation and sympathy for the defendant were both so inflamed that it becomes part of the story.

Culled from historic pages of the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers of the era, featuring reporting and commentary by legendary Chicago journalist Genevieve Forbes Herrick, whose contributions will be read by guest voice Susan Ferman.

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YESTERDAY’S NEWS --

Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told from historic newspapers in the golden age of yellow journalism...

The Tribulation Of Meda Dudgeon Hodell

Episode 229 is a rich tale from the swamplands of Michigan, an ever-changing story that includes a faked suicide, a pair of murders, an attempted double lynching, confessions out the wazoo, as well as charges of police corruption and coercion, even a couple of ghost stories, all centered on a simple 20-year-old country girl, the bride of a much older man. Yeah, it’s that kind of country.

Culled from the historic pages of the Detroit Free Press and other newspapers of the era.

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UNSOLVED:

A special edition of Yesterday’s News exploring one of history’s most baffling murder mysteries.

Vivian Gordon’s Final Caper

Though the body was found in the Bronx, Episode 228 is a dark, twisting ride to the seedy  side of Broadway near the end of Prohibition, with a heavy dose of family drama swirling around a tale teeming with underworld villainy and police corruption. There were plenty of people with a motive to murder Vivian Gordon. Was it the cops? The crooks? Or some combination thereof? It’s a stumper.

Told from the historic pages of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and other newspapers of the era.

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