Sentenced To Die: When a large blond man, claiming to be a good samaritan, brings a badly beaten fellow into the hospital, it sparks an intricate game of cat and mouse that crosses several states and one international border.

No Judge Or Jury: The Case of the Missing Family. When the Haven family moved west for the mother’s health, they seemed to have left their farm in good hands. But where, exactly, did they go?

The Kahuna Murder Suicide Note: This story revolves around the translation of a suicide note that is both touching and hair-raising. Kahuna, by the way, is Hawaiian folk spiritualism, more or less comparable to a witch doctor or voodoo.

"Surf Shimmy" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

“Aloha Oe,” traditional Hawaiian Tune, performed by Barbara Browning, Creative Commons.

Theme Music by Dave Sams

Media management by Sean R. Jones

Production assistance by Emily Simer Braun

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 Murder of Fillipo Caruso ___

Episode 161 takes us on a trip across the Midwest, from the Italian slums of Chicago, where an Italian produce salesman meets a terrible fate at the hands of his countrymen, aboard a train to Pittsburgh, where his body was found several days later. In this story, the press and the police work together to break down the brotherhood of silence to crack this horrible crime.

Theme Music by Dave Sams ___

“Bushwick Tarantella” courtesy incompetech.com/ ___

Media management by Sean R. Jones ___

Production assistance by Emily Simer Braun

Talking Needles

Solving The Murder Of Anna Nosko. In the days before all the scientific CSI, intelligent investigators could still put together an airtight case based on unlikely forensic evidence. True Detective Mysteries, November, 1925.

Convicted By A Silk Thread

When a young girl is found half-naked and totally dead on a garden path, the police find their case hanging quite assuredly by a thread.

Death Wears A Blue Mask

On Sylvania’s Fifteenth Tee. A golf outing turns to tragedy when the party reaches the isolated fifteenth tee.

Theme Music by Dave Sams

Media management by Sean R. Jones

Production assistance by Emily Simer Braun

Minuet in Am by Henry Purcell and Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard Grieg, courtesy musopen.org

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...

Buck Ruxton’s Double Jigsaw Puzzle Murder

Episode 159 takes us once again to the British Isles, our first excursion into Scotland with the story of a physician (some accounts call him a gynecologist) accused of dismembering his wife and the nanny of their children, scattering their parts in a deep bowl-like valley near the town of Moffat, so named as it was known as a good spot for hiding stolen cattle.

Theme Music by Dave Sams

Media management by Sean R. Jones

Production assistance by Emily Simer Braun

Clips at True Crime Historian.com

A Town in the Grip of Terror: Amarillo, Texas, had been a calm place where little happened, but two shocking murders and three attacks changed it into a town in the grip of terror.

After listening to the story, visit www.truecrimehistorian.com/magazine10 to find out what happened to the scoundrels.

The Widow of Hallu: Police Inspector Lejeune had never seen a woman like her. She was fat to the point of obesity. Her eyes were round, child-like; her voice was a stifled whisper. But this huge simple woman had committed murder, had pounded the life from her husband in a fit of maniacal rage.

From the pages of the classic pulp magazine “True Detective,” Vol. 4, no. 1.

Theme Music by Dave Sams

Incidental music for “The Widow of Hallu” by Dana Boule from the album “Songs For Paris.” Used with permission.

Media management by Sean R. Jones

Production assistance by Emily Simer Braun

YESTERDAY’S NEWS --

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

The Life, Loves, And Crimes Of Emma LeDoux ___

Episode 157 tells the scandalous tale of a California woman who loved not wisely but too often. It’s hard to say from the newspaper reports and court records how the corpse in the trunk actually met its demise, but Emma Le Doux would never escape the consequences, for a time becoming only the second woman in California to be sentenced to the noose. ___

Theme Music by Dave Sams ___

Media management by Sean R. Jones___

Production assistance by Emily Simer Braun

A Trial Without MusicYESTERDAY’S NEWS --

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

The Scarsdale Apple Orchard Torch Murder Scandal ___

Episode 156 is the scandalous tale that begins with the charred body of a young woman, identified only by a mole on an unburned leg. Turns out she was married. And had a boyfriend. Police solve the case quickly, but the decision of the jury is to be whether it was a crime of passion, manslaughter, or premeditated first degree murder. Here are the facts. You decide. ___

Theme Music by Dave Sams ___

Media management by Sean R. Jones ___

Production assistance by Emily Simer Braun

Dorothy Ellingson Shoots Her Mother

Episode 155 sends us back into the jazz age with another tale of a bad girl gone worse. It seems like a cut and dry case, and it is, but there’s a great deal of drama between her arrest and the somewhat anti-climactic trial. By the way, the sheiks referred to in the story are not from the Middle East, but because of the popularity of popularity of the Rudolph Valentino film, “sheik” became jazz slang for good-looking playboy types.

Episode 154 brings us two tales of two fellows who find their lives out of control, and try to get it back, the wrong way. ___

“A Lifetime Of Hate: Thomas Fay Redfern’s Revenge.” After nearly 20 years of stewing about how one man did him wrong, at least in his own mind, a Louisville, Kentucky, native comes home to get his revenge. ___

“George Yerigan Shoots Up the Place,” tells the story of a man whose troubles actually began on the battlefields of France. He brings back many war souvenirs, and a good case of shell shock. ___

Theme Music by Dave Sams ___

"Widow's Theme" commissioned from Chuck Wiggins. ___

Media management by Sean R. Jones___

Production assistance by Emily Simer Braun___

YESTERDAY’S NEWS —

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

Peggy Nash Tells How She Killed Her Husband

Episode 153 involves a domestic dispute, shots fired. What drew me to this story, actually, was the patience of the woman charged. Wait til you hear all of the altercations she had with this man before she finally put an end to it. I’m not justifying homicide, but… well, I’ll tell the story, you supply your own horror, outrage, and indignation. They’ll talk about a previous incident in the family history, and as a bonus, I’ve included a short story at the end that covers some of that, so stay through past the credits.

Theme Music by Dave Sams

“Widow’s Theme” by Chuck Wiggins, used with permission.

“Jazz Baby” by Blanche Merrill and M.K. Jerome, 1919, and “Hall of the Mountain King” by Edvard Grieg, 1875, transcribed from public domain piano rolls.

Media management by Sean R. Jones

Production assistance by Emily Simer Braun