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 --

'Billy' Brown's Tragic Affair

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Today’s episode is a tragic story of young love gone bad. Real bad. So bad, in fact, that ended up with the body of a young girl found floating in an up-state New York lake one summer day in 1906. The man she came there went missing, but not for long. Was it a simple accident as Chester Gillette would claim, or a brutal, cold-blooded murder on a honeymoon trip? The answer may be in the tear-stained letters she wrote to him.

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Theme music by Dave Sams. Incidental music by Chuck Wiggins,

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AN EYE FOR AN EYE --Exploring the criminal justice system at its most extreme: Inflicting the death penalty --

San Quentin Executioner Amos Lunt --

In this episode we explore a different point of view of capital punishment, a behind the scenes look at the gallows of San Quentin Prison from the hangman.

One of the minor characters in the episode “The Belle in the Belfry” was the hangman, Amos Lunt, who seemed quite shaken by the event and was reported as “seeing spooks”.

That was enough to get me to look a little deeper into Amos Lunt and his descent into madness.

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Theme Music by Dave Sams

YESTERDAY'S NEWS__Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told from historic newspapers in the golden age of yellow journalism.__

In this episode, True Crime Historian takes you to the island paradise of Hawaii, not yet a state in 1932 when the wife of a naval officer stationed there is allegedly raped and beaten by four natives. A few months later, her mother, her husband and two of his enlisted men face a jury under the counsel of the famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow in a case that both sides claim puts the territory of Hawaii itself on trial.

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Music by Dave Sams

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PULP NONFICTION__A tribute to the pioneers of True Crime__

From "The Pinkertons: A Detective Dynasty" by Richard Wilmer Rowan

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After the Civil War, the Reno Brothers explored a new way to rob trains that inspired the James and Younger gangs. But even the wild and wily Reno brothers were no match for Allen Pinkerton and his detectives. Although it takes place in Indiana, this story has the trappings of a tale of the Old West: Daring robberies, fugitives from justice, clever arrests, and a final showdown in the New Albany jail.

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Music by Dave Sams

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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 Escapes and Escapades of Winnie Ruth Judd

In the fall of 1931, Phoenix resident shows up in a Los Angeles train depot trying to claim three trunks that she had shipped there. The clerks wouldn’t let her take the trunks because of the foul odor emanating from them. Winnie Ruth Judd said she’d go get the key so they could see there was nothing nefarious in her luggage. She was eventually sentenced to death for the murder of her two best friends, though she would claim insanity. And self defense.

Theme music by Dave Sams

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Crane Neck Nugent, Prohibition TriggerThe Gangster Chronicles
Book Two, Chapter Six
__Crane Neck gets arrested in a Florida speakeasy, then is quickly in the wind again. Meanwhile, the hunt for his former partner and archenemy Bob Zwick continues. When Zwick’s reign of terror finally ends, details of their worst exploits are revealed in court.
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Music by Dave Sams
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EXTRA! Edition___When I'm researching a story, I always keep my eye out for interesting headlines to see if they lead me to interesting murder cases.

__One of the most frustrating things is when I find a good headline and a compelling story, but I can't find any follow-up or back story and there's just not enough information available to make a good episode.

__Still, some of them are too good not to share, so I've decided to start putting out occasional "EXTRA!" Editions of some of these orphan newspaper clippings.

__This one has all the makings for a really sleazy tale of adultery, betrayal, and of course MURDER!

__But alas, this is the only article I could find on it.

__It certainly left me wanting to know more about this drama.

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Music by Dave Sams

Or, Death of a Composer- UNSOLVED

- A special edition of Yesterday’s News examining some of history’s most perplexing mysteries.

- This episode involves the body of a songwriter and real estate speculator found tied to a chair with an expression of surprise frozen on his dead face and suspicions of suicide.

- Wait. What?

- Suicide tied to a chair?

- The evidence is so jumbled, police are at a loss to explain, but the backstory to the incident and a foray into the worlds of traveling musicians and actors, hints at motives deeply hidden, and possibly scandalous.

- This is one that will keep you guessing.

- Theme Music by Dave Sams

- Incidental music, "The Old Bachelor" by Henry Purcell, Creative Commons via musopen.org

- Sound effects via freesound.org

Crane Neck Nugent, Prohibition AssassinThe Gangster Chronicles 2.5
Crane Neck returns to Cincinnati to do a favor for his old boss, Fat Wrassman: Even the score for the hit on George Murphy. But it means going after his partner, Bob “The Fox” Zwick. You don’t want to miss the showdown in the streets of Cincinnati between Fat Wrassman and Detective Dutch Schafer.
- Music by Dave Sams
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Crane Neck Nugent, Prohibition TriggerThe Gangster Chronicles 2.4
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Crane Neck Nugent’s career included work with the gang of Fred “Killer” Burke of St. Louis, whom he got to know when they served together as machine gunners in World War I. While no one was ever charged with the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, it is generally agreed that Al Capone hired the Burke gang, whom he called his “American Boys,” to take down his rival Bugs Moran. In this episode, we’ll also hear about Burke’s murder of a policeman in Michigan a few months after the massacre, his capture two years later when some of this information came to light.

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