Old Blood Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:16:05 -0400 https://oldblood.buzzsprout.com en-us © 2026 Old Blood yes 3ce5d3fd-5980-530b-bc63-89e96d23848c oldbloodpodcast@gmail.com Old Blood episodic true The historical true-crime podcast that uncovers old blood with each new episode. Join us as a historian investigates history's most fascinating cases of true crime.

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Old Blood oldbloodpodcast@gmail.com https://storage.buzzsprout.com/k6zghag9e50r4t2erljgczvfgvx9?.jpg Old Blood https://oldblood.buzzsprout.com A Tell-Tale Murder: 1830 Salem & the Murder of Captain White A Tell-Tale Murder: 1830 Salem & the Murder of Captain White Salem, Massachusetts, is famous for its witch trials, but did you know that it also hosted a murder mystery so twisted that it inspired literary legends like Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne? The mystery began with an old ship captain murdered in his bed and ended with the deaths of three more prominent citizens. Was the motive love, greed, or something more sinister?


Sources: 

Brooks, Rebecca Beatrice. “The Murder of Captain Joseph White.” History of Massachusetts Blog. July 25, 2025. https://historyofmassachusetts.org/captain-joseph-white-murder/

“Captain Joseph White.” Salem Public Library. https://salempl.org/captain-joseph-white/

Curtis, Charles P. “The Young Devils and Dan’l Webster.” American Heritage, Vol. II, Issue 4. June, 1960.

Duke, Thomas. Celebrated Criminal Cases of America (San Francisco: The James H. Barry Company, 1910). 

Second trial of John Francis Knapp by a new jury: Recommenced at Salem, August 14, 1830, for the murder of Capt. Joseph White, before the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at a special session, commenced at Salem, July 20, 1830… (Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1830). 

Trial of George Crowninshield, J.J. Knapp, Jun. and John Francis Knapp. reported by John W. Whitman. (Boston: Beals and Homer, and Frances Ingraham, 1830.)

Lewis, Walker. “The Murder of Captain Joseph White: Salem, Massachusetts, 1830.” American Bar Association Journal. Vol. 54. May, 1968. Pp. 460-466.

Wagner, E. J., “A Murder in Salem.” Smithsonian Magazine. November 2010. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-murder-in-salem-64885035/


Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston



]]> Salem, Massachusetts, is famous for its witch trials, but did you know that it also hosted a murder mystery so twisted that it inspired literary legends like Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne? The mystery began with an old ship captain murdered in his bed and ended with the deaths of three more prominent citizens. Was the motive love, greed, or something more sinister?


Sources: 

Brooks, Rebecca Beatrice. “The Murder of Captain Joseph White.” History of Massachusetts Blog. July 25, 2025. https://historyofmassachusetts.org/captain-joseph-white-murder/

“Captain Joseph White.” Salem Public Library. https://salempl.org/captain-joseph-white/

Curtis, Charles P. “The Young Devils and Dan’l Webster.” American Heritage, Vol. II, Issue 4. June, 1960.

Duke, Thomas. Celebrated Criminal Cases of America (San Francisco: The James H. Barry Company, 1910). 

Second trial of John Francis Knapp by a new jury: Recommenced at Salem, August 14, 1830, for the murder of Capt. Joseph White, before the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at a special session, commenced at Salem, July 20, 1830… (Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1830). 

Trial of George Crowninshield, J.J. Knapp, Jun. and John Francis Knapp. reported by John W. Whitman. (Boston: Beals and Homer, and Frances Ingraham, 1830.)

Lewis, Walker. “The Murder of Captain Joseph White: Salem, Massachusetts, 1830.” American Bar Association Journal. Vol. 54. May, 1968. Pp. 460-466.

Wagner, E. J., “A Murder in Salem.” Smithsonian Magazine. November 2010. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-murder-in-salem-64885035/


Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston



]]> Old Blood Buzzsprout-19541234 Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0700 2747 6 83 full true Fighting Irish: The Murder of Madge Oberholtzer and Death to the Klan Fighting Irish: The Murder of Madge Oberholtzer and Death to the Klan The Ku Klux Klan controlled the state of Indiana in 1924. They believed themselves invincible and were moving to expand their organization when they encountered resistance from Irish Catholic Notre Dame students. Notre Dame students halted the Klan’s advances in South Bend, Indiana, but it was Madge Oberholtzer who killed the Klan for good.


Sources: 

“A Clash Over Catholicism.” University of Notre Dame. August, 2018. https://stories.nd.edu/stories/a-clash-over-catholicism/

“The Dying Declaration of Madge Oberholtzer.” Famous Trials by Professor Douglas O. Linder. https://www.famous-trials.com/stephenson/86-dyingdeclaration

Egan, Timothy. Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (New York: Viking, 2023).

Kahler, Abbott. “‘Murder Wasn’t Very Pretty’: The Rise and Fall of D. C. Stephenson” Smithsonian Magazine. August 30, 2012. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/murder-wasnt-very-pretty-the-rise-and-fall-of-dc-stephenson-18935042/

Milz, Mary. “How Notre Dame Students Battled the Klan 100 Years Ago.” Indianapolis Monthly. May 16, 2024. https://www.indianapolismonthly.com/arts-and-culture/how-notre-dame-students-battled-the-klan-100-years-ago/

Tucker, Todd. Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan (Chicago: Loyola Press, 2004).


Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston



]]> The Ku Klux Klan controlled the state of Indiana in 1924. They believed themselves invincible and were moving to expand their organization when they encountered resistance from Irish Catholic Notre Dame students. Notre Dame students halted the Klan’s advances in South Bend, Indiana, but it was Madge Oberholtzer who killed the Klan for good.


Sources: 

“A Clash Over Catholicism.” University of Notre Dame. August, 2018. https://stories.nd.edu/stories/a-clash-over-catholicism/

“The Dying Declaration of Madge Oberholtzer.” Famous Trials by Professor Douglas O. Linder. https://www.famous-trials.com/stephenson/86-dyingdeclaration

Egan, Timothy. Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (New York: Viking, 2023).

Kahler, Abbott. “‘Murder Wasn’t Very Pretty’: The Rise and Fall of D. C. Stephenson” Smithsonian Magazine. August 30, 2012. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/murder-wasnt-very-pretty-the-rise-and-fall-of-dc-stephenson-18935042/

Milz, Mary. “How Notre Dame Students Battled the Klan 100 Years Ago.” Indianapolis Monthly. May 16, 2024. https://www.indianapolismonthly.com/arts-and-culture/how-notre-dame-students-battled-the-klan-100-years-ago/

Tucker, Todd. Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan (Chicago: Loyola Press, 2004).


Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston



]]> Old Blood Buzzsprout-19466501 Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0700 3204 6 82 full true Lizzie Did It!: A Conclusion to the Borden Murders Lizzie Did It!: A Conclusion to the Borden Murders Historian Alyse takes the Borden murders very seriously. Join her as she investigates primary sources from 1892 and concludes the Lizzie Borden mystery once and for all.

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Shoutout to the bird who decided to be a special guest on this episode.

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Sources: For this episode, I read only primary sources. These include witness statements, preliminary hearing and inquest documents, and trial transcripts.

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Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston

]]> Historian Alyse takes the Borden murders very seriously. Join her as she investigates primary sources from 1892 and concludes the Lizzie Borden mystery once and for all.

​

Shoutout to the bird who decided to be a special guest on this episode.

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Sources: For this episode, I read only primary sources. These include witness statements, preliminary hearing and inquest documents, and trial transcripts.

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Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston

]]> Old Blood Buzzsprout-19453232 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0700 4704 6 81 full true The Raymond Ripper: The Brutal 1906 Murder of James Logan The Raymond Ripper: The Brutal 1906 Murder of James Logan In 1906, the mutilated body of young sales clerk James Logan was discovered on Southern California’s grandest resort hotel, The Raymond. When an African American tailor was accused of the crime, the city’s allegiances split. Half of the city of Pasadena wanted the man condemned to death, but the other half fought to save him, believing he had been framed.

Sources:

Biery, Bryan. “The Princes: Pasadena’s Regal Family.” Colorado Boulevard Newspaper. 12 March, 2024. https://www.coloradoboulevard.net/the-princes-pasadenas-regal-family/

Lindquist, Heather. “‘Exploring Pasadena’s Past’- The Heart of Pasadena’s Communities of Color.” Pasadena Museum of History. 18 June, 2022. https://pasadenahistory.org/exploring-pasadenas-past-the-heart-of-pasadenas-communities-of-color/

Liu, Yan. “A full moon in another land: The Moon Bridge in the Japanese garden of the Huntington Library.” Frontiers of Architectural Research Vol. 9 Iss. 3, September 2020. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095263520300182#abs0010

Most of this episode consists of original research, drawn from the newspapers listed below.

Newspapers: 

California Eagle

Liberator (Los Angeles)

Long Beach Tribune

Los Angeles Evening Express

Los Angeles Evening Post Record

Los Angeles Herald

Los Angeles Times

Pasadena Star News

Pasadena Post

Sacramento Daily Union

San Francisco Daily Call

South Pasadenan

South Pasadena Record


Music: Edvard Grieg's 1906 'Butterfly' is this episode's background music. Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston. 


For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com






]]> In 1906, the mutilated body of young sales clerk James Logan was discovered on Southern California’s grandest resort hotel, The Raymond. When an African American tailor was accused of the crime, the city’s allegiances split. Half of the city of Pasadena wanted the man condemned to death, but the other half fought to save him, believing he had been framed.

Sources:

Biery, Bryan. “The Princes: Pasadena’s Regal Family.” Colorado Boulevard Newspaper. 12 March, 2024. https://www.coloradoboulevard.net/the-princes-pasadenas-regal-family/

Lindquist, Heather. “‘Exploring Pasadena’s Past’- The Heart of Pasadena’s Communities of Color.” Pasadena Museum of History. 18 June, 2022. https://pasadenahistory.org/exploring-pasadenas-past-the-heart-of-pasadenas-communities-of-color/

Liu, Yan. “A full moon in another land: The Moon Bridge in the Japanese garden of the Huntington Library.” Frontiers of Architectural Research Vol. 9 Iss. 3, September 2020. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095263520300182#abs0010

Most of this episode consists of original research, drawn from the newspapers listed below.

Newspapers: 

California Eagle

Liberator (Los Angeles)

Long Beach Tribune

Los Angeles Evening Express

Los Angeles Evening Post Record

Los Angeles Herald

Los Angeles Times

Pasadena Star News

Pasadena Post

Sacramento Daily Union

San Francisco Daily Call

South Pasadenan

South Pasadena Record


Music: Edvard Grieg's 1906 'Butterfly' is this episode's background music. Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston. 


For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com






]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-17900890 Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:00:00 -0700 6419 history, true crime, california history, los angeles, pasadena, earl rogers, perry mason, hahn, will prince 5 80 full true Sexy Death Mystery: The Death of Starr Faithfull Sexy Death Mystery: The Death of Starr Faithfull A sexy death mystery unfolded in 1931 New York City, when a socialite washed up on the shores of Long Island. Was her death an accident, a suicide, or foul play at the hands of the many prominent men she knew?


Sources:

Allhoff, Fred. “The Starr Faithfull Enigma.” Liberty. June 12, 1939. Pp. 20-23.

“Five Starr Faithfull.” TIME. June 29, 1931. https://time.com/archive/6747467/the-press-five-starr-faithfull/

Goodman, Jonathan. The Passing of Starr Faithfull (Kent: The Kent State University Press, 1996).

Kennedy, Helen. “Dangerous Game: Starr Faithfull, 1931” New York Daily News, 1999.

Markey, Morris. “The Mysterious Death of Starr Faithfull” in The Aspirin Age: 1919-1941. Ed. Isabel Leighton (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949).

Nash, Jay Robert. Open Files: A narrative encyclopedia of the world’s greatest unsolved crimes (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983).

“Starr Crossed.” Strange Company. March 14, 2016. https://strangeco.blogspot.com/2016/03/starr-crossed.html

Verdict Press. Crimes of Passion (London: Verdict Press, 1975).

Newspapers: 

Brooklyn Standard-Union

Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)

Indianapolis Times

Nassau Daily Review

New York Times

Washington Times


Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston


For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com





]]> A sexy death mystery unfolded in 1931 New York City, when a socialite washed up on the shores of Long Island. Was her death an accident, a suicide, or foul play at the hands of the many prominent men she knew?


Sources:

Allhoff, Fred. “The Starr Faithfull Enigma.” Liberty. June 12, 1939. Pp. 20-23.

“Five Starr Faithfull.” TIME. June 29, 1931. https://time.com/archive/6747467/the-press-five-starr-faithfull/

Goodman, Jonathan. The Passing of Starr Faithfull (Kent: The Kent State University Press, 1996).

Kennedy, Helen. “Dangerous Game: Starr Faithfull, 1931” New York Daily News, 1999.

Markey, Morris. “The Mysterious Death of Starr Faithfull” in The Aspirin Age: 1919-1941. Ed. Isabel Leighton (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949).

Nash, Jay Robert. Open Files: A narrative encyclopedia of the world’s greatest unsolved crimes (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983).

“Starr Crossed.” Strange Company. March 14, 2016. https://strangeco.blogspot.com/2016/03/starr-crossed.html

Verdict Press. Crimes of Passion (London: Verdict Press, 1975).

Newspapers: 

Brooklyn Standard-Union

Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)

Indianapolis Times

Nassau Daily Review

New York Times

Washington Times


Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston


For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com





]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-17800415 Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:00:00 -0700 3738 history, true crime, new york, new york history, long island, starr faithfull, mystery, murder mystery, historical true crime 5 79 full true Whiskey & Arsenic: The First Murder By Mail Whiskey & Arsenic: The First Murder By Mail The first ‘Murder by Mail’ was sent to Mrs. Josephine Barnaby in 1891 in the form of an arsenic-laced whiskey bottle. When she and a friend drank the whiskey, both fell violently ill. The resulting murder trial would tear families apart for decades to come.


Sources:

Conrad, Barnaby. A Revolting Transaction (New York: Arbor House, 1983).

Day, Martin C. Death in the Mail (Providence: The Journal Print, 1892).

Galpern, Jennifer L. “Happy New Year…in April?” The Rhode Island Historical Society. 13 April, 2017. https://www.rihs.org/happy-new-year-in-april/

Newspapers: 

Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)

Fort Worth Gazette

Morning Journal and Courier (New Haven)

Narragansett Herald

New York Times

Pawtucket Tribune

Providence News

Portland Daily Press

Rock Island Daily Argus


Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston


For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com



 

]]> The first ‘Murder by Mail’ was sent to Mrs. Josephine Barnaby in 1891 in the form of an arsenic-laced whiskey bottle. When she and a friend drank the whiskey, both fell violently ill. The resulting murder trial would tear families apart for decades to come.


Sources:

Conrad, Barnaby. A Revolting Transaction (New York: Arbor House, 1983).

Day, Martin C. Death in the Mail (Providence: The Journal Print, 1892).

Galpern, Jennifer L. “Happy New Year…in April?” The Rhode Island Historical Society. 13 April, 2017. https://www.rihs.org/happy-new-year-in-april/

Newspapers: 

Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)

Fort Worth Gazette

Morning Journal and Courier (New Haven)

Narragansett Herald

New York Times

Pawtucket Tribune

Providence News

Portland Daily Press

Rock Island Daily Argus


Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston


For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com



 

]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-17626986 Mon, 01 Sep 2025 08:00:00 -0700 3222 history, true crime, denver, rhode island, providence, barnaby, murder, mystery, poison 5 78 full true Murder Pure & Simple: Love and Violence in 1869 New York Murder Pure & Simple: Love and Violence in 1869 New York A fatal 1869 shooting at the New York Tribune led to a contentious debate about love, divorce, and women’s rights in America. 

Sources:

Cazauran, A. R. The Trial of Daniel McFarland for the Shooting of Albert D. Richardson (New York: W. E. Hilton, 1870).

Cooper, George. Lost Love: A True Story of Passion, Murder, and Justice in Old New York (Pantheon Books: New York, 1994). 

Ganz, Melissa J. “Wicked Women and Veiled Ladies: Gendered Narratives of the McFarland-Richardson Tragedy.” Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. Vol. 9. 1997.

McAvey, Marion. “Abby Sage Richardson.” EBSCO. 2023. https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/abby-sage-richardson

Richardson, Abby Sage. Old Love Letters (Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1883).

The Richardson-McFarland Tragedy: Containing all the letters and other interesting facts and documents not before published. (Barclay & Co. Publishers: Philadelphia, 1870).

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. “Speech on the McFarland Trial, Apollo Hall,” Speeches & Writings File. May 17, 1870

Wilhelm, Robert. “The Richardson-McFarland Tragedy.” Murder By Gaslight. 10 July, 2010. https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2010/07/richardson-mcfarland-tragedy.html

Newspapers:

Buffalo Express

New York Times

New York Tribune


Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston


For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com







]]> A fatal 1869 shooting at the New York Tribune led to a contentious debate about love, divorce, and women’s rights in America. 

Sources:

Cazauran, A. R. The Trial of Daniel McFarland for the Shooting of Albert D. Richardson (New York: W. E. Hilton, 1870).

Cooper, George. Lost Love: A True Story of Passion, Murder, and Justice in Old New York (Pantheon Books: New York, 1994). 

Ganz, Melissa J. “Wicked Women and Veiled Ladies: Gendered Narratives of the McFarland-Richardson Tragedy.” Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. Vol. 9. 1997.

McAvey, Marion. “Abby Sage Richardson.” EBSCO. 2023. https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/abby-sage-richardson

Richardson, Abby Sage. Old Love Letters (Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1883).

The Richardson-McFarland Tragedy: Containing all the letters and other interesting facts and documents not before published. (Barclay & Co. Publishers: Philadelphia, 1870).

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. “Speech on the McFarland Trial, Apollo Hall,” Speeches & Writings File. May 17, 1870

Wilhelm, Robert. “The Richardson-McFarland Tragedy.” Murder By Gaslight. 10 July, 2010. https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2010/07/richardson-mcfarland-tragedy.html

Newspapers:

Buffalo Express

New York Times

New York Tribune


Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston


For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com







]]> Old Blood Buzzsprout-17523732 Mon, 11 Aug 2025 08:00:00 -0700 3920 5 77 full true Death House: The Life & Crimes of George Hassell Death House: The Life & Crimes of George Hassell Texas authorities arrested George Hassell on Christmas Day of 1926 after his wife and her eight children went missing. George cried, “I did it,” then confessed to the murder of another family ten years prior in California. This is his story.

Sources:

Churchill, Marlowe J. “Hassell offered detailed confession.” The Eastern New Mexico News. 3 September, 2019. https://www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2019/09/04/news/hassell-offered-detailed-confession/162888.html

“George J Hassell’s Murderous Ways.” Texas Genealogy Trails. https://genealogytrails.com/tex/panhandle/parmer/news_crime_hassell_murders_story.htm

Guy, Fiona. “Family Annihilation: The Crimes and Psychology of Familicide.” Crime Traveller. 13 May, 2019. https://www.crimetraveller.org/2019/05/family-annihilation-crimes-psychology-familicide/

Hanlon, R.E., Brook, M., Demery, J.A. and Cunningham, M.D. (2016), Domestic Homicide: Neuropsychological Profiles of Murderers Who Kill Family Members and Intimate Partners. J Forensic Sci, 61: S163-S170. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.12908

Ortlieb, Tracy Collins. “Inside the Mind of ‘Family Annihilators.’” 19 January 2023. https://www.parents.com/parenting/dynamics/inside-the-mind-of-family-annihilators/

Roth, Mitchel P. Man with the Killer Smile: The Life & Crimes of a Serial Mass Murderer (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2022).

Wight, Pam. “‘Death House’ Slayings gain attention.”24, February, 2007. https://www.whittierdailynews.com/2007/02/24/death-house-slayings-gain-attention/


Newspapers:

Douglas Daily Dispatch

Los Angeles Times


Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston


For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com





]]> Texas authorities arrested George Hassell on Christmas Day of 1926 after his wife and her eight children went missing. George cried, “I did it,” then confessed to the murder of another family ten years prior in California. This is his story.

Sources:

Churchill, Marlowe J. “Hassell offered detailed confession.” The Eastern New Mexico News. 3 September, 2019. https://www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2019/09/04/news/hassell-offered-detailed-confession/162888.html

“George J Hassell’s Murderous Ways.” Texas Genealogy Trails. https://genealogytrails.com/tex/panhandle/parmer/news_crime_hassell_murders_story.htm

Guy, Fiona. “Family Annihilation: The Crimes and Psychology of Familicide.” Crime Traveller. 13 May, 2019. https://www.crimetraveller.org/2019/05/family-annihilation-crimes-psychology-familicide/

Hanlon, R.E., Brook, M., Demery, J.A. and Cunningham, M.D. (2016), Domestic Homicide: Neuropsychological Profiles of Murderers Who Kill Family Members and Intimate Partners. J Forensic Sci, 61: S163-S170. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.12908

Ortlieb, Tracy Collins. “Inside the Mind of ‘Family Annihilators.’” 19 January 2023. https://www.parents.com/parenting/dynamics/inside-the-mind-of-family-annihilators/

Roth, Mitchel P. Man with the Killer Smile: The Life & Crimes of a Serial Mass Murderer (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2022).

Wight, Pam. “‘Death House’ Slayings gain attention.”24, February, 2007. https://www.whittierdailynews.com/2007/02/24/death-house-slayings-gain-attention/


Newspapers:

Douglas Daily Dispatch

Los Angeles Times


Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston


For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com





]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-17392728 Mon, 21 Jul 2025 09:00:00 -0700 3544 texas, california, george hassell, farwell, whittier, family annihilator, familicide, serial killer, mass murder 5 76 full true The Beautiful & The Bestial: A Courtesan, a Prince, and a Murder at the Savoy The Beautiful & The Bestial: A Courtesan, a Prince, and a Murder at the Savoy A deadly shooting at London’s extravagant Savoy Hotel in 1923 prompted a murder trial that pitted East against West. Was the tragedy the result of a pharaoh’s curse or merely the consequence of a lover’s quarrel?


Sources:

Bland, Lucy.  “Mme Fahmy’s Vindication: Orientalism, miscegenation fears, and female fantasy,” in Modern Women on Trial: Sexual Transgression in the Age of the Flapper (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013). Pp. 132-175

Leake, Natasha. “How a beguiling French courtesan captured the heart of a young British prince, in a love affair that scandalised the Royal Family.” The Tatler. 19 February 2023. https://www.tatler.com/article/prince-harrys-memoir-love-affair-edward-viii-and-french-courtesan

Rose, Andrew. The Woman Before Wallis: Prince Edward, the Parisian Courtesan, and the Perfect Murder (New York: Picador, 2013).

“The Perfect Murder.” Royalty Magazine. Vol. 23/01. https://www.royalty-magazine.com/books-film/the-perfect-murder-2.html

Verdict Press. Crimes of Passion (London: Verdict Press, 1975).


Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston


For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com






]]> A deadly shooting at London’s extravagant Savoy Hotel in 1923 prompted a murder trial that pitted East against West. Was the tragedy the result of a pharaoh’s curse or merely the consequence of a lover’s quarrel?


Sources:

Bland, Lucy.  “Mme Fahmy’s Vindication: Orientalism, miscegenation fears, and female fantasy,” in Modern Women on Trial: Sexual Transgression in the Age of the Flapper (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013). Pp. 132-175

Leake, Natasha. “How a beguiling French courtesan captured the heart of a young British prince, in a love affair that scandalised the Royal Family.” The Tatler. 19 February 2023. https://www.tatler.com/article/prince-harrys-memoir-love-affair-edward-viii-and-french-courtesan

Rose, Andrew. The Woman Before Wallis: Prince Edward, the Parisian Courtesan, and the Perfect Murder (New York: Picador, 2013).

“The Perfect Murder.” Royalty Magazine. Vol. 23/01. https://www.royalty-magazine.com/books-film/the-perfect-murder-2.html

Verdict Press. Crimes of Passion (London: Verdict Press, 1975).


Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston


For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com






]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-17282515 Mon, 30 Jun 2025 08:00:00 -0700 3249 history, true crime, historical true crime, egypt, london, paris, courtesan, prince edward, fahmy, cairo, murder, orientalism 5 75 full true If Murder There Was: Typhoid & Tragedy in 1909 Missouri If Murder There Was: Typhoid & Tragedy in 1909 Missouri Six nurses threatened to storm out of the Swope mansion in Missouri at the height of a 1909 typhoid epidemic, claiming that “people are being murdered in this house.” Was the Swope family dying of typhoid, or was it something more nefarious?


Sources:

Carus, W. Seth. Bioterrorism and Bicrimes: The Illicit Use of Biological Agents since 1900 (Amsterdam: Fredonia Books, 2002).

Deel, Karla. Storied & Scandalous Kansas City: A History of Corruption, Mischief and a Whole Lot of Booze.(Lanham, MD, Globe Pequot, 2019).

Duke, Thomas Samuel. Celebrated Criminal Cases of America (The James H Barry Company, 1910). 

Fowler, Giles. Deaths on Pleasant Street (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2009).

Martin, Mackenzie. “The strange case of Mr. Swope and Dr. Hyde: Kansas City’s great unsolved murder mystery.” KCUR. https://www.kcur.org/history/2023-10-25/thomas-swope-park-murder-trial-bennett-hyde-kansas-city-mystery

“Medicine: Murders in Missouri.” TIME. 20 August, 1934. https://time.com/archive/6894959/medicine-murders-in-missouri/

Newspapers:

The Kansas City Star

St. Petersburg Times

St. Louis Globe Democrat

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Detroit Times

The Pittsburgh Press

The New York Times

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]]> Six nurses threatened to storm out of the Swope mansion in Missouri at the height of a 1909 typhoid epidemic, claiming that “people are being murdered in this house.” Was the Swope family dying of typhoid, or was it something more nefarious?


Sources:

Carus, W. Seth. Bioterrorism and Bicrimes: The Illicit Use of Biological Agents since 1900 (Amsterdam: Fredonia Books, 2002).

Deel, Karla. Storied & Scandalous Kansas City: A History of Corruption, Mischief and a Whole Lot of Booze.(Lanham, MD, Globe Pequot, 2019).

Duke, Thomas Samuel. Celebrated Criminal Cases of America (The James H Barry Company, 1910). 

Fowler, Giles. Deaths on Pleasant Street (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2009).

Martin, Mackenzie. “The strange case of Mr. Swope and Dr. Hyde: Kansas City’s great unsolved murder mystery.” KCUR. https://www.kcur.org/history/2023-10-25/thomas-swope-park-murder-trial-bennett-hyde-kansas-city-mystery

“Medicine: Murders in Missouri.” TIME. 20 August, 1934. https://time.com/archive/6894959/medicine-murders-in-missouri/

Newspapers:

The Kansas City Star

St. Petersburg Times

St. Louis Globe Democrat

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Detroit Times

The Pittsburgh Press

The New York Times

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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-17154621 Mon, 09 Jun 2025 08:00:00 -0700 4733 true crime, history, historical true crime, swope, kansas city, typhoid, poison, strychnine, cyanide, mystery, murder 5 74 full true Bullets for Ruth: The Wanderers & The Ragged Stranger Bullets for Ruth: The Wanderers & The Ragged Stranger Chicago crime reporters descended upon Ruth and Carl Wanderer’s Chicago home after the war hero’s wife was shot dead in a holdup at their front door. Who was the Ragged Stranger who assaulted them? And why did he have Carl Wanderer’s service weapon?


Sources:

Bigge, Lauren. “‘Shell Shock Treatments During World War I: A First Step Towards Modern Military Psychiatry.” National Museum of Health and Medicine. https://medicalmuseum.health.mil/index.cfm?p=media.news.article.2018.shell_shock_treatment

Eghigian, Greg. “ The First World War and the Legacy of Shellshock.” Vol. 31, No. 4. Psychiatric Times. 28 February, 2018.

Hecht, Ben. Charlie: The improbable Life & Times of Charles MacArthur (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957).

Lesy, Michael. Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007)

Murray, George in The Chicago Crime Book Ed. Albert Halper. (New York: The World Publishing Company, 1967).

Nash, Jay Robert. Bloodletters and Badmen: A Narrative Encyclopedia of American Criminals from the Pilgrims to the Present (New York: M. Evans & Company, 1973).

Schechter, Harold. Murderabilia: A History of Crime in 100 Objects (New York: Workman Publishing Co., 2023).

As well as articles from the Washington Times, The Manning Times, Richmond TImes-dispatch, Chicago Tribune.

And the Chicago Homicide database entry https://homicide.northwestern.edu/database/5270/


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]]> Chicago crime reporters descended upon Ruth and Carl Wanderer’s Chicago home after the war hero’s wife was shot dead in a holdup at their front door. Who was the Ragged Stranger who assaulted them? And why did he have Carl Wanderer’s service weapon?


Sources:

Bigge, Lauren. “‘Shell Shock Treatments During World War I: A First Step Towards Modern Military Psychiatry.” National Museum of Health and Medicine. https://medicalmuseum.health.mil/index.cfm?p=media.news.article.2018.shell_shock_treatment

Eghigian, Greg. “ The First World War and the Legacy of Shellshock.” Vol. 31, No. 4. Psychiatric Times. 28 February, 2018.

Hecht, Ben. Charlie: The improbable Life & Times of Charles MacArthur (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957).

Lesy, Michael. Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007)

Murray, George in The Chicago Crime Book Ed. Albert Halper. (New York: The World Publishing Company, 1967).

Nash, Jay Robert. Bloodletters and Badmen: A Narrative Encyclopedia of American Criminals from the Pilgrims to the Present (New York: M. Evans & Company, 1973).

Schechter, Harold. Murderabilia: A History of Crime in 100 Objects (New York: Workman Publishing Co., 2023).

As well as articles from the Washington Times, The Manning Times, Richmond TImes-dispatch, Chicago Tribune.

And the Chicago Homicide database entry https://homicide.northwestern.edu/database/5270/


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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-17031489 Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 3031 true crime, historical true crime, history, american history, ragged stranger, ptsd, shell shock, murder mystery, ben hecht, charles macarthur 5 73 full true Broken Pearl: The 1896 Beheading of Pearl Bryan Broken Pearl: The 1896 Beheading of Pearl Bryan A boy’s shortcut through a Kentucky fruit farm in 1896 uncovered the headless body of a woman, later identified as Pearl Bryan. How did she get there? Who killed her? And where is her head? 


Sources:

Gold, Rachel Benson. “Lessons from Before Roe: Will Past Be Prologue?”Vol. 6. Issue 1. Guttmacher Institute. https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2003/03/lessons-roe-will-past-be-prologue

The Mysterious Murder of Pearl Bryan, or: The Headless Horror. (Barclay & Co., 1896).

Wilhelm, Robert. So Far From Home: The Pearl Bryan Murder (Schroon Lake: Night Stick Press, 2021). And https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2012/01/mysteries-of-pearl-bryan.html

Young, Andrew. Unwanted: A Murder Mystery of the Gilded Age (Yardley: Westholme, 2016). And “Our Rich History: Shoe dealer solves ghastly murder of Pearl Bryan, found missing her head, in 1893.” Northern Kentucky Tribune. 17 August, 2020. https://nkytribune.com/2020/08/our-rich-history-shoe-dealer-solves-ghastly-murder-of-pearl-bryan-found-missing-her-head-in-1893/

The Most Notorious! Podcast Episode 248: The Murder of Pearl Bryan w/ Robert Wilhelm https://www.mostnotorious.com/2022/06/18/the-murder-of-pearl-bryan-w-robert-wilhelm/

As well as articles from the Dayton Daily News, the Evening Bulletin (Kentucky), the Indianapolis Journal, 


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]]> A boy’s shortcut through a Kentucky fruit farm in 1896 uncovered the headless body of a woman, later identified as Pearl Bryan. How did she get there? Who killed her? And where is her head? 


Sources:

Gold, Rachel Benson. “Lessons from Before Roe: Will Past Be Prologue?”Vol. 6. Issue 1. Guttmacher Institute. https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2003/03/lessons-roe-will-past-be-prologue

The Mysterious Murder of Pearl Bryan, or: The Headless Horror. (Barclay & Co., 1896).

Wilhelm, Robert. So Far From Home: The Pearl Bryan Murder (Schroon Lake: Night Stick Press, 2021). And https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2012/01/mysteries-of-pearl-bryan.html

Young, Andrew. Unwanted: A Murder Mystery of the Gilded Age (Yardley: Westholme, 2016). And “Our Rich History: Shoe dealer solves ghastly murder of Pearl Bryan, found missing her head, in 1893.” Northern Kentucky Tribune. 17 August, 2020. https://nkytribune.com/2020/08/our-rich-history-shoe-dealer-solves-ghastly-murder-of-pearl-bryan-found-missing-her-head-in-1893/

The Most Notorious! Podcast Episode 248: The Murder of Pearl Bryan w/ Robert Wilhelm https://www.mostnotorious.com/2022/06/18/the-murder-of-pearl-bryan-w-robert-wilhelm/

As well as articles from the Dayton Daily News, the Evening Bulletin (Kentucky), the Indianapolis Journal, 


Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston

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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-16913106 Mon, 28 Apr 2025 08:00:00 -0700 5015 history, true crime, Kentucky, Cincinnati, american history, pearl bryan, murder ballad, abortion 5 72 full true Fear No Evil: Ed Johnson & 1906 Tennessee Fear No Evil: Ed Johnson & 1906 Tennessee The 1906 assault of a white woman in Chattanooga led to a murder and the U.S. Supreme Court’s first and only intervention in a state criminal trial.

Sources:

Curriden, Mark and Phillips, Leroy Jr. Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching that Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism (Faber & Faber, 1999).

Hindley, Meredith. “Chattanooga versus the Supreme Court: The Strange Case of Ed Johnson.” National Endowment for the Humanities. Vol 35. No. 6. November/December 2014. https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2014/novemberdecember/feature/chattanooga-versus-the-supreme-court

Price, Eric. “Chattanooga dedicates memorial to Ed Johnson more than a century after mob-lynching.” ABC News Channel 9. 19 September, 2021. https://newschannel9.com/news/local/chattanooga-dedicates-memorial-to-ed-johnson-more-than-a-century-after-mob-lynching

Transcript of Record in U. S. Supreme Court in Case of U. S. v Shipp, Docket Original No. 5. (National Archives). 

Webb, Michael D. “‘God Bless You All-I Am Innocent’: Sheriff Joeseph F. Shipp, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the Lynching of Ed Johnson.”Tennessee Historical Quarterly. Vol. 58. No. 2. Summer 1999. pp. 156-179

White, J. Bliss. Biography and Achievements of the Colored Citizens of Chattanooga (Chattanooga, 1904).


As well as articles from the Chattanooga Times, Chattanooga News, Voice of the People (Atlanta), and the New York Times.

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]]> The 1906 assault of a white woman in Chattanooga led to a murder and the U.S. Supreme Court’s first and only intervention in a state criminal trial.

Sources:

Curriden, Mark and Phillips, Leroy Jr. Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching that Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism (Faber & Faber, 1999).

Hindley, Meredith. “Chattanooga versus the Supreme Court: The Strange Case of Ed Johnson.” National Endowment for the Humanities. Vol 35. No. 6. November/December 2014. https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2014/novemberdecember/feature/chattanooga-versus-the-supreme-court

Price, Eric. “Chattanooga dedicates memorial to Ed Johnson more than a century after mob-lynching.” ABC News Channel 9. 19 September, 2021. https://newschannel9.com/news/local/chattanooga-dedicates-memorial-to-ed-johnson-more-than-a-century-after-mob-lynching

Transcript of Record in U. S. Supreme Court in Case of U. S. v Shipp, Docket Original No. 5. (National Archives). 

Webb, Michael D. “‘God Bless You All-I Am Innocent’: Sheriff Joeseph F. Shipp, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the Lynching of Ed Johnson.”Tennessee Historical Quarterly. Vol. 58. No. 2. Summer 1999. pp. 156-179

White, J. Bliss. Biography and Achievements of the Colored Citizens of Chattanooga (Chattanooga, 1904).


As well as articles from the Chattanooga Times, Chattanooga News, Voice of the People (Atlanta), and the New York Times.

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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-16801987 Mon, 07 Apr 2025 08:00:00 -0700 5640 history, true crime, black history, tennessee, chattanooga, lynching, justice 5 71 full true Vile Business: The Murder of Duchess Praslin, Part II Vile Business: The Murder of Duchess Praslin, Part II In Part II of the murder that sparked a revolution, the Chamber of Peers investigates Duke Praslin for his wife’s brutal slaying.


Sources:

“ASSASSINAT DE MADAME LA DUCHESSE DE PRASLIN.” L’Ami de la religion, vol. 134. Paris. 1847.

Eubule-Evans, A. “Letter to the Editor.” The Spectator, No. 3,396. 29 July, 1893. P. 16Greville, William Henry. Henry Greville’s Diary (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1883).

Gronek, Oceane. “Small family murder at the Duke of Choiseul’s.” Chateau Blandy. https://www.chateau-blandy.fr/en/node/303

Loomis, Stanley. A Crime of Passion (New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1967).

Lowndes, Marie Belloc. “The Praslin Murder: A Famous French Mystery Case.” Harper’s Weekly, Vol. LVII, No. 2924. 4 January 1913. 

The Mirror Monthly Magazine, Vol II, July to December 1847 (London: Kent and Richards, 1847). P. 185-188.

Savine, Albert. L’assassinat de la Duchess de Praslin (Paris: Louis-Michaud, 1908). 

The Spectator, No. 966, Vol. 20. (London: Joseph Clayton, 1847). P. 822-824.

Verdict Press. Crimes of Passion (London: Verdict Press, 1975).

Walton, Gerri. “Duchess de Choiseul-Praslin: Her Murder in 1847.” Geri Walton. 19 August, 2016. Duchess de Choiseul-Praslin: Her Murder in 1847 - geriwalton.com

As well as translated letters and journal entries by Duchess Praslin, 1840-1847.

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]]> In Part II of the murder that sparked a revolution, the Chamber of Peers investigates Duke Praslin for his wife’s brutal slaying.


Sources:

“ASSASSINAT DE MADAME LA DUCHESSE DE PRASLIN.” L’Ami de la religion, vol. 134. Paris. 1847.

Eubule-Evans, A. “Letter to the Editor.” The Spectator, No. 3,396. 29 July, 1893. P. 16Greville, William Henry. Henry Greville’s Diary (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1883).

Gronek, Oceane. “Small family murder at the Duke of Choiseul’s.” Chateau Blandy. https://www.chateau-blandy.fr/en/node/303

Loomis, Stanley. A Crime of Passion (New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1967).

Lowndes, Marie Belloc. “The Praslin Murder: A Famous French Mystery Case.” Harper’s Weekly, Vol. LVII, No. 2924. 4 January 1913. 

The Mirror Monthly Magazine, Vol II, July to December 1847 (London: Kent and Richards, 1847). P. 185-188.

Savine, Albert. L’assassinat de la Duchess de Praslin (Paris: Louis-Michaud, 1908). 

The Spectator, No. 966, Vol. 20. (London: Joseph Clayton, 1847). P. 822-824.

Verdict Press. Crimes of Passion (London: Verdict Press, 1975).

Walton, Gerri. “Duchess de Choiseul-Praslin: Her Murder in 1847.” Geri Walton. 19 August, 2016. Duchess de Choiseul-Praslin: Her Murder in 1847 - geriwalton.com

As well as translated letters and journal entries by Duchess Praslin, 1840-1847.

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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-16665827 Mon, 24 Mar 2025 08:00:00 -0700 3076 history, true crime, herstory, praslin, paris, french history, napoleon 5 70 full true Vile Business: The Murder of Duchess Praslin, Part I Vile Business: The Murder of Duchess Praslin, Part I In 1847, servants of Paris’s Hotel Sebastiani rushed to help Duchess Praslin after hearing her screams. This is part one of the murder that sparked a revolution. 


Sources:

“ASSASSINAT DE MADAME LA DUCHESSE DE PRASLIN.” L’Ami de la religion, vol. 134. Paris. 1847.

Eubule-Evans, A. “Letter to the Editor.” The Spectator, No. 3,396. 29 July, 1893. P. 16

Greville, William Henry. Henry Greville’s Diary (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1883).

Gronek, Oceane. “Small family murder at the Duke of Choiseul’s.” Chateau Blandy. https://www.chateau-blandy.fr/en/node/303

Loomis, Stanley. A Crime of Passion (New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1967).

Lowndes, Marie Belloc. “The Praslin Murder: A Famous French Mystery Case.” Harper’s Weekly, Vol. LVII, No. 2924. 4 January 1913. 

The Mirror Monthly Magazine, Vol II, July to December 1847 (London: Kent and Richards, 1847). P. 185-188.

Savine, Albert. L’assassinat de la Duchess de Praslin (Paris: Louis-Michaud, 1908). 

The Spectator, No. 966, Vol. 20. (London: Joseph Clayton, 1847). P. 822-824.

Verdict Press. Crimes of Passion (London: Verdict Press, 1975).

Walton, Gerri. “Duchess de Choiseul-Praslin: Her Murder in 1847.” Geri Walton. 19 August, 2016. Duchess de Choiseul-Praslin: Her Murder in 1847 - geriwalton.com

As well as translated letters and journal entries by Duchess Praslin, 1840-1847.

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]]> In 1847, servants of Paris’s Hotel Sebastiani rushed to help Duchess Praslin after hearing her screams. This is part one of the murder that sparked a revolution. 


Sources:

“ASSASSINAT DE MADAME LA DUCHESSE DE PRASLIN.” L’Ami de la religion, vol. 134. Paris. 1847.

Eubule-Evans, A. “Letter to the Editor.” The Spectator, No. 3,396. 29 July, 1893. P. 16

Greville, William Henry. Henry Greville’s Diary (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1883).

Gronek, Oceane. “Small family murder at the Duke of Choiseul’s.” Chateau Blandy. https://www.chateau-blandy.fr/en/node/303

Loomis, Stanley. A Crime of Passion (New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1967).

Lowndes, Marie Belloc. “The Praslin Murder: A Famous French Mystery Case.” Harper’s Weekly, Vol. LVII, No. 2924. 4 January 1913. 

The Mirror Monthly Magazine, Vol II, July to December 1847 (London: Kent and Richards, 1847). P. 185-188.

Savine, Albert. L’assassinat de la Duchess de Praslin (Paris: Louis-Michaud, 1908). 

The Spectator, No. 966, Vol. 20. (London: Joseph Clayton, 1847). P. 822-824.

Verdict Press. Crimes of Passion (London: Verdict Press, 1975).

Walton, Gerri. “Duchess de Choiseul-Praslin: Her Murder in 1847.” Geri Walton. 19 August, 2016. Duchess de Choiseul-Praslin: Her Murder in 1847 - geriwalton.com

As well as translated letters and journal entries by Duchess Praslin, 1840-1847.

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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-16664155 Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:00:00 -0700 3247 history, true crime, herstory, paris, french history, praslin, duchess praslin, napoleon, revolution of 1848, 1848 5 69 full true Dead Man's Hand: The Bennetts & 1929 Kansas City Dead Man's Hand: The Bennetts & 1929 Kansas City In 1929, a Kansas City housewife shot and killed her husband after a game of bridge. Twelve male jurors would decide her fate as newspapers across the country printed “post-mortems” of the fatal hand that led to his death.


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Sources:

Hill, Kate. “Nelly Gone: KCQ Traces the Kidnapping of Nell Donnelly.” Kansas City Public Library. 20 October, 2021. https://kclibrary.org/news/2021-10/nelly-gone-kcq-traces-kidnapping-nell-donnelly 

McMillen, Margot and Roberson, Heather. Called to Courage: Four Women in Missouri History (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002.)

Monaco II, Ralph. “Last Hand at Park Manor: The Trial of Myrtle Bennett.” The Jackson County Historical Society Journal. Vol. 53. Summer 2015. 

“Nelly Don by the Donnelly Garment Company, Kansas City, Missouri.” Missouri Historic Costume and Textile Collection, University of Missouri. https://mhctc.missouri.edu/collection/nelly-don/

Pomerantz, Gary M. The Devil’s Tickets: A Vengeful Wife, A Fatal Hand, and A New American Age. (New York: Broadway Paperbacks, 2009).

Other Sources:

The Kansas City Star

“The Pendergast Years: Kansas City in the Jazz Age and Great Depression.” Kansas City Public Library. https://pendergastkc.org/

Gary M. Pomerantz. https://www.garympomerantz.com/the-devils-tickets

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]]> In 1929, a Kansas City housewife shot and killed her husband after a game of bridge. Twelve male jurors would decide her fate as newspapers across the country printed “post-mortems” of the fatal hand that led to his death.


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Sources:

Hill, Kate. “Nelly Gone: KCQ Traces the Kidnapping of Nell Donnelly.” Kansas City Public Library. 20 October, 2021. https://kclibrary.org/news/2021-10/nelly-gone-kcq-traces-kidnapping-nell-donnelly 

McMillen, Margot and Roberson, Heather. Called to Courage: Four Women in Missouri History (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002.)

Monaco II, Ralph. “Last Hand at Park Manor: The Trial of Myrtle Bennett.” The Jackson County Historical Society Journal. Vol. 53. Summer 2015. 

“Nelly Don by the Donnelly Garment Company, Kansas City, Missouri.” Missouri Historic Costume and Textile Collection, University of Missouri. https://mhctc.missouri.edu/collection/nelly-don/

Pomerantz, Gary M. The Devil’s Tickets: A Vengeful Wife, A Fatal Hand, and A New American Age. (New York: Broadway Paperbacks, 2009).

Other Sources:

The Kansas City Star

“The Pendergast Years: Kansas City in the Jazz Age and Great Depression.” Kansas City Public Library. https://pendergastkc.org/

Gary M. Pomerantz. https://www.garympomerantz.com/the-devils-tickets

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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-16598286 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:00:00 -0800 3700 history, true crime, bridge, myrtle bennett, kansas city, prohibition, pendergast 5 68 full true Renaissance Virago: Caterina Sforza, Tigress of Forli Renaissance Virago: Caterina Sforza, Tigress of Forli Countess Caterina Sforza was raised in the Renaissance court of Milan and survived the assassination of her father and husbands. She then proceeded to confront Cesare Borgia and his father, Pope Alexander VI. Who would win: the papacy or a woman? 


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Sources:

Allison, Charlie. “One Wrong Foot: An Alternate History of the Siege of Forli.” Sea Lion Press. 25 May, 2020. https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/one-foot-wrong-an-alternate-history-of-the-siege-of-forli

Brunelli, Giampiero. “SFORZA, Caterina.” Treccani: Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia. 2018. https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/caterina-sforza_(Dizionario-Biografico)/

Clarke, Michelle Tolman. “On the Woman Question in Machiavelli.” The Review of Politics 67, no. 2 (2005): 229–55. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25046410.

Hairston, Julia L. "Skirting the Issue: Machiavelli's

Caterina Sforza," Renaissance Quarterly 53 (2000): 687-712.

Lev, Elizabeth. The Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Italy’s Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de’ Medici (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.)

Zarevich, Emily. “Did Caterina Sforza Flash an Army?” JSTOR. 20 July, 2023. https://daily.jstor.org/did-caterina-sforza-flash-an-army/

Other links:

https://www.caterinasforza.it/en/

https://www.lacittadicaterinasforza.it/

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]]> Countess Caterina Sforza was raised in the Renaissance court of Milan and survived the assassination of her father and husbands. She then proceeded to confront Cesare Borgia and his father, Pope Alexander VI. Who would win: the papacy or a woman? 


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Sources:

Allison, Charlie. “One Wrong Foot: An Alternate History of the Siege of Forli.” Sea Lion Press. 25 May, 2020. https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/one-foot-wrong-an-alternate-history-of-the-siege-of-forli

Brunelli, Giampiero. “SFORZA, Caterina.” Treccani: Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia. 2018. https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/caterina-sforza_(Dizionario-Biografico)/

Clarke, Michelle Tolman. “On the Woman Question in Machiavelli.” The Review of Politics 67, no. 2 (2005): 229–55. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25046410.

Hairston, Julia L. "Skirting the Issue: Machiavelli's

Caterina Sforza," Renaissance Quarterly 53 (2000): 687-712.

Lev, Elizabeth. The Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Italy’s Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de’ Medici (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.)

Zarevich, Emily. “Did Caterina Sforza Flash an Army?” JSTOR. 20 July, 2023. https://daily.jstor.org/did-caterina-sforza-flash-an-army/

Other links:

https://www.caterinasforza.it/en/

https://www.lacittadicaterinasforza.it/

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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-16445207 Mon, 27 Jan 2025 08:00:00 -0800 3439 history, true crime, herstory, historical true crime, rome, italy, italian history, sforza, caterina sforza, forli 5 67 full true A Violent Vacancy: The 1902 Disappearance of Nora Fuller A Violent Vacancy: The 1902 Disappearance of Nora Fuller On January 11, 1902, 15-year-old Nora Fuller responded to a nanny wanted advertisement in the San Francisco Examiner. She called her family an hour later, saying that she was hired and at the man’s home. When Nora never returned home, her brother visited the address to find it was a vacant lot. 

Sources:

Dowd, Katie. “A want ad leads to an empty house–and a shocking murder that rocked San Francisco.” SFGATE. 17 October, 2016. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Nora-Fuller-missing-San-Francisco-murder-history-9970198.php

Duke, Thomas Samuel. Celebrated Criminal Cases of America (San Francisco: The John H. Barry Company, 1910).

Katz, Elena. Cold Cases: Famous Unsolved Mysteries, Crimes, and Disappearances in America. (Bloombury Publishing, 2010).

Whittman, George W.  “Charles B. Hadley,” Tarrant County College Archives , accessed January 2, 2025, https://tccarchives.omeka.net/items/show/40.

Newspapers: 

San Francisco Call

San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner

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]]> On January 11, 1902, 15-year-old Nora Fuller responded to a nanny wanted advertisement in the San Francisco Examiner. She called her family an hour later, saying that she was hired and at the man’s home. When Nora never returned home, her brother visited the address to find it was a vacant lot. 

Sources:

Dowd, Katie. “A want ad leads to an empty house–and a shocking murder that rocked San Francisco.” SFGATE. 17 October, 2016. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Nora-Fuller-missing-San-Francisco-murder-history-9970198.php

Duke, Thomas Samuel. Celebrated Criminal Cases of America (San Francisco: The John H. Barry Company, 1910).

Katz, Elena. Cold Cases: Famous Unsolved Mysteries, Crimes, and Disappearances in America. (Bloombury Publishing, 2010).

Whittman, George W.  “Charles B. Hadley,” Tarrant County College Archives , accessed January 2, 2025, https://tccarchives.omeka.net/items/show/40.

Newspapers: 

San Francisco Call

San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner

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Get 45% off the Magic Mind bundle with my link:
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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-16373302 Mon, 06 Jan 2025 09:00:00 -0800 3145 history, true crime, herstory, historical true crime, san francisco history, san francisco, nora fuller, 1902, missing, disappearance 5 66 full true The Wicked Witch of Ringtown: Murder in Pennsylvania The Wicked Witch of Ringtown: Murder in Pennsylvania A man murdered a woman in rural Pennsylvania after claiming she had cursed him with black magic. How did this region become known as the Hex Belt? And how could such a tragedy occur as recently as 1934?

Sources:

“A Look Back in History: Practice of witchcraft among PA Dutch rarely accurately portrayed to public.” Reading Eagle. 22 August, 2021. https://www.readingeagle.com/2018/08/01/a-look-back-in-history-practice-of-witchcraft-among-pa-dutch-rarely-accurately-portrayed-to-public/

Karlsen, Carol. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England (New York: W. W, Norton & Company, 1998).

Magruder, Taj. In the Day of Trouble (Mechanicsville: Milford House, 2024).

Taylor, Troy. “The ‘Hex House’ Murder: Strange Tales of Pennsylvania Folk Magic & Murder.” American Hauntings. https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/hexhouse

Undine. “The Witch of Ringtown; a Medieval 20th Century Murder.” Strange Company. 28 September, 2015. https://strangeco.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-witch-of-ringtown-medieval-20th.html

Whipple, Madison. “Who Are the Pennsylvania Dutch? A Brief History of this Rural Community.” The Collector. 22 April, 2023. https://www.thecollector.com/history-of-the-pennsylvania-dutch/

White, Thomas. Witches of Pennsylvania: Occult History & Lore (Charleston: The History Press, 2013). 

Newspapers: 

La Opinion (Los Angeles)

Republican and Herald (Pottsville)

The Evening Star (D.C.)

The Indianapolis Times

The New York Times

The Washington Times

Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston


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]]> A man murdered a woman in rural Pennsylvania after claiming she had cursed him with black magic. How did this region become known as the Hex Belt? And how could such a tragedy occur as recently as 1934?

Sources:

“A Look Back in History: Practice of witchcraft among PA Dutch rarely accurately portrayed to public.” Reading Eagle. 22 August, 2021. https://www.readingeagle.com/2018/08/01/a-look-back-in-history-practice-of-witchcraft-among-pa-dutch-rarely-accurately-portrayed-to-public/

Karlsen, Carol. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England (New York: W. W, Norton & Company, 1998).

Magruder, Taj. In the Day of Trouble (Mechanicsville: Milford House, 2024).

Taylor, Troy. “The ‘Hex House’ Murder: Strange Tales of Pennsylvania Folk Magic & Murder.” American Hauntings. https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/hexhouse

Undine. “The Witch of Ringtown; a Medieval 20th Century Murder.” Strange Company. 28 September, 2015. https://strangeco.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-witch-of-ringtown-medieval-20th.html

Whipple, Madison. “Who Are the Pennsylvania Dutch? A Brief History of this Rural Community.” The Collector. 22 April, 2023. https://www.thecollector.com/history-of-the-pennsylvania-dutch/

White, Thomas. Witches of Pennsylvania: Occult History & Lore (Charleston: The History Press, 2013). 

Newspapers: 

La Opinion (Los Angeles)

Republican and Herald (Pottsville)

The Evening Star (D.C.)

The Indianapolis Times

The New York Times

The Washington Times

Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston


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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-15925625 Mon, 04 Nov 2024 09:00:00 -0800 3314 history, true crime, historical true crime, herstory, witch, witch hunt, pennsylvania, magic, folk magic 4 65 full true Flapper Fatale: The Murder of Edith Thompson, Part II Flapper Fatale: The Murder of Edith Thompson, Part II Edith Thompson faces the death penalty for her lover’s crime. How many deaths will there be before this affair ends? 


Sources:

Blackburn, Jack. “Edith Thompson: posthumous pardon over husband’s murder a step closer.” The Times. 7 March, 2023. https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/edith-thompson-posthumous-pardon-over-husband-s-murder-a-step-closer-s729dpg0q

Lusher, Adam. “Laid to rest at last: Edith Thompson, victim of a ‘barborous, misogynistic’ death penalty.” 22 November, 2018. Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/edith-thompson-death-penalty-capital-punishment-hanging-miscarriage-justice-buried-mother-murder-bywaters-younger-lover-husband-grave-a8647636.html

Stokes, Tim. “Edith Thompson: The wife who was executed for her lover’s crime.” BBC. 8 January 2023. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-63561245

Thompson, Laura. A Tale of Two Murders: Guilt, Innocence, and the Execution of Edith Thompson. (London: Pegasus Crime, 2018).

Weis, Rene. Criminal Justice: The True Story of Edith Thompson (Leicester: Charnwood, 1992). And “Edith Jessie Thompson: A True Story of Injustice.” https://edithjessiethompson.org/


Documentaries:

Murder, Mystery and My Family and Murder, Mystery and My Family: Case Closed, BBC.

Murder Maps “Terror in the Roaring Twenties” Season 2, Episode 1.

Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston


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]]> Edith Thompson faces the death penalty for her lover’s crime. How many deaths will there be before this affair ends? 


Sources:

Blackburn, Jack. “Edith Thompson: posthumous pardon over husband’s murder a step closer.” The Times. 7 March, 2023. https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/edith-thompson-posthumous-pardon-over-husband-s-murder-a-step-closer-s729dpg0q

Lusher, Adam. “Laid to rest at last: Edith Thompson, victim of a ‘barborous, misogynistic’ death penalty.” 22 November, 2018. Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/edith-thompson-death-penalty-capital-punishment-hanging-miscarriage-justice-buried-mother-murder-bywaters-younger-lover-husband-grave-a8647636.html

Stokes, Tim. “Edith Thompson: The wife who was executed for her lover’s crime.” BBC. 8 January 2023. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-63561245

Thompson, Laura. A Tale of Two Murders: Guilt, Innocence, and the Execution of Edith Thompson. (London: Pegasus Crime, 2018).

Weis, Rene. Criminal Justice: The True Story of Edith Thompson (Leicester: Charnwood, 1992). And “Edith Jessie Thompson: A True Story of Injustice.” https://edithjessiethompson.org/


Documentaries:

Murder, Mystery and My Family and Murder, Mystery and My Family: Case Closed, BBC.

Murder Maps “Terror in the Roaring Twenties” Season 2, Episode 1.

Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston


For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com














]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-15842701 Mon, 21 Oct 2024 08:00:00 -0700 3988 history, true crime, historical true crime, flapper, edith thompson, freddy bywaters, english history, london, herstory, witch hunt 4 64 full true Flapper Fatale: The Murder of Edith Thompson, Part I Flapper Fatale: The Murder of Edith Thompson, Part I A night out on the town turns deadly after a love triangle unravels in 1920s London. 

Sources:

Blackburn, Jack. “Edith Thompson: posthumous pardon over husband’s murder a step closer.” The Times. 7 March, 2023. https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/edith-thompson-posthumous-pardon-over-husband-s-murder-a-step-closer-s729dpg0q

Lusher, Adam. “Laid to rest at last: Edith Thompson, victim of a ‘barborous, misogynistic’ death penalty.” 22 November, 2018. Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/edith-thompson-death-penalty-capital-punishment-hanging-miscarriage-justice-buried-mother-murder-bywaters-younger-lover-husband-grave-a8647636.html

Stokes, Tim. “Edith Thompson: The wife who was executed for her lover’s crime.” BBC. 8 January 2023. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-63561245

Thompson, Laura. A Tale of Two Murders: Guilt, Innocence, and the Execution of Edith Thompson. (London: Pegasus Crime, 2018).

Weis, Rene. Criminal Justice: The True Story of Edith Thompson (Leicester: Charnwood, 1992). And “Edith Jessie Thompson: A True Story of Injustice.” https://edithjessiethompson.org/

Documentaries:

Murder, Mystery and My Family and Murder, Mystery and My Family: Case Closed, BBC.

Murder Maps “Terror in the Roaring Twenties” Season 2, Episode 1.


Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston


For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com













]]> A night out on the town turns deadly after a love triangle unravels in 1920s London. 

Sources:

Blackburn, Jack. “Edith Thompson: posthumous pardon over husband’s murder a step closer.” The Times. 7 March, 2023. https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/edith-thompson-posthumous-pardon-over-husband-s-murder-a-step-closer-s729dpg0q

Lusher, Adam. “Laid to rest at last: Edith Thompson, victim of a ‘barborous, misogynistic’ death penalty.” 22 November, 2018. Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/edith-thompson-death-penalty-capital-punishment-hanging-miscarriage-justice-buried-mother-murder-bywaters-younger-lover-husband-grave-a8647636.html

Stokes, Tim. “Edith Thompson: The wife who was executed for her lover’s crime.” BBC. 8 January 2023. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-63561245

Thompson, Laura. A Tale of Two Murders: Guilt, Innocence, and the Execution of Edith Thompson. (London: Pegasus Crime, 2018).

Weis, Rene. Criminal Justice: The True Story of Edith Thompson (Leicester: Charnwood, 1992). And “Edith Jessie Thompson: A True Story of Injustice.” https://edithjessiethompson.org/

Documentaries:

Murder, Mystery and My Family and Murder, Mystery and My Family: Case Closed, BBC.

Murder Maps “Terror in the Roaring Twenties” Season 2, Episode 1.


Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston


For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com













]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-15737872 Mon, 07 Oct 2024 08:00:00 -0700 3766 4 63 full true Dr. Strange: A Tragedy in New Orleans Dr. Strange: A Tragedy in New Orleans In 1889, a father discovered his daughter dead at the home of Dr. Etienne Deschamps, a dentist-surgeon and hypnotist. Was the death truly an accident? Or was it, as most of New Orleans believed, a murder? 


Sources:

Castellanos, Henry C. New Orleans As it Was: Episodes of Louisiana Life (New Orleans: L. Graham & Son., 1895).

Meletio, Donna M. “Leona Queyrouze (1861-1938) Louisiana French Creole Poet, Essayist, and Composer.” 2005. Louisiana State University, PhD dissertation. 

Pena, Christopher G. The Strange Case of Dr. Etienne Deschamps: Murder in the New Orleans French Quarter (Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company, 2017).

Tallant, Robert. Ready to Hang: Seven Famous New Orleans Murders (Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company, 2012).

Wozniak, Robert H. “Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism, and Physical Research, 1766-1925.” Bibliographies in the History of Psychology and Psychiatry, A Series. 1988. https://www.esalen.org/ctr/animal-magnetism

Newspapers:

New Orleans Daily Picayune

New Orleans Times-Democrat

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]]> In 1889, a father discovered his daughter dead at the home of Dr. Etienne Deschamps, a dentist-surgeon and hypnotist. Was the death truly an accident? Or was it, as most of New Orleans believed, a murder? 


Sources:

Castellanos, Henry C. New Orleans As it Was: Episodes of Louisiana Life (New Orleans: L. Graham & Son., 1895).

Meletio, Donna M. “Leona Queyrouze (1861-1938) Louisiana French Creole Poet, Essayist, and Composer.” 2005. Louisiana State University, PhD dissertation. 

Pena, Christopher G. The Strange Case of Dr. Etienne Deschamps: Murder in the New Orleans French Quarter (Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company, 2017).

Tallant, Robert. Ready to Hang: Seven Famous New Orleans Murders (Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company, 2012).

Wozniak, Robert H. “Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism, and Physical Research, 1766-1925.” Bibliographies in the History of Psychology and Psychiatry, A Series. 1988. https://www.esalen.org/ctr/animal-magnetism

Newspapers:

New Orleans Daily Picayune

New Orleans Times-Democrat

Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston


For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com







]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-15631607 Mon, 16 Sep 2024 08:00:00 -0700 4524 history, herstory, womens history, new orleans history, new orleans, louisiana history, true crime, historical true crime 4 62 full true Maniac: Insanity & Tragedy in South Pasadena Maniac: Insanity & Tragedy in South Pasadena In 1940, a principal snapped and went on a shooting spree at his Southern California junior high school. Who or what was to blame?

Sources:

Barer, Burl and Frank Giradot Jr.. A Taste For Murder (Denver: Wildblue Press, 2016).

Ban, Thomas A. “Bromides” International Network for the History of Neuropsychopharmacology. 24 October 2013. https://inhn.org/inhn-projects/drugs/bromides

Church, John. Pasadena Cowboy: Growing up in Southern California and Montana, 1925 to 1947 (Novato: Conover-Patterson Publishers, 1996).

Cropeley, Thomas and Zachary Theroux. “The Old Bromides and Their 21st Century Refreshment.” JAMA Network. 2017. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamadermatology/article-abstract/2629878

Faith, Laura. “The Backstory: Mad School Principal Kills 5, Wounds 1.” Iloveyoupug (blog about Margie Alman). http://www.iloveyoupug.com/2011/01/backstory-mad-school-principal-kills-5.html

“John Ernest Alman.”Grave Spotlight. https://www.cemeteryguide.com/gotw-johnalman.html

Peters, William F. “The History of South Pasadena High School” SPHSAA. https://www.sphsaa.org/000/3/0/5/5503/userfiles/file/History%20of%20SPHS.pdf

Plummer, Mary. “South Pasadena Students Recall 1940 Murder Spree.” KPCC. 19 September, 2014. https://archive.kpcc.org/blogs/education/2014/09/19/17256/pasadena-school-students-recall-murderous-rampage/

Rai, Dr. Vandana. “What is Bromide Toxicity?” icliniq. 16 May, 2023. https://www.icliniq.com/articles/vitamins-and-minerals/bromide-toxicity

Rasmussen, Cecilia. “A Principal’s Bloody Rampage.” Los Angeles Times. 20 July 1997. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-jul-20-me-14688-story.html

Underwood, Agness. Newspaperwoman (New York: Harper, 1949).

Williams, Janette. “After 72 years, notorious South Pasadena school shootings still resonate.” Pasadena Star News. 29 August, 2017. https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2012/09/15/after-72-years-notorious-south-pasadena-school-shootings-still-resonate-with-survivors/

Newspapers:

The Los Angeles Times

San Pedro News Pilot

San Bernardino Sun

Madera Tribune

Calexico Chronicle

Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston

For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com













]]> In 1940, a principal snapped and went on a shooting spree at his Southern California junior high school. Who or what was to blame?

Sources:

Barer, Burl and Frank Giradot Jr.. A Taste For Murder (Denver: Wildblue Press, 2016).

Ban, Thomas A. “Bromides” International Network for the History of Neuropsychopharmacology. 24 October 2013. https://inhn.org/inhn-projects/drugs/bromides

Church, John. Pasadena Cowboy: Growing up in Southern California and Montana, 1925 to 1947 (Novato: Conover-Patterson Publishers, 1996).

Cropeley, Thomas and Zachary Theroux. “The Old Bromides and Their 21st Century Refreshment.” JAMA Network. 2017. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamadermatology/article-abstract/2629878

Faith, Laura. “The Backstory: Mad School Principal Kills 5, Wounds 1.” Iloveyoupug (blog about Margie Alman). http://www.iloveyoupug.com/2011/01/backstory-mad-school-principal-kills-5.html

“John Ernest Alman.”Grave Spotlight. https://www.cemeteryguide.com/gotw-johnalman.html

Peters, William F. “The History of South Pasadena High School” SPHSAA. https://www.sphsaa.org/000/3/0/5/5503/userfiles/file/History%20of%20SPHS.pdf

Plummer, Mary. “South Pasadena Students Recall 1940 Murder Spree.” KPCC. 19 September, 2014. https://archive.kpcc.org/blogs/education/2014/09/19/17256/pasadena-school-students-recall-murderous-rampage/

Rai, Dr. Vandana. “What is Bromide Toxicity?” icliniq. 16 May, 2023. https://www.icliniq.com/articles/vitamins-and-minerals/bromide-toxicity

Rasmussen, Cecilia. “A Principal’s Bloody Rampage.” Los Angeles Times. 20 July 1997. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-jul-20-me-14688-story.html

Underwood, Agness. Newspaperwoman (New York: Harper, 1949).

Williams, Janette. “After 72 years, notorious South Pasadena school shootings still resonate.” Pasadena Star News. 29 August, 2017. https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2012/09/15/after-72-years-notorious-south-pasadena-school-shootings-still-resonate-with-survivors/

Newspapers:

The Los Angeles Times

San Pedro News Pilot

San Bernardino Sun

Madera Tribune

Calexico Chronicle

Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston

For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com













]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-15511379 Mon, 26 Aug 2024 08:00:00 -0700 3749 4 61 full true Death Came For Dongo: A Massacre in Old Mexico Death Came For Dongo: A Massacre in Old Mexico In October of 1789, a search for the owner of an abandoned carriage led to a gruesome discovery in the home of a wealthy merchant. Don Joaquin Dongo and his entire household had been slaughtered. Within days, Mexico City officials had located, arrested, and publically executed the murderers in the same plaza where laborers worked to unearth Aztec relics.

Buy Nicole von Germeten’s book Death in Old Mexico: The 1789 Dongo Murders and How They Shaped the History of a Nation on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Old-Mexico-Murders-History/dp/1009261525


Sources:

Rodriguez, Pablo. “Crímenes coloniales: codicia y crueldad en el asesinato del señor Dongo y sus dependientes (Ciudad de México, 1789)” Historia y Sociedad, no. 40, pp. 243-259. 2021.

Von Germeten, Nicole. Death in Old Mexico: The 1789 Dongo Murders and How They Shaped the History of a Nation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023).


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For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com













]]> In October of 1789, a search for the owner of an abandoned carriage led to a gruesome discovery in the home of a wealthy merchant. Don Joaquin Dongo and his entire household had been slaughtered. Within days, Mexico City officials had located, arrested, and publically executed the murderers in the same plaza where laborers worked to unearth Aztec relics.

Buy Nicole von Germeten’s book Death in Old Mexico: The 1789 Dongo Murders and How They Shaped the History of a Nation on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Old-Mexico-Murders-History/dp/1009261525


Sources:

Rodriguez, Pablo. “Crímenes coloniales: codicia y crueldad en el asesinato del señor Dongo y sus dependientes (Ciudad de México, 1789)” Historia y Sociedad, no. 40, pp. 243-259. 2021.

Von Germeten, Nicole. Death in Old Mexico: The 1789 Dongo Murders and How They Shaped the History of a Nation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023).


Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston


For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com













]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-15406121 Mon, 05 Aug 2024 08:00:00 -0700 3718 4 60 full true Killer at the Knickerbocker Part II: Roland Molineux & the Great Poison Mystery Killer at the Knickerbocker Part II: Roland Molineux & the Great Poison Mystery The Great Poison Mystery began in 1898 after two people were killed by poison sent to them by mail. The packages were eventually traced back to the ritzy Knickerbocker Athletic Club, and its secretary, the son of a Civil War hero. 

This is PART II of a two-part episode. Be sure to listen to episode 58 first!

Sources:

“How the Molineux Rule Permits Certain Witnesses in the Harvey Weinstein Trial.” NPR. 

Jonakait, Randolph N., “People v. Molineux and Other Crime Evidence: One Hundred Years and Counting.” New York Law School. 2002. 

Pejsa, Jane. The Molineux Affair (Minneapolis: Kenwood Publishing, 1983).

People v Molineux (Court of Appeals of New York October 15, 1901). 

Schechter, Harold. The Devil’s Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial that Ushered in the Twentieth Century (New York: Ballantine Books, 2007).

“The Lost Manhattan Athletic Club–Madison Avenue and 45th Street.” Daytonian in Manhattan. 2 November, 2015. https://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-lost-manhattan-athletic-club.html

Newspapers:

The Evening World (New York)

The New York Journal and Advertiser

The New York Times

The New York Tribune

The New York World

Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston

For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com


]]> The Great Poison Mystery began in 1898 after two people were killed by poison sent to them by mail. The packages were eventually traced back to the ritzy Knickerbocker Athletic Club, and its secretary, the son of a Civil War hero. 

This is PART II of a two-part episode. Be sure to listen to episode 58 first!

Sources:

“How the Molineux Rule Permits Certain Witnesses in the Harvey Weinstein Trial.” NPR. 

Jonakait, Randolph N., “People v. Molineux and Other Crime Evidence: One Hundred Years and Counting.” New York Law School. 2002. 

Pejsa, Jane. The Molineux Affair (Minneapolis: Kenwood Publishing, 1983).

People v Molineux (Court of Appeals of New York October 15, 1901). 

Schechter, Harold. The Devil’s Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial that Ushered in the Twentieth Century (New York: Ballantine Books, 2007).

“The Lost Manhattan Athletic Club–Madison Avenue and 45th Street.” Daytonian in Manhattan. 2 November, 2015. https://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-lost-manhattan-athletic-club.html

Newspapers:

The Evening World (New York)

The New York Journal and Advertiser

The New York Times

The New York Tribune

The New York World

Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston

For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com


]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-15280671 Mon, 22 Jul 2024 08:00:00 -0700 3350 4 59 full true Killer at the Knickerbocker Part I: Roland Molineux & the Great Poison Mystery Killer at the Knickerbocker Part I: Roland Molineux & the Great Poison Mystery The Great Poison Mystery began in 1898 after two people were killed by poison sent to them by mail. The packages were eventually traced back to the ritzy Knickerbocker Athletic Club, and its secretary, the son of a Civil War hero. 


Sources:

“How the Molineux Rule Permits Certain Witnesses in the Harvey Weinstein Trial.” NPR. 

Jonakait, Randolph N., “People v. Molineux and Other Crime Evidence: One Hundred Years and Counting.” New York Law School. 2002. 

Pejsa, Jane. The Molineux Affair (Minneapolis: Kenwood Publishing, 1983).

People v Molineux (Court of Appeals of New York October 15, 1901). 

Schechter, Harold. The Devil’s Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial that Ushered in the Twentieth Century (New York: Ballantine Books, 2007).

“The Lost Manhattan Athletic Club–Madison Avenue and 45th Street.” Daytonian in Manhattan. 2 November, 2015. https://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-lost-manhattan-athletic-club.html


Newspapers:

The Evening World (New York)

The New York Journal and Advertiser

The New York Times

The New York Tribune

The New York World


Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston


For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com











]]> The Great Poison Mystery began in 1898 after two people were killed by poison sent to them by mail. The packages were eventually traced back to the ritzy Knickerbocker Athletic Club, and its secretary, the son of a Civil War hero. 


Sources:

“How the Molineux Rule Permits Certain Witnesses in the Harvey Weinstein Trial.” NPR. 

Jonakait, Randolph N., “People v. Molineux and Other Crime Evidence: One Hundred Years and Counting.” New York Law School. 2002. 

Pejsa, Jane. The Molineux Affair (Minneapolis: Kenwood Publishing, 1983).

People v Molineux (Court of Appeals of New York October 15, 1901). 

Schechter, Harold. The Devil’s Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial that Ushered in the Twentieth Century (New York: Ballantine Books, 2007).

“The Lost Manhattan Athletic Club–Madison Avenue and 45th Street.” Daytonian in Manhattan. 2 November, 2015. https://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-lost-manhattan-athletic-club.html


Newspapers:

The Evening World (New York)

The New York Journal and Advertiser

The New York Times

The New York Tribune

The New York World


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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-15272750 Mon, 08 Jul 2024 08:00:00 -0700 3082 4 58 full true Of Fire and Blood: Massacre at Frank Lloyd Wright's Love Bungalow Of Fire and Blood: Massacre at Frank Lloyd Wright's Love Bungalow In the summer of 1914, a fire broke out at the love bungalow of Frank Lloyd Wright and his mistress Mamah Borthwick. When the smoke cleared, it became clear that a horrible massacre had taken place, leaving seven dead. Who wanted to kill everyone at Taliesin, and why?


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Sources:

Borthwick, Mark. A Brave and Lovely Woman: Mamah Borthwick and Frank Lloyd Wright (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023).

Drennan, William R. Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders (Madison: Terrace Books, 2007).

Hendrickson, Paul. Plagued By Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2019).

McCrea, Ron. Building Taliesin: Frank Lloyd Wright's Home of Love and Loss (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2012).

Secrest, Merle. Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).


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]]> In the summer of 1914, a fire broke out at the love bungalow of Frank Lloyd Wright and his mistress Mamah Borthwick. When the smoke cleared, it became clear that a horrible massacre had taken place, leaving seven dead. Who wanted to kill everyone at Taliesin, and why?


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Sources:

Borthwick, Mark. A Brave and Lovely Woman: Mamah Borthwick and Frank Lloyd Wright (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023).

Drennan, William R. Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders (Madison: Terrace Books, 2007).

Hendrickson, Paul. Plagued By Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2019).

McCrea, Ron. Building Taliesin: Frank Lloyd Wright's Home of Love and Loss (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2012).

Secrest, Merle. Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).


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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-15126050 Mon, 17 Jun 2024 08:00:00 -0700 4616 history, true crime, historical true crime, mamah borthwick, frank lloyd wright, taliesin, julian carlton, ellen key, wisconsin, american history 4 57 full true Destroying Angel: A Hollywood Mystery Destroying Angel: A Hollywood Mystery Two actors fled Hollywood for Salt Lake City in 1928. One was bludgeoned to death, and the other would call upon none other than Charlie Chaplin for help. As authorities scrambled to uncover what happened to the murdered Don Solovich, Hollywood’s most famous actors fought to keep their secrets safe. Before long, the tiny Utah town learned that Chaplin had been subpoenaed to testify and prepared themselves for a Hollywood invasion. What exactly did the King of Comedy know about the murder of his homosexual butler?

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Sources:

Babcock, Muriel. “The Headline History of Chaplin: 1918-1932.” Movie Classic Vol. 3. No. 3. November, 1932.

“Editor & Publisher: The Fourth Estate.” Vol. 61 No. 1. New York. 6 May, 1928.

Grey Chaplin, Lita and Vance, Jeffrey. Wife of the Life of the Party: A Memoir (Lanham: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1998).

Hurewitz, Daniel. Bohemian Los Angeles: and the Making of Modern Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007).

“LGBTQ+ ‘Panic’ Defense.” The LGBTQ+ Bar. https://lgbtqbar.org/programs/advocacy/gay-trans-panic-defense/ 

Painter, George. “The Sensibilities of Our Forefathers: The History of Sodomy Laws in the United States.” Sodomy Laws. 2004. https://www.glapn.org/sodomylaws/sensibilities/california.htm

Quinn, D. Michael. Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996).


Newspapers:

Gunnison Valley News

Deseret News

Salt Lake Tribune

Manti Messenger

Daily News (New York)

Los Angeles Times

San Pedro News Pilot

New Britain Herald

Imperial Valley Press

San Bernardino Sun

Bismark Tribune

Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)

Variety


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]]> Two actors fled Hollywood for Salt Lake City in 1928. One was bludgeoned to death, and the other would call upon none other than Charlie Chaplin for help. As authorities scrambled to uncover what happened to the murdered Don Solovich, Hollywood’s most famous actors fought to keep their secrets safe. Before long, the tiny Utah town learned that Chaplin had been subpoenaed to testify and prepared themselves for a Hollywood invasion. What exactly did the King of Comedy know about the murder of his homosexual butler?

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Sources:

Babcock, Muriel. “The Headline History of Chaplin: 1918-1932.” Movie Classic Vol. 3. No. 3. November, 1932.

“Editor & Publisher: The Fourth Estate.” Vol. 61 No. 1. New York. 6 May, 1928.

Grey Chaplin, Lita and Vance, Jeffrey. Wife of the Life of the Party: A Memoir (Lanham: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1998).

Hurewitz, Daniel. Bohemian Los Angeles: and the Making of Modern Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007).

“LGBTQ+ ‘Panic’ Defense.” The LGBTQ+ Bar. https://lgbtqbar.org/programs/advocacy/gay-trans-panic-defense/ 

Painter, George. “The Sensibilities of Our Forefathers: The History of Sodomy Laws in the United States.” Sodomy Laws. 2004. https://www.glapn.org/sodomylaws/sensibilities/california.htm

Quinn, D. Michael. Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996).


Newspapers:

Gunnison Valley News

Deseret News

Salt Lake Tribune

Manti Messenger

Daily News (New York)

Los Angeles Times

San Pedro News Pilot

New Britain Herald

Imperial Valley Press

San Bernardino Sun

Bismark Tribune

Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)

Variety


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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-15005783 Mon, 27 May 2024 08:00:00 -0700 4020 4 56 full true Woman in White: The Dictaphone Murder Trial Woman in White: The Dictaphone Murder Trial In the summer of 1914, someone shot through the window of a Long Island doctor’s office, killing a woman inside. When investigators found a dictaphone installed inside the office, they began to suspect the doctor’s jealous wife, who claimed to have been upstairs the evening in question. When the wife’s alibi changed her testimony, Americans had to decide whether to believe the jealous wife or the black maid who contradicted her. Who was the woman in white seen outside the doctor's office just before Lulu Bailey was murdered?

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Sources:

“Freeport History Encyclopedia.” Freeport Memorial Library. https://libguides.freeportlibrary.info/c.php?g=494599&p=3384485

Hamilton, Marybeth. When I’m Bad, I’m Better: Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).

Kemp, Kathryn W. “‘The Dictograph Hears All’: An Example of Surveillance Technology in the Progressive Era” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Vol. 6, No. 4. October 2007. Pp. 409-430

Philibert-Ortega, Gena. “Investigating the Murder Mystery of Louise Bailey with Newspapers.” Genealogy Bank. 28 June, 2013. https://blog.genealogybank.com/investigating-the-murder-mystery-of-louise-bailey-with-newspapers.html

Selnes, Bill. “George Morton Levy Lawyer.” Mysteries and More From Saskatchewan. 3 August, 2016. https://mysteriesandmore.blogspot.com/2016/08/george-morton-levy-lawyer.html

Newspapers:

The New York Times (July 1914- May 1915)

The Day Book. 20 October, 1914

The Evening World. 8 May 1915

The Medford Mail Tribune. 5 May 1915

The Tacoma Times, 29 May 1915

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]]> In the summer of 1914, someone shot through the window of a Long Island doctor’s office, killing a woman inside. When investigators found a dictaphone installed inside the office, they began to suspect the doctor’s jealous wife, who claimed to have been upstairs the evening in question. When the wife’s alibi changed her testimony, Americans had to decide whether to believe the jealous wife or the black maid who contradicted her. Who was the woman in white seen outside the doctor's office just before Lulu Bailey was murdered?

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Sources:

“Freeport History Encyclopedia.” Freeport Memorial Library. https://libguides.freeportlibrary.info/c.php?g=494599&p=3384485

Hamilton, Marybeth. When I’m Bad, I’m Better: Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).

Kemp, Kathryn W. “‘The Dictograph Hears All’: An Example of Surveillance Technology in the Progressive Era” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Vol. 6, No. 4. October 2007. Pp. 409-430

Philibert-Ortega, Gena. “Investigating the Murder Mystery of Louise Bailey with Newspapers.” Genealogy Bank. 28 June, 2013. https://blog.genealogybank.com/investigating-the-murder-mystery-of-louise-bailey-with-newspapers.html

Selnes, Bill. “George Morton Levy Lawyer.” Mysteries and More From Saskatchewan. 3 August, 2016. https://mysteriesandmore.blogspot.com/2016/08/george-morton-levy-lawyer.html

Newspapers:

The New York Times (July 1914- May 1915)

The Day Book. 20 October, 1914

The Evening World. 8 May 1915

The Medford Mail Tribune. 5 May 1915

The Tacoma Times, 29 May 1915

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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-14879312 Mon, 06 May 2024 08:00:00 -0700 3866 herstory, womens history, new york history, long island, abortion, wwi, world war i, lusitania 4 55 full true Hell Broke Loose: The Servant Girl Killer Hell Broke Loose: The Servant Girl Killer Before Jack the Ripper, there was the Servant Girl Annihilator. The man who stalked Austin, Texas, in 1885, preying upon the city’s black servant girls. When he targeted two white women in a shocking Christmas Eve attack, all hell broke loose. 

Who was this servant girl killer, and was he the same man that terrorized London in 1888?


Sources:

Galloway, J. R. The Servant Girl Murders: Austin, Texas 1885 (BookLocker, 2010) and the book’s website https://www.servantgirlmurders.com/

History Detectives- HDSI- Texas Servant Girl Murders, 2014. PBS. https://www.pbs.org/video/history-detectives-hdsi-texas-servant-girl-murders/ 

Hollandsworth, Skip. The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer (Henry Holt and Company: New York, 2015) 

and “Capital Murder” Texas Monthly, July 2000. https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/capital-murder/

Psencik, Katey. “The Servant Girl Annihilator: Austin’s oldest unsolved murder case.” KVUE. 7 November, 2014. https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/hidden-austin/the-servant-girl-annihilator-austins-oldest-unsolved-murder-case/269-260196137

Original Sources: 

Burt, Dr. W. J. “Autopsy Report for Susan Hancock, 1885” 29 December 1885. 

Susan Hancock Inquest. 29 December, 1885.

State of Texas v. James O Phillips, 1886.

Newspaper Articles: 

The Fort Worth Daily Gazette, The New York Times, The Austin Weekly Statesman


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]]> Before Jack the Ripper, there was the Servant Girl Annihilator. The man who stalked Austin, Texas, in 1885, preying upon the city’s black servant girls. When he targeted two white women in a shocking Christmas Eve attack, all hell broke loose. 

Who was this servant girl killer, and was he the same man that terrorized London in 1888?


Sources:

Galloway, J. R. The Servant Girl Murders: Austin, Texas 1885 (BookLocker, 2010) and the book’s website https://www.servantgirlmurders.com/

History Detectives- HDSI- Texas Servant Girl Murders, 2014. PBS. https://www.pbs.org/video/history-detectives-hdsi-texas-servant-girl-murders/ 

Hollandsworth, Skip. The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer (Henry Holt and Company: New York, 2015) 

and “Capital Murder” Texas Monthly, July 2000. https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/capital-murder/

Psencik, Katey. “The Servant Girl Annihilator: Austin’s oldest unsolved murder case.” KVUE. 7 November, 2014. https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/hidden-austin/the-servant-girl-annihilator-austins-oldest-unsolved-murder-case/269-260196137

Original Sources: 

Burt, Dr. W. J. “Autopsy Report for Susan Hancock, 1885” 29 December 1885. 

Susan Hancock Inquest. 29 December, 1885.

State of Texas v. James O Phillips, 1886.

Newspaper Articles: 

The Fort Worth Daily Gazette, The New York Times, The Austin Weekly Statesman


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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-14781837 Mon, 15 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0700 4067 history, true crime, jack the ripper, historical true crime, austin, texas, texas history, american history, serial killer, servant girl annihilator, servant girl killer, midnight assassin 4 54 full true The Wallpaper Widow: The Murder of Mary Emsley (Part II) The Wallpaper Widow: The Murder of Mary Emsley (Part II) A widow is found brutally murdered in London's East End in the summer of 1860. Four decades later, Sherlock's creator, Arthur Conan Doyle was still trying and failing to solve the mystery. Can we do better than Sherlock Holmes?


Sources:

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Debatable Case of Mrs. Emsley." Strand Magazine. May, 1901.

"JAMES MULLINS. Killing; murder. 22nd October 1860." Old Bailey Proceedings Online. October, 1860. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t18601022-874

McKay, Sinclair. The Mile End Murder (London: Aurum Press, 2018).


Broadsides:

Trial and sentence of J. Mullins for the murder of Mrs. Emsley at Grove-road, Stepney. (London: Disley, 1860.)

Life, trial, sentence, and execution of James Mullins for the murder of Mrs. Emsley, the old lady of Stepney. (London: Taylor, 1860.) 

The Stepney murder ; Apprehension and examination of the supposed murderer of Mrs. Mary Emsley. (London: Catnatch Press, 1860.)


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]]> A widow is found brutally murdered in London's East End in the summer of 1860. Four decades later, Sherlock's creator, Arthur Conan Doyle was still trying and failing to solve the mystery. Can we do better than Sherlock Holmes?


Sources:

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Debatable Case of Mrs. Emsley." Strand Magazine. May, 1901.

"JAMES MULLINS. Killing; murder. 22nd October 1860." Old Bailey Proceedings Online. October, 1860. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t18601022-874

McKay, Sinclair. The Mile End Murder (London: Aurum Press, 2018).


Broadsides:

Trial and sentence of J. Mullins for the murder of Mrs. Emsley at Grove-road, Stepney. (London: Disley, 1860.)

Life, trial, sentence, and execution of James Mullins for the murder of Mrs. Emsley, the old lady of Stepney. (London: Taylor, 1860.) 

The Stepney murder ; Apprehension and examination of the supposed murderer of Mrs. Mary Emsley. (London: Catnatch Press, 1860.)


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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-14716150 Mon, 01 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0700 3080 history, true crime, sherlock holmes, arthur conan doyle, murder mystery, mary emsley, mile end, mile end murder, london, english history, london history, historical true crime 4 53 full true The Wallpaper Widow: The Murder of Mary Emsley The Wallpaper Widow: The Murder of Mary Emsley A widow is found brutally murdered in London's East End in the summer of 1860. Four decades later, Sherlock's creator, Arthur Conan Doyle was still trying and failing to solve the mystery. Can we do better than Sherlock Holmes?


Sources:

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Debatable Case of Mrs. Emsley." Strand Magazine. May, 1901.

"JAMES MULLINS. Killing; murder. 22nd October 1860." Old Bailey Proceedings Online. October, 1860. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t18601022-874

McKay, Sinclair. The Mile End Murder (London: Aurum Press, 2018).

Broadsides-

Trial and sentence of J. Mullins for the murder of Mrs. Emsley at Grove-road, Stepney. (London: Disley, 1860.)

Life, trial, sentence, and execution of James Mullins for the murder of Mrs. Emsley, the old lady of Stepney. (London: Taylor, 1860.) 

The Stepney murder; Apprehension and examination of the supposed murderer of Mrs. Mary Emsley. (London: Catnatch Press, 1860.)



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]]> A widow is found brutally murdered in London's East End in the summer of 1860. Four decades later, Sherlock's creator, Arthur Conan Doyle was still trying and failing to solve the mystery. Can we do better than Sherlock Holmes?


Sources:

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Debatable Case of Mrs. Emsley." Strand Magazine. May, 1901.

"JAMES MULLINS. Killing; murder. 22nd October 1860." Old Bailey Proceedings Online. October, 1860. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t18601022-874

McKay, Sinclair. The Mile End Murder (London: Aurum Press, 2018).

Broadsides-

Trial and sentence of J. Mullins for the murder of Mrs. Emsley at Grove-road, Stepney. (London: Disley, 1860.)

Life, trial, sentence, and execution of James Mullins for the murder of Mrs. Emsley, the old lady of Stepney. (London: Taylor, 1860.) 

The Stepney murder; Apprehension and examination of the supposed murderer of Mrs. Mary Emsley. (London: Catnatch Press, 1860.)



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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-14671534 Mon, 18 Mar 2024 08:00:00 -0700 2988 history, true crime, historical true crime, british history, london history, london, east end, mile end, murder at mile end, stepney, sherlock holmes, arthur conan doyle, mary emsley 4 52 full true Blood Will Out: Dolly & the Bat Man Slayer Blood Will Out: Dolly & the Bat Man Slayer A decade-old murder mystery unravels when a secret is discovered in a Los Angeles attic. Even in 1930, the press declared the mystery of Dolly and the Bat Man Slayer as"Los Angeles' most startling murder story."

Sources:

Hapsis, Emmanuel. "Meet Walburga, the Married Woman Who Hid a Secret Lover in Her Attic for a Decade." KQED. 29 June, 2016. https://www.kqed.org/pop/27643/meet-walburga-the-married-woman-who-hid-a-secret-lover-in-her-attic-for-a-decade

Lardinois, Anna. "The Legend of Milwaukee's Most Infamous Love Triangle." Milwaukee Mag. 13 April, 2021. https://www.milwaukeemag.com/the-legend-of-milwaukees-most-infamous-love-triangle/

Noe, Denise. "Otto Sanhuber: The Man in the Attic Case." Crime Library. https://www.crimelibrary.org/notorious_murders/classics/otto_sanhuber/1.html

Rabe, John. "The Murderous Lover Who Lived In A Silver Lake Attic. A True Story." LAist. 15 April, 2022. https://laist.com/news/la-history/hidden-history-of-la-the-murderous-lover-who-lived-in-a-silver-lake-attic 

Rasmussen, Cecilia. "'Bat Man' Case: a Lurid Tale of Love and Death." Los Angeles Times. 20 March, 1995. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-20-me-44878-story.html

Startling Detective Adventures. Vol. 5, No. 26. (Fawcett Publications, Inc.: Louisville). July 1930.

Los Angeles Times (Issues from 1922-1930)


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]]> A decade-old murder mystery unravels when a secret is discovered in a Los Angeles attic. Even in 1930, the press declared the mystery of Dolly and the Bat Man Slayer as"Los Angeles' most startling murder story."

Sources:

Hapsis, Emmanuel. "Meet Walburga, the Married Woman Who Hid a Secret Lover in Her Attic for a Decade." KQED. 29 June, 2016. https://www.kqed.org/pop/27643/meet-walburga-the-married-woman-who-hid-a-secret-lover-in-her-attic-for-a-decade

Lardinois, Anna. "The Legend of Milwaukee's Most Infamous Love Triangle." Milwaukee Mag. 13 April, 2021. https://www.milwaukeemag.com/the-legend-of-milwaukees-most-infamous-love-triangle/

Noe, Denise. "Otto Sanhuber: The Man in the Attic Case." Crime Library. https://www.crimelibrary.org/notorious_murders/classics/otto_sanhuber/1.html

Rabe, John. "The Murderous Lover Who Lived In A Silver Lake Attic. A True Story." LAist. 15 April, 2022. https://laist.com/news/la-history/hidden-history-of-la-the-murderous-lover-who-lived-in-a-silver-lake-attic 

Rasmussen, Cecilia. "'Bat Man' Case: a Lurid Tale of Love and Death." Los Angeles Times. 20 March, 1995. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-20-me-44878-story.html

Startling Detective Adventures. Vol. 5, No. 26. (Fawcett Publications, Inc.: Louisville). July 1930.

Los Angeles Times (Issues from 1922-1930)


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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-14563379 Mon, 26 Feb 2024 09:00:00 -0800 2841 history, herstory, womens history, american history, true crime, murder mystery, historical true crime, los angeles history, la noire 4 51 full true Howl: Violette Noziere, 1930s Paris & the Invisible Generation Howl: Violette Noziere, 1930s Paris & the Invisible Generation In the summer of 1933, 18-year-old Violette Noziere poisoned her parents before heading out to enjoy the Parisian nightlife. When she was arrested and gave the motive for her crime, Violette scandalized the country.


Sources:

Breton, Andre. Violette Nozieres (Brussels: Editions Nicolas Flamel, 1933).

Maza, Sarah. Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011).

Reynolds, Sian. France Between the Wars: Gender and Politics (London: Routledge, 1996).

Traub, Courtney. “La Coupole, a Montparnasse Brasserie Haunted With Artistic History.” Paris Unlocked. 10 October, 2023. https://www.parisunlocked.com/best-of-paris/inside-la-coupole-a-montparnasse-brasserie-haunted-with-artistic-history/

Warner, Judith. “The Murder that Transfixed 1930s Paris.” Book Review - Violette Noziere. New York Times. 3 June, 2011. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/books/review/book-review-violette-noziere-by-sarah-maza.html


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]]> In the summer of 1933, 18-year-old Violette Noziere poisoned her parents before heading out to enjoy the Parisian nightlife. When she was arrested and gave the motive for her crime, Violette scandalized the country.


Sources:

Breton, Andre. Violette Nozieres (Brussels: Editions Nicolas Flamel, 1933).

Maza, Sarah. Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011).

Reynolds, Sian. France Between the Wars: Gender and Politics (London: Routledge, 1996).

Traub, Courtney. “La Coupole, a Montparnasse Brasserie Haunted With Artistic History.” Paris Unlocked. 10 October, 2023. https://www.parisunlocked.com/best-of-paris/inside-la-coupole-a-montparnasse-brasserie-haunted-with-artistic-history/

Warner, Judith. “The Murder that Transfixed 1930s Paris.” Book Review - Violette Noziere. New York Times. 3 June, 2011. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/books/review/book-review-violette-noziere-by-sarah-maza.html


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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-14154934 Mon, 01 Jan 2024 12:00:00 -0800 4036 history, true crime, historical true crime, true crime history, french history, parisian history, france, paris, womens history, herstory, surrealism, salvador dali, violette noziere, albert camus 3 50 full true Feral: The Dark Strangler Feral: The Dark Strangler The Dark Strangler prowled the streets of Jazz Age San Francisco. His murder spree spanned nine states, two countries, and three years, resulting in the murder of anywhere from 22 to 31 women and children. This is the story of America’s most prolific–and forgotten–serial killer, Earl Leonard Nelson.


Sources:

Esau, Alvin. The Gorilla Man Strangler Case (Altona: Friesen Press, 2022).

And "Murders." Alvin A. J. Esau. https://www.alvinesau.com/murders.html

Gribben, Mark. "Earle Leonard Nelson: The Dark Strangler." Crime Library: Criminal Minds and Methods. https://crimelibrary.org/serial_killers/history/earle_nelson/1.html

Schechter, Harold. Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster (New York: Pocket Star Books, 1998) and 

And Ripped from the Headlines (New York: Little A, 2020).


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]]> The Dark Strangler prowled the streets of Jazz Age San Francisco. His murder spree spanned nine states, two countries, and three years, resulting in the murder of anywhere from 22 to 31 women and children. This is the story of America’s most prolific–and forgotten–serial killer, Earl Leonard Nelson.


Sources:

Esau, Alvin. The Gorilla Man Strangler Case (Altona: Friesen Press, 2022).

And "Murders." Alvin A. J. Esau. https://www.alvinesau.com/murders.html

Gribben, Mark. "Earle Leonard Nelson: The Dark Strangler." Crime Library: Criminal Minds and Methods. https://crimelibrary.org/serial_killers/history/earle_nelson/1.html

Schechter, Harold. Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster (New York: Pocket Star Books, 1998) and 

And Ripped from the Headlines (New York: Little A, 2020).


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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-14044631 Mon, 04 Dec 2023 09:00:00 -0800 3915 history, true crime, historical true crime, true crime history, podcast, american history, jack the ripper, earle leonard nelson, dark strangler, gorilla man, gorilla killer, serial killer, san francisco 3 49 full true Blood Mail: America's First Kidnapping Blood Mail: America's First Kidnapping In the summer of 1874, little Charley Ross disappeared after taking candy from a stranger. This is the story of America’s first kidnapping and the nationwide manhunt that ended in a deadly shoot-out.



Sources:

“Charlie Ross - Gustave Blair - Nelson Miller” https://charleyross.com/

“Court Identifies ‘Charley Ross’ But Family ‘Disowns’ Him.” Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), May 9, 1939, Page A-5. 


Duke, Thomas Samuel. Celebrated Criminal Cases of America (San Francisco: The James H Barry Company, 1910). Pp. 536-546.

Fass, Paula S. Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).

Hagen, Carrie. We is got him: the Kidnapping that Changed America (New York: The Overlook Press, 2011) and “The Story Behind the First Ransom Note in American History.” Smithsonian Magazine. December 9, 2013.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-story-behind-the-first-ransom-note-in-american-history-180948612/ 

Ross, Christian. The Father’s Story of Charley Ross, the Kidnapped Child (Philadelphia: John E Potter and Company, 1876).

Schechter, Harold. “The Kidnapping of Little Charley Ross, 1874.” The Yale Review. May 14, 2018. https://yalereview.org/article/kidnapping-little-charley-ross-1874

Zierold, Norman. Defy All the Devils: America’s First Kidnapping for Ransom (Open Road Media, 2018).

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]]> In the summer of 1874, little Charley Ross disappeared after taking candy from a stranger. This is the story of America’s first kidnapping and the nationwide manhunt that ended in a deadly shoot-out.



Sources:

“Charlie Ross - Gustave Blair - Nelson Miller” https://charleyross.com/

“Court Identifies ‘Charley Ross’ But Family ‘Disowns’ Him.” Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), May 9, 1939, Page A-5. 


Duke, Thomas Samuel. Celebrated Criminal Cases of America (San Francisco: The James H Barry Company, 1910). Pp. 536-546.

Fass, Paula S. Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).

Hagen, Carrie. We is got him: the Kidnapping that Changed America (New York: The Overlook Press, 2011) and “The Story Behind the First Ransom Note in American History.” Smithsonian Magazine. December 9, 2013.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-story-behind-the-first-ransom-note-in-american-history-180948612/ 

Ross, Christian. The Father’s Story of Charley Ross, the Kidnapped Child (Philadelphia: John E Potter and Company, 1876).

Schechter, Harold. “The Kidnapping of Little Charley Ross, 1874.” The Yale Review. May 14, 2018. https://yalereview.org/article/kidnapping-little-charley-ross-1874

Zierold, Norman. Defy All the Devils: America’s First Kidnapping for Ransom (Open Road Media, 2018).

Music: Credits to David Fesilyan 

For more information, visit www.oldbloodpodcast.com




]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-13907720 Mon, 13 Nov 2023 09:00:00 -0800 2681 history, true crime, historical true crime, true crime history, american history, us history, charley ross, kidnapping, kidnapped, pt barnum, ransom, Philadelphia, Philadelphia history 3 48 full true The Sausage King & the Vat of Phat The Sausage King & the Vat of Phat In 1897, sausage sales plummeted after the wife of the so-called Sausage King suddenly went missing. Chicago police investigated the factory and a mysterious vat filled with reddish-brown slime. Did the wife run away? Was she ground into sausages? Or perhaps something worse?

Sources:

Duke, Thomas Samuel. Celebrated Criminal Cases of America (San Francisco: The James H Barry Company, 1910). 

"Ghost Supply Thrills for Chicago Flat Dwellers." The Sun, August 31, 1913. p. 14

Loerzel, Robert. Alchemy of Bones: Chicago's Luetgert Murder Case of 1897 (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003). (And alchemyofbones.com)

“Sausage Vat Murder.” Chicagology. https://chicagology.com/notorious-chicago/sausagevatmurder/.

Schechter, Harold. "The 'Sausage Vat Murder,' 1897: Notes on a Killing." The Yale Review. 18 February, 2019. https://yalereview.org/article/sausage-vat-murder-1897

"The Sausage Vat Murder." Murder By Gaslight. 20 November, 2009. http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2009/11/luise-luetgert-sausage-vat-murder.html

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]]> In 1897, sausage sales plummeted after the wife of the so-called Sausage King suddenly went missing. Chicago police investigated the factory and a mysterious vat filled with reddish-brown slime. Did the wife run away? Was she ground into sausages? Or perhaps something worse?

Sources:

Duke, Thomas Samuel. Celebrated Criminal Cases of America (San Francisco: The James H Barry Company, 1910). 

"Ghost Supply Thrills for Chicago Flat Dwellers." The Sun, August 31, 1913. p. 14

Loerzel, Robert. Alchemy of Bones: Chicago's Luetgert Murder Case of 1897 (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003). (And alchemyofbones.com)

“Sausage Vat Murder.” Chicagology. https://chicagology.com/notorious-chicago/sausagevatmurder/.

Schechter, Harold. "The 'Sausage Vat Murder,' 1897: Notes on a Killing." The Yale Review. 18 February, 2019. https://yalereview.org/article/sausage-vat-murder-1897

"The Sausage Vat Murder." Murder By Gaslight. 20 November, 2009. http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2009/11/luise-luetgert-sausage-vat-murder.html

Music: Credits to David Fesilyan 

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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-13790424 Mon, 23 Oct 2023 09:00:00 -0700 2774 history, historian, true crime, historical true crime, true crime history, american history, chicago, chicago history, sausage king, mystery, murder mystery 3 47 full true Sassy: The Brown Palace Murders Sassy: The Brown Palace Murders It was nearly midnight in May 1911 when crowds left the theater and gathered at the Brown Palace Hotel barroom. Within minutes, shots rang out and patrons scrambled for cover, but two would not survive. What prompted such a brazen shooting in Denver’s most elegant hotel?


Sources:

Faulkner, Debra. Ladies of the Brown: A Women’s History of Denver’s Most Elegant Hotel (Arcadia Publishing, 2017).

Kreck, Dick. Murder at the Brown Palace: A True Story of Seduction & Betrayal (Golden: Fulcrum Publishing, 2003).


The Rocky Mountain News

The Aspen-Democrat Times

The Avalanche Echo

Canon City Record


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]]> It was nearly midnight in May 1911 when crowds left the theater and gathered at the Brown Palace Hotel barroom. Within minutes, shots rang out and patrons scrambled for cover, but two would not survive. What prompted such a brazen shooting in Denver’s most elegant hotel?


Sources:

Faulkner, Debra. Ladies of the Brown: A Women’s History of Denver’s Most Elegant Hotel (Arcadia Publishing, 2017).

Kreck, Dick. Murder at the Brown Palace: A True Story of Seduction & Betrayal (Golden: Fulcrum Publishing, 2003).


The Rocky Mountain News

The Aspen-Democrat Times

The Avalanche Echo

Canon City Record


Music: Credits to David Fesilyan 


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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-13695565 Mon, 02 Oct 2023 09:00:00 -0700 4758 history, herstory, denver, us history, american history, brown palace hotel, true crime 3 46 full true Lawful: The Lynching of Chipita Rodriguez Lawful: The Lynching of Chipita Rodriguez In the middle of the American Civil War, a horse trader was found in a south Texas river with his head axed in. Following the discovery, the town sheriff arrested an elderly woman by the name of Chipita Rodriguez. Was justice served?

Sources:

Abernethy, Francis Edward. Legendary Ladies of Texas (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1994).

Correa, Tom. “Was Josefa ‘Chipita’ Rodriguez a Patsy?” The American Cowboy Chronicles. September 30, 2021. http://www.americancowboychronicles.com/2020/02/josefa-chipita-rodriguez-texas-bandit.html

Davies, Dave. “‘Cult of Glory’ Reveals the Dark History of the Texas Rangers.” NPR. June 8, 2020. https://www.npr.org/2020/06/08/871929844/cult-of-glory-reveals-the-dark-history-of-the-texas-rangers 

Hebert, Rachel Bluntzer. The Forgotten Colony: San Patricio de Hibernia (Burnet: Eakins Press, 1981).

Givens, Murphy. “A black day in San Patricio when Chipita was hanged.” Corpus Christi Caller Times. April 6, 2017. https://www.caller.com/story/news/columnists/murphy-givens/2017/01/17/black-day-san-patricio-when-chipita-hanged/96556038/

Guthrie, Keith. The Legend of Chipita: The Only Woman Hanged in Texas (Austin: Eakin Press, 1990).

Jennings, Rachel. “Celtic Women and White Guilt: Frankie Silver and Chipita Rodriguez in Folk Memory.” MELUS. Vol. 28. No. 1. (Spring, 2003). Pp. 17-37. 

Torres, Alfred. Jr., “The noose plagued Mexican-Americans, too.” My San Antonio. November 25, 2017. https://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/The-noose-plagued-Mexican-Americans-too-12381761.php 

Underwood, Marylyn. “Rodriguez, Josefa [Chipita].” Texas State Historical Association. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/rodriguez-josefa-chipita 

Wills, Matthew. “The Untold History of Lynching in the American West.” JSTOR. March 26, 2019. https://daily.jstor.org/the-untold-history-of-lynching-in-the-american-west/ 




1985 Texas Legislature docs regarding Chipita here: https://thewrongcarlos.net/wp-content/sources/texas-legislature-scr-14-69th-regular-session.pdf 

For more on the lynching of ethnic Mexicans: https://utrgv.libguides.com/SCA/lynching (Research Guide from the University of Texas)

Lynching in Texas: https://www.lynchingintexas.org/ 


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]]> In the middle of the American Civil War, a horse trader was found in a south Texas river with his head axed in. Following the discovery, the town sheriff arrested an elderly woman by the name of Chipita Rodriguez. Was justice served?

Sources:

Abernethy, Francis Edward. Legendary Ladies of Texas (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1994).

Correa, Tom. “Was Josefa ‘Chipita’ Rodriguez a Patsy?” The American Cowboy Chronicles. September 30, 2021. http://www.americancowboychronicles.com/2020/02/josefa-chipita-rodriguez-texas-bandit.html

Davies, Dave. “‘Cult of Glory’ Reveals the Dark History of the Texas Rangers.” NPR. June 8, 2020. https://www.npr.org/2020/06/08/871929844/cult-of-glory-reveals-the-dark-history-of-the-texas-rangers 

Hebert, Rachel Bluntzer. The Forgotten Colony: San Patricio de Hibernia (Burnet: Eakins Press, 1981).

Givens, Murphy. “A black day in San Patricio when Chipita was hanged.” Corpus Christi Caller Times. April 6, 2017. https://www.caller.com/story/news/columnists/murphy-givens/2017/01/17/black-day-san-patricio-when-chipita-hanged/96556038/

Guthrie, Keith. The Legend of Chipita: The Only Woman Hanged in Texas (Austin: Eakin Press, 1990).

Jennings, Rachel. “Celtic Women and White Guilt: Frankie Silver and Chipita Rodriguez in Folk Memory.” MELUS. Vol. 28. No. 1. (Spring, 2003). Pp. 17-37. 

Torres, Alfred. Jr., “The noose plagued Mexican-Americans, too.” My San Antonio. November 25, 2017. https://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/The-noose-plagued-Mexican-Americans-too-12381761.php 

Underwood, Marylyn. “Rodriguez, Josefa [Chipita].” Texas State Historical Association. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/rodriguez-josefa-chipita 

Wills, Matthew. “The Untold History of Lynching in the American West.” JSTOR. March 26, 2019. https://daily.jstor.org/the-untold-history-of-lynching-in-the-american-west/ 




1985 Texas Legislature docs regarding Chipita here: https://thewrongcarlos.net/wp-content/sources/texas-legislature-scr-14-69th-regular-session.pdf 

For more on the lynching of ethnic Mexicans: https://utrgv.libguides.com/SCA/lynching (Research Guide from the University of Texas)

Lynching in Texas: https://www.lynchingintexas.org/ 


Music: Credits to David Fesilyan


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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-13460589 Mon, 11 Sep 2023 09:00:00 -0700 3386 history, true crime, historical true crime, true crime history, texas history, texas, american history, the american west, us history, civil war, mexican american war 3 45 full true Victim Eight: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders Victim Eight: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders A killer prowled the streets of London in 1811, 80 years before Jack the Ripper. But in 1811, there were no police to catch the fiend who brutally murdered seven people along Ratcliffe Highway. Would there be a victim eight?


Sources:

“Chapter 1. The Death of a Linen Draper.” Spitalfields Life. December 7, 2021-December 31, 2021. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/07/the-ratcliffe-highway-murders/ 

Fairburn, John. Fairburn’s Account of the Dreadful Murder of Mr. Marr and Family. (London: John Fairburn,  1811.) 

James, P.D. and Critchley, T.A. The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliff Highway Murders 1811 (New York: The Mysterious Press, 1971).

Jeffries, Bob. “The Ratcliffe Highway Murders December 1811.” Thames Police Museum. http://www.thamespolicemuseum.org.uk/h_ratcliffehighwaymurders_1.html

Ramsland, Katherine. “The Ratcliffe Highway Murders.” Crime Library. https://www.crimelibrary.org/serial_killers/history/ratcliffe_murders/index.html 

“Ratcliffe Highway.” St. George-in-the-East Church. http://www.stgitehistory.org.uk/ratcliffhighway.html 

Staveley-Wadham, Rose. “Horror and Hysteria: The 1811 Ratcliffe Highway Murders.” The British Newspaper Archive. April 22, 2021. https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2021/04/22/the-1811-ratcliff-highway-murders/

The Times, December 1811-February 1812


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]]> A killer prowled the streets of London in 1811, 80 years before Jack the Ripper. But in 1811, there were no police to catch the fiend who brutally murdered seven people along Ratcliffe Highway. Would there be a victim eight?


Sources:

“Chapter 1. The Death of a Linen Draper.” Spitalfields Life. December 7, 2021-December 31, 2021. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/07/the-ratcliffe-highway-murders/ 

Fairburn, John. Fairburn’s Account of the Dreadful Murder of Mr. Marr and Family. (London: John Fairburn,  1811.) 

James, P.D. and Critchley, T.A. The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliff Highway Murders 1811 (New York: The Mysterious Press, 1971).

Jeffries, Bob. “The Ratcliffe Highway Murders December 1811.” Thames Police Museum. http://www.thamespolicemuseum.org.uk/h_ratcliffehighwaymurders_1.html

Ramsland, Katherine. “The Ratcliffe Highway Murders.” Crime Library. https://www.crimelibrary.org/serial_killers/history/ratcliffe_murders/index.html 

“Ratcliffe Highway.” St. George-in-the-East Church. http://www.stgitehistory.org.uk/ratcliffhighway.html 

Staveley-Wadham, Rose. “Horror and Hysteria: The 1811 Ratcliffe Highway Murders.” The British Newspaper Archive. April 22, 2021. https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2021/04/22/the-1811-ratcliff-highway-murders/

The Times, December 1811-February 1812


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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-13366218 Mon, 21 Aug 2023 09:00:00 -0700 5117 history, true crime, historical true crime, true crime history, herstory, british history, jack the ripper, english history, london, london history, ratcliffe highway 3 44 full true Little Demon & The Bloody Trunk II Little Demon & The Bloody Trunk II The Gouffe Affair had attracted international interest by 1890, with the world wondering if Gabrielle’s defense could be true. Could someone really be hypnotized and compelled to commit murder? 


Sources:

Bogousslavsky, Julien and Walusinksi, Olivier. "The forgotten Gilles de la Tourette: Practioner, expert, and victim of criminal hypnotism." Le bâillement. http://baillement.com/recherche/gdt/gdt_hysteria.pdf 

Bogousslavsky, Julien, Walusinksi, Olivier, and Veyrunes, Denis. "Criminal hypnotism at the Belle Epoque: The path traced by Jean-Martin Charcot and Georges Gilles de la Tourette." Le bâillement. July 15, 2009. http://baillement.com/recherche/gdt/criminal_hypnotism.html

Levingston, Steven. Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris (Doubleday: New York, 2014).

Lochouarn, Denis. "XV- L'Affaire Gouffé." Doctor Juris. https://web.archive.org/web/20150722220540/https://sites.google.com/site/doctojuris/Home/pages-professionnelles/etudie/huissiers-de-justice/ici/xv---laffaire-gouff

Poisson, Philippe. Le meurtre  de l'huissier Gouffé. Le blog de Philippe Poisson. September 12, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20150717025115/http://philippepoisson-hotmail.com.over-blog.com/article-35987097.html

Starr, Douglas. "Murder in 19th Century France and the Birth of Forensic Science." Gizmodo. October 14, 2010. https://gizmodo.com/murder-in-19th-century-france-and-the-birth-of-forensic-5662454

Stolze, Dolly. "The Mystery of the Corpse in the Burlap Sack." Sapiens. March 25, 2016. https://www.sapiens.org/biology/alexandre-lacassagne-forensic-anthropology/


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]]> The Gouffe Affair had attracted international interest by 1890, with the world wondering if Gabrielle’s defense could be true. Could someone really be hypnotized and compelled to commit murder? 


Sources:

Bogousslavsky, Julien and Walusinksi, Olivier. "The forgotten Gilles de la Tourette: Practioner, expert, and victim of criminal hypnotism." Le bâillement. http://baillement.com/recherche/gdt/gdt_hysteria.pdf 

Bogousslavsky, Julien, Walusinksi, Olivier, and Veyrunes, Denis. "Criminal hypnotism at the Belle Epoque: The path traced by Jean-Martin Charcot and Georges Gilles de la Tourette." Le bâillement. July 15, 2009. http://baillement.com/recherche/gdt/criminal_hypnotism.html

Levingston, Steven. Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris (Doubleday: New York, 2014).

Lochouarn, Denis. "XV- L'Affaire Gouffé." Doctor Juris. https://web.archive.org/web/20150722220540/https://sites.google.com/site/doctojuris/Home/pages-professionnelles/etudie/huissiers-de-justice/ici/xv---laffaire-gouff

Poisson, Philippe. Le meurtre  de l'huissier Gouffé. Le blog de Philippe Poisson. September 12, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20150717025115/http://philippepoisson-hotmail.com.over-blog.com/article-35987097.html

Starr, Douglas. "Murder in 19th Century France and the Birth of Forensic Science." Gizmodo. October 14, 2010. https://gizmodo.com/murder-in-19th-century-france-and-the-birth-of-forensic-5662454

Stolze, Dolly. "The Mystery of the Corpse in the Burlap Sack." Sapiens. March 25, 2016. https://www.sapiens.org/biology/alexandre-lacassagne-forensic-anthropology/


Music: Credits to David Fesilyan and Luke Holizna


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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-13239741 Mon, 07 Aug 2023 09:00:00 -0700 3011 history, historian ,historylover ,historybuff ,historicaltruecrime ,truecrimehistory, truecrime, truecrimepodcast, historypodcast, ushistory, americanhistory ,californiahistory ,lahistory , losangeleshistory , hollywoodhistory ,waterwars ,laborwars ,mcnam 3 43 full true Little Demon & The Bloody Trunk I Little Demon & The Bloody Trunk I Mysteries collide in 1889 France, as a bailiff goes missing and a bloody trunk is discovered in the countryside. Can Paris’s best detectives solve the case?


Sources:

Bogousslavsky, Julien and Walusinksi, Olivier. "The forgotten Gilles de la Tourette: Practioner, expert, and victim of criminal hypnotism." Le bâillement. http://baillement.com/recherche/gdt/gdt_hysteria.pdf 

Bogousslavsky, Julien, Walusinksi, Olivier, and Veyrunes, Denis. "Criminal hypnotism at the Belle Epoque: The path traced by Jean-Martin Charcot and Georges Gilles de la Tourette." Le bâillement. July 15, 2009. http://baillement.com/recherche/gdt/criminal_hypnotism.html

Levingston, Steven. Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris (Doubleday: New York, 2014).

Lochouarn, Denis. "XV- L'Affaire Gouffé." Doctor Juris. https://web.archive.org/web/20150722220540/https://sites.google.com/site/doctojuris/Home/pages-professionnelles/etudie/huissiers-de-justice/ici/xv---laffaire-gouff

Poisson, Philippe. Le meurtre  de l'huissier Gouffé. Le blog de Philippe Poisson. September 12, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20150717025115/http://philippepoisson-hotmail.com.over-blog.com/article-35987097.html

Starr, Douglas. "Murder in 19th Century France and the Birth of Forensic Science." Gizmodo. October 14, 2010. https://gizmodo.com/murder-in-19th-century-france-and-the-birth-of-forensic-5662454

Stolze, Dolly. "The Mystery of the Corpse in the Burlap Sack." Sapiens. March 25, 2016. https://www.sapiens.org/biology/alexandre-lacassagne-forensic-anthropology/


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]]> Mysteries collide in 1889 France, as a bailiff goes missing and a bloody trunk is discovered in the countryside. Can Paris’s best detectives solve the case?


Sources:

Bogousslavsky, Julien and Walusinksi, Olivier. "The forgotten Gilles de la Tourette: Practioner, expert, and victim of criminal hypnotism." Le bâillement. http://baillement.com/recherche/gdt/gdt_hysteria.pdf 

Bogousslavsky, Julien, Walusinksi, Olivier, and Veyrunes, Denis. "Criminal hypnotism at the Belle Epoque: The path traced by Jean-Martin Charcot and Georges Gilles de la Tourette." Le bâillement. July 15, 2009. http://baillement.com/recherche/gdt/criminal_hypnotism.html

Levingston, Steven. Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris (Doubleday: New York, 2014).

Lochouarn, Denis. "XV- L'Affaire Gouffé." Doctor Juris. https://web.archive.org/web/20150722220540/https://sites.google.com/site/doctojuris/Home/pages-professionnelles/etudie/huissiers-de-justice/ici/xv---laffaire-gouff

Poisson, Philippe. Le meurtre  de l'huissier Gouffé. Le blog de Philippe Poisson. September 12, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20150717025115/http://philippepoisson-hotmail.com.over-blog.com/article-35987097.html

Starr, Douglas. "Murder in 19th Century France and the Birth of Forensic Science." Gizmodo. October 14, 2010. https://gizmodo.com/murder-in-19th-century-france-and-the-birth-of-forensic-5662454

Stolze, Dolly. "The Mystery of the Corpse in the Burlap Sack." Sapiens. March 25, 2016. https://www.sapiens.org/biology/alexandre-lacassagne-forensic-anthropology/


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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-13239559 Mon, 24 Jul 2023 09:00:00 -0700 3310 history, historian ,historylover ,historybuff ,historicaltruecrime ,truecrimehistory, truecrime, truecrimepodcast, historypodcast, ushistory, americanhistory ,californiahistory ,lahistory , losangeleshistory , hollywoodhistory ,waterwars ,laborwars ,mcnam 3 42 full true A Man's Crime: Alice Mitchell & Freda Ward A Man's Crime: Alice Mitchell & Freda Ward In 1892, 17-year-old Freda Ward was walking to the river landing when she was attacked with a razor blade and had her throat slit. The ensuing legal battles brought national attention to Memphis, Tennessee, and challenged her society’s views on gender and love.


Sources:

Abate, Michelle Ann. Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008).

Astor, Vincent. “Alice & Freda: In 1892, Memphis girls’ young love ends tragically, creates national headlines.” Focus LGBT. February, 2018. https://focuslgbt.com/blog/alice-freda-1892-memphis-girls-young-love-ends-tragically-creates-national-headlines/

Coe, Alexis. Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis. (Minneapolis: Zest Books, 2014).

“A Very Unnatural Crime.” The Toast. September 6, 2013. https://the-toast.net/2013/09/06/crime-history-alice-mitchell/

 “Girl Slays Girl: An Excerpt From ‘Alice + Freda Forever’.” Jezebel. October 7, 2014. https://jezebel.com/girl-slays-girl-an-excerpt-from-alice-freda-forever-1643363496

“How My Book Infected My Nightmares.” VICE. October 28, 2014. https://www.vice.com/en/article/znw8dj/alice-in-the-asylum-1027



Cortez, Ali. “A Love Gone South in ‘Alice + Freda Forever’.” Deep South Mag. October 3, 2014. https://deepsouthmag.com/2014/10/03/a-love-gone-south-in-alice-freda-forever/

Duggan, Lisa. Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000).

Fowler, Russell. “Evil on the Bench: The Rise and Fall of Judge Julius J. DuBose.” Tennessee Bar Association. February 1, 2020. https://www.tba.org/?pg=Articles&blAction=showEntry&blogEntry=52583

“Jenny Higbee and the Memphis Higbee School.” Historic Memphis. http://www.historic-memphis.com/biographies/higbee/higbee.html

Lindquist, Lisa J. “Images of Alice: Gender, Deviancy, and a Love Murder in Memphis.” Journal of the History of Sexuality. Vol. 6. No. 1. (July, 1995) pp. 30-61.



Newspapers: The Bolivar Bulletin, The San Francisco Call, The New York Times


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]]> In 1892, 17-year-old Freda Ward was walking to the river landing when she was attacked with a razor blade and had her throat slit. The ensuing legal battles brought national attention to Memphis, Tennessee, and challenged her society’s views on gender and love.


Sources:

Abate, Michelle Ann. Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008).

Astor, Vincent. “Alice & Freda: In 1892, Memphis girls’ young love ends tragically, creates national headlines.” Focus LGBT. February, 2018. https://focuslgbt.com/blog/alice-freda-1892-memphis-girls-young-love-ends-tragically-creates-national-headlines/

Coe, Alexis. Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis. (Minneapolis: Zest Books, 2014).

“A Very Unnatural Crime.” The Toast. September 6, 2013. https://the-toast.net/2013/09/06/crime-history-alice-mitchell/

 “Girl Slays Girl: An Excerpt From ‘Alice + Freda Forever’.” Jezebel. October 7, 2014. https://jezebel.com/girl-slays-girl-an-excerpt-from-alice-freda-forever-1643363496

“How My Book Infected My Nightmares.” VICE. October 28, 2014. https://www.vice.com/en/article/znw8dj/alice-in-the-asylum-1027



Cortez, Ali. “A Love Gone South in ‘Alice + Freda Forever’.” Deep South Mag. October 3, 2014. https://deepsouthmag.com/2014/10/03/a-love-gone-south-in-alice-freda-forever/

Duggan, Lisa. Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000).

Fowler, Russell. “Evil on the Bench: The Rise and Fall of Judge Julius J. DuBose.” Tennessee Bar Association. February 1, 2020. https://www.tba.org/?pg=Articles&blAction=showEntry&blogEntry=52583

“Jenny Higbee and the Memphis Higbee School.” Historic Memphis. http://www.historic-memphis.com/biographies/higbee/higbee.html

Lindquist, Lisa J. “Images of Alice: Gender, Deviancy, and a Love Murder in Memphis.” Journal of the History of Sexuality. Vol. 6. No. 1. (July, 1995) pp. 30-61.



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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-13041116 Mon, 03 Jul 2023 08:00:00 -0700 3232 history, true crime, american history, us history, murder, historical true crime, true crime history, alice and freda, alice mitchell, freda ward, memphis, tennessee history, memphis history, lgbtq, lesbian 3 41 full true Devil on Deck: O.G. Albert Hicks Devil on Deck: O.G. Albert Hicks In March of 1860, sailors found a bloody ghost ship floating in New York’s East River. The discovery sparked a manhunt for a serial killer who had robbed and killed his way around the globe. This episode is the story of the last pirate and the original gangster, Albert Hicks.

Sources:

Asbury, Herbert. The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld. (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1927).

Cohen, Rich. The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, A Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation. (New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2019).

“The Original Gangster Style Guy.” The New York Times. June 10, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/10/fashion/the-original-gangster-style-guy.html

“A Walking Tour of New York, Circa 1860, Accompanied by the Cities’ Last Pirate.” Vulture. June 11, 2019. https://www.vulture.com/2019/06/touring-the-new-york-of-albert-hicks-new-yorks-last-pirate.html

“Meet the 19th-Century Pirate Who Taught New York’s Tough Guys How to Flex.” Vanity Fair. June 4, 2019. https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/06/meet-the-19th-century-pirate-who-taught-new-yorks-tough-guys-how-to-flex


Hicks, Albert W. The Life, Trial, Confession and Execution of Albert W. Hicks, the Pirate and Murderer… (New York: Robert M. De Witt, 1860).

Articles from the New York Times, March to July 1860


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]]> In March of 1860, sailors found a bloody ghost ship floating in New York’s East River. The discovery sparked a manhunt for a serial killer who had robbed and killed his way around the globe. This episode is the story of the last pirate and the original gangster, Albert Hicks.

Sources:

Asbury, Herbert. The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld. (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1927).

Cohen, Rich. The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, A Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation. (New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2019).

“The Original Gangster Style Guy.” The New York Times. June 10, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/10/fashion/the-original-gangster-style-guy.html

“A Walking Tour of New York, Circa 1860, Accompanied by the Cities’ Last Pirate.” Vulture. June 11, 2019. https://www.vulture.com/2019/06/touring-the-new-york-of-albert-hicks-new-yorks-last-pirate.html

“Meet the 19th-Century Pirate Who Taught New York’s Tough Guys How to Flex.” Vanity Fair. June 4, 2019. https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/06/meet-the-19th-century-pirate-who-taught-new-yorks-tough-guys-how-to-flex


Hicks, Albert W. The Life, Trial, Confession and Execution of Albert W. Hicks, the Pirate and Murderer… (New York: Robert M. De Witt, 1860).

Articles from the New York Times, March to July 1860


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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-12921110 Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:00:00 -0700 3353 history, historian, true crime, historical true crime, american history, new york history, new york city, nyc history, us history, pirate 3 40 full true Foreigner: A Murder in Peking Foreigner: A Murder in Peking In 1937, Peking police discovered a British schoolgirl at the bottom of an ancient wall with her heart torn from her chest. The investigation unraveled multiple theories that increased tension between locals and the many foreigners living in China at the dawn of World War II.

Sources:

Cook, Isham. “Midnight in Peking and true crime fiction.” Isham Cook. 11 January, 2020. https://ishamcook.com/2020/01/11/midnight-in-peking-and-true-crime-fiction/

Daugelait, Tautvile. “Author Graeme Shepard Disputes Paul French’s Famed Peking Murder Book.” The Beijinger. 12 November, 2018. https://www.thebeijinger.com/blog/2018/11/08/its-great-story-he-wrong-graeme-shepard-opposes-infamous-peking-murder-conclusions

French, Paul. Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China. (New York: Penguin Books, 2011).

Jenne, Jeremiah. “Who Killed Pamela Werner?” The World of Chinese. 7 April, 2019. https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2019/04/who-killed-pamela-werner/

Sheppard, Graeme. A Death in Peking: Who Killed Pamela Werner. (Earnshaw Books, 2018).

“A Death in Peking: Who Really Killed Pamela Werner.” Blog. https://www.pamelawernermurderpeking.com/blog

“Who Really Killed Pamela Werner? Re-examining Old Beijing’s Most Infamous Murder.” The China Project. 1 November, 2018. https://thechinaproject.com/2018/11/01/who-really-killed-pamela-werner-a-death-in-peking/

Spence, Jonathan D. “Who Killed Pamela Werner in Peking?” ChinaFile. 21 March, 2013. https://www.chinafile.com/library/nyrb-china-archive/who-killed-pamela-peking 

Perlez, Jane. “A Mystery Endures in Beijing’s Old Legation Quarter.” The New York Times. 2 May, 2014. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/travel/a-mystery-endures-in-beijings-old-legation-quarter.html

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]]> In 1937, Peking police discovered a British schoolgirl at the bottom of an ancient wall with her heart torn from her chest. The investigation unraveled multiple theories that increased tension between locals and the many foreigners living in China at the dawn of World War II.

Sources:

Cook, Isham. “Midnight in Peking and true crime fiction.” Isham Cook. 11 January, 2020. https://ishamcook.com/2020/01/11/midnight-in-peking-and-true-crime-fiction/

Daugelait, Tautvile. “Author Graeme Shepard Disputes Paul French’s Famed Peking Murder Book.” The Beijinger. 12 November, 2018. https://www.thebeijinger.com/blog/2018/11/08/its-great-story-he-wrong-graeme-shepard-opposes-infamous-peking-murder-conclusions

French, Paul. Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China. (New York: Penguin Books, 2011).

Jenne, Jeremiah. “Who Killed Pamela Werner?” The World of Chinese. 7 April, 2019. https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2019/04/who-killed-pamela-werner/

Sheppard, Graeme. A Death in Peking: Who Killed Pamela Werner. (Earnshaw Books, 2018).

“A Death in Peking: Who Really Killed Pamela Werner.” Blog. https://www.pamelawernermurderpeking.com/blog

“Who Really Killed Pamela Werner? Re-examining Old Beijing’s Most Infamous Murder.” The China Project. 1 November, 2018. https://thechinaproject.com/2018/11/01/who-really-killed-pamela-werner-a-death-in-peking/

Spence, Jonathan D. “Who Killed Pamela Werner in Peking?” ChinaFile. 21 March, 2013. https://www.chinafile.com/library/nyrb-china-archive/who-killed-pamela-peking 

Perlez, Jane. “A Mystery Endures in Beijing’s Old Legation Quarter.” The New York Times. 2 May, 2014. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/travel/a-mystery-endures-in-beijings-old-legation-quarter.html

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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-12786759 Mon, 22 May 2023 08:00:00 -0700 4539 history, true crime, china, chinese history, world war 2, historical true crime 3 39 full true Death Dealing: Ned Doheny, Hugh Plunkett & LA Noire Death Dealing: Ned Doheny, Hugh Plunkett & LA Noire In 1929, the son of oil magnate Edward Doheny was found dead beside his secretary in an apparent murder-suicide. The news exploded onto the papers for three days before the district attorney canceled the inquest and closed the case. When detectives decided there had been foul play, they were silenced, leaving everyone to wonder what truly went on that night at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills.


Sources:

Columbia, David Patrick. “The Continuing Mystery of The Greystone Mansion Murders.” New York Social Diary. April 12, 2022. https://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/the-continuing-mystery-of-the-greystone-mansion-murders/

Davis, Margaret Leslie. The Dark Side of Fortune: Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon Edward L. Doheny (Berkeley, University of California Press: 1998).

“If These Walls Could Talk…” Los Angeles Public Library. July 30, 2013. https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/if-these-walls-could-talk

Lockwood, Charles and Persic, Peter V. “Greystone Historical Report.” August 30, 1984. https://dbase1.lapl.org/webpics/calindex/documents/11/519277.pdf

Marshall, Norman S. “Californians and the Military: The Forgotten Bagman of Teapot Dome: Edward ‘Ned’ Doheny Lawrence Jr.” Cal Guard Military Museums. https://www.militarymuseum.org/Doheny.html

Meares, Hadley. “We Shall Never Know: Murder, Money and the Enduring Mystery of Greystone Mansion.” KCET. July 25, 2014. https://www.kcet.org/history-society/we-shall-never-know-murder-money-and-the-enduring-mystery-of-greystone-mansion

Rasmussen, Cecilia. “D.A. Fitts Was Good Match For Scandalous 30s.” Los Angeles Times. September 19, 1999. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-sep-19-me-12084-story.html

Rayner, Richard. A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption and L.A.’s Scandalous Coming of Age (New York: Anchor Books, 2010).

Skene, Gordon. “1930s Los Angeles – Buron Fitts: L.A.’s Little Corruption Problem And Clifford Clinton’s War On City Hall.” Past Daily. August 23, 2017. https://pastdaily.com/2017/08/23/1930s-los-angeles-clifford-clinton/

Starr, Kevin. Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990). 

Stein, Jean. West of Eden: An American Place (New York: Random House, 2016).

White, Leslie T. Me, Detective. (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936.) Ch. 18. 

Welton, Benjamin. “Vintage Noir: The Tragedy at Greystone.” Crime Magazine. May 16, 2013. http://www.crimemagazine.com/vintage-noir-tragedy-greystone

Van Landingham, Andrea. Hollywood Horrors: Murders, Scandals, and Cover-ups From Tinseltown (Guilford: Lyons Press, 2022).


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]]> In 1929, the son of oil magnate Edward Doheny was found dead beside his secretary in an apparent murder-suicide. The news exploded onto the papers for three days before the district attorney canceled the inquest and closed the case. When detectives decided there had been foul play, they were silenced, leaving everyone to wonder what truly went on that night at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills.


Sources:

Columbia, David Patrick. “The Continuing Mystery of The Greystone Mansion Murders.” New York Social Diary. April 12, 2022. https://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/the-continuing-mystery-of-the-greystone-mansion-murders/

Davis, Margaret Leslie. The Dark Side of Fortune: Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon Edward L. Doheny (Berkeley, University of California Press: 1998).

“If These Walls Could Talk…” Los Angeles Public Library. July 30, 2013. https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/if-these-walls-could-talk

Lockwood, Charles and Persic, Peter V. “Greystone Historical Report.” August 30, 1984. https://dbase1.lapl.org/webpics/calindex/documents/11/519277.pdf

Marshall, Norman S. “Californians and the Military: The Forgotten Bagman of Teapot Dome: Edward ‘Ned’ Doheny Lawrence Jr.” Cal Guard Military Museums. https://www.militarymuseum.org/Doheny.html

Meares, Hadley. “We Shall Never Know: Murder, Money and the Enduring Mystery of Greystone Mansion.” KCET. July 25, 2014. https://www.kcet.org/history-society/we-shall-never-know-murder-money-and-the-enduring-mystery-of-greystone-mansion

Rasmussen, Cecilia. “D.A. Fitts Was Good Match For Scandalous 30s.” Los Angeles Times. September 19, 1999. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-sep-19-me-12084-story.html

Rayner, Richard. A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption and L.A.’s Scandalous Coming of Age (New York: Anchor Books, 2010).

Skene, Gordon. “1930s Los Angeles – Buron Fitts: L.A.’s Little Corruption Problem And Clifford Clinton’s War On City Hall.” Past Daily. August 23, 2017. https://pastdaily.com/2017/08/23/1930s-los-angeles-clifford-clinton/

Starr, Kevin. Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990). 

Stein, Jean. West of Eden: An American Place (New York: Random House, 2016).

White, Leslie T. Me, Detective. (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936.) Ch. 18. 

Welton, Benjamin. “Vintage Noir: The Tragedy at Greystone.” Crime Magazine. May 16, 2013. http://www.crimemagazine.com/vintage-noir-tragedy-greystone

Van Landingham, Andrea. Hollywood Horrors: Murders, Scandals, and Cover-ups From Tinseltown (Guilford: Lyons Press, 2022).


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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-12670216 Mon, 01 May 2023 09:00:00 -0700 4520 history, true crime, los angeles, la noire, doheny, la history, american history, california history, beverly hills, true crime podcast 3 38 full true Bloodstone: The Corpse in the Cylinder Bloodstone: The Corpse in the Cylinder The Blitz in Liverpool, England, unearthed a long-buried cylinder. When a child discovered a corpse inside, it ignited a century-old mystery.


Sources:

“The Blitz.” The History Place: World War II in Europe. 1998. http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/about-blitz.htm

“The Body in the Cylinder: How a Discovery During World War Two Revealed an Unsolved Victorian Era Mystery.” Creative History: Little Known Stories from the Past. January 10, 2021. https://creativehistorystories.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-body-in-cylinder-how-discovery.html

“Knock, Knock, Ginger: The History of the Ding-Dong-Ditch Prank.” Professional Moron. April 18, 2022. https://professionalmoron.com/2022/04/18/history-of-knock-knock-ginger/

“Liverpool and the Blitz.” National Museums of Liverpool. https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/museum-of-liverpool/blitz/liverpool-and-blitz#section--you-may-also-like

“Liverpool May Blitz 1941.” Old Mersey Times. http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/blitz1941.html

The London Gazette for the Year 1885. Vol II. (London: Harrison and Sons, 1885). P. 4250. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_London_Gazette/vyVKAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=thomas+cregeen+williams&pg=PA4250&printsec=frontcover

Pye, Ken. Liverpool Murders and Misdemeanours. (United Kingdom: Amberley Publishing, 2020.)  https://www.google.com/books/edition/Liverpool_Murders_and_Misdemeanours/i-bRDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

Seyd, Richard. Record of failures and liquidations in the financial, international, wholesale and manufacturing branches of commerce… (London: Seyd and Co., 1885). P. 445. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Record_of_failures_and_liquidations_in_t/_ZQNAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=thomas%20cregeen%20williams

“Skeleton in Cylinder.” Old Mersey Times. 2016. http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/skeletoncylinder.html

Slemen, Thomas. Strange But True: Mysterious and Bizarre People. (United States, Barnes & Noble, 1999.) https://www.google.com/books/edition/Strange_But_True/uOXjAX0vzU0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=cregeen

Whittington-Egan, Richard. Liverpool Colonnade. (London: Philip, Son & Nephew). 1955. https://archive.org/details/liverpoolcolonna0000rich/page/n7/mode/2up?q=thomas+cregeen+williams

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]]> The Blitz in Liverpool, England, unearthed a long-buried cylinder. When a child discovered a corpse inside, it ignited a century-old mystery.


Sources:

“The Blitz.” The History Place: World War II in Europe. 1998. http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/about-blitz.htm

“The Body in the Cylinder: How a Discovery During World War Two Revealed an Unsolved Victorian Era Mystery.” Creative History: Little Known Stories from the Past. January 10, 2021. https://creativehistorystories.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-body-in-cylinder-how-discovery.html

“Knock, Knock, Ginger: The History of the Ding-Dong-Ditch Prank.” Professional Moron. April 18, 2022. https://professionalmoron.com/2022/04/18/history-of-knock-knock-ginger/

“Liverpool and the Blitz.” National Museums of Liverpool. https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/museum-of-liverpool/blitz/liverpool-and-blitz#section--you-may-also-like

“Liverpool May Blitz 1941.” Old Mersey Times. http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/blitz1941.html

The London Gazette for the Year 1885. Vol II. (London: Harrison and Sons, 1885). P. 4250. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_London_Gazette/vyVKAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=thomas+cregeen+williams&pg=PA4250&printsec=frontcover

Pye, Ken. Liverpool Murders and Misdemeanours. (United Kingdom: Amberley Publishing, 2020.)  https://www.google.com/books/edition/Liverpool_Murders_and_Misdemeanours/i-bRDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

Seyd, Richard. Record of failures and liquidations in the financial, international, wholesale and manufacturing branches of commerce… (London: Seyd and Co., 1885). P. 445. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Record_of_failures_and_liquidations_in_t/_ZQNAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=thomas%20cregeen%20williams

“Skeleton in Cylinder.” Old Mersey Times. 2016. http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/skeletoncylinder.html

Slemen, Thomas. Strange But True: Mysterious and Bizarre People. (United States, Barnes & Noble, 1999.) https://www.google.com/books/edition/Strange_But_True/uOXjAX0vzU0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=cregeen

Whittington-Egan, Richard. Liverpool Colonnade. (London: Philip, Son & Nephew). 1955. https://archive.org/details/liverpoolcolonna0000rich/page/n7/mode/2up?q=thomas+cregeen+williams

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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-12508983 Mon, 17 Apr 2023 09:00:00 -0700 2803 history, true crime, historical true crime, true crime history, british history, liverpool, mystery, podcast, history podcast, true crime podcast 3 37 full true Wicked Creature: Murder on Cherry Hill Wicked Creature: Murder on Cherry Hill A daughter of the New York elite is accused of orchestrating her husband’s murder after he was shot through a second-story window at the historic Cherry Hill estate. The resulting trial culminated in the state’s last public hanging in 1827.


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]]> A daughter of the New York elite is accused of orchestrating her husband’s murder after he was shot through a second-story window at the historic Cherry Hill estate. The resulting trial culminated in the state’s last public hanging in 1827.


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]]> http://www.oldbloodpodcast.com/ Old Blood Buzzsprout-12497987 Mon, 27 Mar 2023 09:00:00 -0700 3263 history, us history, herstory, historical true crime, true crime history, true crime, american history, albany, new york, new york history, 3 36 full true