Historical True Crime Episodes
Feb. 7, 2024
46. Horror Story on Smuttynose
Send us a text On March 5, 1873, two women were found brutally axed to death on the secluded Smuttynose Island just off the coast of Maine. Music by Isaiah Hildreth Male Narrator Curtis Hildreth Sources: Mystery on the Isles ...
Jan. 24, 2024
45. The Mysterious Death of Smith Reynolds
Send us a text Accident? Suicide? Or Murder? The question of "Z" Smith Reynolds' death is still not answered to this day more than ninety years later. The wealthy heir of the RJ Reynolds Tobacco fortune was shot on his sleepi...
Jan. 17, 2024
44. Grave Consequences
Send us a text On March 1, 1922, Tennessee sent four men ( under the age of twenty) to the electric chair to pay with their lives for the life they took. Music by Isaiah Hildreth Male Narrator: Curtis Hildreth Sources: news...
Jan. 10, 2024
43. The Crimes of Georgia Tann
Send us a text Georgia Tann was a social worker whose crimes spanned three decades from the 1920s to 1950. What appeared to be benevolence on her part was actually greed and downright evil that affected many families during t...
Dec. 24, 2023
42. Christmas Eve Special - Lowe Daniels
Send us a text In 1914, Lowe Daniels lived in the Uwharrie forest. He made his living making and selling whiskey. One day he came home from a trip and out of nowhere, shot his wife, his wife's seventeen year old sister, his ...
Dec. 13, 2023
40. A Christmas Mystery - What Happened to the Five Sodder Children?
Send us a text A fire broke out around midnight on Christmas Eve in 1945 at the Sodder house in Fayetteville, West Virginia. Five of the Sodder family's ten children didn't make it outside with the rest of their family. Geo...
Dec. 6, 2023
39. The Boone Bathtub Murders
Send us a text During a snowstorm in early 1972, a Boone, NC family is shockingly murdered in their own home. At first, it appears to be a robbery gone bad, but upon further inspection, that theory does not seem to add up. It...
Nov. 22, 2023
38. Lowell Lee Andrews- Thanksgiving Day Murders
Send us a text Lowell Lee Andrews was a bright university student, and beloved son of a Kansas farmer. On Thanksgiving day in 1958, he would shock his community by murdering his family in order to get his inheritance. Sourc...
Oct. 25, 2023
35. Lizzie Borden Took An Axe
Send us a text In 1892, in the town of Fall River, Massachusetts, a wealthy older couple was axed to death in their own home in broad daylight. Almost immediately their thirty-two-year-old daughter, Lizzie Borden, is suspect...
Oct. 18, 2023
34. "Countess Dracula" - Elizabeth Bathory
Send us a text Countess Elizabeth Bathory is in The Guinness Book of World Records for being the most prolific serial killer in the western world. She is alleged to have killed more than 600 virgins in order to drink their b...
Oct. 11, 2023
33. The Austrian Angels of Death
Send us a text Beginning in 1983, a group of four nurse aides began a killing spree that lasted for over six years. It began with a "mercy killing" but soon escalated into murder. The mastermind of the group came up with hor...
Sept. 27, 2023
31. Nell Cropsey: A Murder That Still Haunts North Carolina
Send us a text On the night of November 20, 1901, Nell Cropsey vanished from her family's home in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Thirty-seven days later her body was found floating in the Pasquotank River. There was only eve...
Sept. 13, 2023
29. The Hanging of Thomas Bowman
Send us a text In 1877, 47 year old Thurza Bowman died a violent death. An autopsy revealed she had been poisoned by strychnine. Suspicion would immediately fall on her husband. After many conflicting testimonies and two tri...
Sept. 6, 2023
28. Pardon Me: A Double Murder And The Question of Redemption
Send us a text During the early morning hours of July 16, 1898, eleven year old Wesley Elkins, with his baby sister in tow, alerted his neighbors that he had discovered his parents murdered in their bed. When authorities arri...
Aug. 10, 2023
25. The James Joseph Richardson Tragedy
Send us a text In 1967 James Joseph Richardson was accused of poisoning to death all seven of his children. Without a shred of evidence he was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. Years later, shocking n...
Aug. 5, 2023
24. Fasting For The Cure: Linda Hazzard
Send us a text In 1911, two wealthy sisters submitted themselves to alternative medical treatment for various ailments. The ailments seemed minor when they sought treatment; one sister needing help for her dropped uterus and...
July 27, 2023
23. Heavenly Creatures
Send us a text On June 22, 1954, teenage best friends Juliet Hulme and Pauline Reiper went for a walk in Victoria Park with Pauline’s mother Honorah. Thirty minutes later, the girls ran up to a nearby tea shop with blood al...
July 6, 2023
20.Who Took The Lindbergh Baby?
Send us a text One evening in 1932, a baby was taken from his crib as he slept. The child was Charles Lindbergh Jr., son of the infamous Atlantic crossing aviator, Charles Lindbergh. The crime became an instant sensational ca...
June 29, 2023
19. Bloody Edgar Watson
Send us a text In 1910, a mob of angry Floridians gathered at Smallwood store in Chokoloskee. They gunned down their neighbor, a plantation owner named Edgar Watson. He was a suspected and feared serial killer. Want to supp...
June 22, 2023
18. The Girl Scout Camp Murders
Send us a text In the summer of 1977, three young girls are murdered in their tent on the first night at summer camp. The tragic aftermath ended with the closing of the camp never to reopen and left parents wondering if the c...
June 15, 2023
17. Wineville Chicken Coop Murders Pt 2
Send us a text In 1928, twenty-one year old serial killer Gordon Northcott stalked the streets of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas looking for young boys to lure back to his chicken farm. Darlene and Melody tell his v...
June 8, 2023
16. Wineville Chicken Coop Murders Pt. 1
Send us a text In part one Darlene and Melody discuss the disappearance of Walter Collins. On March 8, 1928 Christine Collins was called in to work for a few hours at her job as a telephone operator. Her son, nine year ol...
May 11, 2023
14. The Murder of Pearl Bryan
Send us a text In 1896 a young woman's headless body was found in Ft. Thomas, Kentucky. During the autopsy it was discovered she had been pregnant at the time of her death. She was identified by her shoes and a birth defect...
April 13, 2023
12. The Murder of Little Mary Phagan
Send us a text In 1913 a little girl was found brutally murdered in the basement of the pencil factory where she worked. The trial of the century would follow an arrest. Was the right man convicted? Music: "Hard Times" By I...