Historical True Crime Episodes
April 2, 2024
54. The Disappearance and Murder of Alma Kellner
Alma Kellner born in 1901, was the daughter of wealthy brewers in Louisville, Kentucky.On December 8, 1909, Alma disappeared on her way to attend mass at St. John's Roman Catholic Church, not far from her home. At first it wa...
March 19, 2024
52. Father Hans Schmidt: A Killer Priest
Today's episode is about the life and crimes of Father Hans Schmidt. He was executed in 1916 for murder. Schmidt is the only priest ever to be executed in the United States. Music- Isaiah Hildreth Male Narrator- Curtis Hildreth Sources newspapers.com murderpedia wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
Feb. 28, 2024
49. The MacDonald Family Murders Pt. 2
In early 1970 Capt. Jeffrey MacDonald is awakened by the screams of his wife and daughters being attacked. He claims a group of drugged-up hippies were the intruders, but authorities quickly begin to question that claim. Thi...
Feb. 21, 2024
48. The MacDonald Family Murders Pt. 1
At the height of the hippie culture and "Satanic Panic" in the early 1970s, a gruesome murder is committed at Fort Bragg, NC. A pregnant mother and her two small daughters are repeatedly stabbed to death. Her husband, Captain Jeffrey MacDonald, is also injured but survives the attack. He is able to…
Feb. 6, 2024
46. Horror Story on Smuttynose
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 of Shoals: Clos...
Jan. 24, 2024
45. The Mysterious Death of Smith Reynolds
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 sleeping porch after hosting his friend's 21st birthday party at his estate. The initial ruling…
Jan. 16, 2024
44. Grave Consequences
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: newspapers.com The ...
Jan. 10, 2024
43. The Crimes of Georgia Tann
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 those years. She...
Dec. 23, 2023
42. Christmas Eve Special - Lowe Daniels
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 seventeen year ...
Dec. 12, 2023
40. A Christmas Mystery - What Happened to the Five Sodder Children?
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. George Sodder, the...
Dec. 6, 2023
39. Boone, North Carolina: The Bathtub Murders
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 was a crime th...
Nov. 21, 2023
38. Lowell Lee Andrews- Thanksgiving Day Murders
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. Sources: In Cold Blo...
Oct. 25, 2023
35. Lizzie Borden Took An Axe
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 suspected of the bruta...
Oct. 17, 2023
34. "Countess Dracula" - Elizabeth Bathory
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 blood and bathe ...
Oct. 11, 2023
33. The Austrian Angels of Death
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 horrendous methods...
Sept. 26, 2023
31. Nell Cropsey: A Murder That Still Haunts North Carolina
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 ever one real suspect but did authorities get it right? Sources: Music by: Isaiah Hildreth M…
Sept. 13, 2023
29. The Hanging of Thomas Bowman
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 trials, Thomas Bow...
Sept. 6, 2023
28. Pardon Me: Wesley Elkins and The Double Murder
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 arrived at the grue...
Aug. 9, 2023
25. The James Joseph Richardson Tragedy
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 new evidence wou...
Aug. 5, 2023
24. Fasting For The Cure: Linda Hazzard
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 the other for ...
July 27, 2023
23. Heavenly Creatures
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 all over their cl...
July 6, 2023
20. The Kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's Baby?
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 case. When severa...
June 29, 2023
19. Bloody Edgar Watson
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 support us? Go to h...
June 22, 2023
18. The Girl Scout Camp Murders
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 camp experience ...