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...

Sources: Bogousslavsky, Julien and Walusinksi, Olivier. "The forgotten Gilles de la Tourette: Practioner, expert, and victim of criminal...

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...

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...

In 1937, Peking police discovered a British schoolgirl at the bottom of an ancient wall with her heart torn from her chest. The...

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

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...

The 30-year-old barrister Charles Bravo died after an excruciating three-day battle with poison. The case was doused in clues, a fact...

The 1931 Massie Affair ended in a lynching that shocked the world and a murder trial that threatened the Hawaiian Islands. This is Part...

In 1931, a prominent Navy wife stationed near Pearl Harbor accused five locals of assaulting her after leaving a Waikiki nightclub. This...

Reports of an American woman slain in Italy's scenic Lake Como circulated across the globe in the summer of 1910. The murdered woman was...

When women discovered newfound freedom on the streets of turn-of-the-century America, they also observed new dangers. When society failed...

Show Notes for Episode 30- Monstrous Strange II: Lydia Broadnax, Michael Brown & George Wythe This is Part II of Monstrous Strange. For...

In 1806, a founding father of the newly created United States was murdered. This episode is the story of a botched murder investigation,...

After an elderly woman was brutally murdered in her upscale Glasgow apartment, police charged a 38 year-old Jewish-German immigrant with...

When the LA Times exploded in 1910, a labor war erupted in Los Angeles. At stake was nothing less than the future of their city. This is...

In 1910, the city of Los Angeles was an inferno of unrest. A handful of men used coercion, corruption, and outright theft to build their...

How did ancient Greeks obtain justice during a century known for bloodshed and turbulence? And how did the Athenians reconcile such...

In 1909, New York City Police discovered the corpse of a white woman stuffed into a trunk. Because cops found the corpse in a Chinese...