While World War I erupted throughout Europe, the Caillaux scandal plunged France into a chaotic murder trial that overshadowed the coming...

In the very early hours of September 9, 1739, a group of slaves digging a drainage ditch for the Stono River near Charleston, South...

The 2010 discovery of a skull in broadcaster David Attenborough's backyard finally closed a 130-year-old case that enraged Victorian...

Count Francesco Cenci, a 16th-century Roman nobleman, had a long record of cruel and violent behavior. In September of 1598, villagers...

In 1864, a small city in southern Brazil witnessed what many have called “the greatest crime on earth.” The legend of what occurred in a...

New York's Adirondack Mountains have long been praised for their tranquility and restorative powers on the body and soul. But in 1906, a...

In 1899, Allen Britt did Frankie Baker wrong. The consequence of his betrayal was murder and a ragtime song from St. Louis that became a...

In 1917, a dance craze swept through the streets of New York City, prompting reformers to launch a campaign against tango bars and the...

Episode 14 - Let Him Kill Me In a real game of thrones, the Julio-Claudian family jostled for power throughout their century-long...

If you recognize the name Fatty Arbuckle at all, it is likely in conjunction with Hollywood's greatest scandal. He's known as the man who...

Episode 12 - The Real Rappe (Part I) If you recognize the name Fatty Arbuckle at all, it is likely in conjunction with Hollywood's...

The Bastendorffs’ home was considered one of the few respectable boarding homes in Victorian London...until the discovery of a corpse...

John "Liver-Eating" Johnston was one of the "mountain men" who explored the American Northwest in the mid to late 1800s. Like the other...

By 1793, radical revolutionaries had unleashed a wave of bloodshed that threatened to swallow France whole. Charlotte Corday travels to...

Jean-Paul Marat terrorized France with his newspaper long before the most famous period of the French Revolution known as the Terror. By...

Episode 6 - Aqua Tofana Newly widowed women began to fill the streets of 17th century Rome. This prompted an investigation into their...

Show Notes Episode 6 - Crippen In 1910, London police discovered human remains underneath the home of a homeopathic doctor. The discovery...

Show Notes Episode 5 - The Women of Alexandria Raya and Sakina have become legends in Egypt, infamous for being the sisters who murdered...

When Mary Blandy fell in love with a Scottish nobleman in 1747, she had no idea that in just a few years, her father would be murdered...

It is 1952 in Florida, the heart of Jim Crow. A black woman walks into a white doctor's office and shoots the doctor dead. But why? And...