S4 Ep3: The Cold-Blooded Killing of the Candy Man

S4 Ep3: The Cold-Blooded Killing of the Candy Man

Every parent has worried about their children hauling home tainted candy on Halloween, but not everyone knows where that fear originated. On Halloween in 1974, an 8-year-old boy named Timothy O’Bryan was granted one pick from his basket before bed — and soon after downing the contents of his Pixy Stix, he went limp in his father’s arms. The investigation threw parents into a panic, prompting tons of candy to be taken to sheriff’s offices for inspection. As horrifying as the case appeared to be at first, what police uncovered was far more sinister than anyone had imagined.

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S3 Ep25: The Eva Hamilton Scandal

S3 Ep25: The Eva Hamilton Scandal

At a brothel in New York in 1885, the great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton, Robert Ray Hamilton, met con artist Evangeline Steele. Steele was looking to make their part-time relationship permanent and...

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S3 Ep24: Inside Dr. Brinkley’s Operating Room: A Deadly Pursuit of Virility

S3 Ep24: Inside Dr. Brinkley’s Operating Room: A Deadly Pursuit of Virility

In 1918 in Milford, Kansas, John R. Brinkley, a fake doctor with no properly accredited medical education, opened a 16-room clinic where he promoted goat glands as a cure for over 20 ailments. The sca...

11 Syys 202342min

S3 Ep23: The Sultana Tragedy

S3 Ep23: The Sultana Tragedy

On April 27th, 1865, the Sultana, a 260 foot-long wooden steamboat, exploded into flames and sank on the Mississippi River. While the ship was only designed to hold 376 people, more than 2,000 passeng...

28 Elo 202336min

S3 Ep22: Looking Back on Matthew Shepard: His Story and His Legacy

S3 Ep22: Looking Back on Matthew Shepard: His Story and His Legacy

Matthew Shepard, born December 1, 1976, was a gay 21-year-old student attending the University of Wyoming. On October 6,  1998 near Laramie, Wyoming, Matthew was found horribly beaten, tortured and ti...

21 Elo 202337min

S3 Ep21: The Fall of the Everleigh Club

S3 Ep21: The Fall of the Everleigh Club

On November 22, 1905 at 5:30 p.m, Marshall Field, Jr. was discovered at his residence with a gunshot wound through his left side. While some thought this was an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot woun...

14 Elo 202334min

S3 Ep20: The Young Murders: Mrs. Clem's Secret Dealings

S3 Ep20: The Young Murders: Mrs. Clem's Secret Dealings

On September 13, 1868 in Cold Springs, Indiana, the bodies of business-minded Jacob Young and Nancy Jane Young were found along White River. Both Jacob and Nancy were shot in the head and Nancy's body...

7 Elo 202338min

S3 Ep19: The Resurrectionists: Murder for Profit

S3 Ep19: The Resurrectionists: Murder for Profit

In 18th- and 19th-century England, doctors employed grave robbers - or "resurrectionists" - to unearth bodies for anatomical research. Unwilling to wait for bodies to present themselves via natural ca...

31 Heinä 202342min

S3 Ep18: The Texarkana Moonlight Murders

S3 Ep18: The Texarkana Moonlight Murders

After seeing a movie together on February 22nd in 1946, Jimmy Hollis and his girlfriend Mary Jeanne Larey parked on a secluded road known as a lovers' lane. Just minutes later, a man in a white mask f...

24 Heinä 202336min

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