E115: “Up In Smoke” - The Sodder Family Tragedy

When Shirley Finn was found dead inside her car at the Royal Perth Golf Club, plenty of witnesses came forward with information about who she was with that night. But considering all the dirt she had ...

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Thanks to high-level connections and generous kickbacks, Shirley Finn ran one of the most successful brothels in Perth. But moving around loads of cash for the criminal underworld would come at a high...

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In October 1860, James Mullins was executed for the murder of Mary Emsley. But the case against him was built upon circumstantial evidence. Two crime novelists from different eras tried to solve what ...

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In 19th-century London, Mary Emsley outlived most of her family, two husbands, even her own child, before being brutally bludgeoned to death in her East End home. With multiple suspects, the case beco...

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Even after a ransom note was discovered, FBI agents were skeptical when William Parsons and 36-year-old housekeeper Anna Kupryanova insisted Alice Parsons was kidnapped. Then a discovery in the home's...

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Alice Parsons was the heiress to her uncle’s fortune and the owner of a large property in Stony Brook, New York. When she vanished, authorities assumed it was a simple missing persons case. But with a...

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Authorities determined there was only one suspect who had any motive to murder the Grubers. One person with a grudge against the family and who had a history of violent confrontations with them as wel...

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The Gruber family had their share of problems, and the townspeople near their rural German settlement knew it. But nobody could fathom who would want to slaughter five members of the family and the fa...

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