Mary Rogers & The Invention of True Crime

Mary Rogers & The Invention of True Crime

Send us Fan Mail In this case, we bring it allll the way back to the 1830s/40s to talk about the unsolved case of Mary Rogers. This case was a major catalyst for the start of the True Crime genre. Mary herself was a sort of a "reality celebrity" in town, with many people traveling to the tobacco store she worked at for the sole purpose of getting to see her. Mary had a suspicious disappearance in 1838, though this was only for several days. Three years later, though, Mary's body is found near...

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Girly Chew: The Woman Who Predicted Her Murder

Girly Chew: The Woman Who Predicted Her Murder

Send us Fan Mail The case of Girly Chew Hossencofft is a study in how “weirdness” can become a weapon. And I truly mean weird. Con men, fashion designers, UFO’s, and conspiracy theories about otherwo...

21 Huhti 25min

A Daughter’s Betrayal: The Murder of Barbara Keim

A Daughter’s Betrayal: The Murder of Barbara Keim

Send us Fan Mail In July 2005, 41-year-old Barbara Keim was killed in her own home in an act of violence orchestrated by her daughter. Investigators eventually uncovered a planned conspiracy involving...

18 Huhti 27min

The French Family Annihilator

The French Family Annihilator

Send us Fan Mail We've all heard the expression "fake it till you make it", right? Well, Jean-Claude Romand did just that for 18 years, but never truly made it. Instead, he chose to murder his entire ...

7 Huhti 33min

The Unsinkable Terry Jo

The Unsinkable Terry Jo

Send us Fan Mail It was November 1961. The waters in the Bahamas were as blue and beautiful as ever. But for Nicolaos Spachidakis, a second officer on a Greek freighter called Captain Theo, something ...

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Virginia Hall: The Limping Spy They Couldn't Catch

Virginia Hall: The Limping Spy They Couldn't Catch

Send us Fan Mail Today we are talking about Virginia Hall, an American Spy who was able to completely evade the Gestapo during WWII. The Gestapo labeled her as “The enemy’s most dangerous spy.” During...

24 Maalis 32min

Josephine Baker: The Spy No One Suspected

Josephine Baker: The Spy No One Suspected

Send us Fan Mail Today we’re talking about Josephine Baker, the remarkable entertainer who took France by storm and used her unsuspecting identity for subterfuge in World War II - truly a badass woman...

17 Maalis 41min

Elizebeth Smith Friedman – The “Mother of Cryptology”

Elizebeth Smith Friedman – The “Mother of Cryptology”

Send us Fan Mail In honor of Women's History Month, this week we are talking about Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a woman who turned her love for decrypting Shakespeare’s plays into cracking codes and ciph...

10 Maalis 26min

The 55 Year Old Cold Case of Joseph Mulvaney

The 55 Year Old Cold Case of Joseph Mulvaney

Send us Fan Mail In 1992, a Wyoming man opened a padlocked military footlocker left in his shed by a neighbor six years earlier. Inside, he found the skeletal remains of a man shot in the head, wrappe...

24 Helmi 20min

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