S2 Ep10: Terror at the Tewksbury Almshouse

S2 Ep10: Terror at the Tewksbury Almshouse

Almshouses in the 19th and early 20th centuries were meant to help society's most vulnerable, but in the 1880s, one in Tewksbury, Massachusetts was accused of such shocking treatment that the governor ordered a months-long investigation that dominated headlines nationwide. Among the claims: that the skin of patients who died was tanned and turned into curiosities for sale.

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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Hey, everyone - for Labor Day, we're re-releasing this episode all about a workplace tragedy that helped spark new regulations in the US to protect workers.  Enjoy the episode and we'll be back with a...

5 Syys 202240min

S2 Ep31: Chasing a Ghost: Hunting the Killer of Chief Greg Adams

S2 Ep31: Chasing a Ghost: Hunting the Killer of Chief Greg Adams

The heartbreaking murder of a small-town Pennsylvania police chief seemed like an open-and-shut case in December of 1980. After all, whoever shot Gregory Adams appeared to have left a driver's license...

29 Elo 202237min

S2 Ep30: Scandal in Arkansas: The Murder of Fern Rodgers

S2 Ep30: Scandal in Arkansas: The Murder of Fern Rodgers

Porter Rodgers and his family was as close as royalty as one could get in the small town of Searcy, Arkansas. He was a successful doctor working at a hospital that bore his name. But on Sept. 26, 1974...

22 Elo 202233min

S2 Ep29: Alfred Packer: The Colorado Cannibal

S2 Ep29: Alfred Packer: The Colorado Cannibal

When a haggard Alfred Packer stumbled from the Colorado wilderness in 1874, he at first said he'd been abandoned by five traveling companions who'd left him to fend for himself. But his already-shaky ...

15 Elo 202236min

S2 Ep28: The Harrowing Murders of Amelia Dyer

S2 Ep28: The Harrowing Murders of Amelia Dyer

To countless women, Amelia Dyer offered salvation: She was a supposedly married but barren woman who offered to adopt babies whose parents (usually unwed mothers) couldn't afford to raise them properl...

8 Elo 202239min

S2 Ep27: Billy Milligan and His Multiple Personalities

S2 Ep27: Billy Milligan and His Multiple Personalities

Around the same time the first Hillside Stranglers victims were found near Los Angeles, a young man was arrested in Ohio in an unrelated string of robberies and sexual assaults that would have strange...

1 Elo 202238min

S2 Ep26: The Hillside Stranglings Part 2

S2 Ep26: The Hillside Stranglings Part 2

After Kenneth Bianchi was arrested in early 1979 on suspicion he was responsible for the so-called Hillside Stranglings near Los Angeles, he made an outrageous claim: He did kill 10 women in LA and an...

25 Heinä 202238min

S2 Ep25: The Hillside Stranglings

S2 Ep25: The Hillside Stranglings

The first body discovered on a California hillside in late 1977 didn't make much news, but as the body count kept growing, so did the headlines -- and the sense of panic. The slayings, soon dubbed by ...

18 Heinä 202234min

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