S5 Ep28: Can You Ever Forgive Me? The Literary Forgeries of Lee Israel

S5 Ep28: Can You Ever Forgive Me? The Literary Forgeries of Lee Israel

For a brief, dazzling moment in early 1990s New York, biographer Lee Israel became one of the most notorious literary forgers of all time. Out of money, out of friends, and with a sick cat to care for, Israel turned her biographer’s research skills and her sharp wit toward a new craft: fabricating letters from Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, Louise Brooks, and more. Her forgeries fooled collectors, corrupted archives and spread into the market as “authentic” pieces of history.

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S5 Ep7: Jack Kevorkian: Dr. Death or Champion of Choice?

S5 Ep7: Jack Kevorkian: Dr. Death or Champion of Choice?

In the 1990s, Dr. Jack Kevorkian ignited a firestorm when he began helping to end the lives of people who said they were terminally ill. Over the years, he claimed to have assisted in the deaths of mo...

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S5 Ep6: The Enduring Mystery of Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid

S5 Ep6: The Enduring Mystery of Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid

For much of their outlaw careers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid weren't the inseparable duo that Hollywood made us believe with its 1969 depiction of the pair. But the movie isn't the only reason...

7 Huhti 202544min

 *BONUS* Strange And Unexplained- That Time Democracy Almost Collapsed: The Forgotten History of Smedley Butler and the Plot to Overthrow FDR

*BONUS* Strange And Unexplained- That Time Democracy Almost Collapsed: The Forgotten History of Smedley Butler and the Plot to Overthrow FDR

Crimes Of The Centuries is dark this week, but we hope you'll enjoy this episode of Strange And Unexplained with Daisy Eagan. In the 1930s, some shadowy figures approached a decorated and beloved Ma...

31 Maalis 202542min

S5 Ep5: How the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire Forever Changed Civil Litigation

S5 Ep5: How the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire Forever Changed Civil Litigation

As the audience was settling in for an evening of entertainment in one of the swankiest nightclubs in the Midwest, a busboy approached the mic and asked everyone to exit the sprawling building. Soon, ...

24 Maalis 202543min

S5 Ep4: How Family Man John List Became New Jersey's Bogeyman

S5 Ep4: How Family Man John List Became New Jersey's Bogeyman

To outsiders, John List was a mild-mannered, church-going father of three whose oddest trait was mowing the lawn in a suit and tie. But then the bodies of his wife, mother and three children were unco...

17 Maalis 202544min

S5 Ep3: Mulholland's Deadly Dam Disaster

S5 Ep3: Mulholland's Deadly Dam Disaster

William Mulholland was summoned to the St. Francis Dam in San Francisquito Canyon early March 12, 1928, to inspect some leaks that workers found worrisome. Mulholland shrugged off the concerns and dec...

10 Maalis 202543min

S5 Ep2: The Genesee River Killer

S5 Ep2: The Genesee River Killer

Sex workers began disappearing in the Rochester, New York, area at an alarming rate in the late 1980s. When their strangled and mutilated bodies were later discovered, it was clear they were being tar...

3 Maalis 202544min

Friday Follow-Up: Charley Ross: America's First Kidnapping for Ransom

Friday Follow-Up: Charley Ross: America's First Kidnapping for Ransom

On this Friday Follow-Up, we update with information brought to us by two descendants of an important latter-day figure in the case.  After 4-year-old Charley Ross vanished in a carriage with two men ...

28 Helmi 202543min

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