Episode 225: "The Astor Place Riot"
On May 10, 1849, thousands of New Yorkers descended on Astor Place. By the end of the night, more than twenty people were dead and somehow, it all started with Shakespeare.This week we uncover the Ast...
10 Aug 54min
Episode 224: "My Funny Valentin(o): The Murder of Jack de Saulle"
Before he was Rudolph Valentino, he was a witness to the breakdown of the marriage of Blanca and Jack de Saulle. Their acrimonious divorce, child custody arrangements, and Jack's continued dismissal o...
4 Aug 40min
Episode 223: "The Central Park Five
The Central Park Jogger Case changed New York forever.In April 1989, a brutal assault in Central Park shocked a city already gripped by fear. Within days, five teenagers were arrested. Their videotape...
27 Jul 1h
Episode 222: Season 5 Finale - Updates! Hot Takes! A Game of Fact or Fiction!
We are wrapping up Season 5 with a BIG case update, your hot takes and theories, a fun game of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, AND, the Second Annual Tammany Awards! A big season deserves a big finale...
22 Jun 1h 2min
Episode 221: "Burr Kills Hamilton"
Okay...this is the last of Aaron Burr... we're pretty sure.On July 11, 1804, two of the most powerful men in America met beneath the cliffs of Weehawken, New Jersey. Within hours, Alexander Hamilton w...
15 Jun 58min
Episode 220: "New York's Coldest Cases: An Interview with David Bushman & Mark Givens"
This week we are chatting with authors David Bushman and Mark Givens all about their new book, New York's Coldest Cases: Ten Unsolved Murders That Rocked the Empire State. We get into the subjects of ...
9 Jun 1h 14min
Episode 219: "The Lavender Scare"
For decades, queer New Yorkers lived inside a hidden city. Beneath the neon lights of Greenwich Village and behind the blacked-out windows of Mafia-run bars, communities formed under constant surveill...
2 Jun 1h 7min
Episode 218: "The Bell Witch"
Deep in the forests of early Tennessee, one family claimed they were tormented by an unseen entity that spoke, sang, attacked their children, and ultimately murdered the family patriarch. We descend i...
25 Mai 1h 3min
