S4 Ep25: The Clutter Family: The Case Behind Truman Capote's In Cold Blood
The horrific killing of four members of the Clutter family in 1959 led author Truman Capote to write In Cold Blood, the book credited with launching true crime as a genre. But how much of what Capote ...
2 Sep 202444min
S4 Ep24: How Catherine of Aragon Changed Europe
The Catholic Church lost its grip on England largely thanks to a woman who refused to quietly let her husband trade her in for a younger model. Catherine of Aragon's impact on Europe has lasted for ce...
26 Aug 202449min
S4 Ep23: Cassie Chadwick: The Impostor Heiress of the Gilded Age
Cassie Chadwick of Cleveland wasn't who she said she was. Even she admitted that -- though in her version, she wasn't the con artist daughter of a Canadian farmer, but rather the illegitimate daughter...
19 Aug 202438min
S4 Ep22: The Largest Art Heist in American History
When several men dressed as cops entered the Isabella Gardner Museum in March of 1990, the nighttime security detail didn't think much of it -- until one of the "officers" handcuffed the guards' wrist...
12 Aug 202442min
S4 Ep21: Sex, Lies and a Government Conspiracy: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
In 1932, hundreds of men in Tuskegee, Alabama, signed up for something they'd never had much access to: healthcare. The best part? It was free. Told for decades they were being treated for "bad blood,...
5 Aug 202447min
S4 Ep20: Terror in Munich: The 1972 Olympic Games
After Munich, Germany, was named the host of the 1972 Olympic Games, organizers were determined to highlight the country's softer side after the horrors of World War II. This was, after all, the first...
29 Jul 202442min
S4 Ep19: The Time Mobile, Alabama, Sentenced a Man to Death For Stealing $1.95
When a handyman from Mobile, Alabama, was accused of stealing $1.95 from a woman who employed him in 1957, no one could have guessed the fervor it would cause, not just nationally but overseas. Jimmy ...
22 Jul 202436min
S4 Ep18: The Pimlico Poisoning: The Trial of Adelaide Bartlett
Soon after London bade farewell to 1885 and welcomed the new year, a woman named Adelaide Bartlett roused her sleeping house with screams. Her husband, Edwin, who had seemed to have turned a corner on...
15 Jul 202443min
