Serial Killers on the American Frontier: "Big" and "Little" Harpe
Herman Webster Mudgett of New Hampshire, better known by the alias H.H. Holmes, was responsible for anywhere from 20 to 200 killings before he was apprehended in 1894, and is known as one of America’s...
3 Des 202424min
Samuel Green and William Ash, the 'Terrors of New England'
When the priest asked, "Are you penitent, my son?", Samuel Green, with the rope around his neck and standing at the gallows, said with a smirk, "If you wish it." On their best days, Samuel Green and W...
26 Nov 202421min
The Reluctant Blanche Barrow: Bonnie Wasn't the Only Dame in Clyde Barrow's Gang
In the Ambush Museum in Gibson, Louisiana, hangs a copy of a poem written by a woman named Blanche Barrow, and it reads: "Across the fields of yesterday / She sometimes calls to me / A little girl jus...
19 Nov 202429min
Where Prohibition-era Gangsters Went to Hide: The Farmer's Farm
'Pretty Boy' Flloyd. John Dillinger. The Barkers. A lot of well-known gangsters emerged in the 1920s and 1930s; all of them criminals known as 'public enemies' to the government, and highly sought aft...
12 Nov 202430min
The Black Widows of Liverpool: Sisters Catherine Flannagan and Margaret Higgins
When Catherine Flannagan and her younger sister Margaret moved to Liverpool from Ireland in the late 1800s, they were among the tens of thousands of poverty-stricken Irish laborers and their families ...
5 Nov 202423min
The Trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants who were – controversially – convicted of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a security guard and a payroll clerk, du...
29 Okt 202435min
Did Mary Blandy Know the 'Love Powder' She Gave Her Father Was Arsenic?
Mary Blandy was desperate to marry, but none of her suitors met the stringent standards set by her father -- until she met William Cranstoun, son of a Scottish peer. But her engagement to him turned o...
22 Okt 202432min
Verne Sankey and Gordon Alcorn and Their Depression-Era Kidnappings
When Verne Sankey told his wife he and his gang were planning a kidnapping, he said, if “I don’t come back, don't identify my body.” Verne and his accomplice, Gordon Alcorn, were a pair of Depression-...
15 Okt 202427min
