Legs Diamond: The Gangster Who Survived Bullet After Bullet
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jack Diamond, known as Legs and sometimes as Gentleman Jack, took so many bullets and lived that...
10 Okt 26min
Alfred Hinds: One Name, a Naval Governor of Guam and a British Criminal
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Two men named Alfred Hinds sit on opposite sides of a single encyclopedia disambiguation page. A...
10 Okt 13min
The Real Peaky Blinders: Teenage Thugs, Bicycle Thieves, and a Myth
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The real Peaky Blinders were not middle-aged crime lords running an empire after the First World...
10 Okt 19min
Gustave the Killer Crocodile: Burundi's 2,000-Pound Man-Eater
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Gustave is a Nile crocodile estimated at more than 20 feet long and 2,000 pounds, blamed in loca...
10 Okt 20min
Yellow Kid Weil: The Con Man Who Fooled Mussolini and Lived to 100
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Joseph Weil, better known as the Yellow Kid, stole an estimated eight million dollars over a car...
10 Okt 23min
Papillon: How Henri Charriere Turned Other Convicts' Stories into Legend
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Henri Charriere, born in 1906 and nicknamed Papillon for the butterfly tattooed on his chest, wa...
10 Okt 21min
The Leopard of Rudraprayag: Jim Corbett and the Man-Eater That Killed 125
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!For eight years in the early 20th century, the people of the Garhwal region of India barricaded ...
10 Okt 16min
The Executioner: History's Most Necessary and Most Shunned Profession
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the Ottoman Empire, a condemned grand vizier could be offered a foot race against the head ga...
10 Okt 20min
