A Body Between The Rails
The Reily Mattock MurderEpisode 198 is centered on one of my favorite murder tropes, the so-called “eternal triangle,” between the cranky old farmer, his fading wife, and the handsome young farmhand. ...
5 Jan 20241h 59min
The Squirrel Hill Affair
Jealous Husband Murders Rival, Wounds WifeEpisode 232 is really just your average love triangle gone awry, but there are mysteries to be solved here, and the real reason I like this story is that the ...
3 Jan 20241h 20min
Mystery At The Laconey Mill
Case File For The Scoundrel LingoEpisode 428 describes two violent murders in the rural areas around Merchantville, New Jersey, in the 1890s. A rough farm-hand is the first suspect in the first case, ...
31 Des 20232h
Naomi's Infernal New Year's Surprise
A Deadly Package At Seat PleasantEpisode 430 tells of another holiday celebration ending in tragedy, when a mysterious package makes its way to the home of a young recently secretly married expectant ...
29 Des 20231h 26min
Murder Of The Phantom Twins
The Trial Of The Mother Of DollsEpisode 240 is one of those cases where you just know that somebody's off their rocker, but it's hard to figure out exactly who. Things get weird when a husband charges...
27 Des 20231h 4min
Olive Jones's Gruesome Christmas Vigil
The End Of The Skinny And Stumpy AffairEpisode 429 is our very special holiday episode, in which a disenchanted housewife pulls the trigger on her lover and claims self-defense. Let’s see how that wor...
24 Des 20231h 13min
The Demented Dynamiter Of Bath
The Michigan School House MassacreEpisode 48 looks at the most tragic school massacre in American history, this one perpetrated by the school district’s treasurer, upset over a recent rise in his prop...
22 Des 202343min
Don't Drop the Dynamite
The Boston Broker Bomber's Attack on Wall StreetEpisode 238 takes an inside look at the mad business of stock trading during the boom of the late 1800s as we hear the news of a bombing attack on the o...
20 Des 20231h 5min
