Episode 232: "The Troubled Life and Death of Starr Faithfull"
Starr Faithfull's short life was marked by pain and deep sadness. When she is found dead on a Long Island beach, it was easy for many to assume she had killed herself. But is that what happened? Or co...
28 Sep 41min
Episode 231: "The Van Nest Massacre: Murder, Madness, and the Insanity Defense"
In 1846, William Freeman walked into a farmhouse outside Auburn, New York, and brutally murdered four members of the Van Nest family, people he seemingly had no reason to kill. But as Freeman faced th...
21 Sep 50min
Episode 230: "The Straw Hat Riots!"
We're talking about Summer vs Fall sartorial choices and the absolute fashion crimes that sometimes occur when you dress out of season. If you thought white after Labor Day was a faux pas, wait till y...
14 Sep 29min
Episode 229: "The Haunted Jane Hotel"
At the edge of Greenwich Village stands the Jane Hotel, a 1908 sailors’ home that has sheltered thousands of seamen, housed survivors of the Titanic, endured decades as a rough SRO, and reinvented its...
7 Sep 54min
Episode 228: "The Beast of Bray Road"
In the 1990s, reports of a creature along Bray Road in Elkhorn, Wisconsin sent the region into a tizzy. Wolf-like but with human qualities, the creature soon became labeled a werewolf. What exactly di...
31 Aug 46min
Episode 227: "The Preppy Killer: Robert Chambers and the Murder of Jennifer Levin”
In August 1986, 18-year-old Jennifer Levin was found strangled in Central Park behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Within hours, police were questioning the last person seen leaving a bar with her:...
24 Aug 59min
Episode 226: "The Haunting of Caldwell Parsonage"
In 1780, the Revolutionary War was raging. Hannah Caldwell was hiding with her children in the upper floors of a house when a shot rang out from below and killed her. Was it the British targeting the ...
17 Aug 40min
Episode 225: "The Astor Place Riot: The Night New York’s Class War Turned Deadly”
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
