"The Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory Pt. 1

After years of getting away with murder at her aged care facility, Amy Archer-Gilligan didn’t realize how closely she was being watched. But in her desperation to make money, she was finally exposed a...

8 Sep 202145min

Business leaders and industry innovators are typically held up as examples to emulate — seizing the chance to turn a profit whenever possible. But Amy Archer-Gilligan was more money hungry than most, ...

1 Sep 202145min

Confronted with her status as an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever, Mary Mallon was disbelieving and hostile. She was captured, tested, and quarantined nonetheless. Her legacy includes deaths and ...

25 Aug 202141min

In the late 1800s, an Irish immigrant in New York City made ends meet by working as a cook for wealthy families. But wherever Mary Mallon went, typhoid fever followed. As more people succumbed to the ...

18 Aug 202137min

Katherine Knight was in her last relationship. Of that she was sure. Because if one more man left her, she was going to lose it. But then she realized her partner John couldn't leave her if she struck...

11 Aug 202148min

In Australia, a young Katherine Knight had a volatile childhood marked by parental abuse and a short fuse. Things didn't improve as she got older. But what Katherine never had a problem with was findi...

4 Aug 202145min

By 1875, the Queen of Thieves was wealthy, fashionable, and nearly untouchable. But New York was changing. Marm Mandelbaum became the target of a relentless district attorney and the famed Pinkerton D...

28 Juli 202146min

One of New York’s shrewdest criminals in the late 19th century was a German Jewish immigrant with a knack for buying and reselling stolen goods. But Fredericka “Marm” Mandelbaum wasn’t just any thief....

21 Juli 202147min