Episode 41: The Baekelands Part One - Incest is Relative
Barbara Daly Baekeland: socialite, model, high society wife, and loving mother. Very, VERY loving. Barbara was devoted to her son, Tony, from the day he was born, leading to an obsessive, mutual co-de...
22 Aug 20181h 28min
Episode 40: Monsieur Philippe d'Orleans, Prince of France
Louis XIV of France, the archetypal king of the age of absolute monarchy, ruled France for over 70 years, presiding over one of her greatest golden ages and the height of her affluence and influence. ...
22 Juli 20181h 7min
Episode 39: The Grace Marks Murders Part Two - Like a Murderous Roomba
In our second episode on the curious case of Grace Marks, a sixteen year old Irish servant girl accused of murdering her employer and his housekeeper, we review the confession of her co-accused, James...
12 Juli 20181h 19min
Episode 38: The Grace Marks Murders, Part One - Bad Luck of the Irish
In 1843, Upper Canada was rocked by a grisly crime that would later be adapted into a Margaret Atwood novel and a CBC television show -the wealthy Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery w...
5 Juli 20181h 37min
Episode 37: Fusen Bakudan, Tokyo Drift (The Japanese Fire Balloon Program)
1942, World War II, the Pacific Ocean Theatre -- American bombers conduct a daring raid on several major Japanese cities, sneaking through Japanese defenses and shaming Imperial Command. In retaliati...
24 Juni 20181h 23min
Episode 36: What Happened to the Yuba County Five?
In 1978, five friends left a basketball game in Chico, California, to make the fifty mile drive back to their homes in Yuba County. They never arrived. Four months later, the bodies of four of the me...
15 Juni 20181h 33min
Episode 35: The Radium Girls
In the early days after the discovery of a radioactive isotope with the apparent ability to treat cancer, radioactivity became the big new health craze. Before there was kale, before there were cleans...
18 Maj 20181h 26min
Episode 34: Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico
Joshua Abraham Norton, an Anglo-Jewish immigrant to the United States, was a successful business man and member of well-to-do San Franciscan society. He made his fortune selling supplies to the men an...
26 Apr 201849min
