The Mad Trapper of Rat River: An Arctic Manhunt for a Nameless Man
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On July 9, 1931, a clean-shaven stranger with a Scandinavian accent and plenty of cash arrived a...
10 Okt 21min
Alphonse Bertillon: The Mugshot's Inventor and the Dreyfus Affair
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Alphonse Bertillon was born in Paris in 1853 into a family of noted statisticians and seemed det...
10 Okt 21min
Ned Kelly: The Ironclad Bushranger Who Became Australia's Myth
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Ned Kelly was born in rural Victoria in the mid 1850s, the third of eight children of Red Kelly,...
10 Okt 24min
Pancho Villa: From Sharecropper Bandit to Revolutionary General
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!He was born Doroteo Arango in Durango in 1878, a sharecropper's son bound to the hacienda system...
10 Okt 25min
John Gerard: The Tortured Jesuit Who Escaped the Tower of London
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John Gerard was born in 1564 into Lancashire nobility at a time when keeping the Catholic faith ...
10 Okt 21min
Moondyne Joe: The Bushranger No Australian Prison Could Hold
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Joseph Bolitho Johns was born in the 1820s, probably in Cornwall, the son of a blacksmith who di...
10 Okt 18min
Mary Bryant: The Convict Who Escaped Australia in an Open Boat
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Mary Broad was born in Cornwall around 1765, a farmer's daughter. In 1785 she and two other wome...
10 Okt 20min
Frances Glessner Lee: The Heiress Who Built Dollhouses of Death
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Frances Glessner Lee was born in Chicago in 1878 into the International Harvester fortune and ra...
10 Okt 20min
