Habeas Corpus: How Frightened Politicians Built the Great Writ
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Habeas corpus means produce the body: the state must bring a prisoner into open court and justif...
10 Okt 22min
Willie Sutton: The Gentleman Bank Robber and the Quote He Never Said
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!William Francis Sutton Jr. was born on June 30, 1901, in the Irishtown section of Brooklyn, the ...
10 Okt 22min
Eugène François Vidocq: The Fugitive Who Invented the Detective
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Eugène François Vidocq was born in 1775 in Arras, the son of a prosperous baker, and was in trou...
10 Okt 23min
Francisca Rojas: The First Killer Convicted by a Fingerprint
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On June 29, 1892, police in Necochea, in Argentina's Buenos Aires province, found six-year-old P...
10 Okt 18min
Elmer McCurdy: The Inept Outlaw Who Became a Funhouse Mummy
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In December 1976, a television crew filming inside the Laugh in the Dark funhouse at the Pike am...
10 Okt 20min
Green Anaconda: The Truth About the Amazon's Most Exaggerated Snake
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The movie anaconda is a boat swallowing, man hunting monster. The real green anaconda, Eunectes ...
10 Okt 23min
Charles-Henri Sanson: The Reluctant Executioner Who Guillotined a King
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The man who dropped the blade on King Louis XVI in 1793 spent his evenings reading philosophy th...
10 Okt 21min
Hole in the Wall: One Phrase, From Outlaw Hideout to ATM to Classroom
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Search for the phrase hole in the wall and the results include a rock arch, a Norwegian country ...
10 Okt 19min
