Bounty Hunters: The 1873 Loophole That Lets Civilians Kick In Doors
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Someone in a bullet-resistant vest kicks in a front door at night to seize a fugitive, with no p...
10 Okt 21min
Boss Tweed: How Tammany Hall's Kingpin Bought and Lost New York City
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1876, Spanish officials arrested a common seaman stepping off a ship because they knew his fa...
10 Okt 21min
The Bloodhound: How Medieval Monks Built the Ultimate Tracking Dog
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A bloodhound named Nick Carter followed a trail that was 300 hours old in 1900, and in Oregon in...
10 Okt 23min
The Black Mamba: Africa's Most Feared Snake Is Shy and Not Black
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The black mamba is olive, khaki, or gunmetal, never black. Its name comes from the inky interior...
10 Okt 22min
Bat Masterson: From Dodge City Gunfighter to New York Sportswriter
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In late October 1921, a 67-year-old sports columnist finished a piece on boxing at the New York ...
10 Okt 22min
Baby Face Nelson: The Outlaw Who Killed More FBI Agents Than Anyone
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In November 1934, a woman named Helen left her husband's bullet-riddled body beside an Illinois ...
10 Okt 20min
Arsenic: King of Poisons, Victorian Beauty Aid, and Cancer Cure
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Arsenic, element 33, has been an assassin's tool, a cosmetic, and a medicine, sometimes in the s...
10 Okt 21min
Arnold Rothstein: The Brain Who Fixed the 1919 World Series
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Arnold Rothstein, known as the Brain, built a criminal empire with arithmetic instead of muscle....
10 Okt 21min
