American Scoundrel Stephen Wallace Dorsey
Gilded Age Washington, 1876. Senator Stephen W. Dorsey and the Second Assistant Postmaster General ran a bid-rigging racket that bled the Post Office of millions — fake mail routes, real money. Two tr...
5 Maj 9min
The Moonlight Row
The Smuttynose Island Murders of 1873Jump To The AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 476 explores a case would become one of the most sensational crimes of the American Gilded Age. It would produce a ma...
4 Maj 54min
The Tiny Error of the Wily Widow
"The Tiny Error of the Wily Widow" (57:52) transports us to the plains of the Dakotas and another plot, this one to get rid of a wealthy husband for a younger man.Become a supporter of this podcast: h...
3 Maj 14min
Femme Fatale Sophie Lyons
Gilded Age New York crowned her the Queen of Crime. Sophie Lyons — pickpocket, shoplifter, blackmailer — spent fifty years selling men's shame back to them at Parker House prices. She retired to Detro...
2 Maj 9min
The Poison Pastor
Crimes of the Scoundrel Clarence V.T. RichesonJump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 74 explores the tawdry case of Clarence Virgil Thompson Richeson, who was apparently an eloquent preacher an...
1 Maj 43min
American Scoundrel Johann Georg Rapp
Father George Rapp ran the Harmony Society at Economy, Pennsylvania, by two commandments: celibacy for men whose wives he had evicted, and poverty for workers whose gold he hoarded. By 1846 the prophe...
30 Apr 9min
The Ogress Of Reading
The Trial and Execution of Amelia Dyer Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 43 comes at the request of a listener across the great pond in the United Kingdom. We will be exploring the testimo...
29 Apr 52min
American Scoundrel: George Cassiday
For ten years, George Cassiday, known on Capitol Hill as the Man in the Green Hat, ran liquor to the United States Congress while four out of five of his customers voted dry. When Prohibition agents f...
28 Apr 8min
