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True Crime Historian

Pulpular Media

Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told through vintage newspaper accounts from the golden age of yellow journalismBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.s...

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Episode list

60

  • September 19, 2024

    1 hr 4 min

    A Sophisticated Scoundrel

    The End Of Gordon Fawcett Hamby Episode 277 is a fascinating portrait of a cold-blooded psychopath and sociopath, an erudite Canadian seaman who allegedly traveled the world commit...

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  • September 17, 2024

    1 hr 47 min

    The Miser's Poke Of Gold

    The Travels of Clara Elizabeth SkarinEpisode 204 tells the interesting tale of a young woman who shoots her aged benefactor and loots his trunk for a poke full of gold, then goes o...

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  • September 13, 2024

    59 min

    Alligator Alibi

    Pulp NonfictionA celebration of the pioneers of true crimeIn a remote part of Florida in the 1920s, a brother and sister in business together running a curio shop and gas station a...

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  • September 11, 2024

    1 hr 34 min

    The Baldwin Hills Babes In The Woods Murders

    A Crossing Guard ConfessesEpisode 150 is the brutal tale of one of the most fiendish murders on record in California (or anywhere else for that matter) that a dogged prosecutor pin...

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  • September 9, 2024

    2 hr 11 min

    The Kidnapped Canadian Preemie

    Baby Irene & Her Two MothersEpisode 208 seems to start out like a murder case: An elderly man marries a woman 40 years younger and suddenly dies three months later under suspicious...

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  • September 6, 2024

    1 hr 11 min

    The Wyoming Valley American Tragedy

    Pregnant Church Worker Found Dead In Harvey’s LakeAd Free Safe House Late EditionIf the tropes in Episode 275 sound a bit like Episode 96, “The Body In Big Moose Lake,” the familia...

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