Episodes

  • American Scoundrel John Eaton

    American Scoundrel John Eaton
    Apr 23 2026
    Andrew Jackson's Secretary of War spent a decade courting a married woman, arranged her husband's convenient posting to the Mediterranean, and married her six weeks before the 1829 inauguration. The Cabinet collapsed. Calhoun was destroyed. Jackson never recovered. John Henry Eaton walked away clean. Washington City's most elegant arsonist.

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    10 mins
  • Lizzie Gillespie Killed By Twin Brother

    Lizzie Gillespie Killed By Twin Brother
    Apr 22 2026
    Family Tragedy in Rising Sun

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    Episode 89. In a lot of these stories from the old newspapers, the press coverage and the locale itself often take on the attributes of characters in the drama. In this case, the town of Rising Sun, Indiana, seems to evolve as the story progresses. When one of the town matrons, the spinster Lizzie Gillespie is found assassinated in her parlor, townfolk tell reporters she had no enemy in the world and there could be no logical reason for the murder. Then they start thinking of things, but they don’t want to name names. And when Lizzie’s twin brother Jim goes to trial, he and his co-defendants fear lynching, but the town only wants to be entertained by the scandal. While I recognize the tragedy of a life lost, I find a subtle comedy in this tale of intrigue, betrayal, and murder.

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    51 mins
  • American Scoundrel Clyde Tolson

    American Scoundrel Clyde Tolson
    Apr 21 2026
    Clyde Tolson ran personnel and discipline at the FBI for 44 years — the man who hired, promoted, and silenced the agents who carried out J. Edgar Hoover's illegal surveillance campaigns. He built the compliant machine. He signed the memos. He inherited the house. History gave him the quiet burial he counted on.

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    11 mins
  • At The Bottom Of A Brookfield Well

    At The Bottom Of A Brookfield Well
    Apr 20 2026
    The Case Of Bathsheba Spooner

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    Episode 474 takes place in 1788 when the secrets of a prosperous Massachusetts family are revealed, beginning with a dead body in the bottom of a well. By spring, four people would hang because of what came to light. One of them was a woman. One of them was pregnant.

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    53 mins
  • Femme Fatale Wu Zetian

    Femme Fatale Wu Zetian
    Apr 19 2026
    Wu Zetian entered the Tang court as a teenage concubine in 638. By 690, she'd murdered her way to the Dragon Throne — the only woman in Chinese history to rule as Emperor. She stuffed rivals into wine jars, built a secret police, and spent her final years afraid of house cats.

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    10 mins
  • Magazine #4

    Magazine #4
    Apr 18 2026
    Episode 130

    Murder By Fire, by Brandon White

    The Abominable Mr. Yelverton, by Edmund Pearson

    The American Exchange Bank Robbery, By Cleveland Moffat

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    2 hrs and 2 mins
  • American Scoundrel Wiliam N. Roach

    American Scoundrel Wiliam N. Roach
    Apr 17 2026
    William N. Roach embezzled sixty thousand dollars from a Washington bank, fled to Dakota Territory, and returned the money just fast enough to dodge prison. Fourteen years later, a Republican civil war handed him a U.S. Senate seat nobody voted for. The Senate tried to expel him. Time said no.

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    10 mins
  • Girl Did Not Kill Herself

    Girl Did Not Kill Herself
    Apr 16 2026
    The Mysterious Death of Louise Monteabaro In

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    Episode 20, Police Chief Henry Blake’s story stays consistent throughout, from the time he reported the incident to the judge/acting coroner to the time that the dead girl’s aunt stabbed him in the neck: Miss Louise Monteabaro used her own gun to commit suicide in the passenger seat of her car. But according to those who knew the young sewing machine saleswoman, that seemed unlikely.




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    28 mins