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9 JUL 2025 · Killing Billy The Kid
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Episode 355 takes us back to the Old West with a profile of one of the classic rivalries of the era: The lanky Sheriff Pat Garrett v. the notorious William Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, including a narrative of their fateful last encounter as told by the sheriff himself.
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7 JUL 2025 · HA Debaucher Of Children Gets His Revenge
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Episode 354 is a real trip to the dark side as it recounts the rampage of a local beat patrolmen the result of having his ugly perverted secrets revealed. Although he was responsible for a lot of lives lost and hurt forever, there’s some satisfaction in watching him get some of what he deserves, public humiliation as well as the state’s own vengeance.
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4 JUL 2025 · The Murder Of Sheriff Rogers At Glencoe
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Episode 353 takes place in late 19th century Minnesota, but plays out like a classic Western tale. You know the one, where a pair of strangers come into town, shoot the sheriff, and incite the citizenry to take the law into their own hands.
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2 JUL 2025 · The Ladies’ Man Lawyer & The Mysterious Blonde
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Episode 151 recalls a fatal shooting on a dark country road when a pair of unemployed thugs set out to rape and plunder unsuspecting couples looking for a quiet place to canoodle. They get more than they bargained for when their mark turns out to be a well-armed attorney.
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1 JUL 2025 · The Real ‘Chicago’ Murders
Episode 352 explores the two murders that inspired the hit musical “Chicago,” which was based on a play by Maurine Watkins, who did some reporting on both cases as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. I’ll be joined by my colleague Susan Ferman, whose own podcast Catastrophic Calamities, will premiere next week on the Pulpular Media network. Susan will read about the case of Beulah Annan, who became Roxy Hart on stage. I will read the case of Belva Gaertner, who became Velma Kelly.Culled from the historic pages of the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, and other newspapers of the era.This episode includes a reference to a fellow murderess Sabela Nitti, whose story you can hear about in True Crime Historian 230, The Ugly Duckling Murderess.
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30 JUN 2025 · The Murder Of Myrtle Mellus
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Episode 350 relates the tale of a love triangle ending in tragedy when a Hollywood socialite is found murdered after one of her regular trysts with her young lover. There’s a lot of drinking and debauchery involved in this, and we never really get all the details of this sordid liaison, but just enough to spark the imagination.
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27 JUN 2025 · The Tragic Despair Of Etta Butts
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Episode 349 is dedicated to loyal listener Kellie Fenner who wanted to hear more about this case from her hometown Grand Rapids, Michigan, the sad sad story of a mother who committed the unthinkable act of murdering her own children.
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27 JUN 2025 · The Murder Of Bessie Little
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Episode 348 takes place in Dayton, Ohio, just up the Great Miami River from my hometown. I'm trying to come up with a name for this particular narrative trope, the murder of a woman by a man whose child she is carrying -- consequently also the murder of an unborn child. There is some question in this case if Bessie Little was actually pregnant. But the point is, somebody thought she was.
The word I came up with: Pregnicide.
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26 JUN 2025 · The Trunk In Minnie Lee Griffin’s Basement
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Episode 347 is a cautionary tale about what can go wrong if you get too involved in the lives of your grown children. When the widow Minnie Lee Griffin thought that her son-in-law was being pursued by a beautiful neighbor, she resorted to subterfuge to save her daughters marriage, and eventually to murder.
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26 JUN 2025 · https://www.patreon.com/posts/28823053
Episode 346 is the story of a cop who goes so deep undercover that the dark alleys end up a lot darker than he imagined.
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13 JUN 2025 · The Scoundrel Albert Brownlee
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Episode 344 takes place in the Pacific Northwest and follows the career of a World War I veteran who returns to a life of crime. This fellow’s a peck of trouble, and since the Huns didn’t get him, the state of Oregon will.
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11 JUN 2025 · The Scoundrel Herman Kabansky
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There’s a lot of action packed into Episode 343. In addition to a drunken shooting spree and a heroic policeman, the story packs in an escape from jail, an attempted suicide, and a whole lot of courtroom and jailhouse dramatics.
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9 JUN 2025 · A Bloody Riot In Birmingham
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Episode 342 is dedicated to listeners Paula Wellman and Marcie Braden, who along with the Historic Birmingham Facebook group suggested this case and provided me with tons of research. It is a double tragedy, a brutal family murder followed by a massacre in the city streets as a diligent sheriff flexes the strong arm of the law.
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6 JUN 2025 · The Degradation Of Sassy Springer
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Episode 340 tells of a double murder--one intentional, one accidental--arising out of an unusual love triangle, a married wealthy Denver socialite and two men, both of whom were her lovers, neither of them her husband. Does that make it a love quadrangle?
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4 JUN 2025 · Scandal At Reynolda
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Episode 338 weaves the tale of mystery surrounding the shocking death of the youngest son of the tobacco king R.J. Reynolds when he is found dead in the family’s palatial North Carolina home. Although the coroner immediately ruled it a suicide, other officials felt differently, and suspicion fell on the young man’s new bride and his best friend.
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2 JUN 2025 · The Australian Aviatrix And Her Suitors
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Episode 341 tells the scandalous story of one of Miami, Florida’s most sensational murders when a young writer is found dead in a sleeping porch, a bullet in his head and two suicide notes on the table. Public interest is high because the other two sides of the fatal triangle are two world-famous, record-holding aviators.
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30 MAY 2025 · The Murder Of The Butcher Pops Wagner
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Episode 117 tells the story of sweet 16-year-old Lena Theresa Neinstedt, known as Terry, a pretty eighth-grade dropout with a habit of stealing government checks out of neighborhood mailboxes. A wild child of the streets of New York, young Terry also had a habit of carrying a knife -- to keep the wolves from pawing her, she said. When she lost the knife, she discovered a small hatchet around the house that fit nicely in her patent leather handbag. Yeah, that’s not gonna end well.
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28 MAY 2025 · Episode 118
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"Murder For Two Dollars And Forty-Five Cents" tells the story of how a newsboy finds the clue solving a professional (well, sorta) murder.
"The War Hero's Love Letters Sentenced Him To Die" (14:26) ties in the murder of a theater tycoon with a bit of romantic intrigue.
"Love And The Counterfeiters" (28:07) is the exciting tale of, well, counterfeiters and double-crossers in the old-school Italian mob.
"When The Ouiji Board Spelled DADDY MUST DIE" (49:41) is the tragic story of a teen-age girl falling into her mother's web of betrayal and murder.
"Phantom In The Window" (1:04:37) is another heart-breaking tale of a teenager caught in a murder plot.
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26 MAY 2025 · A Double Dose Of Arsenic
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Episode 119 tells the sordid tale of Edith Carew, an English society woman living as an expatriate in Japan, who goes to trial for poisoning her husband. The the press couldn’t help but compare it to the case of Florence Maybrick, which took place a few years earlier in Liverpool.
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23 MAY 2025 · The Brutal Crimes and Punishment of Jesse Pomeroy
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Episode 121 concerns one of the most heinous crimes ever committed by a teenager. Jesse Pomeroy was but 14 years old when he was arrested for abducting and torturing young boys and sent to the state reformatory. He was released after a little more than a year, due either to the pleading of his mother or some kind of bribery, you be the judge. But anyway, you know it’s not gonna end well. At 15 years old, Jesse Pomeroy was at the time the youngest person to be convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to die.
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Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told through vintage newspaper accounts from the golden age of yellow journalism
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| Author | Pulpular Media |
| Organization | Pulpular Media |
| Categories | True Crime |
| Website | www.truecrimehistorian.com |
| pulpular@outlook.com |
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