Latest Crime History Podcast Episodes

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The Comic Book Killer

Forgotten Australia - July 12, 2024 01:45 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 88 ratings
From 1946, Sydney’s Leonard Lawson was a hero to kids for creating the comic book The Lone Avenger. But in reality the young artist was a psychopathic villain responsible for crimes far more terrible than anything in his stories. For five decades, Lawson would outrage the nation by destroying in...

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Strange Country Ep. 285: Project 2025, Part 2

Strange Country - July 11, 2024 10:00 - 52 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratings
In today’s episode Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly slog through the remaining 4,567,324 pages of Project 2025, a manifesto to turn America into Dante’s 8th circle of hell. If you don’t want to face this, the basic gist is anything good and just is gone and is replaced by bad. Theme musi...

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DIXIE MAFIA: GEORGIA Ep. 3 | “Bootleggers and Thieves”

Infamous America - July 10, 2024 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratings
Albert Patterson’s assassination brings the Phenix City syndicate crumbling down, but up the road in North Georgia crime is starting to explode. Fast new cars, dirt roads, and moonshine give birth to Nascar while the Dixie Mafia gives birth to a bloodsport. A shocking triple homicide helps spark ...

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Episode 286 - Roadtrip Nightmare

Florida Men on Florida Man - July 10, 2024 04:01 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 721 ratings
On this episode, Josh Mills, Wayne McCarty, and special guest, Luke West, share their favorite roadtrip stories, Florida man headlines, and a recap of a fan favorite, "Shaping Seabiscuit." Each week, the Florida Men on Florida Man podcast uses comedy to discuss legends, lore, and history from ...

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225 - Totally Real Heroes

Our Weird World - July 08, 2024 09:00 - 24 minutes
Send us a Text Message. This week we're looking at 3 stories of guys who tried to be heroes...and actually convinced people of it because we're all pretty gullible. We're covering the stories of William James Clark, Bill Jakob, Wilhelm Voigt. Like the show on Facebook - https://www.facebook.co...

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Mortemer Abbey of Normandy

Paranormal Peeps - July 05, 2024 06:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
There are countless stories of tragedies and torture surrounding historic monuments and locations around the world. Oftentimes these stories sprout legends of ghostly figures roaming the lands or monsters seeking vengeance but usually, the stories are limited to one spirit or event causing the h...

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Strange Stories UK, Jay Slater the first two weeks up until 2 July.

Strange Stories UK - July 03, 2024 12:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Jay Slater, a teenager has gone missing while on holiday in Tenerife. This is a story that has taken off in the media and social media. This concerns the first two weeks of a strange and fast moving  case that may well be solved by the time you have read this.  The story...

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DIXIE MAFIA: GEORGIA Ep. 2 | “The Cobra”

Infamous America - July 03, 2024 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratings
When buried secrets start to surface, kingpin “Head” Revel gets an unwanted blast from the past: his former defense attorney Albert Patterson. Now a high-profile prosecutor and powerful crusader against crime, Patterson delivers a crushing blow to Revel’s mafia. A blow which incites revenge and p...

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LTP Selects: The Illustrious Client (1925)

Lighting the Pipes - July 03, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Josh's selection for this year's "Sherlock Selects" returns us to The Illustrious Client. Marked by the predatory exploits of a dastardly Baron, this later Conan Doyle story (1925) spins its archetypal threads of good vs. evil while promoting emergent themes in context of suffragette and female ...

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Episode 285 - Rocky Lobster

Florida Men on Florida Man - July 03, 2024 04:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 721 ratings
On this episode, Josh Mills, Wayne McCarty, and special guest, the Florida Bushman, discuss the demise of Red Lobster and the legendary writer, director, producer and Florida man, Sylvester Stallone.  Your favorite Florida man headlines are also covered!  Each week, the Florida Men on Florida ...

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The Boston Strangler, Part One: The Murders

Ghoulish Tendencies - July 02, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
In June of 1962, the brutal murder and assault of Anna Slesers would kick off a string of similar murders.  Dubbed “The Boston Strangler” by the press, it was quickly assumed that the murders were executed by one individual, a fact that is debated to this day. In part one of our two par...

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Ep. 516 Sir William Sidney Smith

Let Them Fight: A Comedy History Podcast - July 02, 2024 09:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 136 ratings
It's time to take to the seas again! This time to talk about Sidney Smith, who got started young and really took a shine to being on the water. And for pissing off a very specific Frenchman. This dude won a ton of accolades across several wars and off the coast of a ton of different countries. E...

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Murder At Wonderland (The Story Of Laurel Canyon And John Holmes)

American Hauntings Podcast - July 02, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
It was around 4:00 AM on the morning of July 1, 1981, when several shadowy figures slipped into a multi-level home on Wonderland Avenue in L.A.’s Laurel Canyon. Once inside, they surprised the five sleeping occupants and attacked them with metal pipes, beating them viciously... Check out our up...

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Jersey Devil Season Trailer - Coming Fall 2024

Grim Philly - July 01, 2024 09:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratings
Grim Philly Presents: The Jersey Devil, A Full Season of episodes dedicated to Investigating every aspect of folklore and myth about the New Jersey Cryptid - including witches, ghosts, prohibition, freakshows, Native-American Lenape Lore, Pine Barrens and New Jersey and Pennsylvania colonial and...

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224 - Weird Fun Bag #11: Lazy Hitmen, Creative Unaliving, and Relentless Terrorists

Our Weird World - July 01, 2024 09:00 - 24 minutes
Send us a Text Message. This week is the 11th edition of the Weird Fun Bag series where we cover the stories of Tan Youhui, William Kogut, Bashir Kouchacji. We also have new music beds for the show, so let us know what you think! Like the show on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/OurWeirdWor...

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Listen Now: Even the Royals

The Black Dahlia Serial Killers - July 01, 2024 08:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 2.9K ratings
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. We know the six wives of Henry the eighth as pawns in his hunt for a son. But their lives were so much more than just being the king’s wives.  Each episode of Wondery’s podcast Even the Royals pulls back the curtain on royal famil...

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Listen Now: Even the Royals

Murder in Hollywoodland - July 01, 2024 08:00 - 5 minutes
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. We know the six wives of Henry the eighth as pawns in his hunt for a son. But their lives were so much more than just being the king’s wives.  Each episode of Wondery’s podcast Even the Royals pulls back the curtain on royal famil...

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Strange Stories UK: The Kennedy murders, Surrey, UK.

Strange Stories UK - June 28, 2024 17:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Send us a Text Message. I can't find any mention of these 1971 murders on the internet. The information is taken from police files and as information is scant, it is a short episode.

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Hauntings of a Normandy Chateau

Paranormal Peeps - June 28, 2024 06:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In October 1867, the de Manville family inherited Château des Noyers du Tourneur, which had been built in 1835 from the stones of an earlier medieval castle. The family moved into their beautiful new home with their son Maurice and four employees: their son’s tutor, Emile, their coachman, a gard...

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Weachurch: Werewolf of Pentridge – Part Three

Forgotten Australia - June 28, 2024 02:46 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 88 ratings
A year after he's 'disappeared' into a solitary cage at Pentridge, Weachurch makes a last stab at freedom... and leaves behind a haunting legacy of resistance to injustice. Email: [email protected] Check out my books: Hanging Ned Kelly @ Dymocks https://www.dymocks.com.au/b...

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Strange Country Ep. 284: Project 2025, Part 1

Strange Country - June 27, 2024 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratings
Project 2025 is a 920-page bloated opus about taking our fragile democracy and turning into Christian Nationalist nightmare if Trump gets back into the oval office. And Beth read it!! Well, skimmed some portions because oh my god was this bureaucratic gibberish. But that’s the point; onslaught u...

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Weachurch: Werewolf of Pentridge – Part Two

Forgotten Australia - June 27, 2024 03:07 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 88 ratings
*Due to an incorrect audio upload error, I'm re-releasing Part Two – this is the correct audio* With Weachurch’s pleas for justice ignored and obstructed as he has punishments piled upon him illegally, he takes desperate action against him enemies again... and again... and again. This never-be...

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DIXIE MAFIA: GEORGIA Ep. 1 | “Johnny Frank Has To Go”

Infamous America - June 26, 2024 08:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratings
Unforgiving and unremorseful, bootlegger Clarence “Head” Revel’s taste for money and power leads to murder. A series of increasingly ruthless crimes catapult him to Dixie Mafia kingpin. Shielded by corrupt cops and a killer instinct, Revel is seemingly untouchable until a long-forgotten mistake r...

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Presenting DISGRACELAND - Bobby Brown: Cocaine Chicken, Horny Ghosts, and His Prerogative

BADLANDS - June 26, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Bobby Brown thrusted and gyrated his way to the top of the charts with Don’t Be Cruel, one of the biggest records of the late 1980s and an album that brought hip-hop’s hard-knock sensibilities to R&B. But fame did not change the Boston bad boy. At the height of his superstardom, Bobby Brown was a...

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Presenting DISGRACELAND - Bobby Brown: Cocaine Chicken, Horny Ghosts, and His Prerogative

BADLANDS - June 26, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutes
Bobby Brown thrusted and gyrated his way to the top of the charts with Don’t Be Cruel, one of the biggest records of the late 1980s and an album that brought hip-hop’s hard-knock sensibilities to R&B. But fame did not change the Boston bad boy. At the height of his superstardom, Bobby Brown was a...

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Episode 284 - The Burial

Florida Men on Florida Man - June 26, 2024 04:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 721 ratings
On this episode, Josh Mills, Wayne McCarty, and special guest, Payton Ward, discuss Willie Gary, the unconventional Florida lawyer who tackled some of the world's largest companies in defense of everyday citizens.  Your favorite Florida man headlines are also covered! Each week, the Florida Me...

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Ep. 515 Israel Keyes

Let Them Fight: A Comedy History Podcast - June 25, 2024 11:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 136 ratings
Today we'll be covering another long requested scumbag, Israel Keyes. This shithead serial killer thought he was special, and sure, he did some things smarter or more creatively than the average "I need to stab to get my rocks off" types. But at the end of the day his need to be a shithead murde...

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Of Love and Legend: Full Novella Audiobook

Fabled Collective - June 25, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Text Vanessa Your Thoughts! In a realm where magic intertwines with destiny, Of Love and Legend follows a young woman's journey of love, sacrifice, and self-discovery as she becomes entangled in a prophecy that binds her fate to a legendary king. Chivalry isn't dead.  The enchanted wood lured...

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LIVE From The Haunted America Conference 2024

American Hauntings Podcast - June 25, 2024 08:44 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
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Deadly Dads: Christian Longo

Once Upon A Crime | True Crime - June 24, 2024 23:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 4.6K ratings
In this episode of Once Upon A Crime, we delve into the horrific story of Christian Longo, a man who portrayed himself to his family, friends, and community as a devoted husband, loving father, and successful businessman while leading a double life. He lived a life of lies and deception.  When h...