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True Crime Historian

True Crime Historian

By: Richard O Jones
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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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  • 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
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I love the approach this podcast uses of reading the newspapers coverage from the time! I would love to see this approach for other countries historical crime! one of my favourite podcasts 👌

fascinating and novel

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