Crime Classics - True Crime Stories!

Aug 31 2023 10 ep. 29 mins 86
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This podcast offers true crime stories that are classics. You can hear true crime stories from old school people. The stories are based on true crime events, they are well produced and nostalgic. You certainly do not want to miss out on these great true crime classic stories, they will leave you on the edge of your seat.

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Crime Classics - The Incredible Trial of Laura D. Fair

Aug 31 2023 29 mins  
The oft-times married Miss Laura uses her "4-shooter" on a ferry in San Francisco harbor...for interesting reasons. The good ship El Capitan used to sail the bay between Oakland and San Francisco in the 1870’s mostly in the fog. Its skipper was captain Bill Tranchell and he was known among the ferryboat set as having a heavy hand on the whistle. He found any number of excuses for

Crime Classics - The Axe and the Droot Family, How They Fared

Aug 31 2023 29 mins  
+In Pennsylvania in 1795, the shortest distance to an inheritance is two crushed skulls. This is a network version of cat. #17052. + 1795 and Peter Droot is writing his will and making his bequests to his children yet when he has done, unknowingly he will have made certain the death of his two sons…

Crime Classics - Mr. Thrower's Hammer

Aug 31 2023 29 mins  
A gentleman of England in 1804 has bashed in the heads of a father and daughter. Eleven years later, a doubt arises. This is a network version of cat. #16785. The program is also known as, "The Dread Events Surrounding Mr. Thrower's Hammer." + In the county of Suffolk, England the willow grows green and there was once a Smithy, his name was Edmund Thrower. He was a powerful man who

Crime Classics - The Final Day of General Ketchum, and How He Died

Aug 31 2023 29 mins  
Crime is the dark side of civilisation. The under belly of human failing and greed.Within societies, down through the ages, it has appropriated its rules and taken what it wants by foul and unfair means.'Crime Classics' examines all manner of crimes and murders from the past. It carefully recreates the complete crime through thorough and pains-taking research. The cases range from

Crime Classics - The Death of a Picture Hanger

Aug 31 2023 29 mins  
The Ford brothers are hired to kill Jesse James, they do just that. + The man is nailing a horses picture to the wall, the horse is pawing the western skies in the classic attitude of pawing horses and it is the top half of a calendar distributed by Isaac’s Livery. It’s a hot April day in St Josephs, Missouri in the years 1882 and the man is hanging the picture in his living ro

Crime Classics - The Terrible Deed of John White Webster

Aug 31 2023 29 mins  
`Crime Classics' examines all manner of crimes and murders from the past. It carefully recreates the complete crime through thorough and pains-taking research. The cases range from the assassinations of Lincoln and Julius Caesar to the more obscure, such as Bathsheba Spooner, who killed her husband Joshua in 1778 and became the first woman tried and executed in America.Your host ea

Crime Classics - The Shrapnelled Body of Charles Drew, Sr.

Aug 30 2023 29 mins  
In 1739 England, Charles Drew Jr. kills Charles Drew Sr. before he has the opportunity to change his will. This is a network version of cat. #16797. + The sound you hear is that of a man having his right hand hook filed. It’s Saturday night in London town and he wants to be gleaming and presentable. The year is 1739 when a well-sharpened hook in London town was considered prudent

Crime Classics - The Checkered Life and Sudden Death of Colonel James Fisk, Jr.

Aug 30 2023 28 mins  
An excellent story about the rivalry between two wealthy New Yorkers in 1872 and the beautiful widow, beloved of both. This is a network, sponsored version of cat. #16782. + Although Colonel James Fisk Junior was a heavy drinker his friends described him as a man who was steady on his feet, so why did he tumble down the stairs in New York’s Grand Central Hotel? He didn’t slip,

Crime Classics - The Shockingly Peaceful Passing of Thomas Edwin Bartlett, Green Grocer (AFRTS)

Aug 30 2023 29 mins  
Tom Bartlett was a heavy sleeper, but when he didn’t wake up one New Year, suspicions were cast. In happier times, Adelaide was a young school girl, who wed the much older green grocer. The marriage was an honorable one, and Adelaide continued on in her studies. With the doting from Tom, what could be the beginnings of dissatisfaction in the marriage?

Crime Classics - The Crime of Bathsheba Spooner

Aug 30 2023 29 mins  
The first show of the series, a summer replacement for Suspense. The story of the first woman tried and executed in the United States. The script was used as an audition for the series, recorded December 3, 1952. Thomas Hyland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders, tells another true story of crime. Here is Thomas Hyland’s report to you on Crime of Bat