The Archivist: A True Crime Podcast

12/09/2023

Today you get a big bonus. 2 extra long episodes.
Two people who left a trail of destruction. A match made in hell.

Two cousins, closer than they should be leave nothing but a trail of destruction in their wake. This is a story of pure selfishness, manipulation and evil. Susie Newsom Lynch is not finished tearin…

09/08/2023

Part 2 of The Bathtub Murder. A confusing crime scene with little clues. The chief of police and sheriff decide it’s time to get some extra help. Can the new investigator figure out who killed Frances Nesbitt?

Part 2 of The Bathtub Murder. A confusing crime scene with little clues. The chief of police and sheriff decide it’s time to get some extra help. Can the new investigator figure out who kille…

03/08/2023

A little late, but here it is. A mystery for Thursday. A confusing crime scene with little clues. The city if Troy was overrun with reporters and onlookers for most of 1926, while they all waited for news on what happened to the beautiful and vivacious Fran Nesbitt.

I’m sorry this is a little late, I had some recording issues. But everything is fixed now and I guess it’s better late than never.  In Troy, Ohio on a cold February day in 1926, a …

26/07/2023

Season 3 begins today. It's a short story with no surprises.

He told people his wife had run off with some other man. But when her body is found 6 months later, no o e is surprised at who her killer is.

Season 3 starts off with a story that is probably not a surprise to anyone. When a woman’s body is found on the side of the road in Kentucky, it doesn’t take investigators long to put 2…

22/03/2023

Oliver Haugh. It’s normal to wonder “what if” because we are never sure which chance encounter will have the most affect on our lives. How does an injury received while playing hockey lead to one of the greatest achievements of man in the 20th century? A man who became one of the most notorious murderers in the early 1900’s had a profoundly terrible affect on Wilbur Wright and most of the people he came in contact with.

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Oliver Haugh. It’s normal to wonder “what if” because we are never sure which chance encounter will have the most affect on our lives. How does an injury received while playing ho…

02/03/2023

Robert Hayes. Three women are found dead in Daytona Beach over the course of three months in December 2005 through February 2006. The crime scenes give up little evidence and there is no clue who the killer was. Ten years later CODIS returns a a hit with a new murder victim in Palm Beach, Florida. The two departments team up to work together on capturing this killer. Finally this case was solved through genetic genealogy.

Robert Hayes. Three women are found dead in Daytona Beach over the course of three months in December 2005 through February 2006. The crime scenes give up little evidence and there is no clue who …

20/02/2023

Sorry there was no episode last week. I've had a really bad cold and lost my voice. It looks like I won't be able to record again this week also. Take care of yourselves and I'll talk to you later

08/02/2023

Marc O’Leary. This story is unbelievable. Poor police work and gaslighting a victim led to this man ra**ng more women. They could have caught him after his first victim, but instead two detectives convinced a young girl to say she made the whole thing up. It’s so upsetting to think he could have been stopped.

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Marc O’Leary. This story is unbelievable. Poor police work and gaslighting a victim led to this man ra**ng more women. They could have caught him after his first victim, but instead two detectives …

01/02/2023

Roseann Quinn. According to the newspapers by day she led a quiet and respectable life, but by night she was prowling the bars looking for men. Later a best-selling novel and blockbuster movie explores the aftermath of the s*xual revolution of the 1970s and the story of one woman’s murder.

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Roseann Quinn. According to the newspapers by day she led a quiet and respectable life, but by night she was prowling the bars looking for men. Later a best-selling novel and blockbuster movie expl…

04/01/2023

Delimar Vera. What would you do if you were told your baby died, but you just knew she was kidnapped? How would you get anyone to listen or help you? This is the story of one woman who never gave up hope that her baby daughter was out there and she would find her.
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Delimar Vera. What would you do if you were told your baby died, but you just knew she was kidnapped? How would you get anyone to listen or help you? This is the story of one woman who never gave …

21/12/2022

Alfred Dreyfus. In this true crime world we hear terms like “Miranda rights” or “Amber Alert” or a “Dreyfus case”. These names come from true life situations and as we invoke their names, we should hear their stories. Here is the story of Alfred Dreyfus, who endured anti-Semitism and a wrongful conviction. He was later exonerated, but not before his whole life was destroyed.

Alfred Dreyfus. In this true crime world we hear terms like “Miranda rights” or “Amber Alert” or a “Dreyfus case”. These names come from true life situations and as we invoke their names, we should…

07/12/2022

The Irish Vanishing Triangle. In the 1990's women in the eastern corner of Ireland started vanishing without a trace. What was happening? Is this just a bunch of women taken from their family and friends by random happenstance, or was there a serial killer operated. The Garda made many mistakes, and only very late in the cycle created a task force, but it was too little too late for 12 women.

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Sources:
Timeline: https://www.irelandsvanishingtriangle.com/annie-mccarrick
Ireland’s Vanishing Triangle. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland%27s_Vanishing_Triangle
Ireland’s missing persons in the “Vanishing Triangle”. By Kathleen Donohoe September 10, 2018. https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/irelands-vanishing-triangle-missing
Mystery of Ireland’s Vanishing Triangle women: Author reveals how culture of secrecy, victim blaming and shame around s*x means no justice for Eight women murdered in the 90s whose bodies were never found. By Monica Greep. May 17, 2021. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9488823/The-Vanishing-Triangle-author-disappearance-eight-missing-women-90s-Ireland.html
Imelda Plea “Continues to fall on deaf ears” by Darren Skelton. January 3, 2022. https://waterford-news.ie/2022/01/03/imelda-plea-continues-to-fall-on-deaf-ears/ #:~:text=ON%20January%203%2C%201994%2C%20Imelda,years%20old%20at%20the%20time.

The Irish Vanishing Triangle. In the 1990’s women in the eastern corner of Ireland started vanishing without a trace. What was happening? Is this just a bunch of women taken from their family…