True Crime Historian

04/02/2026

02/14/2026

The accusations started in the south. Jews, it was whispered, had been caught poisoning the wells. A Jewish physician in Savoy, under torture, confessed to a plot. Never mind that Jews drank from the same wells. Never mind that Jews died of the plague at roughly the same rate as everyone else.

The Strasbourg Massacre

02/06/2026

Episode 466 is the story of John C. Elliott, the Ohio woodcutter turned political assassin who rode 500 miles to execute a prophet. Hiding as a schoolmaster, Elliott was arrested and set free by Joseph Smith himself. Discover the man history forgot.

Episode 466 is the story of John C. Elliott, the Ohio woodcutter turned political assassin who rode 500 miles to execute a prophet. Hiding as a schoolmaster,...

02/02/2026

Episode 461 takes us to 1925, when Indiana Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon D.C. Stevenson kidnapped and assaulted Madge Oberholtzer, who died from poison she took to escape him. Her "dying declaration" was the key evidence. His murder conviction, based on "proximate cause," shattered the Klan’s immense political power in Indiana and ended the careers of prominent politicians, including a governor.

Madge Oberholtzer Kills The Klan https://www.patreon.com/posts/deathbed-145005489 Episode 461 takes us to 1925, when Indiana Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon D.C. St

01/28/2026

Now available in PAPERBACK or EBOOK!!!

The Easter Massacre by RichardOJones

11/11/2025

The hired gun had a long history of adventure, deeds good and foul, but the murder of a fourteen-year-old boy was a bullet too far for the colorful Tom Horn.

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-last-bad-man-of-the-west--67787772

09/02/2025

A Bloody Scream In The Night
The Axe Murder Of Alice Mallett
Episode 450 begins with a scream in the night as the beautiful Miss Alice Mallett, her body brutally defiled, found in a bloody pool. The town of Jackson, Michigan, reels, a mob thirsting for vengeance. The twisted trail of an axe points to the fiendish George Straub, an ex-con with a dark past. But wait! Did he act alone? Or did another shadowy figure lurk in the night? With tear gas exploding and fingers pointing, justice hangs by a thread as a city demands blood!

For the rest of the story:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/137737151

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09/02/2025

He's back!