Best Ruth Lilly Podcasts (2025)

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392: Golden Age Pirate George Lowther w/ Craig Chapman 1:10:00

22h ago1:10:00

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George Lowther was a mutineer and a pirate, one of the most prolific during the golden age of piracy. His first mate, Edward "Ned" Low, went on to establish himself as perhaps the most sadistic and depraved of all pirate captains. Virtually all popular sources specify Lowther's death being by suicide in 1723, while marooned on the small island of B…

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Conversations with Dead People 7.16: Chosen (s07e22) 2:09:48

5d ago2:09:48

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Join us as we discuss the very last episode of Season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Episode 22, Chosen. The world is doomed... Check out the episodes we’ve got coming up here. Come talk to us on Twitter and Tumblr, or email us and please review us on iTunes.

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MoNo Encore: The Murder of Kitty Genovese w/ Catherine Pelonero 1:09:35

5d ago1:09:35

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(Original pub. date: 9/27/2018) Catherine Pelonero, author of "Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and its Private Consequences", is my guest. She walks us through the murder of Kitty Genovese in Kew Gardens, New York in 1964 and its aftermath. The horrific crime is especially infamous because no one called police or stepped in to hel…

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391: Civil War Era & Gilded Age Con Artist Charles Cowlam w/ Frank W. Garmon Jr. 1:01:11

7d ago1:01:11

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Charles Cowlam stands out as one of the most remarkable con artists of nineteenth-century America. He talked his way into receiving pardons from both President Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. Through deception, he secured a role investigating Lincoln’s assassination. He preyed on lonely widows, attempted to manipulate a Florida election, and c…

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390: Abingdon's Boardinghouse Murder w/ Greg Lilly 1:11:01

15d ago1:11:01

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In November 1945, James Newton, a young World War II veteran, was shot four times—twice in the back—in his room at an Abingdon, Virginia boardinghouse owned by Helen Clark. She would soon stand trial for his murder, as speculation swirled about the true nature of their relationship. Was she a protective, motherly figure trying to prevent Jimmy from…

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Conversations with Dead People 7.15: End of Days (s07e21) 1:08:52

18d ago1:08:52

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Join us in our conversation about Season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Episode 21, End of Days. Check out the episodes we’ve got coming up here. Come talk to us on Twitter and Tumblr, or email us and please review us on iTunes.By Fascination and Frustration

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389: A History of Axe Murder w/ Rachel McCarthy James 1:08:41

22d ago1:08:41

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Much like the wheel, the boat, and the telephone, the axe is a transformative piece of technology―one that has been with us since prehistory. And just as early humans used the axe to chop down trees, hunt for food, and whittle tools, they also used it to murder. Over time, this particular use has endured: as the axe evolved over centuries to fit th…

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388: The Adriatic Affair w/ Jennifer Sellitti 1:13:52

1M ago1:13:52

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The American sailing vessel Adriatic collided with the French steamship Le Lyonnais on November 2, 1856, off the coast of Nantucket in what can best be described as a maritime hit-and-run. Adriatic’s captain, Jonathan Durham, rendered no aid and left the passenger steamship to fend for herself. 114 people died in the collision and in the days that …

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Conversations with Dead People 7.14: Touched (s07e20) 1:08:51

1M ago1:08:51

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Join us in our conversation about Season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Episode 20, Touched. Check out the episodes we’ve got coming up here. Come talk to us on Twitter and Tumblr, or email us and please review us on iTunes.By Fascination and Frustration

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Introducing the Slaycation Podcast 24:55

1M ago24:55

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Just in time for summer! This is an introduction and excerpt from the Slaycation Podcast, hosted by Kim and Adam "Tex" Davis and Jerry Kolber. Pack your body bags for a darkly comic, true crime podcast that looks at murders, mysterious deaths and whodunits that happened while people were on vacation. More here! https://www.slaycation.wtf/ Spotify l…

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MoNo Encore: The Murders of Stringbean and Estelle Akeman w/ Taylor Hagood 1:49:35

1M ago1:49:35

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(original pub date 7/19/23) David "Stringbean" Akeman was a singer, clawhammer banjo player and an early Grand Ole Opry star, known for his lanky build and comedic personality. And as a cast member of the nationwide television show Hee-Haw, he was at the height of his popularity when he and his wife Estelle were murdered in their rural Tennessee ho…

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387: The Beatle Bandit w/ Nate Hendley 57:55

1M ago57:55

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On July 24, 1964, twenty-four-year-old Matthew Kerry Smith disguised himself with a mask and a Beatle wig, hoisted a semi-automatic rifle, then held up a bank in North York, Ontario. The intelligent but troubled son of a businessman and mentally ill mother, Smith was a navy veteran with a young Indigenous wife and a hazy plan for violent revolution…

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386: America's Nazi POW Murders w/ William Geroux 1:13:51

2M ago1:13:51

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The American government was faced with an unprecedented challenge: where to house the nearly 400,000 German prisoners of war plucked from the battlefield and shipped across the Atlantic. On orders from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Department of War hastily built hundreds of POW camps in the United States. Today, traces of those camps—which …

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Conversations with Dead People 7.13: Empty Places (s07e19) 1:06:53

2M ago1:06:53

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Join us in our conversation about Season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Episode 19, Empty Places. Check out the episodes we’ve got coming up here. Come talk to us on Twitter and Tumblr, or email us and please review us on iTunes.By Fascination and Frustration

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385: The 1870 Murder of A.P. Crittenden w/ Gary Krist 1:09:33

2M ago1:09:33

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Shortly before dusk on November 3, 1870, just as the ferryboat El Capitan was pulling away from its slip into San Francisco Bay, a woman clad in black emerged from the shadows and strode across the crowded deck. Reaching under her veil, she drew a small pistol and aimed it directly at a well-dressed man sitting quietly with his wife and children. T…

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384: The 1943 Murders of Dr. Roy & Mae Hunt w/ Christena Stephens 56:26

2M ago56:26

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On a nearly moonless night in October 1943, a single gunshot rang out in Littlefield, Texas. A prominent Texas doctor and his wife were found bound, shot, beaten, and murdered. The only witness: their five-year-old daughter, who was bound to silence and refused to speak about what happened for 70 years. Christena Stephens is my guest, and her book …

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Conversations with Dead People 7.12: Dirty Girls (s07e18) 1:01:45

2M ago1:01:45

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Join us in our conversation about Season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Episode 18, Dirty Girls. We had some tech issues while recording this, hence why we sound like we fell down a drain pipe. We do apologise and hope you'll bear with us... Faith's in this episode! It's 100% worth it!!! Check out the episodes we’ve got coming up here. Come talk to…

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MoNo Encore: The Murder of Carol Thompson w/ Bill Swanson 1:04:21

2M ago1:04:21

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(Original pub date: 3/11/20) While the Coen brothers refuse to confirm it, many believe that their movie "Fargo" was inspired by the Carol Thompson murder case. She was viciously killed in her comfortable Saint Paul home by a hitman hired by her eccentric husband, T. Eugene Thompson, in March of 1963, leaving behind four small children. It was an a…

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383: The Mysterious Disappearance of Molly Zelko w/ Rod Kackley 57:54

2M ago57:54

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Molly Zelko was the crusading editor and publisher of the Spectator, a newspaper devoted to battling local gangsters operating slot machines and other rackets in Joliet, Illinois. In the late night hours of September 25, 1957 she vanished, with only her shoes and signs of a struggle left as evidence that something sinister had likely happened to he…

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Conversations with Dead People 7.11: Lies My Parents Told me (s07e17) 1:32:37

2M ago1:32:37

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Join us in our conversation about Season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Episode 17, Lies My Parents Told Me. Check out the episodes we’ve got coming up here. Come talk to us on Twitter and Tumblr, or email us and please review us on iTunes.By Fascination and Frustration

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382: The Notorious Nancy Clem & the Cold Spring Murders w/ Wendy Gamber 1:19:31

3M ago1:19:31

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On September 13, 1868, the bodies of Jacob and Nancy Young were discovered brutally murdered along the bank of the White River in Cold Spring, Indiana. Police would eventually set their sights on a charming and fascinating confidence woman named Nancy Clem, who happened to be involved in some extremely shady business dealings with Jacob Young at th…

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381: Alabama's Kilpatrick Shooting w/ Lesa Carnes Shaul 1:27:48

3M ago1:27:48

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Close to midnight on May 17, 1951, four north Alabama lawmen drove to a bootlegger’s home to serve an arrest warrant. Before the clock struck twelve, the bootlegger lay dead in front of the house he shared with his wife and eight children, and three of the four officers were also dead. Afterward, a sixteen-year-old boy would face a series of trials…

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Conversations with Dead People 7.10: Storyteller (s07e16) 1:09:17

3M ago1:09:17

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Join us in our conversation about Season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Episode 16, Storyteller. Check out the episodes we’ve got coming up here. Come talk to us on Twitter and Tumblr, or email us and please review us on iTunes.By Fascination and Frustration

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380: Murder in Blackout London w/ Amy Helen Bell 59:27

3M ago59:27

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My guest today is Dr. Amy Helen Bell, author of "Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Blackout London". She shares accounts of the terror, tragedy and crime experienced by Londoners during the blackout and the blitz in 1940s wartime Britain. More about the author here: https://amyhelenbell.com/ Interested in revisiting the serial killers mentioned i…

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379: The Pan Am Flight 7 Seven Crash w/ Ken Fortenberry 1:24:07

3M ago1:24:07

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My guest this week is award-winning journalist Ken Fortenberry, author of "Flight 7 Is Missing: The Search for My Father's Killer". He walks us through the ill-fated flight of Pan Am's luxurious "Romance of the Skies", a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser that mysteriously crashed into the Pacific Ocean in November of 1957. Forty-four people were killed, inc…

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Conversations with Dead People 7.9: Get It Done (s07e15) 1:08:15

3M ago1:08:15

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Join us in our conversation about the second half of Season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. We are discussing episode 15, Get It Done. Check out the episodes we’ve got coming up here. Come talk to us on Twitter and Tumblr, or email us and please review us on iTunes.By Fascination and Frustration

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MoNo Encore: The Villisca Axe Murders - The Reverend Lyn George Kelly w/ Edgar Epperly 1:18:58

4M ago1:18:58

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(Original publish date: 6/7/22) In this third and final part of my interview with Dr. Edgar Epperly, the "little minister" Lyn George Jacklin Kelly is examined as a primary suspect in the 1912 Villisca Axe Murders. Although Kelly spoke obsessively about the case and even confessed to the murders, many believed that the confession was the result of …

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MoNo Encore: The Villisca Axe Murders: Wilkerson Vs. Jones w/ Edgar Epperly 1:18:07

4M ago1:18:07

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(Original Publish Date: 5/31/22) Frank Fernando (F.F.) Jones seemed to be one of the most obvious suspects in the aftermath of the horrific 1912 Villisca Axe murders. He had a contentious business rivalry with the patriarch of the slain Moore family, Josiah (Joe) Moore, intensified further because Moore was having an affair with his daughter-in-law…

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MoNo Encore: The Villisca Axe Murders: Crime Scene w/ Edgar Epperly 1:16:30

4M ago1:16:30

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One of my absolute favorites! This is the first of a three part interview I did with Dr. Ed Epperly about the notorious 1912 Villisca Axe Murders. (Original publish date 5/23/2022) This episode is sponsored by Strawberry .me. Get a $50 credit when you use our link: https://strawberry.me/notorious On June 9th (or) 10th, 1912, America experienced of …

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Conversations with Dead People 7.8: First Date (s07e14) 58:36

4M ago58:36

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We are back! Join us in our conversation about the second half of Season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. We are starting with episode 14, First Date. Check out the episodes we’ve got coming up here. Come talk to us on Twitter and Tumblr, or email us and please review us on iTunes.By Fascination and Frustration

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378: The Murder of "Elvis Girl" Jenny Maxwell w/ Buddy Moorehouse 1:16:57

4M ago1:16:57

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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Jenny Maxwell was one of Hollywood's "it girls", appearing in countless television shows and films. Arguably her most memorable role was that of Ellie Corbett in Elvis Presley's 1961 movie "Blue Hawaii", where she stole every scene she was in. But despite her professional success, her personal life was a mess, muc…

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377: The Murder of Anna Wilkens & The Birth of the Lie Detector w/ Amit Katwala 58:01

4M ago58:01

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Late one evening in the summer of 1922, Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife's blood. But was he a grieving husband or a ruthless killer who conspired with bandits to have her murdered? To find out, the San Francisco police turned to technology and a new machine that had just been invented in Berkeley by a…

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