Best Tree Crim Podcasts (2025)

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Was It Mother? Or Murder? 49:42

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Pittsburgh’s Feely Murder Mystery Jump To AD-FREE Safe House Edition You’ll need your thinking cap for Episode 129, about as cold a case as you can get. It’s about eighty years old, but even police officials at the time could not agree on what happened in the back room of that tiny home, whether it was a murder or a murder/suicide. I’m not going to…

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A French Maid's Dirty Laundry 1:41:15

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The Ordeal Of Hattie LeBlanc Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 413 is the sordid little tale of a French Canadian girl who gets wrapped up in an ugly situation involving her employers, a womanizing laundry owner and his suffering wife. It only gets uglier when the husband ends up dead, the maid arrested, but it seems to be the wife who…

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Killer Caught By A Thread 1:11:31

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The Mulholland Drive Sack Murder Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edtion Episode 411 details the events following the discovery alongside the famed Mulholland Drive of a body sewn up in a makeshift canvas bag fashioned from an old awning. All fingers point to her friend, a physician with a shady past, whose defense is simply the old standby: “What? W…

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A Fatal Clang Of The Trolley 53:23

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The President’s Close Call Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 452 explores the aftermath of a presidential mishap when Teddy Roosevelt's carriage collides with an electric trolley racing to make up for lost time. A Secret Service guard dies immediately and the trolley driver is charged with his murder. Was this a simple accident? A case…

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Fall River Nurse Found In Tiverton Ditch 1:20:27

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The Interstate Strangulation Of Verna Russell Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 409 is the story of a spoiled young man who wouldn’t take no for an answer and let his rage get the better of him. The best evidence against him will come from the very source he turned to in order to hide his deed. Become a supporter of this podcast: https…

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The Girod Street Assassination Ambuscade 2:30:18

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The City Of New Orleans Vs. The Mafia Jump to AD FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION Episode 408 explores the lead-in and aftermath of one of the most deadly vigilante actions in American history. When the commissioner of police is assassinated on his way home, a committee of 50 citizens call an indignation meeting, and you know how those are likely to go. Jus…

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Meat Juice Mischief 1:01:56

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The Accusations Against Florence Elizabeth Maybrick Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 407 is dedicated to my new friend from the United Kingdom, Joan Smith, who asked me to dig up more stories from across the great pond. This one involves an American woman who marries a Brit old enough to be her father, and is then charged with his poi…

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A Corpse In The Morris Canal 54:36

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The Work Of The Mormon Butcher Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 451 begins in the summer of 1902, when a woman’s mutilated body is pulled from the Morris Canal, and the trail leads to a blood-soaked missionary’s flat in Manhattan. The suspect: William Hooper Young, grandson of Mormon patriarch Brigham Young, whose notebook bore the ch…

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The Perth Ballroom Tragedy 1:28:43

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Audrey Jacob Stands Trial Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 406 comes from a special request from one of my many listeners Down Under, this one the tragic story of a spurned young woman who settles the score on the dance floor. And we’re not talking about a tango competition, but her trial is a dramatic one and the resolution is indeed…

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A Mother-In-Law's Revenge 1:49:19

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The Horrible Horner-Simpson Affair Jump To AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 404 is jam-packed with crazy when a fun-loving dentist is charged with the double-barrel shotgun murder of his father-in-law. The family dynamic seems to go off the rails in the lead-in to the trial, and there are a couple of interesting subplots to keep things going, inc…

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Austin Family Found In Cistern 1:21:17

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Eugene Burt Flees From Justice Jump To AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 403 explores the story of a man who leaves his family battered and murdered in a cistern under their Austin home, and heads out of town on the midnight train. He thinks he can disappear in a big city, but Chicago has another story. Hear More Stories About The Death Of INNOCEN…

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Missouri Mob Justice 1:07:44

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The Lynching Of Lloyd Warner Jump To The AD-FREE Safe House Edition Plus transcripts and deep-dive research for Safe House residents Episode 449 tells the story of civil unrest sparked by reports of a young white woman being sexually assaulted by a young black male, a story all too common in American history, and like many of the others, it appears…

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Baby Amy & The Broadway Gigolo 59:00

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A Bloody Scream In The Night 1:14:10

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The Axe Murder Of Alice Mallett Ad-Free Safe House Edition 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 …

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Breaking News! 1:28

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Our long international nightmare is over! True Crime Historian is coming off hiatus with a block of brand new episodes. The first new release comes October 1 with "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 bl…

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Gin! Jazz! Guns! 1:36:34

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The Real ‘Chicago’ Murders Episode 352 explores the two murders that inspired the hit musical “Chicago,” which was based on a play by Maurine Watkins, who did some reporting on both cases as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. I’ll be joined by my colleague Susan Ferman, whose own podcast Catastrophic Calamities, will premiere next week on the Pulp…

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Bacon On The Table 27:19

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The Brutal Murder Of Mayme Sherman A True Crime Short Story by Richard O Jones Ad-Free Safe House Edition One of the factors behind my interest in historical true crime is that my hometown of Hamilton, Ohio, seems to have a particularly rich history of crime--murder in particular, but not just murder. I’ve done several local programs about the safe…