Best Tree Crim Podcasts (2026)

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The Black Widow Of Durham 1:00:48

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The Condemnation Of Mary Ann Cotton Jump to the Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 462 is the tale of the wicked Mary Ann Cotton, one of Victorian Britain's most prolific serial killers, exploiting the era's poverty and the new industrial life insurance market for financial gain. Using arsenic, her crimes were camouflaged by high mortality rates, a…

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Machine Guns And Mules 1:15:58

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The Barrow Gang’s Bloody Rampage Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 460 tells the brutal story of two young lovers and their gang as they escalate from small-time robbery to a bloody, two-year crime spree across the Southwest. With an arsenal of machine guns and other deadly weapons, they left a trail of dead lawmen and merchants in a d…

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Something Horrible Has Happened In Hawaii 1:36:40

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Kahahawai Shot In The Heart Jump to the Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 93 takes you to the island paradise of Hawaii, not yet a state in 1932 when the wife of a naval officer stationed there is allegedly raped and beaten by four natives. A few months later, her mother, her husband and two of his enlisted men face a jury under the counsel of the…

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The Blond Butcher Trunk Murder 1:18:27

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The Escapes and Escapades of Winnie Ruth Judd Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 90 begins in the fall of 1931 when a Phoenix resident shows up in a Los Angeles train depot trying to claim three trunks that she had shipped there. The clerks wouldn’t let her take the trunks because of the foul odor emanating from them. Winnie Ruth Judd s…

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The Purcell Nicotine Poison Puzzle 1:16:58

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Or, Death of a Composer Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 86 involves the body of a songwriter and real estate speculator found tied to a chair with an expression of surprise frozen on his dead face and suspicions of suicide. - Wait. What? - Suicide tied to a chair? - The evidence is so jumbled, police are at a loss to explain, but the…

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George Harsh's Great Escape 54:45

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From Thrill Slayer To War Hero Jump To The AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 459 unlocks the bizarre, true tale of George Harsh, the Oglethorpe "Thrill Slayer," and his partner Richard Gallogly. Bored rich kids trade philosophy for a Colt .45 and a rash of robberies that turn fatal. Harsh's journey spirals from university to death row, then from c…

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Poison In The Pepper Box 1:12:33

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The Trial Of Louise Vermilya Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 80. Although Louise Vermilya of Chicago was never convicted of a crime, history lays around 10 deaths at her door, mostly family members and suitors. She did go to trial once, and we’ll take a pretty close look at the drama, including a suicide attempt, that led up to her a…

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Bald Knobbers 1:38:13

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Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition For this remastered edition, I’ve dug deep into the vault and combined Episodes 7 and 77, both regarding post-Civil War vigilante action in the Ozark Mountains. The Giant Vigilante Captain Nat Kinney Episode 7. Captain Nat Kinney was a large man, both in stature and reputation, and both seemed to grow to mythi…

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Trail Of The Red Ax 59:39

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The Villisca Ax Murders Mystery Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 69 starts with a brutal ax murder that scandalized the quiet town of Villisca, Iowa, about 2,000 souls in the summer of 1912, when a family of six and two young visitors were killed in their beds by an assailant wielding a long-handled ax, the family’s own tool, which wa…

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Inside The Dalton Gang Part Three 59:04

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The End Begins At Coffeyville Jump To The AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION Episode 458 concludes our three part exploration of the infamous Dalton Gang. With the law breathing down their necks and increasing the guards on trains, the gang needs to find a new way to raise money to finance an exile to South America. In desperation they attempt a double ban…

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Torture At The Chicken Ranch 42:23

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The Awful Crimes of the Northcott Family A missing boy returns from a cross country walkabout, but the mother says it's not him. Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition You can pay more if you want to, but rent at the Safe House is just a buck a week, and you can get access to over 400 episodes from the dusty vault, plus content not available anywhe…

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Massacre At The Love Bungalow 49:02

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Seven Dead at Taliesin Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition In Episode 46, we relive a somewhat famous crime involving the noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the night that his apparently crazed butler -- yes, the butler did it! -- slaughtered seven people at Wright’s Wisconsin rural home he named Taliesen after the ancient Welsh poet, and bu…

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The Bloody Benders 50:05

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Roadhouse Of No Return Jump To The AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 40 takes a look at the legend of a Kansas family that killed at least 11 visitors to their roadhouse in the early 1870s. They aroused suspicion by choosing as a victim a well-known physician, whose family soon pulled out all stops in a search until they uncovered his body, along …

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Inside The Dalton Gang Part Two 56:01

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Train Robberies Bring Troubles Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 457 continues a three-episode exploration of the infamous Dalton Gang, who terrorize the Plains states near the end of the nineteenth century. In this episode, the gang strikes it rich with a big haul, and some want to retire, but getting out of the country isn't the piece of cake th…

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Quintuple Executions 1:10:02

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The Early Days Of The Electric Chair This is a combination of two early episodes with a common theme. The Shocking Death Of William Kemmler: The First Electric Execution Jump to AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 19. Following the brutal murder of his common law wife Tillie Ziegler in Buffalo, New York, March, 1889, the rough character William Kemm…

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The Ten-Spot Murder Plot 55:03

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The Fall from Grace and Tragic Murder of the Rev. Gaylord V. Saunders Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 38 tells the sordid tale of a Methodist minister suffering from a midlife crisis and in losing his faith falls into the path of sin and degradation. It gets so bad, that his beleaguered wife offers a young man a $10 bill to find some…

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Naughty Nellie Bailey: Frontier Temptress 48:11

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The Bothamley Murder Mystery Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Episode 37 is the story of an 1883 murder that appeared in newspapers across the country in 1905 as "The Bothamley Murder Mystery" under the byline of Captain Patrick D. Tyrrell, who at that time had retired from a career as a detective in the United States Secret Service. His job …

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The Black Widow Of Durham 1:00:48

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Machine Guns And Mules 1:15:58

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Something Horrible Has Happened In Hawaii 1:36:40

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The Blond Butcher Trunk Murder 1:18:27

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The Purcell Nicotine Poison Puzzle 1:16:58

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George Harsh's Great Escape 54:45

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Poison In The Pepper Box 1:12:33

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Bald Knobbers 1:38:13

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Trail Of The Red Ax 59:39

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Inside The Dalton Gang Part Three 59:04

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Torture At The Chicken Ranch 42:23

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Massacre At The Love Bungalow 49:02

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The Bloody Benders 50:05

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Inside The Dalton Gang Part Two 56:01

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Quintuple Executions 1:10:02

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The Ten-Spot Murder Plot 55:03

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Naughty Nellie Bailey: Frontier Temptress 48:11