The Corruption Of Lieutenant Charles Becker. Jump to Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 116 is a story about police corruption in New York’s Tenderloin District at the turn of the last century. The Tenderloin District around Broadway was so named by the police because there was a lot of graft to be made and they were able to stop eating chuck steak…

The Brutal Murder of Gussie Pfeiffer Jump To The Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 115 is a baffling case indeed. The body of a young factory girl who had been missing for three days is found “brutalized,” as the euphemism goes, before being murdered and her body dumped near a historic tree in the Bronx. How long had she been there? How long had s…

The Cleveland Kaber Conspiracy By Marjorie Wilson Jump to Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 114 Back in the golden ages of newspapers, it was common for them to publish serialized novels of romance, adventure,and intrigue, but true crime serials were not quite so common. But here is a novella-length story published in nineteen chapters in five par…

The Cleveland Kaber Conspiracy By Marjorie Wilson Jump to Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 114 Back in the golden ages of newspapers, it was common for them to publish serialized novels of romance, adventure,and intrigue, but true crime serials were not quite so common. But here is a novella-length story published in nineteen chapters in five par…

The Scoundrel Albert Brownlee Jump To Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 344 takes place in the Pacific Northwest and follows the career of a World War I veteran who returns to a life of crime. This fellow’s a peck of trouble, and since the Huns didn’t get him, the state of Oregon will. Find More Stories About CAPITAL CRIMES Become a supporter of t…

The Scoundrel Herman Kabansky Jump To Ad-Free Safe House Edition There’s a lot of action packed into Episode 343. In addition to a drunken shooting spree and a heroic policeman, the story packs in an escape from jail, an attempted suicide, and a whole lot of courtroom and jailhouse dramatics. Find More Stories About Jail Breaks Become a supporter o…

A Bloody Riot In Birmingham Jump To The AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION Episode 342 is dedicated to listeners Paula Wellman and Marcie Braden, who along with the Historic Birmingham Facebook group suggested this case and provided me with tons of research. It is a double tragedy, a brutal family murder followed by a massacre in the city streets as a dili…

The Degradation Of Sassy Springer Jump To Commercial-Free SAFE HOUSE Edition Episode 340 tells of a double murder--one intentional, one accidental--arising out of an unusual love triangle, a married wealthy Denver socialite and two men, both of whom were her lovers, neither of them her husband. Does that make it a love quadrangle? MORE LOVE TRIANGL…

Scandal At Reynolda Jump to the AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION Episode 338 weaves the tale of mystery surrounding the shocking death of the youngest son of the tobacco king R.J. Reynolds when he is found dead in the family’s palatial North Carolina home. Although the coroner immediately ruled it a suicide, other officials felt differently, and suspicio…

The Australian Aviatrix And Her Suitors Jump To The AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION Episode 341 tells the scandalous story of one of Miami, Florida’s most sensational murders when a young writer is found dead in a sleeping porch, a bullet in his head and two suicide notes on the table. Public interest is high because the other two sides of the fatal tri…

The Murder Of The Butcher Pops Wagner Jump To The AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION Episode 117 tells the story of sweet 16-year-old Lena Theresa Neinstedt, known as Terry, a pretty eighth-grade dropout with a habit of stealing government checks out of neighborhood mailboxes. A wild child of the streets of New York, young Terry also had a habit of carryin…

Episode 118 Jump To The AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION "Murder For Two Dollars And Forty-Five Cents" tells the story of how a newsboy finds the clue solving a professional (well, sorta) murder. "The War Hero's Love Letters Sentenced Him To Die" (14:26) ties in the murder of a theater tycoon with a bit of romantic intrigue. "Love And The Counterfeiters"…

A Double Dose Of Arsenic Jump to the AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION Episode 119 tells the sordid tale of Edith Carew, an English society woman living as an expatriate in Japan, who goes to trial for poisoning her husband. The the press couldn’t help but compare it to the case of Florence Maybrick, which took place a few years earlier in Liverpool. More…

The Brutal Crimes and Punishment of Jesse Pomeroy Jump to the AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION Episode 121 concerns one of the most heinous crimes ever committed by a teenager. Jesse Pomeroy was but 14 years old when he was arrested for abducting and torturing young boys and sent to the state reformatory. He was released after a little more than a year, …

The Brutal Murder Of Alberta Meadows Jump to the AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITION Once upon a time, 1922 to be precise, Clara Phillips, a former Hollywood bathing beauty and chorus girl, decided she wanted to have a chat with a young lady she suspected of canoodling with her husband. She stopped at the dime store and bought a brand new hammer on the way.…

The Kentucky Conspiracy Jump to the Ad-Free Safe House Edition Episode 122 The Commonwealth of Kentucky was thrown into political turmoil over the election of its governor in 1899, and the winner's murder. The republican candidate, William S. Taylor, first appeared to win the election by a narrow margin, but the votes were challenged by his opponen…

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…