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  • You'll Never Hang Me!

    You'll Never Hang Me!
    Aug 28 2025
    The Insanity (Or Not) Of Douglas Van Vlack


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    Episode 377 takes a deep plunge into the story of a troubled young couple in a flight from justice that ends in great double tragedies. The second act details a sensational and contentious trial as Douglas Van Vlack’s defense team try to keep him from the gallows by telling the story of his traumatic life. The third act tells how the scoundrel tries to take matters into his own hands when the insanity plea fails. Culled from the historic pages of the Idaho Evening Times and other newspapers of the era.

    Hear more stories about COURTROOM SHENANIGANS

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    2 h et 5 min
  • The Escapes Of The Plymouth County Desperadoes

    The Escapes Of The Plymouth County Desperadoes
    Aug 20 2025
    Bullets For Sheriff Maxwell And Family

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    Episode 376 is an action-packed thriller with a jailbreak, a prison break, a couple of car chases, a bank robbery, and then some. At the center of it all is the law-enforcing family of Sheriff Hugh Maxwell of Plymouth County, Iowa, who make the ultimate sacrifice in their pursuit of justice.

    Listen to more stories with PRISON BREAKS.

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    1 h et 7 min
  • A Bloody Family Bed

    A Bloody Family Bed
    Aug 18 2025
    The Triple Confessions Of Willie Lee

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    Episode 374 tells the story of an awful family murder in Boonville, Indiana, when a lazy young man takes an axe to his parents and brother on the eve of his wedding day. What offenses the family committed to deserve such a fate seems to be all in the mind of the accused, and it takes him a few tries to get his story straight.

    Hear more about murders with AXES AND HAMMERS

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    1 h et 21 min
  • Mystery Tour In A Buick 8

    Mystery Tour In A Buick 8
    Aug 15 2025
    The Vanishing Of Clyde Armour

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    Episode 373 tells the story of two young men who go on a road trip together, but only one of them makes it as far as Santa Fe, and he pretends to be the other. In the meanwhile, an Iowa family goes on a desperate hunt for their missing brother.

    Join In On More MANHUNTS

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    1 h et 16 min
  • Atrocity At St. Peter Street

    Atrocity At St. Peter Street
    Aug 13 2025
    La Chataine Juliette And The Perverted Professor Of Magnetic Physiology

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    Episode 372 delves into the history of one of the most hideous villains to ever stalk American streets, a predator so vile that he ranks up there with Albert Fish in his depravity. Even if you don’t believe in capital punishment, I think you’ll agree that Etienne Deschamps deserved his punishment, and then some.

    Hear More Stories From True Crime Pioneer PETER LEVINS

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    1 h et 30 min
  • The Main/Swayne Affair

    The Main/Swayne Affair
    Aug 11 2025
    The Napavine Hatchet Murder

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    Episode 371 seems to start out as a salacious story of a seedy sexual situation gone awry, but the sleaze paves the way to a more interesting subplot of a district attorney forced to bring a half-baked case to trial in order to avoid the appearance of his own complicity in a rumored conspiracy.

    Explore More Murders By HATCHETS & HAMMERS

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    1 h et 25 min
  • The Plymouth Sex Murder

    The Plymouth Sex Murder
    Aug 8 2025
    A Band-Aid Solution To The Mystery

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    Episode 370 tells the story of a World War II era veteran whose mental issues earned him an honorable discharge from service, but he slips through the system, wreaking havoc among the women in the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania. What does it take to get creeps like this off the street? Murder, apparently.

    Explore More CAPITAL CRIMES

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    1 h et 5 min
  • Mr. & Mrs. Bluebeard

    Mr. & Mrs. Bluebeard
    Aug 6 2025
    Martha Beck’s Lonely Hearts Club

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    Episode 368 tells the tragicomic tale of a romantic and business partnership that goes awry when a woman’s jealousy overpowers her professional detachment. It’s also a love story of a passion so profound that they take their love all the way to the electric chair.

    Hear More BLUEBEARD Stories

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    1 h et 12 min