Historical True Crime — assassins, gangsters, mobsters and lawmen; manhunts, scandals and unexplained phenomena. Stories of the wildest and darkest chapters of America's past.
297 episodes transcribedKari Swenson was a world-class athlete with a promising career ahead of her as a biathlete. But in the summer of 1984, she went for a jog in the Big S...
Claude Dallas won’t stay confined for long. After his arrest and conviction for murder, he escapes from prison and goes back on the run. It’s the thir...
Veteran journalist Joe Nocera’s neighbor in the Hamptons was a therapist named Ike. Ike counted celebrities and Manhattan elites as his patients. He’d...
The confrontation between Claude Dallas and two Idaho game wardens turns deadly. In the remote Bull Basin area of the huge Owyhee Desert in southweste...
Claude Dallas was an old school cowboy in the 20th century. He drifted through the American West and worked at a series of ranches … but he was also o...
During the 1-900 number craze of the Nineties, one company provided the vast majority of phone sex. American Telnet was an empire founded by the man w...
It’s one of the most haunting murder cases you’ll ever hear about, and it takes place in a small town in Israel. Tair Rada was only 13-years-old when...
Steve Kough lived many lives. He was an NFL journeyman, a male model, and one of the most well-connected smugglers in 1980’s Miami, the “Drug Capital...
The Hatfield-McCoy feud wasn’t the only feud in eastern Kentucky in the late 1800s, not by a long shot. The Martin-Tolliver feud, the French-Eversole...
A small town cop known as “GI Joe” is gunned down in a swamp in the summer of 2015 and quickly becomes a martyr in the national media. But when a dogg...
Weeks of firefights and arrests lead to the Battle of Grapevine. A party of McCoy supporters led by “Bad” Frank Phillips clashes with a party of Hatfi...
A deadly raid on New Year’s Day launches the bloodiest month of the feud. The Hatfields inflict more casualties on the McCoys, but then the McCoys unl...
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A brutal attack pushes Devil Anse Hatfield to an extreme act of revenge. The feud enters its bloodiest phase, and the consequences force the governors...
A trial leads to murder. A relationship between a Hatfield young man and a McCoy young woman deepens the divide between the two families. And Devil An...
The most iconic family feud in American history begins in the heart of southern Appalachia. Tensions rise during the years before the Civil War, and t...
A big Halloween party at an apartment complex in Redmond, Washington. Themed rooms and costumed partygoers. But by the end of the party, one of the ho...
Henry Hill testifies against his friends and begins a new life in the witness protection program. But he doesn’t completely give up his old life, and...
Paolo is a smart and handsome surgeon, renowned for his ability to perform surgeries that transform his patients’ lives. When television producer Beni...
The bloody fallout from the Lufthansa Heist continues as the police discover dead mobsters all over New York. People with direct knowledge of the robb...
