Historical True Crime — assassins, gangsters, mobsters and lawmen; manhunts, scandals and unexplained phenomena. Stories of the wildest and darkest chapters of America's past.
291 episodes transcribedIn the 1960s, writers began to theorize about the causes of the disturbing stories related to the Bermuda Triangle. Pilots and passengers stepped forw...
Five Navy Avenger airplanes vanished in the area of the Bermuda Triangle on December 5, 1945. The routine training flight began without problems but g...
Disappearing ships. Disappearing crew members. Disappearing passengers. The Bermuda Triangle has a long history of causing ships and people to vanish...
The full scope and scale of the crimes of Ed Gein comes to light, and it shocks 1950s America. He becomes the inspiration for books and movies, includ...
After another woman goes missing in Plainfield, Wisconsin, the police make horrifying discoveries at the farm of Ed Gein. The scene is beyond their wo...
After Ed Gein experiences personal tragedy, he becomes a true eccentric. His house fills with junk and squalor. He begins visiting cemeteries in the d...
In the 1920s and 1930s, Ed Gein grows up on a Wisconsin farm with a domineering mother and an alcoholic father. He’s bullied by other kids and sinks d...
Lizzie Borden goes to trial for the murder of her father and stepmother. The stakes are as high as they can get: she could face the death penalty if c...
The Borden murders shock the city of Fall River. The police begin their investigation and they quickly discover a potential murder weapon. They believ...
August 4, 1892 is a hot day in Fall River, Massachusetts. The Borden house is quiet until 30-year-old Lizzie screams that her father has been killed....
Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb begin their new lives in prison, and those lives take very different turns. They use their money and intelligence to c...
The families of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb hire the most famous defense attorney in America, Clarence Darrow, to keep their sons off death row. D...
In May of 1924, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnap 14-year-old Bobby Franks and carry out their ruthless murder plan. They believe they are superm...
Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb are young and rich. They’re highly intelligent. And they’re about to become cold-blooded killers. They meticulously pl...
Host Chris Wimmer interviews the writer of the D.B Cooper series, Jamie Lyko. They add more detail to the story of the money found in the sand bar; th...
Years pass, and the heat of the initial investigation dies down. The FBI reviews numerous suspects but dismisses each one. There are no leads on the h...
Law enforcement agencies race to find the hijacker, but they face major obstacles. The possible search area is massive and the weather hampers the inv...
This is the story of one of the most infamous unsolved crimes in American history. In November of 1971, a man calling himself “Dan Cooper” hijacks an...
In the waning days of the prison, three inmates perform arguably the greatest prison break in American history. It’s immortalized by Hollywood in the...
Alcatraz cools down for a few years after the battle, but eventually the escape attempts resume. Some inmates are desperate to flee the harsh conditio...
