The Prick of Death – Podcast #128 Published on October 17, 2019 Posted in: Crime & Punishment, Death and Murder, Podcast In 1933, a young man was walking through a busy train station in India when he was pricked in the arm by a man walking in the opposite direction. He would soon be dead and the shocking truth as to how and who murdered him was revealed.Click to Read More...
A Punishment That Went Horribly Wrong – Linda Marie Ault – Podcast #119 Published on February 7, 2019 Posted in: Crime & Punishment, Death and Murder, Law & Order, Podcast The parents of Linda Marie Ault were in a panic when their daughter didn't return home after attending a dance. When she returned home the next morning, they came up with a punishment that would teach her a valuable lesson. Everything went horribly wrong.Click to Read More...
Elixir of Death – Podcast #106 Published on October 9, 2017 Posted in: Death and Murder, Forgotten History, Podcast, Science, Technology & Medicine Massengill was the first to introduce sulfanilamide in a liquid form, but never bothered to test the safety of the drug. More than 100 people died.Click to Read More...
Le Mars Trilogy: Part 3 – Maybelle Trow Knox – Podcast #105 Published on September 1, 2017 Posted in: Crime & Punishment, Death and Murder, Podcast The crazy, true story of Maybelle Trow Knox involves a speakeasy raid, a forged promissory note, a missing mother, and much more.Click to Read More...
Le Mars Trilogy: Part 1 – T.M. Zink’s Library – Podcast #103 Published on June 10, 2017 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Death and Murder, Money & Financial, Podcast TM Zink left his entire fortune for the establishment of a Womanless library. Find out the details of what really happened and who inherited his estate.Click to Read More...
Pilot Crashes into Living Room of Home Published on April 18, 2017 Posted in: Death and Murder, Tidbits Willis Allen Wood died on May 12, 1957 when his plane disintegrated and his body fell through the roof of the home of Fred Thompson and his daughter Connie.Click to Read More...
Washed His Intestines in the Kitchen Sink Published on March 21, 2017 Posted in: Death and Murder, Science, Technology & Medicine, Tidbits 56-year-old Gretna, Louisiana resident Sidney Landry had terrible stomach pains and opted to remove a portion of his colon with a penknife.Click to Read More...
$20,000 in Ice Cream in Will Published on September 8, 2016 Posted in: Death and Murder, Money & Financial, Tidbits In 1937, Clementine Farr Duff willed $20,000 to the Washington Home for the Incurables to purchase ice cream.Click to Read More...
A Dog Day in Court – Podcast #92 Published on April 2, 2016 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Crime & Punishment, Death and Murder, Podcast Brockport, NY placed a dog named Idaho on trial for the murder of Russell Breeze in 1936. Find out what happened...Click to Read More...
Faked His Own Death Published on November 17, 2015 Posted in: Crime & Punishment, Death and Murder, Fraud & Deception, Tidbits Albert L. Paglino faked his own death in 1955 by murdering another man. He may have gotten away with it, but made one big mistake on the day of his funeral.Click to Read More...
Death by Lipstick Published on November 1, 2015 Posted in: Death and Murder, Fashion & Design, Tidbits In 1930, Othelia Winger of Wisconsin died after applying lipstick to her lips from a promotional package of matchbook lipstick.Click to Read More...
The Monk and His Hypnotist – Podcast #86 Published on September 18, 2015 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Death and Murder, Fraud & Deception, Podcast An elderly monk and his wife decided to adopt their 63-year-old doctor. Dr. Raymond La Scola was then arrested for supposedly murdering his new mother.Click to Read More...
The Honest Man with an Evil Eye – Podcast #84 Published on July 10, 2015 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Death and Murder, Money & Financial, Podcast In 1935, Frank Greges stumbled across a wallet containing the stocks. Find out what really happened and how he killed a man simply by staring at him.Click to Read More...
Long Game of Chess Published on July 8, 2015 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Death and Murder, Tidbits Few, if any, games of chess took as long as the one between Hugh P. Harrison and his aunt Annie Paton. The game lasted twenty years.Click to Read More...
Porpoise Dies Playing Baseball Published on July 1, 2015 Posted in: Animals & Pets, Death and Murder, Sports, Tidbits Sad news came out of Marineland, Florida in 1957 when it was reported that a porpoise named Algae had accidentally swallowed a rubber ball and died.Click to Read More...