Clarence Frechette – Michigan’s Flying Bandit – Podcast #83 Published on June 7, 2015 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Crime & Punishment, Death and Murder, Podcast Clarence Frechette made national news for a bizarre attack on the pilot of an airplane, possibly making him the world's first hijacker.Click to Read More...
James Beasom – An Unlucky Day Published on April 1, 2015 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Death and Murder, Tidbits The papers reported on January 4, 1935, that 56-year-old James Beasom had died. The way that he died was very unusual. Click to Read More...
Murder in the Mail – Podcast #80 Published on March 6, 2015 Posted in: Crime & Punishment, Death and Murder, Podcast John Kmetz received a trial supply of herbal pills that would restore vitality to his 54-year-old body. Shortly after taking the pills, Kmetz was dead.Click to Read More...
The Woman with the X-Ray Camera – Podcast #77 Published on November 29, 2014 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Death and Murder, Love & Marriage, Podcast A New York City woman named Pearl Lusk was hired in 1946 to investigate a woman suspected in a jewel heist. What happened next is truly unforgettable.Click to Read More...
Wrong Man Identified Published on November 4, 2014 Posted in: Death and Murder, Tidbits In 1931, Charles Edmund Kneale slipped off of a ladder and fell 30 feet to his death. Two different Mrs. Kneales claimed the body.Click to Read More...
1896 Japanese Tsunami Published on February 11, 2014 Posted in: Death and Murder, Forgotten History, Science, Technology & Medicine, Tidbits News traveled slowly in the late 1800s. It would take more than one month for news of a Japanese tsunami to reach the United States.Click to Read More...
1755 Lisbon Tsunami Published on February 4, 2014 Posted in: Death and Murder, Escape and Survival, Tidbits The tsunami that hit Lisbon, Portugal on November 25, 1755 killed an estimated 60,000 people. Many had made the mistake of rushing to the shoreline.Click to Read More...
The Short Life of Suzy Dewey – Podcast #65 Published on August 19, 2013 Posted in: Death and Murder, Fraud & Deception, Hoaxes, Podcast The story of a little girl named Suzy Dewey who was diagnosed with terminal leukemia and was the victim of a hoax during the last few months of her life.Click to Read More...
Operation Bodysnatch – Podcast #64 Published on July 16, 2013 Posted in: Death and Murder, Forgotten History, Fraud & Deception, Podcast, Unbelievable At the end of WWII, the US was faced with the task of reburying four bodies of former German nobility. Members of the Monuments Men ran into obstacle after obstacle.Click to Read More...
The Pleasant Hill School Bus Tragedy – Podcast #61 Published on March 23, 2013 Posted in: Death and Murder, Escape and Survival, Podcast, Schools & Education The sad, yet true, story of a 1931 school bus disaster in the Pleasant Hill school district in Colorado. Click to Read More...
Ivory Soap Murders – Podcast #60 Published on February 19, 2013 Posted in: Crime & Punishment, Death and Murder, Podcast The Easter Sunday 1937 murder of Veronica Gedeon launched a nationwide hunt for the killer. Two bars of Ivory soap led the police to the killer.Click to Read More...
The Sky is Falling – Podcast #59 Published on January 8, 2013 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Death and Murder, Podcast Alvin Rodecker and his wife chose to celebrate his 60th birthday in style. It was to be an incredible trip to NYC. If only he had looked up after upon...Click to Read More...
The Corpse Bride – Podcast #50 Published on January 17, 2012 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Crime & Punishment, Death and Murder, Love & Marriage, Podcast The true story of Karl von Cosel and the girl of his dreams. They slept together in the same bed every night - nine years after she had died.Click to Read More...
The Fly Paper Murderess – Podcast #45 Published on June 16, 2011 Posted in: Crime & Punishment, Death and Murder, Podcast Six men died in a Chicago woman's home over a three-year period, all of whom were married to 47-year-old Margaret Summers. She had taken out 19 life insurance policies, all naming her as the sole beneficiary.Click to Read More...
Conrad Cantzen’s Shoes – Podcast #41 Published on February 11, 2011 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Death and Murder, Entertainment, Money & Financial, Podcast Conrad Cantzen died in 1945 and is long forgotten, but his shoe fund still lives on. Read the story of this bizarre provision in this down-on-his-luck actor's handwritten will.Click to Read More...