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PODCAST SHOW NOTES INSIDE THE INVESTIGATION: THE SIERAH JOUGHIN STORY (2016) 1001 TRUE CRIME STORIES On the evening of July 19, 2016, 20-year-old Sierah Joughin was riding her bicycle home through the quiet country roads of Fulton County, Ohio. She had been riding with her boyfriend for part of the trip. Before they separated, he asked her to text him when she got home. The message never came. Before long, Sierah's purple bicycle was discovered in a cornfield not far from home. Inves...

SHOW NOTES THE MURDER OF GRACE BROWN — THE ADIRONDACK TRAGEDY (1906) 1001 True Crime From Another Time In July of 1906, the quiet beauty of Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks was shattered by a discovery that stunned the nation. A small rowboat was found drifting near the shoreline — upright, empty, and eerily still. Hours later, the body of Grace Brown, a 20‑year‑old factory girl from Cortland, New York, surfaced in the cold water. Her hat was still pinned neatly to her hair. Her face bore the u...

🎙️ THE BOYS IN THE TOWER (1483): A ROYAL CRIME EXPOSED Podcast Show Notes Episode Summary: In 1483, two young princes — Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of York — entered the Tower of London expecting a coronation. Instead, they vanished forever. For centuries, their fate was dismissed as rumor, Tudor propaganda, or political myth. But modern research, forensic science, and a groundbreaking discovery in 2023 have reopened the case — and the evidence now points unmistakably toward murder. ...

🎙️ 1001 TRUE CRIME FROM ANOTHER TIME ⭐ SHOW NOTES — THE BLACK DAHLIA: ELIZABETH SHORT (LOS ANGELES, 1947) Episode Summary On the morning of January 15th, 1947, a young mother walking her child along South Norton Avenue in Los Angeles spotted what she thought was a discarded store mannequin lying in a vacant lot. It wasn’t. It was the body of Elizabeth Short, a 22‑year‑old aspiring actress whose murder would become one of the most infamous unsolved crimes in American history. The newspapers ex...

⭐ 1001 TRUE CRIME FROM ANOTHER TIME SHOW NOTES THE MURDER OF JOAN OF ARC AND THE RESULTING TRIAL THAT REFORMED A CORRUPT CHURCH Few crimes in history carry the weight, tragedy, and political complexity of the execution of Joan of Arc — a teenage peasant girl who rose from obscurity to become the most formidable military leader France had seen in a century. Her courage broke sieges, inspired armies, and altered the course of the Hundred Years’ War. But her meteoric rise also made her a target. ...

⭐ 1001 TRUE CRIME FROM ANOTHER TIME THE MURDER OF MARY PHAGAN & THE WRONGFUL HANGING OF LEO FRANK (Show Notes for Apple, Spotify, YouTube, Podpage, and Patreon) ⭐ EPISODE SUMMARY In this gripping episode of 1001 True Crime From Another Time, we revisit one of the most explosive and controversial cases in American history — the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan, a 13‑year‑old factory worker in Atlanta, and the wrongful conviction and lynching of Leo Frank, the superintendent of the National Pencil Comp...

⭐ 1001 TRUE CRIME FROM ANOTHER TIME THE REAL CASE BEHIND THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MURDERS: ED GEIN (WISCONSIN, 1957) EXPLICIT Show Notes In this chilling episode of 1001 True Crime From Another Time, we travel back to rural Wisconsin in 1957 — to the quiet farming town of Plainfield, where nothing ever seemed to happen… until the day Sheriff Schley and his deputies stepped into the farmhouse of Ed Gein and found horrors that would haunt American culture forever. This is the real story behind The Te...

🎙️ 1001 TRUE CRIME FROM ANOTHER TIME The Borgia Crimes: Murder, Power, and the Legend of Lucretia Part One — The Poisoned Name "For five hundred years, her name has been synonymous with murder by poison. The real shocker? She never poisoned anyone. Her only crime was being born into a family of murderers." 📋 EPISODE SUMMARY Lucretia Borgia is one of history's most infamous villains — beautiful, lethal, and supposedly armed with a ring filled with poison. But that version of Lucretia is a ...

⭐ 1001 TRUE CRIME FROM ANOTHER TIME SHOW NOTES — The Murder of Julia Bulette (1867) “The Belle of the Comstock and the Killer in the Shadows” Episode Summary In this episode, we travel back to Virginia City, Nevada, in the roaring days of the Comstock Lode — a place where silver flowed like water, saloons thumped with piano music, and danger lurked behind every swinging door. It was a world of wealth, vice, and volatility, and at the center of it all lived Julia Bulette, one of the most beloved ...

1001 TRUE CRIME FROM ANOTHER TIME THE LINDBERGH NURSEMAID TRIAL: THE OTHER SUSPECT — VIOLET SHARPE (1932–1936) SHOW NOTES Episode Summary: In the wake of the 1932 Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the world focused on ransom notes, ladders, mob intermediaries, and the frantic hunt for a culprit. But behind the headlines, behind the Hopewell estate, behind the public grief of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, there was another story unfolding — quieter, more fragile, and ultimately more tragic. This is the...

SHOW NOTES — 1001 TRUE CRIME FROM ANOTHER TIME THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY: THE LINDBERGH BABY KIDNAPPING Episode Summary: In March of 1932, the nation was shaken to its core when the infant son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh was kidnapped from his crib in the family’s secluded Hopewell, New Jersey home. A crude ladder. A ransom note. A frantic search that spiraled into one of the largest investigations in American history. Newspapers called it “The Crime of the Century,” and nearly a hundred...

⭐ 1001 TRUE CRIME FROM ANOTHER TIME THE HALL–MILLS CHURCH MURDER MYSTERY (1922) Podcast Show Notes ⭐ Episode Summary In the early morning hours of September 16, 1922, two teenagers walking along the Raritan River stumbled upon a scene so bizarre and unsettling that it would ignite one of the most sensational murder investigations of the Jazz Age. Beneath a crabapple tree beside the old Phillips Farm Church lay the bodies of Reverend Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills, the choir singer with whom he h...

1001 TRUE CRIME FROM ANOTHER TIME Episode: THE TRUNK MURDERESS OF PHOENIX (1931) In the summer heat of 1931, two battered steamer trunks sat abandoned at the Phoenix train station—unclaimed, unremarkable, and nearly forgotten. But when police finally pried them open, they uncovered a gruesome secret: the dismembered remains of two men, packed away like freight. What followed was a twisting trail of clues that led investigators to a woman no one would ever suspect—a quiet, seemingly ordinary figu...

Crime Classics came to CBS September 30, 1953 and was a neat little series of "true crime stories". The show introduced itself succinctly: "Crime Classics, a series of true crime stories from the records and newspapers of every land, from every time. Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Hyland -- connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders." Thomas Hyland was played by Lou Merrill, although you'd never know it was an "actor" doing the part. The great Elliott Lewis, actor, produce...

CRIME CLASSICS Crime Classics came to CBS September 30, 1953 and was a neat little series of "true crime stories". The show introduced itself succinctly: "Crime Classics, a series of true crime stories from the records and newspapers of every land, from every time. Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Hyland -- connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders." Thomas Hyland was played by Lou Merrill, although you'd never know it was an "actor" doing the part. The great Elliott Lewis...

CRIME CLASSICS Crime Classics came to CBS September 30, 1953 and was a neat little series of "true crime stories". The show introduced itself succinctly: "Crime Classics, a series of true crime stories from the records and newspapers of every land,...

Two great episodes from CRIME CLASSICS (SEE " JOHN HAYES" BELOW) CRIME CLASSICS Crime Classics came to CBS September 30, 1953 and was a neat little series of "true crime stories". The show introduced itself succinctly: "Crime Classics, a series of...

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CRIME CLASSICS Crime Classics came to CBS September 30, 1953 and was a neat little series of "true crime stories". The show introduced itself succinctly: "Crime Classics, a series of true crime stories from the records and newspapers of every land, from every time. Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Hyland -- connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders." Thomas Hyland was played by Lou Merrill, although you'd never know it was an "actor" doing the part. The great Elliott Lewis,...

Two great episodes from True Crime Classics radio

CRIME CLASSICS Crime Classics came to CBS September 30, 1953 and was a neat little series of "true crime stories". The show introduced itself succinctly: "Crime Classics, a series of true crime stories from the records and newspapers of every land, from every time. Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Hyland -- connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders." Thomas Hyland was played by Lou Merrill, although you'd never know it was an "actor" doing the part. The great Elliott Lewis,...

CRIME CLASSICS Crime Classics came to CBS September 30, 1953 and was a neat little series of "true crime stories". The show introduced itself succinctly: "Crime Classics, a series of true crime stories from the records and newspapers of every land, from every time. Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Hyland -- connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders." Thomas Hyland was played by Lou Merrill, although you'd never know it was an "actor" doing the part. The great Elliott Lewis,...