In 1907, a judge’s home in Oakland, CA was blown apart by a homemade bomb. For months, the case went unsolved — until a trail of clues led not to a hardened criminal, but to a sixteen-year-old boy known as “Baby John.”Episode 1 uncovers ...

A young boy found himself lost in the pages of adventure-filled dime novels and couldn't get enough. Before too long he brought those adventures to life just to read about his own adventures in the headlines. Zollie Clement became the Boy Bandi...

Long before candy and costumes, Halloween was a night of chaos. Young people looked forward to a night of unbridled rebellion while responsible property owners feared for their livelihood. Halloween was a night of anything-goes and, unfortunate...

This is the third and final episode in our series featuring Lane County, OR. This one takes you through the life and crimes of John Branton, older brother of Claude.When Milly Elliott met John Branton, she thought it was a love story to ...

This episode is the second in a series of three covering a wild time in the history of Lane County, Oregon. Be sure to start with the previous episode, "Claude Branton and Courtland Greene - A Murder at Isham's Corral."Sheriff W...

This is the first of three episodes that take place in Lane County, OR. It was a wild time...Sheriff Withers had only been sheriff for 4 days when the biggest case of his career fell into his lap. The murder committed by Claude Branton a...

June 9th, 1911 brought a giant shock for the tiny community of Ardenwald, OR. A highly regarded family—William and Ruth Hill, and Ruth's children Philip and Dorothy Rintoul—who had just moved into the area were massacred in a most brutal way in...

In November of 1895, John Nelson would never have guessed that the unassuming stranger standing at his front door would turn his family's life upside down for the next several months. This story goes to show just how trusting we were back in th...

This is the 3rd and final part of the Hans Schmidt series. In this episode we:Explore the investigation into Dr. Muret's true identity, and then reveal his real identity!Discuss what may have happened to Anna Aumuller's bab...

Part 2 of our Hans Schmidt series takes us back to the 1800s in Germany for a look at Hans's childhood and the relatives that came before him. Listen in as we unpack the "clews" from the newspapers and the trial transcripts that might just give...

This is Part 1 of a very in-depth tale that is dark and twisted. (You can't say we didn't warn you!) When pieces of a lady washed ashore along the banks of the Hudson River in 1913, investigators had no idea just what a nightmare ha...

Life wasn't easy for the Mormon refugees flooding into Mexico in 1885, and it was downright terrifying when they fled back out during the Mexican revolution in 1912. Life seemed to be especially hard for one man in particular who was born in Co...

"No one ever lived who loved children more than I did." These are the words spoken by a man who laughed and joked when recounting the murders of 11 children—all of whom saw him as their father figure. George Hassell was a special type of family...

The wild west was alive and well in Westfall, Oregon in 1912. Asa Carey was a mean son of a gun who couldn't stay away from the saloons. Whoever decided he'd make a good town marshal clearly wasn't thinking straight! Asa had his own ideas when ...

In 1899, Mabel Schofield was a 21-year-old young woman with big dreams and the whole world ahead of her. She had a great head on her shoulders, she had plans for her future, and she was going places. That is, until, some unscrupulous fellow wit...

A dashing young count and his beautiful countess come through town and promise to teach you how to be as beautiful as they—for a fee, of course. Promises are made, money exchanges hands, and then the charming royals simply vanish! Was it a drea...

Kate Van Winkle was born in 1860 and died in 1936. Her life was full of tragedy and despair fit for the silver screen. It's a story stranger than fiction and, until now, has been forgotten to time. Did Kate purposely shoot Dr. Collins that morn...

Lucinda Mills was a loving mother to 14 children and too many grandchildren (and great grandchildren!) to count. She loved them all and they loved her. Why, then, did so many stand by on that cold February day in 1933 while her son put her on a...

In August of 1908, Henry J Dufty ended three innocent lives with an ax. The newspapers blamed religious hysteria and the doctors blamed his diseased mind. The neighbors had been buzzin' over the fences that ol' Henry was out of his senses for y...

The last "Great Train Robbery" occurred at Tunnel 13 in the Siskiyou Pass in the little town of Ashland, Oregon. It took 4 years to hunt down the three who were responsible for the four senseless deaths that resulted that day. Who were these th...

When Joycy married Bert in February of 1900, she thought she'd found a provider for her two little girls. She would never have guessed on her wedding day that the life she envisioned would end in a way that would shake up an entire town. What l...