Forgotten Felonies
This is a True Crime podcast that takes our listeners back in time to rediscover the crimes of vintage villainy that time forgot. We include old newspaper ads from the year of the crime that we are covering just for fun.
Episodes
8 episodes
Asa Carey: the Bully of Westfall, Oregon
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:00:21
The Murder of Mabel Schofield
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...
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Episode 7
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1:21:41
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire; the Holstein-Rathlou Affair
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...
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Episode 6
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1:21:12
The Tragic Tale of Kate Van Winkle
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...
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Episode 5
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1:25:42
The Tomahawk "Tongue People" and the Murder of Lucinda Mills
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...
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Episode 4
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59:25
The Dufty Family Ax Murders
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...
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Episode 3
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1:05:42
The DeAutremont Brothers and "The Great Train Robbery" of the PNW
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...
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Episode 2
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1:10:38
Brown-Garrett Family Annihilation
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...
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Episode 1
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43:38