Old Blood Podcast
1) Sexy Death Mystery: The Death of Starr Faithfull
A sexy death mystery unfolded in 1931 New York City, when a socialite washed up on the shores of Long Island. Was her death an accident, a suicide, or foul play at the hands of the many prominent men ...Show More
2) Whiskey & Arsenic: The First Murder By Mail
The first ‘Murder by Mail’ was sent to Mrs. Josephine Barnaby in 1891 in the form of an arsenic-laced whiskey bottle. When she and a friend drank the whiskey, both fell violently ill. The resulting mu...Show More
3) Murder Pure & Simple: Love and Violence in 1869 New York
A fatal 1869 shooting at the New York Tribune led to a contentious debate about love, divorce, and women’s rights in America. Sources: Cazauran, A. R. The Trial of Daniel McFarland for the Shooting o...Show More
4) Death House: The Life & Crimes of George Hassell
Texas authorities arrested George Hassell on Christmas Day of 1926 after his wife and her eight children went missing. George cried, “I did it,” then confessed to the murder of another family ten year...Show More
5) The Beautiful & The Bestial: A Courtesan, a Prince, and a Murder at the Savoy
A deadly shooting at London’s extravagant Savoy Hotel in 1923 prompted a murder trial that pitted East against West. Was the tragedy the result of a pharaoh’s curse or merely the consequence of a love...Show More
6) If Murder There Was: Typhoid & Tragedy in 1909 Missouri
Six nurses threatened to storm out of the Swope mansion in Missouri at the height of a 1909 typhoid epidemic, claiming that “people are being murdered in this house.” Was the Swope family dying of typ...Show More
7) Bullets for Ruth: The Wanderers & The Ragged Stranger
Chicago crime reporters descended upon Ruth and Carl Wanderer’s Chicago home after the war hero’s wife was shot dead in a holdup at their front door. Who was the Ragged Stranger who assaulted them? An...Show More
8) Broken Pearl: The 1896 Beheading of Pearl Bryan
A boy’s shortcut through a Kentucky fruit farm in 1896 uncovered the headless body of a woman, later identified as Pearl Bryan. How did she get there? Who killed her? And where is her head? Sources...Show More
9) Fear No Evil: Ed Johnson & 1906 Tennessee
The 1906 assault of a white woman in Chattanooga led to a murder and the U.S. Supreme Court’s first and only intervention in a state criminal trial. Sources: Curriden, Mark and Phillips, Leroy Jr. Con...Show More
10) Vile Business: The Murder of Duchess Praslin, Part II
In Part II of the murder that sparked a revolution, the Chamber of Peers investigates Duke Praslin for his wife’s brutal slaying. Sources: “ASSASSINAT DE MADAME LA DUCHESSE DE PRASLIN.” L’Ami de la ...Show More