My guest this week is Scott Ellsworth, author of Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War,... more

In July of 1908 the body of twenty-year-old Hazel Drew was found floating in a mill pond in Upstate New... more

(Original pub date: 6/16/21) In November of 1912, a young woman named Ella Barham journeyed home, on her horse, to her... more

Clem Pellett grew up knowing very little about his grandfather, Clarence Pellett, who was murdered along Montana's iconic ... more

On the morning of September 5th, 1917, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Epler was found dead just steps from her home in Alma,... more

On May 2, 1963, Robert Killins, a former United Church minister, slaughtered every woman in his family but one. She... more

On the morning of July 3, 1915, John Pierpont Morgan Jr., one of the most famous names in finance, was... more

George Lowther was a mutineer and a pirate, one of the most prolific during the golden age of piracy. His... more

(Original pub. date: 9/27/2018) Catherine Pelonero, author of "Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and its Private... more

Charles Cowlam stands out as one of the most remarkable con artists of nineteenth-century America. He talked his way into... more