True Crime Historian

"YESTERDAY'S NEWS" A Reading from America's Historic Newspapers The Gangster Chronicles:  Volume 1, Chapter 1 Dillinger's Bloody Escape May to October 1933 In this first volume of "The Gangster Chronicles," we will follow the trail of terror blazed by one of America's most famous, perhaps most beloved, gangsters, John Dillinger. From the time he was paroled from the Michigan City prison in May, 1933, to the time he was gunned down by police on a Chicago sidewalk in front of the Biograph Theater 14 months later, John Herbert Dillinger was one of America's most notorious scoundrels. Chapter One will detail some of Dillinger's earliest known robberies and his murderous escape from the Lima jail.  We plan to tell the Dillinger saga in five chapters. After this first one, you can expect a new installment at 7 p.m. on the first Sunday of the month. We're considering the options for Volume 2 and are welcome to suggestions. Please email us at truecrimehistorian@outlook.com with your thoughts. Visit www.truecrimehistorian.com for a slideshow, clippings and drawings. Music by Audionautix. Theme song by Josh Woodward.

"YESTERDAY'S NEWS" A Reading from America's Historic Newspapers New Cumberland, Pennsylvania Christmas Day, 1937 The press said that Charles Mobley had been drinking some whiskey during the day and he went berserk after drinking two glasses of beer. Mobley didn’t seem drunk to the patrons of Doc’s Place when he stopped in for a Christmas day nightcap, and he only had the two glasses of beer before he started shooting up the place. Was he drunker than he seemed? Or was he under the influence of something else?   Visit www.truecrimehistorian.com for clippings and photos, including a shot of the scale model of the inside of the cafe used in the trial. Music by Audionautix. Purchase a transcript for 99 cents:

"YESTERDAY'S NEWS" A Reading from America's Historic Newspapers, recorded live at Miami University Downtown, December 10, 2015 Port Union, Ohio December 10, 1892 More than 150 Cincinnati and Dayton "sports" gathered at an empty warehouse for a dogfight, Club vs. Bones. A saloon keeper organized the event, so the crowd was well-liquored, and soon it wasn't just dogs fighting. Then one of the bartenders took a bullet in the face. Was it a stray from the gun of his father-in-law, said saloon keeper, or deliberate murder? Visit www.truecrimehistorian.com for a slideshow, clippings and drawings. Music by Audionautix. Purchase a transcript for 99 cents:

"YESTERDAY'S NEWS" A Reading from America's Historic Newspapers, recorded live at Miami University Downtown, December 10, 2015 Oxford, Ohio January 12, 1892 True Crime Historian Richard O Jones tells the story of the night the residents of the normally serene college town, the "classic village" of Oxford, Ohio, lynched a dead man. ADVISORY: Newspapers of 1892 sometimes used racially charged language. Visit www.truecrimehistorian.com for a slideshow, clippings and drawings. Music by Audionautix. Purchase a transcript for 99 cents:

A Short True Crime Story Chicago, Illinois September 9, 1910 A prowler breaks into the home of Clarence Hiller in the Chicago neighborhood Morgan Park. When he wakes Hiller's 13-year-old daughter, pandemonium erupts and before the chaos subsides, Hiller lay dead at the bottom of the stairs. In breaking into the house, Thomas Jennings leaves his left palm print in a freshly-painted porch rail. Those prints would be the first ever admitted into evidence in a court of law. The case changed police standard practices across the nation and around the world. Visit www.truecrimehistorian.com for a clippings and a free transcript of this podcast.