History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

Actor Bob Crane was the star of the hit T.V. series "Hogan's Heros" in the late 1960s. A very likable man, Crane also had a darkside.  In June 1978, Crane was found bludgeoned to death in his apartment, a murder that remains officially unsolved.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Richard T. Chase became known as "The Vampire of Sacramento" because he killed 6 people, drank their blood and cannibalized their remains.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the early 1990s, the bodies of young women started turning up on the streets of Dallas, Texas. They all had one thing in common, their eyeballs had been removed.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Since 2007, in the small town of Bridgend,Wales, 146 young people have hanged themselves and nobody seems to knows why.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In Austin, Texas in 1864, over the course of one year, a madman brutally murdered 6 women, a man and an eleven year old child in their homes. Then with the whole city in a frenzy, the murders ended as mysteriously as they began.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On June 13, 1977 three young girl scouts, ages 8 to 10, were brutually murdered in their tent the first night of camp. The crime remains unsolved to this day.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

By age 8, Anissa Jones was a cultural icon starring on one of the most popular shows on television.  By age 18, she was an unemployed, high school drop out and dead from a drug overdose.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Leonard Lake and Charles Ng were a pair of serial killers who were responsible for as many as 25 murders in the 1980s.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On March 30, 1975, a very meek and mild mannered, James Ruppert killed his mother, brother, sister-in-law and eight nieces and nephews at an Easter Sunday dinner in Hamilton, Ohio.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was a serial killer and sex offender, who committed the rape, murder, and dismemberment of seventeen young men in the 1980s and early 1990s.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On Christmas day 1929, a beloved family man Charles Lawson murdered his wife and seven children before taking his own life. To this day, no one knows why.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Anna Marie Hahn was a female serial killer and in 1938 became the first woman ever to be executed in The Ohio electric chair after it was confirmed that she murdered at least five men.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Pearl Bryan was a 22-year-old pregnant woman from Greencastle, Indiana who was found decapitated in Fort Thomas, Kentucky in 1896. Her head is still missing.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Larry Bader had it all. A good career, a beautiful wife, three children and another child on the way. On May 15,1957 the Akron, Ohio native went on a short fishing trip. He never returned. This is where the story gets weird.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Robert Andrew "Bob" Berdella  was a serial killer in Kansas City, Missouri who raped, tortured, and killed at least six men between 1984 and 1987.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.