The Murder of Pearl Bryan

Part one of the mid-year coverage of things literally and figuratively unearthed in the last quarter includes updates, more updates, animals, edibles and potables, and accidental finds. Research: Addley, Esther. “Solstice-aligned 5,000-year-old monument ‘once in a lifetime find’, ... Show More

This 2023 episode covers how humans have worked on ways to make garments water resistant almost since they started to wear them. But figuring out how to manufacture a raincoat using rubber was a big breakthrough that took centuries.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat ... Show More

Holly and Tracy discuss how frustrating Charles Goodyear could be. Then Holly talks a lot about shoes and how much she loves them.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

In February of 1896, a little boy discovered a woman's headless body in a farmer's field in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. No one knew who she was, or what had happened. Newspapers carried headlines like "Hunt for the Head" and "Headless Horror." Quickly, the crime scene became a tourist ... Show More

New York journalism in 1897 was in a pretty technicolor space. Newspapers, so long the grey, stolid, medium of the merchants and businessman, were instead being filled with lurid stories of murder, scandal and drunken debauchery and the public were loving it. As papers fought for ... Show More

In Victorian England, the press were never shy of calling a crime the “sensation of the century” or a murder, “the most astonishing the world had ever seen.” When the body of a young woman showed up on the beach of a popular seaside resort town, no-one would have imagined it woul ... Show More

In this episode, Payton journeys back to the 1900s, uncovering a chilling tale of a murderer who cunningly exploited newspaper ads targeting lonely women, seizing not only their possessions but also their very lives. Case Sources: The Perrysburg Journal- https://chroniclingamer ... Show More

When Christina Parcell was brutally killed in her own home, all eyes when to the custody issues she was having. However, the investigation revealed that although that was related, the truth was far darker. Send your scary stories to: mikeohhello@gmail.com  Instagram: https://ww ... Show More

September 14th: Edward Wheeler Hall  and Eleanor Mills Killed (1922) Sensationalism and the media can warp and alter a case right before our very eyes. On September 14th 1922 a couple was murdered while out on a romantic rendezvous. A case that, at its peak, was all the nation wa ... Show More

Two corpses are found posed under a tree in New Brunswick, New Jersey. An heiress, a reverend, a cheating wife, a charming bachelor, the local oddball, and the love affair that turned deadly—with this cast of characters, it’s no wonder the case kicked off one of the biggest media ... Show More

<p>A young teen disappears and the search to find her becomes national news. After she is discovered murdered, the answers to who, what and why are as perplexing as they are horrifying.</p><p> </p><p>For episode information and photos, please visit <a href="https://anatomyofmurde ... Show More

On Christmas Eve twenty years ago, a pregnant woman vanished from her Modesto, California, neighborhood. Relentless media coverage pulled at every thread in her case — most notably, her husband’s strange behavior. Decades since her body, and the body of her unborn son, were found ... Show More

On Christmas Eve twenty years ago, a pregnant woman vanished from her Modesto, California, neighborhood. Relentless media coverage pulled at every thread in her case — most notably, her husband’s strange behavior. Decades since her body, and the body of her unborn son, were found ... Show More