The Belle Gunness Episode: Who was the ...

Edwin Howard Armstrong isn’t exactly a well-known inventor, but his work in radio literally changed communications around the globe. But his most famous invention – FM radio – became a source of constant frustration after he developed it. Research: Armstrong, Edwin H. “Frequency ... Show More

Before the ballpoint pen, people used their hands, reeds, bamboo, brushes, quills, and eventually nibs to write or draw. But how did things evolve from there to get to things like the fountain pen, and eventually, a ballpoint? Research: "pen." Britannica Library, Encyclopædia Bri ... Show More

This 2022 episode starts with the story of John Bibb, credited with cultivating Bibb lettuce. But his family’s legacy, good and bad, is all tied to having enslaved people build their familial wealth. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Detectives Stearns and Flis hunt for the murder weapons in the Robison Family’s case - two guns that are strikingly hard to find, considering that most people in the woods of Northern Michigan at the time owned a gun. After following the gun hunt, Carter and Wenndy look into Rich ... Show More

Investigators never found the gun used to kill four people at Tardy Furniture. Yet the gun, and the bullets matched to it, became a key piece of evidence against Curtis Flowers. In this episode, we examine the strange histories of the gun and the man who owned it.  

Dans Historiquement Vôtre, Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach vous raconte le parcours de Belle Gunness (1859-1908), la première tueuse en série des États-Unis. Après l’incendie de son commerce, la mort de deux de ses époux et de ses enfants, on retrouve, sur l’ancienne propriété de c ... Show More

In 1985 two couples were killed in the woods south of Tacoma, Washington. The bodies of each the female victims were found with a knotted tube sock tied around their neck. Is this the hallmark of an unknown serial killer or just a set of coincidentally related murders? Learn more ... Show More

Just before Mother’s Day 2018, 62-year-old Ana Del Valle is found in her Brooklyn apartment with her hands bound and a gunshot wound in her head. A few days later, her next-door neighbor Basil Gray, 54, is also discovered dead inside his apartment with multiple gunshot wounds. Po ... Show More

In 1945 a house fire took the lives of five children - except that their bodies were never found. In this classic episode, dive into the longstanding mystery of the odd circumstances surrounding the disappearance of the Sodder children. Learn more about your ad-choices at https:/ ... Show More

The day after Thanksgiving 1999, in the quiet town of Lansing, Illinois, 44-year-old Sharon Miller is found dead at the dry cleaners where she works after what appears to be a robbery. But investigators soon realize the robbery was likely staged and Sharon was targeted for execut ... Show More

Belle Gunness never wanted much from her life: a fresh start in the USA, a nice husband, and maybe some children. But after a chance fire burned down her family home, an idea sparked in her — one that would lead to countless murders at her chilling Indiana farm. Learn more about ... Show More

When the bodies of two teenage girls missing from different states are found in the same remote location, investigators endeavor to identify and apprehend a potential serial killer. Top investigative professionals search for the final puzzle piece in a complicated hunt for the tr ... Show More