American Scoundrel John Eaton Andrew Jackson's Secretary of War spent a decade courting a married woman, arranged her husband's convenient posting to the Mediterranean, and married her six weeks before the 1829 inauguration. The Cabinet collapsed. Calhoun was destroyed. Jackson never recovered. John Henry Eaton walked away clean. Washington City's most elegant arsonist. https://www.patreon.com/posts/155531423/

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Magazine #4 Episode 130 Murder By Fire, by Brandon White The Abominable Mr. Yelverton, by Edmund Pearson The American Exchange Bank Robbery, By Cleveland Moffat https://www.patreon.com/posts/155448237/

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American Scoundrel Wiliam N. Roach William N. Roach embezzled sixty thousand dollars from a Washington bank, fled to Dakota Territory, and returned the money just fast enough to dodge prison. Fourteen years later, a Republican civil war handed him a U.S. Senate seat nobody voted for. The Senate tried to expel him. Time said no. https://www.patreon.com/posts/155442526/

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American Scoundrel Boss Tweed Gilded Age New York. William Magear Tweed rode Tammany Hall to the top and looted the city treasury through padded bills, phantom invoices, and kickbacks buried in plaster. His crowning theft was a courthouse whose $250,000 budget swelled past $12 million. In November 1873, a jury convicted him inside it. AD-FREE Safe House Edition

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The Showgirl & The Conman The Complicated Romance of Fannie Brice and Notorious Nicky Arnstein  https://www.patreon.com/posts/32441450 In Episode 60, we take a little break from murderous mayhem for a love story with a different kind of mayhem. The world of Broadway was quite aghast when Fannie Brice, a star of the Ziegfield Follies, took up with New York gambler Julius Wilford Arnstein, better known as Nicky, whose story was adapted into the musical “Funny Girl.” The first act is a Sunday magazine article that was published while Nicky was serving time in the Leavenworth prison, and act two is a telling of the conclusion of the romance by Brooklyn Daily Eagle’s star reporter Alice Cogan.

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American Scoundrel Daniel Butterfield In 1869, Medal of Honor recipient Daniel Butterfield took a ten-thousand-dollar bribe from Jay Gould to leak Treasury gold sales, helping trigger the Black Friday panic that bankrupted brokers and ruined farmers across the Midwest. The man who composed Taps sold out his country and never spent a day in prison.

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American Scoundrel Joseph R Burton In 1902, Kansas Senator Joseph R. Burton walked a mail fraud operator into the Post Office inspector's office and made a federal investigation disappear. The price: twenty-five hundred dollars, paid in monthly installments. The first sitting senator convicted of a felony sold his office for the price of a used carriage.

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The Third Passenger What’s In The Package Mr. Wainwright? https://www.patreon.com/posts/46660640 Episode 49 is adapted from our favorite true crime pioneer, Edmund Pearson, who worked in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. He was a librarian by training and profession, but first made his mark on the true crime canon with his unique take on the Lizzie Borden crime. He wrote several books and many magazine articles, a regular contributor to the New Yorker for a time as well as a syndicated newspaper columnist. In this episode, he tells the story of an 1875 murder in old London towne. More stories from EDMUND PEARSON

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February 21, 1431 The Trial of Joan of Arc

Now she was chained to a wooden block in an English military prison, guarded day and night by soldiers, and charged with heresy, witchcraft, and the unforgivable crime of being a teenage girl who had changed the course of a war. The king she crowned never lifted a finger to save her

February 20, 1939 The Night the Nazis Filled Madison Square Garden

Outside, a hundred thousand counter-protesters filled the surrounding streets, carrying signs that read “Smash Anti-Semitism” and “Drive the Nazis Out of New York.” Three times, groups tried to break through the police lines. First came a column of World War I veterans, wrapped in American flags.

February 19, 1937 The Addis Ababa Massacre

Armed with rifles, axes, and clubs, Italian soldiers and Fascist civilians poured into the native quarters of Addis Ababa. They doused thatched-roof houses with petrol and set them on fire. When the residents fled the flames, they were shot in the streets. Those who stayed inside burned alive.

February 18, 1916 The Killer Priest of St. Joseph's

Two boys were fishing off a dock near Weehawken, New Jersey, when they hooked something heavy. They hauled it up and found a bundle wrapped in oilcloth and weighted with a chunk of gray-green schist. Inside was the upper torso of a young woman. No head. No arms. No identification.

February 17, 1600 The Burning of Giordano Bruno

Vendors had pushed their carts aside to make room for the pyre — a mound of firewood, charcoal, kindling, and pitch stacked in the center of the piazza. Members of a lay brotherhood sang litanies as Bruno was led to the pile. They sang for his soul. Bruno did not appear interested.

The night German Nazis invaded America. Then surrendered.

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February 17, 1600 The Burning of Giordano Bruno

The square was full. Vendors had pushed their carts aside to make room for the pyre — a mound of firewood, charcoal, kindling, and pitch stacked in the center of the piazza. A lay brotherhood sang litanies as Bruno was led to the pile. Bruno did not appear interested.

February 16, 1923 The Curse of the Boy King

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In 1932, a hill country reporter named Vivian Brown did what no one else ever managed — she sat down with Pretty Boy Floyd and got him talking. Two years later, a teletype changed everything. The only interview the phantom bandit ever gave. Tonight, we hear the story from her point of view.

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February 15, 1933 DARK HISTORY TODAY

The president-elect sat in the back of an open touring car, having just delivered a short speech to a crowd of thousands. He had been fishing in the Bahamas for ten days. He was tanned and relaxed, seventeen days from taking the oath of office. And an Italian bricklayer had just tried to kill him.

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February 14, 1349 The Strasbourg Massacre

The accusations started in the south. Jews, it was whispered, had been caught poisoning the wells. A Jewish physician in Savoy, under torture, confessed to a plot. Never mind that Jews drank from the same wells. Never mind that Jews died of the plague at roughly the same rate as everyone else.

February 13, 1692 The Massacre of Glencoe

The soldiers had been eating MacDonald food and sleeping under MacDonald roofs for twelve days when the order came to kill every MacDonald they could find.....

February 11, 1823 The Maltese Carnival Tragedy

Dark History Today

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The Murder of Joseph Smith YouTube video by True Crime Historian

Episode 466 is the story of John C. Elliott, the Ohio woodcutter turned political assassin who rode 500 miles to execute a prophet. Hiding as a schoolmaster, Elliott was arrested and set free by Joseph Smith himself. Discover the man history forgot.

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1925. Madge Oberholtzer's "dying declaration" was the key evidence to shatter the Ku Klux Klan’s immense political power in Indiana and ended the careers of prominent politicians, including a governor.

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A Haunted Picaresque

"You were a coach driver?" I asked
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"Driver, guard, navigator, and beast-master all in one," he said. Then he launched into a stream of words I could barely parse—something about "smithers" and "traces" and "wheelers"—the consonants swallowed, the vowels stretched into unfamiliar shapes.

When a devastating storm washes a woman and three frightened silent children onto his shore, he must choose between his isolation and the lives of four innocents. The only question is: Will he save them before his past catches up?

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A Fatal Clang Of The Trolley The President’s Close Call

Teddy Roosevelt's carriage collides with a trolley racing to make up for lost time. A Secret Service guard dies immediately and the trolley driver is charged with his murder. Was this a simple accident? A case of incompetence? Or was the motorman made a scapegoat for a nation’s grief and outrage?