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Crime History: Uncovered

Crime History: Uncovered

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Summary
 Hook: What really happened behind history’s darkest headlines? Crime History: Uncovered investigates the cases that reshaped societies and still echo today.

Proposition of value: Each episode combines forensic detail, archival research, and narrative clarity to reconstruct real crimes from the past—with context that explains motive, method, and consequence. This show focuses on historical true crime, cold cases, and notorious criminal figures, separating myth from evidence so listeners can understand how these events influenced law, culture, and everyday life. Expect careful sourcing, timeline-driven storytelling, and a voice that balances suspense with historical rigor.

Frequency and format: New episodes drop every day—Monday through Sunday—at 9:00 AM. Episodes vary between concise case studies and deeper multi-part investigations, always grounded in primary sources and forensic analysis.

Who it’s for: For listeners who crave true crime with a historian’s eye—those who want dates, documents, and the bigger picture behind sensational headlines. Ideal for history buffs, criminology students, and true crime fans who prefer evidence over conjecture.

Call to action: Subscribe now to get a clearer view of the crimes that shaped history and tune in every day at 9:00 AM.

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Episodes
  • The Brooch on the Fence Post: Why a Dead Woman's Clasp Matters

    The Brooch on the Fence Post: Why a Dead Woman's Clasp Matters
    28 Oct 2026
    The Brooch on the Fence Post: Why a Dead Woman's Clasp Matters

    Cold, deliberate, and impossible: a silver brooch was found clasped face-up on a fence post seven miles from a barn where a woman had been buried eleven days earlier - the clasp could only be fastened with two hands. How did Kelly Lewis’s brooch travel frozen Kansas prairie and who closed it after she was already dead?

    In this episode, we follow the discovery, the county records, and the people who put the object back into a case that had been closed; we trace the timeline from the hayloft fall to the brooch found on January 9, 1884, and ask what that clasp means for the official ruling of accident.

    Person: Kelly Lewis
    Date (death found): December 29, 1883
    Date (brooch found): January 9, 1884 at 10:15 AM
    Location: seven miles from the Lewis barn, Calloway Flats, Trego County, Kansas
    Status (cause ruled): accident (fall from hayloft)

    - The brooch was found face-up and clasp fastened on top of a fence post at the base, seven miles from the Lewis barn.
    - Kelly Lewis had been buried for eleven days when the brooch was found.
    - The clasp mechanism requires two hands and deliberate pressure to engage; it does not close itself.
    - Kelly Lewis died on December 29, 1883 from a broken neck after a roughly fourteen-foot fall from a hayloft.
    - The brooch was recognized as the same one Kelly Lewis had worn at the Harwick Cattlemen’s Exchange auction in October.

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    20 min
  • The Bookkeeper, The Bitter Ex, and the Aconite in Her Hands

    The Bookkeeper, The Bitter Ex, and the Aconite in Her Hands
    27 Oct 2026
    The Bookkeeper, The Bitter Ex, and the Aconite in Her Hands

    The first impossible detail was her hands: folded neatly in her lap on a freezing stairwell as snow drifted on her coat, a posture the coroner said didn't fit a death from cold. A shopkeeper remembered a woman asking precise questions about aconite concentration, and one name linked to the scene for decades - who quietly watched, waited, and may have arranged a death that read like a calm placement rather than a collapse?

    In this episode, we lay out the known facts from the morning Julie Reed was found, the threads that led Detective Clifford Hall back to a shop on Larimer Street, and the suspect who kept showing up in records and memories - but can those facts explain why her hands were folded?

    Person: Julie Reed
    Date: December 4, 1923
    Location: Rear stairwell, Larimer Street
    Age: 27
    Shopkeeper: James Soo

    - Julie Reed was found at 7:00 AM on December 4, 1923, seated upright with hands folded in her lap.
    - The temperature at the scene was 22 degrees Fahrenheit and snow had drifted onto her coat.
    - Coroner ruled cause of death as cardiac failure secondary to cold exposure, closing the file.
    - James Soo, proprietor of Sun On Water since 1912, recalled a woman asking about aconite concentration and volume months before the death.
    - Frederick Ashby reported his former bookkeeper Lauren Baker, age 34, felt unjustly replaced two weeks before Reed's hiring and remained socially close to Reed for two years.

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    22 min
  • The Wheelchair at Dawn: Why Her Shoes Were Dry

    The Wheelchair at Dawn: Why Her Shoes Were Dry
    26 Oct 2026
    The Wheelchair at Dawn: Why Her Shoes Were Dry

    A woman sits upright in a wheelchair at the surf line, hands folded, heels placed together on the footrests six inches above freezing water - and the shoes are completely dry. Something impossible happened inside a locked institution that morning; what drove someone to wade into forty-eight-degree surf to set shoes on a chair, and why would that question take nine years to answer?

    In this episode, we follow the discovery at Harrow Point, the records and routines at Aldermere Sanatorium, and the small absences that became the case's first clues, asking how a patient logged as "resting, settled" at 10:04 p.m. was found in the cove by dawn.

    Person: Rachel Barrett
    Date: November 13, 1911
    Location: Harrow Point cove, Maine
    Facility: Aldermere Sanatorium
    Attendant: Emily Schmidt

    - The birdwatcher Valerie Slater saw the wheelchair and woman at 7:30 a.m, on November 13, 1911.
    - Rachel Barrett had been admitted to Aldermere on November 2, 1911; intake form number 14 listed "nervous exhaustion."
    - Barrett was 56 years old and assigned to Room Seven on the second floor.
    - The last bed-check entry by Emily Schmidt reads "Barrett, R. - Room 7 - ten-oh-four p.m. - resting, settled."
    - Night porter George Aldiss found five wheelchairs in storage where there should have been six the morning of November 13; the storage door and frame showed no damage.

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    20 min
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