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Lost Crime History

Lost Crime History

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Lost Crime History peels back the dust on the world’s most baffling historical crimes and the forgotten threads that tie them together. Each episode uncovers overlooked evidence, period detail, and the cultural context that turned ordinary deeds into enduring mysteries. You’ll hear carefully narrated reconstructions, archival research, and clear explanations that separate myth from fact — all rooted in true crime history and forensic insight. New episodes drop every day: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday at 9:00 AM, so you can follow investigations and patterns as they unfold across eras. Expect episodes that range from short investigative dossiers to longer narrative deep-dives; every installment focuses on a single case or theme with sources cited and theories weighed. This podcast is for listeners who crave rigorous historical research, fans of true crime who want more context than sensationalism, and anyone interested in how past crimes shaped law, society, and storytelling. If you want mysteries explained with evidence, chronology, and respect for victims and sources, Lost Crime History is your weekly—actually daily—companion. Subscribe now and listen at 9:00 AM daily to never miss a revelation. keywords SEO: true crime, historical crimes, cold cases, forensic history, archival research© 2026 OBOMEDIA Creators
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  • Hands Folded in the Snow: The Murder of Nancy Zimmerman

    Hands Folded in the Snow: The Murder of Nancy Zimmerman
    28 Oct 2026
    Hands Folded in the Snow: The Murder of Nancy Zimmerman

    A woman found three miles from home with eleven inches of snow around her, her hands folded and an unbroken broadcast vacuum tube balanced on her knees - a scene that refuses to fit accident or exposure. Why was a Type Eight Sixty transmitter tube wrapped in a station log page placed deliberately on Nancy Zimmerman's hands, and who knew about the missing tube weeks earlier?

    In this episode, we walk the route, the transmitter room, and the investigation that followed from discovery to confession, tracing the gap between a torn log entry and the station's records to ask whether the physical evidence pointed to a calculated message or a coincidence.

    Person: Nancy Zimmerman
    Date: March 9, 1934
    Location: Harwick Road, three miles east of Millhaven, Nebraska
    Object: Type Eight Sixty transmitter triode vacuum tube
    Investigator: Beverly Vickers

    - Nancy Zimmerman was thirty-eight years old and a widow for five years at the time of her death.
    - Eleven inches of snow had fallen overnight between March 7 and March 8 when her body was found.
    - She left a church social at approximately 9:15 PM on March 7 to walk six blocks home, a route normally under fifteen minutes.
    - A torn page found wrapped around the tube bore log entries for February 22 at 22:04 and 22:09 that did not match the station's retained transmission log.
    - Station manager Pete Holloway had logged a tube as assumed breakage and written off on February 15, three weeks before the body was discovered.

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    22 min
  • A Body at the Door: The Murder of Amanda Nelson

    A Body at the Door: The Murder of Amanda Nelson
    27 Oct 2026
    A Body at the Door: The Murder of Amanda Nelson

    An Albuquerque wool broker's agent is found face-down on the caliche step of a small freight office on February 11, 1947, her handbag untouched with $41 and a letter of introduction still clasped inside - yet the medical evidence shows she was killed inside and carried out. The single anomaly in her passport - two U.S. entry stamps from Mexico on February 4 and February 7, 1947, with no exit between them - becomes the thread that unravels who staged the scene and why. Who used that impossible passport stamp to hide a motive for murder?

    In this episode, you will hear the facts of the case as recorded at the scene, learn the professional role Amanda Nelson occupied in the Southwest wool trade, and follow the initial investigation led by Special Investigator Christine Fisher that pivots on ledger discrepancies and an odd passport. How did a sixty-two-year-old who read freight contracts like newspapers end up murdered after confronting a local freight agent?

    Person: Amanda Nelson
    Date: February 11, 1947
    Location: Corda Falls, New Mexico
    Person: Paul Ward
    Person: Christine Fisher

    - Amanda Nelson was 62 years old and worked as a wool broker's agent.
    - Nelson's handbag contained $41 and a letter of introduction and was found fastened and undisturbed.
    - She was struck once at the base of the skull with a heavy smooth object between 10:00 PM on February 10 and 2:00 AM on February 11, 1947.
    - Amanda's passport, issued in 1943, bore two U.S. entry stamps from Mexico dated February 4 and February 7, 1947, with no recorded departure.
    - Paul Ward, 38, the Vega Transit manager in Corda Falls, was confronted by Nelson on February 7 about systematic over-declaration of wool bale weights.

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    24 min
  • The Cold Brand in the Mud: Why Did He Press It?

    The Cold Brand in the Mud: Why Did He Press It?
    26 Oct 2026
    The Cold Brand in the Mud: Why Did He Press It?

    A cattle brand was pressed four inches deep into frozen mud at Garnet Creek without any scorch, smell, or heat - the double-bar J sat there like a deliberate question. A twenty-four-year-old bookkeeper named Emily Casey was found face-down in eighteen inches of water ten feet away; the county physician ruled accidental drowning, but that ruling sat unread for eight days. Who pressed the cold iron into the mud, and why did that mark outlive every easy explanation?

    In this episode, we tell the events that unfolded after Emily Casey's death and how a clerical dispute revealed inconsistencies in land transfers tied to Thomas Hale's north-fork consolidation. You will hear how Marcia Rogers discovered forged signatures and the notary common to multiple suspicious lease transfers, and the unanswered puzzle that haunted confessions and investigators alike.

    Person: Emily Casey
    Date: January 8, 1883
    Location: Garnet Creek, Harlan Flat, Kansas
    Age: 24
    Case: Accidental drowning ruled by county physician

    - The brand iron impression was pressed four inches deep into frozen mud with a perfectly formed double-bar J and no signs of heat.
    - Emily Casey was found face-down in eighteen inches of water approximately ten feet from the brand impression.
    - The county physician Dr. Albert Voss ruled her death accidental and his report remained unread at the sheriff's office for eight days.
    - Marcia Rogers discovered a lease transfer signed September 14, 1882, for Frank Dodd despite his recorded presence in Topeka on September 13 and 15, 110 miles away.
    - Three separate lease transfers within a sixty-day window in autumn 1882 all bore the same notary stamp of William Cope, mercantile, First Street.

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    23 min
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