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  • The Fourteenth Fiasco

    The Fourteenth Fiasco
    May 11 2026
    The Klan Claims A Scallywag

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    Episode 477 tells the story of Judge George W. Ashburn — Union colonel, scalawag, author of the state's civil rights provisions — who is gunned down by the Ku Klux Klan in their Georgia debut. The killers are caught, tried, and freed through a devil's bargain: their liberty exchanged for ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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    55 min
  • Femme Fatale Ann O'Delia Diss Debar

    Femme Fatale Ann O'Delia Diss Debar
    May 8 2026
    New York, 1888. Ann O'Delia Diss Debar — self-styled Spirit Princess, alleged daughter of Lola Montez — convinced a grieving Madison Avenue lawyer that Raphael and Rembrandt were painting for him in his own parlor. The paintings were chemical tricks. The deed to his townhouse was hers. And the worst of her career was still ahead.

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    10 min
  • American Scoudrel B. Gratz Brown

    American Scoudrel B. Gratz Brown
    May 7 2026
    B. Gratz Brown — ex-senator, sitting governor, Vice-Presidential nominee of two parties at once — was handed the stage built to topple Grant's corruption and showed up drunk. He fainted at a New York rally, forgot his own policies, and buttered a watermelon at a campaign picnic. The reform ticket died. The Whiskey Ring kept pumping.

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    10 min
  • American Scoundrel Stephen Wallace Dorsey

    American Scoundrel Stephen Wallace Dorsey
    May 5 2026
    Gilded Age Washington, 1876. Senator Stephen W. Dorsey and the Second Assistant Postmaster General ran a bid-rigging racket that bled the Post Office of millions — fake mail routes, real money. Two trials, two acquittals, one stolen castle on the New Mexico prairie. The jury said not guilty. The record disagrees.

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    9 min
  • The Moonlight Row

    The Moonlight Row
    May 4 2026
    The Smuttynose Island Murders of 1873

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    Episode 476 explores a case would become one of the most sensational crimes of the American Gilded Age. It would produce a manhunt, a near-lynching, a jail break, and a hanging, among other tropes. It would haunt the New England coast for a century and a half, and it haunts it still. But before it was any of those things, it was a story about people who crossed an ocean looking for a better life, and for a few short years, found one.

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    54 min
  • The Tiny Error of the Wily Widow

    The Tiny Error of the Wily Widow
    May 3 2026
    "The Tiny Error of the Wily Widow" (57:52) transports us to the plains of the Dakotas and another plot, this one to get rid of a wealthy husband for a younger man.

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    15 min
  • Femme Fatale Sophie Lyons

    Femme Fatale Sophie Lyons
    May 2 2026
    Gilded Age New York crowned her the Queen of Crime. Sophie Lyons — pickpocket, shoplifter, blackmailer — spent fifty years selling men's shame back to them at Parker House prices. She retired to Detroit a millionaire philanthropist. Three of the men she tried to reform killed her for the rest of it.

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    10 min
  • The Poison Pastor

    The Poison Pastor
    May 1 2026
    Crimes of the Scoundrel Clarence V.T. Richeson

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    Episode 74 explores the tawdry case of Clarence Virgil Thompson Richeson, who was apparently an eloquent preacher and a rising star in the Baptist community, as well as a notorious scoundrel. The tangled web of deceit he wove between three women finally ended in the mysterious death of the unmarried mother of his expected child. Richeson would later confess that he gave her poison, telling her that it was medicine to induce an abortion. This case is historically significant in that it marks the first time in America that a man was sentenced to death without a trial, but solely on a confession.

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    43 min