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True Crime: Murder Secrets

True Crime: Murder Secrets

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Beyond the headlines and sensationalism, what chilling truths lie buried in the annals of history? Crime Unmasked meticulously digs into the cold cases and forgotten criminal minds that shaped our past.

This podcast is your daily deep dive into historical true crime, revealing the untold stories, the perplexing motives, and the groundbreaking investigations from bygone eras. We go beyond the simple facts, exploring the societal impact and the lingering questions surrounding infamous crimes and lesser-known historical mysteries. Each episode brings to light the human drama behind the dark deeds, offering a fresh perspective on classic cases and unearthing new insights.

New episodes of Crime Unmasked are released Monday through Saturday at 4:00 AM, ensuring a fresh dose of historical crime stories to start your day. Expect thoroughly researched narratives, compelling forensic details, and expert analysis that illuminates the past. We bring you detailed accounts of historical murders, unsolved mysteries, and notorious criminals from centuries past, presented with respect and investigative rigor.

This podcast is for anyone fascinated by the darker side of history, who enjoys exploring the intricate details of historical investigations and the psychology of historical murderers. If you crave well-researched true crime podcasts that offer more than just a summary, you've found your next obsession.

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Episodes
  • She Buried the Ledger: How a Woman Outsmarted a Murder Plot

    She Buried the Ledger: How a Woman Outsmarted a Murder Plot
    28 Oct 2026
    She Buried the Ledger: How a Woman Outsmarted a Murder Plot

    Cold evidence and a dead calm: a leather-bound ledger, forty pages and brass fittings without a trace of oxidation, was found nine feet underground and completely dry in January 1883 - and that ledger would send a man to prison for nineteen years. How did Jennifer Bishop know she was running out of time and take the one step that would change everything?

    In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events recorded in the ledger and in the few testimonies left behind, from Bishop's arrival at Pickett Basin to the ledger's recovery in a frozen well, and ask how a woman with no partner, known for precise bookkeeping, anticipated a threat others did not. What compelled her to hide folio number 114 where only a rope and a lantern could reach it?

    Person: Jennifer Bishop
    Date: January 9, 1883
    Location: Crabtree Road well, Pickett Basin
    Case: Livestock registration folio number 114
    Event: Ledger recovered dry and sealed, leading to a 19-year prison sentence

    - Bishop arrived in Pickett Basin in spring 1878 at age 31 and took possession of approximately 2,000 acres registered by her father.
    - By 1882 she had a registered herd of 360 cattle and treated livestock registration folio number 114 as her "Bible," updating it regularly.
    - John West visited Bishop's property three times in 1882; on December 19 he assessed the herd and on December 28 he presented a transfer instrument she refused, which would have conveyed 412 acres to the Pickett Basin Syndicate.
    - Bishop wrote in pencil on the inside back cover: "Dec, twenty-eight. West presented transfer instrument. I refused. Retain this record."
    - Well contractor Warren Simpson descended nine feet into the stone-lined well on January 9, 1883 and found the leather-bound folio dry, with lanolin on the covers and brass fittings showing no oxidation.

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    20 min
  • The Dry Paper: How a Cantonese Parcel Unmasked San Francisco's Poisoner

    The Dry Paper: How a Cantonese Parcel Unmasked San Francisco's Poisoner
    27 Oct 2026
    The Dry Paper: How a Cantonese Parcel Unmasked San Francisco's Poisoner

    A dry paper parcel in a wet San Francisco alley exposed a quiet system of payments and a meticulously staged death that a coroner had called natural; why was Raymond Bailey found perfectly dry while everything around him was soaked? What did eleven small, regular payments to "Pacific Rim Dry Goods" and a Cantonese-wrapped package reveal about a man who never missed a Thursday dinner for eleven years?

    In this episode, we follow the discovery, the early interviews, and the detail that changed the case from closed to criminal: the dry paper package, the ledger entries, and the detective who remembered a telltale sign from a previous poisoning. How did one photograph, a translated label, and a dealer’s denial open a path to the truth?

    Person: Raymond Bailey
    Date: December 11, 1926
    Location: Alley behind Clement Street, San Francisco
    Person: Lloyd Stevens
    Person: Detective Sergeant James Stewart

    - Lloyd Stevens took three photographs of Bailey before calling the police.
    - Bailey was 52 years old and had kept a Thursday dinner appointment with his sister for 11 consecutive years.
    - Eleven ledger entries paid to Pacific Rim Dry Goods occurred over 18 months, spaced every 5 to 6 weeks.
    - The package in Bailey’s right hand was wrapped with Cantonese characters translated as "prepared for use, Chen family, Stockton."
    - The coroner Dr. Frederick Peel originally concluded death by cardiac arrest and closed the case.

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    23 min
  • The Chair Outside Crestholm: A 45‑Minute Hydrotherapy Secret

    The Chair Outside Crestholm: A 45‑Minute Hydrotherapy Secret
    26 Oct 2026
    The Chair Outside Crestholm: A 45‑Minute Hydrotherapy Secret

    A frozen oak chair, leather restraint straps dangling, waited in the service alley outside Crestholm Sanatorium at 5:30 a.m. on November 9, 1907 - a detail that didn’t match the register entry blaming cardiac failure during hydrotherapy. Why would a patient supposedly treated inside end up in a chair outside, facing the building, with an eighteen‑inch drag mark leading to the wall?

    In this episode, we follow the discoveries recorded in notebooks, logs, and intake forms to map what happened at Crestholm in early November 1907 and ask whether the official paperwork can explain the physical evidence. Which discrepancy - the forty‑five minute hydrotherapy entry, the different ink and initials, or the chair outside - holds the key?

    Person: Neil Sawyer
    Date: November 9, 1907
    Location: Crestholm Sanatorium service alley
    Deputy: Jason O'Brien
    Orderly: Wayne Chambers

    - The chair was discovered in frozen mud at approximately 5:30 a.m, on November 9, 1907.
    - Neil Sawyer’s hydrotherapy treatment was logged as lasting forty‑five minutes on November 8.
    - Standard hydrotherapy sessions in 1907 were eight to twelve minutes, making forty‑five minutes nearly four times normal.
    - The treatment entry was written in blue‑tinted ink while all previous entries were brown‑black.
    - A drag mark eighteen inches wide and a partial heavy‑boot heel print were photographed in the service alley on November 11.

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    16 min
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