The historical crimes and criminals podcast

Taphophobia is the fear of being buried alive and was perhaps more likely to happen than you believe, especially in the Victorian Era. In todays episode we look at cases and the innovative inventors who invented Safety coffins to prevent premature burials.

email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com

If you want to listen to the subscribers only episodes, or just help support the show for less than the price of a cup of coffee you can access these via the link: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-connelly/subscribe

Burning at the Stake was probably one of the most horrific forms of Execution, yet many Countries performed it as a Means of Punishment. In todays episode of the HCCP we look at some of these practices, reasons and cases.

email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com

If you want to listen to the subscribers only episodes, for less than the price of a cup of coffee you can access these via the link: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-connelly/subscribe

Thanks to Capitalpunishmentuk.org for the source information.

The World has many Pubs with unusual and quirky stories behind their names, and nowhere is this more true than the UK and Ireland. In todays episode we look a few of these stories.

Feel free to donate on ko-fi.com/historicalcrimespodcast

email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com

If you want to listen to subscribers only episodes, for less than the price of a cup of coffee you can access these via the link: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-connelly/subscribe

Merry Christmas dear listeners and as is now custom we have a fictional Christmas crime story.

This year its Cyril Hare's 1949 short story about a man who is being Blackmailed and is determined to find and gain revenge on his Blackmailer.

If you want to listen to subscribers only episodes, for less than the price of a cup of coffee you can access these via the link: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-connelly/subscribe

Feel free to donate on ko-fi.com/historicalcrimespodcast

email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com

On August 1st, 1950, a body of a woman was found dead in Rotherham....but it turned out not to be a woman.

twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast

Margaret Drinkall, Rotherham Murders,  Wharncliffe books (2011)

In todays episode we will look at historical Pickpockets, the Artful dodgers of the world of crime

Twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast

Palk, Deirdre (2006). "Pickpocketing". Gender, Crime and Judicial Discretion 1780–1830. Great Britain: The Boydell Press.

Hitchcock, Tim; Shoemaker, Robert (2010). Tales from the Hanging Court. Bloomsbury Acadaemic

unlacethevictorians.blogspot.com/2011/04/mayhew-files-pickpockets.html

www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/juvenile-crime-in-the-19th-century

A Tale of obsession, stalking and Murder in Georgian era London.

twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast

https://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ng355.htm

www.historyextra.com/period/modern/how-to-carry-off-a-great-hoax/

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fatal-triangle-77291407/

http://hysterical.foxearth.org.uk/2005/02/rev-edward-drax-free.html

Capital crimes max decharne arrow books 2012

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/6978/summary

https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/hackman-james.htm

We continue our story in 18th century London with the criminal who would inspire Sherlocks Moriarty.

twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast

email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com

The world is full of curiously named streets, none more so in historical Britain. In todays episode, we look at a few of these!

twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/british-street-names

londontopia.net/site-news/featured/streets-london/

www.southernliving.com/travel/unique-street-names?

https://lookup.london/weird-london-street-names-2/

Pickup Gilly, The A-Z of curious London: strange stories of mysteries, crimes and eccentrics, the history press, 2013

https://www.theintrepidguide.com/31-fascinating-origins-london-street-names/

https://livinglondonhistory.com/10-bizarre-but-brilliant-london-street-names/

The world has known many different types of clubs. In todays episode we dive in for a look at a few of these.

twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast

buy me a beer on ko-fi.com/historicalcrimespodcast

The history of the london clubs, Edward ward. London 1709

patrickspedding.blogspot.com/2009/08/english-aphrodites-part-1.html

https://www.hebergementwebs.com/top/top-10-strangest-clubs-in-history-the-club-sandwich-is-not-in-the-top

www.atlasobscura.com/articles/unusual-clubs-in-history

nineteenteen.blogspot.com/2010/11/where-boys-were-four-horse-club.html

listverse.com/2016/08/08/top-10-bizarre-clubs-from-the-past/

pipiwiki.com/wiki/Gentleman%27s_Clubs

vcz.s5.xrea.com/18th-century-london-club-for-beggars-who-faked-injury-and-sickness-to-avoid-work/

During WW2 the Allies devised an incredible plan to fool German Intelligence into thinking they would invade Greece instead of Italy. 

twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast

email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com

Operation mincemeat, Ben Macintrye, Bloomsbury books, 2016

Deadly Deception, Denis Smyth, OUP Oxford, 2010

militarywiki/operationmincemeat

A chess Computer beat both Nopoleon and Benjamin Franklin....in todays episode, hear the story!

Email: the historical crimes and criminals podcast

ko-fi.com/historicalcrimespodcast

www.chessequipments.com/history-of-chess/

users.adam.com.au/bstett//SkepticsTurk104.htm

www.ststworld.com/the-turk/

www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/murder.html

www.thevintagenews.com/2016/05/08/the-turk-was-аn-18th-century-mechanical-chess-player-that-conned-napoleon-bonaparte-2/

www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/jewel-royale-chess-set

In Victoria era Britain a court case divided opinions like no other: it was a case of a Baronet thought lost at sea returned to claim his title and estate. in the second part, we look at the court cases ensuring.

twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast

buy me a coffee: ko-fi.com/historicalcrimespodcast

In the northeast of England there is a town best known for one infamous event. During the Napoleonic wars they hanged a Monkey, mistaking it for a Frenchman.

twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast

www.thisishartlepool.co.uk/history/thehartlepoolmonkey.asp

thehobbledehoy.com/2019/03/03/the-hanging-of-the-hartlepool-monkey/

www.pdsa.org.uk/what-we-do/animal-awards-programme/pdsa-dickin-medal

www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-Dickin-Medal/

www.forces.net/news/meet-brigadier-sir-nils-olav-iii-worlds-highest-ranking-penguin

In the village of Oddingley, the finding of a body led to the solving of a previous murder almost 25 years previously.

twitter: the historical crimes podcast

email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com

www.telegraph.co.uk/only-in-britain/strange-british-laws/

www.mysteriesofmercia.com/post/the-tithe-system-oddingley

www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Oddingley_Murders

www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-2191582/A-murderous-village-gutters-run-gore-DAMN-HIS-BLOOD-BY-PETER-MOORE.html

www.oddingleychurch.org/history/truth/

En.Wikipedia.org>wiki the_oddingley_murders

www.scottishfield.co.uk/culture/10-ridiculous-scottish-laws-you-wont-believe/

The Olympics have seen many strange events over the years, including Art. In todays episode we look at a few.

twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast

email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com

ko-fi.com/thehistoricalcrimespodcast

www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-2169255/Dirtiest-Olympics-race-history-1988s-100m-final-year-steroids-turned-sport-sour.html

www.teamscotland.scot/athlete/allan-wells/

www.balls.ie/athletics/1904-olympic-marathon-466679

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-1904-olympic-marathon-may-have-been-the-strangest-ever-14910747/

In 1927 a murder took place that would inspire the book and famous film, Double Indemnity. The case also involved a secret camera taking a famous photo of the moment of execution by electrocution. In todays episode we look at the case of Ruth Synder. see the photo on the twitter page.

twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast

email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com

time.com/3808808/first-photo-electric-chair-execution/

allthatsinteresting.com/ruth-snyder

www.rowdiva.com/RS.html

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MT19280113.2.5&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1

gizmodo.com/a-torrid-affair-an-inept-murder-and-a-historic-execut-1713398954

stmuhistorymedia.org/woman-made-of-stone-the-murder-of-albert-snyder/

www.headstuff.org/culture/history/terrible-people-from-history/ruth-snyder-housewife-murderer/

www.history.com/news/double-indemnity-1920s-murder-crime-tabloids

On December 15th, 1927 a man walked into a School in Los Angeles and abducted a 12 year old child. The sensational case made worldwide headlines for the brutal subsequent events.

pictures on twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast

www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-feb-04-me-21037-story.html

horrorhistory.net/2017/12/17/girl-murdered-dismembered-and-disemboweled-during-ransom/

malefactorsregister.com/wp/779/

www.crimemagazine.com/fox-or-“moral-imbecile”-william-edward-hickman-and-murder-marion-parker

www.cemeteryguide.com/gotw-parker.html

In 1858, over 200 people were poisoned when a bag of Arsenic was accidentally mixed with their sweet mixture. The resulting case would help change the law in the UK.

please subscribe to the podcast, leave a review tell your friends and social media outlets.

twitter: thehistoricalcrimesandcriminalspodcast

recipespastandpresent.org.uk/tradsweets2.php#9

www.sweetandnostalgic.co.uk/history-of-sweets-4-w.asp

visitvictorianengland.com/category/food/

www.cocoaandheart.co.uk/victorian-sweets/

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1858_Bradford_sweets_poisoning

In the first of a 3 part trilogy of seperate crime stories from Los Angeles we will look at the life, crimes and execution of Barbara Graham.

Many thanks to Katja Anderson for writing this story. Find more of Katja's work:

Blog:  missnightterrors.wordpress.com

twitter: missnightterrors

For pictures from todays episode see the twitter page: the historical crimes and criminals podcast  

1. O'Shea, Kathleen A., Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900 - 1998 (1999); Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 70.

2. Brennan, Elizabeth A., Clarage, Elizabeth C., Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners (1999);  Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 387.

3. American Film Institutehttps://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/52606

4. Los Angeles Daily Mirror, 'Barbara Graham case revisited, November 28, 1958'.

5. Bernstein, Matthew, Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent (2000); pp. 336 - 337.

6. Osborne, Robert, telecast of I Want to Live! with commentary on Turner Classic Movies, 20 February 2009.

7 - 10:www.familysearch.org

11. United States federal census, 1930.

12. Davis, Bernice Freeman with Hirshberg, Al, Assignment San Quentin (1962); Peter Davies Ltd., London.

13 - 14: Bailey, Frankie Y. and Chermak, Steven, Famous American Crimes and Trials Vol. III, 1913 - 1959.

15 - 22: Cairns, Kathleen A., Proof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America (2013); University of Nebraska Press.

23. Cairns, ibid; Los Angeles Times, 8 June 1987: 'It's Sally Stanford not Sanford - and also for the record, Errol Flynn didn't need to be spelled'.

24. Cairns, ibid.

25. Keller, Robert, Murder Most Vile, Volume Twenty (2018).

26. Cairns, ibid.

27. Keller, ibid.

28 - 30: Drexler, Paul, San Francisco Examiner, 27 August 2017: '"Bloody Babs” and the robbery gone wrong'.

31 - 32: Renner, Joan, Los Angeles Magazine, 4 June 2013: 'The Mob-Style Murder of Burbank Widow Mabel Monahan'.

33.https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135618443/baxter-shorter

34 - 35: Renner, ibid.

36 - 37: Cairns, ibid.

38. Gillespie, L. Kay, Dancehall Ladies: The Crimes and Executions of America's Women (1997).  University Press of America, p. 77.

39. Los Angeles Times, 28 March 1990: 'Last Steps, Last Words on the Row: California has put 501 men and women to death since the state took charge of executions.  Not all of them went quietly.'

40. Stout, Martha, The Sociopath Next Door (2006); Random House, p. 97.

In todays episode we travel back to the London in the Elizabethan era (1558-1603) for a snapshot of London life.

twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast

Many thanks to Professor Eric Rasmussen and Dr Ian DeJong for their article and source for this episode: www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/shakespeares-london

Samuel Upham destabilised the confederate currency during the American Civil war.

Twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast

Thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com

www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/silent-crimes/samuel-curtis-upham/

sierrasmissionburrito.com/samuel-upham-the-counterfeiter-who-helped-win-the-civil-war/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_C._Upham

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/the-catch-me-if-you-can-counterfeiter-and-other-famous-forgers/ss-BB1aSBIP#image=5

Cockfighting and bloodsports have always been popular in Britain.

twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast

email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com

metro.co.uk/2017/11/16/cockfighting-gang-guilty-after-detectives-found-blood-stained-fighting-pit-7085701/

allthatsinteresting.com/animal-blood-sports#15

georgianlondon.com/post/49461276531/elizabeth-stokes-lady-bare-knuckles

www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/Cockpit-Steps/

www.nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeares-theatres/globe-theatre-entertainment/

www.history.com/news/the-gruesome-blood-sports-of-shakespearean-england

www.pubhistorysociety.co.uk/bloodsports.html

Homan, M. (2000). A Complete History of Fighting Dogs, Howell Book H

Edward Dando was a criminal, but one of those unique criminals who endear themselves to public sentiment.

Twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast

Many Thanks to the Poet Luke Wright for kind permission to use 'The Ballard of Edward Dando' in this episode

twitter: Luke Wright 

www.lukewrightpoet.bigcartel.com

http://londnr.com/forgotten-londoners-1-edward-dando/

http://georgianera.wordpress.com/2014/11/02/dando-the-celebrated-gormandizing

seasaltercross.com/2014/11/16/edward-dando-360-oysters-at-one-sitting-ca ll-it-a-good-lunch/

theturnaroundblog.com/2019/06/17/the-house-on-the-hill-by-christopher-im pey-the-fascinating-tale-of-londons-oldest-lockup/

http://www.therichest.com/most-shocking/5-of-historys-most-shocking-gluttons/

www.mentalfloss.com/article/88937/9-famous-people-supposedly-killed-foo d-or-drink

In 1942 a burnt body was found in a bombed church in South London. It turned out to be anything but a bomb victim.

a bonus lockdown episode this week

pictures on twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast

Many thanks to Dr Amy Bell 

www.amyhelenbell.com

www.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/cbmh.29.2.265

www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/criminals-of-the-blitz/

https://dirkdeklin.net/2016/09/06/harry-dobkin-blitz-murderer/

a lockdown bonus episode this week

The world has known some brutal punishments for crimes. In todays episode we look at some of these

Twitter: the historical crimes podcast

www.toptenz.net/10horrifying-and-cringeworthy-corporal-punishments.php

list verse.com/2016/03/27/10-forgotten-and-intruiging-punishments-from-history/

www.mentalfloss/article/63819/15-historical-terms-crimes-and-punishment-defined

www.ncbi.nim.gov/pmc/articles/pmc2689568

In todays episode we look at the history of Monopoly and how the game helped thousands of allied prisoners to escape and rejoin the fight to help win WW2

twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast

www.historyonline.com/instant-articles/Germanys-pow-camp.html

www.armedforcesmuseum.com/monopoly-in-world-war-ii/

www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/how-monopoly-games-helped-allied-pows-escape-during-world-war-ii/266996/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/the-northerner/2013/jan/08/history-monopoly-waddingtons-victor-watson-stalag-prisoners-of-war

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/wwii-monopoly-game-escape-version.html

History has given us many accounts of Mistresses. In todays episode we look at some.

twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast

listverse.com/2013/12/23/10-royal-mistresses-who-had-their-men-by-the-crown-jewels/

www.factinate.com/people/43-seductive-facts-historical-mistresses/

https://www.rmg.co.uk/explore/blog/sex-life-samuel-pepys

Headhunting has occurred throughout the world for various reasons. In todays episode we will look at some of these peoples.

see pics on- twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast

www.ripleys.com/weird-news/shrunken-head/

www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/ten-creepy-images-shrunken-heads-ecuador-003785

www.zmescience.com/science/head-shrinking-tsantsa-05244/

jacquelinezote.blogspot.com/2016/02/10-fascinating-tribes-with-headhunting.html

www.nihonto-yoroi.com/2017/12/20/head-collectors/

listverse.com/2014/06/27/10-ways-samurai-were-nothing-like-you-thought/

www.britannica.com/topic/headhunting

www.aidandoyle.net/2009/06/03/who-would-have-thought-collecting-severed-heads-would-be-so-difficult

In 1864 Britains first train murder took place: it led to a cross Atlantic chase to apprehend the Killer.

Email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com

twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279102/Thomas-Briggs-murder-train-Franz-Muller-gripped-Victorian-Britain.html

http://www.mernick.org.uk/thhol/murdernl.html

http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/muller.html

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/victorian-railways/

http://www.btp.police.uk/about_us/our_history/crime_history/the_first_railway_murder.aspx

http://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/377815/Murder-on-the-railway

The first of a few episodes over the coming months when we look at Victorian Jobs.

Email:thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com

twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast

http://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/08/31/dog-feces/

http://www.blackstockleather.com/history-of-the-leather-tanning-industry/

Peter Ackroyd. London Under. London: Vintage, 2012

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/quite-likely-the-worst-job-ever-319843/

Henry mayhew, london labour and the London poor, oxford press 2010

In 1809 the most audacious hoax ever happened in London. 

pictures on the twitter group: historical crimes and criminals podcast

email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com

http://www.victorianweb.org/history/leisure/pubgambling.html

https://www.abouttimemagazine.co.uk/london/about-time-discovered-history-gambling-london/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/england/london/articles/surprising-history-of-london-chocolate-houses/

bizarrevictoria.wordpress.com/2014/04/09/berners-street-hoax/

husheduphistory.com/post/181564571593/special-delivery-the-bet-and-bedlam-on-berners

https://jimcofer.com/2013/02/04/the-berners-street-hoax/

A look at 1940's London and the murder of a Black marketeer....

follow me on twitter on the historical crimes and criminals podcast

email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com

www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/donald-hume-the-setty-case

www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/10-facts-about-crime-on-the-home-front-in-the-second-world-war/

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3165954/How-Blitz-sent-Britain-sex-mad-New-book-reveals-Hitler-s-bid-bomb-surrender-startling-effect.html

www.nickelinthemachine.com/2013/04/warren-street-and-the-murder-of-stan-the-spiv-setty-by-brian-donald-hume-in-1949/