Foul Play: Crime Series
Hosted by Shane Waters · Shane L. Waters, Wendy Cee, Gemma Hoskins
4.5from 1,125 ratings
- 351
- Episodes
- 93
- Transcribed
- 1,125
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2014
- First episode
- 62K
- YouTube views
About Foul Play: Crime Series
Foggy gaslit streets. A quiet courtroom. And crimes that history tried to bury. Foul Play is a historical true crime podcast that investigates the most chilling murder cases from the 1800s and early 1900s across the United States and the United Kingdom. Hosted by investigative crime journalists Shane Waters — who pioneered crime podcasting in 2008 — and Wendy Cee, each season unravels one complete criminal case through original research, court records, and primary source material. This isn't sensationalized true crime. Every season of Foul Play puts victims first — their names, their stories, their humanity — before examining how murder investigations unfolded in an era before modern forensics, when justice was far from guaranteed. From Victorian poisoners in London to Gilded Age killers in America, Foul Play brings historical true crime to life with cinematic storytelling and relentless accuracy. Every fact is verified. Every claim is sourced. Every story is told with the gravity it deserves. New seasons of this historical true crime podcast release throughout the year, with episodes dropping weekly on Tuesdays. Hello, friend. Welcome to Foul Play.
- Publisher
- Shane L. Waters, Wendy Cee, Gemma Hoskins
- Category
- history · society & culture · true crime
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Jan 2014
- Latest episode
- 13 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
93 of 351 episodes have a transcript.
13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Arkansas & Michigan: Town Secrets, 1875-1912
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Kansas and Virginia: Badges, Betrayal, and Frontier Justice
29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
1898 America: The Burning of Baker, McGeisey & Sampson
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Arkansas & Michigan: Town Secrets, 1875-1912
Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Brief service in the Union Army, surveying work at the Lake Survey Office in Detroit, And then, in the winter of 1868, at 26 years old, Molitor and his partners, among them William E. Rogers and Frederick Denny Lark, bought land on the remote northeastern shore of Michigan's Lower Peninsula and built a settlement from nothing. The nearest town of any size was a day's travel south. A sawmill, a general store, a boarding house, a blacksmith shop. By 1869, large parties of German and Polish immigrants were arriving to clear timber, felling white pine, feeding the mill, sleeping in company bunkhouses. […]
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- YouTube views
- 62,082
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 947 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.5 / 5
- 178 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 70 / 100
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- Quality
- 68
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 85
- Engagement
- 98
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Who hosts Foul Play: Crime Series?
Shane Waters host the show. Published by Shane L. Waters, Wendy Cee, Gemma Hoskins.
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