457
Episodes
224
Transcribed
735
Ratings
Weekly
Cadence
2016
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About True Crime Historian

Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told through vintage newspaper accounts from the golden age of yellow journalism Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss).

Publisher
Richard O Jones
Category
arts · society & culture · true crime
Language
en
Explicit
Yes
First episode
11 Jan 2016
Latest episode
6 Sept 2026

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224 of 457 episodes have a transcript.

  1. 6 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

    The House On Second Street

  2. 31 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

    The Devil on 63rd Street

  3. 24 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

    The Axeman Of New Orleans

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The House On Second Street

Published 6 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] President of the Union Savings Bank. Director of the Durfee Safe Deposit Company. Owner of farms and commercial buildings and rental properties across the city. He had built that fortune from an undertaking establishment, one shrewd deal at a time, and he was the kind of man other men took their hats off to on the street. He could have lived anywhere, He could have built himself a house on the hill that would have made the Durfies nervous. Instead, he kept his family in a narrow house on Second Street, in a neighborhood that was already slipping, in a house with no running water and no gas and no electricity, chamber pots under every bed, a privy in the basement. […]

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