Vintage Homicide: A true crime podcast

About Vintage Homicide: A true crime podcast

Hostesses Miss Ruby Wilde and Miss Mei Day combined their love of vintage fashion with their passion for forensic science on this collaboration, Vintage Homicide: A True Crime Podcast. We will be taking you through case histories from our unique perspectives as forensic scientists, examining evidence and the various historical analytical methods that may have been used. Episodes of Vintage Homicide will not only include discussions of bizarre and intriguing historical cases of murder but case narratives will be intertwined with commentary about vintage fashion, ephemera from that period in history, or vintage elements surrounding the cases. We guarantee Vintage Homicide will satisfy your obsessions for true crime drama and your interest in modern retro or the vintage lifestyle.

Publisher

Miss Ruby Wilde and Miss Mei Day

Category

history · science · true crime

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

1 Apr 2021

Latest episode

13 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

90 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Aug 2026

   The Frye Test and the Lie Detector: When Science Is Put to the Test

   Send us Fan Mail In 1920, Dr. Robert Wade Brown was shot and killed inside his Washington, D.C. home. Nearly a year later, James Frye confessed—but later claimed his confession was false and that he had acted in self-defense. His attorneys turned to psychologist William Moulton Marston, who tested Frye with an early lie detector and concluded he was telling the truth. The court refused to hear the results. That case would go on to establish the Frye Test, changing how scientific evidence is c...

2. 

   5 Jun 2026

   Murder, Mystery, and Old Greeny

   Send us Fan Mail A brilliant linguist. A suspected poisoner. A killer whose crimes shocked 1800s New York. Edward Rulloff was considered one of the most intelligent criminals of his era — fluent in multiple languages, studied by phrenologists, and defended even by Mark Twain. But behind the intellect was a trail of missing family members, robbery, murder, and one of the strangest executions in American history. Did he dump his wife and daughter into Cayuga Lake forever hiding the truth beneat...

3. 

   17 Apr 2026

   A Crime of Evidence Alone: The Murder of Claire Josephs

   Send us Fan Mail A newlywed found murdered. No weapon. No witnesses. No motive. In 1968, 20-year-old Claire Josephs was brutally killed in her home in Bromley, England. What followed would change criminal justice forever. With nothing but blood typing, fiber analysis, and emerging forensic science, investigators built a case against Roger Payne—marking the first murder conviction in England based solely on forensic evidence. But decades later, after appeals, an escape, and a new identity… que...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

24 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

35 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 53 / 100

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Quality

72

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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