PODCAST · true crime
Crime Scholar
by Paris Brown
In-depth research by Paris Brown, a PhD candidate, former 9-1-1 police radio dispatcher, and vintage curator of true crime, mysteries, tragedies, eccentrics, and the beauty of the bizarre--all told with flair and big hair. Formerly 'Class A Felons.'
Episodes
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Halloween Short Story: Faces at the Window
Happy Halloween! In this episode, I'm sharing one of my favorite short ghost story called "Faces at the Window" by Rose Wilder Lane. It is based, in part, on the true story of the Bloody Benders, who murdered lodgers at their residence in the 1800s. Lane is the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder…
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Oscar Zeta Acosta: Fear, Loathing, and the Disappearance of a Brown Buffalo
The character of Dr. Gonzo in the book and film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is based on a real person: a one-time military airman...turned Baptist missionary...turned legal aid attorney...turned Los Angeles County Sheriff's candidate...turned author...turned missing person. This is the story…
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11. Truman Capote & Ann Woodward: Miss Bang-Bang, Part 2
A glamorous but ostracized socialite shoots her husband in their home one night but claims she thought he was a prowler. High society (mostly) takes her word for it...until Truman Capote, the author of the first true crime novel, In Cold Blood, reminds the public of the Woodwards' fraught...
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10. Truman Capote: The Socialite, the Shooting, and the Suicide, Part 1
A glamorous but ostracized socialite shoots her husband in their home one night but claims she thought he was a prowler. High society (mostly) takes her word for it...until Truman Capote, the author of the first true crime novel, In Cold Blood, reminds the public of the Woodwards' fraught...
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9. Assia Wevill: The Oven Suicides, Part 2
In 1969, Assia Wevill--hailed as a great beauty and advertising talent--bizarrely committed suicide in the same manner as her paramour's wife six years earlier. To add to the tragedy, she killed her 4-year-old daughter, Shura. This is the story of a woman tormented by the dead poet Sylvia Plath,...
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8. Sylvia Plath: The Oven Suicides, Part 1
Some people best know Sylvia Plath for her unusual mode of suicide; others remember her for as one of the first authors to write openly about her own mental illness. But there's even more to her than that: the early loss of her father, the obsessive desire to be an over-achiever, that time she…
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Season 2 Teaser
This preview opens the chapters of Season 2! This second season, titled "Stranger Than Fiction" goes into storytelling mode about the strange and tragic lives of some famous--or infamous, as may be the case--of some famously fascinating authors. Topics will include schizophrenia, suicide, high...
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7. Cinnamon Brown: Named for Fame
If your parent had asked you to do something illegal as a teen, how would you have reacted? What it it was murder; what recourse would you have? This is the sad and sordid tale of a selfish Orange Co., CA man who, in 1985, persuaded his 14-year-old daughter to kill her stepmother. It's a tale…
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6. Caril Fugate: Bad Love in the Badlands
The Midwest U.S. was rocked in the late 1950s not just by new-fangled rock 'n roll music or by its bout of horrific flooding, but by an even more sinister kind of horror. Fourteen-year-old Caril Fugate accompanied her 19-year-old boyfriend Charles Starkweather on a murder spree that would claim…
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5. Bonnie Parker and Blanche Barrow: The Bluest Shot-At Eyes in Texas
Bonnie Parker Thornton and Blanche Caldwell Callaway were two despondent flappers at the close of the 1920s. In fact, the popular 1929 song "Am I Blue?" could have been written for them. But in 1930, at the start of the U.S.'s Great Depression, they met two brothers, Clyde and Buck, who were…
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4. Sara Aldrete: Community College Cultist
It was the '80s: big hair, gold lamé, car phones, greed, Satanic Panic...and a young borderland woman who had a hand in helping to create that panic. When Sara Aldrete met cult leader Adolfo Constanzo, her goal of becoming a state college transfer and P.E. instructor changed to dark dreams of...
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3. Carole Tregoff: Lover in the Bushes
This is a story local to us, and we've never heard it discussed on any other podcast. In 1959, a glamorous, well-to-do doctor's wife named Barbara Jean Finch was gunned down one night in front of her mid-century modern West Covina, California home. A witness, her young au pair, saw the murderer...
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2. Carolyn Bryant: Whistle Bait and the Murder of Emmett Till
1955, rural, Jim Crow-era Mississippi. Emmett Till, just 14 years old, met a horrific death after being accused of whistling at and putting his arm around 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant. Over 60 years later, her account of their fateful encounter changed. Just who is Carolyn, and what forces…
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1. The Manson Women: Look at Your Game, Girl
You've undoubtedly memorized the story of Charles Manson and the Tate-LaBianca murders, but how much do you know about the lives of his followers, especially before they met him? Here's the life stories of five Manson Family members, which helps to explain how they became, well, Manson Family...
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Season 1 Teaser: Refashioning Morbidity
Introduction to the hosts, two mid-20th-century enthusiast sisters with murder on their minds. We discuss our backgrounds and what drives our interests in true crime and vintage culture. This episode also previews the first season of the podcast, "Accessories to Murder." Hosts: Paris Brown and…
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In-depth research by Paris Brown, a PhD candidate, former 9-1-1 police radio dispatcher, and vintage curator of true crime, mysteries, tragedies, eccentrics, and the beauty of the bizarre--all told with flair and big hair. Formerly 'Class A Felons.'
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In-depth research by Paris Brown, a PhD candidate, former 9-1-1 police radio dispatcher, and vintage curator of true crime, mysteries, tragedies, eccentrics, and the beauty of the bizarre--all told with flair and big hair. Formerly 'Class A Felons.'
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