Classic tales of the
SCANDALS, SCOUNDRELS, and SCOURGES
of the past as told from the
HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS in the
GOLDEN AGE of YELLOW JOURNALISM
Featured EPisode
The Bloody Record Of Henry Plummer And His Gang
Episode 422 hearkens back to the wild wild West, in the days following the great gold rush. Much of the story takes place in Bannack, Montana, which is now a state park and ghost town, and follows the career of one of the most notorious gangs of the day and the rise of the citizen's committee that puts an end to it.
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Diary Of A Greenwich Village Madcap
The Complicated Death Of Starr Faithfull
Episode 138 is the story that inspired the John O’Hara novel and the Elizabeth Taylor film “Butterfield 8,” the sad, sordid tale of a beautiful girl with an evocative name and a traumatic past that put her on the road to ruin. The finding of her body on a Long Island beach led to probe deep into the social fabric of three cities on two continents. The telling of the story isn’t particularly graphic, but it does go into dark, dark places. Just so you know.