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Episode 310: The Minneapolis Christmas Bombing
On December 24th 1996, in Minneapolis, a series of escalating disturbances unfolded across the city, leading to an explosion during the city’s Christmas celebrations.…
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Episode 309: Mystery – Ruth Wilson
In November 1995, 16-year-old Ruth Wilson vanished after leaving her home in Surrey. She didn’t go to school as planned though. Instead she ordered…
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Episode 308: Murder – Hawley Harvey Crippen (part IV)
In the final part of our Dr. Crippen series, we’re heading into the Old Bailey for one of the most sensational trials in Edwardian…
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Episode 307: Murder – Hawley Harvey Crippen (part III)
In Part 3 of our Crippen series, we follow the case across the Atlantic and back again. After the dramatic arrest aboard the Montrose, Inspector…
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Episode 306: Hawley Harvey Crippen (part 2)
In Part 2 of our Crippen series, Scotland Yard finally agrees something isn’t right with Dr Crippen. Inspector Dew talks to Crippen, listens politely,…
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Episode 305: Murder – Hawley Crippen (part I)
London, 1910: Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen and his wife, music-hall performer Belle Elmore, seem to have built the perfect Edwardian life… a tidy house…
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Episode 304: Fresh Hell Pet Wall of Fame – Pigeons
They’ve delivered love letters and war messages, carried microfilm across battlefields, worn tiny backpacks full of XTC, and been accused of international espionage! Yet…
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Episode 302: Murder – Lisa Ann French
On Halloween night, 1973, nine-year-old Lisa Ann French left her home in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, dressed as a hobo and planning to trick-or-treat…
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Episode 301: MACABRE – The Great Vampire Epidemic
This week, Johanna takes us back to 18th-century Austria, when terrified villagers were convinced the dead were refusing to stay buried…and the Habsburg Empire…
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Episode 300: The Haunting of the RMS Queen Mary
For our 300th episode, we’re boarding one of the most famous ships in the world: the RMS Queen Mary. Once the epitome of 1930s…
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Episode 299: Hex Appeal – The Witches of Austria and Germany
This week on Fresh Hell, we’re taking you to the heart of spooky fuckery month with a deep dive into witch lore and trials…
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Episode 298: Crickey – It’s a Croc!
Crikey! This week we’re taking you to meet crocodiles. The largest living reptiles on Earth, creatures that inspire both awe and terror. We’ll talk…
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E297: The Affair of the Necklace (part II)
Cardinal de Rohan believes he’s secretly helping Marie Antoinette purchase the world’s most extravagant necklace, while Jeanne de la Motte and her accomplices quietly…
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Episode 296: The Affair of the Necklace (part I)
This week we’re heading to Versailles for one of the most scandalous cons in French history. In Part 1, you’ll hear all about the…
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Episode 295: Murder – Tod Die in a State of Grace
In the 16th to 18th centuries, hundreds of people across Central Europe engineered their own executions in the hope of dying “in a state…
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Special: Best Of Fresh Hell (part II)
We’re still on a summer break, but you know we couldn’t stay away from the horror for long. In this second Best of Fresh Hell special,…
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Special: Best Of Fresh Hell (part I)
We might be on a summer break, but the mystery doesn’t stop. In this first Best of Fresh Hell special, we’re serving up three of our…
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Episode 294: Murder – William Desmond Taylor (part III)
In the third and final part of this Hollywood murder saga, we talk about the murder scene, all the possible suspects! Who had a…
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Episode 293: Murder – William Desmond Taylor (part II)
In part two of our three-part look at the mysterious murder of William Desmond Taylor, we pick up with the powerful (and possibly romantic)…
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Episode 292: Murder – William Desmond Taylor (part I)
Before there was Hollywood scandal, there was THE Hollywood scandal. In this first part of our series on the murder of William Desmond Taylor, we’re…
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Episode 291: In a While Crocodile
This week’s episode covers everything from the grim legacy of racist alligator myths to actual gator attacks, pet alligators ordered through the mail, and…
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Episode 290: See You Later Alligator
This week, we’re trading murder for mayhem of the ancient reptilian variety. We take a deep dive into the world of crocodilians—those prehistoric apex…
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Episode 289: Murder – Johann Oberreiter
In this week’s solo episode, Johanna takes you to the picture-perfect Austrian town of Werfen — home to falcons, frozen caves, The Sound of Music,…
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Episode 288: The Fresh Hell Guide to Almost Being Dead
So… you almost died. Or you technically did—for a moment. And then came the tunnel, the music, the relatives made of light, the surgeons…
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Episode 287: The Fresh Hell Guide of Being Dead
Congratulations—you’ve died! Now what? In this our version of the “Handbook For the Recently Deceased” (and the morbidly curious). We take you on a…
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Episode 286: Oberst Redl
In this week’s episode, Johanna takes us deep into the shadows of pre-WWI Austria-Hungary to tell the true story of Colonel Alfred Redl, once…
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Episode 285: Murder – The Tylenol Murders
In part two of our deep dive into the 1982 Tylenol Murders, we pick up with the immediate aftermath of the cyanide-laced capsules that…
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Episode 284: Murder – The Tylenol Murders (part I)
In September of 1982, a 12-year-old girl in suburban Chicago took a Tylenol for a cold—and never got back up. Within days, six more…
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Episode 283: Macabre – Holy Spirit Activate
This week, we’re taking a peel behind the Vatican’s heaviest doors. From popes who put each other on trial…AFTER DEATH…to rumors of devilish deals…
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Episode 282: Nellie Bly (part IV)
In the final part of our Nellie Bly series, we follow her through yet another reinvention …as wife to industrialist Robert Seaman and, after…
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Episode 281: Nellie Bly (part III)
In Part 3 of our Nellie Bly series, the whole world starts to pay attention. We’ll follow her from the publication of Ten Days in…
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Episode 280: Nellie Bly (part II)
In 1887, Nellie Bly got herself committed to one of the most notorious mental institutions in the country — not because she needed help,…
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Episode 279: Nellie Bly (part I)
Before she became one of the most daring journalists in history, Nellie Bly was Elizabeth Jane Cochran — a smart, stubborn girl from Pennsylvania…
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Episode 278: Macabre – See You Next Doomsday
From flood panics and flaming cities to gas masks for comet poison, humanity has always had a flair for predicting the end of the…
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Episode 277: Mystery – The Missing Children of Pirmasens
Between 1960 and 1967, three children disappeared without a trace from the small city of Pirmasens, in southwest Germany. Walter Broschat. Klaus-Dieter Stark. Eveline…
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Episode 276: Murder – Dorothy Stratten
In this episode, we look at the brief and heartbreaking life of Dorothy Stratten—Playmate of the Month in August 1979, aspiring actress, and the…
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Episode 275: Murder – Lizzie Halliday (part V)
In this fifth and final part of the Lizzie Halliday story, Lizzie escapes the electric chair—but not justice. She continues to lash out, nearly…
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Episode 274: Murder – Lizzie Halliday (part IV)
After the discovery of two women’s bodies buried in the manure pile of the Halliday barn, the search for Paul Halliday continues. But as…
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Episode 273: Murder – Lizzie Halliday (part III)
Lizzie Halliday has left a trail of destruction behind her…arson, theft, fraud, and at least one suspicious death! But in this episode, her crimes…
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Episode 272: Murder – Lizzie Halliday (part II)
Lizzie Halliday is back, and somehow, she’s only getting started. In this episode, we pick up where we left off—with Lizzie abandoning another husband,…
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Episode 271: Murder – Lizzie Halliday (part I)
Lizzie Halliday is often called America’s first female serial killer, but long before she made headlines, she was already leaving a trail of chaos…
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E270: Murder – The Säntis Double Murder
In this episode of Fresh Hell, we’re heading up to the remote and brutal heights of the Säntis mountain in Switzerland, where, in February 1922, Heinrich and Magdalena Haas were…
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Episode 269: This Is The Saddest Show (part II)
In our final episode on the world of Freak Shows, we’re closing the curtain with the incredible, tragic, and sometimes triumphant stories of the performers…
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Episode 268: This Is The Saddest Show (part I)
This week, we’re bringing you two of the most fascinating and deeply unsettling stories from the world of freak shows: Chang & Eng Bunker, the original Siamese twins, and Julia…
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Episode 267: Macabre – This Is The Greatest Show (part III)
In this final part of our Barnum deep dive, we cover his biggest spectacle yet—The Greatest Show on Earth. From the moment he took…
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Episode 266: Macabre – This Is the Greatest Show (part II)
In this episode, we pick up where we left off with P.T. Barnum. We’ll talk about how he turned Scudder’s American Museum into a…
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E265: Macabre – This Is The Greatest Show (part I)
In this episode, we begin our deep dive into the fascinating and controversial life of P.T. Barnum, the man who revolutionized entertainment and gave the…
