# Mike Dash

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Villisca & The Man From the Train

In June 1912, someone entered the Moore home in Villisca, Iowa, took the family’s own axe, and killed Josiah and Sarah, their four children, and two visiting Stillinger sisters as they slept. The doors were locked from the inside, faces and mirrors were covered, a lamp was turned low—and before inv…

Spring-Heeled Jack: Cryptid or Conspiracy?

Supernaturally-high leaps. Glowing red eyes. Fire breath. This monster violently assaulted young women, and terrorized others across London. Was he a band of upper-class criminals? A ghost? Or a business plan? Historian Dr. Mike Dash joins us to uncover the truth. For more from Mike Dash, check ou…

42 Years in Siberia: The Family That Vanished From the World

In 1936, a Russian man named Karp Lykov watched a Soviet patrol shoot his brother dead in a field — and in that moment, he made a decision. He gathered his wife and two young children, packed seeds and a spinning wheel, and walked into the Siberian wilderness. He never came back. For 42 years, the …

#63: Haunted Italy: Aqua Tofana e Il Mostro di Via Bagnera

P63: Aqua Tofana e Il Mostro di Via Bagnera: This week Tim and Luis head to Italy for a double dose of dark history. First up: Aqua Tofana, the near-undetectable poison invented by Giulia Tofana in 17th century Rome, sold to desperate women looking to escape violent marriages, and blamed for hundre…

The Becker-Rosenthal Case | Ep 12

It was called "The Trial of the Century."  In July 1912, a New York City Bookmaker is assassinated in front of the Hotel Metropole. Four gunmen and one NYPD Lieutenant are implicated in the crime.  Lieutenant Charles Becker was no stranger to the graft that had ruled New York City for decades, but …

Fireworks in France Audiobook by Alison Golden

Listen to full audiobook for free : https://litupbook.com/free Title: Fireworks in FranceSubtitle: A Reverend Annabelle Dixon Mystery, Book 7Series: #7 in Reverend Annabelle DixonCategories: Amateur Detective, Cozy Mystery, Crime, Crime FictionAuthor: Alison GoldenNarrator: Penny Scott-AndrewsPubli…

Arnold Rothstein | Ep 13

What does the Black Sox Scandal and the Becker-Rosenthal case have in common? Arnold Rothstein.  His career in New York City's world of vice would span the 1890s to the 1920s, adjusting during periods of reform and always staying steps removed from scandal.  If we're talking about That American Cen…

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

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Everyone knows the story. A mysterious man arrives in the town of Hamelin, plays a magical pipe, leads away the rats... then returns to steal 130 children after the townspeople refuse to pay him. Except... That isn't the original story. The oldest records never mention rats. They simply record that…

Serpico, Roosevelt, and the NYPD | Ep 14

On April 25, 1970 The New York Times runs a story with the headline "Graft Paid to Police Here Said to Run Into Millions." One of the sources for the story was Detective Frank Serpico. For years, he had been trying to get the NYPD to take his claims of police corruption seriously.  The bad press le…