Vintage Villains

Send a text message to the show! Allison and Jayson conclude their look into the baffling Lewis Clark Valley serial killer case with a discussion with retired FBI profiler Julia Cowley, whose unique insights into the minds of murderers can possibly help clear up some questions they have about this person of interest. Big shouts to the Snake River Killer Podcast, who has done exhaustive work on thi...

Send a text message to the show! Allison and Jayson broaden their discussion of the case by inviting on two researchers from the Snake River Killer Podcast -- Cathy Belben and Samantha Sawyer -- to give their insights in to Lance Voss and his potential ties to these victims, including those baffling classified ads he loved to run. Big shouts to the Snake River Killer Podcast, who has done exhausti...

Send a text message to the show! Allison and Jayson pick back up where they left off in their discussion of the suspected Lewis-Clark Valley Serial Killer, a case that spans several decades and leaves a lot of baffling clues in its wake. Last episode they detailed the disappearance of 12 year old Christina White of Asotin, Washington. Today they delve into several more disappearances and murders o...

Send a text message to the show! Allison teams back up with Jayson Blair of the Silver Linings Handbook in a four part series to track the footsteps of a suspected serial killer who, in a rarity for this show in particular, is still very much alive. While they begin with the 1979 disappearance of 12-year old Christina White from Asotin, Washington, this is a case that potentially spans several dec...

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Send a text message to the show! We're joined by Brett from The Prosecutors for a Vintage Villains Halloween special. In 1941, the play Arsenic and Old Lace debuted to rave reviews on Broadway, and a few years later spawned a movie starring Cary Grant. The story, set on Halloween, about two little old ladies who run a boarding house and poison their infirm tenants made for a fun if macabre sc...

Send a text message to the show! The best way to finish a feast is with the perfect digestif, and that comes in the form of a visit from Kevin and Aine of the Murder Sheet Podcast to talk about everything they know about Dillinger and depression era gangsters! In addition to being the rock stars covering the case of Abby Williams and Liberty German out of Delphi, Indiana, they're also history...

Send a text message to the show! This final installment of the John Dillinger series is jam packed with more bank robberies, a major FBI bungle at the Little Bohemia Lodge, painful plastic surgeries, and a trail of mayhem and betrayal that ends at an alleyway on a sweltering July night outside Chicago's Biograph Theater. Find out how John Dillinger's short but insane crime spree changed...

Send a text message to the show! In the third part of the Dillinger saga, the Terror Gang finds itself being whittled down bit by bit, with the remaining five core members taking to the vast American highways, first to Florida, then a trip back home in Indiana to quickly rob a bank. Barely making it out alive, they flee to Tucson, Arizona, where the journey hits a bit of a snag... LISTEN TO PART O...

Send a text message to the show! In the continuing coverage of Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger, we trace the Terror Gang's steps after the deadly jailbreak in Lima, Ohio, which included daring robberies of police stations for guns and ammo, as well as more banks in Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. The game of cops and robbers was growing quite dire as both sides upped the ante. We...

Send a text message to the show! The Great Depression was a desperate time for the US and the world at large, and it spawned a whole host of criminals and gangs looking to take what they couldn't get. John Dillinger's crime spree of robbing banks and shooting back at cops across the Midwest only lasted about a year, but in that time he became something of a folk hero, as he expertly exec...

Send a text message to the show! Allison and Jayson Blair conclude their series on the Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders, and they've brought on former FBI profiler Julia Cowley of The Consult podcast to answer questions and go over theories! *** In this special three-part series, Allison and friend Jayson Blair of the Silver Linings Handbook are back together again to talk about a case that contin...

Send a text message to the show! In this special three-part series, Allison and friend Jayson Blair of the Silver Linings Handbook are back together again to talk about a case that continues to haunt Oklahoma nearly 50 years later. Lori Farmer, Denise Milner, and Michele Guse were among dozens of Girl Scouts who arrived at Camp Scott in Mayes County Oklahoma in June of 1977. After only one night,...

Send a text message to the show! In this special three-part series, Allison and special guest Jayson Blair of the Silver Linings Handbook are back together again to talk about a case that continues to haunt Oklahoma nearly 50 years later. Lori Farmer, Denise Milner, and Michele Guse were among dozens of Girl Scouts who arrived at Camp Scott in Mayes County Oklahoma in June of 1977. After only one...

Send a text message to the show! Allison and Jayson last left you in Part 1 with police beginning their questioning of Lloyd Lee Welch, a man who they'd initially thought a witness to the kidnapping of Katherine and Sheila Lyon at the Wheaton Plaza mall in 1975 by their original suspect, Ray Mileski. However, Welch soon takes police on a dark and murky path that leads to him becoming the prim...

Send a text message to the show! In this joint episode with the Silver Linings Handbook podcast, Allison and Jayson tackle what is to date the oldest no-body homicide case to receive a conviction in the US. In 1975, sisters Sheila (12) and Katherine (10) Lyon were going for a slice of pizza at a popular Baltimore-area shopping mall when they disappeared without a trace. But there were witnesses, a...

Send a text message to the show! In 1957, Ed Gein's gruesome crimes of murder, grave robbing, and corpse abuse shocked the the tiny town of Plainfield, Wisconsin as well as the rest of the world, giving rise to a cottage industry of horror franchises, and serving as a grim reminder of how deep isolation, illness, and an unshakable Oedipus complex can drive some to commit some of the most depr...

Send a text message to the show! In the 50th year since the kidnapping of heiress Patricia Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Army, and the resulting crime spree that shocked the nation, we can acknowledge the vintage pedigree of the case. But was she truly a villain? She was certainly portrayed that way throughout her saga in the mid-1970s, but two US Presidents would intervene on her behalf, an...

Send a text message to the show! This week, Allison and her guest Jayson Blair unravel the dark saga of Patty Cannon, a  mastermind behind the Reverse Underground Railroad, whereby free Blacks were kidnapped in the north and sold to southern plantations desperate for them in the wake of the ban on imported slaves in 1807.  But not only did the Cannon-Johnson gang, as it would come to be known, thr...

Send a text message to the show! In the final act of this grim tale, Allison and Jayson unravel the missteps and ultimate outcomes of John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators, from the assassination of Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater and the attempted assassinations of Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward, to the Booth's final stand at a tobacco farm only 2...

Send a text message to the show! In this two-part historical odyssey, Allison and her guest Jayson Blair of the Silver Linings Handbook podcast weave through the transformative year of 1865, where the final throes of the Civil War and the ratification of the 13th Amendment are only a couple of the events that factored into John Wilkes Booth's fateful decision to murder the President of the Un...

Send a text message to the show! This week's episode is crammed with enough villains to last several lifetimes, but Vasily Blokhin gets the title spot, because he still reigns as the current Guinness World Record holder for most prolific executioner/mass murderer, with more than 7000 killings to his name. And that's only for the Katyn Massacre. As Joseph Stalin's chief executioner,...

Send a text message to the show! The year 1908 brought a lot of marvels and advancements, and the discovery of dozens of bodies buried on a lonely widow's pig farm in LaPorte, Indiana was certainly among the most memorable. Belle Gunness came to the United States from Norway in search of love and riches, and that's exactly what she found. And it would come at a hideous cost. Questions li...

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