History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

Born on November 2, 1755, in Vienna, Austria, Marie Antoinette helped provoke the popular unrest that led to the French Revolution and to the overthrow of the monarchy in August 1792. She became a symbol of the excesses of the monarchy.  As a 20-year consort to Louis XVI, she was beheaded by The Guillotine on October 16, 1793. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"The Lipstick Murders" were a series of brutal attacks which occurred near Chicago in the mid 1940s. Though a serial burglar named William Heirens confessed to the murders, he later recanted his confession on the grounds that it was forced by the Chicago PD. With very little physical evidence connecting Heirens to the crimes, did the Police really get their man? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...

Jesse Pomeroy was odd looking as a child. He had a large head, hairlip and one all white eye. In 1874, he became a serial rapist and killer. At 14 years old, Jesse Pomeroy became the youngest person in America convicted of murder.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul Bernado and Karla Homolka were Canadian serial killers who attracted worldwide media attention in the 1990s when they were convicted of raping and murdering teenage girls, including Karla's own sister, Tammy Homolka. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Known as the Gainesville Ripper, Danny Rolling was an American serial killer who brutally murdered five college students in Gainesville, Florida in 1990. Rolling later confessed to an additional triple homicide in Shreveport, Louisiana and attempting to murder his own father. In total, Rolling confessed to killing eight people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In late 1957, teenagers Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate went on a killing spree in Lincoln, Nebraska.  Their senseless rampage left 11 people dead including Fugate's entire family.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Johnny Broderick served as a NYPD Police Detective from 1923 until 1947. One of the most colorful officers ever to wear a badge, Broderick was best known for using excessive force and doling out justice to such famed gangsters as Legs Diamond and "Two Gun" Crawley. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the fall of 1996, young women started disappearing in the small town of Poughkeepsie, New York.  Police were sure they were dealing with a serial killer,  However, they had one problem...they could not find any dead bodies..that is until investigators starting searching the attic of local school employee Kendall Francois. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1945, after a very questionable murder conviction, a 16 year old black teenager, Willie Francis, was sentenced to die in the Louisiana's electric chair.  The first execution sent shockwaves through Willie repeatedly but failed to kill him.  The drunken executioners had failed to hook up the chair properly.  A second execution was scheduled six days later.  Willie's new attorneys fought the seco...

Between July 1963 and October 1965, young lovers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley abducted, sexually assaulted and murdered 5 young people in and around Manchester, England. These sensless acts of violence became known as "The Moors Murders" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On September 25, 1966 Jerry,his wife Linda and their four year old daughter Debbie Bricca were all brutally murdered in their west side Cincinnati home. Police interviewed more than 400 people, but no one was ever charged. Now, nearly 50 years later, the case remains open. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Sydney Mutilator terrorized Australia between 1961 and 1963. William MacDonald would brutally murder and castrate vargarant men.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In April 1865, Henry Rathbone was a wealthy Lawyer and accomplished Military Officer.  He was engaged to be marry to the woman of his dreams. Then events of one awful night changed his life and the life of a nation.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bullied as a child, Donald "Pee Wee" Gaskins sought revenge by raping and killing more than 80 people. Gaskins became known as "The Meanest Man in America"  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In life, Elmer J. McCurdy was a bungling, inept bandit. In death, he became a legend. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When Toni Jo's husband was sentenced to 50 years in prison she vowed to do anthing to get him out...this included murder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On February 29, 2000, Katherine Mary Knight stabbed her lover 37 times. She then proceeded to carefully skin him before hanging his hide on a meat hook in their living room. Kathy then cut off his head and boiled it in a pot with baked slices of his buttocks to serve with gravy to his children for dinner. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the 1930s, Bar owner, Joseph D. Ball, would entertain his customers by tossing live kittens and puppies into his alligator pit. Soon afterwards, his waitresses started disappearing... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On August 27, 1931, lurid headlines shocked the town of Clarksburg W. WA. and quickly took the nation by storm as a grisly story unfolded from the nearby community of Quiet Dell. Each extra of the local newspapers revealed more sordid, vivid details about Harry Powers. The nation soon knew him as the “Bluebeard of Quiet Dell.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join Tim as he teaches Brandy and The Colonel the true meaning of Christmas! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Reckless, vicious, and without any real plan, Alton Coleman and Debra Brown worked their way through the Midwest in 1984, killing when they felt like it and stealing from or harming anyone who got in their way. In total, they are believed to have committed eight homicides, three kidnappings, up to seven rapes and 14 robberies. The 53-day spree from Wisconsin to Kentucky finally ended when the pair...

The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders were a series of abductions, sexual assaults and murders of young boys that occurred in in the city of Los Angeles and in Riverside County, California in 1928. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On Agust 23, 1912 four year old Bobby Dunbar disappeared while on a family outing.  Eight months later, after a nation wide manhunt , Police located the boy and returned him to his rightful parents or did they? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In March 1968, U.S. Troops entered the Vietnamese Village of My Lai searching for Viet Cong Guerillas.  Before the day was over more than 500 unarmed Vietnamese civilians were killed.  Helicopter Pilot Hugh Thompson Jr. and his crew members Glenn Andreotta and Lawrence Colburn courageously ended the massacre by turning their weapons on their own troops.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...

Christine and Lea' Papin were sisters who had an unusually close relationship.  In February 1933, they brutally murdered their employer and her adult daughter.  Before beating their victims to death, the sisters gouged out their eyes while they were still living. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.