The Archivist: A True Crime Podcast

Two cousins, closer than they should be leave nothing but a trail of destruction in their wake. This is a story of pure selfishness, manipulation and evil.  For pictures and sources please visit www.thearchivistpodcast.com

Susie Newsom Lynch is not finished tearing the world apart, and she has found her match in her cousin Fritz, who only wants to see the world burn. These two are a match made in hell. for sources and pictures please visit www.thearchivistpodcast.com

An old timey party, a stolen kiss, and one man who would do anything to stay out of prison. Mix these together and you've got this wild story. The Carroll County Courthouse shoot out.  For pictures, show notes and sources please visit www.thearchivistpodcast.com

Part 2 of The Bathtub Murder. A confusing crime scene with little clues. The chief of police and sheriff decide it's time to get some extra help. Can the new investigator figure out who killed Frances Nesbitt? For sources and pictures please visit www.thearchivistpodcast.com

I'm sorry this is a little late, I had some recording issues. But everything is fixed now and I guess it's better late than never.  In Troy, Ohio on a cold February day in 1926, a man comes home and discovers his wife's dead body in their bathtub. As the police from 3 different agencies investigate to find out what happened to this young wife, the situation is sensationalized in the...

Season 3 starts off with a story that is probably not a surprise to anyone. When a woman's body is found on the side of the road in Kentucky, it doesn't take investigators long to put 2 and 2 together.  For pictures, show notes, and sources please visit www.thearchivistpodcast.com

Bobby Greenlease . A 6 year old boy was picked up by a woman claiming to be his aunt. She told the school his mother had a heart attack and she was taking him to the hospital to be with his mother. They had no idea it was all a lie and they let him leave with a monster.  For pictures, show notes, and sources please visit www.thearchivistpodcast.com

Oliver Haugh . It's normal to wonder "what if" because we are never sure which chance encounter will have the most affect on our lives. How does an injury received while playing hockey lead to one of the greatest achievements of man in the 20th century? A man who became one of the most notorious murderers in the early 1900's had a profoundly terrible affect on Wilbur Wright and...

Robert Hayes .  Three women are found dead in Daytona Beach over the course of three months in December 2005 through February 2006. The crime scenes give up little evidence and there is no clue who the killer was. Ten years later CODIS returns a a hit with a new murder victim in Palm Beach, Florida. The two departments team up to work together on capturing this killer. Finally this case was solved...

Marc O’Leary . This story is unbelievable. Poor police work and gaslighting a victim led to this man raping more women. They could have caught him after his first victim, but instead two detectives convinced a young girl to say she made the whole thing up. It’s so upsetting to think he could have been stopped.  For sources, pictures and transcripts visit www.thearchivistpodcast.com

Roseann Quinn . According to the newspapers by day she led a quiet and respectable life, but by night she was prowling the bars looking for men. Later a best-selling novel and blockbuster movie explores the aftermath of the sexual revolution of the 1970s and the story of one woman’s murder. For pictures and sources please visit www.thearchivistpodcast.com

The Good Hart Murders. There’s a broken window. It looks like the window was shot with a gun. And that smell. It’s so bad. There’s a note on the door. The family is gone, but they should be back by now. No one answered the knocking. Going in to check things out revealed a horror scene. The entire family was murdered. How long had they waited to be discovered? Who would do this? Why? Why the whole...

Delimar Vera.   What would you do if you were told your baby died, but you just knew she was kidnapped? How would you get anyone to listen or help you? This is the story of one woman who never gave up hope that her baby daughter was out there and she would find her.    For pictures, links and sources please visit: http://thearchivistpodcast.com/

Alfred Dreyfus . In this true crime world we hear terms like “Miranda rights” or “Amber Alert” or a “Dreyfus case”. These names come from true life situations and as we invoke their names, we should hear their stories. Here is the story of Alfred Dreyfus, who endured anti-Semitism and a wrongful conviction. He was later exonerated, but not before his whole life was destroyed.  Sources: American Ba...

The Irish Vanishing Triangle . 6 more victims and the Gardi still haven't made a connection that the disappearances of up to 12 women are possibly connected. By the time the task force is created it is much too late.  Sources and pictures can be found at www.thearchivistpodcast.com

The Irish Vanishing Triangle.  In the 1990's women in the eastern corner of Ireland started vanishing without a trace. What was happening? Is this just a bunch of women taken from their family and friends by random happenstance, or was there a serial killer operated. The Garda made many mistakes, and only very late in the cycle created a task force, but it was too little too late for 12 women...

America’s coldest case . Seven men were brutally gunned down in a garage near the north side of Chicago. The murders resulted from the gangland wars during prohibition. The Irish North Side gang run by Bugs Moran versus the Italian South Side gang lead by America’s most notorious gangster Al Capone. The murderers have never been caught, but there are plenty of theories as to who may have committed...

Terry Sutter . It’s 1973 and it’s labor day weekend. A 15-year-old boy is walking into the woods with a six pack of beer under one arm. He is never seen alive again. His murdered body is found the next day, but police are never able to find his killer. In the years following his murder, his grave is vandalized multiple times, until his family gives up and leaves it unmarked. Who killed Terry Sutte...

Adrienne Shelly. There are many examples of family members who refuse to believe their loved one committed suicide. And these cases often have lots of elements or clues that act as a veil that make it hard to know for sure if the person actually intended to take their own life, or if they were murdered. We always want to believe that we are in tune with our loved one and think that they would come...

Danielle Delpercio.  Do you ever just need to hear about how someone survived against all odds? Someone who made a decision deep in their core, that they were going to find a way out of a scary situation. They weren't going to go down without a fight. Danielle Delpercio tried to do a nice thing. She thought she was offering a helping hand to a young boy in need. Unfortunately, this young boy...

The Dayton Strangler . For 10 years the growing city of Dayton was terrorized by one man. Police didn't know how to look for a serial attacker, rapists, killer, and monster. Even the newly devised plan to track offenders with cards wasn't good enough. The only way he could be stopped was through the strength of one of his victims.  For details, show notes, and pictures please visit Thear...

The Dayton Strangler . After Jack the Ripper and H. H. Holmes made it clear that there were killers who would continue to kill until they were caught police in cities around the world began to tracking the details of crimes and physical descriptions of murderers. It would be many many years before men like John Douglas would pioneer criminal profiling. Before that would happen police could only re...

Gillian Kennedy. You decide to buy a house for your family, and you go on the hunt for the perfect house, and you find it! You go through all the paperwork and red tape and complete the purchase. You move in and meet your neighbors. You are confident this is going to be great. They are kind, and funny, and friendly and they have kids the same ages as yours. SCORE!! But then…then the nightmare begi...

Dannemora NY.  Part 2 of the Clinton Correctional Facility escape. A systemic culture of permissiveness lead to two convicted murderers cutting holes in their cells and forging a route through the underbelly of a seeming fortress of a prison. The first escape in over 100 years leads to the downfall of over 20 employees and the revelation that the prison was not operating within the state correctio...

Dannemora, NY.  A murderer is on the loose in your neighborhood. Most of us never want to hear those words. When two inmates at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, NY escaped from the prison it was a very real nightmare for the residents of the village surrounding the prison. But, what if the prison actually neglected safety precautions that allowed these prisoners to successfully esca...