History is Criminal
By Mick Bittick
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Description
Crime is as old as human history. After 30 years of teaching history, I brought my story telling to the internet. In season 2 I'm joined by my history hating wife as she is forced to listen to my stories of historic crime. She adds her thoughts, questions and sarcastic comments as the stories unravel. If you like history or crime, or just a wife harassing her husband, join us. New stories drop every Wednesday.
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The Great Chicago Fire: or the cow didn't do it, or burn baby burn
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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William Penn: not the Quaker Oats guy
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Killer Pigs of France
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Thames Torso Murders: Or going to pieces 1880s style
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Sacco and Vanzetti: Murderers or Guilty of Being Italian?
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Let's be pirates: William Kidd and Redacted
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Mary Dyer: OG Boss Mamma
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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The Massie Cases: Race and Rage in Paradise
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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I didn't kill my wife: The Case of Sam Sheppard
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Burn Baby Burn: 1741 New York Slave Plot
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Scopes Trial: or My Uncle is a Monkey
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Leopold and Loeb: When "supermen" kill
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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The Rosewood Massacre
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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Criminal Christmas
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Santa Robs a Bank
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Short Preview: Full episode Wednesday Night
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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A Bad Case of Crabs: Who killed President Harding
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Wilson E Davis: Aging like Dynamite
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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A Con Woman and a Royal Face Plant: Jeanne de la Motte
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Jimmy Hope: the Last Gentleman Bank Robber
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Death in the Adirondacks (again): Or Tennis anyone?
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Death of Christopher Marlowe: Or A Renaissance Rumble
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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A Death in Hollywood's Golden Age
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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The Borgias: History's OG Crime Family
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Grace O'Malley: A Life Out of Order
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Start Spreading the News ... We Kidnapped Frank Sinatra Jr
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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oops we broke something
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Ma Barker: My Poor innocent babies
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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The Death of Rasputin: Trust Me I'm a Monk
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Ching Shih: Pirate Queen of China
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Too many Louis: The Lost Dauphin
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Akira Nishiguchi: Messenger of Evil
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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When a town goes nuts: The Brooke Hart Murder
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Deported by God: the attempted assassination of a gilded age millionaire
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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The Black Dahlia: Cupid's lousy aim
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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The Indiana Ogress: Belle Gunness
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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The Over Emotional Benedict: or how to save then sell out a nation
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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The Missouri Kid: Let's Rob a Bank!
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Divorce, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived: Or chop, chop goes the Queen
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Tiny lady, big gun: The Story of Pearl Hart
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Ye Olde Dumb Criminals: America's First Bank Heist
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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One wrong turn and world goes crazy: the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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High Finance Whoopsies, Story of Adele Spitzeder
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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The Assassination of Garfield - Not the cat
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Tragedy of Charles Hall or Ice, Ice, no baby
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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The Gentler tortures: Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
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May 28, 2025 |
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Lizzie Borden took an axe ...
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May 21, 2025 |
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Introduction
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May 15, 2025 |
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Never take free lard from a stranger or The Skull in Sir David Attenborough's garden
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May 14, 2025 |
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The Big Con: I've got a bridge to sell ya!
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May 07, 2025 |
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Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Pirate Queens of the Caribbean
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Outlaw or Hero: Ned Kelly Bushranger of Australia
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Assassination or Suicide: The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Death of a Starlet: the Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle Trials
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Killing Kings, French Style
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Who killed Edgar Allan Poe?
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Baby Farmers: AKA the absolute scum of the Earth
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Transatlantic Murder: Story of Dr Thomas Neill Cream
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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The Many Murders Surrounding Mary Queen of Scots
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Pearls before Swine? The Great Pearl Robbery
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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the Puritan War on Christmas AKA Cromwell the Grinch
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Murder of Mary Phagan and Leo Frank's Trial by Media
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Saint Nicholas, AKA the real BAD Santa with intro music
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Saint Nicholas, AKA the real BAD Santa
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Abe Lincoln's bad night at the theater
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Burke and Hare: Grave Robbing for fun and Profit.
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Witches and more witches: Salem Witch Trials
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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The Bloody Countess: Torture and Murder, Elizabeth Bathory
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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The Mary Russell: Crazy, crazy boat time.
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Mary Ann Cotton: Black Widow or insanely bad luck
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Jeramiah Meacham: Axes and paranoia in 1715 Rhode Island
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Andrew Jackson: Murder and mayhem on the road to the White House
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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Peter Stubbe: Werewolf of Bedberg
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Thomas Blood and the Theft of the Crown Jewels
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Murder and other nastiness in Plymouth Colony
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Jack Sheppard: No Jail Could Keep HIm
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Richard III, Worst Uncle Ever?
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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Philip II and Alexander the Great: Regicide on Parade
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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Introduction
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May 31, 2024 |