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Lost Crime History

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Lost Crime History peels back the dust on the world’s most baffling historical crimes and the forgotten threads that tie them together. Each episode uncovers overlooked evidence, period detail, and the cultural context that turned ordinary deeds into enduring mysteries. You’ll hear carefully narrated reconstructions, archival research, and clear explanations that separate myth from fact — all rooted in true crime history and forensic insight. New episodes drop every day: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday at 9:00 AM, so you can follow investigations and patterns as they unfold across eras. Expect episodes that range from short investigative dossiers to longer narrative deep-dives; every installment focuses on a single case or theme with sources cited and theories weighed. This podcast is for listeners who crave rigorous historical research, fans of true crime who want more context than sensationalism, and anyone interested in how past crimes shaped law, society, and storytelling. If you want mysteries explained with evidence, chronology, and respect for victims and sources, Lost Crime History is your weekly—actually daily—companion. Subscribe now and listen at 9:00 AM daily to never miss a revelation. keywords SEO: true crime, historical crimes, cold cases, forensic history, archival research

Recent Episodes

OCT 14, 2026
A Shoe Standing Upright: The Murder of Todd Barrett
A Shoe Standing Upright: The Murder of Todd Barrett A single brown leather shoe, men's size nine, sat tied and upright on a coal pile in the Crestline Hotel basement on January 11, 1923 - no second shoe, no coat, no voice. The shoe led to a...
23 MIN
OCT 13, 2026
Dead Man in the Front Row: The Raymond Armstrong Case
Dead Man in the Front Row: The Raymond Armstrong Case A dead man in white tie and a playbill from a theater 280 miles away: Raymond Armstrong sat upright in the third row of the dark Delmore Theater, dead for at least two days with no sign of...
23 MIN
OCT 12, 2026
A Gloved Hand Inside the Ice: The Murder of Shannon Adams
A Gloved Hand Inside the Ice: The Murder of Shannon Adams The discovery of a gloved left hand protruding from a three-foot square block of commercial ice turned a routine November morning into a six-week courtroom drama; the ice block bore the...
20 MIN
OCT 11, 2026
The Ledger, the River, and the Boy Whose Name Vanished
The Ledger, the River, and the Boy Whose Name Vanished A found body on the Cutter River, a sealed wax-paper envelope that stayed dry, and a school ledger that kept collecting a dead child's federal payments - what links a drowned accountant to a...
23 MIN
OCT 10, 2026
Surveyor Finds a Dry Shoe in Three Inches of Mud: The Lloyd Russo Case
Surveyor Finds a Dry Shoe in Three Inches of Mud: The Lloyd Russo Case An impossible detail uncovers a slow-moving danger: a size 10½ black Oxford stood upright in three inches of mud on September 11, 1943, its sole and interior perfectly dry...
23 MIN