Crime Classics - True Crime Stories!

Crime Classics - The Incredible Trial of Laura D. Fair

The oft-times married Miss Laura uses her "4-shooter" on a ferry in San Francisco harbor...for interesting reasons. The good ship El Capitan used to sail the bay between Oakland and San Francisco in the 1870’s mostly in the fog. Its skipper was captain Bill Tranchell and he was known among the ferryboat set as having a heavy hand on the whistle. He found any number of excuses for tooting that whistle, but the one excuse which he never forgot was the time he was entertaining Mr and Mrs Crittenden on the bridge and an uninvited lady named Laura D. Fair suddenly opened the door, walked over to Mr Crittenden and shot him through his heart…

Crime Classics - The Axe and the Droot Family, How They Fared

+In Pennsylvania in 1795, the shortest distance to an inheritance is two crushed skulls. This is a network version of cat. #17052. + 1795 and Peter Droot is writing his will and making his bequests to his children yet when he has done, unknowingly he will have made certain the death of his two sons…

Crime Classics - Mr. Thrower's Hammer

A gentleman of England in 1804 has bashed in the heads of a father and daughter. Eleven years later, a doubt arises. This is a network version of cat. #16785. The program is also known as, "The Dread Events Surrounding Mr. Thrower's Hammer." + In the county of Suffolk, England the willow grows green and there was once a Smithy, his name was Edmund Thrower. He was a powerful man who could make the anvil shudder and spring sparks in to shadows cast by the willow. He made horseshoes, he mended scullery ware, and he made hammers to drive nails, to mend shoes, to bludgeon people to death…

Crime Classics - The Final Day of General Ketchum, and How He Died

Crime is the dark side of civilisation. The under belly of human failing and greed.Within societies, down through the ages, it has appropriated its rules and taken what it wants by foul and unfair means.'Crime Classics' examines all manner of crimes and murders from the past. It carefully recreates the complete crime through thorough and pains-taking research. The cases range from the assassinations of Lincoln and Julius Caesar to the more obscure, such as Bathsheba Spooner, who killed her husband Joshua in 1778 and became the first woman tried and executed in America.Your host each week, is Mr. Thomas Hyland — 'connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders' and played by Lou Merrill.

Crime Classics - The Death of a Picture Hanger

The Ford brothers are hired to kill Jesse James, they do just that. + The man is nailing a horses picture to the wall, the horse is pawing the western skies in the classic attitude of pawing horses and it is the top half of a calendar distributed by Isaac’s Livery. It’s a hot April day in St Josephs, Missouri in the years 1882 and the man is hanging the picture in his living room because he has a fondness for the noble beast. Horses have got him out of many a critical situation such as 1) holding up railroads, 2) robbing banks, 3) murdering fellows. His name is Jessie James and as soon as he’s finished hanging that picture a friend is going to shoot his head off…