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Ye Olde Crime Podcast
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Join sisters Lindsay & Madison as we discuss the funny, strange, and obscure crimes of yesteryear. Members of Cultiv8 Network & Colture Podcast Network.

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This week, Lindsay and Madison discuss Giacomo Casanova. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. pod.link/yeoldecrime

1. Anne Adélaïde de Gueidan and her sister by Claude Arnulphy
2. Bust of Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt (1725-1798) age forty
3. Casanova as drawn by his brother Francesco
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This is in my town
The Angel and Royal Hotel in Grantham, Lincolnshire, dates back to 1203, making it one of the world’s oldest operating inns.

Built by the Knights Templar as a hostel on the Great North Road, it later became a coaching inn after their dissolution.
November 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Hugh Despenser
was "roped to four horses – not just the usual two – and dragged through the city to the walls of his own castle"to "a specially made 50-foot gallows, designed to make punishment visible to everyone in the town."
November 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Joseph Vacher was known as Vach the Ripper, Ripper of the South East, the Killer Count and the French Ripper. Concidered a real life werewolf or vampire
December 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This week, Lindsay and Madison discuss Giacomo Casanova. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. pod.link/yeoldecrime

1. Anne Adélaïde de Gueidan and her sister by Claude Arnulphy
2. Bust of Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt (1725-1798) age forty
3. Casanova as drawn by his brother Francesco
December 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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#OtD 2 Dec 1859 US abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia for his leadership in a plot to incite an armed rebellion against slavery stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1265...
December 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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November 29, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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RARE PICTURE OF A BLACK FEMALE UNION SOLDIER 1862. Her name was Cathy Williams and she had to pose as a MALE to be enlisted at the Time..She was part of the 38 Regiment,Infantry Division and was called a Buffalo Soldier.
November 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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King Edmund of east Anglia died on 20 November 869, now marked as St Edmund's Day. He refused to give up his Christian faith and so was tied to a tree and shot full of arrows before being beheaded.
November 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Have you checked out today's brand new episode? Lindsay and Madison discuss "prairie madness." Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. pod.link/yeoldecrime
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This week, Lindsay and Madison discuss the history of the nursery rhyme, "The Muffin Man." Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. pod.link/yeoldecrime
November 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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19th-Century Paris Once Had A Village Of Treehouse Taverns. Roast Chicken, Wine, And Rope Pulleys In The Branches, These Are Examples Of The Lost World Of Les Guinguettes De Robinson
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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The John Allen Farm massacre occurred in South Argyle, Washington County, New York, on 25 or 26 July 1777 during the advancement of the British army in the Saratoga campaign of the American Revolutionary War
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
On our latest episode, we discuss the exorcism of Nicola Aubrey. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. pod.link/yeoldecrime
November 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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The Victoria Hall disaster occurred on 16 June 1883 at the Victoria Hall in Sunderland, England, when the distribution of free toys caused a crowd crush resulting in 183 children (aged between 3 and 14 years old) to be crushed to death due to compressive asphyxia.
November 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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The Mountain Meadows Massacre (September 7–11, 1857) was a series of attacks during the Utah War that resulted in the mass murder of at least 120 members of the Baker–Fancher wagon train
November 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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John Brady shot and killed his ex-wife as she kneeled in prayer at church before services, then shot himself. The church had to be re-consecrated due to the murder and suicide on the property.
October 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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There is a curious grave at Evergreen Cemetery in the West River neighborhood of New Haven, Vermont, the United States. It’s a small grassy mound with a large slab of concrete placed at the top. This concrete block has a small fourteen
October 21, 2025 at 6:18 AM
This week, Lindsay and Madison discuss the Scholomance of Romania and Solomanari. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. pod.link/yeoldecrime

1. Scholomance (Gemini AI)
2. Solomonar (Gemini AI)
3. Yeti, Lindsay's new Chiweenie puppy

Podcast Promo: Second Guess Everything

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October 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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The London Tornado of 1091 is the earliest reported tornado in England, occurring in London on Friday, 17 October 1091. It has been estimated by modern assessment as possibly a T8 on the TORRO scale (roughly equivalent to an F4 on the Fujita scale),
October 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This week, Lindsay interviews author Scott Wells about his book, "Marked By The Ouija." Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. pod.link/yeoldecrime #HistoryPodcast
October 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
This week, Lindsay and Madison continue Spoopy October by discussing the Miniwashitu. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. pod.link/yeoldecrime

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October 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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The Brooklyn Theatre fire was a catastrophic theatre fire that broke out on the evening of December 5, 1876, in the city of Brooklyn The conflagration killed at least 278 individuals, with some accounts reporting more than 300 dead.
October 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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In the early 20th century, People would swallow sanitized pills containing a tapeworm egg, hoping the parasite would hatch and consume the food in their intestines, leading to weight loss without dieting.
September 25, 2025 at 6:44 AM