1001 True Crime From Another Time with Host Jon Hagadorn

CRIME CLASSICS Crime Classics came to CBS September 30, 1953 and was a neat little series of "true crime stories". The show introduced itself succinctly: "Crime Classics, a series of true crime stories from the records and newspapers of every land, from every time. Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Hyland -- connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders." Thomas Hyland was played by Lou Merrill, although you'd never know it was an "actor" doing the part. The great Elliott Lewis, actor, producer and director of Suspense, Broadway is My Beat, and On Stage is in charge of this very intelligent and enjoyable show. Bernard Herrmann composed the music that duplicated authentic music of the era being dramatized. Morton Fine and David Friedkin wrote the scripts. Lewis and his writers collected and developed true crime stories expressly for Crime Classics. Thomas Hyland's delivery is measured and mild-mannered, as if giving a college lecture. Would that all professors were this interesting! The actors in the stories themselves are uniformly sensitive. Orchestral scores by the great Bernard Hermann, who did Orson Welles' Mercury Theater radio show and then Alfred Hitchcock's films, give the stories sophistication and mood. So do the tasteful sound effects. There is a wry, cool-blooded tone to the proceedings. Cases profiled on the series ranged from seventeenth-century murder to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Each and every story, however bizarre, is actually based on fact. For example, the show about the Younger Brothers of the American West has some very interesting background details concerning Quantrell's Raiders and the Kansas Jayhawks. In the story of "John Hayes, his Head, and How They Were Parted," we hear the tale of a glassblower who blows glass perfectly and completely surrounding the severed head of a unknown dead man and placed in glass. Then it is placed in a museum where it remained pending identification. Thus his killers were found out by the dead man, using his head. This show is a good companion to other old time radio shows that are historically-oriented, such as Cavalcade of America, You Are There, and The American Trail.

CRIME CLASSICS Crime Classics came to CBS September 30, 1953 and was a neat little series of "true crime stories". The show introduced itself succinctly: "Crime Classics, a series of true crime stories from the records and newspapers of every land, from every time. Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Hyland -- connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders." Thomas Hyland was played by Lou Merrill, although you'd never know it was an "actor" doing the part. The great Elliott Lewis, actor, producer and director of Suspense, Broadway is My Beat, and On Stage is in charge of this very intelligent and enjoyable show. Bernard Herrmann composed the music that duplicated authentic music of the era being dramatized. Morton Fine and David Friedkin wrote the scripts. Lewis and his writers collected and developed true crime stories expressly for Crime Classics. Thomas Hyland's delivery is measured and mild-mannered, as if giving a college lecture. Would that all professors were this interesting! The actors in the stories themselves are uniformly sensitive. Orchestral scores by the great Bernard Hermann, who did Orson Welles' Mercury Theater radio show and then Alfred Hitchcock's films, give the stories sophistication and mood. So do the tasteful sound effects. There is a wry, cool-blooded tone to the proceedings. Cases profiled on the series ranged from seventeenth-century murder to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Each and every story, however bizarre, is actually based on fact. For example, the show about the Younger Brothers of the American West has some very interesting background details concerning Quantrell's Raiders and the Kansas Jayhawks. In the story of "John Hayes, his Head, and How They Were Parted," we hear the tale of a glassblower who blows glass perfectly and completely surrounding the severed head of a unknown dead man and placed in glass. Then it is placed in a museum where it remained pending identification. Thus his killers were found out by the dead man, using his head. This show is a good companion to other old time radio shows that are historically-oriented, such as Cavalcade of America, You Are There, and The American Trail.

The great depression was setting in. In Eastern North Dakota families were suffering from the effects of money shortages, and it wasn't unusual to see entire families packing up and gheading west toward what they hoped was a beter future. So when the Haven family, consisteing of two adults and 4 kids between the ages of 18 and 2 months, disappeared, no one in the small community of Schafer really missed them. When they asked, the a 22 year old man who they had hired as farm help said they had gone to Oregon and left him there to take care of things. But the facts were quite different. The young man, named Charles Bannon, was hiding a deadly secret. Join us at www.bestof1001stories for all of of shows and episodes and leave a few reviews- and we'll share them!

On December 10th, 1971, Middlebury VT college fresman Lynne Schulz failed to attend a final exam and was seen standing across from a health food store on Court Street in Middebury.One witness would later say they saw her walking down the main route that led out of town. That was the last anyone ever saw her. Investigations continued but nothing turned up until 2012 when the police received an anonymous call suggesting they loook into the fact that a suspected murderer named Robert Durst had owned that health food store which Lynne was known to have frequented. Durst was suspected for a number of murders, and convicted for one.He died in prison but the search continues for the body of Lynne Schulz. This is Part One of her story Listen to all our shows at www.bestof1001stories.com or wherever you get your podcasts.

Also called #Route29Slaker and #theshenandoahmurders, the Rte. 29 murders in Virginia terrified citizens and travelers beween 1996 and 2014.According to witnesses on Route 29, the unidentified stalker would flag down womwn who appeared to be driving alone on a stretch of rte 20 between Manassas and Charlottesville. Some women escaped from him and were able to provide sketch artists with his face and profile. He was never caught nor identified over a period of 20 years. Of the nine murders/disappearances only the cases of Morgan Dana Harrington (2009), Alexis Murphy (2013) and Hannah Graham (2014)were solved,ending in convictions of their murderers- the other cases are still unsolved. The search forand investigation of Alicia Showalter Reynolds (1996) still continues. Browse episodes from our 12 1001 podcasts at www.bestof1001stories.com.

Welcome listers to True Crime From Another Time! Hosted by master storyteller Jon Hagadorn (1001 Storiews Network), this True Crime Podcast offers a unuique collection of crime stories, most of them unsolved murders, with an emphasis not on gore and sensationalism but on how they were investigated and solved or not. We offer all the clues, the inside story ,when there is one, and any recent information which has been offered. Many of the historical unsolved crimes are being constantly worked on by internet detectives, and much has come to light. The anwsers to many of these crimes that we will feature are begging for closure. We make a special effort to place you, the listener, back in the time and place when and where the crime occurred in order to give the story historical perspective. True Crime From Another Time is the 12th podcast in the 1001 Stories Network. For those of you who enjoy unsolved mysteries, chbeck out 1001 Heroes, legends, Histories & Mysteries today at your favorite host or here at www.bestof1001stories.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices