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The Lover in the Attic: The Dolly Oesterreich Case
Jun 22, 2026
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| 6/22/26 | ![]() The Lover in the Attic: The Dolly Oesterreich Case | In 1922, Fred Oesterreich was found shot to death in his Los Angeles home. His wife claimed burglars were responsible, but investigators had doubts. Nearly eight years later, a shocking discovery reopened the case: another man had beenliving in secret inside the house for years. This is the extraordinary story of Dolly Oesterreich, Otto Sanhuber, and one of the strangest murder cases of the twentieth century.Historical True Crime was selected as one of FeedSpot's Top 60 Historical Mysteries Podcasts. FeedSpot helps you find the best podcasts on the web: https://podcast.feedspot.com/Source Materials Wolf, Marvin J. & Mader, Katherine M. Fallen Angels: The True Story of California's Most Bizarre and Spectacular Murder Cases Parrish, Michael. For the People: A Social History of the American Criminal Justice System Rasmussen, Cecilia. “Dolly Oesterreich's Secret Lover Lived in Her Attic” (Los Angeles Times) Los Angeles Times archive coverage of the Oesterreich murder investigation and trials The Los Angeles Evening Express archive coverage The Los Angeles Record archive coverage The Los Angeles Examiner archive coverage The San Francisco Examiner archive coverage The San Bernardino County Sun archive coverage The Oakland Tribune archive coverage The Sacramento Bee archive coverage The Tacoma Daily Ledger archive coverage The Pittsburgh Press archive coverage The Brooklyn Daily Eagle archive coverage The Milwaukee Journal archive coverage Newspapers.com historical newspaper archive California Digital Newspaper Collection Library of Congress, Chronicling America newspaper archive | — | ||||||
| 6/15/26 | ![]() Patricia Douglas: The Woman Who Took on MGM | In 1937, twenty-year-old dancer Patricia Douglas accused an MGM salesman of raping her at a company convention attended by hundreds of studio employees and guests. When a grand jury declined to indict, she refused to back down, taking on one of Hollywood's most powerful studios in a legal battle that would last for years. In this episode, we examine the assault, the investigation, the court cases, and the woman who spent decades fighting to have her story heard.Source MaterialsStenn, David. Girl 27 (Documentary Film). Red Letter Films, 2007. Stenn, David. “It Happened One Night... at MGM.” Vanity Fair, April 2003. Stenn, David. “The Systematic Crushing of a #MeToo Pioneer.” The New York Times, January 5, 2018. Abcarian, Robin. “A Hollywood Role She Never Asked For.” Los Angeles Times, January 19, 2007. Galloway, Stephen. “How a Hollywood Studio Got Away With Rape in 1937.” The Hollywood Reporter, November 13, 2017. Schatz, Thomas. The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era. Henry Holt & Company, 1988. Contemporary newspaper coverage from June 1937, including The Independent (California) and other contemporary Los Angeles-area newspapers reporting on the investigation and grand jury proceedings. | — | ||||||
| 6/8/26 | ![]() Pat Crowe and the Cudahy Kidnapping✨ | kidnappingtrue crime+4 | — | Pinkerton National Detective AgencyThe New York Times+3 | — | Cudahy kidnappingPat Crowe+5 | — | 26m 14s | |
| 5/29/26 | ![]() Tom Horn: Murder on the Wyoming Frontier✨ | murderWyoming+4 | — | PinkertonUniversity of New Mexico Press+9 | Wyoming | Tom HornWillie Nickell+5 | — | 30m 28s | |
| 5/22/26 | ![]() The Birdman of Alcatraz: Myth vs Reality✨ | Robert StroudAlcatraz+5 | — | Alaska Historical SocietyEncyclopaedia Britannica+6 | — | Birdman of AlcatrazRobert Stroud+5 | — | 23m 55s | |
| 5/12/26 | ![]() The Princes in the Tower: England’s Most Famous Royal Disappearance✨ | royal disappearanceWars of the Roses+3 | — | Historic Royal PalacesThe National Archives+7 | — | Princes in the TowerEdward V+5 | — | 21m 04s | |
| 4/17/26 | ![]() The Disappearance of Louis Le Prince: The First Filmmaker Who Vanished✨ | disappearanceearly filmmaking+3 | — | The New York TimesHarper’s Magazine+2 | France | Louis Le Princedisappearance+3 | — | 19m 09s | |
| 4/10/26 | ![]() The Cleveland Street Scandal: Telegraph Boys, a London Brothel, and Aristocratic Clients✨ | Cleveland Street Scandalmale brothel+4 | — | The TimesThe North London Press+2 | London | Cleveland Street Scandalmale brothel+5 | — | 19m 53s | |
| 4/3/26 | ![]() Anna Marie Hahn: The Cincinnati Poisonings✨ | serial killerpoisoning+3 | — | The Cincinnati EnquirerThe Cincinnati Post+4 | Cincinnati | Anna Marie HahnCincinnati poisonings+3 | — | 21m 32s | |
| 3/27/26 | ![]() The Murder of Emanuele Notarbartolo (1893) — Sicily’s First Mafia Case✨ | Mafia historytrue crime+3 | — | Cosa NostraHodder & Stoughton+3 | — | Emanuele NotarbartoloMafia+5 | — | 16m 30s | |
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| 3/19/26 | ![]() The Ratcliffe Highway Murders: Terror in London’s East End✨ | murderinvestigation+4 | — | The OldBailey Proceedings OnlineThe Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811+4 | — | Ratcliffe Highwaymurders+6 | — | 22m 48s | |
| 3/6/26 | ![]() The Unsolved Disappearance of Jean Spangler✨ | unsolved disappearanceHollywood+3 | — | Los Angeles TimesAll That’s Interesting+8 | — | Jean Spanglerdisappearance+4 | — | 22m 03s | |
| 2/28/26 | ![]() The Hinterkaifeck Murders: Germany’s Most Mysterious Unsolved Case✨ | Hinterkaifeck murdersunsolved crime+4 | — | Hinterkaifeck: Germany’s Most Mysterious Murder CaseThe Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery+4 | GermanyHinterkaifeck | Hinterkaifeckmurders+6 | — | 23m 39s | |
| 2/20/26 | ![]() Murder at 31 Bond Street: Emma Cunningham and the Burdell Case | In 1857, a prominent New York dentist was found murdered in his Bond Street office. Suspicion fell on Emma Cunningham, the widow who ran the boardinghouse and claimed to be his wife — and heir. Her acquittal did not end the scandal. Adisputed marriage, a claimed pregnancy, and a staged birth kept the city riveted and raised new questions about truth, reputation, and inheritance in mid-19th-century New York.Source Materials:Duke, Franklin. Celebrated Criminal Cases of America. San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company, 1910.Serratore, Angela. “The Murder of Dr. Harvey Burdell and the Scandal That Gripped 1857 New York.” Smithsonian Magazine.Roberts, Sam. “The Murder That Gripped Bond Street.” The New York Times.The New-York Daily Times (1857), contemporary coverage of the Burdell murder and Emma Cunningham trial.Contemporary inquest and trialreporting in New York newspapers, 1857. | — | ||||||
| 2/13/26 | ![]() The Batavia Shipwreck: Mutiny, Massacre, and Survival in 1629 | In 1629, the Dutch merchant ship Batavia wrecked on a remote reef off Western Australia. What followed was not just a struggle for survival, but a calculated campaign of violence that left more than one hundred people dead. Drawing on survivor testimony and historical records, this episode examines one of the most disturbing episodes in maritime history.Source MaterialsPelsaert, Francisco. The Journal of Francisco Pelsaert. 1629.Dash, Mike. Batavia’s Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History’s Bloodiest Mutiny. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2002.Drake-Brockman, Henrietta. Voyage to Disaster. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1964.Edwards, Hugh. Islands of Angry Ghosts. New York: William Morrow, 1966.Western Australian Museum — Batavia Collectionhttps://museum.wa.gov.au/This episode was researched using both primary historical documents and modern scholarly works. | — | ||||||
| 2/5/26 | ![]() The Pendle Witch Trials (1612): Suspicion, Belief, and Execution | The 1612 Pendle witch trials remain among the most famous in English history. What began with a single accusation soon expanded into a prosecution that would send ten people to the gallows.Source MaterialsPotts, Thomas. The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster (1613)Almond, Philip C. The Lancashire Witches: A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death on Pendle Hill.Poole, Robert (ed.). The Lancashire Witches: Histories and Stories.Sharpe, James. Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in Early Modern England.Gibson, Marion. Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550–1750Gaskill, Malcolm. Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy. | — | ||||||
| 1/30/26 | ![]() The Inglewood Murders: Albert Dyer and the Case Built on Confessions (1937) | In 1937, three girls left home for a day at the park and never returned. Their disappearance sparked a frantic search, a shocked community, and a murder case that moved with remarkable speed. This episode traces the investigation intothe deaths of Melba Everett, Madeline Everett, and Jeanette Stephens, the arrest of Albert Dyer, and a trial shaped almost entirely by his confessions.Everett, Pamela. Little Shoes: The Sensational Depression-Era Murders That BecameAmerica’s First Celebrity Crime. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2018.People v. Dyer, 9 Cal. 2d 317 (Cal. Sup. Ct. 1938).“Three Little Girls.” Time, July 12, 1937.Contemporary newspaper reporting, including coverage from the Daily Breeze and Los Angeles–area papers (1937). | — | ||||||
| 1/23/26 | ![]() The Camden Town Murder: Emily Dimmock (1907) | In September 1907, Emily Dimmock was found murdered in her rented rooms in Camden Town, her throat cut while she slept. Known to some as “Phyllis,” she lived a double life in Edwardian London, moving between respectability and survival.This episode explores Emily’s final days, the trial that followed, andwhy the Camden Town Murder remains unsolved more than a century later.Source MaterialsNapley, Sir David. The Camden Town Murder. In Great Murder Trials of the Twentieth Century. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson / Orion.Barber, John. The Camden Town Murder. Barber, John. “The Camden Town Murder.” Ripperologist, no. 44 (December 2002). Reprinted at Casebook.org.Grant, Thomas. Court Number One: The Old Bailey, the Trials and Scandals. London: John Murray, 2019.Oates, Jonathan. Unsolved Murders in Victorian and Edwardian London. Barnsley: Wharncliffe, 2007.Melville, Elizabeth. “The Camden Town Murder.” Medium.com.Tilstra, Elizabeth. “A Killer in London: The Camden Town Murder.” The Line-Up.Contemporary newspaper coverage including The News of the World, Illustrated Police News, and The Penny Illustrated Paper (1907). | — | ||||||
| 1/16/26 | ![]() The Manhattan Well Murder: The Death of Elma Sands | In 1799, Elma Sands vanished from a New York boardinghouse. Her body was later found in a well, and the trial that followed — defended by Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr — left more questions than answers. This episode examines the Manhattan Well murder and the limits of justice in early America.Source MaterialsColeman, William. The Trial of Levi Weeks; or, The Manhattan Well Mystery. New York: Printed for the author, 1800.Kleiger, Estelle Fox. The Trial of Levi Weeks: Sex, Seduction, and Murder in the Early Republic. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1989.American State Trials: Being a Collection of the Most Interesting Criminal Trials Which Have Ever Occurred in the United States. Vol. 1. New York: Printed andpublished by G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1849. Murder by Gaslight: A Victorian Anthology of True CrimeThe Paris Review —“The Well on Spring Street,” Angela Serratore“Death in the Manhattan Well.” Crime Magazine. https://www.crimemagazine.comNew York Gazette and General Advertiser. New York, various issues, 1799–1800.The New-York Daily Advertiser. New York, various issues, 1799–1800. | — | ||||||
| 1/9/26 | ![]() Mary Ann Britland: A Victorian Poisoning | Three deaths. No obvious violence. No immediate suspicion.An 1886 poisoning case that unfolded quietly inside the home — until it didn’t.Source Materials:Berry,James. My Experiences as an Executioner.Berry, James. The Hangman’s Thoughts Above the Gallows.Shannon, Issy. Infamous Lancashire Women.Stratmann, Linda. The Secret Poisoner: A Century of MurderWatson, Katherine. Poisoned Lives: English Poisoners and Their Victims.Contemporary newspaper reports relating to the Britland case (1886). | — | ||||||
| 1/2/26 | ![]() Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley | In February 1567, an explosion destroyed a house in Edinburgh but the body of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley was found outside the ruins, untouched by the blast. His murder was never solved. This episode examines Darnley’s death within thepolitical world of sixteenth-century Scotland and the pressures facing Mary, Queen of Scots. A story of power, perception, and suspicion without proof.Source Materials Darnley: A Life of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley — Caroline Bingham. Constable & Robinson, 1995. Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley — Alison Weir. Vintage Books, 2008.Criminal Trials in Scotland, Volumes I–III — edited by Robert Pitcairn. Bannatyne Club, 1833.My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots — John Guy. Fourth Estate, 2004. “10 February 1567 – The Murder of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley” — Claire Ridgway, The Tudor Society.“Murder of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley of Scotland” — Historic Mysteries.Calendar of State Papers, Scotland, Volume 2 (1563–1569) — edited by Joseph Bain. London, 1900. | — | ||||||
| 12/19/25 | ![]() The Butcher of Hannover: Bones in the River | In 1924, bones emerging from the River Leine exposed the crimes of Fritz Haarmann—the “Butcher of Hanover”—who had been operating in plain sight. This episode traces the missing boys, the fractured systems that failed them, and how one city finally uncovered a killer hidden in its midst.Source MaterialsAlexander Gilbert — The Hanover Vampire: Fritz HaarmannMark Pulham — “The Monster of Hanover,” Crime MagazineMaria Tatar — Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar GermanyCrime Stories, Criminalistic Fantasy, and the Culture of Crisis in Weimar GermanySexual Murder: Catathymic and Compulsive Homicide, Annals of Forensic ResearchMorgan Dunn — “Fritz Haarmann Was a Popular Butcher…” (All That’s Interesting)Hannover Police Records (as cited through secondary sources)Hannoverscher Kurier reporting (as cited through secondary sources) | — | ||||||
| 12/12/25 | ![]() The Hay Poisoner | A quiet border town, a sudden illness, and a solicitor accused of poisoning both his wife and a rival. This episode examines the Armstrong case and why, even 100 years later, it remains one of Britain’s most debated convictions.Sources & Further ReadingStephen Bates, The Poisonous Solicitor (2022)Martin Beales, The Hay Poisoner: Herbert Rowse Armstrong (2001)Robin Odell, Exhumation of a Murder (1975)“Herbert Rowse Armstrong,” The History Room (history-room.co.uk)Polly Botsford, “The incredible true story of the only solicitor ever to hang for murder,” Legal Cheek (legalcheek.com)Stephanie Almazan, “Herbert Armstrong,” The Line-Up (the-line-up.com)Nicola Bryan, “Fresh doubt cast on solicitor’s murder conviction 100 years on,” BBC News (bbc.com) | — | ||||||
| 12/5/25 | ![]() The Atlas Vampire: The Unsolved Murder of Lilly Lindeström | A 1932 Stockholm murder becomes one of Sweden’s strangest cold cases. When 32-year-old Lilly Lindeström is found dead in her apartment, unusual details spark rumorsof a “vampire” killer. What’s fact, what’s myth, and why was the case never solved?Source Materials https://gizmodo.com/swedens-most-bizarre-unsolved-murder-was-maybe-commit-1706115395https://londonpress.wordpress.com/2016/08/24/the-disturbing-unsolved-case-of-the-atlas-vampirehttps://medium.com/@marvelinemerab/she-was-killed-in-broad-daylight-and-drained-like-a-horror-story-de41701dd6bfhttps://www.ranker.com/list/atlas-vampire-murder/april-a-taylorhttps://strangeremains.com/2019/10/24/stockholms-unsolved-vampire-murderhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shadow-boxing/201211/vampire-personality-disorderhttps://polismuseet.sehttps://stockholmskallan.stockholm.se | — | ||||||
| 11/28/25 | ![]() The Carnegie Heiress Fraud: A Gilded Age Scandal | A woman posing as Andrew Carnegie’s secret daughter scammed banks out of today’s equivalent of $20 million—armed with nothing but forged notes and absolute confidence. This is the rise and unraveling of Cassie Chadwick, one of the boldest fraudsters of the Gilded Age.Source MaterialsCrosbie, John. The Incredible Mrs. Chadwick. 1975.Hazelgrove, William Elliott. Greed in the Gilded Age: TheBrilliant Con of Cassie Chadwick. Lyons Press, 2021.Wade, Carlson. Great Hoaxes & Famous Impostors. 1976.Hayek, Caroline C.; Gates, Sandra; Rankin, Robert J. “TheSocial Construction of Fraudulent Identity.”“Cassie Chadwick: The Female Wizard of Finance.” Ohio History Connection, June 22, 2022.“The High Priestess of Fraudulent Finance.” SmithsonianMagazine.Newspaper coverage quoted from: Cleveland Plain Dealer;Clinton Republican; Oberlin Review. | — | ||||||
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