Old Blood
The historical true-crime podcast that uncovers old blood with each new episode. Join us as a historian investigates history's most fascinating cases of true crime.
Podcasting since 2021 • 35 episodes
Old Blood
Latest Episodes
Vile Business: The Murder of Duchess Praslin, Part II
In Part II of the murder that sparked a revolution, the Chamber of Peers investigates Duke Praslin for his wife’s brutal slaying.Sources:“ASSASSINAT DE MADAME LA DUCHESSE DE PRASLIN.” L’Ami de la religion, vol. 1...
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Season 5
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Episode 70
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51:16
Vile Business: The Murder of Duchess Praslin, Part I
In 1847, servants of Paris’s Hotel Sebastiani rushed to help Duchess Praslin after hearing her screams. This is part one of the murder that sparked a revolution. Sources:“ASSASSINAT DE MADAME LA DUCHESSE DE ...
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Season 5
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Episode 69
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54:07
Dead Man's Hand: The Bennetts & 1929 Kansas City
In 1929, a Kansas City housewife shot and killed her husband after a game of bridge. Twelve male jurors would decide her fate as newspapers across the country printed “post-mortems” of the fatal hand that led to his death.You ...
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Season 5
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Episode 68
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1:01:40
Renaissance Virago: Caterina Sforza, Tigress of Forli
Countess Caterina Sforza was raised in the Renaissance court of Milan and survived the assassination of her father and husbands. She then proceeded to confront Cesare Borgia and his father, Pope Alexander VI. Who would win: the papacy or a woma...
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Season 5
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Episode 67
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57:19
A Violent Vacancy: The 1902 Disappearance of Nora Fuller
On January 11, 1902, 15-year-old Nora Fuller responded to a nanny wanted advertisement in the San Francisco Examiner. She called her family an hour later, saying that she was hired and at the man’s home. When Nora never returned home, her broth...
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Season 5
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Episode 66
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