
Every Friday, True Crime of the Historical Kind returns to the scene of the crime... We uncover the deeper story. The world that shaped the violence, and the humans that played a hand history's tragedies. Because the past may be distant, but human nature rarely is.

In the early 1600s, the city of Würzburg stood at the crossroads of faith and fear. As famine, plague, and war closed in, suspicion took root... and soon, neighbor turned against neighbor. Witch trials spread like wildfire across Franconia,…

It's London in 1888...Fear has already gripped the East End. In the wake of the “Double Event,” the hunt for Jack the Ripper intensifies, but the killings only get worse, and theories seem to multiply. In this episode, we trace the investig…

Before the murders began, London was already unraveling. Poverty, overcrowding, and disease turned Whitechapel into a place of desperation...The uneasy mix of empire, industry, and inequality paved the way for darkness.Part I explores the w…

As tensions in Tombstone reach a breaking point, uneasy truces give way to open threats. In Part II, the line between law and vengeance begins to blur, and the cost of order grows dangerously high...True Crime of the Historical Kind’s 'the-…

Tombstone was a boomtown built on silver, ambition, and blood in the wild west. The Earps arrive in a town teetering between law and lawlessness where fortunes rise fast, grudges run deep, and a single spark could ignite a war.

Edward Plantagenet, the 17th Earl of Warwick, was born into royal power...and forgotten behind the walls of the Tower of London. Living in the shadow of his infamous cousins, the missing Princes in the Tower, his story unfolds during the in…

In Part II, the walls close in. The disappearance of two royal children would echo through five centuries of history. We trace how politics, rumor, and legacy intertwined to shape one of England’s most enduring legends  Want to see the sour…

 In a tumultuous medieval England, two young princes vanished inside the Tower of London... and history has never stopped asking what happened to them. Part I explores the turbulent backdrop of the Wars of the Roses, the family rivalries be…