Mysteries and Histories

Join Georgia as each week she talks you through important pieces of history that more people should know about or true crime cases that require more public attention - awareness and education are key!

Mysteries and Histories is a true crime podcast hosted by Georgia Marie, with 312 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Georgia Marie hosts Mysteries and Histories, a true crime show with 312 episodes published.

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  The Day that Changed America: The Oklahoma City Bombing

  Aug 19, 202653 min

  At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a rented Ryder truck packed with explosives detonated outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The blast destroyed much of the building, killed 168 people, including 19 children in a daycare centre and injured hundreds more. The bomber was Timothy McVeigh, a former Army soldier whose anti-government extremism had hardened into violence. He was stopped on a weapons charge less than 90 minutes after the bombing, and investigators quickly connected him to the truck and the attack. McVeigh was convicted in 1997 and executed in 2001; his co-conspirator, Terry Nichols, received life in prison. For America, Oklahoma City was a brutal awakening. It showed that mass-casualty terrorism could come not from abroad, but from within and it left a city, hundreds of survivors, and the families of 168 victims carrying the consequences forever.

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  THE Teacup Poisoner : Graham Young

  Aug 17, 202631 min

  Graham Young was only 14 when he began secretly slipping poison into his family’s food and tea, treating their sickness like a private scientific experiment and recording the effects in his diary. His stepmother, Molly, died after he poisoned her with thallium; his father, sister, and a school friend were also poisoned, and Young was sent to Broadmoor rather than prison.academic. But after just eight years, he was released and given a job at a Hertfordshire factory, where colleagues began collapsing with agonising stomach pain, paralysis, and mysterious “flu-like” symptoms. Young had returned to the teacups, poisoning workers with antimony and thallium; two men, Bob Egle and Fred Biggs, died before forensic evidence and his own obsessive notes exposed him. Known forever as the Teacup Poisoner, Young was convicted in 1972 and sentenced to life imprisonment, a chilling case not only because of what he did, but because the system once believed he was safe enough to be set free.

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  The Last Woman to Be Hanged in England : Ruth Ellis

  Aug 14, 202640 min

  On Easter Sunday in 1955, Ruth Ellis waited outside a Hampstead pub for her lover, racing driver David Blakely, then shot him dead in the street as he walked toward his car. She confessed almost immediately, but the story behind that final act was tangled with years of domestic abuse, coercion, infidelity, violence, and a legal system that gave the 28-year-old nightclub manager just one route to the gallows. Her trial lasted only days, the jury deliberated for less than half an hour, and just three months after the shooting, Ruth was hanged at Holloway Prison, becoming the last woman executed in Britain. More than 70 years later, she received a conditional posthumous pardon, not because she was declared innocent, but because her case came to represent something far darker: how the death penalty could erase a woman’s life story as easily as it ended her life.

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  Fred the Head: British MURDER Victim Unidentified for 52 Years

  Aug 12, 202630 min

  In 1971, an off-duty constable walking near an abandoned flint mill beside the River Trent in Burton upon Trent found what he first thought was a piece of cement, until he saw it was part of a human skull. Beneath the earth lay the skeletal remains of a young man, naked, bound hand and foot, and buried in a shallow grave in a kneeling position, with only pink socks and a wedding ring left to suggest he had once belonged somewhere. More than five decades later, he is still known only as “Fred the Head”, a nickname born from the first body part uncovered, not a name anyone who loved him ever gave him. Fingerprints, dental work, facial reconstructions, DNA testing, and possible matches have all failed to restore his identity, making him Staffordshire’s oldest unsolved murder victim: a man who was brutally hidden away, but never reported missing by anyone police could find.

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  The City That Rioted Over CHEESE

  Aug 10, 202615 min

  At Nottingham’s Goose Fair in 1766, cheese became a symbol of something much bigger: hunger, profiteering, and a town pushed too far. After failed harvests sent food prices soaring, locals watched Lincolnshire merchants buy up huge quantities of cheese, already selling at nearly double its usual price, to carry away and resell elsewhere. What began as an argument spiralled into days of chaos: stalls were looted, wheels of cheese rolled through the streets, a cargo boat was raided, and even Nottingham’s mayor was knocked down by a runaway cheese wheel. When soldiers arrived to restore order, they fired into the crowd and killed a man, proof that the Great Cheese Riot was never really about a silly food fight, but the violence that erupts when ordinary people can no longer afford to eat.

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