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On a hot summer night in 1922, famed Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor was dead in his Los Angeles bungalow home from a gunshot wound. With a suspect list straight out of Central Casting, see if you can solve this case that has baffled the LAPD for over a century. Join us as we go behind the glitz and glamour of the movie industry into Hollywood’s dark side.  Support the show

On June 9th, 1930, newspaperman Jake Lingle is gunned down in broad daylight on a train platform stunning the windy city of Chicago.  Lingle is given a hero's funeral by the city’s mayor but then his underworld connections to mafia boss Al Capone are exposed confusing authorities and sending them into a downward spiral of intrigue. Was Jake Lingle killed for doing his job or was he whacked by Scarface? Join us as we try to solve this mafia mystery!  Support the show

In 1841, the dead body of the beautiful Mary Rogers mysteriously washed up on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. Her mysterious death sent New York City into a tailspin of mystery and intrigue. With a cast of suspects ranging from New York City's elite to the dark alleys of the Bowery, it is no wonder this mystery remains unsolved. Join us, as we try to solve the mystery that inspired Edgar Allan Poe to write the first detective mystery novel.  Support the show