Podcasts by Crime Scholar

Crime Scholar

In-depth research by Paris Brown, a PhD candidate, former 9-1-1 police radio dispatcher, and vintage curator of true crime, mysteries, tragedies, eccentrics, and the beauty of the bizarre--all told with flair and big hair. Formerly

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Crime Scholar
9. Assia Wevill: The Oven Suicides, Part 2 from 2023-12-14T12:00:59.606187

In 1969, Assia Wevill--hailed as a great beauty and advertising talent--bizarrely committed suicide in the same manner as her paramour's wife six years earlier. To add to the tragedy, she killed...

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Oscar Zeta Acosta: Fear, Loathing, and the Disappearance of a Brown Buffalo from 2022-05-30T05:52:36

The character of Dr. Gonzo in the book and film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is based on a real person:  a one-time military airman...turned Baptist missionary...turned legal aid attorn...

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Oscar Zeta Acosta: Fear, Loathing, and the Disappearance of a Brown Buffalo from 2022-05-30T05:52:36

The character of Dr. Gonzo in the book and film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is based on a real person:  a one-time military airman...turned Baptist missionary...turned legal aid attorn...

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9. Assia Wevill: The Oven Suicides, Part 2 from 2022-03-07T11:01:00.970424

In 1969, Assia Wevill--hailed as a great beauty and advertising talent--bizarrely committed suicide in the same manner as her paramour's wife six years earlier. To add to the tragedy, she killed...

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9. Assia Wevill: The Oven Suicides, Part 2 from 2022-02-22T03:05:54.246683

In 1969, Assia Wevill--hailed as a great beauty and advertising talent--bizarrely committed suicide in the same manner as her paramour's wife six years earlier. To add to the tragedy, she killed he...

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The Sherman Courthouse Riot: The Lynching of George Hughes from 2022-02-22T03:05:54.243697

Paris' lifelong search for her family's genealogical records leads her to investigate the reason they are missing: the lynching of a 41-year-old African American man named George Hughes in 1930. Ac...

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