Historical murder, messy records, sharp banter.
Old Timey Crimey is historical true crime built from newspaper trails, cemetery records, and the stubborn gaps those sources leave behind. Its recent episodes follow Lover’s Lane murders, possible patterns, swamp scandals, and oddball suspects with a chatty, irreverent rhythm.
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Old Timey Crimey turns historical true crime into a conversation at the research table. The show is built from old newspaper accounts, genealogy records, cemetery listings, and the stubborn problem of what those sources leave out. Recent episodes center heavily on the Murders on Lover’s Lane, a multi-part run of cases involving cars, dark roads, couples, strange witnesses, and suspects who sometimes dissolve under scrutiny. The pace is loose. The research is not. Christy and Amber move through names, towns, vehicles, weapons, courtship histories, missing records, and police theories while constantly checking what can actually be supported. That makes the show feel less like a closed-case recap and more like historical reconstruction in progress. A suspect’s wardrobe can become a whole debate. A bloody handkerchief, an oil container, a razor blade, or a raincoat can reopen a question that newspapers seem eager to drop. The speakers’ frustration with the record is part of the texture: fingerprints go nowhere, guns fail to settle anything, departments appear to wrangle, and people vanish from coverage just when they become interesting. The tone cuts against the grimness. There are jokes about breakfast-food terminology, odd old manners, embalming fluid, parking brakes, and the absurd specificity of newspaper prose. The humor is blunt, but the show keeps returning to victims, timelines, and evidence. It also makes room for wider historical cases, including Ada LeBoeuf, Nancy Eagleson, Robert Irwin, and a possible series of Aurora killings. Those episodes show the same habits: chasing seasonal patterns, testing records against each other, and admitting when a mystery may not resolve. Old Timey Crimey works because it does not pretend the past is tidy. The show treats historical murder as a pile of clippings, contradictions, names spelled several ways, and leads that may or may not mean anything. It is funny without becoming casual about death. It is skeptical without becoming clinical. For listeners who enjoy true crime with archival texture, side roads, and visible source work, it has a distinctive rhythm.
Made for: For true crime listeners who like old cases, newspaper research, unresolved leads, and speakers who think out loud. It especially fits people who enjoy historical detail with dark but clean-edged humor.
What sets it apart: The show foregrounds the research process itself: source lists, contradictions, dead ends, and theories that change as new clippings surface. Its conversational style makes archival uncertainty feel active rather than dry.
True crime from the old days with Kristy & Amber.
Bloody handkerchiefs meet suspicious chickens, while Christy and Amber make your cold-case notebook feel underprepared.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A suspicious car and a fading paper trail keep this Hastings case stubbornly unsettled.
Two men arrested in Sioux City become the episode's sharpest loose thread after abandoning a Grand Island car in Concordia and taking another to reach Sioux City.
An ordinary Sunday, a puzzling phone call, and a box of chocolates make the road to Lovers' Lane feel uncomfortably close.
Old-Timey Crimey's Lovers' Lane installment turns a seemingly ordinary day into something quietly uneasy. Hazel is puzzling over a phone call that may include an invitation, while Clarence moves through a Sunday of bread orders, an impulsive box of chocolates, a punctured tire,…
A Lovers Lane murder discussion sharpened by a plaster-cast footprint and a suspiciously difficult straw hat.
A Lovers Lane murder discussion hinges on a strangely precise image: a red kerchief, a striped silk shirt, and a straw hat that feels difficult to keep in place on a motorcycle or while clinging to the side of a car.
Frances Schuster's paper trail narrows into a census puzzle where every promising detail stays just uncertain enough.
Old Timey Crimey shifts from Fort Wayne to Illinois with a warm summer night in 1925 and a story that keeps slipping across local boundaries. Bloomingdale Township and nearby place names do not always settle neatly around Frances Schuster, which gives Christy and Amber a…
A 1925 Fort Wayne murder inquiry follows handwriting, nighttime habits, and rent paid in chickens.
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Old Timey Crimey's "Murders on Lovers' Lane" Chapter 5 follows Clarence Yeager and Hazel Bird in Hastings, Nebraska, during August 1925.
Old Timey Crimey Presents: Murders on Lovers Lane Chapter 4 - The Foursome follows a Denver case centered on Fred Funkner, Julia Stearns, Marie McCormick, and Carl Perry on South Federal Boulevard.
Old Timey Crimey’s "Murders on Lovers’ Lane" chapter on Bloomingdale Township follows the June 15, 1925 shooting of Ivan Blake and Frances Schuster on a lonely Illinois road.
Old Timey Crimey’s Murders on Lover’s Lane, Fort Wayne, Part 2 follows the 1925 investigation into Catherine Herbers and Howard Fisher through William Richter, Harry Buck Stoner, and a tenant nicknamed Dutch.
Christy and Amber begin Old Timey Crimey’s Murders on Lovers’ Lane with a 1925 Fort Wayne case involving Catherine Herbers and Howard Fisher.
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Old Timey Crimey #191 retells the 1819 trial of Stephen and Jesse Bourne in Manchester, Vermont, for the 1812 disappearance of their brother-in-law Russell Colvin, drawing heavily on defense attorney Leonard Sargent's book.
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