Mugshot Mysteries
A true crime history podcast that starts with a mugshot and unravels the unexpected story behind it. Hosted by Kathryn and Gabriel, Mugshot Mysteries dives into forgotten crimes, strange criminals, and the twisted psychology that turned faces into headlines.
Episodes
Mugshot Mysteries: Episode 9
The Gentleman Bandit - Eddie Dodson
Episode Summary
In the 1980s, Eddie Dodson went from Melrose Avenue antique dealer to the most prolific bank robber in FBI history. Known as the “Gentleman Bandit,” he robbed 64 banks in nine months with nothing but a Yankees cap, a note, and a polite apology. But beneath the style was heroin addiction, prison time, a sad comeback as the “Down-and-Out...
🎙️ Mugshot Mysteries: Episode 8
The Lady Bandit of the Wild West – Pearl Hart
She wasn’t a sharpshooter. She wasn’t part of a gang. She wasn’t even trying to make history. But Pearl Hart, stagecoach robber, courtroom rebel, and media darling, defied every expectation the frontier had for women in 1899. In this episode, we follow Pearl’s journey from Canadian boarding school to Arizona prison cell, exploring the cultura...
Charles Ponzi: The Scheme That Sold the Dream
True crime meets history, psychology, and one unforgettable mugshot.
Boston, 1920. The sidewalks boiled in the summer heat, and thousands crowded School Street with cash in hand—bank clerks, widows, dockworkers—all chanting one name: Charles Ponzi. For one blazing season, he was a financial messiah. Within months, his empire collapsed, and his name became the crime itself: t...
🎙️ Mugshot Mysteries: Episode 6 — Ruth Snyder: The Tabloid Murderess
January 1928: New Yorkers awoke to a front page screaming DEAD! Beneath it was a blurred photo of a woman in the electric chair, captured at the moment of death. That woman was Ruth Snyder, a Queens housewife whose affair and insurance plot spiraled into one of the Jazz Age’s most infamous crimes.
In this episode, we trace Ruth’s path from Queens to S...
🎙️ Mugshot Mysteries: Episode 5
The Nebraska Siren – Bertha Liebbeke
She looked like the girl next door. Polite, well-dressed, maybe a little flustered. But behind the lace gloves? A master manipulator who pulled off some of the slickest thefts in Gilded Age America...without ever brandishing a weapon.
In this episode, we dig into the story of Bertha Liebbeke... con artist, charmer, and one of the most fascinating women...
🎙️ Mugshot Mysteries: Episode 4
Victor Lustig. Alias Count. Master of disguise. Smooth talker. And the man who conned the world...literally.
This week on Mugshot Mysteries, Kathryn unravels the stranger-than-fiction story of Victor Lustig, the infamous confidence man who sold the Eiffel Tower not once, but twice. We'll explore:
🧠 Psychology Corner: Gabriel breaks down Lustig's mind through the lens of power, ...
🎙️ Mugshot Mysteries: Episode 3
The Boy Who Warned Him – Claude F. Hankins
True crime meets history and psychology in this heartbreaking case from 1904: Claude F. Hankins, a 14-year-old boy from California, shot and killed his employer. But this wasn’t just a juvenile crime, it was a desperate act rooted in child abuse, labor exploitation, and institutional failure.
In this episode of Mugshot Mysteries, we dig dee...
🎙️ Mugshot Mysteries: Episode 2
The Outlaw Who Sued the Railroad – Al Jennings
Train robber. Failed candidate. Hollywood actor.
Al Jennings lived more lives than one man should… and made sure you heard about every one of them.
In this episode, we dig into the strange saga of a former attorney who picked up a gun after losing a brother, formed a ragtag gang with little success, and somehow wound up reinventing him...
🎙️ Mugshot Mysteries: Episode 1
Gerald Chapman: The Gentleman Bandit Who Outsmarted America
True crime meets history, psychology, and one unforgettable mugshot.
Before Al Capone. Before John Dillinger. Gerald Chapman was America’s original Public Enemy Number One—a smooth-talking outlaw who pulled off the largest mail heist in U.S. history… and smiled doing it.
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