Murders On Lovers’ Lane
Old Timey Crimey Presents: The Murders on Lovers’ Lane Miniseries -- Kristy and Amber dig deep into the past, examining a forgotten series of murders that pre-date the term serial killer. Throughout the American Midwest in the 1920s, a murderer, or multiple murderers, stalked lonely roads at night, hunting couples just looking for privacy to be together. Then, when the terror seems to stop, another spate of murders, similar but altogether weirder, started up in Brooklyn. -- With so many competing motives, detectives were at a loss. Join Amber and Kristy as they into the murders that had America anxiously checking the rearview mirror for the better part of a decade -- the Murders on Lovers’ Lane.
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Thursday Jul 13, 2023
Thursday Jul 13, 2023
Old Timey Crimey Presents: The Murders on Lovers’ Lane Miniseries
Kristy and Amber dig deep into the past, examining a forgotten series of murders that pre-date the term serial killer. Throughout the American Midwest in the 1920s, a murderer, or multiple murderers, stalked lonely roads at night, hunting couples just looking for privacy to be together. Then, when the terror seems to stop, another spate of murders, similar but altogether weirder, started up in Brooklyn.
With so many competing motives, detectives were at a loss. Join Amber and Kristy as they into the murders that had America anxiously checking the rearview mirror for the better part of a decade -- the Murders on Lovers’ Lane. Early access to new episodes at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeycrimey
Music by Kevin MacLeodSeven Off by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4339-seven-offLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Old Timey Crimey Presents: The Murders on Lovers' Lane Miniseries
Chapter 1 - The Lovers
Fort Wayne, Indiana. May 6, 1925
A young couple is out for a drive one lovely spring night. The abrupt end to their evening is only the beginning of the terror that will snake across the Midwest in the Jazz Age, only to disappear and return with starting violence in the big city at the start of the Great Depression.
This is the first episode of our journey down Lovers' Lanes across the United States, lonely roads, private places touched by senseless brutality.
For early access to the Murders on Lovers' Lane miniseries (limited time) and bonus episodes of Old Timey Crimey, check out our Patreon! Audio samples and a free 7-day trial available.
Sources:
Newspapers.com:
The Herald-Palladium
Clinton Daily Public
Daily Sentinel-Tribune
Huntington Herald
Indianapolis Times, 2
Rushville Republican
Reno Gazette-Journal
The Star-Press
Evansville Press
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Findagrave Howard, Findagrave Katherine
Ft Wayne News Sentinel, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Henry_fords_ghost on Reddit / Rails and trails
Esterwegen (wikipedia)
fakehistory.net
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Seven Off by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4339-seven-offLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Friday Jul 28, 2023
Friday Jul 28, 2023
Chapter Two: The Bandit
The hunt for the Fort Wayne Lovers' Lane Killer goes on, focusing on the so-called "Bicycle Bandit" as police chase leads all over the state. An inquest reveals a few secrets, but a grand jury comes to naught. Just as the grand jury is winding down, though, word of another murder, strikingly similar, makes its way to Fort Wayne...
For early access to the Murders on Lovers' Lane miniseries (limited time) and bonus episodes of Old Timey Crimey, check out our Patreon! Audio samples and a free 7-day trial available.
Sources:
Esterwegen (wikipedia)
Newspapers.com:
The Herald-Palladium
Clinton Daily Public
Daily Sentinel-Tribune
Huntington Herald
Indianapolis Times, 2
Rushville Republican
Reno Gazette-Journal
The Star-Press
Evansville Press
Findagrave Howard, Findagrave Katherine
Ugh:
Ft Wayne News Sentinel, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Henry_fords_ghost on Reddit / Rails and trails
fakehistory.net
Other ways to support/contact us:
Single Donation: use oldtimeycrimey@gmail.com on Paypal
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Music:
Seven Off by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4339-seven-offLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Friday Aug 11, 2023
Friday Aug 11, 2023
Chapter 3: The Survivor
Five weeks after the Indiana murders of Katherine Herbers and Howard Fisher, two more lovers are interrupted while trysting on a lonely road in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. This time, one of them survives.
The murderer leaves a survivor--and also a witness who lives a life of secrets...secrets that stayed uncovered for nearly a century, until now.
For early access to the Murders on Lovers' Lane miniseries (limited time) and bonus episodes of Old Timey Crimey, check out our Patreon! Audio samples and a free 7-day trial available.
Sources:
Newspapers.com:
The Dispatch
Journal Gazette
Rock Island Argus
Chic Tribune
Effingham Daily Record
The True Republican
Tri-County Press
MyHeritage
Frances - Census
Martin Schuster - Census
Ivan - Census
Find A Grave
Muriel grave
John LaChance Grave
Frances Grave
Digital Research Library of Illinois History Journal
Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection
Naperville Clarion
Fort Worth News Sentinel
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Music:
Seven Off by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4339-seven-offLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Chapter 4: The Foursome
Two weeks after the Illinois attacks that left Ivan Blake dead and Frances Shuster wounded, a group of young adults are out for a carefree summer night in Denver when everything goes horrifically awry.
The case takes strange twists and turns over the years, with unexpected witnesses and odd tales that don't line up. Does it fit with the other cases, or is this an entirely new murderer stalking Lovers' Lane?
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Sources:
The Daily Journal
Aspen Daily Times
Oak Creek Times
The Daily Times
The Englewood Herald
The Colorado Transcript
Fort Collins Coloradoan
SF Examiner
Albuquerque Journal
Fairbury Journal
Salt Lake Telegram
Fred Funkner census
Music:
Seven Off by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4339-seven-offLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Friday Sep 08, 2023
Friday Sep 08, 2023
Episode 5: The Widower
Another three weeks pass with no new Lovers' Lane murders. A couple in Nebraska, brought together by the eerily similar tragedies that have shaped their lives, takes an automobile ride one summer Sunday night and never returns.
The strange clues found at the murder scene raise more questions than they answer. And the town's recent rash of robberies might mean that the killer has been lurking for a while.
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Sources:
Findagrave
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L Bird Ancestry
H Bird Ancestry
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Hastings Daily Tribune
Adams County Democrat
Harvard Courier
The Lincoln Star
Music:
Seven Off by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4339-seven-offLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Friday Sep 22, 2023
Friday Sep 22, 2023
Episode 6: The Divorcée
Hastings, Nebraska - Part II
The investigation into the murders of Hazel Bird and Clarence Yager draws investigators from across Nebraska and from as far as Indiana. Intriguing persons of interest blow into and out of town in the weeks around the murders. And the police have a surplus of theories of motive, most of which center around Hazel Bird's love life.
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Sources:
Clarence Yager Grave
Hazel Bird Grave
Ancestry
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Hastings Daily Tribune
Adams County Democrat
Harvard Courier
The Lincoln Star
Omaha Daily News
Nebraska State Journal
McCook Daily Gazette
Wikipedia
Music:
Seven Off by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4339-seven-offLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/