15 Minutes of Infamy

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• Star-Spangled Insanity 20.07.2026 15мин

  On the afternoon of Saturday, February 27, 1859, the nation's capital was thrown into a state of excitement over an incident which took place at Lafayette Square. At two o'clock, two distinguished gentlemen met each other on the square. One offered his hand for a handshake, the other refused. Instead, he put his hand in his pocket and drew a pistol.This is the true story of a self-taught lawyer with the audacity to try a never-before-used defense-- with his own neck on the line.
• The Timid Widow 13.07.2026 15мин

  Minnie, a mild-mannered widow from Atlanta, had a lot of explaining to do after the body of a missing housewife was discovered stuffed into a trunk in her basement in 1941.Did she take the fall in order to protect her troubled teenage son? Or was the timid widow really a twisted, cold-blooded killer?
• Raising the Immortal Baby 06.07.2026 15мин

  Baby Jean is not immortal. She's just a girl a cult leader thinks is The One.This is the strange story of the rise and fall of a cult known as the Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians, and its charismatic leader, James Bernard Shafer.
• The Kidnapping of Betty Ann Lake 29.06.2026 15мин

  On the morning of January 6, 1936, near the tiny settlement of Pacific Junction in New Brunswick, Canada, a woodcutter named Otto Blakeney saw smoke over the snowy horizon. He trudged through the woods and was shocked to discover a burned out cabin-- and the bodies of Philip Lake, his wife, and their infant son.But not all members of the Lake family were accounted for; missing was the Lake's five-month-old daughter, Betty Ann. This is the true tale of one of Canada's strangest-- and most infamous- kidnapping cases.
• Death is Like a Box of Chocolates 22.06.2026 15мин

  Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know if you're going to bite into one that has been laced with deadly poison.This is the true story of the murder of Elizabeth Dunning, a Congressman's daughter who suffered a tragic fate at the hands of a stranger who lived thousands of miles away.
• Isaac Sawtelle 15.06.2026 15мин

  Christmas Day of 1889 had a special meaning for one Boston family. Isaac Sawtelle, Jr., would be reunited with the family he hadn't seen in sixteen years. But Isaac's long absence from home was neither the result of his seeking fortune out West or traveling abroad, nor was it because of a family rift. No, the reason for Isaac's long-awaited homecoming was because he had been pardoned by the governor after serving a long sentence for a serious crime.Isaac's freedom would be short-lived, however; not long after his pardon, he would be convicted of first-degree murder. But, unlike so many murderers who have been forgotten by history, Isaac Sawtelle earned his fifteen minutes of infamy-- not just for the brutal nature of his crime, but for having the distinction of being sentenced to death in a state where the crime hadn't been committed.
• The Malevolent Mystic 08.06.2026 15мин

  In a small farmhouse in Oregon, there once lived a family named Covell. The head of the household was Dr. Fred Covell, a chiropractor with an office in the town of Bandon. When Ebba Covell was found dead in her bed with her neck bent at an unnatural angle, as if twisted by powerful hands, her chiropractor husband was the logical suspect. But murder often defies logic, as Ebba's real killer turned out to be the last one anyone would have suspected.
• Dishonest Abe 01.06.2026 15мин

  On April 8, 1922, Abraham Becker walked into a Bronx police station and reported that his wife, Jennie, was missing. The discovery of her body, and the post-mortem analysis of her partially-digested last meal, ultimately led two men to Sing Sing Prison's electric chair.
• Unchained Medley 25.05.2026 15мин

  After Nancy Boyer, a middle-aged hairdresser, was found murdered in her apartment by her landlady, Washington D.C.'s top detectives leaped into action-- but little did they know that the man they were after had left a trail of red-haired victims from New Orleans to Chicago. So, what was the reason for the killer's distaste for redheads?
• A Black Hearse Comes at Midnight 18.05.2026 15мин

  The Archer Home for Elderly People was a highly-specialized business. That is, it specialized in the quick and speedy extermination of its residents.This is the true story of Amy Archer Gilligan, a nursing homeowner from Windsor, Connecticut, who came under scrutiny after a newspaper report noticed an unusually high number of resident deaths-- and a mysterious black hearse that visited the Archer Home every midnight to collect and spirit away the bodies.