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Foul Play: A Historical True Crime Podcast

by Shane L. Waters, Wendy Cee, Gemma Hoskins

Foggy gaslit streets. A quiet courtroom. And crimes that history tried to bury. Foul Play is a historical true crime podcast that investigates the most chilling murder cases from the 1800s and early 1900s across the United States and the United Kingdom. Hosted by investigative crime journalists Shane Waters — who pioneered crime podcasting in 2008 — and Wendy Cee, each season unravels one complete criminal case through original research, court records, and primary source material. This isn't sensationalized true crime. Every season of Foul Play puts victims first — their names, their…

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Foul Play's double-feature episode covers two cases of badge-wearing killers from America's frontier era, part of a season-long series examining fifty crimes across fifty states and 250 years of U.S. history. The first case examines Henry Newton Brown, city marshal of Caldwell, Kansas, who was secretly wanted for…

Worth it if you appreciate frontier history, cases exploring the corruption of authority, and well-researched true crime that connects individual crimes to larger historical narratives.

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