Twisted Roots: A Genealogist's True Crime Podcast

03/27/2025

The next episode of Twisted Roots! This one is short, but I'm hoping to get the next one out this weekend, the next instalment of the Jack the Ripper Files.

In this brief but difficult episode of Twisted Roots, we share yet another family massacre in our archive.

03/08/2025

I just wanted to share this page that I put together just for the crime scene of the murder of Mary Ann Nichols, victim of Jack the Ripper.

This was interesting to research and find a highly accurate artists rendering that must have been done on the scene. I've also included several maps to show how the immediate area has changed over the years and up to the present day.

Back to: The Wiki; Documentation; Locations; Crime Scene Map Episode: Jack the Ripper Files: Mary Ann Nichols In 1888 Buck’s Row (now Durward St) ran between Brady St at the east end and Thom…

03/07/2025

The episode "Jack the Ripper Files: Mary Ann Nichols" has been re-edited and added to the new website with documentation. Slowly but surely getting all of the old episodes back while researching new ones. Should have another new story this weekend and am working on the next Jack the Ripper installment among others.

This episode marks the beginning of our Jack the Ripper Files. Periodic future episodes will be dedicated to each of the victims and suspects of the infamous Jack the Ripper murders that took place…

02/11/2025

New episode has dropped!

One day in 1907, a man walks into a bar on a routine work round and is thrown into a coma, never to awake again. He was “the best man in the world”, according to his wife and young son…

02/10/2025

01/20/2025

Love the pups hanging out!

This photo from 1902 shows French knife grinders. They would work on their stomachs in order to save their backs from being hunched all day. (France 1902).

01/20/2025

Doing some research and for an upcoming episode and happened across this interesting bit of information. The 1910 City Directory for Cleveland, Ohio included a extensive list of "Automobile Owners" including their license plate number and the type of vehicle - gasoline, steam, or electric! Unfortunately the list is not in alphabetical order, but numerical by license plate.

Link on Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2469/records/1104515066?tid=&pid=&queryId=65fc65a9-fed4-460d-9e43-ebc4006a32b6&_phsrc=EGE2744&_phstart=successSource

01/19/2025

Published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer - 27 Sep 1913. A look at "modern" high schoolers a little over a century ago.

01/14/2025

https://www.newspapers.com/image/558724600/
The Hanford Sentinel - 7 May 1931

The cat for the win!!

01/13/2025

Hello all! Thank you SO much for your patience during my hiatus. The new third season of Twisted Roots has finally begun, and the first episode has just been published!! You can listen directly on our new website, attached here. On this page you can also find links to all of the documentation mentioned in the episode and more. The same will be done for all past episodes as well.

Season 3, Episode 1 In this episode of Twisted Roots I’ll share a suspicious case of accidental death that has been brought to my attention. There are several red flags that may suggest foul …

11/19/2024

Good news!! (and a little bad). I finally have been able to recover the website data! The bad news is that I'm having to recreate the site from scratch, but at least everything I've written hasn't been lost and I'll be able to transfer everything fairly easily - just a little time consuming.

I'm thinking of taking this opportunity to completely reboot the podcast. I've learned a lot since starting this but had a lot of bumps and hickups along the way and I'm really not happy with the quality of most of the episodes up to this point.

I am working on a new interesting story that was brought to me not to long ago - a man that may have been murdered in a hate crime on a military base during WW2, his mother was also murdered several years before. It's a mystery, and I'm going to focus more on unsolved cases going forward, gathering the evidence with all of you with the goal of attempting to solve one.

Please keep an eye out for updates soon!

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10/14/2024

Hello everyone! Just a quick update in case you have been wondering. Our website is currently down. We are aware of this and are working to get it back up and running as quickly as possible. We are also working on some new case files and better fleshing out old ones. Please stay tuned for updates :)

09/29/2024

This week's scorecard:
Max Weis: 0
Cat: 1
(Ottawa Journal 1961, via Newspapers.com)

09/21/2024

Have you heard the latest episode of Twisted Roots? "The Murder on Bond Street! Who Killed Dr. Burdell?!"

Listen here: https://twistedroots.buzzsprout.com/2382276/episodes/15779900-the-murder-on-bond-street-who-killed-dr-burdell