Twisted Roots: A Genealogist’s True Crime Podcast
Twisted Roots
The Twisted Roots podcast is hosted by genealogist Dale Sheldon. He shares true crime stories with the facts and descriptions coming directly from the original source documentation. From famous unsolved cases, to small town murders lost for a century, here you will discover what really happened. When the truth is stranger than fiction, there is no need to make it up.
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The Talented Mrs. Halliday (Part 1)
Twisted Roots: A Genealogist’s True Crime Podcast
05/16/24 • 69 min
[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1]
S1E5: Murderess! Arsonist! Con-woman! (Part 1 of 3)
Are you ready to meet the talented Mrs. Halliday? The singular story of one of the most prolific female criminals in the United States. She operated primarily in New York with excursions to Pennsylvania and Vermont in the 1880s and 1890s. She would reinvent her identity for a fresh start, but the law always catches up.
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All information told on Twisted Roots, including quotes and testimony, is taken directly from original source documentation such as newspaper articles, court records, census records, vital records (birth/marriage/death), WW1 & WW2 Draft registrations, other military records, city directories, social security administration records, voter registrations, probate records, ship manifests, immigration records, land records, etc, etc, etc.
Please be sure to like, rate, and subscribe - and don't forget to follow our Facebook page for updates, review the documentation on our wiki, and join in on the discussions in our Discord server. All links below:
Support Twisted Roots! (Membership!): https://buymeacoffee.com/twistedroots
Our Wiki Archives: https://twistedrootspod.com/index.php/Main_Page
Facebook page (for updates): https://www.facebook.com/TwistedRootsPod/
Discord (chat & discuss!): https://discord.gg/wdDzF74VBv
Theme music: "Forever Yours", original vocals and piano tracks produced by Arthouse Acoustics, with additional original tracks and mixing by Tyrai Lawton.
Killing at the Golden Eagle Hotel
Twisted Roots: A Genealogist’s True Crime Podcast
09/26/24 • 56 min
S2E8 - In the true old west of Sacramento, California in 1855 - an abusive father and a desperate daughter - with a gentle but proud young man caught between them. There wasn't room enough for all of them in that town. Was justice really done? For the first time, you can hear the story of the killing of Amiel Brickell, quoted directly from the accounts of the time, and determine for yourself.
All information told on Twisted Roots, including quotes and testimony, is taken directly from original source documentation such as newspaper articles, court records, census records, vital records (birth/marriage/death), WW1 & WW2 Draft registrations, other military records, city directories, social security administration records, voter registrations, probate records, ship manifests, immigration records, land records, etc, etc, etc.
Please be sure to like, rate, and subscribe - and don't forget to follow our Facebook page for updates, review the documentation on our wiki, and join in on the discussions in our Discord server. All links below:
Support Twisted Roots! (Membership!): https://buymeacoffee.com/twistedroots
Our Wiki Archives: https://twistedrootspod.com/index.php/Main_Page
Facebook page (for updates): https://www.facebook.com/TwistedRootsPod/
Discord (chat & discuss!): https://discord.gg/wdDzF74VBv
Please support Twisted Roots to keep this podcast going! Become a member at BuyMeACoffee!
Theme music: "Forever Yours", original vocals and piano tracks produced by Arthouse Acoustics, with additional original tracks and mixing by Tyrai Lawton
Background music: "Eerily Calm Horror Ambience" by EerilyCalm, Creative Commons License, released 1 Jun 2021
Researched, Written, Recorded, and Edited by Dale Sheldon.
To Hear the Angels Sing
Twisted Roots: A Genealogist’s True Crime Podcast
06/27/24 • 70 min
[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1]
S1E11: After decades of unfair treatment, hardship, and imprisonment - a grandfather must face the tragic death of his beloved granddaughter at the hands of her jealous boyfriend. In this episode we share clips of our interview with witness Deanna, granddaughter of Angelo Vinch and sister of Jeanette Gilbault, as we discuss Angelo's life and other family events leading up to the tragic loss of Jeanette in Ogdensburg, New York in 1952. This is the third of our Ogdensburg stories.
Please support Twisted Roots to keep this podcast going! Become a member at BuyMeACoffee!
All information told on Twisted Roots, including quotes and testimony, is taken directly from original source documentation such as newspaper articles, court records, census records, vital records (birth/marriage/death), WW1 & WW2 Draft registrations, other military records, city directories, social security administration records, voter registrations, probate records, ship manifests, immigration records, land records, etc, etc, etc.
Please be sure to like, rate, and subscribe - and don't forget to follow our Facebook page for updates, review the documentation on our wiki, and join in on the discussions in our Discord server. All links below:
Support Twisted Roots! (Membership!): https://buymeacoffee.com/twistedroots
Our Wiki Archives: https://twistedrootspod.com/index.php/Main_Page
Facebook page (for updates): https://www.facebook.com/TwistedRootsPod/
Discord (chat & discuss!): https://discord.gg/wdDzF74VBv
Theme music: "Forever Yours", original vocals and piano tracks produced by Arthouse Acoustics, with additional original tracks and mixing by Tyrai Lawton.
Oscar Wilde: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Twisted Roots: A Genealogist’s True Crime Podcast
06/20/24 • 121 min
[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1]
S1E10: In 1895 the literary genius Oscar Wilde was confronted and publicly antagonized by the brutish John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry - the father of Oscar's lover Alfred Bruce "Bosie" Douglas. When Oscar filed a case of libel against the Marquess, it would start a domino effect that lead to his downfall and eventual death. In this special two hour episode for Pride Month, learn how these and other related events affected their lives, their art, their families, and even took down the Prime Minister.
Please support Twisted Roots to keep this podcast going! Become a member at BuyMeACoffee!
All information told on Twisted Roots, including quotes and testimony, is taken directly from original source documentation such as newspaper articles, court records, census records, vital records (birth/marriage/death), WW1 & WW2 Draft registrations, other military records, city directories, social security administration records, voter registrations, probate records, ship manifests, immigration records, land records, etc, etc, etc.
Please be sure to like, rate, and subscribe - and don't forget to follow our Facebook page for updates, review the documentation on our wiki, and join in on the discussions in our Discord server. All links below:
Support Twisted Roots! (Membership!): https://buymeacoffee.com/twistedroots
Our Wiki Archives: https://twistedrootspod.com/index.php/Main_Page
Facebook page (for updates): https://www.facebook.com/TwistedRootsPod/
Discord (chat & discuss!): https://discord.gg/wdDzF74VBv
Theme music: "Forever Yours", original vocals and piano tracks produced by Arthouse Acoustics, with additional original tracks and mixing by Tyrai Lawton.
The Murder of David Dinberg
Twisted Roots: A Genealogist’s True Crime Podcast
06/13/24 • 57 min
[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1]
S1E9: On a snowy evening in 1926, in the North Country of New York State on the Canadian border - the city of Ogdensburg, the only US city on the St Lawrence River: an older gentlemen sits alone in his kitchen smoking a pipe and writing Hebrew poetry among piles of scrap metal, papers, boxes, and other random items waiting for him to sort for his work as a junk dealer. Then, the unimaginable happens. Hear the story and learn the details of the murder of David Dinberg.
Please support Twisted Roots to keep this podcast going! Become a member at BuyMeACoffee!
All information told on Twisted Roots, including quotes and testimony, is taken directly from original source documentation such as newspaper articles, court records, census records, vital records (birth/marriage/death), WW1 & WW2 Draft registrations, other military records, city directories, social security administration records, voter registrations, probate records, ship manifests, immigration records, land records, etc, etc, etc.
Please be sure to like, rate, and subscribe - and don't forget to follow our Facebook page for updates, review the documentation on our wiki, and join in on the discussions in our Discord server. All links below:
Support Twisted Roots! (Membership!): https://buymeacoffee.com/twistedroots
Our Wiki Archives: https://twistedrootspod.com/index.php/Main_Page
Facebook page (for updates): https://www.facebook.com/TwistedRootsPod/
Discord (chat & discuss!): https://discord.gg/wdDzF74VBv
Theme music: "Forever Yours", original vocals and piano tracks produced by Arthouse Acoustics, with additional original tracks and mixing by Tyrai Lawton.
The Basement Murder of Kate Conroy
Twisted Roots: A Genealogist’s True Crime Podcast
06/06/24 • 75 min
[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1]
S1E8: On a Spring morning in 1896, while her young daughters were at school, Kate Conroy was confronted by her estranged and jealous husband in her basement tenement apartment in northern New York. After a brief review of an earlier murder in Ogdensburg, learn about Kate's brutal murder and the events leading up to it. These are the 1st and 2nd in our new Ogdensburg Stories series.
Please support Twisted Roots to keep this podcast going! Become a member at BuyMeACoffee!
All information told on Twisted Roots, including quotes and testimony, is taken directly from original source documentation such as newspaper articles, court records, census records, vital records (birth/marriage/death), WW1 & WW2 Draft registrations, other military records, city directories, social security administration records, voter registrations, probate records, ship manifests, immigration records, land records, etc, etc, etc.
Please be sure to like, rate, and subscribe - and don't forget to follow our Facebook page for updates, review the documentation on our wiki, and join in on the discussions in our Discord server. All links below:
Support Twisted Roots! (Membership!): https://buymeacoffee.com/twistedroots
Our Wiki Archives: https://twistedrootspod.com/index.php/Main_Page
Facebook page (for updates): https://www.facebook.com/TwistedRootsPod/
Discord (chat & discuss!): https://discord.gg/wdDzF74VBv
Theme music: "Forever Yours", original vocals and piano tracks produced by Arthouse Acoustics, with additional original tracks and mixing by Tyrai Lawton.
The Talented Mrs. Halliday (Part 2)
Twisted Roots: A Genealogist’s True Crime Podcast
05/23/24 • 78 min
[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1]
S1E6: Murderess! Arsonist! Con-woman! (Part 2 of 3)
Are you ready to meet the talented Mrs. Halliday? The singular story of one of the most prolific female criminals in the United States. She operated primarily in upstate New York with excursions to Pennsylvania and Vermont in the 1880s and 1890s. She would reinvent her identity for a fresh start, but the law always catches up.
Please support Twisted Roots to keep this podcast going! Become a member at BuyMeACoffee!
All information told on Twisted Roots, including quotes and testimony, is taken directly from original source documentation such as newspaper articles, court records, census records, vital records (birth/marriage/death), WW1 & WW2 Draft registrations, other military records, city directories, social security administration records, voter registrations, probate records, ship manifests, immigration records, land records, etc, etc, etc.
Please be sure to like, rate, and subscribe - and don't forget to follow our Facebook page for updates, review the documentation on our wiki, and join in on the discussions in our Discord server. All links below:
Support Twisted Roots! (Membership!): https://buymeacoffee.com/twistedroots
Our Wiki Archives: https://twistedrootspod.com/index.php/Main_Page
Facebook page (for updates): https://www.facebook.com/TwistedRootsPod/
Discord (chat & discuss!): https://discord.gg/wdDzF74VBv
Theme music: "Forever Yours", original vocals and piano tracks produced by Arthouse Acoustics, with additional original tracks and mixing by Tyrai Lawton.
The Beautiful Cigar Girl - Part 3
Twisted Roots: A Genealogist’s True Crime Podcast
05/09/24 • 70 min
[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1]
S1E4: The conclusion of The Beautiful Cigar Girl (Part 3)!
In the summer of 1841, a beautiful shop girl from the heart of Manhattan went missing. A few days later her body washed up along the shore of Hoboken. In the final part of this trilogy, learn the details of the final theories of the New York and New Jersey officials and find out about never before discovered evidence! We'll also present our own theories of what actually happened to Mary Rogers. Do you agree? What will be your conclusion?
Please support Twisted Roots to keep this podcast going! Become a member at BuyMeACoffee!
All information told on Twisted Roots, including quotes and testimony, is taken directly from original source documentation such as newspaper articles, court records, census records, vital records (birth/marriage/death), WW1 & WW2 Draft registrations, other military records, city directories, social security administration records, voter registrations, probate records, ship manifests, immigration records, land records, etc, etc, etc.
Please be sure to like, rate, and subscribe - and don't forget to follow our Facebook page for updates, review the documentation on our wiki, and join in on the discussions in our Discord server. All links below:
Support Twisted Roots! (Membership!): https://buymeacoffee.com/twistedroots
Our Wiki Archives: https://twistedrootspod.com/index.php/Main_Page
Facebook page (for updates): https://www.facebook.com/TwistedRootsPod/
Discord (chat & discuss!): https://discord.gg/wdDzF74VBv
Theme music: "Forever Yours", original vocals and piano tracks produced by Arthouse Acoustics, with additional original tracks and mixing by Tyrai Lawton.
The Beautiful Cigar Girl - Part 2
Twisted Roots: A Genealogist’s True Crime Podcast
05/02/24 • 71 min
[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1]
S1E3: In the summer of 1841, a beautiful shop girl from the heart of Manhattan went missing. A few days later her body washed up along the shore of Hoboken. In Part 2 of "The Beautiful Cigar Girl", based on original source documentation, we'll work through the weeks after the discovery as the police, justices, and political forces of New York and New Jersey worked though a multitude of suspects. Will they discover what happened to Mary Cecilia Rogers?
Please support Twisted Roots to keep this podcast going! Become a member at BuyMeACoffee!
All information told on Twisted Roots, including quotes and testimony, is taken directly from original source documentation such as newspaper articles, court records, census records, vital records (birth/marriage/death), WW1 & WW2 Draft registrations, other military records, city directories, social security administration records, voter registrations, probate records, ship manifests, immigration records, land records, etc, etc, etc.
Please be sure to like, rate, and subscribe - and don't forget to follow our Facebook page for updates, review the documentation on our wiki, and join in on the discussions in our Discord server. All links below:
Support Twisted Roots! (Membership!): https://buymeacoffee.com/twistedroots
Our Wiki Archives: https://twistedrootspod.com/index.php/Main_Page
Facebook page (for updates): https://www.facebook.com/TwistedRootsPod/
Discord (chat & discuss!): https://discord.gg/wdDzF74VBv
Theme music: "Forever Yours", original vocals and piano tracks produced by Arthouse Acoustics, with additional original tracks and mixing by Tyrai Lawton.
The Talented Mrs. Halliday (Part 3)
Twisted Roots: A Genealogist’s True Crime Podcast
05/30/24 • 72 min
[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1]
S1E7: Murderess! Arsonist! Con-woman! (Part 3 of 3)
Are you ready to meet the talented Mrs. Halliday? The singular story of one of the most prolific female criminals in the United States. She operated primarily in upstate New York with excursions to Pennsylvania and Vermont in the 1880s and 1890s. She would reinvent her identity for a fresh start, but the law always catches up.
Please support Twisted Roots to keep this podcast going! Become a member at BuyMeACoffee!
All information told on Twisted Roots, including quotes and testimony, is taken directly from original source documentation such as newspaper articles, court records, census records, vital records (birth/marriage/death), WW1 & WW2 Draft registrations, other military records, city directories, social security administration records, voter registrations, probate records, ship manifests, immigration records, land records, etc, etc, etc.
Please be sure to like, rate, and subscribe - and don't forget to follow our Facebook page for updates, review the documentation on our wiki, and join in on the discussions in our Discord server. All links below:
Support Twisted Roots! (Membership!): https://buymeacoffee.com/twistedroots
Our Wiki Archives: https://twistedrootspod.com/index.php/Main_Page
Facebook page (for updates): https://www.facebook.com/TwistedRootsPod/
Discord (chat & discuss!): https://discord.gg/wdDzF74VBv
Theme music: "Forever Yours", original vocals and piano tracks produced by Arthouse Acoustics, with additional original tracks and mixing by Tyrai Lawton.
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How many episodes does Twisted Roots: A Genealogist’s True Crime Podcast have?
Twisted Roots: A Genealogist’s True Crime Podcast currently has 26 episodes available.
What topics does Twisted Roots: A Genealogist’s True Crime Podcast cover?
The podcast is about Genealogy, Mystery, Family, Murder, Podcasts, History and True Crime.
What is the most popular episode on Twisted Roots: A Genealogist’s True Crime Podcast?
The episode title 'Oscar Wilde: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Twisted Roots: A Genealogist’s True Crime Podcast?
The average episode length on Twisted Roots: A Genealogist’s True Crime Podcast is 64 minutes.
How often are episodes of Twisted Roots: A Genealogist’s True Crime Podcast released?
Episodes of Twisted Roots: A Genealogist’s True Crime Podcast are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Twisted Roots: A Genealogist’s True Crime Podcast?
The first episode of Twisted Roots: A Genealogist’s True Crime Podcast was released on Apr 17, 2024.
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