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E325: The Great Molasses Flood (part III)
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E324: The Great Molasses Flood (part II)
This week we’re in January of 1919, in Boston’s North End. People are still recovering from the First World War and the 1918 flu, the area is packed with people, noise, and a molasses tank that never should have been there in the first plac
E323: MACABRE - The Great Molasses Flood (part I)
When we first started Fresh Hell, people kept asking us to cover the Boston Molasses Flood. So…here we are. And because Annie researched this one, we’re not taking the direct route. Part 1 is less about the disaster itself and more about ev
E322: Friedrich Zawrel (part IV)
After everything he survived as a child at Spiegelgrund, Friedrich ends up back in prison in the 1970s, where he is sent for a psychiatric evaluation. It's hard to believe what would happen next! This is the part of the story where things d
E321: Friedrich Zawrel (part III)
In Part 3 of Friedrich Zawrel’s story, we follow him through detention, sentencing, and a harrowing journey along the Danube as the Third Reich falls apart in its final weeks. After multiple escape attempts, Friedrich is arrested again...th
E320: Friedrich Zawrel (part II)
In Part 2 of Friedrich Zawrel’s story, we meet the doctors of Spiegelgrund. Dr. Ernst Illing and Dr. Heinrich Gross were psychiatrists working inside Vienna’s infamous children’s institution during the Nazi period. Under the banner of “raci
E319: Friedrich Zawrel (part I)
Friedrich Zawrel grew up in Vienna during the Third Reich. As a child, he was labeled “difficult” and “unmanageable” by the authorities. That was enough to place him inside the Nazi welfare and psychiatric system...a system that decided whi
E318: The Children of Spiegelgrund
Vienna, 1940. On the hills above the city stood a children’s psychiatric institution called Am Spiegelgrund. Officially it was a place for treatment, observation, and care. In reality though, it became part of the Nazi system that classifie
E317: The Campden Wonder
In 1660, a respected estate steward left the English market town of Chipping Campden to collect rent and never came home. His bloodstained belongings were soon found by the roadside, and suspicion quickly fell on his servant, John Perry. Wh
E316: MACABRE - Say What?!
Why do we casually reference pillories, hunger, or medieval tally sticks while talking about our week? In this episode, we’re digging into the origins of everyday German and English sayings, specifically the ones we use without thinking abo
E315: Friedrich II. - The Great Escape (part III)
In Part 3, we follow Friedrich after Küstrin. This episode looks at what Friedrich became once he held absolute power: the military strategist, the administrator, the enlightened absolutist who read philosophy while sending tens of thousand
E314: Friedrich II. - The Great Escape (part II)
After being arrested and imprisoned at Küstrin, Friedrich is stripped of rank, freedom, and is forced into isolation, surveillance, and humiliation, while the fate of his closest friend, Hans Hermann von Katte, hangs over everything. Friedr
E313: Friedrich II. - The Great Escape (part I)
Friedrich II of Prussia is remembered as “the Great.” But before he became the most famous Prussian king, he tried to run! In this first part of a two-episode series, we go back to the beginning: to Friedrich II von Preußen’s childhood unde
E312: MACABRE - Edith Kadivez
In 1920s Vienna, a woman calling herself Baroness Cadvé ran what appeared to be a private language school for children. Behind the polite advertisements and the respectable address in the city center was something much darker. This episode
E311: MYSTERY - My Cousin Vanished
If you want to watch Henry's wonderful documentary, you can find the English version here: https://www.henryhauck.de/en-us and the German version here: https://www.henryhauck.de/de In this episode we speak with filmmaker Henry Hauck, a cous
Fresh Hell presents: Our True Crime Podcast -Murder of Michele MacNeill
Today we’re sharing an episode from our friends at Our True Crime Podcast, covering the deeply troubling murder of Michelle McNeill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices
Special: Best of Fresh Hell (Vol.4)
We’re back to bridge the space between the holidays and the return of brand-new episodes. This volume revisits the 1904 murder of Lucie Berlin in a rapidly modernizing Berlin, the still-unsolved killing of Peggy Andrews in Columbus, Ohio, a
Special: Best of Fresh Hell (Vol.3)
While we take a holiday break, we’re bringing you Best Of, Vol. 3: a condensed revisit to three cases from the Fresh Hell archives. This episode features the disappearance of the three lighthouse keepers on Eilean Mòr, the chilling crimes o
E310: The Minneapolis Christmas Bombing
On December 24th 1996, in Minneapolis, a series of escalating disturbances unfolded across the city, leading to an explosion during the city’s Christmas celebrations. What began as isolated incidents at shopping centers and local businesses
E309: MYSTERY - Ruth Wilson
In November 1995, 16-year-old Ruth Wilson vanished after leaving her home in Surrey. She didn't go to school as planned though. Instead she ordered some flowers, and took a taxi to a quiet rural lane near Box Hill. Then...she disappeared wi
E308: MURDER - Hawley Harvey Crippen (part IV)
In the final part of our Dr. Crippen series, we’re heading into the Old Bailey for one of the most sensational trials in Edwardian history. We’ll walk you through the courtroom, the personalities, the evidence, the theatrics, the “Saul Good
E307: MURDER - Hawley Harvey Crippen (part III)
In Part 3 of our Crippen series, we follow the case across the Atlantic and back again. After the dramatic arrest aboard the Montrose, Inspector Dew brings Crippen and Ethel to Québec, where the crowds are already waiting and the extraditio
E306: MURDER - Hawley Harvey Crippen (part II)
In Part 2 of our Crippen series, Scotland Yard finally agrees something isn’t right with Dr Crippen. Inspector Dew talks to Crippen, listens politely, and then decides he needs another look inside the house on Hilldrop Crescent. What he fin
E305: MURDER - Hawley Harvey Crippen (part I)
London, 1910: Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen and his wife, music-hall performer Belle Elmore, seem to have built the perfect Edwardian life... a tidy house in Holloway, polite manners, and a place in London’s social circle. But behind the facade
E304: Fresh Hell Pet Wall of Fame - Pigeons
They’ve delivered love letters and war messages, carried microfilm across battlefields, worn tiny backpacks full of XTC, and been accused of international espionage! Yet somehow, pigeons have become one of the most hated animals in modern c
E302: MURDER - Lisa Ann French
On Halloween night, 1973, nine-year-old Lisa Ann French left her home in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, dressed as a hobo and planning to trick-or-treat with a friend. She never made it back. What followed would not only shatter their community, b
E301: MACABRE - The Great Vampire Epidemic
This week, Johanna takes us back to 18th-century Austria, when terrified villagers were convinced the dead were refusing to stay buried...and the Habsburg Empire responded the only way it knew how: with paperwork! Hear all about Petar Blago
E300: The Haunting of the RMS Queen Mary
For our 300th episode, we’re boarding one of the most famous ships in the world: the RMS Queen Mary. Once the epitome of 1930s luxury and wartime resilience, she now sits permanently moored in Long Beach, California… and she’s said to be ho
E299: Hex Appeal - The Witches of Austria and Germany
This week on Fresh Hell, we’re taking you to the heart of spooky fuckery month with a deep dive into witch lore and trials in Austria and Germany. You know Salem: twenty people, one tragic year! But compared to what happened in central Euro
