Cozy Crime

031 | The Haymarket Affair: Eight Tried, Four Hanged | Chicago, 1886

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores one of the most consequential unsolved crimes in American history: a bomb thrown into a crowd on a Chicago street in 1886, eight men tried for murder, four of them hanged, and not one of them ever proven to have done it.

030 | The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey: 22 Executed | London, 1678

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores the strange and still-unsolved death of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, a trusted London magistrate who walked out of his house on a grey October morning in 1678 and never came home. His body was found five days later on a hill north of the city, his own sword driven through his chest - yet the sword had barely drawn a drop of blood.

029 | The Duel of Alexander Hamilton: Vice-President Shot | New Jersey, 1804

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores a duel that was also a crime, a murder charge that was never collected, and the fifty-year aftermath of a single July morning on the Hudson River — beginning with a man who wrote down, the night before, exactly what he planned to do.

028 | The Great Gold Railway Robbery | London-Paris, 1885

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores one of the most quietly brilliant thefts in Victorian history: a conspiracy of wax impressions, duplicate keys, and lead shot that sent three iron safes across the Channel to Paris containing entirely the wrong thing.

027 | The Balham Mystery: The Death of Charles Bravo | London, 1876

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores the death of Charles Bravo, a young Victorian barrister who collapsed in his bedroom in Balham in April 1876 and died three days later from deliberate antimony poisoning — with three suspects, forty witnesses, and a verdict that named no one.