033 | The Trials of Oscar Wilde: He Walked Into the Trap | London, 1895

034 | The South Sea Bubble: A Nation's Savings Lost to Fiction | London, 1720

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores one of the most audacious financial frauds in British history: a company that barely moved a single legitimate cargo, convinced a nation to pour its savings into a fiction, and then collapsed, leaving tens of thousands of ordinary people with nothing.

033 | The Trials of Oscar Wilde: He Walked Into the Trap | London, 1895

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores the three trials of Oscar Wilde in the spring of 1895, and the quiet, ordinary moment that set them all in motion: a calling card left at a London gentlemen's club, slipped into an envelope by a hall porter who couldn't quite make out the handwriting, and left on a shelf for ten days.

032 | The Franks Kidnapping: A Perfect Crime Undone | Chicago, 1924

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores the 1924 murder of Bobby Franks, a fourteen-year-old boy from Chicago's South Side, and the long, complicated aftermath of the case that followed his death.

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.