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Curator 135
Curator 135 is a Podcast that explores true crime, mysteries, odd history, mythology, media, and traditions. His favorite age is vint'age'. Dive into events and stories not always covered in school and online as well as the characters within those stories. Your host, Nathan Olli, is a former radio personality, aspiring author, event DJ, and works in a library at a K-8 STEAM School.
Episodes
97 episodes
Jane Toppan: Angel of Death
She wasn’t a monster in the shadows — she was a nurse at your bedside.In this chilling episode, we uncover the twisted life of Jane Toppan, the 19th-century caregiver who confessed to murdering at least 31 people — not out of hatred, bu...
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Season 5
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Episode 96
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26:29
The Resurrection Men
This Halloween, we dig deep — literally — into one of the most disturbing true crime tales in medical history.Step into 1820s Edinburgh, where cobblestone streets echoed with the footsteps of scholars by day… and the shovels of grave ro...
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Season 5
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Episode 95
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26:03
The Year of the Ax
Between June of 1911 and June of 1912, America’s heartland lived in fear. From Oregon to Iowa, entire families were slaughtered in their beds — curtains drawn, lamps dimmed, the blunt edge of an axe left behind. The trail of terror ran through ...
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Season 5
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Episode 94
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41:30
The Legend of Buford Pusser
He was the sheriff with a big stick and an even bigger legend. Buford Pusser fought crime on the Tennessee-Mississippi border with his fists, a badge, and a whole lot of vengeance. His story inspired Walking Tall, a string of sequels, ...
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Season 5
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Episode 93
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28:29
The New Hampshire Clairvoyant
In the late 1800s, Nellie Titus had a dream about a missing girl. A dream so precise, so disturbingly accurate, that it drew the attention of scholars, spiritualists, and skeptics alike — including America’s most famous psychologist, William Ja...
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Season 5
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Episode 92
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Esther Cox and the Great Amherst Mystery
In 1878, a quiet town in Nova Scotia became the stage for one of Canada’s strangest hauntings. Esther Cox, an ordinary young woman, was suddenly surrounded by raps in the walls, flying objects, and ghostly messages carved into plaster. Neighbor...
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Season 5
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Episode 91
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29:18
Bison Dele: Lost at Sea
An up-and-coming NBA star who had it all. The talent, the money, the fame, the women... but then he just walked away. And soon, he would vanish altogether. Learn about Brian Williams, who, after changing his name to Bison Dele, found that the N...
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Season 5
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Episode 90
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23:03
A Wolf in Suburbia: The Pesce Family Murders Part 8
Episode 89 of the podcast highlights the criminal careers of Dennis Lincoln and John Wolfenbarger and goes into correspondence between the defendants and myself back in 2014. This is chapters 24, 25, and 26 of the book, A Wolf in Suburbia - The...
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Season 5
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Episode 89
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48:08
A Wolf in Suburbia: The Pesce Family Murders Part 7
Episode 88 of the podcast covers days 12, 13, 14, the verdict and sentencing portions of the Pesce Family Murder Trial and chapters 20, 21, 22, & 23 of the book, A Wolf in Suburbia - The Pesce Family Murders.The trial hear...
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Season 5
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Episode 88
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49:52
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A Wolf in Suburbia: The Pesce Family Murders Part 6
Episode 87 of the podcast covers days 8, 9, 10, & 11 of the Pesce Family Murder Trial and chapters 17, 18, & 19 of the book, A Wolf in Suburbia - The Pesce Family Murders.Some important witnesses are called to the stan...
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Season 5
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Episode 87
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34:07
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A Wolf in Suburbia: The Pesce Family Murders Part 5
In Part 5 of the series, we cover days 6 and 7 of the trial and chapters 15 and 16 of the book, A Wolf in Suburbia: The Pesce Family Murders. These two days were important ones in the trial as attorneys finished up with Betty Faye S...
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Season 5
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Episode 86
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53:01
A Wolf in Suburbia: The Pesce Family Murders Part 4
Episode 85 covers chapters 12, 13, and 14 of the book, "A Wolf in Suburbia: The Pesce Family Murders.The trial commences with the presentation of some key witnesses, including Doreen Beauchamp (Wolfenbarger's Girlfriend) and Betty Faye S...
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Season 5
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Episode 85
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1:03:20
A Wolf in Suburbia: The Pesce Family Murders Part 3
Part 3 dives into chapters 8, 9, 10, & 11 of the book "A Wolf in Suburbia: The Pesce Family Murders". The arrests of John Wolfenbarger and Dennis Lincoln, the Pesce family funeral, the community response, and the beginning of a ...
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Season 5
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Episode 84
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46:40
A Wolf in Suburbia: The Pesce Family Murders Part 2
Part two of the story continues with chapters 5, 6, and 7 of the book, "A Wolf in Suburbia: The Pesce Family Murders."These chapters discuss the actions of Wolfenbarger and Lincoln before and after the murders and we meet Will...
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Season 5
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Episode 83
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39:09
A Wolf in Suburbia: The Pesce Family Murders Part 1
In 2002 John Wolfenbarger and Dennis Lincoln committed one of the worst crimes in Michigan's history. Five were dead, including three children, just four days before Christmas. It was, for the most part, an open-and-shut case but wh...
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Season 5
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Episode 82
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45:04
Joseph Paul Franklin: Racist with a Rifle
In Episode 81 of the podcast, we take a look at the three-year racially motivated killing spree that covered at least 11 different states. From 1977 to 1980, Joseph Paul Franklin killed an estimated twenty-one people while injuring scores of ot...
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Season 5
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Episode 81
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32:24
The Greenbrier Ghost
In this spine-chilling episode, we unravel the mysterious and eerie story of the Greenbrier Ghost, one of the most unique cases in American legal history. Discover how the spirit of Elva Zona Heaster allegedly returned from the grave to reveal ...
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Season 5
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Episode 80
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30:30
Run Away to Join the Circus
In the early 1900s, young men sometimes wanted to get out of their boring hometowns and out from under their parents' thumbs. The flashy lights, roar of the animals and the big top tents often seemed to call to them offering a more exciting lif...
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Season 5
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Episode 79
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Dr. Cotton and the Mouths of Madness
In this chilling dive into the history of psychiatry, we uncover the controversial legacy of Dr. Henry Cotton, the medical director of the New Jersey State Hospital for the Insane in the early 20th century. Driven by a misguided obsession with ...
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Season 4
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Episode 78
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33:00
Vigilante Justice: The Bald Knobbers
In the rugged hills of post-Civil War Missouri, a group of masked men set out to restore order in a lawless land. Led by the towering and enigmatic Nat Kinney, the Bald Knobbers began as vigilantes seeking justice in the absence of reliable law...
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Season 4
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Episode 77
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29:01
Doppelgangers in History
They say that each of us has a doppelganger somewhere in the world. Someone who looks just like us... maybe acts just like us... or maybe, is us. Do you believe in doppelgangers? Do you believe in the idea of bilocation? <...
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Season 4
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Episode 76
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38:33
It's the Great Depression, Charlie Brown
Find out what Halloween was like during the Great Depression. 1929 to 1939 was a tough decade for folks throughout the United States. Halloween offered a chance to come together and help children have an enjoyable evening with their friends. It...
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Season 4
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Episode 75
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30:33
Down the Wiki Rabbit Hole 001 - The Lipstick Killer
I have created a new podcast section for YouTube and Curator135.com called "Down the Wiki Rabbit Hole" where I look up a search term on Wikimedia Commons. From there I find a photo related to the search term and then research the photo to find ...
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Episode 1
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