LIVE: A Deadly Christmas Eve at the American Saloon

Podcast: Crimes of the Centuries · Amber Hunt and Audioboom

Opublikowano: 2026-10-26

On Christmas Eve 1870, a chaotic brawl inside a Hamilton, Ohio gambling saloon left notorious ruffian Thomas Myers dead from a mysterious gunshot. The state quickly pinned the murder on political operator Thomas McGehean, triggering a sensational series of Gilded Age trials wrapped up in a multi-million-dollar federal whiskey ring. Defense attorney Clement L. Vallandigham was so sure of his own theory about the shooting that he staged a demonstration to prove it — and shot himself in the process. Crimes of the Centuries is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a...