The Hall-Mills Murders: Forbidden Love, The Pig Woman, and America's First Media Circus
On a Thursday evening in September 1922, a phone call placed to Reverend Edward Hall—a respected Episcopal minister—would lead to one of the most sensational "Jazz Age" scandals in American history.
Two days later, the Reverend's body was found alongside his lover, choir singer Eleanor Mills, posed beneath a crab apple tree. Their passionate love letters were torn and scattered around them like confetti, a clear message from a killer driven by jealousy.
The Man, The Myth, The Scheme: The Financial Fraud Empire of Charles Ponzi
We are taking a wild ride back to the 1920s to meet the man whose name is now synonymous with financial fraud: Charles Ponzi. Born Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi, he was an ambitious Italian immigrant who arrived in America and turned a simple idea into a record-breaking financial deception.
