Crime Classics

This series features true crime stories from the records and newspapers of every land, from every time. Your host each week is Mr. Thomas Hyland - a connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders. This collection contains episodes of Crime Classics that aired between 1953 and 1954. Each episode has been digitally remastered and restored for ease of listening.

A lovely lady is also a liberal user of arsenic. Thomas Hyland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders tells another true story of crime set in Glasgow, Scotland, in the year 1857.

In 1865 France, a mere youth devises a way to fame and fortune through murder and mayhem. Thomas Hyland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders tells another true story of crime set in France during the reign of Louis Napoleon. It concerns a missing family and several freshly opened graves.

The first show of the series, a summer replacement for Suspense. The story of the first woman tried and executed in the United States. The script was used as an audition for the series, recorded December 3, 1952. Thomas Hyland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders, tells another true story of crime. Here is Thomas Hyland’s report to you on Crime of Bathsheba Spooner, the first woman to be tried for murder in the United States.

Brother vs. brother in old Bombay. A tiger, you know! An announcement is made that TV-Radio Life magazine has named the program, the finest radio crime series of 1953. Thomas Hyland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders, tells another true story of crime. Set in 1856 in India, it is listed in Thomas Hyland’s files as How Supan Got the Hook Outside Bombay.

A large, powerful gent of Scotland and his small companion engage in a nautical life of crime.

A surprisingly good story of a truly amazing rogue of old England. Maria has just come home from a party dressed to kill. She’s come home to discover a robber, the famous John Shepherd, who removes Maria’s earrings slowly and also her rings. She was face to face with John Shepherd and for the rest of her life, she’d have something to talk about....

Mr. Hayes returns from war to his lonely wife to find her afrolic with two comely boarders. His head is shortly thereafter found by the side of the Thames...and then encapsulated in a glass jar. Warwickshire, England, in the year 1785 and a lovely young lady whose married name was Catherine Hayes and whose ambition was to be a widow, this is the story of John Hayes, his head, and how they were parted.

A famous pirate gets his. The year is 1714, and the place is the Caribbean.

Life and death in 1866 Missouri...mostly death. Before the Civil War there was a border war. The boys from Kansas took guns to hand and shot up the boys from Missouri, and the next Saturday night vice versa. Then it got so they didn’t wait until Saturday night; every day was a bloody day for everybody. The question now arises, why? The answer is simple: a difference of opinion about slavery, and they couldn’t wait until war was declared. Thomas Hyland brings his report on The Younger Brothers and why some of them Grew No Older.

A story set in Rutland, Vermont, 1817. A man dances in the moonlight with the Little People.