In 1965 Alice Crimmins became the centre of one of America's most sensational murder trials, accused not only killing her children, but of violating society's expectation of motherhood. Alice's story was shaped as much by misogyny and by mystery. But the question remains, did Alice Crimmins kill her children, or was she a victim of the court of public opinion? Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Just in Case Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Foll...
Apr 15, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 139
On a quiet night in July 1896, the merchant ship, the Herbert fuller was sailing swiftly to Argentina, it's hull full of timber to transport. But on that calm, quiet night, a stifling scream is heard and soon it is discovered that the Captain, his wife and the second mate have all been killed in a bloodbath. The remaining 9 souls aboard were alone at sea, a killer amongst them... Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Just in Case Beacons (at the bott...
Apr 07, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 138
Bass Reeves was one of the Frontiers greatest heroes, a skilled tracker, a sharpshooter and a formerly enslaved man who became one of the first African American U.S. Marshalls. A master of disguise, he hunted outlaws and brought them to justice, and he even went on to inspire the tale of The Lone Ranger. Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Just in Case Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky Fan Mail: Kat...
Apr 01, 2025•46 min•Ep. 137
On a brisk December afternoon, a young socialite vanished without a trace... Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland F92 DY22 Business Enquiries: katie@whodidwhatnowpod.com Fill out the survey! http://bit.ly/whodidwhatnow-survey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...
Mar 25, 2025•56 min•Ep. 136
Joan Crawford, the Hollywood star who loved cheekbones and hated wire hangers. A woman who made her name on the silver screen by dancing, bitching and sometimes boinking someone else's husband. Jump right in and lets hear about this icon who's as famous for her feuds as she was for her films... Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Po...
Mar 18, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 135
Dr Gisella Perl is a woman worth remembering this Women's History Month, a gynaecologist at a time when women, let alone Jewish women, were entering and excelling in medicine. A woman, a prisoner, a doctor who would work against the odds to save as many lives as she could in the notorious death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Warning, this week's episode is not for the faint of heart, a big huge trigger warning for all of the violence and abuse. Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets ...
Mar 11, 2025•51 min•Ep. 134
The American Plan was one of the largest violations of women's rights in US history, but it's one of the least remembered. For over half a century thousands of American women were arrested, forcibly examined and detained without due process, no trial and no evidence of a crime. Their offence? Being suspected of "immorality" under the social hygiene movement, also known as the American Plan. Hosted by Katie Charlwood Wishlist Wishlist Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Follow me on… Twitter Instagram Ti...
Mar 08, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 133
Nancy Wake was a member of the French Resistance who was such a pain in the derriere to the Gestapo that they named her the White Mouse. They tried to capture the freedom fighter for years and even placed a 5 million francs bounty on her head. Hosted by Katie Charlwood Wishlist Wishlist Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Follow me on… Twitter Instagram TikTok Facebook Business Enquiries: katie@whodidwhatnowpod.com Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at: Patr...
Mar 04, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 132
Bessie Coleman defied the odds to become the first African American and Native American woman with a pilot’s license in the world! Denied opportunities at home, she went to France to learn to fly, returning as a daring stunt pilot who inspired generations. Listen now to be wowed by Queen Bess Hosted by Katie Charlwood Wishlist Wishlist Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Follow me on… Twitter Instagram TikTok Facebook Business Enquiries: katie@whodidwhatnowpod.com Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! ...
Feb 25, 2025•50 min•Ep. 131
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study has to be one of the most shocking and unethical medical experiments in United States history. What was perceived to be a harmless medical study turns in to a 40-year nightmare for hundreds of African American men in the South, This episode exposes the truth behind the US Public Health Service study that promised care but instead delivered deception, denying treatment even after a cure was discovered AND readily available. Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Yo...
Feb 18, 2025•59 min•Ep. 130
From the Vault - The fifth and final canonical victim of the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper...allegedly... was Mary Jane Kelly, a woman who was an enigma, with a hidden past that no-one could quite figure out. In this episode I share what we do know about Mary Jane and then my friend Melissa from God's Favourites podcast has a chat about how Kelly's addition to the FIve just doesn't add up and how she may bot be a victim of Jack after all... Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get You...
Feb 11, 2025•1 hr 20 min
From the Vault - With the news cycle circling a tenuous link to a Jewish immigrant in London, for absolutely no reason whatsoever, let's focus on what we do know of about the Whitechapel murderers, the victims. Their lives, their stories. Let's hear about Catherine Eddowes, the fourth canonical victim of Jack the Ripper. Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at: Patreon Smutty Little Dress Fund Follow me on… Instagram Twitter Bluesky TikTok Facebook Bus...
Feb 11, 2025•54 min
From the Vault - Elizabeth Stride suffered in life an death, all because of the patriarchal views that existed in the Victorian era and even today, with so much focus on the killer, let's instead focus on the victim, the third canonical victim of Jack the Ripper. Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at: Patreon Smutty Little Dress Fund Follow me on… Instagram Twitter Bluesky TikTok Facebook Business Enquiries: katie@whodidwhatnowpod.com Fan Mail: Katie...
Feb 10, 2025•1 hr 2 min
From the Vault - The life of Annie Chapman, another weary woman in Whitechapel who suffered. Her life so often eclipsed by her death, the victims do not deserve to have their stories a footnote for the lore of a Bogeyman as the second canonical victim of the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at: Patreon Smutty Little Dress Fund Follow me on… Instagram Twitter Bluesky TikTok Facebook Business Enquiries: katie@wh...
Feb 10, 2025•50 min
From the Vault catch up on the lives of the five canonical victims of "Jack the Ripper" starting with Mary Ann Nichols, Polly to her friends. The one s=that started it all and led to crackpot theories and women being blamed for their own violent deaths at the hands of a man. Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at: Patreon Smutty Little Dress Fund Follow me on… Instagram Twitter Bluesky TikTok Facebook Business Enquiries: katie@whodidwhatnowpod.com Fan...
Feb 10, 2025•1 hr 13 min
Some families have skeletons in the closet, others have an entire ossuary under the floorboards, most like to keep them quiet but the Musk family prefer to put them on display. Elon Musk's grandfather, Joshua Norman Haldeman was an apartheid-loving chiropractor, who was super into conspiracy theories and searching for a "long lost city" in his plane. Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at: Patreon Smutty Little Dress Fund Follow me on… Instagram Twitt...
Feb 04, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 129
Before Froot Loops, Special K and Rice Krispies, there was Dr John Harvey Kellogg, a devout Seventh Day Adventist whose only fears were meat-based germs, racial integration and syphilis, a man whose favourite pastimes were ensuring people had enough yoghurt shot into their arses and bullying his younger brother, William Keith Kellogg. Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at: Patreon Smutty Little Dress Fund Follow me on… Instagram Twitter Bluesky TikTo...
Jan 27, 2025•55 min•Ep. 128
In the 1980s in the idyllic town of Bruges, Belgium, an order of elderly nuns, the Poor Clares decided to stick two fingers up to the Church and trade their convent for a castle with the help of their handyman... I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at : Patreon Smutty Little Dress Fund (It's my birthday this month) Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Business Enquiries: katie@whodidwhatnowpod.com Fill out the survey! http://bit.ly/whodidwhatnow-survey Hosted on Acast. See ...
Nov 26, 2024•48 min•Ep. 127
Cork-born Nellie Cashman emigrated to America and went on to be a total badass, a female prospector, business-owner and genuinely good person. It's a tough time of year and so I decided that for the month of November that I'm going to focus on the fun, ridiculous or downright cool parts of history. Also fairly certain you were traumatised enough in October! Hosted by Katie Charlwood Part of the Airwave Media Network - www.airwavemedia.com I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at...
Nov 12, 2024•43 min•Ep. 126
Elisa Lam was a 21 year old Canadian woman whose mysterious death in the infamous Cecil Hotel caused a stir for internet sleuths and conspiracy theorists alike, but what did happen to Elisa Lam and why has this case been at the centre of true crime lore for over a decade? Hosted by Katie Charlwood Part of the Airwave Media Network - www.airwavemedia.com I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at : Patreon Smutty Little Dress Fund Follow me on… Twitter Instagram TikTok Facebook Bus...
Oct 31, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 125
The Tulsa Race Massacre 1921, when white rage burned black neighbourhoods to the ground, destroying homes, businesses, communities and lives. For nearly a century, people tried - and for a while succeeded - in keeping the events of Greenwood buried, but the truth will out... Hosted by Katie Charlwood Part of the Airwave Media Network - www.airwavemedia.com I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at : Patreon Smutty Little Dress Fund Follow me on… Twitter Instagram TikTok Facebook ...
Oct 15, 2024•48 min•Ep. 124
Originally conceived as a haven for children with intellectual disabilities, the Willowbrook State School was instead to become a breeding ground of neglect, trauma, abuse and exploitation. The truth about what happened behind the doors of the Staten Island institution is a horrifying piece of history. Hosted by Katie Charlwood Part of the Airwave Media Network - www.airwavemedia.com I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at : Patreon Smutty Little Dress Fund Follow me on… Twitte...
Oct 07, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 123
Children are disappearing from the streets of Barcelona, the struggling, the lost, the poor, are they being taken from this earth by disease that is ravaging the city, or is someone taking them? This Halloween season delve into the first tale of terror of the month, that of the Vampiress of Raval, Enriqueta Martí. Hosted by Katie Charlwood Part of the Airwave Media Network - www.airwavemedia.com I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at : Patreon Smutty Little Dress Fund Follow m...
Oct 02, 2024•58 min•Ep. 122
Who exactly was Agent 355? An alleged member of Washington's infamous Culper Spy Ring, Agent 355 has captured the ideas of espionage aficionados everywhere, just who was 355 and why was she so instrumental in winning the Revolutionary War? Hosted by Katie Charlwood Part of the Airwave Media Network - www.airwavemedia.com I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at : Patreon Smutty Little Dress Fund Follow me on… Twitter Instagram TikTok Facebook Business Enquiries: katie@whodidwhat...
Sep 24, 2024•58 min•Ep. 121
Some wars are fought over lands or animals, or the rights to hunt animals, but on this occasion the war was with animals. After World War I Australia faced a new and rather unexpected foe, the mighty emu... Hosted by Katie Charlwood Part of the Airwave Media Network - www.airwavemedia.com I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at : Patreon Smutty Little Dress Fund Follow me on… Twitter Instagram TikTok Facebook Business Enquiries: katie@whodidwhatnowpod.com Looking to Advertise, ...
Sep 17, 2024•49 min•Ep. 120
The body of a baby boy was discovered on a beach in Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry, Eire. The infant had suffered a violent death, with brutal physical injuries and 27 stab wounds in his tiny body. The murder squad led by Superintendent John Courtney soon found their primary (and only) suspect 50 miles away in small village, Joanne Hayes. The mistreatment and vilification of Joanne Hayes, accused by the Gardaí of murdering her newborn infant brought forth the most controversial criminal case in Ireland'...
Sep 03, 2024•58 min•Ep. 119
Lady Jane Grey the Nine Days Queen had a short and tragic life, but she wasn't the only Grey Sister to have a tough time of it in Tudor England. This week we discuss the youngest, Lady Mary Grey and how being headstrong and stubborn landed her in hot water just like Katherine and My Lady Jane... Hosted by Katie Charlwood Part of the Airwave Media Network - www.airwavemedia.com I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at : Patreon Smutty Little Dress Fund Follow me on… Twitter Insta...
Aug 27, 2024•53 min•Ep. 118
Like her sister, Lady Jane Grey, the other Grey sister, Katherine was in line to the English throne, this made her a valuable political piece and a thorn in the side of some members of the Tudor court. You've heard the tale of My Lady Jane, don't you think it's about time you heard Lady Katherine's? Hosted by Katie Charlwood Part of the Airwave Media Network - www.airwavemedia.com I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at : Patreon Smutty Little Dress Fund Follow me on… Twitter I...
Aug 21, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 117
The 1904 Olympic Games were without a doubt the weirdest Olympic games in the modern era, but that's what happens when you decide to smash fancy diving, shotput and the triathlon with scientific experiments that may or may not have been used as propaganda for eugenicists, and that's before we even mention the rat poison... Hosted by Katie Charlwood Part of the Airwave Media Network - www.airwavemedia.com Vote Listener's Choice Vote WDWN at the BPA Operation Olive Branch Help Now I'm on Tour! Get...
Jul 30, 2024•54 min•Ep. 116
The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the most famous psychological experiments of all time, shame it's a fake... Hosted by Katie Charlwood Part of the Airwave Media Network - www.airwavemedia.com Vote Listener's Choice Vote WDWN at the BPA Operation Olive Branch Help Now I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at : Patreon Smutty Little Dress Fund Follow me on… Twitter Instagram TikTok Facebook Business Enquiries: katie@whodidwhatnowpod.com Looking to Advertise, Contact : adve...
Jul 24, 2024•43 min•Ep. 115
