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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
87 episodes
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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19:51
A Curse Upon Thee
The Hope Diamond, The Busby Chair, The Hands Resist Him, the Crying Boy paintings and the Dybbuk Box are five of the most cursed items in our history. Learn how these curses grew over time and the factors behind believing som...
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Season 4
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Episode 74
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32:00
The Pentwater Michigan Murders
In the early 1890's Samuel Minshall left Chicago in search of a better opportunity in Pentwater, Michigan. Pentwater was a small, up and coming village in Western Michigan along the shores of Lake Michigan. There he met William San...
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Season 4
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Episode 73
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39:11
Suburban Murder - Locked in a Closet
In 1964 three elderly siblings were brutally beaten, robbed and left in a closet to die. Learn about the Parsons; William, Hilda and Lenore, their lives and what led up to the unsolved murders that are still on the Livonia Police Department's C...
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Season 4
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Episode 72
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30:16
Suburban Murder - Livonia's Own Serial Killer
In 1982 Kimberly Louiselle disappeared from Livonia and was found deceased weeks later in a wooded area of state-owned land miles away. The following year, one day shy of exactly a year, Christina Castiglione went missing while in Livonia...
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Season 4
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Episode 71
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23:34
The Wreck of the Whale-Ship Essex (Owen Chase's Diary)
The crew of the Essex left Nantucket on a whaling expedition in August of 1819. They knew that they might be at sea for as long as three years but they had no idea what they were about to encounter.Find out how 20 men survived a whale a...
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Season 4
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Episode 70
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47:30
Theodore Coneys: Denver Spider Man
In the early 1940s, a well-liked man was brutally murdered in his home while his wife recovered from hip surgery in a nearby hospital. There were no signs of forced entry, plenty of cash around the home, and every door and window was locked fro...
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Season 4
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Episode 69
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22:24
The 1904 Olympic Marathon Mess
The games of the Third Olympiad were the first Olympics to be held on American soil. After St. Louis wrestled away the chance to host the games from Chicago, they lumped the event in with the Louisiana Purchase Expo and World Fair.
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Season 4
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Episode 68
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The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering
The early 1920's was a time that saw numerous vessels vanish in the Atlantic Ocean. The Carroll A. Deering didn't vanish, but its crew did, and then washed up on the dangerous Diamond Shoals off the coast of North Carolina.Was it mutiny...
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Season 4
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Episode 67
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Gypsy Bob: Tattoos and Murder
Arthur "Gypsy Bob" Harper (b. 1880) was one of Michigan's most notorious criminals. Murder, theft, and assault were part of his everyday life outside of prison. Luckily he only spent 15 of his 73 years out in the world. The rest of his time was...
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Season 4
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Episode 66
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25:00
The Attica Uprising '71
What happened at the Attica Maximum Security Prison in September 1971 should have changed how prisons were run forever. Unfortunately, the 'tough on crime' 80's and 90's erased any of the steps that were taken. Find out what went on durin...
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Season 3
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Episode 65
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The Yule Lads, Krampus and Christmas around the World
What are some of your Christmas-time family traditions? Elf on the Shelf? Boots on the windowsill? Hiding brooms? KFC?Curator135 looks at some of the strange but mostly meaningful Christmas traditions around the globe. Come along for a ...
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Season 3
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Episode 64
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23:50
Floyd Collins: Trapped in a Cold Kentucky Cave
Before iPhones and the internet, before television and radio, people went out of their way to find entertainment. If something newsworthy was happening, they wanted to be a part of it. Floyd Collins and the caves below Kentucky gav...
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Season 3
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Episode 63
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