HDSI - Texas Servant Girl Murders
Before Jack the Ripper, a serial killer walked the streets of Austin, Texas. Can modern forensics help the History Detectives crack the case?
Episodes
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HDSI - Texas Servant Girl Murders
S11 E3 - 54m 41s
Before Jack the Ripper, a serial killer walked the streets of Austin, Texas. Can modern forensics help the History Detectives crack the case?
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HDSI - The Disappearance of Glenn Miller
S11 E2 - 54m 41s
In 1944, bandleader Glenn Miller boarded a plane for Paris and was never seen or heard from again. Can the History Detectives find out what happened?
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HDSI - Civil War Sabotage?
S11 E1 - 54m 41s
The steamship Sultana exploded without warning one night in 1865, killing 1,800 people. Was the disaster a result of Civil War sabotage?
Extras + Features
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HDSI: Who Killed Jimmy Hoffa
S11 E4 - 31s
While others have concentrated on locating Hoffa’s body, the History Detectives are after the answer to the more important question: Who Killed Jimmy Hoffa?”
Schedule
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History Detectives
Blueprint Special; Monroe Letter; Atocha Spanish Silver
Friday
Jan 27
1 Hour
A veteran's unique acetate recording may be a forgotten piece of history; a framed letter allegedly written by future President James Monroe in 1807; silver from the Spanish ship Atocha. -
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John Adams Book; Sioux Spoon; NC-4 First Across the Atlantic
Sunday
Jan 29
1 Hour
Book containing transcripts of sedition trials may have belonged to President John Adams; spoon commemorating Sioux hangings of 1862. -
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Slave Songbook; Josh White Guitar; Birthplace of Hip Hop
Monday
Jan 30
1 Hour
A book of 136 plantation songs could be the first book of black spirituals ever published; a Guild brand acoustic guitar may have belonged to Josh White. -
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PsychoPhone; War Dog Letter; Pancho Villa Watch Fob
Tuesday
Jan 31
1 Hour
Thomas Edison created the PsychoPhone to record messages from the afterlife; a World War II soldier's letter; watch fob commemorates murderous raid. -
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Manhattan Project; Galleon Shipwreck; Creole Poems
Wednesday
Feb 1
1 Hour
Invention may have been used to build the atomic bomb; a 23-pound block of beeswax; French manuscript could be love poems. -
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St. Valentine's Day Massacre; Booth Letter; Cemetery Alarm
Thursday
Feb 2
1 Hour
Shotgun may have belonged to one of Al Capone's men; letter indicates that John Wilkes Booth's father threatened to kill President Andrew Jackson. -
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Sideshow Babies; Lubin Photos; Navajo Rug
Friday
Feb 3
1 Hour
Baby may have been exhibited in an incubator at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair; early movie mogul Siegmund Lubin; Navajo rug. -
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Shipwreck Cannons; Connecticut Farmhouse; Kahlil Gibran Painting
Sunday
Feb 5
1 Hour
Cannons from the 1846 shipwreck of the USS Shark; Jewish immigrants sheltered at a Connecticut farmhouse; painting possibly by poet Kahlil Gibran. -
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History Detectives
Blueprint Special; Monroe Letter; Atocha Spanish Silver
Sunday
Feb 5
1 Hour
A veteran's unique acetate recording may be a forgotten piece of history; a framed letter allegedly written by future President James Monroe in 1807; silver from the Spanish ship Atocha.
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