True Crime , History, Christianity Episodes
Oct. 30, 2024
78. The Real Exorcist
Send us a text In 1973 a movie opened in theaters that scared the nation - The Exorcist. But you may not be aware that it was based on true events that took place in 1949. Billy Graham urged audiences not to see it due to it…
Oct. 23, 2024
77. Witches or Martyrs: The Salem Witch Trials
Send us a text The trials began in 1692 when a group of young girls in the Puritan village of Salem, Massachusetts claimed they were being tormented by local women who were practicing witchcraft. Male Narrator: Curtis Hildre…
July 17, 2024
68. Murder in Pennsylvania Amish Country
Send us a text Edward and Katie Gingerich lived among their people, the Amish, in the early 1990s. When Ed started having various physical ailments and then mental anguish, the church tried to step in but nothing seemed to h…
April 17, 2024
56. North Carolina's Killer Baptist Preacher: Reverend George Washington Carawan
Send us a text Reverend George Washington Carawan was charged and found guilty of the murder of a school teacher named Clement H. Lassiter . After learning the jury had found him guilty and that he would be hanged for his c…
Nov. 15, 2023
37. The Confession of Alma Petty Gatlin
Send us a text In the Spring of 1927, Reverend Tom 'Thunderbolt' Pardue traveled to the tobacco growing town of Reidsville, North Carolina to hold a revival in the big McCollum tobacco Warehouse. One night after the se…
Sept. 20, 2023
30. Who Would Want Patricia Dead?
Send us a text When a house fire in Pleasant Garden, NC is determined to have been started by arson, and a resident is found inside dead from a gunshot, the sheriff's department has its work cut out for it. Friends, family, …
Aug. 16, 2023
26. The Abduction of Gretchen Harrington
Send us a text On a summer morning in 1975, eight year old Gretchen Harrington walked to Bible camp just a half mile from her home. She never arrived at camp and she never made it home. Authorities and the community were dis…
Jan. 5, 2023
5. Velma Barfield / Death Row Granny Pt.2
Send us a text Velma Barfield had America torn between justice and mercy. Was she a repentant murderer or an unrelenting master-manipulator? Support the show hardtimesandtruecrimes.com buymeacoffee.com/hardtimesTC
Jan. 5, 2023
4. Velma Barfield / Death Row Granny- Pt 1
Send us a text Velma Barfield was a beloved mother, grandmother and Sunday school teacher. She was also a master manipulator and serial killer. Support the show hardtimesandtruecrimes.com buymeacoffee.com/hardtimesTC
Dec. 22, 2022
1. Lawson Family Christmas Day Murders
Send us a text In 1929 Charlie Lawson, a North Carolina tobacco farmer, promised his family a special Christmas surprise. No one could ever have imagined the horror he had planned. Support the show hardtimesandtruecrimes.…
Nov. 18, 2022
Hard Times and True Crimes Trailer
Send us a text A podcast featuring stories of lawlessness and hard times throughout history. Support the show hardtimesandtruecrimes.com buymeacoffee.com/hardtimesTC