America's top gumshoes are back. In this episode: a couple in Cincinnati acquire a peculiar phonograph at an antiques auction; a World War II collector from Kansas, has a cryptic letter from a soldier to another military man; and the new owners want to know more about a watch fob commemorating Francisco “Pancho” Villa’s murderous raid on the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
In this episode, an invention that may have been used in the atomic bomb, a 23-pound block of beeswax with strange markings, and a French manuscript kept by an American family for 160 years.
In this episode, a gun that may have belonged to a member of Al Capone's gang, a letter allegedly written by John Wilkes Booth's father, and a device meant to guard against grave robbers.
In this episode, a child who may have been exhibited in an incubator at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, an early movie mogul's dramatic rise and fall, and a controversial design woven into a Navajo rug.
In this episode, a recording that may have played a part in the World War II treason trial of Tokyo Rose, a photo ostensibly of Crazy Horse, and the poignant diary of a World War II pilot.
In this episode, a fragment that may been a piece of Amelia Earhart's plane, a letter from President Millard Fillmore commuting the death sentence of a Native American, and a Colorado home whose supports may have been constructed from a railroad boxcar.
Wes Cowan
Host
Kaiama Glover
Tukufu Zuberi
