THE UNSOLVED DISAPPEARANCE OF JUDGE JOSEPH CRATER

THE UNSOLVED DISAPPEARANCE OF JUDGE JOSEPH CRATER

Author: Forgotten News Podcast December 13, 2020 Duration: 46:17

On the night of August 6, 1930, Judge Joseph Crater vanished from a street corner in New York City, and was never seen again. This mystery has never been solved, right up to the present day.

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HISTORICAL REFERENCES: 


The Unsolved Disappearance of Judge Joseph Crater -

Crater, Stella & Fraley, Oscar, The Empty Robe (book, 1961)

Gibson, John Winslow, Judge Crater, the Missingest Person: How He Disappeared and Why They Couldn't Find Him (2010).

Tofel, Richard J., Vanishing Point: The Disappearance of Judge Crater and the New York He Left Behind (book, 2004).

Kelly, Jack, Judge Crater Vanishes Forever. American Heritage Magazine

Furneaux, Rupert, The Disappearance of Judge Crater, The People's Almanac #2 (1978), at pp. 1268-69.


Police Blotter and Court News -

Cleveland Plain Dealer,  October 11, 1860.


GUEST VOICES:

The Unsolved Disappearance of Judge Joseph Crater -

NarratorJessica Malone, host of the Motor Mouth Radio podcast.


Police Blotter & Court News:

NarratorEmily G. Thompson, host of the Morbidology true crime podcast.

Police Blotter Intro Title Voice - Karen Wickiam, host STAT! Medical True Crime podcast


MISCELLANEOUS:

Exit Aphorism (voice) – Kit Caren, co-host Forgotten News Podcast.

Host IntroNina Innsted, host of the Already Gone podcast.

Exit Aphorism - Source:  Chandler, Raymond, The Long Goodbye (book, 1953), Chapter 12.


MUSIC:

Kevin MacLeod  of Incompetech.com – Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses / by 3.0 At Rest

At Rest

The Curtain Rises

I Knew A Guy


pyroboarder69:

Noir Music (excerpt).


All Sound Effects & Short Instrumentals Are From Freesound.org. 


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There’s a certain kind of story that crackles with urgency when it breaks, dominating conversations and front pages, only to vanish completely a few years later. FORGOTTEN NEWS PODCAST goes looking for those stories. Each episode is a deep dive into a different moment that once captivated the public, an event or figure that seemed indelible but somehow slipped through the cracks of our collective memory. You’ll hear about scandals that toppled empires of reputation, inventions that promised to change everything, and personal dramas that played out on a very public stage-all now quietly gathering dust in old newspaper archives and forgotten diaries. The aim isn’t just to recount these tales, but to understand why they resonated so powerfully in their moment and explore what their disappearance says about how we remember. It’s a process of careful excavation, piecing together narratives from primary sources, historical accounts, and the cultural echoes that remain. Tuning into this podcast feels like opening a long-lost trunk in the attic; every story is presented with the immediacy it once held, allowing you to experience the surprise, outrage, or wonder just as an audience did decades or even centuries ago. These are the headlines that time edited out, brought back to life.
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