Wicked Bridgeport

Beneath the smokestacks of the gritty cityscape of Bridgeport, Connecticut, is the shocking criminal underbelly of this New England community. Sin and vice have long had a home on the shores of Long Island Sound, and Bridgeport's sinister past is littered with tales of pirates, mobsters, bizarre Victorian murders and even rumors of a doctor's attempts to reanimate the dead. Historian Michael J. Bielawa investigates such bizarre crimes as the unsolved murder of philanthropist James...
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Beneath the smokestacks of the gritty cityscape of Bridgeport, Connecticut, is the shocking criminal underbelly of this New England community. Sin and vice have long had a home on the shores of Long Island Sound, and Bridgeport's sinister past is littered with tales of pirates, mobsters, bizarre Victorian murders and even rumors of a doctor's attempts to reanimate the dead. Historian Michael J. Bielawa investigates such bizarre crimes as the unsolved murder of philanthropist James Beardsley and the grisly discovery in Yellow Mill Pond during the nineteenth century that helped legitimize forensic science. Join Bielawa as he navigates a precarious path through the unforgettably macabre and scandalous misdeeds of Bridgeport.