The Big Story Project
The Big Story - 1954-10-06 The Ugly Story of a Man [Charles Gleeson, Willows CA Journal]
This strange story is about a pyromaniac sets a fire in the Mendocino National Forest so he could get a job helping put it out. It raged out…
The Big Story - 1954-01-27 Too Terrible to be Believed [Arthur Mielke, Washington Times-Herald]
Arthur Mielke’s story about deficient conditions of foster homes in Baltimore led to new regulations and licensing of operators to protect s…
The Big Story - 1947-10-15 Bobby-Sox Kid from Bayonne [Dorothy Kilgallen, NY Journal American]
The original event of this episode was in August 1936, a brutal hatchet killing of Gladys MacKnight's mother that she perpetrated with her b…
The Big Story - 1948-05-12 TCOT Lucky Longshot [Robert Early, Indianapolis Star]
Only part 2 of this episode is known to have survived at this time. This almost sounds like an episode of The Whistler ! An Alabama radiator…
The Big Story - 1950-06-21 Death In the Family [William Noble, Lapeer Michigan Press]
In September 1941, Julia Kulinich killed her husband, their young daughter and son. She tried to cover it up by calling the police and sayin…
The Big Story - 1950-08-16 Cornered Rats Always Squeal [Chester Potter, Pittsburgh Press]
The story begins in 1924, as Frank Steggert gets an early start in his criminal behavior. In 1932, he was sentenced to 40 years behind bars.…
The Big Story - 1950-11-15 A Dead Certainty [Kenneth McCormick, Detroit Free Press]
It’s May, 1939 in Highland Park, Michigan. The sad story played out in the news over just three days. A body of a widowed man, William Reiga…