Tales From the Rep Morgue

Tales From the Rep Morgue


Latest Episodes

Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E9: Levi Lupton Part 2
December 04, 2020

Scandal ends Levi Lupton's preaching career, but the story doesn't end there, as his descendants discover decades later. 

Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E8: Levi Lupton Part 1
December 04, 2020

Levi Lupton is a charismatic preacher in Alliance during the early 1900s. Some call him an apostle. Others call him a fraud. Just before Christmas in 1910, Lupton's life crashes in a scandal that becomes national news. See omnystudio.com/listener for pri

Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E7: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade
November 06, 2020

In the late 1930s at least six men with Stark County ties journeyed to Spain to fight in that country's civil war, a conflict that was, in many ways, a preview of World War II.

Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E6: Skateland
October 02, 2020

Roller skating, civil rights and racism in early 1960s Canton.

Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E5: Disease Detective
September 04, 2020

Almost a century ago, when lethal germs lurked in water and food supplies, a young woman named Helen Parson protected Canton residents from diseases.

Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E4: Busty Russell
March 21, 2020

Busty Russell was a legendary performer at Canton's State Theatre Burlesk. But who was she, really?

Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E3: Comrades of Canton
March 06, 2020

Their factory closed and the Great Depression getting worse, a group of Canton watchmakers traveled to Moscow in 1930 to set up a factory for the Soviet government. It was the adventure of a lifetime. cantonrep.com/canton-podcasts

Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E2: A fiend at work
February 14, 2020

A month after Ruth Hunter’s death in 1924, a second young woman goes missing and her body is found in a creek. Detectives investigate three suspects, one of whom confesses, but almost 100 years later the cases remain unsolved.

Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E1: Pretty Ruth Hunter
January 31, 2020

After a young woman is found dead on a lonely country road, police charge a Canton businessman with murder. But do they have the right man?

Tales from the Rep Morgue Episode 14: "Name on the stone"
November 29, 2019

On Thanksgiving in 1944, Canton soldier Andrew K. Thellman was thankful to be alive while fighting the Germans during World War II.

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