Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast
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Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast
Serial killers. Gangsters. Gunslingers. Victorian-era murderers. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Each week, the Most Notorious podcast features true-life tales of crime, criminals, tragedies and disasters throughout history. Host Erik Rivenes interviews authors and historians who have studie...
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409: The Scientist & the Serial Killer w/ Lise Olsen
In "The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston’s Lost Boys", investigative journalist Lise Olsen tells the gripping true-crime story...
408: The Murder of Cecelia Gullivan w/ Jeffrey L. Amestoy
In November 1926, Cecelia Gullivan, treasurer of the Cone Automatic Machine company of Windsor, Vermont, was brutally killed in her home. Local police...
407: The Thames Torso Murders w/ Sarah Bax Horton
Victorian London is often remembered for the Ripper murders, yet at the same time another equally chilling series of slayings unfolded. Between 1887 a...
406: The Murder of Jujube Heiress Ruth Quinn w/ Taylor Kiland
The small Southern California island of Coronado rarely makes news for violent crime. But in the spring of 1975, World War II widow and retired librar...
MoNo Encore: The Murder of Dr. W.D. Broadhurst w/ Patrick Gallagher
(Orig pub date: 2/15/22)
In October of 1946, a chiropractor and rancher named Willis "W.D." Broadhurst was beaten with a wrench and finis...
405: A History of Eugenics in America w/ Mark A. Torres
In the early twentieth century, eugenics captivated scientists and the public alike, giving researchers license to exploit the infirm, the mentally il...
404: Gunfighter Clay Allison w/ Donna Blake Birchell
Clay Allison was both liked and loathed in his lifetime, embodying the contradictions of the American frontier. He could show moments of kindness for...
403: The Madman of Crystal Beach w/ M.F. Gross
In the sultry summer of 1949, a sleepy Florida beach town was rocked to its core. A brutal home invasion, a shocking murder, and a desperate, month-lo...
402: The Reno Redfield Heist w/ Gavin Schmitt
The 1952 burglary of eccentric multi-millionaire LaVere Redfield’s mansion in Reno, Nevada was the largest of its time, but also a comedy of errors....
401: The First Forensic Hanging w/ Summer Strevens
The First Forensic Hanging: The Toxic Truth That Killed Mary Blandy by Summer Strevens tells the story of Mary Blandy, executed in 1752 for poisoning...
MoNo Encore: The Bermondsey Horror w/ Gavin Whitehead
(Orig pub date: 2/3/24)
On August 17th, 1849, London police officers made a grisly discovery at the home of George and Mari...
400: The Legend of Belle Starr w/ Michael Wallis
Myra Maibelle Shirley, better known as Belle Starr, was one of the most notorious female outlaws of the Old West (if you believe period newspapers, an...
399: The Life & Crimes of Robert Spears w/ Jerry Jamison
"Doctor" Robert Spears was arguably one of the greatest con artists of the twentieth century, and very likely a mass murderer. In thirty nine years of...
398: John Wilkes Booth & the Last Year of the Civil War w/ Scott Ellsworth
My guest this week is Scott Ellsworth, author of Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth o...
397: The Hazel Drew Murder Revisited w/ Jerry C. Drake
In July of 1908 the body of twenty-year-old Hazel Drew was found floating in a mill pond in Upstate New York. Her death captured headlines across the...
MoNo Encore: The 1912 Murder of Ella Barham w/ Nita Gould
(Original pub date: 6/16/21)
In November of 1912, a young woman named Ella Barham journeyed home, on her horse, to her fami...
396: The 1951 Murder of Clarence Pellett w/ Clem Pellett
Clem Pellett grew up knowing very little about his grandfather, Clarence Pellett, who was murdered along Montana's iconic Hi-Line in April of 1951....
395: The 1917 Murder of Beatrice Epler w/ Allie Seibert
On the morning of September 5th, 1917, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Epler was found dead just steps from her home in Alma, Michigan. The investigation in...
394: The Castleton Massacre with Margaret Carson & Sharon Anne Cook
On May 2, 1963, Robert Killins, a former United Church minister, slaughtered every woman in his family but one. She (and her brother) lived to tell th...
393: The Man Who Shot J.P. Morgan w/ Mary Noé
On the morning of July 3, 1915, John Pierpont Morgan Jr., one of the most famous names in finance, was entertaining guests at his sprawling Long Islan...
392: Golden Age Pirate George Lowther w/ Craig Chapman
George Lowther was a mutineer and a pirate, one of the most prolific during the golden age of piracy. His first mate, Edward "Ned" Low, went on to est...
MoNo Encore: The Murder of Kitty Genovese w/ Catherine Pelonero
(Original pub. date: 9/27/2018)
Catherine Pelonero, author of "Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and its P...
391: Civil War Era & Gilded Age Con Artist Charles Cowlam w/ Frank W. Garmon Jr.
Charles Cowlam stands out as one of the most remarkable con artists of nineteenth-century America. He talked his way into receiving pardons from both...
390: Abingdon's Boardinghouse Murder w/ Greg Lilly
In November 1945, James Newton, a young World War II veteran, was shot four times—twice in the back—in his room at an Abingdon, Virginia boardinghouse...
389: A History of Axe Murder w/ Rachel McCarthy James
Much like the wheel, the boat, and the telephone, the axe is a transformative piece of technology―one that has been with us since prehistory. And just...
388: The Adriatic Affair w/ Jennifer Sellitti
The American sailing vessel Adriatic collided with the French steamship Le Lyonnais on November 2, 1856, off the coast of Nantucket in what can best b...
Introducing the Slaycation Podcast
Just in time for summer! This is an introduction and excerpt from the Slaycation Podcast, hosted by Kim and Adam "Tex" Davis and Jerry Kolber.
MoNo Encore: The Murders of Stringbean and Estelle Akeman w/ Taylor Hagood
(original pub date 7/19/23)
David "Stringbean" Akeman was a singer, clawhammer banjo player and an early Grand Ole Opry sta...
387: The Beatle Bandit w/ Nate Hendley
On July 24, 1964, twenty-four-year-old Matthew Kerry Smith disguised himself with a mask and a Beatle wig, hoisted a semi-automatic rifle, then held u...
386: America's Nazi POW Murders w/ William Geroux
The American government was faced with an unprecedented challenge: where to house the nearly 400,000 German prisoners of war plucked from the battlefi...
385: The 1870 Murder of A.P. Crittenden w/ Gary Krist
Shortly before dusk on November 3, 1870, just as the ferryboat El Capitan was pulling away from its slip into San Francisco Bay, a woman clad in black...
384: The 1943 Murders of Dr. Roy & Mae Hunt w/ Christena Stephens
On a nearly moonless night in October 1943, a single gunshot rang out in Littlefield, Texas. A prominent Texas doctor and his wife were found bound, s...
MoNo Encore: The Murder of Carol Thompson w/ Bill Swanson
(Original pub date: 3/11/20)
While the Coen brothers refuse to confirm it, many believe that their movie "Fargo" was inspired by the Caro...
383: The Mysterious Disappearance of Molly Zelko w/ Rod Kackley
Molly Zelko was the crusading editor and publisher of the Spectator, a newspaper devoted to battling local gangsters operating slot machines and other...
382: The Notorious Nancy Clem & the Cold Spring Murders w/ Wendy Gamber
On September 13, 1868, the bodies of Jacob and Nancy Young were discovered brutally murdered along the bank of the White River in Cold Spring, Indiana...
381: Alabama's Kilpatrick Shooting w/ Lesa Carnes Shaul
Close to midnight on May 17, 1951, four north Alabama lawmen drove to a bootlegger’s home to serve an arrest warrant. Before the clock struck twelve,...
380: Murder in Blackout London w/ Amy Helen Bell
My guest today is Dr. Amy Helen Bell, author of "Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Blackout London". She shares accounts of the terror, tragedy and...
379: The Pan Am Flight 7 Seven Crash w/ Ken Fortenberry
My guest this week is award-winning journalist Ken Fortenberry, author of "Flight 7 Is Missing: The Search for My Father's Killer". He walks us throu...
MoNo Encore: The Villisca Axe Murders - The Reverend Lyn George Kelly w/ Edgar Epperly
(Original publish date: 6/7/22)
In this third and final part of my interview with Dr. Edgar Epperly, the "little minister" Lyn George Ja...
MoNo Encore: The Villisca Axe Murders: Wilkerson Vs. Jones w/ Edgar Epperly
(Original Publish Date: 5/31/22)
Frank Fernando (F.F.) Jones seemed to be one of the most obvious suspects in the aftermath of the horr...