Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

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What's Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast about?

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. This is an interview show spotlighting authors and historians who have studied their subjects for years. Their stories are offered with unique insight, detail, and historical accuracy.

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In the early morning hours of October 17, 1953, a frightened, battered woman named Diane Wells told a horrific tale to police. She said intruders had broken into the top-floor penthouse apartment she shared with her husband Cecil, murdered him, ...

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06.21.2022 250: The Murder of Cecil Wells w/ James T. Bartlett - A True Crime History Podcast In the early morning hours of October 17, 1953, a frightened, battered woman named Diane Wells told a horrific tale to police. She said intruders had broken into the top-floor penthouse apartment she shared with her husband Cecil, murdered him, ...
06.18.2022 249: The Whitman Massacre w/ Blaine Harden - A True Crime History Podcast In 1835 Marcus and Narcissa Whitman arrived to the Pacific Northwest, building a mission on Cayuse land near the present day Washington/Oregon border with hopes of converting members of the Cayuse tribe to Christianity. However when a deadly measles outbreak ...
06.16.2022 Introducing: Smoke Screen: Puppy Kingpin Americans are used to being on the lookout for a scam, but authorities are warning of a new kind of fraud. Puppy Kingpin shines a spotlight on Jolyn Noethe, a secretive businesswoman from Iowa who is accused of laundering puppies ...
06.14.2022 248: The Murder of Pearl Bryan w/ Robert Wilhelm - A True Crime History Podcast In February of 1896 the decapitated corpse of a young woman, who would later be identified as Pearl Bryan, was discovered in the woods of Northern Kentucky. Evidence would lead investigators to two dental students in Cincinnati, Ohio named Scott ...
06.07.2022 247: The Villisca Axe Murders: The Reverend Lyn George Kelly w/ Edgar Epperly In this third and final part of my interview with Dr. Edgar Epperly, the "little minister" Lyn George Jacklin Kelly is examined as a primary suspect in the 1912 Villisca Axe Murders. Although Kelly spoke obsessively about the case and ...
05.31.2022 246: The Villisca Axe Murders: Wilkerson Vs. Jones w/ Edgar Epperly Frank Fernando (F.F.) Jones seemed to be one of the most obvious suspects in the aftermath of the horrific 1912 Villisca Axe murders. He had a contentious business rivalry with the patriarch of the slain Moore family, Josiah (Joe) Moore, ...
05.25.2022 245: The Villisca Axe Murders: Crime Scene w/ Edgar Epperly June 9th (or) 10th marks the 110th anniversary of one of the most notorious crimes in American history - the brutal axe murders of Josiah and Sarah Moore, their four children (Herman, Katherine, Boyd and Paul) and Ina and Lena ...
05.18.2022 244: The Wreck of the Ocean Monarch w/ Gill Hoffs - A True Crime History Podcast The Ocean Monarch, captained by James Murdock, was a disciplined and safety-conscious passenger ship that should have smoothly sailed from England to the United States in 1848. Not long after its departure, however, a devastating fire broke out on board, ...
05.10.2022 243: The Murder of Thora Chamberlain w/ Rod Kackley - A True Crime History Podcast On the afternoon of December 2nd, 1945, a fourteen-year-old student named Thora Chamberlain walked with friends to a high school football game in Campbell, California. A man wearing a U.S. Navy uniform pulled up beside them in his sedan and ...
05.03.2022 242: Murder on the Berwind w/ Charles Oldham - A True Crime History Podcast In October of 1905, the schooner Harry A. Berwind was intercepted off the coast of North Carolina. On board were four Black sailors, three of them alive and one dead. The survivors told conflicting stories - blaming each other for ...
04.25.2022 241: Mary Ann Cotton: Britain's First Female Serial Killer? w/ Martin Connolly Mary Ann Cotton is considered by many to be England's first female serial killer, with allegations that she used arsenic to poison over twenty people, including her children, mother and husbands in the 1850s, 60s and 70s. But was she ...
04.18.2022 240: Bath Massacre (New Edition) w/ Arnie Bernstein - A True Crime History Podcast Arnie Bernstein was one my first guests on Most Notorious, way back on episode #26, and talked about the horrifying 1927 Bath Consolidated School massacre. Since the initial publication of his book "Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing" in 2009, ...
04.09.2022 239: Axis Sally w/ Richard Lucas - A True Crime History Podcast Mildred Gillars, known to American GIs as "Axis Sally", was one of Nazi Germany's most notorious radio propagandists. Hired by German State Radio because of her American accent and seductive voice, she finally achieved her own version of stardom after ...
04.03.2022 238: The Murder of Frank Richardson w/ Kimberly Tilley - A True Crime History Podcast On Christmas Eve, 1900, 44-year-old dry goods store owner Frank Richardson was shot to death in his Savannah, Missouri home. Suspects included his wife Addie, his teenage lover Goldie Whitehead, and the man whom he suspected his wife of having ...
03.24.2022 237: Eliot Ness Vs. The Mad Butcher w/ A. Brad Schwartz - A True Crime History Podcast My conversation about the life of Eliot Ness continues with A. Brad Schwartz. After years battling The Outfit in Chicago, Ness was hired as Director of Public Safety in Cleveland, Ohio. Tasked with ridding the city of crime and corruption, ...
03.17.2022 236: Eliot Ness Vs. Al Capone w/ A. Brad Schwartz - A True Crime History Podcast Throughout the 1920s Chicago was a cesspool of corruption and violence, due in large part to the obscene amounts of money being made through the illegal manufacture, transportation and sale of alcohol. Much of the business was being done by ...
03.08.2022 235: The Murder of Nancy Morgan w/ Mark I. Pinsky - A True Crime History Podcast In June of 1970, the body of 24-year-old Nancy Morgan was found inside a government-owned car in Madison County, North Carolina. It had been four days since anyone had heard from the bubbly, hard-working brunette who had moved to the ...
03.03.2022 234: Serial Killer David Meirhofer & the Birth of FBI Profiling w/ Ron Franscell - A True Crime History Podcast On June 25th, 1973, Suzie Jaeger was abducted from her tent while camping with her family in Montana. The FBI was baffled by the mystery, until two agents began using new profiling techniques to narrow in on a local oddball ...
02.23.2022 233: The Murder of Sarah Feinstein w/ Wayne Hoffman - A True Crime History Podcast Journalist Wayne Hoffman had been long intrigued by a family story, vague on details, about the murder of his great-grandmother Sarah Feinstein at the hands of a sniper in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Encouraged by his mother, he decided to search for ...
02.16.2022 232: The Murder of Dr. W.D. Broadhurst w/ Patrick Gallagher - A True Crime History Podcast In October of 1946, a chiropractor and rancher named Willis "W.D." Broadhurst was beaten with a wrench and finished off with a shotgun on a lonely eastern Oregon road. Investigators would soon accuse his wife Gladys of plotting the doctor's ...
02.07.2022 231: Part Two: The Murder of Mary Phagan & the Lynching of Leo Frank w/ Steve Oney In this second half of my interview with Steve Oney, he shares details of the dramatic events that unfolded after the trial of Leo Frank for the murder of thirteen-year-old factory worker Mary Phagan. Steve Oney is author of "And ...
02.06.2022 230: Part One: The Murder of Mary Phagan & the Lynching of Leo Frank w/ Steve Oney In 1913, thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan was found brutally murdered in the basement of the Atlanta pencil factory where she worked. The factory manager, a college-educated Jew named Leo Frank, was arrested, tried and convicted in a trial that seized national ...
01.30.2022 229: The Catskill Ripper: Lizzie Halliday w/ Kevin Owen - A True Crime History Podcast On the heels of Lizzie Borden's infamous double murder, another woman named Lizzie was arrested for a series of killings, this time in New York's Catskill Mountains. Lizzie Halliday was arrested in September of 1893 for not only her husband ...
01.20.2022 228: Eastern State Penitentiary w/ Paul Kahan - A True Crime History Podcast Pennsylvania’s Eastern State Penitentiary has a rich and fascinating history. Built in the 1820s as a place to reform criminals, it saw an increase in violence over the decades before finally closing in 1971 as a working prison. It now ...
01.13.2022 227: "Queen of the Con" Cassie Chadwick w/ Thomas Crowl - A True Crime History Podcast Elizabeth Bigley - better known as Cassie Chadwick - might be the most successful confidence artist in American history that you've never heard of. She swindled her way across the eastern United States during the height of the Gilded Age, ...
01.05.2022 226: The Murder of Hazel Drew w/ David Bushman & Michael T. Givens - A True Crime History Podcast In July of 1908, the bludgeoned body of a young woman named Hazel Drew was found floating in a pond in Sand Lake, New York. In the following weeks investigators would be flummoxed by the mystery of not only her ...
12.21.2021 225: The Murder of Salem Slave Trader Joseph White w/ Edward Renehen Jr. - A True Crime History Podcast In April of 1830, Joseph White, an aged, wealthy and despised resident of Salem, Massachusetts was discovered murdered in his bedroom by servants. The city - still suffering from the stigma of the Salem Witch trials 140 years earlier - ...
12.16.2021 224: The Wreck of the Christmas Tree Ship w/ Cris Kohl & Joan Forsberg Happy Holidays everyone! In late November of 1912, a schooner named the Rouse Simmons, heavily laden with Christmas trees, made its way across Lake Michigan with Chicago as its final destination. Once there, Captain Herman Schuenemann and his family planned, ...
12.09.2021 223: DB Cooper & the Hijacking of Northwest Flight 305 w/ Darren Schaefer & George McKeon - A True Crime History Podcast In November of 1971 a man who would come to be known as D.B. Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305, ultimately parachuting out of the Boeing 727 in spectacular fashion, along with $200,000 in ransom money, presumably somewhere in Washington ...
12.02.2021 222: Denver's "Boy Murderer" Anton Woode w/ Dick Kreck - A True Crime History Podcast On November 2nd, 1892 a ten-year-old boy named Anton Woode led a hunter to a secluded area of woods a few miles north of Denver, Colorado and shot him dead. Local papers would nickname him "The Boy Murderer". My guest ...
11.16.2021 221: Dostoevsky & the Murderer Who Inspired Crime & Punishment w/ Kevin Birmingham Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky lived a fascinating and turbulent life. He served a sentence in a Siberian prison camp and suffered from depression and a gambling addiction that kept him destitute for years. But through these challenges he wrote some ...
11.11.2021 220: The Mysterious Death of Fritzie Mann w/ James Stewart - A True Crime History Podcast In January of 1923, a 20-year-old dancer named Fritzie Mann left home to meet a mysterious man for what she told her mother was a house party. When she was discovered dead on a remote beach a few miles north ...
11.02.2021 219: The Murder of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin w/ Gillian O'Brien - A True Crime History Podcast One of the most powerful secret societies in 1880s Chicago was the mysterious Clan na Gael, run by Irish-American kingpin Alexander Sullivan. When Dr. Patrick Cronin questioned Sullivan's management of the organization, embrace of the controversial "dynamite policy", and disappearance ...
10.28.2021 218: Rogues' Gallery: Crooks, Cops and Crime in New York City's Gilded Age w/ John Oller New York City in the mid to late 19th century was host to some of the most colorful criminals in American history - and equally colorful policemen who battled them. Police Chief Thomas Byrnes was considered one of the best ...
10.20.2021 217: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein w/ Allison B. Kavey & Lester D. Friedman - A True Crime History Podcast On this special Halloween-themed episode of Most Notorious, my guests - professors Lester Friedman and Allison Kavey - talk about Mary Shelley's early 19th-century literary classic, Frankenstein. They explore Shelley's creation of her timeless gothic novel and how her background ...
10.14.2021 216: Notorious Gamblers of the Old West w/ G.R. Williamson - A True Crime History Podcast My guest, Western author and historian G.R. Williamson, appeared on Most Notorious a couple of years ago to talk about gunfighters Ben Thompson and King Fisher. He joins me again, this time to tell tales from his book "Notorious Gamblers ...
10.06.2021 215: The Great Chicago Fire w/ Carl Smith - A True Crime History Podcast October 8th, 2021 marks the 150th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire, the legendary disaster that destroyed a third of Chicago and made 90,000 residents homeless. While Mrs. O'Leary and her cow are usually portrayed as the culprits behind the ...
09.28.2021 214: The Murder of William Cantilupe in Medieval England w/ Melissa Julian-Jones - A True Crime History Podcast We're back again to the Hundred Years War in this episode of Most Notorious - this time in England. Sir William Cantilupe, a battle-hardened knight who had recently been acquitted of murdering his brother Nicholas, was discovered dead in a ...
09.21.2021 213: The Stabbing of Henry Ballard by Amelia Norman w/ Julie Miller - A True Crime History Podcast On November 1st, 1843, a dejected servant named Amelia Norman followed her former beau Henry Ballard to the steps of the Astor House Hotel in New York City. There she stabbed him with a folding knife, barely missing his heart. ...
09.15.2021 212: The Murder of Louis I in Medieval France w/ Eric Jager - A True Crime History Podcast In November of 1407, Louis I, The Duke of Orleans and brother of France's "Mad" King Charles VI, is murdered on a street near his home in Medieval Paris. A police investigation ensues, surprisingly as thorough and detailed as any ...
09.06.2021 211: The East River Ripper Murder of Old Shakespeare w/ George R. Dekle Sr. - A True Crime History Podcast On April 24th, 1891, a Bowery prostitute named Carrie Brown (known locally as "Old Shakespeare") was found murdered and mutilated in the seedy East River Hotel. With the Jack the Ripper murders unsolved and still news, many believed that the ...
08.31.2021 210: The George Weyerhaueser Kidnapping w/ Bryan Johnston - A True Crime History Podcast On March 25, 1935, little George Weyerhaueser, heir to one of the biggest fortunes in America, was kidnapped on his way home from school in Tacoma, Washington. His abductors would keep him manacled in a pit in the middle of ...
08.23.2021 209: The Shipwreck of the William & Mary w/ Gill Hoffs - A True Crime History Podcast In the spring of 1853 the ill-fated William and Mary, an American sailing ship captained by the incompetent Timothy Stinson, departed from England carrying over 200 Dutch, Scotch, Irish and English emigrants, all bound for New Orleans. The voyage was ...
08.16.2021 208: Tracing Your Criminal Ancestors w/ Stephen Wade - A True Crime History Podcast Do you have a criminal from your family's past that you've always wanted to learn more about, but don't know where to start? On this special episode of Most Notorious, prolific British author Stephen Wade offers helpful tips on how ...
08.02.2021 207: Was Montague Druitt Jack the Ripper? w/ Jonathan Hainsworth & Christine Ward-Agius Of all of the Jack the Ripper suspects, Montague Druitt is the most maligned in modern times, my guests argue, despite the fact that many of his contemporaries believed him to be the murderer of the Canonical Five before drowning ...
07.26.2021 206: Illinois' Cherry Mine Disaster w/ Karen Tintori - A True Crime History Podcast The Cherry Mine in Cherry, Illinois was built to be one of the safest in the United States. However on November 13th, 1909, it caught fire, killing 259 boys and men who were trapped inside, hundreds of feet below ground. ...
07.19.2021 205: The Murder of Brenda Joyce Holland w/ John Railey - A True Crime History Podcast Roanoke Island is host every year to the famous "Lost Colony" outdoor drama. It was during the 1967 production that a young makeup artist named Brenda Joyce Holland went missing - her body eventually discovered floating in Albemarle Sound. A ...
07.10.2021 204: Kentucky's Ashland Murders w/ Joe Castle - A True Crime History Podcast On the evening of December 23rd 1881, three teenagers, alone in a farmhouse in Ashland Kentucky, were savagely murdered and the house set afire to cover the crime. What followed would be an investigation, trials, a lynching, and a massacre ...
07.03.2021 203: Serial Killer "Red" Hall w/ Janie Nesbitt Jones - A True Crime History Podcast At the tail end of World War Two, a serial killer named James Waybern "Red" Hall, stalked the roads of Arkansas, Kansas and other middle American states, remorselessly murdering kind people who made the unfortunate decision to offer him a ...
06.25.2021 202: California's Lamson Murder Case w/ Tom Zaniello - A True Crime History Podcast When sheriff's deputies arrived at David and Allene Lamson's Palo Alto home on Memorial Day, 1933, they found David frantic over what he said was a terrible accident in their bathroom. Allene, he explained, had slipped when getting out of ...

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