The Headstones & Microphones Podcast: Infamous

Ion Croitoru, best known as Johnny K-9 or Bruiser Bedlam, was a Canadian professional wrestler whose notoriety in the ring was ultimately overshadowed by his extensive life of crime as an outlaw biker

Richard Evonitz was an American serial killer and kidnapper whose crimes in Virginia and South Carolina were brought to light in 2002 after fifteen-year-old Kara Robinson courageously escaped his custody, prompting a multi-state manhunt that ended in his suicide.

Heinrich Himmler was the chief architect of the Holocaust and head of the Nazi SS, who meticulously weaponized bureaucratic efficiency to orchestrate the systematic genocide of millions.

Jeffrey Epstein was an American financier and convicted sex offender who utilized his vast wealth, high-level social connections, and a complex international network to traffic and abuse young girls and women for decades before dying in prison.

Sonny Barger was the fiercely loyal, counterculture icon who co-founded the Oakland chapter of the Hells Angels and transformed the motorcycle club into a globally recognized, tightly structured, and fiercely independent outlaw empire.

David Meirhofer was a notorious Montana serial killer who kidnapped and murdered four young people in the early 1970s, famously becoming the first subject of a successful FBI offender profile that ultimately led to his arrest and confession.

James Huberty was a deeply troubled and heavily armed gunman who perpetrated the 1984 San Ysidro McDonald’s massacre, killing 21 people after a lifetime of mental decline, domestic instability, and overwhelming paranoia.

Osama bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization al-Qaeda, orchestrating the September 11 attacks and leading a global terrorist campaign against the United States and its allies until he was killed by U.S. forces in 2011.

Danny Rolling, known as the "Gainesville Ripper," was an American serial killer who murdered five college students in Florida in August 1990 and was executed in 2006.

Charles Whitman was an American engineering student and former U.S. Marine who became infamous for committing a mass shooting at the University of Texas at Austin in 1966, an act preceded by the murder of his wife and mother.