Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast
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Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast
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448: Did a Tacoma Smelter Help Create a Generation of Serial Killers? w/ Caroline Fraser
Ted Bundy grew up in Tacoma in the shadow of one of the most toxic smelters in the United States, and he wasn't the only one. Between the 1970s and '8...
444: A Memoir of Murder in the Golden State w/ Debra Miller
On October 7, 1964, Debra Miller’s life turns upside down when her mother is arrested for the murder of her father. At only fourteen years old, Debra...
441: Arizona's Murdered Madams w/ Merry Gordon
My guest this week is Merry Gordon, author of Arizona's Murdered Madams: Death in the Red-Light Districts. She shares the stories of two of Territoria...
439: The Curse of the Blumenthals w/ Phyllis Karas
My guest is New York Times bestselling author Phyllis Karas. She shares the deeply personal story of two shocking tragedies in her family history: a 1...
438: The Capone's Vault Fiasco w/ William Hazelgrove
In 1986, The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults drew a larger audience than the Super Bowl or David Frost’s interview with Richard Nixon. The special was i...
437: The Journalist & the Serial Killer w/ Mark Braude
In 1939, the crimes of German serial murderer Eugen Weidmann captivated France, culminating in a sensational trial and a public execution by guillotin...
MoNo Encore: Anastasia: Mystery & Myth w/ Greg King and Penny Wilson
(Orig. Release Date: 4/23/23) For decades following the horrific 1918 execution of the Romanov family, many hoped against hope that one or more of the...
435: Conversations With Serial Killers w/ Jeffrey Smalldon
My guest this week is forensic psychologist Dr. Jeffrey Smalldon. He shares stories from decades of correspondence, prison visits and interviews with...
434: The Murders That Inspired Lincoln's Lyceum Address w/ Saladin Ambar
My guest is award-winning author Saladin Ambar, who examines a wave of racially motivated killings along the Mississippi River in the 1830s - events t...
433: The Murder of Julia Bulette w/ Robin Flinchum
One chilly January night in 1867, a Virginia City prostitute was strangled to death in her bed. The murderer was caught and hanged in front of a crowd...
MoNo Encore: The Revenge of Hannah Duston w/ Jay Atkinson
(Orig pub date: 10/8/2017). My guest, Jay Atkinson, author of "Massacre on the Merrimack", tells the notorious and controversial story of Hannah Dusto...
431: The Cape Cod Murder of 1899 w/ Theresa Mitchell Webster
On a crisp September evening in 1899, a seventeen-year-old petty thief named Edwin Ray Snow shot and killed a bakery deliveryman named Jimmy Whittemor...
430: The Thames Torso Murders Revisited w/ Suzanne Huntington
My guest this week is Suzanne Huntington, co editor of Ripperologist Magazine and author of the recently published book "The Thames Torso Murders: Fac...
428: The Shipwreck of the San José & the Quest to Find Its Treasure w/ Julian Sancton
In 1708, during the War of the Spanish Succession, the Spanish galleon San José sailed from South America carrying a vast cargo of gold and silver bou...
MoNo Encore: The Mysterious Death of Fritzie Mann w/ James Stewart
(Orig. Pub Date: 11/10/21) In January of 1923, a 20-year-old dancer named Fritzie Mann left home to meet a mysterious man for what she told her mo...
427: The 1949 Exorcism That Inspired "The Exorcist" w/ Troy Taylor
In 1949, a quiet neighborhood in St. Louis became the center of one of the most controversial religious cases in American history. A 13-year-old boy b...
American Criminal: Machine Gun Kelly
Growing up in Memphis, George Kelly Barnes starts dabbling in crime from a young age. First he blackmails his father, then he grows a successful bootl...
426: Elizabeth Báthory: The World's Worst Female Serial Killer? w/ Shelley Puhak
Told and retold in many languages, the legend of the Blood Countess has consumed cultural imaginations around the world. But despite claims that Eliza...
422: The Wreck of the Circus Ship Royal Tar w/ Jane Parks Gardner
On October 21, 1836, crowds lined the docks of Saint John, New Brunswick, to watch the steamship Royal Tar depart for Portland, Maine - this time carr...
420: The 1788 Doctors' Riot w/ Andy McPhee
On April 13, 1788, outrage erupted in New York City when word spread that students from the local medical school were stealing corpses from nearby gra...
419: Serial Killer Pee Wee Gaskins w/ Dick Harpootlian
Among the many murder cases handled by South Carolina attorney Dick Harpootlian, one continues to stand apart: the prosecution of Donald “Pee Wee” Gas...
417: The Shipwreck of the Mignonette w/ Adam Cohen
On May 19, 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail from England on what should have been an uneventful voyage. When their vessel sank in the Atlantic, Cap...
416: Nazi Germany’s Bungled Operation Condor w/ Gavin Whitehead
In 1942, two Abwehr German agents, including Johannes Eppler, slipped into Cairo to gather intelligence for Rommel’s desert campaign, getting help fro...
415: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald w/ John U. Bacon
November 10, 2025, marked the fiftieth anniversary of the sinking of the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald during a vicious Lake Superior storm. All 29 c...
414: The Martha Wise Murders w/ Rod Kackley
In the winter of 1924-1925, quiet Medina County, Ohio, was shaken to its core. Martha Wise, an ordinary farm widow with an extraordinary obsession, sl...
MoNo Encore: The Murder of President James Garfield w/ Candice Millard
Original Pub Date: 1/14/19
On July 2nd, 1881, a disappointed and mentally unstable office-seeker named Charles Guiteau shot President Jam...
412: The Killing of William Woodward w/ Jerry Aylward
In the early hours on a rainy autumn night in 1955, on a lavish country estate in Oyster Bay Cove, esteemed New York socialite Ann Woodward fired both...
411: The Murder of Zoya Fyodorova w/ Chris Pouy
My guest is Chris Pouy, who shares an astonishing true story of love, betrayal, and murder on this latest episode of Most Notorious. His grandmother,...
The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis - Southern Gothic
Just off the old Natchez Trace, in the quiet woods of Tennessee, stands a broken marble column marking the grave of Meriwether Lewis. The monument was...
410: The 1856 Dublin Railway Murder w/ Thomas Morris
In November 1856, Dublin was shaken by the murder of George Little, chief cashier at the Broadstone railway terminus. He was found in his office, beat...