Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast
216 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsSerial 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, and whose stories are offered with unique insight, detail, and historical accuracy.
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The 1629 Batavia Mutiny & Massacre w/ Mike Dash - A True Crime History Podcast
February 15, 2016 01:37 - 1 hour - 84.4 MBOff of the coast of western Australia, the Dutch East India Company's state-of-the-art ship, the Batavia, wrecks on a reef in June of 1629. One of the officers on board, a failed apothecary named Jeronimus Corenlisz, is left in charge of the survivors and begins to slaughter them with terrible brutality. I'm joined by the author of "Batavia's Graveyard", Mike Dash, who tells this story in gruesome detail. Become a Most Notorious patron at: www.patreon.com/mostnotorious Learn more about your...
Murder in 1937 Peking w/ Paul French - A True Crime History Podcast
February 08, 2016 00:37 - 47 minutes - 64.7 MBIn 1937, on the eve of the Japanese occupation of Peking (Beijing), China, a young English woman is found brutally murdered at the base of Fox Tower, and an investigation launches that churns up some disturbing details. Paul French, the author of "Midnight in Peking", is my guest on this week's episode of Most Notorious!. Become a Most Notorious patron at: www.patreon.com/mostnotorious Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Texas Gangster & Poker King Benny Binion w/ Doug Swanson - A True Crime History Podcast
January 31, 2016 22:24 - 45 minutes - 62.9 MBBenny Binion was a larger-than-life character, a gangster who grew up in Texas and built a criminal empire. Eventually he moved to Las Vegas, started the Horseshoe Casino, and began the World Series of Poker. I chat with Doug Swanson, author of Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker about the crazy life of this Lone Star legend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 w/ Jerome A. Greene - A True Crime History Podcast
January 25, 2016 00:01 - 43 minutes - 59.5 MBDecember 29th, 2015, marked the 125th Anniversary of one of the most tragic events in American history. My guest Jerome A. Greene, author of American Carnage: Wounded Knee 1890, talks about the massacre of Lakota Indians by the United States 7th Cavalry. Become a Most Notorious patron at: www.patreon.com/mostnotorious Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Billy the Kid & Pat Garrett w/ Mark Lee Gardner - A True Crime History Podcast
January 19, 2016 05:55 - 54 minutes - 74.7 MBWe're back to Old New Mexico on this episode of Most Notorious. I talk to Mark Lee Gardner, author of To Hell on a Fast Horse: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett about this famous duo, forever linked in history in the early 1880s. Become a Most Notorious patron at: www.patreon.com/mostnotorious Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The 1946 Portland Torso Murder w/ J.D. Chandler - A True Crime History Podcast
January 11, 2016 22:39 - 42 minutes - 58.4 MBJ.D. Chandler, author of "Murder and Scandal in Prohibition Portland", relays the tale of the Torso Murder in 1946 Portland, Oregon, including his decade long investigation of this very cold case. Become a Most Notorious patron at: www.patreon.com/mostnotorious Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nazis in 1930s America w/ Arnie Bernstein - A True Crime History Podcast
January 04, 2016 19:15 - 47 minutes - 64.7 MBIn this episode, host Erik Rivenes talks with Arnie Bernstein, author of "Swastika Nation", about the rise Nazism in the United States in the 1930s under Fritz Kuhn. Famed columnist Walter Winchell, Jewish gangsters like Mickey Cohen and Meyer Lanksy, and even a former Miss America play a part in Kuhn's eventual fall from power. Become a Most Notorious patron at: www.patreon.com/mostnotorious Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Machine Gun Kelly w/ Joe Urschel - A True Crime History Podcast
December 28, 2015 06:00 - 42 minutes - 57.8 MBAuthor Joe Urschel is the Executive Director of the National Law Enforcement Museum in Washington D.C. He's also the author of "The Year of Fear: Machine Gun Kelly and the Manhunt That Changed the Nation." Joe and Erik discuss the life and times of George Kelly and his adversarial relationship with F.B.I Director J. Edgar Hoover in the early 1930s. Become a Most Notorious patron at: www.patreon.com/mostnotorious Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Lawson Family Christmas Murders in 1929 North Carolina w/ Trudy J . Smith - A True Crime History Podcast
December 21, 2015 09:13 - 36 minutes - 50.7 MBOn Christmas Day, 1929, in Germanton, North Carolina, Charlie Lawson murdered his wife and six children on their rural farm. This horrific crime is part of local lore, and Trudy J. Smith and her father, M. Bruce Jones researched the massacre 25 years ago, conducting interviews with Lawson family members and witnesses. Their original book, "White Christmas, Bloody Christmas" has been revised and expanded in the last ten years, and is now called "The Meaning of Our Tears". Host Erik Rivenes tal...
Harry Hayward: Murder in 1890s Minneapolis w/ Jack El-Hai - A True Crime History Podcast
December 14, 2015 13:21 - 45 minutes - 62.1 MBJack El-Hai is a Minnesota author who has written many books, including The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Goring, Dr. Douglas M Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of World War 2. However, our subject in this episode of Most Notorious is the scoundrel Harry Hayward, famous in Minnesota for murdering Kitty Ging in 1894. Jack El-Hai and I delve into the egotistical mind of Hayward, and discuss the possibility that he was an early American serial killer, preceding H.H. Holmes by...
1870s Child Serial Killer Jesse Pomeroy w/ Harold Schechter - A True Crime History Podcast
December 07, 2015 05:23 - 35 minutes - 49.5 MBHarold Schecter is one of America's most prolific true crime writers. Back in 2001, he wrote about one of the most chilling serial killing sprees in history, a true life account of the notorious "boy-fiend" Jesse Harding Pomeroy in 1870s Boston. Erik Rivenes chats with the author about his fascinating book called "Fiend", along with some information on his newest work. Become a Most Notorious patron at: www.patreon.com/mostnotorious Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Murdering Harpe Brothers of 1790s Tennessee w/ E. Don Harp - A True Crime History Podcast
December 01, 2015 08:50 - 41 minutes - 56.6 MBIn 1799 Big Harpe and Little Harpe swathed a bloody path down the Wilderness Trail in Kentucky and Tennessee, murdering everyone in their path. My guest, E. Don Harp, a descendant of the infamous brothers, argues in "The Last Rampage of the Terrible Harpes" that they were the first serial killers in American History. In our conversation we get the lowdown on these lowdown murderers. Become a Most Notorious patron at: www.patreon.com/mostnotorious Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph...
Los Angeles Gangster Mickey Cohen w/ Tere Tereba - A True Crime History Podcast
November 23, 2015 23:30 - 50 minutes - 69.1 MBMickey Cohen went from selling newspapers on the streets of L.A. to heading one of the largest crime rackets in the United States. He worked under Bugsy Siegel, rubbed shoulders with Frank Sinatra, Lana Turner and Billy Graham, and cut down enemies with a ruthless passion. Joining host Erik Rivenes is Tere Tereba. A former fashion designer, friend of Jim Morrison and Andy Warhol, she wrote the definitive book of the Los Angeles underworld, called "Mickey Cohen: The Life and Crimes of L.A.'s M...
Lizzie Borden with Joe Conforti -A True Crime History Podcast
November 17, 2015 03:11 - 49 minutes - 68.5 MBThe murders of Andrew and Abby Borden in 1892, and the accusation that sent daughter Lizzie Borden to trial, is one of the most infamous in American history. But did Lizzie Borden really give her mother forty whacks? What is myth, and what is fact in this notorious murder case? Erik speaks with Joseph Conforti, author of "Lizzie Borden on Trial: Murder, Ethnicity and Gender" about the woman behind the crime. Become a Most Notorious patron at: www.patreon.com/mostnotorious Learn more about yo...
Leopold and Loeb in 1924 Chicago with Simon Baatz - A True Crime History Podcast
November 10, 2015 02:17 - 53 minutes - 73.5 MBGuest Simon Baatz, author of “For the Thrill of It: Leopold and Loeb and the Murder That Shocked Chicago” talks about the infamous Bobby Franks murder, and the trial of Leopold and Loeb, with famed criminal attorney Clarence Darrow at the defense. Also, Irish mobster Dean O'Banion runs into trouble on Chicago's north side. Become a Most Notorious patron at: www.patreon.com/mostnotorious Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Gangsters in 1930s Minnesota with Paul Maccabee - A True Crime History Podcast Hosted by Erik Rivenes
November 02, 2015 06:26 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBIn the 1930s, Saint Paul Minnesota was considered a vacation home for some of the most notorious bank-robbing gangsters of the Depression-era, including John Dillinger and the Barker-Karpis Gang. My guest, Paul Maccabee, wrote the definitive book on the subject, entitled "Dillinger Slept Here: A Crook's Tour of Crime and Corruption In St. Paul", and he shares some of those titillating stories here, on this first ever episode of Most Notorious: A True Crime History Podcast. This is a classic...