Latest Mobster Podcast Episodes
WILLIE SUTTON Ep. 4 | “Maximum Security”
Infamous America - May 08, 2024 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsWillie Sutton and his crew execute their most dramatic robbery, but the success proves to be short-lived. Willie finds himself a guest of the Pennsylvania prison system and promptly starts scheming ways to break out of Eastern State Penitentiary. He and a group of inmates use a classic escape ide...
WILLIE SUTTON Ep. 3 | “Escape Artist”
Infamous America - May 01, 2024 08:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsWillie Sutton is back in Sing Sing prison and it doesn’t take him long to develop a plan to escape. But when the plan hits an unexpected snag, Willie teams up with a fellow inmate for a new idea that is even more audacious. The second plan works, and Willie restarts his career as a bank robber. W...
WILLIE SUTTON Ep. 2 | “Man of Many Faces”
Infamous America - April 24, 2024 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsWillie Sutton survives his first stint in prison and tries to go straight after his release. But before long, he’s back in the bank robbing business. This time, he discovers the perfect strategy to rob a bank with ease and without violence. Willie and his new partner, Marcus Bassett, go on a spre...
WILLIE SUTTON Ep. 1 | “Irishtown”
Infamous America - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsWillie Sutton grows up in a tough Irish neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York where he idolizes the gangsters who run the local docks. At the age of 10, he commits his first serious theft. Future crimes and false accusations force him to go on the run before he joins a gang of professional thieves. ...
PATTY HEARST Ep. 6 | “The Truth of Patty Hearst”
Infamous America - March 20, 2024 08:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsMore than a year and a half after Patty Hearst was kidnapped, her legal saga plays out in court and in the media. In court, she portrays herself as an innocent victim who was forced to participate in criminal activities. In early media encounters, she sounds like she genuinely joined the revoluti...
PATTY HEARST Ep. 5 | “The End of the The SLA”
Infamous America - March 13, 2024 08:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsPatty Hearst and the other two surviving members of the SLA connect with new recruits and flee to Pennsylvania to hide from the police. Before long, the group returns to northern California and conducts a bank robbery that has fatal consequences. The FBI picks up the trail of the elusive fugitive...
PATTY HEARST Ep. 4 | “The L.A. Shootout”
Infamous America - March 06, 2024 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsThe SLA feels heat from the FBI and law enforcement in northern California, so the group moves south to Los Angeles. Patty Hearst and two other members drive to a sporting goods store to buy supplies, but the simple errand takes a dramatic turn for the worse. The trio ends up on the run through L...
PATTY HEARST Ep. 3 | “The Hibernia Robbery”
Infamous America - February 28, 2024 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsAfter more than two months in captivity, Patty Hearst emerges from the shadows and helps the SLA rob a bank in northern California. The public is shocked to see images of the former college student who now looks like an armed revolutionary. A radio station receives a recording in which Patty proc...
PATTY HEARST Ep. 2 | “The Ransom”
Infamous America - February 21, 2024 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsThe kidnappers contact Patty Hearst’s family and make a strange and unprecedented demand. The SLA wants the wealthy Hearst family to set up a food distribution program throughout California. The Hearsts quickly organize a program, but it debuts with disastrous results. And the world hears the fir...
PATTY HEARST Ep. 1 | “The SLA”
Infamous America - February 14, 2024 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsOn February 4, 1974, strangers burst into the college apartment of Patty Hearst and kidnap her at gunpoint. While she begins her stay in captivity, she learns about her kidnappers. They are a ragtag collection of hopeful revolutionaries who call themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army. They are...
UPDATE | “Summer of 1876” Event Announcements!
Infamous America - January 24, 2024 09:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsJoin us for two upcoming events in 2024 about Chris’s book, “The Summer of 1876” February 2, 2024 – 2:00-3:00pm Presentation 3:00pm Book Signing Scottsdale, Arizona Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West Presentation and Book Signing **FREE to the public March 9-10, 2024 Tucson, Arizon...
BABY FACE NELSON Ep. 6 | “Public Enemy No. 1”
Infamous America - January 17, 2024 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsShortly after the Little Bohemia shootout, the celebrity criminals of the 1930s start to experience a reckoning. They fall one by one: Bonnie and Clyde, then John Dillinger, then Pretty Boy Floyd. In the autumn of 1934, Lester Gillis, aka George “Baby Face” Nelson, becomes the third man to carry ...
BABY FACE NELSON Ep. 5 | “The Little Bohemia Shootout”
Infamous America - January 10, 2024 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsAfter two robberies that featured gun battles, the Nelson-Dillinger gang needs some time to cool off. Baby Face Nelson heads out west to do a little business, and then reunites with the gang at the Little Bohemia Lodge in Wisconsin. Unbeknownst to the gang, FBI Agent Melvin Purvis has organized a...
BABY FACE NELSON Ep. 4 | “The Dillinger Connection”
Infamous America - January 03, 2024 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsAfter the messy Grand Haven job, Baby Face Nelson looks for a new crew. It’s the fall of 1933 and newspaper headlines are dominated by the most infamous criminals of the era: Bonnie and Clyde, George “Machine Gun” Kelly, Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd, Alvin “Creepy” Karpis and the Barker Family, Joh...
BABY FACE NELSON Ep. 3 | “The Grand Haven Heist”
Infamous America - December 27, 2023 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsBaby Face Nelson flees to the West Coast to avoid a manhunt in the Midwest. He works for prominent gamblers in Reno, Nevada and a bootlegger in California, but he misses his family in Chicago. He meets famous robber Alvin “Creepy” Karpis and takes Karpis’s advice to form a new crew in St. Paul, M...
BABY FACE NELSON Ep. 2 | “Escalation”
Infamous America - December 20, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsLester Gillis – known as George Nelson, nicknamed Baby Face Nelson – wants to graduate from home invasion to bank robbery. His crew targets small-town banks with varying degrees of success, and their streak doesn’t last long. Nelson gets arrested and sent to prison, but he proves he’s resourcefu...
BABY FACE NELSON Ep. 1 | “Home Invasion”
Infamous America - December 13, 2023 09:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsLester Gillis shows a restless spirit at a young age and soon begins his criminal career with a gang that specializes in home invasions. His crew makes a name for itself during Chicago’s crime wave of 1930, and he receives the nickname that sticks with him for the rest of his short life. Join Bl...
HOLLYWOOD MURDER Ep. 6 | Black Dahlia, Part 4
Infamous America - November 08, 2023 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsInvestigators and prosecutors build a case against Dr. George Hodel for the murder of Elizabeth Short. But for an unknown reason, it doesn’t lead to an arrest or an indictment. Dr. Hodel moves on with his life, even as he is suspected of multiple crimes, including multiple murders. Decades after...
HOLLYWOOD MURDER Ep. 5 | Black Dahlia, Part 3
Infamous America - November 01, 2023 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsInvestigators struggle to find clues which will lead them to the killer. Suspects are interviewed and cleared. And then, the presumed Black Dahlia killer contacts a Los Angeles newspaper and provides chilling information about the crime and the victim, Elizabeth Short. But the investigation stall...
HOLLYWOOD MURDER Ep. 4 | Black Dahlia, Part 2
Infamous America - October 25, 2023 08:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsThe police and the press continue to learn more about the life story of murder victim, Elizabeth Short, and the information now includes the fact that she had been nicknamed “Black Dahlia” while working as a waitress. Investigators trace her movements up to the day she disappeared and interview t...
HOLLYWOOD MURDER Ep. 3 | Black Dahlia, Part 1
Infamous America - October 18, 2023 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsOn January 15, 1947, a dead body is discovered in a vacant lot on the edge of downtown Los Angeles, California. A young woman was brutally murdered and police identify her as Elizabeth Short. Investigators and newspaper reporters race to uncover the details of her life story. The press have a gor...
HOLLYWOOD MURDER Ep. 2 | William Desmond Taylor, Part 2
Infamous America - October 11, 2023 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsIn the weeks after the murder of Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor, detectives methodically investigate a long list of suspects. They – and the press – uncover scandalous information. Careers are ruined, but no one is arrested. The case languishes for decades until another Hollywood direc...
HOLLYWOOD MURDER Ep. 1 | William Desmond Taylor, Part 1
Infamous America - October 04, 2023 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsBy the early 1920s, William Desmond Taylor is one of the hottest directors in Hollywood … which makes it all the more surprising when he is found dead in his home. The circumstances of the discovery of his murder are bizarre, and a scandal erupts in the capital of the movie industry. As detective...
NEW SHOW | “Mission History”
Infamous America - September 27, 2023 08:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsBlack Barrel Media and QCODE proudly share a preview of Mission History, a podcast that chronicles the tales of legendary military leaders, epic campaigns, and covert missions that remained hidden for years. The first season journeys through the American Revolutionary War and pays homage to som...
DIXIE MAFIA: PHENIX CITY Ep. 6 | “The Revolution”
Infamous America - August 23, 2023 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsIn the wake of the Albert Patterson assassination, the Alabama governor declares martial law in Russell County. National guard troops swarm Phenix City. They dismantle the illegal operations and remove corrupt officials from office, and a new Phenix City rises from the ashes of the old. Join Bla...
DIXIE MAFIA: PHENIX CITY Ep. 5 | “The Empire Strikes Back”
Infamous America - August 16, 2023 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsIt’s election time again in Phenix City, and Hugh Bentley and his reformers vow to make it an honest process. In response, there’s bloodshed at polling places. Despite the corruption, Bentley’s friend and fellow reformer, Albert Patterson, seems to have a good chance to win the race for State Att...
DIXIE MAFIA: PHENIX CITY Ep. 4 | “A New Hope”
Infamous America - August 09, 2023 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsHoyt Shepherd and his brother go to trial for murder, and few people are surprised by the outcome. With corruption and crime on the rise, a new champion of reform leads the charge for change. Hugh Bentley makes it his mission to clean up Phenix City, and he quickly becomes the target of a bomb fo...
DIXIE MAFIA: PHENIX CITY Ep. 3 | “The Murder”
Infamous America - August 02, 2023 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsCorruption and murder challenge the system of crime in Phenix City. Hoyt Shepherd and Jimmie Matthews work to rig local elections using every available method. They use illegal tactics to help the mayor during his campaign for a spot on the City Commission, and a victory party becomes the setting...
DIXIE MAFIA: PHENIX CITY Ep. 2 | “Wicked Town”
Infamous America - July 26, 2023 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsAmerica’s 13-year ban on alcohol doesn’t stop saloon owners and whiskey makers in Phenix City. After Prohibition ends, gambling takes center stage in town. Hoyt Shepherd and Jimmie Matthews run the most prominent gambling rackets in Phenix City, but their reign is threatened by a tragedy at one o...
DIXIE MAFIA: PHENIX CITY Ep. 1 | “Lawless”
Infamous America - July 19, 2023 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsThe story of the Dixie Mafia begins in Phenix City, Alabama. The town was sometimes called “the wickedest city in America.” It was sometimes called “America’s original sin city.” By the 20th century, crime was institutionalized to the point that only a revolution could solve the problem. But long...