Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

459: Taiwan's 1957 Liu Ziran Incident & Reynolds Riot w/ Stephen G. Craft

In March 1957, Master Sergeant Robert Reynolds, a U.S. military adviser living with his family outside Taipei, Taiwan, shot and killed a man named Liu Ziran, who Reynolds

458: The Tale of a Medieval Survivor w/ Sara McDougall

In the winter of 1472, the city of Dijon, France, became the stage for a remarkable legal drama. On the mayor’s orders, an investigator named Jaques Borestel went door-to

457: Lizzie Borden Case Expert Cara Robertson Returns

There has been lots of buzz recently about Netflix's gory new series Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, and Cara Robertson, author of "The Trial of Lizzie Borden", joins m

MoNo Encore: The Lizzie Borden Case w/ Cara Robertson

(Orig Pub Date 7/19/22) In anticipation of a new interview with Cara, mostly about the recent Netflix Series, here is my original conversation with her about the notoriou

456: Outlaw Public Enemies Ben & Stella Mae Dickson w/ Matt Cecil

On August 25, 1938, twenty-five-year-old Ben Dickson and his fifteen-year-old wife Stella Mae robbed the Corn Exchange Bank in Elkton, South Dakota, making off with $2,18

MoNo Encore: Jack the Ripper: Aaron Kosminski w/ Robert House

(Orig Pub Date 11/16/2023) Aaron Kosminski is one of the more well known suspects in the Whitechapel murders. Some of the major police officials of the era, in fact, were

455: Black Dahlia Case Expert Eli Frankel Returns

Eli Frankel, author of "Sisters in Death: The Black Dahlia, The Prairie Heiress, & Their Hunter", returns to share his thoughts on the recent explosion of interest in Mar

454: The Murder of Tina Andrews w/ Trent Brown

On August 23, 1969, the badly decomposed body of twelve-year-old Tina Marie Andrews was found under a discarded sofa in the woods outside McComb, Mississippi. Days earlie

453: Jane Doe #59: The Murder of Reet Jurvetson w/ Catherine Fogarty

Just months after the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders, the body of a 19-year-old woman was discovered off a secluded stretch of Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles on November

452: The Nittany Nightmare Murders Part 2 w/ Derek Sherwood

My conversation with Derek Sherwood, author of Nittany Nightmare: The Sex Murders of 1938–1940 and the Panic at Penn State, continues. He shares a story about trying to f

451: The Nittany Nightmare Murders Part 1 w/ Derek Sherwood

Between November 1938 and May 1940, Margaret Martin, Rachel Taylor and Faye Gates were abducted and sexually assaulted, their bodies dumped within 50 miles of Penn State

MoNo Encore: The Mysterious Death of Dorothy Kilgallen w/ Mark Shaw

(Orig Pub Date 11/8/17) My guest is former criminal defense attorney Mark Shaw, author of "The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What's My Line TV Star

450: The Murderous Harp Brothers Revisited w/ Katherine Grandjean

The Harp(e) brothers have been called America's first serial killers, once notorious enough to be the stuff of folklore and legend before fading into obscurity. In the ch

American Criminal: Boss Tweed

This is the first episode of American Criminal's latest season - all about Boss Tweed, the Tammany Hall politician who has become synonymous with civic graft and corrupti

449: The Mysterious Disappearance of William Morgan w/ Ann Webster Bunch

William Morgan was last seen in Batavia, New York, in September 1826, shortly after threatening to publish purported Masonic secrets. He was arrested that same month in C

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 '80s, the Pacific Nort

447: Rome's Most Evil Rulers w/ Phillip Barlag - A True Crime History Podcast

My guest this week is Phillip Barlag, author of "Evil Roman Emperors: The Shocking History of Ancient Rome's Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero and More." He share

446: Bandit Chief Joaquin Murrieta: Myth Vs. Fact w/ John Boessenecker

Joaquin Murrieta has been remembered as a Robin Hood of the California Gold Rush — a wronged miner turned avenging outlaw, the supposed inspiration for Zorro. The truth i

MoNo Encore: The Mysterious Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar w/ Tal McThenia

(Orig pub date: 3/28/23) In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar went missing in the Louisiana swamps. After an eight-month search that electrified the country and destroyed

445: The Murder of Frances Cochran w/ Robert Fitzgibbon

On July 17, 1941, in Lynn, Massachusetts, attractive nineteen-year-old Frances Cochran stepped off a commuter bus and into a mysterious black automobile. Three days later