Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

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

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 becomes a ward of th

443: Iowa's Notorious Carter Gang w/ David & Rose Donovan

In the first decades of the twentieth century, saloon proprietor Erastus Wallace Scott of Des Moines―with his cousins in the infamous Carter Gang―operated a campaign of m

442: The Maplehurst Murder w/ Mark Sebastian Jordan

The night before Easter 1905, Miranda Bricker left her sister’s house and made her way through the darkness. Her destination was her living quarters and place of employme

MoNo Encore: (Part 2) The 1876 Northfield Bank Raid by the James-Younger Gang w/ Mark Lee Gardner

(Orig Pub Date 8/10/2016) My conversation with author Mark Lee Gardner continues, about his book "Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's

MoNo Encore: (Part 1) The 1876 Northfield Bank Raid by the James-Younger Gang w/ Mark Lee Gardner

(Orig pub date: 8/3/2016) Much has been written about Jesse James, including his gang's ill-fated trip to Northfield, Minnesota, a botched bank raid met with death and tr

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 Territorial Arizona's most inf

440: The Wreck of the Mentor w/ Eric Jay Dolin

In May of 1832, an American whaleship called the Mentor went down on a remote reef in the western Pacific. Of the crew, eleven men made it out alive, but surviving the wr

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 1935 car accident tha