461: The Fire Witch & the 1876 Brooklyn Theater Inferno w/ Melanie Gall
On December 5, 1876, a packed house at the Brooklyn Theatre was watching the hit melodrama "The Two Orphans" when star Kate Claxton spotted...
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Serial 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, t...
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20 of 503 episodesMoNo Encore: The Life & Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe w/ Mark Dawidziak
Edgar Allan Poe is, of course, one of America's most iconic writers. Many credit him with inventing or popularizing multiple literary genres...
460: Dr. Joseph Bell: The Real Sherlock Holmes w/ Lindsey Fitzharris
Throughout nineteenth-century Edinburgh, the surgeon Joseph Bell was known for his extraordinary talent for detection and diagnosis. To the...
459: Taiwan's 1957 Liu Ziran Incident & Reynolds Riot w/ Stephen 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...
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 name...
457: Lizzie Borden 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 Tr...
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 conversati...
456: Outlaws & Public Enemies Ben and 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...
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 offic...
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 recen...
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 Mc...
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 Dr...
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 sh...
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...
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 Dea...
450: The Brutal 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 fa...
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...
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...
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 19...
447: Rome's Most Evil Rulers w/ Phillip Barlag
My guest this week is Phillip Barlag, author of "Evil Roman Emperors: The Shocking History of Ancient Rome's Most Wicked Rulers from Caligul...