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...
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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 491 episodes451: 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...
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 insp...
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 electrif...
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 blac...
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 o...
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...
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...
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 Northfi...
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 b...
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...
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 o...
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 hi...
MoNo Encore: The Murder of Cecil Wells w/ James T. Bartlett
(Orig pub date: 6/21/22) In the early morning hours of October 17, 1953, a frightened, battered woman named Diane Wells told a horrific tale...