A True Crime History Podcast
Arnie Bernstein was one my first guests on Most Notorious, way back on episode #26, and talked about the horrifying 1927 Bath Consolidated School massacre. Since the initial publication of
Continue readingBath Massacre (New Edition) w/ Arnie Bernstein
May 18th, 2016, marks the 89th commemoration of the Bath, Michigan School Massacre. In 1927 Andrew Kehoe rigged the school with over 600 pounds of dynamite. The explosion killed 38
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Harper Lee, author of “To Kill A Mockingbird”, famously accompanied Truman Capote as he investigated the murder of the Clutter family; ultimately writing about the terrible events in his true
Continue readingHarper Lee & Murderer Willie Maxwell w/ Casey Cep
David Grann, author of the New York Times Bestselling “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI”, is my guest on this week’s episode
(Original air date: 6/4/2017) The number of theories surrounding the Jack the Ripper murders in 1880s London are too staggering to mention. At least 200 suspects have been considered over
Mildred Gillars, known to American GIs as “Axis Sally”, was one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious radio propagandists. Hired by German State Radio because of her American accent and seductive
On Christmas Eve, 1900, 44-year-old dry goods store owner Frank Richardson was shot to death in his Savannah, Missouri home. Suspects included his wife Addie, his teenage lover Goldie Whitehead,
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In October of 1900, four men accompanied a young woman named Jennie Bosschieter to a New Jersey saloon, where one of them slipped a large amount of chloral hydrate into
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My conversation about the life of Eliot Ness continues with A. Brad Schwartz. After years battling The Outfit in Chicago, Ness was hired as Director of Public Safety in Cleveland,
Continue readingEliot Ness Vs. The Mad Butcher w/ A. Brad Schwartz
Throughout the 1920s Chicago was a cesspool of corruption and violence, due in large part to the obscene amounts of money being made through the illegal manufacture, transportation and sale
Continue readingEliot Ness Vs. Al Capone w/ A. Brad Schwartz