A True Crime History Podcast
November 10, 2025, marked the fiftieth anniversary of the sinking of the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald during a vicious Lake Superior storm. All 29 crew members were lost, a tragedy
Continue readingThe Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald w/ John U. Bacon
In the winter of 1924-1925, quiet Medina County, Ohio, was shaken to its core. Martha Wise, an ordinary farm widow with an extraordinary obsession, slipped arsenic into her family’s food
This is from the podcast Minnesota’s Most Notorious: Where Blood Runs Cold. My guest is Steven J. Harper, author of Crossing Hoffa: A Teamster’s Story. His father, Jim Harper, was
In the early hours on a rainy autumn night in 1955, on a lavish country estate in Oyster Bay Cove, esteemed New York socialite Ann Woodward fired both barrels of
Continue readingThe Killing of William Woodward w/ Jerry Aylward
Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday were two complicated men whose steadfast friendship became one of the legendary relationships of the American West. Both were flawed, and often on uncertain moral
Continue readingWyatt Earp, Doc Holliday & Tombstone w/ Mark Lee Gardner
My guest is Chris Pouy, who shares an astonishing true story of love, betrayal, and murder on this latest episode of Most Notorious. His grandmother, Zoya Fyodorova, was a celebrated
In November 1856, Dublin was shaken by the murder of George Little, chief cashier at the Broadstone railway terminus. He was found in his office, beaten and with his throat
Continue readingThe 1856 Dublin Railway Murder w/ Thomas Morris
In “The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston’s Lost Boys”, investigative journalist Lise Olsen tells the gripping true-crime story behind the “Lost Boys” murders in 1970s Houston,
Continue readingThe Scientist & the Serial Killer w/ Lise Olsen
In November 1926, Cecelia Gullivan, treasurer of the Cone Automatic Machine company of Windsor, Vermont, was brutally killed in her home. Local police quickly arrested Cone Automatic machinist John Winters
Continue readingThe Murder of Cecelia Gullivan w/ Jeffrey L. Amestoy
Victorian London is often remembered for the Ripper murders, yet at the same time another equally chilling series of slayings unfolded. Between 1887 and 1889, the dismembered bodies of four
Continue readingThe Thames Torso Murders w/ Sarah Bax Horton