A True Crime History Podcast
Original Air Date: 2/20/20 On March 6th, 1873, a brutal double ax murder took the lives of two Norwegian women living on the isolated Smuttynose Island, one of the Isles
Continue readingThe Smuttynose Ax Murders w/ J. Dennis Robinson
In 1919, eight players on the Chicago White Sox baseball team, including “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, were implicated in what would go down in infamy as the Black Sox scandal. In
Continue readingThe 1919 Chicago Black Sox Scandal w/ Charles Fountain
Original Air Date: 9/6/18 Stacy Horn, author of Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad and Criminal in 19th-Century New York, joins me to chat about the infamous New York City island,
Continue readingNew York’s Notorious Blackwell’s Island w/ Stacy Horn
Original Air Date: 12/27/2018 Vincent “Mad Dog” Coll grew up quickly, from Irish tenements to enforcer for Bronx bootlegger and gangster Dutch Schultz while still in his teens. Soon the
Continue reading“Mad Dog” Coll vs. Dutch Schultz w/ Rich Gold
Original Air Date: 10/14/2019 Ellen Poulsen is back, this time to discuss her new book (co-written with Lori Hyde), “Chasing Dillinger: Police Captain Matt Leach, J. Edgar Hoover and the
On July 2nd, 1881, a disappointed and mentally unstable office-seeker named Charles Guiteau shot President James A. Garfield in a Washington D.C. train station. Over the next weeks, Garfield would
Continue readingThe Murder of President James Garfield w/ Candice Millard
In 1936, New York City prosecutors, desperate to put infamous Murder Inc. boss Charles “Lucky” Luciano behind bars, decided to arrest him on tenuous charges for running the Big Apple’s
Continue readingLucky Luciano’s 1930s NYC Prostitution Trial w/ Ellen Poulsen
The 1947 Los Angeles Black Dahlia murder case has long been one of the most infamous unsolved crimes in American history, and many suspects have been accused over the years of
Continue readingThe Black Dahlia Murder Revisited w/ Piu Eatwell
When many of us think about Old West gunfighters, our minds turn to men like Jesse James, Wyatt Earp, and Billy the Kid. But there were others equally as compelling,
Continue readingTexas Gunfighters Ben Thompson & King Fisher w/ G.R. Williamson
In this classic episode of Most Notorious, I speak to acclaimed author Michael Wallis, who wrote the definitive work on infamous Depression-era outlaw Pretty Boy Floyd. Among other topics covered
Continue reading1930s Outlaw Pretty Boy Floyd (Parts 1 & 2) w/ Michael Wallis