A True Crime History Podcast
The Ocean Monarch, captained by James Murdock, was a disciplined and safety-conscious passenger ship that should have smoothly sailed from England to the United States in 1848. Not long after
Continue readingThe Wreck of the Ocean Monarch w/ Gill Hoffs
On the afternoon of December 2nd, 1945, a fourteen-year-old student named Thora Chamberlain walked with friends to a high school football game in Campbell, California. A man wearing a U.S.
Continue readingThe Murder of Thora Chamberlain w/ Rod Kackley
In October of 1905, the schooner Harry A. Berwind was intercepted off the coast of North Carolina. On board were four Black sailors, three of them alive and one dead.
Mary Ann Cotton has long been considered the first female serial killer in England, with allegations that she used arsenic to poison over twenty people, including her children, mother and
Continue readingMary Ann Cotton: Britain’s First Female Serial Killer? w/ Martin Connolly
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
Continue readingThe 1927 Bath School Massacre w/ Arnie Bernstein
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