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 Caligula to Nero and More. He shares stories
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417: The Shipwreck of the Mignonette w/ Adam Cohen
On May 19, 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail from England on what should have been an uneventful voyage. When their vessel sank in the Atlantic, Captain Thomas Dudley and
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Nazi Germany’s Bungled Operation Condor w/ Gavin Whitehead
In 1942, two Abwehr German agents, including Johannes Eppler, slipped into Cairo to gather intelligence for Rommel’s desert campaign, getting help from local allies like the famous dancer Hekmet Fahmy
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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald w/ John U. Bacon
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
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The Martha Wise Murders w/ Rod Kackley
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
Crossing Jimmy Hoffa w/ Steven J Harper
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
The Killing of William Woodward w/ Jerry Aylward
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
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Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday & Tombstone w/ Mark Lee Gardner
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
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The Murder of Zoya Fyodorova w/ Chris Pouy
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
The 1856 Dublin Railway Murder w/ Thomas Morris
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
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The Scientist & the Serial Killer w/ Lise Olsen
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,
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