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Back to Search417: 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 his crew found themselves …
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416: 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 Fahm…
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415: 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 later memorializ…
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414: 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 and water. T…
Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago
MoNo Encore: The Murder of President James Garfield w/ Candice Millard
Original Pub Date: 1/14/19
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 ne…
Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago
413: 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 ground, …
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412: 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 her custom-made shotgun into the head…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
411: 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 Russian actress …
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis - Southern Gothic
Just off the old Natchez Trace, in the quiet woods of Tennessee, stands a broken marble column marking the grave of Meriwether Lewis. The monument was meant to honor one of America’s greatest explore…
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410: 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 cut, thousands of pounds w…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago