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Back to Search349: Gentleman Jewel Thief Arthur Barry w/ Dean Jobb - A True Crime History Podcast
My guest this week is award-winning author Dean Jobb. He joins me to talk about one of the most colorful criminals of the Jazz Age, Arthur Barry. Barry, who has been called "the greatest jewel thief …
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
348: Martha Needle: "The Richmond Poisoner" w/ Samantha Battams
On this episode of Most Notorious, I'm joined by Dr. Samantha Battams, who documents the life and times of serial killer Martha Needle in her book "The Secret Art of Poisoning: The True Crimes of Mar…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
347: The Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire w/ Stephanie Schorow
On November 28, 1942, fire roared through Boston's famed Cocoanut Grove nightclub during what was supposed to be a high-spirited Saturday night. By midnight, more than five hundred people were dead, …
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
346: The Massie Affair w/ Mike Farris - A True Crime History Podcast
In September of 1931, Thalia Massie, a young naval lieutenant’s wife, claims to have been raped by five Hawaiian men in Honolulu. Following a hung jury in the rape trial, Thalia’s mother, socialite G…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
345: The Folsom Prison Bloody 13 Escape w/ Josh Morgan
On July 27th, 1903, thirteen convicts at California's Folsom Prison, led by Richard "Red" Gordon, attacked prison guards, took hostages, emptied the armory and made a dash for freedom. Some would be …
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
MoNo Encore: Chicago's SS Eastland Disaster w/ Michael McCarthy
Today we revisit another one of my favorite episodes, the sinking of the Eastland.
On July 15th, 1915, a steamship with a checkered past called the SS Eastland docked at a wharf on the Chicago River i…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
344: The Casper Bennett Murder Case w/ David Miraldi - A True Crime History Podcast
On December 20th, 1963, the city of Lorain, Ohio was rocked by the tragic (and odd) death of Florence Bennett. Her husband Casper had found her dead in their bathtub, scalded in its water. He claimed…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
343: Jim Tully: Father of Hard-Boiled Fiction & "The Most Hated Man in Hollywood" w/ Paul Bauer & Mark Dawidziak
Many saw the dark side of the American dream, but none wrote about it like Jim Tully. Having spent six years of his childhood in a Cincinnati orphanage, Tully returned to his hometown of St. Marys, O…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
342: The Ill-Fated Voyage of the Nanina w/ Eric Jay Dolin
Eric Jay Dolin, returns to the show to share details from his new book, "Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World". It's the true story of a wild and fateful encount…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
341: The Mysterious Death of Zachary Smith Reynolds w/ Phil Archer
Just after midnight on July 6, 1932, twenty-year-old Zachary Smith Reynolds, a renowned aviator and an heir to the R.J. Reynolds tobacco fortune, was shot in the family's summer home in what is now W…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago