Podcast Episodes

MoNo Encore: The Bermondsey Horror w/ Gavin Whitehead

(Orig pub date: 2/3/24)

On August 17th, 1849, London police officers made a grisly discovery at the home of George and Maria (born Marie de Roux) Manning. Her former beau, Patrick O'Connor, had been…

Published on 2 months ago

400: The Legend of Belle Starr w/ Michael Wallis

Myra Maibelle Shirley, better known as Belle Starr, was one of the most notorious female outlaws of the Old West (if you believe period newspapers, anyway). My guest, bestselling and award-winning au…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

399: The Life & Crimes of Robert Spears w/ Jerry Jamison

"Doctor" Robert Spears was arguably one of the greatest con artists of the twentieth century, and very likely a mass murderer. In thirty nine years of grift, he had 25 aliases, 28 arrests in 20 citie…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

398: John Wilkes Booth & the Last Year of the Civil War w/ Scott Ellsworth

My guest this week is Scott Ellsworth, author of Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America. He talks about President Lincoln's tur…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

397: The Hazel Drew Murder Revisited w/ Jerry C. Drake

In July of 1908 the body of twenty-year-old Hazel Drew was found floating in a mill pond in Upstate New York. Her death captured headlines across the nation and around the world, but after a whirlwin…

Published on 3 months ago

MoNo Encore: The 1912 Murder of Ella Barham w/ Nita Gould

(Original pub date: 6/16/21)

In November of 1912, a young woman named Ella Barham journeyed home, on her horse, to her family farm in Boone County, Arkansas, but never arrived. After her body was di…

Published on 3 months ago

396: The 1951 Murder of Clarence Pellett w/ Clem Pellett

Clem Pellett grew up knowing very little about his grandfather, Clarence Pellett, who was murdered along Montana's iconic Hi-Line in April of 1951. Pellett's father had cut ties with the family, a…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

395: The 1917 Murder of Beatrice Epler w/ Allie Seibert

On the morning of September 5th, 1917, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Epler was found dead just steps from her home in Alma, Michigan. The investigation into her murder would soon entangle a brothel madam…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

394: The Castleton Massacre with Margaret Carson & Sharon Anne Cook

On May 2, 1963, Robert Killins, a former United Church minister, slaughtered every woman in his family but one. She (and her brother) lived to tell the story of what motivated a talented man who had …

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

393: The Man Who Shot J.P. Morgan w/ Mary Noé

On the morning of July 3, 1915, John Pierpont Morgan Jr., one of the most famous names in finance, was entertaining guests at his sprawling Long Island estate when the doorbell unexpectedly rang. An …

Published on 4 months ago