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221: Dostoevsky & the Murderer Who Inspired Crime & Punishment w/ Kevin Birmingham
Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky lived a fascinating and turbulent life. He served a sentence in a Siberian prison camp and suffered from depression and a gambling addiction that kept him destitute f…
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
220: The Mysterious Death of Fritzie Mann w/ James Stewart - A True Crime History Podcast
In January of 1923, a 20-year-old dancer named Fritzie Mann left home to meet a mysterious man for what she told her mother was a house party. When she was discovered dead on a remote beach a few mil…
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
219: The Murder of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin w/ Gillian O'Brien - A True Crime History Podcast
One of the most powerful secret societies in 1880s Chicago was the mysterious Clan na Gael, run by Irish-American kingpin Alexander Sullivan. When Dr. Patrick Cronin questioned Sullivan's management …
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
218: Rogues' Gallery: Crooks, Cops and Crime in New York City's Gilded Age w/ John Oller
New York City in the mid to late 19th century was host to some of the most colorful criminals in American history - and equally colorful policemen who battled them. Police Chief Thomas Byrnes was con…
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
217: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein w/ Allison B. Kavey & Lester D. Friedman - A True Crime History Podcast
On this special Halloween-themed episode of Most Notorious, my guests - professors Lester Friedman and Allison Kavey - talk about Mary Shelley's early 19th-century literary classic, Frankenstein. The…
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
216: Notorious Gamblers of the Old West w/ G.R. Williamson - A True Crime History Podcast
My guest, Western author and historian G.R. Williamson, appeared on Most Notorious a couple of years ago to talk about gunfighters Ben Thompson and King Fisher. He joins me again, this time to tell t…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
215: The Great Chicago Fire w/ Carl Smith - A True Crime History Podcast
October 8th, 2021 marks the 150th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire, the legendary disaster that destroyed a third of Chicago and made 90,000 residents homeless. While Mrs. O'Leary and her cow ar…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
214: The Murder of William Cantilupe in Medieval England w/ Melissa Julian-Jones
We're back again to the Hundred Years War in this episode of Most Notorious - this time in England. Sir William Cantilupe, a battle-hardened knight who had recently been acquitted of murdering his br…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
213: The Stabbing of Henry Ballard by Amelia Norman w/ Julie Miller
On November 1st, 1843, a dejected servant named Amelia Norman followed her former beau Henry Ballard to the steps of the Astor House Hotel in New York City. There she stabbed him with a folding knife…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
212: The Murder of Louis I in Medieval France w/ Eric Jager - A True Crime History Podcast
In November of 1407, Louis I, The Duke of Orleans and brother of France's "Mad" King Charles VI, is murdered on a street near his home in Medieval Paris. A police investigation ensues, surprisingly a…
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago