Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMoNo Encore: The Mysterious Death of Fritzie Mann w/ James Stewart
(Orig. Pub Date: 11/10/21) In January of 1923, a 20-year-old dancer named Fritzie Mann left home to meet a mysterious man for what she told her m…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
427: The 1949 Exorcism That Inspired "The Exorcist" w/ Troy Taylor
In 1949, a quiet neighborhood in St. Louis became the center of one of the most controversial religious cases in American history. A 13-year-old boy …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
American Criminal: Machine Gun Kelly
Growing up in Memphis, George Kelly Barnes starts dabbling in crime from a young age. First he blackmails his father, then he grows a successful boot…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
426: Elizabeth Báthory: The World's Worst Female Serial Killer? w/ Shelley Puhak
Told and retold in many languages, the legend of the Blood Countess has consumed cultural imaginations around the world. But despite claims that Eliz…
4 months ago
425: Henry Scott Mausell: Michigan's First Serial Killer? w/ Allie Seibert
On a beautiful fall day in September 1916, 68-year-old Hannah Spielman went on a picnic with her new husband, 71-year-old James Allen, in the woods …
4 months, 1 week ago
424: The Black Dahlia: Another Suspect w/ William J Mann
My guest, William J. Mann, has spent years writing about Hollywood, and in his new book "Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Ho…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
423: The Nazi & the Psychiatrist w/ Jack El-Hai
On this episode of Most Notorious, I speak with author Jack El-Hai about his book "The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kell…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
MoNo Encore: The East River Ripper Murder of Old Shakespeare w/ George R. Dekle Sr.
(Orig. Pub. Date 9/6/2021) On April 24th, 1891, a Bowery prostitute named Carrie Brown (known locally as "Old Shakespeare") was found murdered and mu…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
422: The Wreck of the Circus Ship Royal Tar w/ Jane Parks Gardner
On October 21, 1836, crowds lined the docks of Saint John, New Brunswick, to watch the steamship Royal Tar depart for Portland, Maine - this time car…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
421: The Killer of Little Shepherds w/ Douglas Starr
At the close of the nineteenth century, serial killer Joseph Vacher terrorized the French countryside for years, eluding capture while murdering more…
5 months ago