Podcast Episodes
Back to Search356: Murder and Madness in Bologna w/ Mònica Calabritto
On October 24, 1588, the city of Bologna, Italy was shaken when a knight named Paola Barbieri stabbed his wife Isabella to death with a sword. He then fled, dressed only in a nightshirt, with his swo…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
MoNo Encore: The Mysterious Disappearance of Alice Parsons w/ Steven C. Drielak
This is a MoNo Encore interview. Original release date: 11/10/2020.
On the morning of June 10, 1937, New York heiress Alice Parsons disappeared off the face of the earth. Investigators almost immediat…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
355: New York City Crime Boss Marm Mandelbaum w/ Margalit Fox
Best-selling author Margalit Fox returns to the show to talk about Marm Mandelbaum, an extraordinary woman who lived the classic rags to riches story, rising out of immigrant poverty and into wealth …
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
354: The Notorious Reno Gang w/ Rachel Dickinson
The Reno Gang is best known for being the first group of outlaws in history to rob a moving train, but their criminal enterprises stretched far beyond that. They were counterfeiters, thieves, safecra…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
353: The Incorruptibles w/ Dan Slater - A True Crime History Podcast
In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the Lower East Side, then the most crowded ghetto on earth, Eastern European Jews formed a dense web of…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
352: The Ward-Peters Murder Case w/ James Polchin - A True Crime History Podcast
On the morning of May 16, 1922, a young man’s body was found on a desolate road in Westchester County. The victim was penniless ex-sailor Clarence Peters. Walter Ward, the handsome scion of the famil…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Today in MoNo History: The 1881 Rock Island Train Robbery w/ Mark Lee Gardner
In this mini MoNo interview, I chat with Mark Lee Gardner about the James Gang and their holdup of a Rock Island Railroad train in Missouri 143 years ago today. Two men were murdered during the robbe…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
351: A Modern-Day Police Perspective on the Jack the Ripper Murders w/ Steven Keogh
I'm joined by former Scotland Yard detective Steven Keogh, who examines the Jack the Ripper case in his recent book, "Murder Investigation Team: Jack the Ripper". He applies current investigative tec…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
350: Mafia Spies w/ Thomas Maier - A True Crime History Podcast
In the early 1960s, two top gangsters, Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, were hired by the CIA to kill Cuba’s Communist leader, Fidel Castro, only to wind up murdered themselves amidst Congressional h…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
MoNo Encore: The Mysterious Disappearance of Joan Risch w/ Stephen Ahern
In this month's MoNo Encore episode, we revisit one of the strangest cases ever covered on this show, in my humble opinion.
On October 24th, 1961, one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in Massachuset…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago