The 3 Best Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast Episodes
1) 114: Al Capone, the Secret Six, & the 1933 Chicago World's Fair w/ William Hazelgrove
Most of us have grown up thinking that Elliot Ness and his famed "Untouchables" were the crimefighters who brought down the notorious Al Capone in Chicago. But instead, it was a group of millionaire b...Show More
2) 259: America's First Recorded Mass Shooting w/ Ellen J. Green - A True Crime History Podcast
On the morning of September 6th, 1949, a twenty-eight-year-old WWII veteran and loner named Howard Unruh stepped out of his East Camden, New Jersey apartment and shot and killed thirteen people in les...Show More
3) 213: The Stabbing of Henry Ballard by Amelia Norman w/ Julie Miller - A True Crime History Podcast
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,...Show More
4) 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 began exhibiting disturbing symptoms including viol...Show More
5) 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 bootlegging business for himself. But how did this smal...Show More
6) 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 Elizabeth Báthory tortured and killed as many as 650 gi...Show More
7) 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 outside Grand Rapids, Michigan. She had met him thr...Show More
8) 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 Hollywood", he takes a fresh look at Los Angeles's mo...Show More
9) 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. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII...Show More
10) 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 mutilated in the seedy East River Hotel. With the Jack...Show More