Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast
Each week, the Most Notorious podcast features true-life tales of crime, criminals and tragedies throughout history.Hosted by historian, author, and all around ne'er-do-well, Erik Rivenes.
- Website
- https://audioboom.com/channel/most-notorious
- Description
- Each week, the Most Notorious podcast features true-life tales of crime, criminals and tragedies throughout history.Hosted by historian, author, and all around ne'er-do-well, Erik Rivenes.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-05-04 11:43
- last episode published
- 2024-05-03 15:11
- publication frequency
- 8.42 days
- Contributors
- audioBoom
- Owner
- Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 370
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture News History
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-05-03 |
341: The Mysterious Death of Zachary Smith Reynolds w/ Phil Archer Just after midnight on July 6, 1932, twenty-year-old Zachary Smith Reynolds, a renowned aviator and an heir to the R.J. Reynolds tobacco fortune, was shot in the family's summer home in what is now Winston-Salem, North Carolina. While some believed the... |
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| 2024-04-16 | This week we revisit one of my favorite Most Notorious episodes. In the small town of Isadore Michigan in 1907, a young nun named Janina disappeared. Ten years later, her body is discovered by a priest intent on building a new church on the foundation ... |
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| 2024-04-10 | On a warm August day in 1910, Sheriff Jake Houpt and his deputies attempted to arrest brothers George and Oscar Chitwood outside the Garland County Courthouse in Hot Springs, Arkansas. A gunfight soon erupted, leaving both the sheriff and George dead. ... |
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| 2024-04-04 | Six months after losing a world title fight that remains infamous as one of the last mob fixes in boxing, Tyrone “The Butterfly” Everett—a flashy, handsome lightweight southpaw on the verge of stardom—was dead. Only twenty-four years old, he was shot i... |
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| 2024-03-28 | Today we have special back-to-back episodes from the History Daily podcast. The first shares the story of the capture of one of the UK's most notorious serial killers, the Yorkshire Ripper, and the second is about the tumultuous life of Russian tsar Iv... |
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| 2024-03-26 |
338: The Death of James Dean & the "Curse of the Little Bastard" w/ Lee Raskin On September 30, 1955, 24-year-old James Dean became immortal. While his young life ended in a car crash, James Dean passed into the realm of American folklore, where his memory remains today. What exactly happened on that fateful day 60 years ago? Wha... |
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| 2024-03-19 | There were few experienced swimmers among over 1,300 Lower East Side residents who boarded the General Slocum on June 15, 1904. It shouldn’t have mattered, since the steamship was chartered only for a languid excursion from Manhattan to Long Island Sou... |
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| 2024-03-05 | Phebe Wise was believed to be a witch by many locals in late 19th and early 20th century Mansfield, Ohio. Bucking societal norms, she lived alone on a large piece of property and would often march into town wearing her deceased mother's antique Civil W... |
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| 2024-02-29 |
335: The "Bulldog Detective" William J. Flynn w/ Jeff D. Simon William J. Flynn, nicknamed "The Bulldog Detective", had a fascinating and accomplished career in law enforcement. While in the Secret Service he not only battled the Mafia in New York City, but also uncovered a sophisticated German spy ring on the cus... |
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| 2024-02-21 | My guest this week is bestselling author Louis Ferrante. He was an associate in the Gambino crime family before going to prison, where he studied history and began writing books. He joins us to talk about the origins of the Sicilian Mafia and how they ... |
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