Serial killers. Gangsters. Gunslingers. Victorian-era murderers. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Each week, the Most Notorious podcast features true-life tales of crime, criminals, tragedies and disasters throughout history. Host Erik Rivenes interviews authors and historians who have studied their subjects for years. Their stories are offered with unique insight, detail, and historical accuracy.
…
continue reading
Ruth Quinn Podcasts
Welcome to the PT Support Podcast. With your hostess Ruth Quinn! We talk marketing, business growth, branding, mindset, and so much more.
…
continue reading
The Cookbook Circle is here to help you rediscover those cookbooks that you already have at home. We combed through every possible list of ‘best cookbooks’, and created our own master list. In each episode of The Cookbook Circle, we’ll pick one book and decipher its genius. We’ll read it cover-to-cover, cook a few of the recipes each and report back on what we loved, what we didn’t, and let you know if we think it deserves a place in all those ‘best of’ lists, giving it a Cookbook Circle mar ...
…
continue reading
Join me in my conversations with guests who openly reveal how they acted at turning points in their lives. In each episode, we will dive deep into inspiring stories of transformation to understand how people move from acceptance to finding peace when faced with difficult change. For short clips from the episodes: Instagram: @changeinmotionpod Twitter: @changeinpod
…
continue reading

1
406: The Murder of Jujube Heiress Ruth Quinn w/ Taylor Kiland
56:40
56:40
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
56:40The small Southern California island of Coronado rarely makes news for violent crime. But in the spring of 1975, World War II widow and retired librarian Ruth Quinn was murdered, execution-style, in her cottage. Her death sent a shock wave through the community. The granddaughter of Jujubes and Jujyfruits creator Henry Heide, Ruth was found fully c…
…
continue reading
Pok Pok is not named after the sound a chicken makes, but Andy Ricker does say that the wings on the menu (and in this book!) paid the restaurant's rent. Find out what we thought of this Thai restaurant cookbook in this week's episode. Intro track: Disco - All Good Folks Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
…
continue reading

1
407: The Thames Torso Murders w/ Sarah Bax Horton
1:01:54
1:01:54
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:01:54Victorian London is often remembered for the Ripper murders, yet at the same time another equally chilling series of slayings unfolded. Between 1887 and 1889, the dismembered bodies of four women appeared along the Thames. The river itself became the killer’s cover, its tides and hidden corners serving as a macabre dumping ground. Overshadowed by t…
…
continue reading

1
MoNo Encore: The Murder of Dr. W.D. Broadhurst w/ Patrick Gallagher
1:15:26
1:15:26
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:15:26(Orig pub date: 2/15/22) In October of 1946, a chiropractor and rancher named Willis "W.D." Broadhurst was beaten with a wrench and finished off with a shotgun on a lonely eastern Oregon road. Investigators would soon accuse his wife Gladys of plotting the doctor's murder with the help of his young cowhand and her lover, Alvin Williams. Stunning de…
…
continue reading

1
405: A History of Eugenics in America w/ Mark A. Torres
1:06:50
1:06:50
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:06:50In the early twentieth century, eugenics captivated scientists and the public alike, giving researchers license to exploit the infirm, the mentally ill, prisoners, Native communities and many others considered "defective" or "feebleminded" under the guise of genetics. At its center stood the Eugenics Record Office in Cold Spring Harbor, directed by…
…
continue reading

1
404: Gunfighter Clay Allison w/ Donna Blake Birchell
1:04:17
1:04:17
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:04:17Clay Allison was both liked and loathed in his lifetime, embodying the contradictions of the American frontier. He could show moments of kindness for the downtrodden, but also carried deep hatred for Northerners and Black people. Dangerously unpredictable, he was capable of generosity one moment and chilling violence the next, a quality that made h…
…
continue reading

1
403: The Madman of Crystal Beach w/ M.F. Gross
1:23:19
1:23:19
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:23:19In the sultry summer of 1949, a sleepy Florida beach town was rocked to its core. A brutal home invasion, a shocking murder, and a desperate, month-long manhunt captivated and terrified an entire region. At the center of the storm was John Calvin “Rastus” Russell, a cunning ex-con and former asylum patient who unleashed a wave of fear unlike anythi…
…
continue reading

1
402: The Reno Redfield Heist w/ Gavin Schmitt
1:03:10
1:03:10
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:03:10The 1952 burglary of eccentric multi-millionaire LaVere Redfield’s mansion in Reno, Nevada was the largest of its time, but also a comedy of errors. "Masterminded" by a French-Canadian woman with a questionable relationship to Redfield, it also included a failed safecracker and a crew of Italian-American hoodlums from the Milwaukee underworld. My g…
…
continue reading

1
401: The First Forensic Hanging w/ Summer Strevens
55:12
55:12
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
55:12The First Forensic Hanging: The Toxic Truth That Killed Mary Blandy by Summer Strevens tells the story of Mary Blandy, executed in 1752 for poisoning her father Frances Blandy with arsenic. Her trial was the first in Britain to use toxicology as evidence in an arsenic poisoning case, marking a turning point in forensic history. Drawing on period ne…
…
continue reading

1
MoNo Encore: The Bermondsey Horror w/ Gavin Whitehead
1:17:12
1:17:12
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:17:12(Orig pub date: 2/3/24) On August 17th, 1849, London police officers made a grisly discovery at the home of George and Maria (born Marie de Roux) Manning. Her former beau, Patrick O'Connor, had been buried under the floor. A nationwide hunt for the couple would follow, and after that a trial and executions. The murder case would grip London so ferv…
…
continue reading
We're keeping things loose this episode as we update you on our respective holidays, LOTS of crisps chat and some great recipes (and a cookbook!) we've been enjoying lately. We're taking a short break for August but see you after summer! Intro track: Disco - All Good Folks Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
…
continue reading

1
400: The Legend of Belle Starr w/ Michael Wallis
1:08:09
1:08:09
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:08:09Myra Maibelle Shirley, better known as Belle Starr, was one of the most notorious female outlaws of the Old West (if you believe period newspapers, anyway). My guest, bestselling and award-winning author Michael Wallis, made it his mission to tell the true story of Belle Starr, and in the process dispels many of the myths that surround her. He shar…
…
continue reading

1
399: The Life & Crimes of Robert Spears w/ Jerry Jamison
1:45:48
1:45:48
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:45:48"Doctor" Robert Spears was arguably one of the greatest con artists of the twentieth century, and very likely a mass murderer. In thirty nine years of grift, he had 25 aliases, 28 arrests in 20 cities, and was imprisoned close to a dozen times. He performed, without any medical degree, abortions on countless women, and in 1959 tricked his best frie…
…
continue reading

1
Throwback to Dishoom - Shamil Thakrar, Kavi Thakrar & Naved Nasir
1:26:34
1:26:34
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:26:34No, no, you've not travelled back in time or got a glitch with your podcast player! We're bringing you a restaurant cookbook from Season 3, Dishoom. An absolutely legendary part of London life, we spent some time checking if the cookbook was a shortcut to the front of the Dishoom queue... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
…
continue reading

1
398: John Wilkes Booth & the Last Year of the Civil War w/ Scott Ellsworth
58:54
58:54
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
58:54My guest this week is Scott Ellsworth, author of Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America. He talks about President Lincoln's turbulent last year in office, the Confederate secret service's attempts to create chaos in the north, and John Wilkes Booth's ties to the Confederacy's s…
…
continue reading

1
397: The Hazel Drew Murder Revisited w/ Jerry C. Drake
1:25:57
1:25:57
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:25:57In July of 1908 the body of twenty-year-old Hazel Drew was found floating in a mill pond in Upstate New York. Her death captured headlines across the nation and around the world, but after a whirlwind investigation lasting less than thirty days (despite a myriad of suspects), the District Attorney abruptly closed the case. Joining me is Jerry Drake…
…
continue reading

1
MoNo Encore: The 1912 Murder of Ella Barham w/ Nita Gould
1:22:39
1:22:39
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:22:39(Original pub date: 6/16/21) In November of 1912, a young woman named Ella Barham journeyed home, on her horse, to her family farm in Boone County, Arkansas, but never arrived. After her body was discovered, murdered and dismembered, suspicions quickly centered on a neighbor, Odus Davidson, who was rumored to have been in love with Ella, a love nev…
…
continue reading

1
The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook - Tarek Malouf
1:05:23
1:05:23
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:05:23We continue on our pursuit of the most renowned restaurant cookbooks - this time taking it sweet with the Hummingbird Bakery, famous for bringing its American-style sweets to the UK. Find out what we baked and whether we think this one is worth dusting off... Intro track: Disco - All Good Folks Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform…
…
continue reading

1
396: The 1951 Murder of Clarence Pellett w/ Clem Pellett
1:18:22
1:18:22
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:18:22Clem Pellett grew up knowing very little about his grandfather, Clarence Pellett, who was murdered along Montana's iconic Hi-Line in April of 1951. Pellett's father had cut ties with the family, and Pellett didn't even know his grandfather's first name until he started investigating the case as an adult. Through extensive research over many years, …
…
continue reading

1
395: The 1917 Murder of Beatrice Epler w/ Allie Seibert
1:29:13
1:29:13
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:29:13On the morning of September 5th, 1917, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Epler was found dead just steps from her home in Alma, Michigan. The investigation into her murder would soon entangle a brothel madam, a traveling theater owner, a local farmer, and a French-Canadian amateur detective. My guest is Allie Seibert, author of Bloodstained: Exploring Mich…
…
continue reading