Best PErik Rivenes Podcasts (2026)

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419: Serial Killer Pee Wee Gaskins w/ Dick Harpootlian 1:08:10

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Among the many murder cases handled by South Carolina attorney Dick Harpootlian, one continues to stand apart: the prosecution of Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins. A serial killer and sexual predator, Gaskins claimed to have taken more than 100 lives and is known to have murdered over a dozen people, including a young child and his own teenage niece. He ki…

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418: The Black Dahlia & the Prairie Heiress Murders: One Killer? w/ Eli Frankel 1:30:19

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In January 1947, the bisected body of Elizabeth Short, completely drained of blood, was discovered in an undeveloped lot in Los Angeles. Its gruesome mutilations led to a firestorm of publicity, city-wide panic, and an unprecedented number of investigative paths led by the LAPD—all dead ends. The Black Dahlia murder remained an unsolved mystery for…

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MoNo Encore: The Murder of Frank Richardson w/ Kimberly Tilley 1:14:29

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Original Publication Date: 4/3/22 On Christmas Eve, 1900, 44-year-old dry goods store owner Frank Richardson was shot to death in his Savannah, Missouri home. Suspects included his wife Addie, his teenage lover Goldie Whitehead, and the man whom he suspected his wife of having an affair with, Stewart Fife. Kimberly Tilley makes her third visit to t…

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417: The Shipwreck of the Mignonette w/ Adam Cohen 58:06

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On May 19, 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail from England on what should have been an uneventful voyage. When their vessel sank in the Atlantic, Captain Thomas Dudley and his crew found themselves adrift in a tiny lifeboat. As days turned to weeks, they faced an unthinkable choice: starve to death or resort to cannibalism. Their decision to sacri…

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416: Nazi Germany’s Bungled Operation Condor w/ Gavin Whitehead 57:52

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In 1942, two Abwehr German agents, including Johannes Eppler, slipped into Cairo to gather intelligence for Rommel’s desert campaign, getting help from local allies like the famous dancer Hekmet Fahmy and Anwar Sadat. Despite their efforts to infiltrate British circles, the whole operation eventually fell apart once Allied intelligence caught on. M…

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415: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald w/ John U. Bacon 55:04

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November 10, 2025, marked the fiftieth anniversary of the sinking of the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald during a vicious Lake Superior storm. All 29 crew members were lost, a tragedy later memorialized in Gordon Lightfoot’s iconic song. My guest is bestselling author John U. Bacon, who shares details from his new book, "The Gales of November: The U…

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414: The Martha Wise Murders w/ Rod Kackley 54:41

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In the winter of 1924-1925, quiet Medina County, Ohio, was shaken to its core. Martha Wise, an ordinary farm widow with an extraordinary obsession, slipped arsenic into her family’s food and water. Three of her relatives were dead, dozens more gravely ill, and a rural community was gripped by fear. What followed was a murder investigation and trial…

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MoNo Encore: The Murder of President James Garfield w/ Candice Millard 59:28

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Original Pub Date: 1/14/19 On July 2nd, 1881, a disappointed and mentally unstable office-seeker named Charles Guiteau shot President James A. Garfield in a Washington D.C. train station. Over the next weeks, Garfield would linger, bedridden, as infection set in, caused by poor medical treatment, and America would wait with bated breath over whethe…

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413: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday & Tombstone w/ Mark Lee Gardner 1:20:10

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Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday were two complicated men whose steadfast friendship became one of the legendary relationships of the American West. Both were flawed, and often on uncertain moral ground, yet their bond carried them through the violent world of frontier justice, culminating in a deadly conflict with the Clanton-McLaury gang in Tombstone,…

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412: The Killing of William Woodward w/ Jerry Aylward 1:09:13

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In the early hours on a rainy autumn night in 1955, on a lavish country estate in Oyster Bay Cove, esteemed New York socialite Ann Woodward fired both barrels of her custom-made shotgun into the head of her husband, multimillionaire William J. “Billy” Woodward Jr., killing him. She mistook him for a notorious prowler who preyed on the privileged cl…

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411: The Murder of Zoya Fyodorova w/ Chris Pouy 1:26:12

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My guest is Chris Pouy, who shares an astonishing true story of love, betrayal, and murder on this latest episode of Most Notorious. His grandmother, Zoya Fyodorova, was a celebrated Russian actress who fell in love with an American naval officer, Jackson Tate, in 1945. It was a forbidden romance that led to the birth of Chris’s mother, Victoria. Z…

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The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis - Southern Gothic 36:31

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Just off the old Natchez Trace, in the quiet woods of Tennessee, stands a broken marble column marking the grave of Meriwether Lewis. The monument was meant to honor one of America’s greatest explorers, but its shattered form also reflects a life cut short under circumstances that remain unsolved more than two centuries later. In 1804, Lewis and Cl…

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410: The 1856 Dublin Railway Murder w/ Thomas Morris 1:13:12

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In November 1856, Dublin was shaken by the murder of George Little, chief cashier at the Broadstone railway terminus. He was found in his office, beaten and with his throat cut, thousands of pounds worth of gold and silver left untouched and the door locked. The investigation gripped the public, filled with twists and unusual developments, includin…

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MoNo Encore: The Car Barn Murders w/ Karen Smith 1:12:08

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(Orig pub date 8/15/23) In the early morning of January 21st, 1935 two employees of the Capital Transit Company in Chevy Chase, Maryland were cold-bloodedly gunned down. One of the men murdered was my guest's great-great uncle Emory Smith. As the police investigated the list of compelling suspects grew, but a powerful cover-up appeared to be in pla…

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409: The Scientist & the Serial Killer w/ Lise Olsen 1:29:46

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In "The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston’s Lost Boys", investigative journalist Lise Olsen tells the gripping true-crime story behind the “Lost Boys” murders in 1970s Houston, when more than two dozen teenage boys were murdered at the hands of Dean Corll, nicknamed the “Candy Man”, and his young accomplices. Through years of …

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408: The Murder of Cecelia Gullivan w/ Jeffrey L. Amestoy 1:05:33

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In November 1926, Cecelia Gullivan, treasurer of the Cone Automatic Machine company of Windsor, Vermont, was brutally killed in her home. Local police quickly arrested Cone Automatic machinist John Winters on suspicion of the crime, and the trial that followed was sensational and swift. Convicted of murder, Winters’ appeal brought in an unexpected …

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407: The Thames Torso Murders w/ Sarah Bax Horton 1:02:24

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Victorian 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…

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Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

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419: Serial Killer Pee Wee Gaskins w/ Dick Harpootlian 1:08:10

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418: The Black Dahlia & the Prairie Heiress Murders: One Killer? w/ Eli Frankel 1:30:19

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MoNo Encore: The Murder of Frank Richardson w/ Kimberly Tilley 1:14:29

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417: The Shipwreck of the Mignonette w/ Adam Cohen 58:06

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416: Nazi Germany’s Bungled Operation Condor w/ Gavin Whitehead 57:52

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415: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald w/ John U. Bacon 55:04

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414: The Martha Wise Murders w/ Rod Kackley 54:41

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MoNo Encore: The Murder of President James Garfield w/ Candice Millard 59:28

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413: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday & Tombstone w/ Mark Lee Gardner 1:20:10

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412: The Killing of William Woodward w/ Jerry Aylward 1:09:13

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411: The Murder of Zoya Fyodorova w/ Chris Pouy 1:26:12

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The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis - Southern Gothic 36:31

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410: The 1856 Dublin Railway Murder w/ Thomas Morris 1:13:12

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MoNo Encore: The Car Barn Murders w/ Karen Smith 1:12:08

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409: The Scientist & the Serial Killer w/ Lise Olsen 1:29:46

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408: The Murder of Cecelia Gullivan w/ Jeffrey L. Amestoy 1:05:33

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407: The Thames Torso Murders w/ Sarah Bax Horton 1:02:24