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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.
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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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In this week's episode, Openers, we are talking about everything from “Charlie Kirk” to “Who would I be if I was 100% Selfish”. If you want us to give you some advice, email us: [email protected] Host: Rodney, Solomon, Wally, Meech, and Randall What our Openers can expect from us: OPEN: A to Z as it pertains to the LGBTQ community a…
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The 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…
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In this week's episode, Openers, we are talking about everything from “Vaccinations coming out of school” to “How you want to be experienced”. If you want us to give you some advice, email us: [email protected] Host: Rodney, Solomon, Wally, Meech, and Randall What our Openers can expect from us: OPEN: A to Z as it pertains to the LG…
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(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…
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In 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…
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In this week's episode, Openers, we are talking about everything from “Southwest airlines to require larger passengers to buy two seats starting 1/27/26 - standard, preferred and extra leg room)” to “Community Grace”. If you want us to give you some advice, email us: [email protected] Host: Rodney, Solomon, Wally, Meech, and Randall…
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Clay 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…
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In this week's episode, Openers, we are talking about everything from “Snoop Dog doesn’t like gay content” to “Community Grace. If you want us to give you some advice, email us: [email protected] Host: Rodney, Solomon, Wally, Meech, and Randall What our Openers can expect from us: OPEN: A to Z as it pertains to the LGBTQ community a…
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In 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…
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In this week's episode, Openers, we are talking about everything from “The Cost of Community” to “US Supreme Court Formally Asked by Ex- Kentucky Clerk to OverTurn Same-SexMarriage”. If you want us to give you some advice, email us: [email protected] Host: Rodney, Solomon, Wally, Meech, and Randall What our Openers can expect from u…
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The 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…
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In this week's episode, Openers, we are talking about everything from “The Cost of Community” to “US Supreme Court Formally Asked by Ex- Kentucky Clerk to OverTurn Same-SexMarriage”. If you want us to give you some advice, email us: [email protected] Host: Rodney, Solomon, Wally, Meech, and Randall What our Openers can expect from u…
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The 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…
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In this week's episode, Openers, we are talking about everything from “Exclusivity and Elitism in Black Gay Social Circles” to “TRUMP”. If you want us to give you some advice, email us: [email protected] Host: Rodney, Solomon, Wally, Meech, and Randall What our Openers can expect from us: OPEN: A to Z as it pertains to the LGBTQ com…
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(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…
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In this week's episode, Openers, we are talking about everything from “Beyonce Carter Tour Ending” to “Minding your own Business”. If you want us to give you some advice, email us: [email protected] Host: Rodney, Solomon, Wally, Meech, and Randall What our Openers can expect from us: OPEN: A to Z as it pertains to the LGBTQ communit…
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Myra 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…
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In this week's episode, Openers, we are talking about everything from “ Trump in the Epstein files” to “ Chosen Family”. If you want us to give you some advice email us: [email protected] Host: Rodney, Solomon, Wally, Meech, and Randall What our Openers can expect from us: OPEN: A to Z as it pertains to the LGBTQ community and beyon…
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"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…
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My 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…
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In this week's episode, Openers, we are talking about everything from “Diddy Trail being over” to “Part 2: of talking me through sex”. If you want us to give you some advice email us: [email protected] Host: Rodney, Solomon, Wally, Meech, and Randall What our Openers can expect from us: OPEN: A to Z as it pertains to the LGBTQ commu…
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In 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…
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In this week's episode, Openers, we are talking about everything from “Talking you through sex” to “A Broken America”. If you want us to give you some advice email us: [email protected] Host: Rodney, Solomon, Wally, Meech, and Randall What our Openers can expect from us: OPEN: A to Z as it pertains to the LGBTQ community and beyond,…
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(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…
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Clem 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, …
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In this week's episode, Openers, we are talking about everything from “Trust Your Gut” to “B. Simone friend/going broke”. If you want us to give you some advice email us: [email protected] Host: Rodney, Solomon, Wally, Meech, and Randall What our Openers can expect from us: OPEN: A to Z as it pertains to the LGBTQ community and beyo…
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On 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…
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In this week's episode, Openers, we are talking about everything from “Gay iconic Icons” to “Relationships with straight heterosexual black men”. If you want us to give you some advice, email us: [email protected] Host: Rodney, Solomon, Wally, Meech, and Randall What our Openers can expect from us: OPEN: A to Z as it pertains to the…
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