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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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- 2 days ago1h 6m
461: The Fire Witch & the 1876 Brooklyn Theater Inferno w/ Melanie Gall
On December 5, 1876, a packed house at the Brooklyn Theatre was watching the hit melodrama "The Two Orphans" when star Kate Claxton spotted a small flame above the stage. The actors kept performing, hoping to prevent a panic. Within twenty minutes, the theatre had collapsed, killing roughly 300 people, most of them trapped in the cheap seats of the upper gallery. Kate escaped, but the press soon gave her a new name: the Fire Witch. My guest this week is Melanie Gall, author of "Fire Witch: Kate Claxton and the 1876 Brooklyn Theatre Inferno". We talk about Kate’s scandalous rise, the harrowing minutes inside the burning theatre, and how the tragedy reshaped her reputation forever. The author's website: https://www.melaniegall.com/ The author's publisher page: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Fire-Witch/Melanie-Gall/9781493098309 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 6 days ago2h 1m
MoNo Encore: The Life & Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe w/ Mark Dawidziak
Edgar Allan Poe is, of course, one of America's most iconic writers. Many credit him with inventing or popularizing multiple literary genres, including mystery, horror and detective fiction. But the real Poe has become distorted over the years - transformed by fans into a dark and tortured soul obsessed with alcohol and death. My guest is author Mark Dawidziak, and his new book is called "A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe". He not only shares with us what Poe was really like, but also walks us through some of the many theories surrounding Poe's agonizing death in a Baltimore hospital in October of 1849. He also talks about possible explanations for Poe's mysterious three missing days - just before he was discovered, delirious and in another man's clothes, at a Baltimore polling-place. More about the author's prolific work at his website, here: https://www.markdawidziak.com/ Connect with the author through Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.dawidziak (Orig Pub Date 2/14/23). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago1h 10m
460: Dr. Joseph Bell: The Real Sherlock Holmes w/ Lindsey Fitzharris
Throughout nineteenth-century Edinburgh, the surgeon Joseph Bell was known for his extraordinary talent for detection and diagnosis. To the amazement of onlookers at the Royal Infirmary, he could read a patient’s ailments, occupation, and personal habits from a single glance. Though such deductive powers were all quite “elementary” to Bell, they had a profound influence on the medical student and budding writer Arthur Conan Doyle. Soon enough, Bell’s methods helped spark the creation of fiction’s most iconic detective. My guest is New York Times bestselling author and medical historian Lindsey Fitzharris, author of the new book Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes. We talk about Bell’s complicated bond with Conan Doyle and a couple of the murder cases Bell investigated alongside his friend, Edinburgh police surgeon Henry Duncan Littlejohn. The two men even took an unofficial interest in the Whitechapel murders. The author's website: https://drlindseyfitzharris.com/ The author on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drlindseyfitzharris The author on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrLindseyFitzharris/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 2 weeks ago1h 13m
459: Taiwan's 1957 Liu Ziran Incident & Reynolds Riot w/ Stephen Craft
In March 1957, Master Sergeant Robert Reynolds, a U.S. military adviser living with his family outside Taipei, Taiwan, shot and killed a man named Liu Ziran, who Reynolds claimed had been peeping through his bathroom window. Because Reynolds had diplomatic immunity, he was tried by a U.S. Army court-martial, and Taiwanese officials had no say in the proceedings. When he was acquitted that May, outrage boiled over, and an angry mob stormed the U.S. Embassy in Taipei. My guest is Stephen G. Craft, author of American Justice in Taiwan: The 1957 Riots and Cold War Foreign Policy. He discusses how Taiwan emerged as a political power separate from mainland China, and the uneasy but mutually beneficial relationship between the United States and the Republic of China in the 1950s. The author's Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University bio page: https://erau.edu/faculty/Stephen.Craft The author's publisher page: https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813166353/american-justice-in-taiwan/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 3 weeks ago1h 35m
458: The Tale of a Medieval Survivor w/ Sara McDougall
In the winter of 1472, the city of Dijon, France, became the stage for a remarkable legal drama. On the mayor’s orders, an investigator named Jaques Borestel went door-to-door questioning his neighbors about an alleged sexual assault and about the victim’s history and place in the community. At the center of Jaques’s inquiry was a woman named Jehanne, who took the unusual step of making a criminal complaint in an age when victims of sexual violence did so at their own peril. My guest is Sara McDougall, and her book Justice for Jehanne: The Tale of a Medieval Survivor follows Jaques’s investigation as he uncovers one woman’s story of resilience and survival. More about the author here: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/people/sara-mcdougall The author's publisher page: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691268910/justice-for-jehanne The author on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saramcdougall_medieval/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 4 weeks ago1h 4m
457: Lizzie Borden Expert Cara Robertson Returns
There has been lots of buzz recently about Netflix's gory new series Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, and Cara Robertson, author of "The Trial of Lizzie Borden", joins me once again, this time to share her thoughts on how the case is depicted, separate fact from fiction and to answer some Patreon supporter questions. Cara's website: https://www.carawrobertson.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 28, 20261h 22m
MoNo Encore: The Lizzie Borden Case w/ Cara Robertson
(Orig Pub Date 7/19/22) In anticipation of a new interview with Cara, mostly about the recent Netflix Series, here is my original conversation with her about the notorious case. In August of 1892, one of the most infamous double murders in American history was committed in brutal fashion. Andrew and Abby Borden were hacked to death in their Fall River house, and their daughter Lizzie, home at the time, became the number one suspect. What followed was a spectacular trial, fought by brilliant attorneys, in a courtroom packed with fascinated spectators and reporters. My guest is Cara Robertson, author of "The Trial of Lizzie Borden: A True Story". She summarizes this sensational Gilded Age true crime story with a unique legal perspective. More about the author and her work can be found here: https://www.carawrobertson.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 23, 20261h 29m
456: Outlaws & Public Enemies Ben and Stella Mae Dickson w/ Matt Cecil
On August 25, 1938, twenty-five-year-old Ben Dickson and his fifteen-year-old wife Stella Mae robbed the Corn Exchange Bank in Elkton, South Dakota, making off with $2,187.64. Two months later they hit a bank in nearby Brookings for $17,593 - after waiting two hours for the vault’s time-lock to open while the bank's manager went on processing loans for customers. Unfortunately for these two small-time outlaws, the FBI was in short supply of public enemies at the time, and a newly minted Bonnie and Clyde was exactly what J. Edgar Hoover needed to stoke the agency's public relations machine. My guest is Matt Cecil, author of The Ballad of Ben and Stella Mae: Great Plains Outlaws Who Became FBI Public Enemies Nos. 1 and 2. He has been fascinated with the story of Ben and Stella Mae since he was a teenager, and shares his research with us on this latest episode of Most Notorious. The author's publisher page: https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700623242/ The author's Amazon page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Matthew-Cecil/author/B00I4BYFRQ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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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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