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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.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Historical cases become clear, evidence-minded conversations about investigative methods, contested explanations, and the records that shape what can be known.
Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast turns historical cases into focused interviews, with Eric Rivenes guiding guests through evidence, social context, and competing interpretations.
A Victorian detective keeps his search quiet; your crime-history curiosity gets more than a body count.
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A clear, measured look at body snatching, anatomy training, and the fear that made mort safes feel necessary.
The Doctors' Riot of 1788 comes through as a clash between mourning families who wanted the dead left undisturbed and medical students looking for bodies to study anatomy.
Catherine's mirror, lip rouge, and new name give this gangster origin story its spark.
American Criminal opens its George "Machine Gun" Kelly Barnes series by setting a Prohibition-era criminal path beside Catherine's more practical, unsettled life.
A failed Nazi espionage plot follows a dancer, Allied officers, and a radio hidden beneath a houseboat bar.
Operation Condor was a failed World War II espionage campaign, and Gavin Whitehead keeps its strange moving parts clear. He traces how Epler viewed Hekmet Fahmy's influence over Allied officers at the Kit Kat Club as a possible path to information about the western desert, then…
Mogul's downhill shuffle gives the Royal Tar's forgotten voyage its most memorable image.
The Royal Tar's doomed voyage becomes less a shipwreck setup than a strange civic scene: after a final performance in St. John, a city watches an elephant, two lionesses, a tiger, camels, wild birds, and snakes move toward the waiting vessel.
A French criminal case opens into the early logic of forensic science.
The episode frames The Killer of Little Shepherds as a history of a criminal case that helped push forensic science into public view. Eric Rivenes and Douglas Starr focus on how Dr.
A Nuremberg story shaped by Goering's health, Kelly's tests, and the uneasy intimacy of long confinement.
Jack Elhai's conversation with Eric Rivenes takes an unusual path into the Nuremberg trials, beginning with Herman Goering's physical rehabilitation and the access it gave Dr. Douglas M. Kelly.
A careful look at how Bathory's legend took shape through rumor, accusation, and local tension.
The episode treats Elizabeth Bathory's story as more than a monster legend, and that choice gives it real shape. Eric Rivenes and Shelley Puhak focus on how accusations took hold, how rumor moved, and how ethnic, religious, and village tensions helped give the case its force.
A patient true-crime history conversation that keeps the detective work and human stakes in view.
The episode treats the Carr Barn murders as a serious case study, not a pulp mystery. Karen Smith comes across as a seasoned forensic detective and a steady storyteller, and the focus stays on the investigation, the people around it, and the limits the detectives faced.
Podcast discovery from the Sherpa Chalet.
Witchy banter with glorious detours.
Female crime, told with grave attention.
Eric brings back a favorite mono encore and welcomes Karen Smith to talk through the 1935 Carr Barn murders.
Eric Rivenis talks with Tom Clavin about The Last Outlaws and Bandit Heaven, two books focused on the Dalton gang, Hole in the Wall, and the closing years of the Wild West.
Eric Rivenes welcomes Shelley Puhak to talk about Elizabeth Báthory and the long afterlife of her reputation.
Eric Riveness welcomes investigative reporter, editor, and author Lisa Olson to discuss her book *The Scientist and the Serial Killer, The Search for Houston's Lost Boys*.
What does Sputnik have to do with student loans? How did a set of trembling hands end the Soviet Uni
Candace Millard traces James Garfield from a shoe-less childhood in Ohio to a surprise Republican nomination in Chicago, where 15,000 people shouted, 'We want Garfield.' She connects Garfield's rise to Roscoe Conkling, Chester Arthur, Frederick Douglass, and the spoils system that shaped the 1880 election and Garfield's unwilling presidency.
Eric Rivenes speaks with historian and writer Thomas Morris about the 2021 book he wrote on the Dublin Railway Murder.
Eric Rivenis and George R.
Eric Rivenis welcomes Chris Poi and opens a conversation about Poi’s grandmother, Zoya Fedorova.
Eric Riveness returns with Kimberly Tilley to talk about Frank Richardson's murder.
Eric Rivenes revisits Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Tombstone with Mark Lee Gardner.
William J.
Truman Capote called her Mrs. Bang Bang — and she killed herself before his tell-all went to print.
Host Erik Rivenes interviews author James Stewart about his book 'Mystery at the Blue Sea Cottage,' which investigates the 1923 death of dancer Fritzie Mann in San Diego.
Eric Rivenes hosts journalist and lawyer Adam Cohen to discuss his book 'Captain's Dinner' about the Mignonette shipwreck—a 1884 maritime disaster that became a pivotal human rights case.
Host Erik Rivenes interviews author Troy Taylor about the 1949 exorcism case that inspired The Exorcist, delving into the true story behind the boy's possession, the myths that arose, and the historical research challenges.
Rod Cackley discusses his new book 'The Murders of Martha Wise,' chronicling a shocking 1924 true crime case from Ohio.
Eric Rivenes speaks with Allie Seibert about Henry Scott Moselle, whom she argues was Michigan's first serial killer decades before the 1960s.
Theresa Mitchell Webster traces Edwin Ray Snow’s case from a tiny Yarmouth Register clipping to her book, The Cape Cod Murder of 1899, and explains why the case still mattered on Cape Cod.
Dick Harpootlian discusses his book Dig Me a Grave: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Who Seduced the South, centered on Pee Wee Gaskins and the 1982-83 South Carolina cases.
Eric Rivenes interviews Eli Frankel, the Emmy-nominated producer and author of Sisters in Death, about the Black Dahlia and Prairie Heiress murders.
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An elephant scooting down a hill on his rear end to reach the ship that would doom him.
Andy McPhee connects a modern operating-room case involving a motorcycle crash and an iliac artery to the history of 1788 New York body snatching.
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Eric revisits the Thames Torso Murders with Suzanne Huntington.
Host Erik Rivenes interviews author Saladin Amber about his book 'Murder on the Mississippi', a historical true crime story.
Host Erik Rivenes interviews former Vermont Attorney General Jeffrey Amestoy about a historical murder case involving a famous lawyer.
This episode discusses the Thames Torso murders, a series of crimes adjacent to Jack the Ripper, with a guest presenting a suspect.
A true crime history podcast featuring interviews with authors about historical crimes and criminals.
This episode discusses the Battle of Trenton and the unopened warning letter to Hessian Colonel Johann Rall, framed within a history podcast that explores mistakes and accidents.
This episode discusses historical true crime cases, featuring an interview with an author about a book on the topic.
This episode discusses the Battle of Trenton and the unopened warning letter to Hessian Colonel Johann Rall, framed as a historical mistake.
This episode features an interview with an author about the 1912 Villisca axe murders and the detective who pursued a suspect.
This episode explores the controversial history of absinthe, a spirit romanticized in literature and art.
The host discusses a recent Crime Junkies episode that referenced his own interview about a historical true crime case.