A True Crime History Podcast
This is a Minnesota’s Most Notorious interview. On this episode I chat with Brian Johnson, author of Murder in Chisago County: The Untold Johnson Family Mystery. He has a personal
Continue readingThe 1933 Johnson Family Murders w/ Brian Johnson
First, the strange story of the attempted murder of Dakota Indian chief Sitting Bull at the Grand Opera House in Saint Paul in 1885.Then, I speak to Jeff Neuberger, archivist
Continue readingThe 1932 Murder of Abe Wagner by Murder, Inc. w/ Jeff Neuberger
A couple of years ago, I released a “mini-episode” on Most Notorious, which included a story of the murder of members of the Schuch family in Waseca in 1929. A
Brian Haines, Executive Director of the McLeod County Historical Society and Museum in Hutchinson MN, tells some turn-of-the-century stories of murder and lynching on Buffalo Creek. He also talks about
I’m tickled, on this episode of Minnesota’s Most Notorious, to be joined by author, poet and nonagenarian Betty Gove. She talks about an infamous and tragic Minnesota murder, taken directly
Continue readingThe 1902 Aitkin Murder of Josefina Olson w/ Betty Gove
My guests are Susi and Todd Adler, Fort Snelling historians who specialize in the history of the Upper Post during World War 1 and World War 2. On this episode
Continue readingThe 1940 Fort Snelling “Barrel Girl” Murder w/ Susi and Todd Adler
On a cold winter night in January of 1833, a teenage farmhand named Abraham Prescott crept into the bedroom of his employers, Chauncey and Sally Cochran, and smashed their heads
Continue readingThe Murder of Sally Cochran w/ Leslie Lambert Rounds
Christopher “Kit” Marlowe is considered one of the greatest playwrights of the Elizabethan era, but was also known as a hothead, a scoundrel and a member of the secretive School
The July 1926 murder of the editor of the Canton, Ohio, Daily News, Don R. Mellett, was one of the most publicized crimes in the 1920s. For less than a
Continue readingThe Murder of Journalist Don Mellett w/ Thomas Crowl
One of the most violent old west towns in the late 19th century was the legendary Dodge City, Kansas. Among the notable lawmen and gunfighters who called it home were
Continue readingWyatt Earp, Bat Masterson and Dodge City w/ Tom Clavin