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Infamous America
Historical True Crime — assassins, gangsters, mobsters and lawmen; manhunts, scandals and unexplained phenomena. Stories of the wildest and darkest chapters of America's past.
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KIDNAPPINGS Ep. 4 | George Weyerhaeuser: “Down in Hole”
By the early 1900s Frederick Weyerhaeuser was known as the “Lumber King” and had amassed a fortune in the Pacific Northwest. The wealth generated from...
KIDNAPPINGS Ep. 3 | Brooke Hart: “Human Devils”
On November 9, 1933 – 22 year old Brooke Hart, the heir to a department store fortune and San Jose’s most eligible bachelor, went missing in broad day...
KIDNAPPINGS Ep. 2 | Lindbergh Baby: “Bruno Richard Hautmann”
The Lindbergh family discovers the fate of little baby Charlie, but it takes 2 more years for investigators to follow the ransom money to the Bronx, N...
KIDNAPPINGS Ep. 1 | The Lindbergh Baby: “Crime of the Century”
On May 21, 1927, 25 year old Charles LIndbergh became the biggest star on the planet. He advanced the travel industry to a level many doubted was poss...
Introducing THE CHINATOWN STING
Here’s a preview of a new podcast, The Chinatown Sting from our friends at Pushkin Industries.
In the late 1980s, a group of women...
BOSTON HEISTS Ep. 6 | Gardner Museum: “The Mafia Connection”
As the FBI’s investigation of local Boston art thieves fades, its investigation of crews linked to the Italian mob ramps up. Agents begin to focus on...
BOSTON HEISTS Ep. 5 | Gardner Museum: “The Irish Connection”
In the first few years after the heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the FBI’s investigation follows two parallel tracks. The first to produ...
BOSTON HEISTS Ep. 4 | Gardner Museum: “81 Minutes”
In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, two thieves, disguised as Boston police officers, gain access to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Th...
BOSTON HEISTS Ep. 3 | Gardner Museum: “You Can’t Sell A Rembrandt”
In the 1970s and 1980s, Boston and the greater New England region seem plagued by art thieves. Myles Connor becomes the most notorious thief of the er...
BOSTON HEISTS Ep. 2 | Great Brinks Robbery: “Where is the money?”
Anthony Pino and his crew commit one of the fastest and smoothest robberies in history, and they escape with a record-breaking haul. The FBI launches...
BOSTON HEISTS Ep. 1 | Great Brink’s Robbery: “The Perfect Plan”
In the mid-1940s, career criminal Anthony Pino sets his sights on robbing Brinks security company. He recruits a team of thieves and they rob armored...
ARSONISTS Ep. 6 | Paul Keller: “The Specter”
By fall 1992, serial arsonist Paul Keller has set more than two dozen fires throughout the Seattle area, and he shows no signs of slowing down. Law en...
ARSONISTS Ep. 5 | Paul Keller: "Firestarter”
From an early age, Paul Kenneth Keller exhibits signs of disturbing behavior. From bullying his younger siblings to petty theft, Paul never behaves. E...
ARSONISTS Ep. 4 | John Orr: “Firebug”
John Orr proves to be a slippery target for the Pillow Pyro Task Force. Investigators have a lot of evidence against him, but they want to catch him i...
ARSONISTS Ep. 3 | John Orr: “The Task Force”
After the devastating College Hills brush fire in June 1990, and series of fires in December 1990 and March 1991, the ATF and the LAFD form a task for...
ARSONISTS Ep. 2 | John Orr: “The Fingerprint”
In 1987 and 1989, destructive fires erupt in conjunction with arson investigation conferences in California. Bakersfield Fire Captain Marvin Casey doe...
ARSONISTS Ep. 1 | John Orr: “Point of Origin”
By the mid-1980s, John Orr is a respected arson investigator for the Glendale Fire Department in Los Angeles. He might not be the easiest person to li...
LUCKY LUCIANO Ep. 6 | "Exile”
Luciano is forced to leave the United States and return to Sicily. But, he immediately makes plans to set up a base of operations near the U.S. With t...
LUCKY LUCIANO Ep. 5 | "Operation: Underworld”
Luciano flees New York to evade Thomas E. Dewey. But after months of searching, Dewey’s agents find Luciano and bring him back to face charges related...
LUCKY LUCIANO Ep. 4 | "The Commission”
After Luciano organizes the removal of Salvatore Maranzano, he institutes significant changes to the American Mafia. Luciano’s most notable innovation...
LUCKY LUCIANO Ep. 3 | "Boss of Bosses”
In the spring of 1931, Charles Luciano orchestrates the removal of his boss, Joe Masseria. Luciano cuts a deal with Salvatore Maranzano to become the...
LUCKY LUCIANO Ep. 2 | “Castellammarese War”
After Arnold Rothstein’s murder, Charles Luciano works full time for a Sicilian gangster named Joe “the Boss” Masseria and quickly becomes Masseria’s...
LUCKY LUCIANO Ep. 1 | “Five Points Gangster”
In the late 1800s, millions of immigrants come to the United States for the opportunity for a better life. Among those who come from Sicily is a boy n...
BOMBINGS Ep. 6 | “Harvey’s Casino, Part 2: No Way Out”
John Birges’s effort to collect extortion money from Harvey’s Wagon Wheel Resort and Casino does not go well. As he tries to think of another plan, th...
BOMBINGS Ep. 5 | “Harvey’s Casino, Part 1: A Simple Plan”
In the spring of 1980, John Birges hit rock bottom. For about 10 years, he was living the good life. But then his life started to fall apart. His gamb...
BOMBINGS Ep. 4 | “Mad Bomber, Part 2: Manhunt”
Over the course of five years in the early 1950s, George Metesky escalates a bombing campaign that is designed to hurt his former employer, Consolidat...
BOMBINGS Ep. 3 | “Mad Bomber, Part 1: Vendetta”
In 1931, George Metesky suffers a injury while working for Consolidated Edison power company in New York. George feels he is not properly compensated...
BOMBINGS Ep. 2 | “L.A. Times, Part 2: Trial of the Century”
Immediately after the deadly explosion at the L.A. Times building, celebrated detective William Burns begins an investigation. He follows a long trail...
BOMBINGS Ep. 1 | “L.A. Times, Part 1: Midnight Assassins”
In the early 1900s, a new phase starts in the ongoing battle between unions and big businesses. Some union organizers begin using bombs to try to forc...
ENCORE: OSAGE MURDERS Ep. 6 | “Is This Justice?”
The courtroom trials were dramatic. They were surprising reversals and bold acts of jury tampering. But finally, after years of heartbreak, the Osage...
ENCORE: OSAGE MURDERS Ep. 5 | “The Confession”
Throughout 1925, Special Agent Tom White and his team produced more results than all the other investigators combined. But even White’s investigation...
ENCORE: OSAGE MURDERS Ep. 4 | “New Evidence, New Suspects”
Mercifully, the murders in the Osage Nation paused in 1924 and 1925. J. Edgar Hoover became the director of the Bureau of Investigation and assigned a...
ENCORE: OSAGE MURDERS Ep. 3 | “No Rest For The Wicked”
The winter of 1923 saw more murders in the Osage Hills, but no one was prepared for the brazen and brutal attack that happened in March. In the afterm...
ENCORE: OSAGE MURDERS Ep. 2 | “Reign of Terror”
The Osage and local lawmen began to investigate the first two murders, but their efforts produced few results. The Osage were scared and frustrated, a...
ENCORE: OSAGE MURDERS Ep. 1 | “A Body In The Dirt”
In 1921, two murder victims were discovered on the same day in Osage County in northeastern Oklahoma. It was shocking news, but members of the Osage t...
MYSTERIES Ep. 3 | “‘Investor’ Alaska Murders”
At the end of the Labor Day weekend in 1982, people in the tiny fishing village of Craig, Alaska noticed a boat burning in the harbor. When they raced...
MYSTERIES Ep. 2 | “Sodder Children”
A tragedy unfolds on Christmas Eve, 1945 in a small town in West Virginia. The Sodder family – 2 parents and 9 children – go to bed after a happy cele...
MYSTERIES Ep. 1 | “Roland Owen, Room 1046”
On January 2, 1935, a man who calls himself Roland T. Owen checks into a hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. Over the next 48 hours, the events surroundin...
ZODIAC KILLER Ep. 6 | “This Is The Zodiac Speaking”
A year and a half after the first Zodiac crime, a man kidnaps a pregnant mother and her daughter. Their terrifying ordeal becomes associated with the...
ZODIAC KILLER Ep. 5 | “Presidio Heights”
Two weeks after the attack at Lake Berryessa, the Zodiac shoots and kills a taxi cab driver in San Francisco. Multiple witnesses see the killer, but t...