Minnesota's Most Notorious: Where Blood Runs Cold
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Minnesota's Most Notorious: Where Blood Runs Cold
Erik Rivenes, host of the Most Notorious Podcast (and creator of Saint Paul's original Gangster Tours) has for years been fascinated with long-ago tales of crime, tragedy and disaster from his home state of Minnesota. In this podcast Erik interviews authors who have written some sensational historic...
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The Murder of Ruth Munson w/ Roger Barr
One of Minnesota's most fascinating unsolved murder cases began on the morning of December 9, 1937, when firefighters discovered the charred body of 3...
The 1916 Iron Ore Strike w/ Gary Kaunonen
On June 2, 1916, forty mostly immigrant mineworkers at the St. James Mine in Aurora, Minnesota, walked off the job. This seemingly small labor disturb...
The Scandalous Rise & Stunning Fall of Minneapolis' Metropolitan Building w/ Larry Millett
My guest is prolific author Larry Millett. His knowledge of Twin Cities architecture and history is unequalled in Minnesota, and he has used his knowl...
Camilla Hall & the SLA w/ Rachael Hanel
It was a question asked by many Minnesotans in 1974, including her parents. How could Camilla Hall, the sweet and caring daughter of a small-town Luth...
The Duluth Murder of Lena Olson w/ Jeffrey Sauve
In August of 1894, a young woman was found brutally murdered on a sand dune at Minnesota Point in Duluth. Over the next two years both Duluth and Minn...
The Storied (& Unsavory) History of Minnehaha Falls w/ Karen E. Cooper
Since the mid-19th century one of the great tourist destinations in Minnesota has been Minnehaha Falls. Already known for its beauty, its fame intensi...
Minnesota Caves & Tunnels w/ Greg Brick
Have you ever wondered whether Pig's Eye Parrant's notorious Fountain Cave saloon is accessible to visitors? Was there really a tunnel between Nina Cl...
The Assassination of Hole in the Day w/ Anton Treuer
On June 27, 1868, Hole in the Day (Bagonegiizhig) the Younger left Crow Wing, Minnesota, for Washington, DC, to fight the planned removal of the Missi...
The 1894 Murder of Kitty Ging w/ Shawn Francis Peters
On December 3rd, 1894, a dressmaker named Catherine "Kitty" Ging was found shot to death on a snowy Lake Calhoun road in Minneapolis. Police patched t...
Saint Paul Memories & Murder w/ David Butwin
The upscale Highland Park neighborhood in Saint Paul in the late 1940s was a fun place to grow up in. But there was a dark side to the area as well. A...
The Wabasha Street Caves w/ Deborah Frethem
On this episode, I get a little more informal than usual, as I chat with Deborah Frethem, long time tour guide at the Wabasha Street Caves (the old Ca...
Grand Rapids' Ruby Slippers Heist w/ Rob Feeney
My guest, Rob Feeney, suddenly found himself the middle of one of the most fascinating criminal investigations in Minnesota history - the theft of one...
The Murder of Thomas Tollefson w/ Beverly J. Porter
In the summer of 1887, Thomas Tollefson was shot to death as he operated his mule-drawn streetcar in the Cedar Avenue-Lake Street neighborhood of Minn...
Old Minneapolis's Infamous Skid Row w/ James Eli Shiffer
Before the early 1960s, when much of Minneapolis was razed to make way for ugly parking ramps and office buildings, another world existed. Decrepit 19...
The 1972 Virginia Piper Kidnapping w/ William Swanson
The F.B.I. refers to the 1972 Virginia Piper kidnapping as the most successful kidnapping in American history. In July of that year, Virginia Piper, s...
The Life & Death of Minnesota's Colorful Nellie King w/ Jerry Kuntz - A True Crime History Podcast
My guest is Jerry Kuntz, author of "Minnesota's Notorious Nellie King: Wild Woman of the Closed Frontier". He tells the story of a larger-than-life an...
The 1912 Alice Matthews Murder Case Part Two
In this second part of the 1912 Alice Matthews Murder case, a serious suspect finally emerges, a young man named Alfred Driskell, but it takes four co...
The 1912 Alice Matthews Murder Case Part One
In March of 1912, a brutal murder of a young woman just off of Cedar Avenue rocked the city of Minneapolis. In part one of this episode, I narrate the...
The Mysterious 1951 Minneapolis Disappearance of the Klein Brothers w/ Jack El-Hai - A True Crime History Podcast
On this new episode of Minnesota's Most Notorious: Where Blood Runs Cold, I speak with author Jack El-Hai about his book, "The Lost Brothers: A Family...
Minnesota 1918: Fire, Flu and War w/ Curt Brown
The year 1918 goes down as probably the most horrific in Minnesota history. A flu epidemic, a world war and the deadliest fire in the state's history...
Minneapolis Madams with Penny A. Petersen - A True Crime History Podcast
While most of us know that prostitution existed in Minneapolis in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, fewer of us know where the red-light distric...
True Crime Ripped From the Headlines! August 4th, 1913
A brief look at some of the wild stories published in the Minneapolis Morning Tribune on August 4th, 1913. True Crime, tragedy and even comedy take a...
The Younger Brothers' First Taste of Freedom
On July 14th of 1901, the remaining members of the notorious James-Younger outlaw gang, Cole and Jim Younger, were allowed to leave the gates of the M...
Live at the Warden's House Museum in Stillwater w/ Gibson Stanton!
Minnesota's Most Notorious's first interview in front of a live audience took place at the Warden's House Museum, downtown Stillwater, on Thursday, Ju...
Minnesota's First Murder Mystery: Part Two w/ Gary Brueggemann - A True Crime History Podcast
My interview continues with Gary Brueggemann, author of "Minnesota's First Murder Mystery, The Case of Edward Phalen: St. Paul's Unsaintly Pioneer".
Minnesota's First Murder Mystery: Part One w/ Gary Brueggemann - A True Crime History Podcast
My guest is teacher and historian Gary Brueggemann, author of "Minnesota's First Murder Mystery, The Case of Edward Phalen: St. Paul's Unsaintly Pione...
The Barker-Karpis Gang & Big Tom Brown w/ Tim Mahoney - A True Crime History Podcast
My guest is Tim Mahoney, author of "Secret Partners: Big Tom Brown and the Barker Gang". He shares the story of the tangled relationship between mob b...
The 1902 Aitkin Murder of Josefina Olson w/ Betty Gove - A True Crime History Podcast
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...
The 1940 Fort Snelling "Barrel Girl" Murder w/ Susi and Todd Adler - A True Crime History Podcast
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.
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The Wild Life of Coffee John Fitchette - A True Crime History Podcast
One of my favorite characters from my book, Dirty Doc Ames & the Scandal That Shook Minneapolis, is "Coffee John" Fitchette. He was an incorrigible, s...
The 1933 Johnson Family Murders w/ Brian Johnson - 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 Fami...
Murder on Buffalo Creek w/ Brian Haines
Brian Haines, Executive Director of the McLeod County Historical Society and Museum in Hutchinson MN, tells some turn-of-the-century stories of murder...
The Lynching of Frank McManus
In April of 1882, in downtown Minneapolis, a hobo named Frank McManus committed a terrible crime upon a little girl named Mina Spear, and citizens tur...
The Rockwell Art Heist w/ Bruce Rubenstein
First, a recounting of the December 1932 robbery of the Third Northwestern National Bank, where the Barker Karpis gang murdered three before making th...
Dirty Doc Ames & the Scandal That Shook Minneapolis w/ Erik Rivenes
In a slight change of pace for Minnesota's Most Notorious, I invite my sister Alison to interview me about my political true crime book, published in...
The 1929 Schuch Family Murders in Waseca w/ Jen Barr
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 i...
The 1932 Murder of Abe Wagner by Murder, Inc. w/ Jeff Neuberger
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 spe...
The Murders of Mary & Johnny Keller & the East Grand Forks Murder of Ray Ruud
First up, the story of the strange relationship between 28 year old steamfitter William Williams and 16 year old Johnny Keller in 1905 Saint Paul, whi...
Saint Mudd: A Novel of Gangsters and Saints w/ Steve Thayer
I'm excited to share my interview with Steve Thayer, New York Times bestselling author, about a book that was very important in my life, a book that u...
Interview: Marjorie Congdon and the Glensheen Murders w/ Sharon Darby Hendry - A True Crime History Podcast
In this special interview episode of Where Blood Runs Cold, I interview Sharon Henry Darby, author of Glensheen's Daughter, about the notorious Minnes...