15 Minutes of Infamy

Epizodes

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  The Girl in the Red Coat 14.09.2026 15min

  During WW2, thousands of young women invaded the city of Washington. With all the able-bodied men fighting the war, many of these women took government jobs and were, for the first time in their lives, out on their own. One such woman Dorothy Berrum, an 18-year-old from Wisconsin who left home and went to work for the War Department.When Dorothy began dating men in uniform her friends implored her to be careful...If only she had listened.The search for Dorothy's killer produced a Marine Corps belt buckle found near the scene of the crime. But there was just one problem-- the soldier it belonged to was stationed thousands of miles away in the South Pacific at the time of her murder.
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  The Corpse With the Perfect Smile 07.09.2026 15min

  This week, we meet William Udderzook, a criminal mastermind who might've gotten away with the perfect murder... if only his victim hadn't practiced such fantastic oral hygiene.
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  Bizarre Love Triangle 31.08.2026 15min

  One of the most infamous murders in the history of Denver, Colorado, took place in 1911. But this murder didn't involve a wily gold prospector, a Wild West bandit, or a rugged cattle rancher. It grew out of a good, old-fashioned love triangle involving a gas company worker, a playboy hot air balloonist, and the young socialite wife of a wealthy banker. This is the true story of Isabel Springer and the men who loved her-- a story that serves as a cautionary tale of just how quickly one can go from the penthouse to the poorhouse.
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  The Herkimer Horror 24.08.2026 15min

  Neighbors hadn't seen Willian Druse for days, but then someone noticed his farmhouse windows were covered with newspaper, and a foul-smelling smoke was billowing from his chimney. Little did they suspect, however, that his wife and daughter were inside, exacting their revenge with rope, a hatchet, a revolver--- and several cauldrons of boiling water.
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  The Reverend's New Bride 17.08.2026 15min

  The children of Reverend William Christy, a traveling preacher from Ohio, were flabbergasted. Their father hadn't mentioned anything about marriage, and so when they learned that he had tied the knot in January of 1926, they were left speechless. William's wife had died three years earlier, and his children, though stunned, were happy for the 56-year-old preacher, even though they knew nothing about his new 48-year-old bride, Laura.If only they had looked into her past, they would've discovered that death seemed to follow Laura wherever she went.
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  The Headless Masseuse 10.08.2026 15min

  On a Saturday afternoon in June of 1897, three boys playing along East 11th Street and the East River found a bundle bobbing on the surface of the water. It contained part of a man's body-- the shoulders, arms and chest, to be precise.The case of the East River Torso Murder stumped New York's best detectives and probably would've remained unsolved-- if not for one thirsty newspaper reporter and a discolored duck.
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  The Deadly Doll Collector 03.08.2026 15min

  Early on the morning of February 23, 1929, James Boyle of Newark, New Jersey, turned his car off the main highway to take a shortcut home. He had traveled only a short distance when he saw flames on the snowy ground off the edge of the road. He pulled over for a closer look, and what he saw chilled the blood in his veins-- the burning object was the body of a woman.This is the astonishing tale of a most peculiar killer-- with a peculiar penchant for teddy bears.
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  The Mad Scientist and the Traveling Preacher 27.07.2026 15min

  In 1924, a 35-year-old chemist from the Bay Area of California took over an abandoned factory at Walnut Creek and started a business called the Pacific Cellulose Chemical Company. The community was intrigued after the chemist explained how he had mastered a secret process for manufacturing artificial silk-- a process he claimed to have discovered in Germany during his stint as an Allied spy in WW1.But after a deadly explosion rocked his laboratory the truth about the mad scientist finally came to light-- and the truth was much more sinister than anyone could've imagined.
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  Star-Spangled Insanity 20.07.2026 15min

  On the afternoon of Saturday, February 27, 1859, the nation's capital was thrown into a state of excitement over an incident which took place at Lafayette Square. At two o'clock, two distinguished gentlemen met each other on the square. One offered his hand for a handshake, the other refused. Instead, he put his hand in his pocket and drew a pistol.This is the true story of a self-taught lawyer with the audacity to try a never-before-used defense-- with his own neck on the line.
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  The Timid Widow 13.07.2026 15min

  Minnie, a mild-mannered widow from Atlanta, had a lot of explaining to do after the body of a missing housewife was discovered stuffed into a trunk in her basement in 1941.Did she take the fall in order to protect her troubled teenage son? Or was the timid widow really a twisted, cold-blooded killer?
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  Raising the Immortal Baby 06.07.2026 15min

  Baby Jean is not immortal. She's just a girl a cult leader thinks is The One.This is the strange story of the rise and fall of a cult known as the Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians, and its charismatic leader, James Bernard Shafer.
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  The Kidnapping of Betty Ann Lake 29.06.2026 15min

  On the morning of January 6, 1936, near the tiny settlement of Pacific Junction in New Brunswick, Canada, a woodcutter named Otto Blakeney saw smoke over the snowy horizon. He trudged through the woods and was shocked to discover a burned out cabin-- and the bodies of Philip Lake, his wife, and their infant son.But not all members of the Lake family were accounted for; missing was the Lake's five-month-old daughter, Betty Ann. This is the true tale of one of Canada's strangest-- and most infamous- kidnapping cases.
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  Death is Like a Box of Chocolates 22.06.2026 15min

  Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know if you're going to bite into one that has been laced with deadly poison.This is the true story of the murder of Elizabeth Dunning, a Congressman's daughter who suffered a tragic fate at the hands of a stranger who lived thousands of miles away.
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  Isaac Sawtelle 15.06.2026 15min

  Christmas Day of 1889 had a special meaning for one Boston family. Isaac Sawtelle, Jr., would be reunited with the family he hadn't seen in sixteen years. But Isaac's long absence from home was neither the result of his seeking fortune out West or traveling abroad, nor was it because of a family rift. No, the reason for Isaac's long-awaited homecoming was because he had been pardoned by the governor after serving a long sentence for a serious crime.Isaac's freedom would be short-lived, however; not long after his pardon, he would be convicted of first-degree murder. But, unlike so many murderers who have been forgotten by history, Isaac Sawtelle earned his fifteen minutes of infamy-- not just for the brutal nature of his crime, but for having the distinction of being sentenced to death in a state where the crime hadn't been committed.
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  The Malevolent Mystic 08.06.2026 15min

  In a small farmhouse in Oregon, there once lived a family named Covell. The head of the household was Dr. Fred Covell, a chiropractor with an office in the town of Bandon. When Ebba Covell was found dead in her bed with her neck bent at an unnatural angle, as if twisted by powerful hands, her chiropractor husband was the logical suspect. But murder often defies logic, as Ebba's real killer turned out to be the last one anyone would have suspected.
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  Dishonest Abe 01.06.2026 15min

  On April 8, 1922, Abraham Becker walked into a Bronx police station and reported that his wife, Jennie, was missing. The discovery of her body, and the post-mortem analysis of her partially-digested last meal, ultimately led two men to Sing Sing Prison's electric chair.
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  Unchained Medley 25.05.2026 15min

  After Nancy Boyer, a middle-aged hairdresser, was found murdered in her apartment by her landlady, Washington D.C.'s top detectives leaped into action-- but little did they know that the man they were after had left a trail of red-haired victims from New Orleans to Chicago. So, what was the reason for the killer's distaste for redheads?
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  A Black Hearse Comes at Midnight 18.05.2026 15min

  The Archer Home for Elderly People was a highly-specialized business. That is, it specialized in the quick and speedy extermination of its residents.This is the true story of Amy Archer Gilligan, a nursing homeowner from Windsor, Connecticut, who came under scrutiny after a newspaper report noticed an unusually high number of resident deaths-- and a mysterious black hearse that visited the Archer Home every midnight to collect and spirit away the bodies.