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  • The Ann Bilansky Murder Case w/ Matthew Cecil

    August 31, 2026 · 56 min

    On this latest episode of Minnesota's Most Notorious: Where Blood Runs Cold, I speak with Matt Cecil about one of the most infamous murder cases in Minnesota history. In 1859, Ann Bilansky's alcoholic husband, Stanislaus, passed away in…

  • The Deadly 1896 Sherburn Bank Robbery w/ Jeffrey Sauve

    August 15, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

    On October 7, 1896, the citizens of Sherburn, a small town in southwestern Minnesota, were horrified when two brothers from Iowa held up the local bank and murdered two men inside. It would go down in history as the world's first heist…

  • Crossing Jimmy Hoffa w/ Steven J Harper

    October 27, 2025 · 1 hr 9 min

    My guest is Steven J. Harper, author of "Crossing Hoffa: A Teamster's Story". His father, Jim Harper, was a member of Minneapolis Teamsters Local 544 who uncovered evidence of corruption within the union. In the late 1950s, he brought this…

  • The Murder of Ruth Munson w/ Roger Barr

    September 6, 2024 · 1 hr 21 min

    One of Minnesota's most fascinating unsolved murder cases began on the morning of December 9, 1937, when firefighters discovered the charred body of 31-year-old Ruth Munson in an abandoned Saint Paul hotel. As the investigation deepened…

  • The 1916 Iron Ore Strike w/ Gary Kaunonen

    March 11, 2024 · 1 hr 36 min

    On June 2, 1916, forty mostly immigrant mineworkers at the St. James Mine in Aurora, Minnesota, walked off the job. This seemingly small labor disturbance would mushroom into one of the region’s, if not the nation’s, most contentious and…

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  • The Scandalous Rise & Stunning Fall of Minneapolis' Metropolitan Building w/ Larry Millett

    February 23, 2024 · 1 hr 10 min

    My guest is prolific author Larry Millett. His knowledge of Twin Cities architecture and history is unequalled in Minnesota, and he has used his knowledge to write some of the best local history books in the last thirty years.  We…

  • Camilla Hall & the SLA w/ Rachael Hanel

    October 2, 2023 · 54 min

    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 Lutheran pastor, become a member of the radical Symbionese Liberation Army? The abductors of…

  • The Duluth Murder of Lena Olson w/ Jeffrey Sauve

    July 22, 2023 · 1 hr 14 min

    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 Minneapolis detectives would hunt for her killer across the country, until finally finding…

  • The Storied (& Unsavory) History of Minnehaha Falls w/ Karen E. Cooper

    February 3, 2023 · 1 hr 19 min

    Since the mid-19th century one of the great tourist destinations in Minnesota has been Minnehaha Falls. Already known for its beauty, its fame intensified when Henry Wadsworth Longfellow immortalized it in his poem "The Song of…

  • Minnesota Caves & Tunnels w/ Greg Brick

    July 22, 2022 · 1 hr 40 min

    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 Clifford's brothel and the original Minnesota Club? Did Jesse and Frank James hide out in…

  • The Assassination of Hole in the Day w/ Anton Treuer

    June 5, 2022 · 54 min

    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 Mississippi Ojibwe to a reservation at White Earth. Several miles from his home, the…

  • The 1894 Murder of Kitty Ging w/ Shawn Francis Peters

    December 30, 2021 · 1 hr 23 min

    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 together clues and evidence, which ultimately led them to the front door of a charming…

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About the show

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 historical stories centered in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, and researches and shares a few himself.