Minnesota's Most Notorious: Where Blood Runs Cold
by Blue Ewe Media · 42 episodes
HistoryEducationTrue Crime
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.
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1 h 35
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 disturbance would mushroom into one o…
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1 h 08
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 knowledge to write some of the best…
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54 min
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 Lutheran pastor, become a member o…
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1 h 12
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 Minneapolis detectives would hunt…
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1 h 18
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 intensified when Henry Wadsworth Long…
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1 h 39
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 Clifford's brothel and the origi…
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53 min
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 Mississippi Ojibwe to a reservation…
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1 h 22
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 together clues and evidence, wh…
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53 min
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 trio of gruesome murders of y…
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59 min
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 Castle Royale Nightclub). We swa…
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1 h 13
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 of the famous pairs of Ruby S…
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48 min
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 Minneapolis. Police settled on two…
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44 min
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 19th century buildings in an are…
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1 h 03
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, socialite wife of Bobby Piper,…
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50 min
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 and beautiful young con-artist,…
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35 min
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 confessions for the police to fi…
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40 min
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 story of the initial investig…
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37 min
The Mysterious 1951 Minneapolis Disappearance of the Klein Brothers w/ Jack El-Hai - A True Crime History Podc…
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's Decades-Long Search".In it,…
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53 min
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 all hit within months of each…
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1 h 22
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 districts were, and what life would h…