15 Minutes of Infamy
15 Minutes of Infamy is a short-form true crime podcast hosted by author Marlin Bressi, creator of the Pennsylvania Oddities podcast. Each episode delivers a fast, gripping fifteen-minute deep dive into infamous true crime cases, exploring historic murders, notorious criminals, unsolved mysteries, and the dark events that shaped history. Perfect for fans of bite-sized true crime, historical crime stories, and real-life mysteries, 15 Minutes of Infamy brings the past to life—one chilling story at a time.
Episodes
The Imbecile Defense
On March 27, 1914, schoolteacher Lida Beecher left her boarding house in upstate New York to mail a letter but never returned home. When her body was found the next morning, it led to the arrest of one of her teenage students. The trial of Jean Gianini was a national sensation, raising questions about how to punish those of low intelligence who commit murder-- questions that our legal system still
The Broadway Cigar Girl
This is the story of a girl, who drowned in a river and shocked the whole world. And while she looked so sad in photographs, Poe absolutely loved her-- and so she became the inspiration behind one of his most famous stories.
A Textbook Case of Murder
When penmanship instructor Asa Wheeler fell on hard times, he decided to rent out space to an aspiring textbook author with a very famous brother. But if Wheeler felt that the Colt name-- a name synonymous with firearms since the 1850s-- couldn't possibly hurt his business, he would be mistaken.What transpired next became one of the most discussed true crime cases of Old New York-- a case whic
The Sunday School Slaughterer
This week, we visit the Emmanuel Church in San Francisco-- a church with a very dark history. One of its former pastors had committed suicide in his study, another pastor had murdered a member of the congregation, and a third had carried on so many extramarital affairs that he had been forced to resign.But, in 1895, when the body of a missing teenage housekeeper was discovered inside the church li
The Girl in the Red Coat
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
The Corpse With the Perfect Smile
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.
Bizarre Love Triangle
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
The Herkimer Horror
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.
The Reverend's New Bride
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 not
The Headless Masseuse
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 rep
The Deadly Doll Collector
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
The Mad Scientist and the Traveling Preacher
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
Star-Spangled Insanity
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 l
The Timid Widow
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?
Raising the Immortal Baby
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.
The Kidnapping of Betty Ann Lake
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 f
Death is Like a Box of Chocolates
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.
Isaac Sawtelle
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 b
The Malevolent Mystic
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 tur
Dishonest Abe
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.
Unchained Medley
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?
A Black Hearse Comes at Midnight
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
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