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15 Minutes of Infamy

Marlin Bressi

24 episodes

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. To see episode pictures visit www.infamy15.com

Episodes

  1. The Merrimac Monster

    · 15 min · Episode 24

    It was a long, dangerous two mile walk to the Pembroke Academy, a school situated between Manchester and Concord, in New Hampshire's Merrimac County. Josie Langmaid, the pretty 17-year-old daughter of a mill worker,…

  2. Honeymoon From Hell

    · 15 min · Episode 23

    Lake Como, in northern Italy, is celebrated as one of the most romantic and picturesque spots in the world and has attained fame as one of the most popular honeymoon destinations in Europe. It also attained…

  3. The Imbecile Defense

    · 15 min · Episode 22

    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…

  4. The Broadway Cigar Girl

    · 15 min · Episode 21

    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…

  5. A Textbook Case of Murder

    · 15 min · Episode 20

    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…

  6. The Sunday School Slaughterer

    · 15 min

    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…

  7. The Girl in the Red Coat

    · 15 min · S1 E18

    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…

  8. The Corpse With the Perfect Smile

    · 15 min · S1 E17

    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.

  9. Bizarre Love Triangle

    · 15 min · S1 E16

    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,…

  10. The Herkimer Horror

    · 15 min · S1 E15

    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,…

  11. The Reverend's New Bride

    · 15 min · S1 E14

    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…

  12. The Headless Masseuse

    · 15 min · S1 E13

    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…

  13. The Deadly Doll Collector

    · 15 min · S1 E12

    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…

  14. The Mad Scientist and the Traveling Preacher

    · 15 min · S1 E11

    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…

  15. Star-Spangled Insanity

    · 15 min · S1 E10

    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…

  16. The Timid Widow

    · 15 min · S1 E9

    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…

  17. Raising the Immortal Baby

    · 15 min · S1 E8

    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…

  18. The Kidnapping of Betty Ann Lake

    · 15 min · S1 E7

    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…

  19. Death is Like a Box of Chocolates

    · 15 min · S1 E6

    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…

  20. Isaac Sawtelle

    · 15 min · S1 E5

    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…

  21. The Malevolent Mystic

    · 15 min · S1 E4

    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…

  22. Dishonest Abe

    · 15 min · S1 E3

    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,…

  23. Unchained Medley

    · 15 min · S1 E2

    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…

  24. A Black Hearse Comes at Midnight

    · 15 min · S1 E1

    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…

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