Historical True Crime — assassins, gangsters, mobsters and lawmen; manhunts, scandals and unexplained phenomena. Stories of the wildest and darkest chapters of America's past.
291 episodes transcribedTwo weeks after the attack at Lake Berryessa, the Zodiac shoots and kills a taxi cab driver in San Francisco. Multiple witnesses see the killer, but t...
Two college students relax along the shore of a lake in Napa County, California on a sunny afternoon in September of 1969. Before long, they are inter...
While the police, the FBI, the U.S. Navy, and random civilians try to break the code of the killer’s cipher, the killer sends another letter to the pr...
Seven months after two teenagers are murdered outside Vallejo, California, the killer reemerges. He shoots two young people at a park on the outskirts...
A few days before Christmas in 1968, two teenagers from Vallejo, California go on their first date. They park at a lover’s lane pullout off of a dark...
Music from the Infamous America podcast. Songs from Season 4: Dillinger. 0:00 – Infamous America Opening Cue 0:12 – “Hear My Train a’Calling” – Ryan...
On July 27th, 1996, a domestic terrorist bombed the Summer Olympic Games held in Atlanta, GA. While the FBI and the media fixated on the wrong man, th...
Billy Sunday Birt and partner in crime Billy Wayne Davis terrorize the south and likely commit one of the most gruesome murders in Georgia history. As...
Dirt poor and struggling with a severe speech impediment, Billy Sunday Birt grows tough and violent. He quickly replaces reading and writing for whisk...
A leak inside law enforcement keeps kingpin Cliff Park’s bootleggers, car thieves and cop killers a step ahead of prosecutor Floyd Hoard and the GBI....
Albert Patterson’s assassination brings the Phenix City syndicate crumbling down, but up the road in North Georgia crime is starting to explode. Fast...
When buried secrets start to surface, kingpin “Head” Revel gets an unwanted blast from the past: his former defense attorney Albert Patterson. Now a h...
Unforgiving and unremorseful, bootlegger Clarence “Head” Revel’s taste for money and power leads to murder. A series of increasingly ruthless crimes c...
New York police pick up Willie Sutton, but at first, they’re not sure of his identity. As realization dawns, Willie must make a choice about his futur...
Willie Sutton and a small group of inmates execute an improbable escape from Holmesburg Prison. In the process, Willie cements his legacy as an escape...
Willie Sutton and his crew execute their most dramatic robbery, but the success proves to be short-lived. Willie finds himself a guest of the Pennsylv...
Willie Sutton is back in Sing Sing prison and it doesn’t take him long to develop a plan to escape. But when the plan hits an unexpected snag, Willie...
Willie Sutton survives his first stint in prison and tries to go straight after his release. But before long, he’s back in the bank robbing business....
Willie Sutton grows up in a tough Irish neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York where he idolizes the gangsters who run the local docks. At the age of 10,...
More than a year and a half after Patty Hearst was kidnapped, her legal saga plays out in court and in the media. In court, she portrays herself as an...
